So I found this thing and couldn't help but bring it home just out of sheer curiosity.
It was a top of the line model - intel core 2 extreme QX9770, 8GB of DDR2, and dual ATI 3870x2's in crossfire. 1000W PSU. The case is a monster - it has to be at least 50 lbs.
Anyway, the water cooling setup was making a bunch of noise and it would shut off after 30 seconds. I figured it was overheating, so I took off the watercooler and set some old heatsink towers on the CPU and the northbridge chipsets and put a little weight on them.
That got the thing to POST, but it would get hung up randomly. Out of every 3 posts, the 4th would fail.
I couldn't find any rhyme or reason to it. I figure with the cooling system showing up DOA the board was probably overheated and its flaky now. I notice the CPU regularly goes for north of $200 on ebay! Wow! That doesn't seem right but whatever, I will throw it up there and see how it does.
The GPUs seem to work. Should I sell these individually or would a matched pair for crossfire sell better together?
The jury is still out regarding re-using this case. I kind of like it, but I can also think of easier things to work on.....
The 1KW power supply is nice though.
It was a top of the line model - intel core 2 extreme QX9770, 8GB of DDR2, and dual ATI 3870x2's in crossfire. 1000W PSU. The case is a monster - it has to be at least 50 lbs.
Anyway, the water cooling setup was making a bunch of noise and it would shut off after 30 seconds. I figured it was overheating, so I took off the watercooler and set some old heatsink towers on the CPU and the northbridge chipsets and put a little weight on them.
That got the thing to POST, but it would get hung up randomly. Out of every 3 posts, the 4th would fail.
I couldn't find any rhyme or reason to it. I figure with the cooling system showing up DOA the board was probably overheated and its flaky now. I notice the CPU regularly goes for north of $200 on ebay! Wow! That doesn't seem right but whatever, I will throw it up there and see how it does.
The GPUs seem to work. Should I sell these individually or would a matched pair for crossfire sell better together?
The jury is still out regarding re-using this case. I kind of like it, but I can also think of easier things to work on.....
The 1KW power supply is nice though.
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