It is now flooding the web that it is in fact the new 45nm Quad Core QX9650, not the DDR3 motherboards, that has a low FSB wall and struggle to go above 450-460Mhz. looks like dropping the multiplier and getting a massive FSB is a no go!
Also in preparation for my CoolerMaster CPU Cooler review, which should arrive sometime today, I will be modifying my watercooling setup to accommodate them. That means low profile tubing setup on the MOSFET waterblocks, and my current CPU waterblock taken out of the original loop, into another dedicated one, for easy removal and testing.
Pictures of my updated setup will be up sometime between Wednesday night/Thursday morning, so stay tuned!!
Right.. If you look REALLY hard, you may find the testing rig within the mess that is my room at the moment...
Had a few spills on my motherboard when topping up the second reservoir.. a combination of tissue paper and hairdryer sorted that out.
Also you may have noticed the Aqua-Computers CPU water block on the table. I purchased it to try it out as it had some interesting design ideas, but it turned out to be not as good in practice, increasing my CPU temperature by around 4 degrees at load. Someone/party might want to sponser me with a few more CPU water block samples to test out!! *hint hint*
And here is the updated loop setup:
Now it is MUCH easier to swap out the CPU cooler as opposed to having it connected to the NB/MOSFET loop, into both Air or Water-cooled solutions.
I will be extending my tubing on the CPU loop so I can place the radiator next to my window, for some nice cool air from the freezing outside!!
I believe this is the absolute best I can do with a watercooling setup and my current hardware... let see what will happen when I get my hands on newer gears in the future.
very well done EF! now just to wait a bit for some SSD drives with a good RAID controller and maybe you can make it to number 1?
I think climbing to second is possible with SSD+RAID controller, but number 1 is much harder as there is a much larger gap between first and second. Also first is using iRAM, which is much faster then SSD, as it it basically using much faster DDR2 RAM modules as storage hard drive.
stez wrote:
Just a thought - I hope the cleaner in your halls of residence is not reporting you for making a bomb or some such!
Ohh they can't get through the door as the door won't open with all the stuff blocking it in my room... + I do my own cleaning
Probably nit-picking - but if it's the older iRAM - it's not DDR2 but DDR on SATA. The newer iRAM - GC-RAMDISK uses DDR2 and SATA II. Doesn't say which one he is using.
Still, it would be a hard one to beat. I wonder how the RAMDISK compares with HyperOS' ramdrives. (A 360GB RAID-0 system of theirs is on sale for over £26,000). Sports car anyone?
