An old hobby of mine

[fabulicious]

Lian Li Tower Chassis



ThermoChill PA120.3



Fans in a pull configuration.



Single loop system covering, CPU,GPU and Southbridge







Testing the Quad with a mild overclock.



Results



Benchmarking an array of ssd's. Cannot remember which tried so many!



me da trying to get me in the car..


just kidding

If interested you can learn a lot more from here..xtremesystems.org/forums/forum.php

[Coops]

always fancied building a o/c rig but not got the space currently so limited to mildy o/c ing my laptop with software tweaks etc

once I get a house and the deskspace i'm going ivybridge and clocking the crap out of it

[ThRaXaIR]

You raging geek! lol im just well jel wish i knew computers.... i did lol the last picture though.

[Coops]

easy to pickup, troll the forums and get up to speed, its a whole new world out there now with useable integrated cpu graphics and SSD drives, mad quick computing for very little cash

[fabulicious]

Well I get very jealous when I see your cars so I have to have an edge somewhere
It's lots and lots of fun. It's an industry as you can imagine that moves very quickly. It has been 2/3 years since I built that rig so I guess there is a lot more going on now and as coops said very very rapid computing to be had with simple upgrades such as an SSD, although that was a minefield when I was starting off. So many dodgy ones on the market in the early years.
The water cooling was really to obtain better stability on the OC, both for the graphics card and CPU. There are other options such as phase change also.

[Coops]

ai the SSD seems to be a great divide, I've run an OCZ vertex 2 for year or more now no issues, but seen many different drives die in minutes on others.

[fabulicious]

Hiya.

i'll let you into a little secret coops..I used to sell them online.
started off with a Korean brand called Mtron(gone now).
They became mainstream in and around 2006/07. All were SLC and what was impressive at the time were the access times. Bandwidth was slightly improved over a standard spindle drive also but writes were at the time the achilles heel of ssd's. SLC types did not have too much bother with writes though, and when you raided them up some lads were breaking the 1Gb/s barrier for data reads!

Then all the other players came on-stream with the MLC types and they initially were terrible. Even Intel crashed and burned a few times with them.

Certainly OCZ were the pioneers for the custom builders and enthusiast's out there. They released so many it was hard to keep up with what was which.
When I wrapped up, picking an SSD came down to the controller and random access times and not the Nand type/layout as such. Intel were dominating and Sandforce were snapping at their heals.

If I took the plunge again on building a rig, I'd probably go for a ram drive/card. They is mind boggling fast them and really only designed for enterprise.

At the moment I still have an Mtron running in my notebook. Have had it running 3/4 years and not a bother to it.
It's funny at first though getting used to not hearing the needle working away on a mechanical drive isnt it?

here's a pic of the mtron enterprise drive..

[Coops]

I have one running the sandforce OCZ in normal notebook fitment, 2.5" drive and one running an mSATA Toshiba drive which is just silly small. not sure on the controller for that but both bench access times at nano second values

the ocz dumps all over the tosh drive for absolute read and write speeds though

[Wobba]

I have a OCZ SATAIII SSD at mo. I am going to get another.

It's a new world tbh.