New Pc, Yee haa

February 25th, 2007, 03:09 PM

You can always add more fans too, they never hurt. Buy a dremmel and start cutting!

February 25th, 2007, 03:09 PM

Got to be better than liquid paper. LOL

February 25th, 2007, 03:11 PM

haha. perhaps they could combine the 2 into a "super street drug"

February 25th, 2007, 03:12 PM

that's beyond me.

I had a friend who drew up plans to cool his CPU with liquid nitrogen stored underground outside. obviously he never did it though

February 25th, 2007, 03:16 PM

yeah, I have a couple buddies who are into that. One of my buddies has a vapochill, brings the CPU to sub zero temps. http://www2.asetek.com/default.asp?s...ntentSection=2. it allows you to overclock CPU's to obscene levels.

February 25th, 2007, 03:25 PM

treat em like an nmr machine. cool it with liquid helium... imagine the speeds you'd get with 3 kelvins

February 25th, 2007, 03:51 PM

Ya, I could only imagine. I think the CPU could handle such a thing, not too sure about a motherboard being cooled to absolute zero/

March 2nd, 2007, 12:38 AM

yes well. It definately needed dusting i think:



It was running with the core at about 50-55°C, now it's down to 40ish, although that might be because it's been switched off for the last twenty mins or so

March 2nd, 2007, 12:45 AM

i wish i knew what temperature it ought to be at though

March 2nd, 2007, 12:52 AM

OK now i do. It wasnt sposed to be above 65-70, and i never saw it go above 55 so i didnt need to be worried. Although it did say normal running temps are about 20-30 below the maximums so i'm in a good state now. maybe i can overclock it a bit?

March 2nd, 2007, 12:57 AM

How does one get high off canned air?
I use a small hobby compressor to squirt the dust out.

March 2nd, 2007, 06:42 AM


i just got the same one last week from http://www.arbico.co.uk
, follwoing are the PC Configuration:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 CPU
SLI Ready Motherboard
2 X Nvidia 8800GTX 768MB Graphics with 2 x Dual Link DVI-I, HDTV
2GB (2048MB) 533Mhz PC4200 DDR2
320GB S-ATA-2 7200RPM 16MB buffer
the cost of this was just 2826.85$.

regards

March 2nd, 2007, 08:19 AM

I expect there are propellants in the can. difluoroethane probably

March 2nd, 2007, 02:09 PM

In order to overclock it, you would have to first enter the BIOS upon post. Then, depending on the type of motherboard and bios on it, there should be a tab which displays the CPU multiplier and front side bus frequency. Most CPU's are have locked upward multipliers, meaning you can decrease it only. If that's the case, then you would look at increasing the front side bus. The speed of your CPU is generally calculated by FSB*CPU Multiplier (mine is 300 * 8 = 2.4ghz). So instead of increasing the multiplier you increase the bus speed. If you plan on doing this, you should hope that you can lock your memory at a constant speed, ie 400mhz, otherwise the memory will try to run a 1:1 ratio with the FSB, which will cause system crashes etc. I would suggest checking out www.ocforums.com if you want to learn a bit about overclocking a CPU.

March 2nd, 2007, 03:21 PM

hardly worth bothering really. seems to work fine now thanks for the advice though. Maybe i'll do it one day just to see if i can

March 2nd, 2007, 03:23 PM

it's actually quite easy. I can make all the changes I need within the bios and back to booting windows within a minute usually. Hardest part is learning all the acronyms used in the bios.

March 2nd, 2007, 03:24 PM

how do i know what my CPU multiplier is?

edit: let me guess, it's in BIOS?

March 2nd, 2007, 03:30 PM

Affirmative. or you can download a tool called CPUZ
it should pull up most of the info you would see in your bios.