digitaldiscipline ◾ ◾ Hey, where's the C9 update?

It's still in my head, because Bad Things happened with the transition to the watercooled rig. It may have been a wayward blot of conductive thermal grease, or, worse an errant slip of a screwdriver, but whatever the cause, my Epox 8RDA+ refused to boot when I mounted it in the Koolance rig, displaying a system memory error code before POST. Tech support has been notified.

So, I went back to my 8K3A-E (the -E is an upgrade I got from Epox when I sent the board back for repairs to an unspecified BIOS fuckup - Thanks, Epox! Their support dept friggin' r0x0rs), only to realize that the Koolance was set up with a pair of CPU coolers and a chipset cooler in the loop, rather than the converse, so I could cool my cpu (good) and either my video card -or- my mainboard chipset (bad). I noticed this -after- mounting everything. Of course.

So, for the time being, it's cooling the CPU and the vid card, with the chipset making due with convection (since it's the older KT333 chipset, and the CPU isn't multiplier-unlocked as it was on the nForce2 board, that's not as big a deal, since it's only at 153 FSB (x15), as opposed to 11.5 x 200, as it would be on the other board.

If/when I get a replacement 8RDA+, I'll probably rework the water lines to cool both the chipset and the vid card, since pushing north of 200FSB makes that chipset toasty.

The results, at present - 97F @ ~2300MHz (15x153), 1.85v. Further tinkering is still in order, to optimize the vid card OC (330/720 was a little skittish under 3dmark 2001)

And, yes, I will post the Saturday & Sunday bits of C9 this evening while K goes shoe shopping for her bro's wedding.

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