mitro's adventures in overclocking

[Keith75]

What is the handy info utility you have at the top of your screen shots showing CPU temp and whatnot.

Also what is your opinion on safe temps? I usually try to keep mine under 50-52 deg. under full load.

And one last thing. How is it according to BOINC your floating point speed on the Opteron is 4 times the speed of mine running at 2.3GHz? The integer is almost the same.

Keith

[Electabots]

wow nice mitro, my max is still sadly 2200mhz stable with these old sledgehammers until i get better cooling...or some dual core opterons like yours :P

click the picture Yes on stock voltages(1.5v, cpu-z can't read them right for some reason)

[mitro]

What is the handy info utility you have at the top of your screen shots showing CPU temp and whatnot.

Motherboard Monitor 5, technically thats what they call the "Dashboard". MBM5 is no longer in development by the author, so if your motherboard was made in the past year its probably not easily used. I say "easily" because some people have taken it upon themselves to make it work with certain newer boards, my DFI included. Here the link to MBM5:

http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

Also what is your opinion on safe temps? I usually try to keep mine under 50-52 deg. under full load.

Safe is whatever it runs at (if we're talking A64). An A64 has a max temperature that it can handle thats coded in the chip which can be determined by using A64 TCaseMax. All the processors I've had will crash, restart, or shut down when it hits that temp. Also some boards/programs report higher than actual temps <coughLagucough>. Low to mid 50's is fine if its stable AND thats the actual temp.

With this 165 I just knew that it was running higher than what MY board usually reports with dual cores and a 10C drop can make quite a difference.

And one last thing. How is it according to BOINC your floating point speed on the Opteron is 4 times the speed of mine running at 2.3GHz? The integer is almost the same.

Keith

Possibly because of the BOINC client I use? Your guess is as good as mine.

[Electabots]

Hey mitro, you are watercooling that opteron right? Does your waterblock sit on the edge of the zif socket after the ihs is removed? I'm thinking about removing the ihs of one of my opterons

[mitro]

Ahh... now theres a specific, advanced question, I like those.

Yes its watercooled and the WB is a Swiftech Storm. The bottom of it is tapered so its only as wide as the processor itself and doesn't extend over the cam box of the socket. I have sanded the socket down a bit before when I was still air cooling.

[Electabots]

Ah nice. I hear the storm is just about the best block out there but it restricts(?) water flow like crazy. I currently have a old Koolance Exos kit with the standard block. I was thinking about getting the new Koolance Exos 2 and that Apogee block but I dunno yet...

Another question for you, Is it hard to mount the storm after removing the ihs? I would be worried about cracking the core since you have to bolt down the WB

[mitro]

Mounting isn't all that bad, you just need to make sure you hold the block still and level and then tighten each side a little bit trying to stay even. You have to consider that all the old athlons were exposed cores and most were sitting under clip-on heatsinks. You just have to be careful not to rock the heatsink/waterblock on the edges of the core.

The Storm is a bit more restrictive than some, but with the right pump its almost unbeatable. I have the Swiftech MCP655 (which is actually a Laing D5) pump. Here are the pics of my whole setup.

[NeoGen]

Mitro... this is not an original idea, I've heard it around already, but as I don't know how high or low the temps are, I don't know if it's true or even possible. :P

Would it be possible to "hook up" a computer's water cooling system to an aquarium to keep in it some warm water fishes? (And at the same time cool the machine) Or would it heat up too much and boil them?

[Nflight]

There in lies the thought pattern from an odd platform, using two items never associated with each other before with the same functioning mechanism, water.

I too am curious as to the response of mitro on this inquisitive question! :?:

[Electabots]

I'm not mitro...but...
On the question about whether or not the cpus would make the aquarium(?) to hot...I have no idea.
But you can't run a water cooling setup with fish anyways because the waterblocks/radiator would clog up real quick, plus the chemicals you need to use to keep the water from growing algae and from rusting/corrode(?)ing the waterblock probley would kill the fish.