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Old November 15, 2007, 08:50 PM
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Default Well....

To begin with...the outside temperatures (from the balcony, on the 16th floor; that night.....my wife wasn't home...so I could do this without being beaten up because of the cold!) were @ -22C. With the airconditioning' fan on high and nothing to cover up my case. The freezing air blew straight onto/into my rig.....and froze everything.

At the point were everything reached a nice low temp, I started benching! I had a few issues though....I was not aware that HDD's don't like sub zero temps, so benchmarks could not be ompleted because my rig would crash! Once i figured that out...I insulated my drives and started the benching!

This was my old setup: Asus P5N32-E SLI, Pentium D930 @ 4.5GHz cooled with a Zalman CNPS7700Cu, 2Gb PC5400 @ 800MHz, 2x250Gb HDD's, 2x7600GT Fatal1ty's @ 702/851MHz.

Let me see if I have more pics around here somewhere...



It is very hard to see, but I insulated my drives with cardboard! The 254C is really a 'minus' reading!

I'm still looking for some results pics!
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