i love the cristallo tubing. but, u gotta go with the flow on it, bending it in other directions can make it kink a little. it is fairly strechable, can pry it over the 15mm barbs on the heatercores (heat it with a lighter).
the componentry on the inside has always been cheapest xp cpu until i break it , i am now at a 1800+. with latest drivers (especially nvidia) got me from 9000 over 10000 3dmarks.
the ti500 was first passively cooled , not overclocked, by the heatsink of a globalwin fop38 (huge). installing a compunurse at the core made me realise i was getting 50-60°C temps. installed a 5000rpm silent cpu cooler @ 5V on it, u cannot hear that over the pump. started overclocking, giving it 1.8V; got at 275core, 592memory. temps of the ti 500 30-40°C.
@ the moment i still have sligtly (3°C) higher temps with case panels off (before i installed the plexi + 92mm fan sucking air out of case, so should be a bit better). case ventilation could be a bit better. anyway, i have no trouble keeping the temps under 40°C at practically inaudible soundlevel (pump and HDD loudest). vcore at 1.85 xp1800 @ +/-1830MHz.
Crazymofo has a huge point on the KT3 ultra, stay away from that board!!!i used to have an 8kha+ that would have cold boot problems over 152MHz, some beta bios fixed that. same problem on the kt3, after clearing cmos, setting fsb at 133, reboot, then set fsb at 162; everything works fine. turn off the pc, nomore boot, clear cmos again. thats why i felt the urge to make a switch at the front, for i was tired of getting on my knees for that pc a couple of times a day. anyway, u say u cannot get over 151 ... try this, jump from 147fsb, directly to 153-154. always works, at the 153 mark the 1/5 divider kicks in (got that trick from amdmb forum).
anyway, see the pic below for some fine mspaint art. u can see that it isn't that high tech. the middle pin of the ccmos always stays the same it is pin 1 and 3 that define ccmos or not. perfect situation for the standard switch. will add some more pics later that will hopefully clear it up some.
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