Shall have to be weekend when I try that VM thing I can't for the life of me find my usb stick. Have to buy a new one. 
Just awaiting the first results from the rig to show up. Completed an SMP and a couple of vanilla WUs today. Is it me or do the stats pages update quite slowly? And the official stats page forever seems to be updating whenever I check it. A watched kettle never boils I suppose.
I was really naughty and didn't test my overclock when I did it. I literally just upped the fsb and twiddled the RAM divider a little. Stock volts too. I should really give it a torture test but its had a bit of a beasting the last 24 hours and no sign of trouble yet so touch wood everything is okay. I'll really give it some stick at the weekend when I get time.
Heres a picture in the meantime.
A bit sad maybe but I really love the colours! Almost like a sunny island with the green, the blue and the amber. *books a holiday*
While I'm on the subject the cooling is a Thermalright Ultima 90 with an Akasa 90mm fan in place. The thermal grease used was Arctic Silver 5 (which, to my delight, I found by chance in a drawer - otherwise it was going to be some generic stuff that came with the heat sink). The case itself has 1x 120mm rear fan and 1x 80mm intake fan at the front.
The temps are concerning me a little because they sound too good to be true. At 70-80% load, the hottest core doesn't go over 41C. Sure, it is cold in the conservatory, maybe 10-15C. If we call it 10C and the house 25C then even adding 15C to the cores only brings it to 56C which still seems cool for a 3Ghz Quad considering my e6300 @ 2.5Ghz hits 48C on an ACF7. Maybe its right and I'm just being paranoid.
Just awaiting the first results from the rig to show up. Completed an SMP and a couple of vanilla WUs today. Is it me or do the stats pages update quite slowly? And the official stats page forever seems to be updating whenever I check it. A watched kettle never boils I suppose.
I was really naughty and didn't test my overclock when I did it. I literally just upped the fsb and twiddled the RAM divider a little. Stock volts too. I should really give it a torture test but its had a bit of a beasting the last 24 hours and no sign of trouble yet so touch wood everything is okay. I'll really give it some stick at the weekend when I get time.
Heres a picture in the meantime.
A bit sad maybe but I really love the colours! Almost like a sunny island with the green, the blue and the amber. *books a holiday*
While I'm on the subject the cooling is a Thermalright Ultima 90 with an Akasa 90mm fan in place. The thermal grease used was Arctic Silver 5 (which, to my delight, I found by chance in a drawer - otherwise it was going to be some generic stuff that came with the heat sink). The case itself has 1x 120mm rear fan and 1x 80mm intake fan at the front.
The temps are concerning me a little because they sound too good to be true. At 70-80% load, the hottest core doesn't go over 41C. Sure, it is cold in the conservatory, maybe 10-15C. If we call it 10C and the house 25C then even adding 15C to the cores only brings it to 56C which still seems cool for a 3Ghz Quad considering my e6300 @ 2.5Ghz hits 48C on an ACF7. Maybe its right and I'm just being paranoid.
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