Welcome to my Crazy Computer Mod's! |
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This site is
dedicated to showing people the kinds of crazy things I do to my computer,
mainly modifications to make it look or run cooler and faster. It will be
updated frequently so please check it out once in a while. Hope you like it! My latest achievement with my wife Jessica! To view more pictures of our family visit Shutterfly.com, Album 2, and Album 3 Seemingly much less important computer stuff. List of currently installed components and modifications: Case: Custom Powder Coated Cheiftec Dragon Case. Inside is Chrome Blue Powder Coat, Outside is Heavily Textured Jet Black. Added Handles, Windowed Door with 80MM Fan, and Wheels. Motherboard: Asus A7N8X Deluxe with added heat sink to Southbridge, lapped Northbridge, Artic Silver 3 used on both Memory: 512 MB of GEIL Dragon PC3500 Cas 2 Running at 430 MHz DDR 11-3-3-2@ 1.9V Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Modified to 9800 Pro Using Gigabyte Bios, Zalman ZM80-HP Heat Sink with 1 80MM Fans 420 Core/700 Memory Hard Drives: 2 Hitachi 7200 RPM 60GB Drives, 2 Maxtor 5400 RPM 80GB Drives, 1 IBM 7200 RPM 75GB Drive ATAPI: Lite-On 40X12X48 CD/RW with 48X12X48 Bios (Ghosted) , Lite-On 16X DVD ROM, Pioneer DVR-A04 with 2X for All Media Hacked Firmware (Ghosted) Power Supply: Enermax 433 Watt Whisper Quiet with Adjustable RPM Rear Fan Cables: Blue Rounded ATA 133 and matched Floppy Cable Fans: 2 80MM Quad Blue LED, 1 80MM Blue Eye LED Fan with HD Activated Red LED Case Lighting: Blue Cold Cathode Tubes Installed on Top, Bottom and Right, Neon Tube Mounted Behind Front Door, All On Toggle Switch Controller Card: Promise Ultra133TX2 IDE Controller Fanbus: Nexus Fanbus Controlling Radiator Fan, Hard drive fan, and 2 Exhaust Fans Audio: NVIDIA Nforce2 Onboard Soundstorm 5.1, Boston Acoustics 2.1 Speaker System TV Tuner Card: Asus TV Tuner with Mpeg-1 and Mpeg-2 Recording CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Running at 2.37 GHz (215X11) 1.775Vcore CPU Cooling: Asetek Waterchill with Northbridge Water Block and soon to be added Video Water Block Floppy: 1.44 until I can get something better Mouse: Logitech MX700 Cordless Optical Keyboard: Logitech Black Cordless Ergonomic (Split) Here are some pictures of my latest venture into silent and efficient air cooling. The Asetek Water Cooler is very efficient at removing heat and the best part is that it eliminated 4 fans. Once I get the VGA block I am going to attempt running with only 3 fans besides those installed in the power supply. |
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As far as my CPU temps are concerned, with a room temperature of 77F my idle temp is 98F and my load temp is 114F, pretty impressive for the amount of over-clocking I've achieved. |