Vista - Show us your rig

some pics of my new cpu cooler a zalman 9700nt as you can see from the pics it just fits but has made a big diffrence

CASE: ANTEC P190 Case with 1200watt Dual PSU ( 650+550)
MOBO: ASUS Rampage Formula Crossfire Intel x48 chipset 0801 beta BIOS
OS: Windows Vista ULTIMATE 64bit SP1
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 Quad-Core @ 3.95ghz(x8.5) 1860FSB(465x4) w/ Cooler Master v8 35c/55c
GPU: ASUS ATI RADEON 4870x2 with TRI-FANS 750mhz core 44c/65c
RAM: 8GB 1066mhz DDR2 OCZ REAPER HPC @ 930mhz 5-5-5-15 2T 2.1v

HDD's: 300GB 10,000rpm WD VElociraptor
PLUS WD 1 TB, WD 320GB, WD 750GB AND 2TB External Western Digital MY Book Pro II in RAID 0


MONITOR: SAMSUNG 2253BW 22" 2ms 1680x1050 (16:10 widescreen) DVI LCD
SPEAKERS: Logitech Z-Cinema 2.1 USB Digital SPeakers ( @ 24bit 48000hz)
MIDIKEYBOARD: EDIROL PCR-500 49 Key

3D MARK 06 Score: 21013
3D MARK 05 Score: 24516
VISTA SCORE: 5.9

Damn those Cooler Master V8's are big! I was playing with one at the store today while picking up my new motherboard (pics coming soon)... The things freaking heavy!

yeah the thing is huge and works awesome man, i had to actually remove my 200mm fan on the side of the case to make it fit, very small loss compared to the huge temps difference for the cpu, idle at 30c and load max at 55c... this is with the qx9770 overclocked to 3.95ghz..wich is pretty cool IMO for air cooling, at stock its even better. load is like 45c, but i can accept 55c for load with that decent OC i have..

ps: oh..i can only imagine the new v10's by CM unbelievable....

Pretty nice system you have there Emulator.. Nice work. I forgot about the P190.. nice case.

yea, those V8's are huge. and idling at 30 and load at 55c is pretty decent for your overclock, especially since your on the older QX9770.. I was told they ran pretty hot. I had the QX6850 and it was terrible. Was worse than my Q6700. so I sold that junker for more than I got it for. haha.. but I can't image spending what you did for your chip. But now they have the Q9650.. that does wonders like your chip does. and I had to get one. I love it. 4.0 ghz was a breeze actually. it wasn't even fun.. cuz wasn't very hard.. lol.

Anyways, As promised to everyone, freelancer, amplid, and all you dudes/ dudettes.. Here's the latest picture I took just about an hour ago. I'm up and running on my Water Cooling. Loving it so far.



I'm currently running at 4.0 Ghz with 1.304v on my Quad, my idle temps are 26c, but idle doesn't matter. It's the loads that count. This is my first boot up with my water loop, but so far my highest load temp was pretty low. I ran Prime 95 for 35 minutes and my load temps were 40, 37, 38, 38... Must say I'm pretty happy with H20 results so far. I can't wait to try another Bench at 4.3 Ghz tomorrow and see what the temps are..

More pics coming soon. Check my log in overclocking & cooling tomorrow!

oh and emulator.. what voltage do you need for that 3.9 ghz clock?

um ..im not an experienced overclocker.. i just played around with things in the bios till i got a stable boot up..and stable gaming..and everything...i think i set the voltage to the cpu at 1.36v or something..
(i should try to lower for maybe lower temps..i see u have yours at 1.304v , maybe i dont need all that voltage),
but i dont see that voltage being constant under idle operations... i see the cpu clock dip to like 2.6ghz sometimes.. i guess its the halt state? to keep it cool during idle..when it starts to work.. it stays at the constant 3.95ghz....i disabled speedstep of course.. but whatever i did , i guess i did right lol...oh and by the way i bought the qx9770 on ebay for $650 used .. it was bought from a pc shop that ( supposedly) used it for 3 days and then put it back in the box( they had high positive feedback ) ..even if they lied..its working splendidly..so im happy i owned the qx6850.. and UGHH! this is sooo much better especially for OC

ps: and BTW..AWESOME rig u got there.. soon u may need to add some water to those gfx cards lol.. and let them blossom

Yea, I thought about water on the GPU's, but they max out on hard games like Crysis, While heavily OC'd from 576 to 720 Mhz.. at around 61 and 57c.. so thats not that bad, better than most 260's.

I want to cool my NB and SB though.

and as for the OC. I have the newest E0 stepping from intel, on my chip and they run better, cooler, and with less volts than most other chips. I'm almost positive you won't be able to run 4.0 with as low as volts just cuz the type of chip you have.. it's a C1 right, or C0.. you can see what type in Core Temp.

Also do you check your overclock with something other than games, like OCCT, or Prime 95.. as you should. also something that can help with Quad core overclocks is adding some fsb/vtt voltage.. that will help the clock, and in turn you can lower vcore, and that will lower temps. give it a try if you'd like, but save your current settings also.

let me know if you have oc questions.

WHAT.. I got the black label. Nice! See.... my name! Finally.

Thanks Mods!

i use everest to monitor temps and stuff..and i used the stress test ..i better give prime95 a try ..since i hear its one of the best for testing oc's, ill give the fsb voltage a shot to maybe lower the cpu voltage.. btw..yeah its c1