"Sleeper": The budget rig

i just wonder, if it was NOT budget then what happpen . ;)

That is some seriously neat cable management!!! I'd steer clear of the round cables, since you will have a harder time getting them as neat as that... I'm amazed!!

It's a very impressive rig, especially with a tight budget.

Out of interest, what temperatures are you getting with that cooler, and can you remember the original temps? I don't think my Gigabyte cooler's doing a good enough job, I managed 70c last night @ 4.34ghz, 1.51v with 25c ambient temperature... Not good! Although, saying that, @ 4.2ghz, 1.3v it's 37c idle and 51c max load. In a 9c ambient temperature, i have taken it all the way up to 4.4ghz easily.

Overall, great job! Good choice of hardware, amazing cable management, nice no-frills case. I like it a lot!!

Dude... you are frying your processor 1.52v o.O

Very nice....

Love the neat cables.... too bad you dont have a nice case to show it off!!! lol jokes...

not much of a budget build.... lol

Very clean build, GOOD JOB!

by: bikr692002

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Dude... you are frying your processor 1.52v o.O

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LOL, i know! it's a very big overvolt! But it's the only way i can stabilize it with these crazy clocks! It's like i've reached a threshold, where it needs a lot of voltage to go any further. The prob is, @ 60c, the temperature's holding it back, so no matter what voltage i put through it, it'l go no further... But...

I just took my pc outside, and managed a 4.7ghz with 1.52v, max temp of 49-52c in a -1c ambient temp :D

Nice rig, love the cable management and nice x850pro i own one as well. you should think getting a bigger case to get that heatsink working a bit better since you dont have direct flow to it. Overall its a nice rig.

by: infrared

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LOL, i know! it's a very big overvolt! But it's the only way i can stabilize it with these crazy clocks! It's like i've reached a threshold, where it needs a lot of voltage to go any further. The prob is, @ 60c, the temperature's holding it back, so no matter what voltage i put through it, it'l go no further... But...

I just took my pc outside, and managed a 4.7ghz with 1.52v, max temp of 49-52c in a -1c ambient temp :D

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I can only get 4Ghz on my 650 because of my shittyass ram

Thanks to all for the compliments. All I can say is that there are ALOT of nice builds in this thread, kudos to everybody. It's not as neat and tidy as I would like it to be, but I decided to invest into hardware before looks. The case might not be too attractive, but it sure has good airflow!

by: bikr692002

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Dude... you are frying your processor 1.52v o.O

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Well, actually, The old prescott runs normally around 45°-50°c idle with stock cooling @ 3.0. With the new cooler @ 3.6 it runs around 38°-40°c idle and 49°-51° load (fan @ 1/2 speed:2800rpm)... and that's with a 12h Prime95 torture and right after, 1/2h OCCT torture, one Pcmark05 full run and after that Sandra05 cpu tests and one run of 3Dmark03! The gpu runs around 31°-33° idle and 58°c max at load. It's kind of hot, but ok considering my x850pro isn't a good oc'er and I had to push the voltages high to get those clocks.

by: Anarion

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i just wonder, if it was NOT budget then what happpen . ;)

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I'm not sure if I fully understand what you mean, but originaly this was a Cicero comp form Future Shop with a crappy mobo, case, psu, ram, crt monitor etc... At the time I was thrilled to have it (who wouldn't, it was free!) and I've been changing parts for over a year now. I only salvaged what I thought was good. And when your 27 with 3 kids, yes you're on a budget! ;)

sure beats my P3 build :P...anyways. I loved the cable management, any PC builder will tell you that hiding all those cables under every nook and cranny in a case is HARD. secondly, you call that a BUDGET build??? what did you do, use an old monitor and find windows off the street? :P. lol just fooling with you, it turned out quite nicely. if I were to change anything, I'd put an Arctic Cooling ATI silencer 5 on that X850. I have an Arctic Cooling VGA silencer for my 9800SE (and thanks to techpowerup, its softmodded to a 9800pro), and trust me, it REALLY does the trick. but otherwise, yeah, good job.

man zekrahminator that p3 must bottlenecking the crap of your 9800!

by: olidude

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I'm not sure if I fully understand what you mean, but originaly this was a Cicero comp form Future Shop with a crappy mobo, case, psu, ram, crt monitor etc... At the time I was thrilled to have it (who wouldn't, it was free!) and I've been changing parts for over a year now. I only salvaged what I thought was good. And when your 27 with 3 kids, yes you're on a budget! ;)

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well , this is totaly normal , it seem everybody have problems with my phrases , no body understanding me too though ;) , also my best wishs for ur kids btw keep up good work & populate earth more though ;D (just kiddin)

by: OOTay

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man zekrahminator that p3 must bottlenecking the crap of your 9800!

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it can name-d! , CLASSICAL

lol you're pretty perceptive, ootay! Though, I'm working on a new build...its gonna be awesome! I just need to get it to work...
Athlon 3200+ (s939)
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Thermaltake Soprano case (black, with window)
1GB PC3200 (PNY and Centon)
Antec 500W SmartPower 2.0
Sapphire Radeon 9800 "pro" with RAMsinks and VGA silencer
Soundblaster Live! 24-bit soundcard
WD 160GB IDE Hard Disk
Lite-On DVD-RW
Samsung 17" LCD Monitor