New Core2Duo Overclocking Rig (Pics to come)

[Liger83]

Jesus that Tuniq Tower cooler is incredibly big. Its twice the size of a midgets house! Incredible mate looks like a pretty good rig, how longs she been up and running? Do any tests yet :P?

[Nater]

That power supply will be fine for one 8800GTS.

Nice build, I might look at something like that for a Linux box, but with a less powerful GPU.

[kent1146]

Jesus that Tuniq Tower cooler is incredibly big. Its twice the size of a midgets house! Incredible mate looks like a pretty good rig, how longs she been up and running? Do any tests yet :P?

I finished the build at around 11pm last Thursday evening, and had XP up and running by 1am. The only thing I've been able to do with it is give it a pretty mild overclock to 2.8Ghz (350Mhz FSB), and run 3DMark05. Runs at around:
- 13,200 under 3DMark05 at stock 2.13Ghz
- 16,300 under 3DMark05 at 2.8Ghz

I have not been able to get it to clock faster at stock VCore. I won't be able to play with it again until I get back in town at the end of this week. But when I get back, I plan on:
- Removing the CPU cooler, and polishing it with fine sandpaper and metal polish.
- Orienting the CPU cooler so that the fan blows toward the case exhaust (keeps all the airflow going in the same direction.
- Tampering with VCore to get better overclocks.
- Buying Shadowrun, so I have a game with eye candy to stress this system.