Behold, my conroe rig! *pics* *56k warning*

Finally I bring to you pics of my build

I refresh you with the fact that this is at my fiancee's apartment.

The full spread
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/45.jpg

The E6600 up close
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/46.jpg

A work in progress, hard drives taken out
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/47.jpg

Operating table, looks a bit cramped
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/48.jpg

After more work, hdd's in
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/49.jpg

It's alive!
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/50.jpg

Only had room on the floor. :o
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/51.jpg

The wiring
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/40.jpg

Full frontal with cathodes
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/41.jpg

From an angle
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/42.jpg

Without the cathodes
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/43.jpg

From above
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/44.jpg


I apologize for the blurriness, but there they are. I skipped a bunch of work phase pics cuz it was taking longer than I wanted having to redo some sleeving on fan tails from the old system and such.

Benchies to come in next post later today or tomorrow I hope. :D

Crystalmark
142582

3d01
50553

3d03
22789

3d05
13784


3d06
6914

https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2006/08/39.jpg


I was really surprised when I had ATI Tool auto-oc the mem. All of a sudden it was jumping by 4-5 all the way to 819. I was freaking out, as I read others maxed around 790. I haven't even maxed this mem, I just kinda stopped here. :p

As for reaching higher cpu oc's, it needs more than 1.5125v or maybe watercooling for better temps. So I could push more for suicide benchies, but I'd like to keep this windows install, as it's only a week before I move to college. Got some games to play. ;)

Thanks for all the kind words. :cool:

Hi five bro, we've very similar rigs!:D Lookin' forward to your benchies with that powerhouse X1900XT.;)

Edit : Your rig looks pretty damn good btw..... :cool:

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Finally I bring to you pics of my build

I refresh you with the fact that this is at my fiancee's apartment.

The full spread

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Hmm aren't you missing something from that bed...like umm your fiancee' ? ;)

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The E6600 up close

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now that's purdy!

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A work in progress, hard drives taken out

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What?? The drives didn't like being connected with bright green cables?? :eek:

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Operating table, looks a bit cramped

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Where's the body?? :confused:

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After more work, hdd's in

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Ahhh finally talked them into jumping back in there to mate up with those bright green cables?

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It's alive!


Only had room on the floor. :o

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Sweet rig, and nice job!
Let's see some real world benches now! ;)

rock on bro. I like the sleaves. Think I might try and find some here locally when I do my wire cleanup...

Very nice rig Speedy! If I were to upgrade, those are the specs I would get as well. That rig would kick mine any day of the week.:D

Might I suggest a 24" LCD Dell 2407FPW? (to relieve your LCD bottleneck and make your cpu/vidcard roar) Just don't tell your fiancee I said that.;)

Thanks guys! :cool: Your comments made me laugh almost famous. ;)

Updated with some preliminary benches.

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At 3333 with 1.5v. Failed orthos after an hour. Will push a little further and update benchies. Maybe run a crystalmark too. Any other's you guys want to see?


Thanks for all the kind words. :cool:

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Hmmm. You should be doing better than that. Even with my heating problem I did 12 hours Orthos @ 3.4Ghz 1.4875. That looks around 370Mhz. Did you turn off Hyperpath and try chipset SPD Enable? I've not had to do the second one but it does get picky if the memory is not 1:1 which it is if its on auto.

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Hmmm. You should be doing better than that. Even with my heating problem I did 12 hours Orthos @ 3.4Ghz 1.4875. That looks around 370Mhz. Did you turn off Hyperpath and try chipset SPD Enable? I've not had to do the second one but it does get picky if the memory is not 1:1 which it is if its on auto.

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I know, a bit disappointed. Hyperpath is off, but I'm manually running 4-4-4-12 right now. Spd liked higher timings like 5-5-6-15 or something absurd.

I will try and re-enable spd now that I'm up at a higher fsb. My mem is 1:1 though. Thanks for the idea.

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I know, a bit disappointed. Hyperpath is off, but I'm manually running 4-4-4-12 right now. Spd liked higher timings like 5-5-6-15 or something absurd.

I will try and re-enable spd now that I'm up at a higher fsb. My mem is 1:1 though. Thanks for the idea.

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Yes SPD timings are crap. Mine try to do like 5-6-6 at settings where it handles 3-3-3-8 just fine. At least crap SPD readings allow it to post unlike people having DS3 issues with more expensive RAM ;)

Sweet stuff there! Now I expect you to get that Conroe up to E6600 by the end of the day. ;)

oh dude that rig is giving me an errection BIG TIME lol.

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oh dude that rig is giving me an errection BIG TIME lol.

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Ick. :|

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oh dude that rig is giving me an errection BIG TIME lol.

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I guessing it has been a while since........you got a new computer.