The stages of my upgrade addiction

[johnnyfive]

I intend to. Havent had a chance to sit down and do it. Im not sure how high to shoot for, but Im thinkin 3.66.

[IVIYTH0S]

I intend to. Havent had a chance to sit down and do it. Im not sure how high to shoot for, but Im thinkin 3.66.

is it a C0 or D0, either way I'd shoot for 4ghz, if it's D0 you could probably go higher with no sweat at all

[johnnyfive]

Pretty sure its a C0. Bought it back in March. Ive thought about shooting for 4. Im a bit concerned about wear on the components though. As a poor graduate student, I had to abstain from eating for a few months to put this rig together. Cant afford a blowout!

 

 

On a side note, anyone know of some good medium brightness LED's that have a wide dispersion? I bought some bitspower led's from frozen cpu, and those suckers are like lasers! No spread in the lighting. When I turn my room lights out, it looks like I have two red eyes in the front of my case!

 

Lights off:

 

 

Lights on:

Edited December 17, 2009 by johnnyfive

[IVIYTH0S]

With water cooling, even with a C0 I think 4ghz is plenty attainable and stable . I hope to upgrade to a 920 someday but this Q9450 is just such a trooper and it'd be sad leaving it

[Boinker]

That looks pretty dang good. How well does that Tri rad cool the 295?

[johnnyfive]

On air, the gpu idled in the 70s and load was in the 90s. Once I put it on water idle dropped to the 30s. I havent yet had a chance to stress the GPU. All these temps, by the way, for the cpu and gpu are with the fans only at half speed.