Ocing Rigs

[Duvie]

I am planning right now to make 3 of these and let the ppl pick the rest of the components....

I will test with my own harddrive, backup liteon DVD drive and a GF4mx agp vid card....

Common parts all from www.zipzoomfly.com

Intel P4 2.4c 800fsb (retail)= 166.00
Abit AI7 i865 mobo Retail = 121.00
Antec SOHO 1080AMG w/
430 true power PSU (3 case fans) = 115.00 + 20.00sh
1gb (2x512) Hyper X pc3500 (BH-5) = 230.00

or

512mb (2x256) Hyper X Pc3500 (BH-5) = 124.00


My goal is 3.2ghz on these system but I am only counting on 3ghz

If temps are out of line I will put in a

Zalmann 7000Cu or Al-Cu



these guys are not advanced in overclocking and the needs of the critical components....

I am thinking about charging them a premium obviously for the work it takes to test them and secure the overclock...Obviously not the cost of hat the CPU cost at the overclocked level...


What do you think I should mark it up as. They know I am overclocking them as they are excited to get 3 to 3.2ghz performance at the cost of the 166 for a 2.4.....I pretty much told them 3ghz is about break even cause the extra cost related to the higher quality ram and maybe the slightly better PSU makes up a bit..

 

[wicktron]

I was under the assumption that HyperX PC3500 was CH-5.
BH-5 modules come from the HyperX PC3200 (non-A) from what I know.

Also, what exactly you asking, bro?

 

[Corporate Thug]

usually i like 10%, maybe go 15% if you have to OC/test

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: wicktron
I was under the assumption that HyperX PC3500 was CH-5.
BH-5 modules come from the HyperX PC3200 (non-A) from what I know.

Also, what exactly you asking, bro?

Hmmm... I will have to check that but I have heard ppl say they had BH-5 sticks in the pc3500....I may have to re-evaluate that one....

I here Hynix but I tested buffalo ram and I am not impressed...BH5 is the best bet for these hopefully plus 250fsb systems...

 

[jdogg707]

Originally posted by: shady06
usually i like 10%, maybe go 15% if you have to OC/test

I'd do 15%, I usually go for 15% and have never run into any complaints

 

[CarpeDiem99]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: wicktron
I was under the assumption that HyperX PC3500 was CH-5.
BH-5 modules come from the HyperX PC3200 (non-A) from what I know.

Also, what exactly you asking, bro?

Hmmm... I will have to check that but I have heard ppl say they had BH-5 sticks in the pc3500....I may have to re-evaluate that one....

I here Hynix but I tested buffalo ram and I am not impressed...BH5 is the best bet for these hopefully plus 250fsb systems...

Kingston discontinued bh-5 pc3500 HyperX long time ago
All they use now is CH-5 which is what I have and it sucks, but luckily I just purchased OCZ Platinum Ltd Edition pc3500 (with bh-5 Chips) so you might want
to look for those.

 

[zShowtimez]

Or Mushkin black lvl2. Those be BH-5

 

[Duvie]

Will do...I have generally avoided OCZ but I will give them a look....I was already looking at mushkin but was concerned at the high price. Ultimately ocing still needs to stay within the cost/performance ratio or ppl will just buy a stock system for a lot cheaper...

i know from my testing that running lower memory speeds at super fast timings can trump the higher speed low cas timings so I will not break the bank to gain 1-5% the faster memory gives me in some apps. CPU speed far outweighs the memory speed with P$'s as I have proved in my testing so I will never limit an overclock to hold onto a 1:1 or 5:4 ratio if 3:2 lets me gain 100+ more mhz...