Hrm...What do you think...

[spldart]

After questing long and hard I uncovered my holy grail the drill press. http://24.243.159.133:91/drillpress.jpg What do you think...Should I attempt to make a couple of water blocks for my dually when the tax money comes in? I hear you can buy some copper stock and do lots of drilling to create a half decent block. I have a chevette heater core that I was planning on using external to the case. And I was thinking of one of those small pond pumps for 40 bux, also external of the case.

[Drake]

I would go for it :D

[conan]

I hope you still have the ratchet handle on the side to raise and lower the bed? If so then it's great. You can wind it up to take it aprt and play or wind it back down to lose some noise :D

[bigg]

nice...

[tripodal]

hey man, a washer pump will work the same so if you have the chevette that the Heater core came from you may already have a pump.

[spldart]

Originally posted by conan
I hope you still have the ratchet handle on the side to raise and lower the bed? If so then it's great. You can wind it up to take it aprt and play or wind it back down to lose some noise :D

The table doesn't adjust but you can raise and lower the mounting of the top portion then you can use the lever from there to move through the drilling progress.

[spldart]

Originally posted by tripodal
hey man, a washer pump will work the same so if you have the chevette that the Heater core came from you may already have a pump.

Nice idea but the washer pumps duty cycle is by no means 100% :(

[spldart]

I still have a tough decision to make...
I can buy two water blocks for about 50 bux each
1 small pump for about 35 bux
Use the chevette heater core
buy one resevoir
tubing clamps etc for a bit more.

Pro's
Much cooler tbred b's
a bit higher overclockability

Con's
Expense
Equipment external to the case

Or I can go with two slk-800's and add two decent fans and have spent 80 or 90 bux and have everything internal to the case.

Pro's
self contained
cheaper

Con's
not as cool
not as :cool:

Keep in mind this is a gigabyte dual socket A mobo that claims max processor support is mp 2100. If I buy 2 tbred-b 2100's just how much overclocking am I going to be able to do if the board says no support for more. If it's not much then do I really need much more cooling than slk800s can provide?

[Drake]

I'd say the SLK-800s would be fine, considering the limitations of dual boards. If you manually change the multiplier you may be able to hit the magic 2+ GHz clockspeed that seems common on these chips.

[spldart]

I'm worried that if I change the multiplier to something higher that the mobo will just not work. the 2100's are suppossedly the highest it supports. Anyone know what happens when you put a processor in that's faster than the board can support?
IE: I change the multiplier up one from the default 2100+

[bigg]

i'm not sure about that board, but it may be power, or bios. the bios needs to be flashed to the latest. the power of the palimnos had notorious pobs on the tyan 2460s, and the gigabyte may have a similar prob. the tbreds are no prob

[bigg]

i'm not sure about that board, but it may be power, or bios. the bios needs to be flashed to the latest. the power of the palimnos had notorious pobs on the tyan 2460s, and the gigabyte may have a similar prob. the tbreds are no prob f/ more info visit the 2cpu forums @ forums.2cpu.com i am there but i don't have much time to post anymore. i only post in the case modding section.

[spldart]

If it's power then maybe the fact that i'm going to run t-breds instead of pallies will buy me some room. If bios I can't find a new one that states support for anything faster. :( That just leaves some limited fsb tinkering.

[spldart]

Cpu concerns have passed. I found bios to support up to xp 2400 :D

Now just the cooling is in question.

[bigg]

Originally posted by spldart
Cpu concerns have passed. I found bios to support up to xp 2400 :D

Now just the cooling is in question.
cool

[bigg]

what model gigabyte???

[spldart]

GA-7DPXDW

[bigg]

hmmm... thats kinda bad cuz thats the only fully integrated dually board with Raid 0/1, and it can't take the top procs. one model newer may be able to, but it only has 0 or 1, not 0/1

[spldart]

It will suit my purposes if it will raid two WD 7200 rpm 8 meg cache drives together and give me some real speed :D
That and allow me to ramp up the speed of those t-breds through multipliers. :cool:

[bigg]

I want to get a 0/1 array because of the realiability and speed

[Gregorach]

Yeah, 0/1 is the one to go for - 0 is just too scary, and 1 just doesn't have that extra boost we like so much. Though I'm not actually that convinced of the speed benefits of 0 for day-to-day usage...

Isn't typical, to give you the feature in the headlines, but take it away in the small print. No integrated RAID for me!

D

[Player0]

I love IDE RAID. Ive used Raid0 on multiple for years now and haven't had any serious problems with it. But I did make the decision to buy a RAID5 card, which gives you the speed and the redundancy. Worth a thought :)

[Brinky]

i notice SUCH a HUGE diference with raid0 with to diamond plus 8 hds... ata 133
rite now i dont have raid arrays... so im sad.... raid gives u a huge boost in every thing...

[bigg]

Raid 5 is ok for a ton of crap storage, but its SLOW writing, and not as fast even reading as raid0/1.