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well its been a year since i started it, finished it a few months ago, but never really put it together cause i lost some interest in computers and shifted it to cars, well anyway, started playing DOD sunday and im like, hmm, this should play better if i overclock it, so since sunday i've been putting it together
and OMG i love and hate it at the same time, im so scared of something leaking and killing my entire computer, and its to quiet!! i purposely didn;t fill the res all the way so i can here the water slush around on the return,
and boy did i have an accident!! on monday, i put it together and i was going to start my leak test, well that lasted about 2min until my nb block started leaking!!!, my AGP all the way down the pci slots/cards were wet but my computer was off so no damage. i dried it off and let it leak test till today.
anyway here are the temps, they are not the best, its a homemade block based on the danger den maze 1 i think (like i said before, its was made a long time ago).
BEFORE with thermal take dragon orb 3 7000rpm fan
1400mhz 1.75v not overclocked
idle 48c
load 50-53
NOW
1659mhz (10.5x157) @1.85v
idle 42c
load? highest i got was 44c
room temp 22-23
COOLANT : tap water from basement (bad idea
after a day my lines are already cloudy, my basement tap water seems cloudy compared to my other taps in the house.
they are not the best temps, but oc'ed at that temp is good enough for me, plus my chip has always ran very hot (got the 1600xp the week the XP line came out, so it some s AGKGA stepping that is unlockable)