Hi killme413
At first I didn't think it would be possible to overclock an Opteron system. I had read several sites say you could achieve a small increase, but nothing significant. I only planned on water cooling the CPU's because I thought it would look nice, and keep noise down.
Until about 6 weeks ago
The guys over at 2CPU who managed to get their hands on Tyan Thunder K8WE sample boards (its a dual opteron board based on the nForce4 chipset) found out that this board was something quite special. Tyan planned on supporting the nVidia nTune utility which would allow for overclocking, but more than that the sample boards have shown they are very capable, with the BIOS being quite feature rich.
Check the thread out here -
2CPU - P4N's Extreme S2895 Thread
There's a lot of talk about getting Opteron 244's (1.8ghz) upto 2.6+ Ghz
With this new developement I'm back on the horse for overclocking this system, but as you said, I've still gotta make it look just right!
I'm going to go all out when it comes to planning the cooling for this system
On top of the watercooling system I outlined in this thread, I've decided to invest in a mCubed T Balancer controller system, which'll let me monitor water temp, flow rates and temperature of different components, and according program the software to control my rad fans
When it done it'll look something like this :
Except mine will also have a window
