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2x Galaxy 250 GTS Enters Folding@Home Domain
// June 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // Hardware, Project Zephyr
Finally got two Galaxy 250 GTS for my ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboard. Build is finally set and done as a dedicated folder.
XFX 9800 GT + Creative EP-830
// April 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Others
Bought the XFX 9800GT about two months back but haven’t logged it here yet. Currently clocked at 756/1782/900 for GPUGrid crunching.
Also, new earphones too — Creative EP-830s
Quick update | Corsair RAM, Pentium 4, overclocking fail
// February 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Others
It’s been a while since last update.. but I received a new package — Pentium 4 560 pulled from an old Alienware along with the motherboard. Special thanks to my buddy for it.
It was a bit surprising when I got the package. Just by shaking it I could hear the board slide around inside. After opening it up I saw that there was no cushion in the packing; just the motherboard and CPU wrapped in a plastic bag (not anti-static), thrown into a USPS Priority mail box. The socket was open and the CPU was in the box. The CPU could have fell out of this hole on the corner of the box.. luckily it didn’t.
On another note, here’s my new Corsair DDR3 RAM. 1600 MHz, 9-9-9-20-1T @ 1.8V. Haven’t had a chance to try it out until now.
Here it is installed onto my Foxconn BlackOps.
And now the Pentium 4 560. The printed text on it is faint but still semi-readable.
The overclocking setup. I didn’t have my Corsair PSU with me so Antec Basiq it is. Also, all I had was the Intel Stock Cooler.
Firing it up.. it works (after all that abuse in the mail)! But what do you know? The Pentium 4 doesn’t support 64bit OS.
I spent about an hour overclocking the chip.. found out in the end I made a mistake with my RAM. It was severly downclocked, holding back my CPU. I was wondering why I couldn’t get it very high. Looks like I’ll have to resort to software overclocking. Due to school I will have to try again during spring break.
Surprisingly this was the only P4 560 on HWbot.
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=822181
And just to test and make sure, the motherboard, Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE, works too.
More on the P4 later when I re-overclock it.
Foxconn Black Ops - First Look
// January 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // Others
Little late on the post but motherboard for dry ice is in. Below are just a few pictures.
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Patriot Viper DDR3 1600 MHz
7-7-7-20 @ 1.9v
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Foxconn Black Ops x48.
Not much time to play with it due to college starting the day after. Also, the BIOS is confusing with all the tweaks — but here are some CPU-Z Validations.
3.8 GHz
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=476568
4.0 GHz
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=476574
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Dry ice benching board for now.. but soon to become my main build.
Build for Jenny
// January 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Others
Antec P180
EVGA 750i FTW
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400
2×2 GB Corsair DDR2 PC6400
EVGA 9800GT
Antec TruePower Trio 550W
Samsung Spinpoint F1 500 GB
Sony CD/DVD RW
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
Couple of notes:
Anyways, enjoy!
