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Mind you, I'm not bragging or anything. It was just a project begun last December '03.
I retired this old Pentium 166 file server. Thing had about ten drives in it -- 3 GB to 6 GB in size. It was still just chugging along, old power supply, original motherboard in Gateway 2000's full-tower case. I reasoned that the steel case was still good, still roomy, and that it could be converted from early ATX used for micro-AT motherboard to an ATX for an ASUS P4P800 (standard). Two 120mm intake fans; two 92mm exhaust fans, and a CPU fan that is 120mm pushing air through a 120-to-92mm adapter onto a ThermalTake PIPE101.
Here's the guts of it:
m-board P4P800
2.4C processor (P4 Northwood) @ 800Mhz FSB
OCZ EL "Gold" DDR500 -- 2X512 or 1 GB
Dual Hitachi 7K250 SATA150 RAID0, 2 X 160GB
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS
Hauppauge PVR250
Sony DRU-700A
Again --- not bragging -- it's not even original, since Tom's Hardware Guide recommended a similar configuration to squeeze out the DDR500 performance spec from the OCZ PC 4000 modules.
I'm looking at ASUS Probe's thermal monitoring reports: at ambient room temperature of 75F, the CPU is at 80F and the motherboard is at 84F. That is, these are idle temps. Thermal sensors on the GPU, CPU, and Northbridge show 96F, 85F and 96F respectively. Usually, gaming -- for instance DOOM 3 for an hour of play -- does not push these temperatures very high. Seems the last time I checked the load temperatures maxxed out below 106F -- or approximately 41C.
Now -- I have a friend who's itchy about his "need for speed". His 3.2C CPU is OC"d to 3.47, and he's running DDR433 ram modules. His temperature profile is hotter than mine -- an idle of 91F @ maybe 73F room temperature. We compared benchmarks under PassMark 5.0. His overall passmark score is exactly 15.66666666. . . 7 percent higher than mine, or about 530.5 as opposed to 459.9.
Well, this percentage difference is just about identical to the percentage difference in processor speeds (3.47 versus 3.0). I'm thinking I could replace the 2.4C with a 2.8C, overclock by the same 25% factor, and nose ahead of his passmark score.
WHO HAS TEMPERATURE DATA ON A 2.8C overclocked to ~3.5 under a similar test-bed situation?
COMMENT?
I retired this old Pentium 166 file server. Thing had about ten drives in it -- 3 GB to 6 GB in size. It was still just chugging along, old power supply, original motherboard in Gateway 2000's full-tower case. I reasoned that the steel case was still good, still roomy, and that it could be converted from early ATX used for micro-AT motherboard to an ATX for an ASUS P4P800 (standard). Two 120mm intake fans; two 92mm exhaust fans, and a CPU fan that is 120mm pushing air through a 120-to-92mm adapter onto a ThermalTake PIPE101.
Here's the guts of it:
m-board P4P800
2.4C processor (P4 Northwood) @ 800Mhz FSB
OCZ EL "Gold" DDR500 -- 2X512 or 1 GB
Dual Hitachi 7K250 SATA150 RAID0, 2 X 160GB
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS
Hauppauge PVR250
Sony DRU-700A
Again --- not bragging -- it's not even original, since Tom's Hardware Guide recommended a similar configuration to squeeze out the DDR500 performance spec from the OCZ PC 4000 modules.
I'm looking at ASUS Probe's thermal monitoring reports: at ambient room temperature of 75F, the CPU is at 80F and the motherboard is at 84F. That is, these are idle temps. Thermal sensors on the GPU, CPU, and Northbridge show 96F, 85F and 96F respectively. Usually, gaming -- for instance DOOM 3 for an hour of play -- does not push these temperatures very high. Seems the last time I checked the load temperatures maxxed out below 106F -- or approximately 41C.
Now -- I have a friend who's itchy about his "need for speed". His 3.2C CPU is OC"d to 3.47, and he's running DDR433 ram modules. His temperature profile is hotter than mine -- an idle of 91F @ maybe 73F room temperature. We compared benchmarks under PassMark 5.0. His overall passmark score is exactly 15.66666666. . . 7 percent higher than mine, or about 530.5 as opposed to 459.9.
Well, this percentage difference is just about identical to the percentage difference in processor speeds (3.47 versus 3.0). I'm thinking I could replace the 2.4C with a 2.8C, overclock by the same 25% factor, and nose ahead of his passmark score.
WHO HAS TEMPERATURE DATA ON A 2.8C overclocked to ~3.5 under a similar test-bed situation?
COMMENT?
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