i just finished putting together a
C2D E4300 on a gigabyte ds-3...
still working out things...
got three themaltake A1357 80mm
(75cfm) fans keeping it cool in preparation of overclocking. one of the fans is on the heatsink.
75cfm should keep the chip cool...lol
so what are you guys working on?

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Just built an Athlon 64 X2 5600+ for my girlfriend using an Asus M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard with 3GB of DDR2 ECC PC2-6400 RAM.

Also just built an Athlon 64 X2 4600+ for her sister, originally using an Asus M2V-MX motherboard, but it had problems with Vista, so I switched her to the same Asus M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard since I knew it worked.

Next, I'm going to help my friend build his new machine, which is an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor using an Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard and 4GB of DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM and XP Pro x64.

Then, once my GF's sister has a little more money, we're going to reuse her old parts to build her twin sons a new computer (they are currently sharing very poorly a Sempron 2400+ system), and those parts are an Intel Pentium 4 3GHz CPU w/HT using an ASRock P4i65G motherboard and 1GB DDR-400 RAM. Then they'll have their own computers that they won't fight over anymore.

Then that'll be all for a little while.

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I have a 2.8 that is a work in progress. It is running BoincPE as I can not seem to make it load on a harddrive and have tried 5 different CD Roms. I doubled the memory today and shaved 2000 seconds from 62 credits units. It seems pretty stable running boincPE so next week I will let it run out and reboot and try some overclocking, this machine has a motherboard, power supply and CDRom in the box the Motherboard came in. I am thinking about mounting it to an insulated board and hanging it on the wall running.

Oh it is the motherboard that was damaged when a car hit the power pole in front of our house. It was the only machine that would not reboot. Couldn't throw it away without at least trying....

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

I have a P4D805, 2.4ghz, cpu with 1 gig of ram and an Asus P5WD2 board waiting to go into a box. I have actually had this waiting for me to find the time for over 2 weeks! Work has been excessively busy!!!

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My next project is:

AMD ATHLON 64 X2 4200+ 2MB SKT-939
ASUS SKT-939 A8V-VM SE S/V/L M-ATX 2000
ThermalTake Heatsink & Fan Low Noise
512 MB PC-3200 DDR 400 MHZ
ThermalTake W0061 PSU 420W TR2-420W

Nothing dead flash - but it'll help the RAC!

Gonna run it off SuSE Linux with Chicken's v2.2 app. We'll see how it does. Needs a memory upgrade, though! What was I thinking!

Steve.

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i just get a new Core2Duo E 6.600 on an Asus P5B, running at

9 x 325 = 2925

with 2 x 1Gig GSkill PC800 DDR2, and an MSI 7.600 GS Silent

i am no Gamer so...

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

After the april c2d cuts I'll be upgrading my main home desktop from a a64 3200+ to q6600... biggest change to that machine in a while. Probably get a new video card as well, just got a 22" LCD... : )

Although who? and others have highlighted the benefits of SSE4 in Penryn, I don't think I can wait that long... and it sounds like q04 before they turn up anyhow.

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Crunching SETI@Home as a member of the Whirlpool BOINC Teams

I am waiting for intel to cut prices on C2D on April 22 or so.

The coming project is going to be:
intel C2D E6600
intel "Bad Axe 2"
I have not decide on RAM yet.
Win. Xp Pro (already here)
PC P&C 400-500 Watts power supply.

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This post is completely ON topic with respect to the title of the thread.

What new machine and I rebuilding??? Well, my 20 Year old daughter who decided to throw away college and shack up (in a cheap old motel) with a loser who doesn't wanna work and never completed High School, has been letting him drive her car. He drove it (supposedly after break failure...(I checked, they work)) into a ditch filled with water (read South Carolina mud swamp). After retrieval the #1 piston has decided to be NOT attached to the crankshaft anymore (wonder if all the mud and water being pulled into the air intake and then into that piston had anything to do with the failure of the connectin rod). I now have the Ford 3.0L Vulcan 182 vin U engine in pieces at my house as they can't afford to fix it or replace the engine with used. (I refuse to buy them one (as he hasn't been allowed to set foot on my property for months), and haven't told them I'm working on it.

Anyway, I'm building a Ford 3.0L V6 Vulcan (vin U) machine. After I get the block out of the car and inspect the walls of the piston cylinder and the crank, I'll decide if I'll fix it. Could be a month or more part time.

Although, while searching for parts an evil voice in my head kept my mouse looking at performance crankshafts, camshafts, oversized pistons, etc. I must be nuts as I'm sure she hasn't learned her lesson and that SOB would be driving it.

Yep, get that 182 CID engine up into the 200's (3.3L) would be one heck of an Overclock.

This post is completely ON topic with respect to the title of the thread.

What new machine and I rebuilding??? Well, my 20 Year old daughter who decided to throw away college and shack up (in a cheap old motel) with a loser who doesn't wanna work and never completed High School, has been letting him drive her car. He drove it (supposedly after break failure...(I checked, they work)) into a ditch filled with water (read South Carolina mud swamp). After retrieval the #1 piston has decided to be NOT attached to the crankshaft anymore (wonder if all the mud and water being pulled into the air intake and then into that piston had anything to do with the failure of the connectin rod). I now have the Ford 3.0L Vulcan 182 vin U engine in pieces at my house as they can't afford to fix it or replace the engine with used. (I refuse to buy them one (as he hasn't been allowed to set foot on my property for months), and haven't told them I'm working on it.

Anyway, I'm building a Ford 3.0L V6 Vulcan (vin U) machine. After I get the block out of the car and inspect the walls of the piston cylinder and the crank, I'll decide if I'll fix it. Could be a month or more part time.

Although, while searching for parts an evil voice in my head kept my mouse looking at performance crankshafts, camshafts, oversized pistons, etc. I must be nuts as I'm sure she hasn't learned her lesson and that SOB would be driving it.

Yep, get that 182 CID engine up into the 200's (3.3L) would be one heck of an Overclock.

My parents always believed in Tough Love...Many of my freinds parents didn't. I am doing much better than any of them and when my father died he was my best freind and my Mother is now my Partner. It's tough but worth it. I learned many a hard lesson on my own.

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

My last build was a Core 2 Duo E6700 on a Bad Axe 2, with the idea that eventually I would put something quad core on it, either QX6700 or Q6600 on it at some point in the future. I ran it for a long time on top of the box and one of my teammates said I should overclock it and I tried, but I only had a 485 W Noisetaker on it, and it couldn't hold 320 fsb. So I got a 620 W Liberty and it's doing fine at 332 fsb so far.

I also decided to put a Big Typhoon on it and like the 42 deg C load temps better than the 60 deg C temps I was getting now that spring is here and it is warming up. I have the cpu voltage at 1.375 now. Every few days I bump the fsb up 2 Mhz.

I used Crucial Ballistix ddr2 800, 2X512Mb ram, but I am running it as ddr2 533 and CAS 5-5-5-15 right now.

I just finished mounting it in a sleek black Thermaltake Tsunami Dream Case.

I have Windows XP Pro 64 trial on it and it will expire some time in May, when it will become a Linux machine again.

Happy Crunching,

Pam

Trying to build an AMD 3700+
but aBit are cheap and i have already RMA-ed the same mobo 3 times and got bad mobos.
But I got everything else, ATI X1600, 1GB RAM (266MHz, bottleneck.. oh well)
Note to self: never get aBit.

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Well I have a 700w OCZ psu and I can barely do 350MHz currently, The ram will do 408MHz(@ 3.26GHz), But considering the (power hungry) parts I installed, two 54cfm 120mm case fans, QX6700 cpu, Vigor Monsoon II TEC/twin heatsink, 36GB WD Raptor(10K rpm rotational speed), 1GB OCZ PC2-6400 Platinum ram(4-5-4-15, 5-5-5-15 @ 408MHz), Thermalright HR-05 w/70mm fan, NX6200TC vga card and a sata cd-rom drive. Oh and yep the OS is XP x64, But It's one I bought for nearly $75 a few months back. I'm beginning to think this multiple +12v rail stuff is for the birds when overclocking as the extra +12v amps are locked away from the cpu where It can't be gotten at by the cpu when It's needed.

The only power hungry parts I see are the TEC and the QX6700... the rest is trifling, except perhaps the raptor (which is probably only 20W anyhow).

check these links:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36612
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36579


Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 running at 3.5 GHz with FSB 1400 at 1.31 volts;
GEIL dual-channel 2x 1gb DDR2-700 memory with CL 3-3-3-5 latency at 1.875 volts;
ECS Nforce 680i board and 2 x 8800GTX GPU in SLI configuration.
500W MGE PSU
3DMark06 power draw: 387W
A Kentsfield (QX6700) setup drew ~50W extra - still stable on 500W PSU.

I'd be blaming the BX2 (if you're also using that board), which is known to have issues with qx6700 and high FSB, before the PSU.
Also, I'm not sure how many watts the TEC is rated for, but once you go over that, my understanding is they can become less efficient, you might be better off with plain water cooling.

If the TEC is powered directly off the computer's PSU I can see you might run into some trouble, they're awful power hogs.

Anyhow, my 2c : ) ...which I wish was more like $2k, then I could also have a qx6700 : )

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Crunching SETI@Home as a member of the Whirlpool BOINC Teams

This post is completely ON topic with respect to the title of the thread.

What new machine and I rebuilding??? Well, my 20 Year old daughter who decided to throw away college and shack up (in a cheap old motel) with a loser who doesn't wanna work and never completed High School, has been letting him drive her car. He drove it (supposedly after break failure...(I checked, they work)) into a ditch filled with water (read South Carolina mud swamp). After retrieval the #1 piston has decided to be NOT attached to the crankshaft anymore (wonder if all the mud and water being pulled into the air intake and then into that piston had anything to do with the failure of the connectin rod). I now have the Ford 3.0L Vulcan 182 vin U engine in pieces at my house as they can't afford to fix it or replace the engine with used. (I refuse to buy them one (as he hasn't been allowed to set foot on my property for months), and haven't told them I'm working on it.

Anyway, I'm building a Ford 3.0L V6 Vulcan (vin U) machine. After I get the block out of the car and inspect the walls of the piston cylinder and the crank, I'll decide if I'll fix it. Could be a month or more part time.

Although, while searching for parts an evil voice in my head kept my mouse looking at performance crankshafts, camshafts, oversized pistons, etc. I must be nuts as I'm sure she hasn't learned her lesson and that SOB would be driving it.

Yep, get that 182 CID engine up into the 200's (3.3L) would be one heck of an Overclock.

Probably what happened was that water got into that piston and caused a hydraulic lock. That is, instead of gas/air being compressed water was trying to be compressed. Water is relatively incompressible and so the pressure got extremely high in that cylinder and the connecting rod and other things broke. Maybe the crankshaft bent, too, but all this is just a guess.

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Probably what happened was that water got into that piston and caused a hydraulic lock. That is, instead of gas/air being compressed water was trying to be compressed. Water is relatively incompressible and so the pressure got extremely high in that cylinder and the connecting rod and other things broke. Maybe the crankshaft bent, too, but all this is just a guess.

That's pretty much what I thought. Pulling the valves, valve springs, caps and locks ATM. She called today, they've broken up(strange he broke up with her once she no longer had a car HE could drive and there appeared NO hope anyone in her family was going to help her get one that HE could drive(I didn't tell anyone I was fixing it)). The wife is allowing her to move back in. I hear the conversation between them in the background. Yada yada

Intakes manifolds are clean/prepared and ready for new gaskets. Getting heads ready to take to shop if I find the block salvageable/renewable.

on cars....
a toyota harmonic balancer is a terrible thing to have to deal with.

was trying last few days to get the temp down on my pentium d 805.
it had been running 51-53c. i was hoping to get it down into the high 40s.
well i finally got it back to 51-53...
evidently what artic silver calls a "grain of rice" is different than my conception. i spread it religously like they described....
eventually going back to barely having a speck of as5 on the cpu....
go figure!

right now...planning for next years tax refund computer...
i'm considering the penryn option or the Barcelona option.
so much press about them both...i'll have to let them speak for themselves...
through the RAC rankings before i decide.

on a side note.
it sure is alot cooler here with 6 computers cut off.

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I have a polished granite gage block for taking precise measurement with indicators and such. I use 400 grit whet/dry emory turned grit side up on it, apply a couple decent drops of kerosene, then slide the heatsink in circular motions across it until all manufacturiing marks are gone, then buff it out with a buffing wheel. Looks like a polished FLAT mirror when done. I've even done the top of one of my cpus that way(except substitute water for kerosene on steels). Then you apply the absolute smallest amount of compound you can get away with and still fill the microfractures. Credit card works OK as long as the edge is flat and sharp.

yeah i used to build telescopes and polish mirror blanks...

i think artic silver should really be more precise
i mean "rice grain"
is that wild, instant or long grain?
lol

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Well, I just built my friend's Core 2 Duo, and I have to say, I think the included fan/heat sink in the retail box of the CPU has to be the crappiest design I've ever come across. Even the Athlon X2's have a much better mechanism for attaching the fan/heat sink to the CPU.

Why would anybody use a spring-loaded mechanism on something as important as the CPU fan? The springs could pop out at any time. Just trying to get the damn thing on was a trick. Getting one side in would pop out the other. Was very frustrating, but I get it built. I just hope he doesn't have any problems later on when he gets it home.

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Well, I just built my friend's Core 2 Duo, and I have to say, I think the included fan/heat sink in the retail box of the CPU has to be the crappiest design I've ever come across...

Why would anybody use a spring-loaded mechanism on something as important as the CPU fan? The springs could pop out at any time. Just trying to get the damn thing on was a trick. Getting one side in would pop out the other. Was very frustrating, but I get it built. ...

Yes, I was very surprised when I first came across that design. The spring action of the heatsink base arms are far stronger than the holding strength of the plastic holding clips...

To get the heatsink to hold evenly, I carefully used two large bladed screwdrivers one in each hand to simultaneously push opposite clips in place. They would then evenly slide back out a little way until they could hold the (slackened) spring force against them. Repeat with the other two on the opposite diagonal across the heatsink.


All fine for a desktop machine. I'm a little skeptical that it is a reliably secure fix for a tower system...

Happy crunchin',
Martin

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