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So after a few quick power on tests to insure both flow and bubbles were worked out I close up the case knowing I did all I could for this project and that it was in the fate of the geek gods and the alignment of Saturn from this point on. |
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So how did it do? Have you ever seen a giddy geek? Well I will save you all the experience but it goes without saying… I was grinning ear to ear and giggling uncontrollably. I prefer to use the Pentium D line of processors due to their “worst case” nature and then I was even super surprised. I think that the cost effectiveness of this should spark some fun with the enthusiast markets for sure! |
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After Firing up the system with default settings I jumped straight into the bios to make sure there were no blowup in your face level problems. I was shocked at what I saw. We started off at 12C and came to rest at about 9C after about 20 min of run time. I did find after some testing and tweaking that the colder temps didn’t allow the arctic silver grease to cure as I expected. I speculate that using a typical setup with the radiators and them moving over to the cooled system may allow the compound to cure and thusly make it possible to shave a degree or 3 more off.
Feeling confident I proceeded with the install of windows XP and updates. Still the system ran great and cold. According to the windows based monitoring app during the cpu testing of 3dmark we maxed out at 15C.
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Summary
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So I talked to a buddy of mine who is experienced with over clocking and explained that I would love to really push this system to see what it could do. Later that day he came over and took the helm as I got some cold ones. We found we really had to push the 12V buss and core voltage to make the system run stably again. After hours of testing and tweaking we loaded up crisis and pushed the system as hard as we could without a flicker of problem. Our maximum experienced temp according to the in win app was 22C with profile below. Keep in mind This is a 2.8 Pentium D. |
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