Thermalright SI-120 heatsink installed!
fluorescent 120mm fan installed!
ATI Silencer 1 (Rev 2) installed!
benq dvd-rw drive installed!
now let’s try and pump this machine up! 😀
add: managed to install everything without much difficulty. may have laid on a bit too much arctic silver on my cpu than recommended. altho the fan is big, it’s really more of a silent fan than a performance fan, only running at 1300 rpm.
at first i tried to manually up the FSB by about 10MHz. it went well till a few minutes later, crashing with a nice big blue screen while i was running the torture test on prime95. guess i should’ve foresaw my experimentative-nature and bought performance RAM. gave up trying to figure out the quirks and just used the motherboard’s ‘easy-overclock’ to push everything by 10%.
seems to be fine so far. at the same time, i’m trying to push the speed of my video card (9800 Pro) to match 9800 XT speeds. there has been talk of Pro cards carrying the R360 GPU used on the XTs, and while changing my GPU fan i wiped off the thermal grease and took a peek and yahoo there it was: R360 emblazoned across the shiny surface of the chip.
so here i am, running my CPU at 3.3GHz. and GPU at 412MHz (with video memory at 350MHz).
on hindsight, i should’ve bought some cleaner to get rid of the original thermal grease from the CPU and GPU. and examining my video card closer, it’s would be able to fit the ATI Silencer 3, a vga cooler made for the 9800 XT. although priced the same, 3 definitely beats 1.
btw, watched Sky High last night. gewd 🙂 lotta hero jokes. 😀
hmm.. it seems that my mood field is missing 🙁
found my custom fields hidden from the display somehow. fortunately it wasn’t hard to put back.
pc’s running at 3.6GHz now. max temp is about 55 C so far, which is a tad high for my liking but acceptable.
wasted one dvd. was hoping to backup my BF2 dvd and play via the clone, but obviously there’s some copy protection put in. 🙁
i’m wondering how long my BF2 original will last.. it looks like the surface is melting. and there’s a deep scratch near the edge which appeared out of nowhere. 🙁
yet again another posting i don’t understand… hahahaha!! =) you coming down for raya…??? ^^
that’s the plan 🙂
don’t worry, if you don’t understand, that means you’re normal 😀
myuu, did you try reinstalling bf2 with the burnt dvd? i’ve burnt myself a dvd as well and it wouldn’t run, but i wanted to try to reinstall the game with the burnt copy to see if it works but haven’t had the time to try.
noticed some stutters while playing xvids. probably attributed to the huge cpu speed jump. gonna take it slow and try each setting for about a week or two before upping the bar.
so i’m back at 3GHz, but with the gpu maxed as before.
got rid of asus probe 2 too. motherboard monitor 5 seems much better.
ndb, not yet. altho i might make myself an iso and mount it using daemon tools or something with copy protection emulation.
good good… make sure to come down okay? dah rindu la… hahahaha! =)
i miss you too 😀