building my own custom waterblock

[Brad]

you'd need to put 2.8v through it, or take a hammer to it, that'd be all that would kill it

[Fixittt]

nah.... I can think if many other, better ways..... then the simple.
Use vision man, dont be blinded by the easy,

[Cyco-Dude]

Originally posted by Brad
a 1.6a, sis645, and some ddr is damned cheap right now, and it's virtually impossible to damage a P4

*in SNL Ed McMahn impersonation voice* You are correct sir, yes!
most 1.6a's do well over 2ghz, usually about 2.1-2.2 with stock cooling.

[DarthWombat]

Originally posted by gone_fishin


You need to educate yourself on the P4. It's the overclock champion at this time, very cheap and there are many boards with DDR and RDRAM is cheap also

hmm...

I heard if I go from an Athlon processor to a Pentium my head will shrivel and I will be a mindless imp under the command of Intel, a tool, a tool to do it's bidding I would be.

Lol jk

I hear that DDR puts bottlenecks when you get over a certain speed. I intend to push this thing (safely) as far as I can without comprimising alot of stability (I got my Athlon real high but it kept crashing when I played MP3's Nothing else.. lol :P)

I'll check into it, whats the best mobo company, or even motherboard version.

[Brad]

most 1.6a's will do 2.3 - 2.6 if you give them a bit of voltage

[kmnfive]

i have mine at 2.24

[Cyco-Dude]

Abit, Asus, Epox for my personal 1st choices, then Gigabyte, MSI, and Soyo (if you like tons of features that is). Shuttle has decent AMD boards.

[DarthWombat]

Originally posted by Cyco-Dude
Abit, Asus, Epox for my personal 1st choices, then Gigabyte, MSI, and Soyo (if you like tons of features that is). Shuttle has decent AMD boards.

I have a shuttle board and I would not recommend it.

I mean yeah its nice having sub-par overclocking performance on a board I got because I liekd hte name (I knew nothing about computers except that my AMD 486 seemd to be better then my Pentium 90mhz or whatever it was so I thought AMD was better, and I wasnt wrong completely)

however a chip that overclocks from 1.6 to 2.3+ with small heat increase and standard cooling just screams quality.

[V12|V12]

Brazing is a GREAT idea, I did it when I made my block. I got a copper plate, cut to the desired dimension(s), then bought a 1.5" copper end cap at home depot, and cut some copper fins from some thin plating. Cleaned everything with Hydrochloric Acid (toilet bowl cleaner "The WOrks") and then took a small propane torch to the clamped pieces...

One thing to note, If you're going to be doing multiple parts at diff times, then you need to have 2 DIFFERENT filler metals, whose "liquidius" Temps (~melting points) are where one is higher than the other. IE you soldering some copper pins or fins to the base with higher melting point filler, then last, the cap to the base with the lower, so that nothing inside it melts and falls apart. Always do the higher first, lower last, that way you can always undo the last without messing up the first brazing job... It all sounds complicated, but it's more like "Advanced" soldering in a sense... another thing about brazing, since you'll be using some sort of Silver/Tin filler, make sure you're fill gap is small, that way the conductive properties won't be lost between the 2 mediums... the more silver content, the lower you're conductivity loss, which is very minimal in the first place.

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BRAZE AWAY!!!