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Prescott 3.2@4.016 Watercooled

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RGN

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I started out just wanting a nice watercooled rig. Then I sold my 2.6c to a buddy. I did the research, and bought the 3.2e and finally got everything running this week.

I've spent waaayyyy to much on this, but I guess its paying off...

Dangerden TDX
Dangerden Maze4 GPU
Dangerden Maze4 Chipset
BlackIce Micro
BlackIce MicroII
Eheim 1250
2x UV Blue 5.25 reservior

The flow is from the pump to a reservior, to the chipset, to the cpu, to the large radiator, to the 2nd reservior , to the GPU, to the small radiator. The waterblock is arctic silver epoxied to the 875p chip. 🙂 The mounting holes are custom on the board.

The system is:

3.2e @ 4.016 on 1.463v
Gigabyte GA-8IK1100
2x512MB Mushkin Basic DDR2100 This is old 266Mhz mem running at 333Mhz at 2.7v
Lian-Li PC-75
Coolmax 480W
BFG 5800 Ultra Now very quiet. 😀


My first watercooling experience, and it seem positive. I've installed a bunch of UV reactive stuff and need to finish wiring up the lights. I'm going to wire a switch so I can turn them on and off.

:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: Dman877
Sounds like a robust water cooling system you got there. What are the temps on that proc at 4.01?
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The temps are still pretty high. The probe I've got on the waterblock that has given me a a peak of 65c. THe mobo monitor says about 72c. 73.2 is the ceiling for this accourding to intel.

It does run completely stable though. I played UT2k3 for about an hour and then ran 3dmark03 (got 4798), and its still fine. (The overclocking was a this-afternoon thing)
 
oh, I should add, that those were peak temps. Its at 50.5c on the probe and 58c on the mobo here just surfing and stuff.
 
I am very impressed. Those temps should be ok for the Prescott, especially over 4 ghz. Now if you got some better ram you'll be in great shape.
 
Originally posted by: RGN
Originally posted by: Dman877
Sounds like a robust water cooling system you got there. What are the temps on that proc at 4.01?
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The temps are still pretty high. The probe I've got on the waterblock that has given me a a peak of 65c. THe mobo monitor says about 72c. 73.2 is the ceiling for this accourding to intel.

It does run completely stable though. I played UT2k3 for about an hour and then ran 3dmark03 (got 4798), and its still fine. (The overclocking was a this-afternoon thing)
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I wouldnt call that stable unless you can Prime or Fold overnight without crashing.
 
I hace the maze4 chipset block but cannot use it on my p4p800-dlx mb since there is no mounting hole. Did you get the one for 865/875 chipset or your mb has special mounting holes?
 
Those temps are not out of range for a prescott. Those temps are very good for 4GHZ too. He could have never achieved that on air cooling.
 
Originally posted by: ectx
I hace the maze4 chipset block but cannot use it on my p4p800-dlx mb since there is no mounting hole. Did you get the one for 865/875 chipset or your mb has special mounting holes?
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Well, I actually have both... But the on I'm using in a very perma way is the non-865-875 block. My board doesn't have holes for the the proper cooler either, so I used Artic silver epoxy to glue it on. Its not coming off, but the board is almost 2 years old anyway.... I figured that I didn't have much to lose.
 
that's awesome... congrats!
i am thinking of watercooling my next upgrade, but not sure just yet... looks sweet though!
 
Originally posted by: CraigRT
that's awesome... congrats!
i am thinking of watercooling my next upgrade, but not sure just yet... looks sweet though!
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I started out with the idea of just doing the water cooling instead of any kind of upgrade. My 2.6c was going to get over clocked and that was it. While my PC was apart and I was waiting for h2o parts to come in, I ended up selling the 2.6c to my buddy. He needed something and I got a fair price for it.
I did the research and bought the 3.2e as a result. 🙂 I'm happy for now.
 
To get maximum cooling, you should reroute your water from pump->bigrad->firstres->CPU->NB->smallrad->2ndres->gpu

This is assuming you want maximum cooling to your CPU.
 
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