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My (current) open bench setup

Yeah so I thought I would post this in case any of you were curious as to what my current case-less setup looks like. I change hardware pretty frequently (mostly gpu's +cooling methods) but the cpu, mobo, and ram stay pretty constant.

Currently running 2x 4870's @ 795/1100 (will run higher, but right now I'm testing my ram's performance). tx850w corsair, 2x1gb of corsair ram (ddr2-960 2.08v), phenom2 @3.84ghz... etc etc.

In the pics I'm cooling my cpu with a freezone elite (will be replaced by a boreas by the end of this week hopefully) my gpu's and NB are in a water-cooling loop powered by my xspc topped mcp355 pump, cooled by my mcr220 rad with 4 fans in push/pull. gpu's are cooled using 2 mcw60 blocks and the non-plastic part of the stock cooler.

pics:

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/1622/dsc02520.th.jpg http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8453/dsc02521.th.jpg http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9325/dsc02522f.th.jpg http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/6809/dsc02523.th.jpg

questions? comments?

p.s: and yes, that IS a jar of applesauce. I Like to eat applesauce when I'm overclocking/benchmarking.

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Originally Posted by Cowboy (Post 224478)

In the pics I'm cooling my cpu with a freezone elite (will be replaced by a boreas by the end of this week hopefully)

questions? comments?

p.s: and yes, that IS a jar of applesauce. I Like to eat applesauce when I'm overclocking/benchmarking.

1. Sooo... where's that Freezone going?

2. Applesauce? You mean OC sauce right?

3. What are your temps across the board?

1. the freezone is being traded up to a boreas, via coolit's awesome cusomer service. They're doing it for 180US plus shipping

2. No, it IS applesauce, but you can call it what you want. I dunno why I eat it when I OC, i guess it takes the edge off whenever my computer crashes and I have to reset the CMOS.:biggrin:

3. temps:

OC'ed cpu [min=20C max=52C] (on water I was getting like 30Idle 43Load)
stock cpu [min=9C max=24C]

gpu's idle at 35C load at 50C
NB idle's at 38C maxes around 47C

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Originally Posted by Prof. Dr. Silver (Post 224483)

1. Sooo... where's that Freezone going?

2. Applesauce? You mean OC sauce right?

3. What are your temps across the board?

What, they have OC sauce now!? why wasn't i informed?

As, so instead of water you are using applesauce as the coolant, does this lead to lower temperatures or just a better smelling computer?

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Originally Posted by Arinoth (Post 224619)

As, so instead of water you are using applesauce as the coolant, does this lead to lower temperatures or just a better smelling computer?

NO

I EAT THE APPLESAUCE!!:angry2:

Gosh, sometimes its really hard to tell if you guys are serious or your just messin with me:blarg:

Lighten up, there are messing with you.

Come on.

I was about to do so, but I won't...

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Originally Posted by 3.0charlie (Post 224714)

Lighten up, there are messing with you.

Come on.

I was about to do so, but I won't...

Thanks, I was just confused. Its hard to read people on the internet.

ya me too. but cowboy way to keep it h-core

Thanks.

I do what I love and I love what I do. Overclocking and applesauce FTW