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Specs:
Asus P5WD2 Premium Motherboard,
Intel Pentium 4 HT 640 3.2 @ 3.8ghz =
Club3D Radeon X800XL 256mb VIVO =
4x (2x shown in pic) 512mb 533mhz DDR2 @ 700mhz (dual channel) =
SATA 80gb Seagate Baracuda 7200rpm =
LG Flatron 17" 1280/1024 TFT monitor =
LG DVD+R/+RW =

Mods:
Overclocked CPU to 3.85ghz from 3.2
Overclocked and Tweaked GFX card to get 6k+ in 3dmark05
Got bored and painted PSU

===This is my First Custom build, and considering i'm 16, I'm very happy with it!!!
===I just spent 3 hours yesterday neatening the cables, and even now, they're not especially tidy. After this, i have learned how difficult it is to keep the wires out of sight. I now have a lot of respect to those with neat cases!!! GJ people!
===The case fans need replacing. They're very powerful, but are noisy and are falling apart after 50hours use... :p
===The Acrylic needs cleaning and polishing properly. I was in a rush to get it all in!
===Please no-one start telling me how crap intel is, I really don't want to hear it. Same applies to the nVidia fanboys.
===Any tips and suggestions are welcome!
 
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Kudos, clean and tidy, well done.
 
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Thanks :)

I learnt a valuable lesson though:
It's tricky trying to hide cables in a clear case! Maybe i'll go with a metal case with a window next time! :D
 
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here is an idea...put 3 inches tubing that goes from the fan to the exterior
am pretty sure you could find this tubing at the home depot...i mean clear tubing
 
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The cpu fan? hmm, interesting thought. It's easily done i suppose.

I don't really need it at the moment though, the inside of the case is the same temp as the air ouside, so the case fans are doing a good job. What it could really do with is a decent heatsink. I've seen some awsome flower sinks that would do the job well.

Thanks for your input. :)
 
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infrared said:
Thanks :)

I learnt a valuable lesson though:
It's tricky trying to hide cables in a clear case! Maybe i'll go with a metal case with a window next time! :D
try to convert all the wire to the same color, this would include to tear down the power supply
but a mod that we dont see that often
 
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Sweet system man. I'm not a huge fan of clear cases myself, but congrats on it man! Nice OC too.
 
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Thanks.

Hehe, I had to borrow £600 of my mum's money as well, so i'm gonna be in debt for a while! In total i spent about £800 - £850 on this... Good price or what?? :D

I dread to think how much an ailienware PC with a similar spec would cost.
 

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Well Done

i don't consider myself much of a fan of clear cases. i thought about buying one when i was first building my machine. but i went with antec and i have had nothing but success. are your cpu temperatures way out of whack now that you are running a 1Ghz overclock? i personally think that anything above say 400mhz is overkill, and you run too much of a chance of frying the cpu. well, congrats on your build, it looks sweet.you should try wrapping the wires in mesh or something, so that the yellow, black and red don't show so much. LOOKS GREAT!
 

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nice and neat i am not a fan of clear cases but your shows mes the great protinal it has mainly if it clear everthing has to be like the psu and cd drives and you show evey single wire like mine a hided wire and it still a mess but your is neat and nice colors and i love u took the time to paint your psu i give it a ...... ...... .....6 excellect might i suggest rouund cables black i like the black asus ribbions u got but some soild black round ones would look nice too and aleast one wire cover for the group of wire that r tide in with 24 pin psu connector those wire mods r very cheap check out ebay or somthing get them for 5 bucks
 
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What's your cpu temp and voltage? I find it hard to believe that you got a 1Ghz overclock on stock cooling when most intels don't even run properly without throttling on stock cooling. Maybe you live in alaska?
 
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Ok, it's running completely stable at 4.2ghz (16x 262) , 1.4125v max temp = 64*c idle temp = 40*c

My room temps are about 29*c If you don't believe me, that's fine... If you like i'll take a screenshot of cpu-z

EDIT: I am an idiot!! It's been trottling back hard the whole time. I wandered why it was performing like crap.

Oh, and those temps were way off! I updated the bios, which revealed the true temps... to my horror! :p

It's now running 3.8ghz (14*272mhz) 1.4125v with a max temp of 72c while running the cpu arithmatic benchmark repeatedly with sisoft sandra. I checked that there was no thermal throttling with ThrottleWatch, but it seems i'm right on the limit. I covered the fan with a hand, and it throttled back as soon as temps hit 75c.
 
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Wait, what's the voltage again? I think you made a typo.
 
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Oh, woops :D

voltage is 1.4125, sorry my mistake
 
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Who keeps voting 1... none of the cases on this forum deserve a 1... Whoever it is needs to grow up.

Cool, i'll take a look. Thanks Dr. D
 
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run your power cables behind the mobo mount, why do you think theres big holes in the mount ;)
 
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lol, then it looks ugly from the other side :p

Could do though, i'll take it apart for cleaning soon, so i'll do some rearranging then.

Ok, upgrades planned:

Another 2 sticks of 512mb ram = 2gb total @ 700mhz (pc5700)
Another hard drive to put in a Raid 0 config! Sweet!

I'm also going to make on of the 5" bay blankers into a fan control panel, with just a variable resistor and a shiny nob of something :D

I need to get my hands on a x1800xt tho :D :D
 
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Ok, i've updated some details regarding the overclock... see post 12.
 
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How do you unlock the pent 4's multiplier?
 

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Wow that's really hot! You should get a better cooler or slow it down because running like that will shorten the life of your CPU a lot.
 

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bikr692002 said:
How do you unlock the pent 4's multiplier?
you can unlock the mutlpyer on the 6xx series if the mobo has the options in the bios
 
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Ok, i'm buying a decent cooler tomorow. I'll post some pics when it's fitted. I'm also gettin an alaska ATI silencer for my graphics card which should help it along nicely.

EDIT: I got my new cpu cooler, i'll be taking some pics soon.

It's the 'Gigabyte 3D Rocket Cooler.' It's fairly tall, but isn't particularly wide, which is perfect for me. I also looked at the flower cooler, but the PSU gets in the way :(

Anyway, i've been able to get my high overclocks at safer temps and with not throttling!

Previousy i could get 3.75ghz @ 72c, which is 3c under thermal throttling,
I can now get in excess of 3.85ghz @ 65c!!!

I think i'm really lucky with this cpu, it overclocks by miles!!! i had it at 4.2ghz (16x multi), it was throttling back very hard, but it just shows that with some awsome cooling, it might be possible to stabilize it at that!!



Ok, the last think i need to get is the ATI silencer 5r2, which should be on it's way now!

EDIT:

All my new coolers are installed!!! I've got the "Gigabyte 3D rocket cooler" on the cpu, with AS5 of course! and the ATI Silencer 5r2 on my x800xl!

I still kept the 3.85ghz, but use it more as an 'everyday' speed, and ramp it up to 4.2ghz when i need it. Max temp at 3.85 with my new cooler is only 52c, and it idles at 35c.

And check this out!!! 4.2ghz is rock steady with a max temp of 56c!! I had 4.3 earlier, but had to put the voltage up to 1.43v, and even that wasn't enough... temperatures were getting to 60c, and prime 95 was begging to show errors, so i think 4.2ghz is the max for my cpu. Ill get a screenshot of cpuz and prime 95 and some others soon to prove it.
 
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UPDATED PICS with my new coolers!!!!





^I need to get my room re-decorated badly!!!
 
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