I am not trying to be a smart ass here, but I thought u spend all that time and money on a water system to o/c your CPU as far as u can go ....Not run it at 3000+ speed.....
Because (a) they felt like it (and its their money and if they dont want to so be it) and (b) just because Person A can OC by 600Mhz does not mean Person B with the same setup and coolers can OC even 100Mhz.
wow lol...thats like 2 months of car insurance for me lol.
I get around that by walking
Enlighten me please, is there a reason why u want just a cool system...
I can answer that quite well as that is my philosophy to a degree
1. Bragging rights are not all about CPU speed -- you can always ramp a CPU faster... whooppee... but can you run it at -40C under stress?
2. Depending on the cooler you've got .... is it good enough to start dropping your room temperature? (or at least the air around your case?)
3. For people like me who leave windows and doors wide open in -20C weather ... cold is good. The colder the better. Plain and simple.
Ur water cooling that system and not trying for 2.8Ghz or something like that...
I think ive alluded to this above but for the record, anyone who knows anything about OCing (no offence intended whatsoever) knows that not all chips (same model, revision etc) are made the same .. ditto for mobo, chipset, ram, etc. This means that not all chips can OC the same.
exactly what I was wondering about. if I was even gonna consider watercooling I would want a 600-800mhz overclock outta my system lol. aircooling got me 600...but it poops out past 237fsb lol.
First year computer architecture or some engineering/design course about CPUs etc will quickly reveal to you that CPUs are more than fast enough. The bottleneck is the memory/hdd/interlinks etc.
never blew a processor before...but even if I did $94 isnt bad for a new one lol
Not everyone has $94 to buy a new one (nor can wait for shipping). If i always had $94 around i'd have a 4-way Dual Core Opteron setup as a renderlab by now.