Case modding / Overclocking / Custom PCs / etc

Rich · 10th December 2006, 07:09

Anyone else into this?

Zebedeedooday might be

Anyone running water cooled rigs and more UV lighting that your local nightclub?

Kandyman · 10th December 2006, 09:41

I use to be in to this and have spent many a hour on the overclocking forums and also a few quid in the shop

never modded my case but i remember the time i brought a case from them called the tornado or something and it had 6 fans in it, 2 on top 2 on the side over the cpu 1 front and 1 back, god it made suck a racket i had to change all the fans over for quieter ones with less db output.

I have done the celeron chips with over clocked bus and voltage

Now i am just running a shuttle system with a p4 all standed which suites me

Zeb · 10th December 2006, 10:03

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Originally Posted by RichK

Anyone else into this?

Zebedeedooday might be

Anyone running water cooled rigs and more UV lighting that your local nightclub?

Moi?

I only ever overclock CPUs, graphics cards and RAM....I have extra PCi fans in situ but no other mods....lights and water, no, can't say I have....yet..

Simon · 10th December 2006, 10:19

Got me a custom-built PC from the nice people at Voodoo PC (over in Canada)

Runninng an over-clocked Athlon 64 Dual Core 4400+ (over-clocked to 2.4Ghz). Got at least 6 fans

Two intake, two exhaust, one for CPU and one of GPU... luckily they're quite quiet so they don't make the whole house shake...

It came with a sort of red glow built-in. Makes it look a bit menacing...

Zeb · 10th December 2006, 10:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon D

Got me a custom-built PC from the nice people at Voodoo PC (over in Canada)

Runninng an over-clocked Athlon 64 Dual Core 4400+ (over-clocked to 2.4Ghz). Got at least 6 fans

Two intake, two exhaust, one for CPU and one of GPU... luckily they're quite quiet so they don't make the whole house shake...

It came with a sort of red glow built-in. Makes it look a bit menacing...

Can you fry eggs on the top of it?

Simon · 10th December 2006, 10:24

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Originally Posted by Zebedeedooday

Can you fry eggs on the top of it?

No, it's not quite hot enough for that.... But it does provide a good bit of warmth. Makes a useful heater for the room when the central heating packs in...

NOCTURNAL · 10th December 2006, 10:32

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Originally Posted by Simon D

No, it's not quite hot enough for that.... But it does provide a good bit of warmth. Makes a useful heater for the room when the central heating packs in...

I have a plasma for that

Nick

BMC123 · 10th December 2006, 20:20

The only overclocking done on my PC is the graphics card, and the factory did that

http://www.bfgtech.com/7600GS_512.html

that's the one

oh.. I suppose the addition of a couple of artic cooling fans could be seen as a "mod"

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=79&disc=

and one of their case fans

I think really with the price of chips falling and kit getting cheaper, there is not as much need for overclocking, but having said that there seems to be no shortage of people willing to spend loads of money on a box that only a few people will see

salop75 · 12th December 2006, 20:18

I used to be into overclocking P2's and Celerons and such like but interest dropped off when i got into using Sun equipment due to work, which left very little opportunity for overclocking and modding.

When the Sun gear got retired i looked around for something with Unix under the hood which was easy to use, so naturally went for Apple equipment, but again not much opportunity to mod. But i do have a Apple G4 with cpu upgrade and Ati 9800 pro, all runs quite hot though and will crash if the cpu and gfx card are maxed out - lots of gfx corruption on the screen.

My guess is the stock heatsink/fan on the Ati card aren't all that, maybe one of the more experienced modders here could recommend a fan/heatsink upgrade for my ati card?

John

BMC123 · 13th December 2006, 00:01

This item should help.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/...r_install.html

and you can get one here, but search around

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/prod...VGA-ATI1&af=50

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BMC123 Posted a thing or two 2004 1.8 Connoisseur SE, 1999 XJ8 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 1,163 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	The only overclocking done on my PC is the graphics card, and the factory did that http://www.bfgtech.com/7600GS_512.html that's the one oh.. I suppose the addition of a couple of artic cooling fans could be seen as a "mod" http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=79&disc= and one of their case fans I think really with the price of chips falling and kit getting cheaper, there is not as much need for overclocking, but having said that there seems to be no shortage of people willing to spend loads of money on a box that only a few people will see __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

13th December 2006, 00:01	#10
BMC123 Posted a thing or two 2004 1.8 Connoisseur SE, 1999 XJ8 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 1,163 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	This item should help. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/...r_install.html and you can get one here, but search around http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/prod...VGA-ATI1&af=50 __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

10th December 2006, 09:41	#2
Kandyman Banned ROVER 75 2.5 V6 Connoisseur SE Limousine 2004 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Welling Posts: 10,995 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	I use to be in to this and have spent many a hour on the overclocking forums and also a few quid in the shop never modded my case but i remember the time i brought a case from them called the tornado or something and it had 6 fans in it, 2 on top 2 on the side over the cpu 1 front and 1 back, god it made suck a racket i had to change all the fans over for quieter ones with less db output. I have done the celeron chips with over clocked bus and voltage Now i am just running a shuttle system with a p4 all standed which suites me

10th December 2006, 10:19	#4
Simon Banned - Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: - Posts: 10,318 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Got me a custom-built PC from the nice people at Voodoo PC (over in Canada) Runninng an over-clocked Athlon 64 Dual Core 4400+ (over-clocked to 2.4Ghz). Got at least 6 fans Two intake, two exhaust, one for CPU and one of GPU... luckily they're quite quiet so they don't make the whole house shake... It came with a sort of red glow built-in. Makes it look a bit menacing...

12th December 2006, 20:18	#9
salop75 Avid contributor Rover 75 2.5 Conn SE Saloon Auto Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shrewsbury Posts: 193 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I used to be into overclocking P2's and Celerons and such like but interest dropped off when i got into using Sun equipment due to work, which left very little opportunity for overclocking and modding. When the Sun gear got retired i looked around for something with Unix under the hood which was easy to use, so naturally went for Apple equipment, but again not much opportunity to mod. But i do have a Apple G4 with cpu upgrade and Ati 9800 pro, all runs quite hot though and will crash if the cpu and gfx card are maxed out - lots of gfx corruption on the screen. My guess is the stock heatsink/fan on the Ati card aren't all that, maybe one of the more experienced modders here could recommend a fan/heatsink upgrade for my ati card? John