DJ Rotor

good stuff, thanks

phinsup

and yea the xp procs definetely run hot, actually so did the p4's. I have an xp 2000 in my desktop and i have a gigantic fan on it.

jefraney

Go liquid cooled. If I didn't have all of my hard drive fans and case fans, it would be a very quiet system. With all the other fans off, you can even hear the water flowing.

DJ Rotor

thought of that, it's more $$$ than I want to put in that system though



just bought a Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard for it cos the original DFI took an extended vacation, $80 and that was already more than I wanted to spend on that box ever again!

phinsup

i only use my desktop for playig a few games, I just bought a 17 inch laptop to replace my 15 and even with the 15 i never used the desktop. With this one i can play the games i play.

jefraney

If you compare the price of the water cooling to the processor, its worth the $200 to make my $700 processor run at its peak performance constantly.



You can find some pretty inexpensive water systems that work really well. I went the cheaper way by having an external radiator on my server case, but for a little more, you can find self-contained units that take up 2 5" bays and all you need to do is attach it to the processor.



I noticed a huge difference in water cooling. went from 38 degress to 24.

sweet7

I'm running duel FX57s and it smokes. Very very happy.

jefraney

I have used a FX system before and they are amazing.



What board are you running sweet7?

sweet7

ASUS 41 i thinks, I cant remember.

phinsup

bought a biostar board this time as i had heard good things and the price was right, used to run asus until i ran into a run of 3 bad boards and never bought another. I have used MSI for the past few years and am very happy with them.



I will say that I am very impressed with the biostar board and price vs value i dont think there is much that can meet it.