RE: [OT] any overclocking experts around?

["Paul G. Watkin" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

I would be interested in how you get on with the Asus motherboard as I am
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lanning to purchase one in the next couple of weeks as I am finally going
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o get around to installing a Matrox RTx10 edit card, I have had collecting
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dust for nearly a year after it wouldn't work in my current PC.

Is there any reason you didn't go for the Prescott CPU rather than
Northwoo=
d??

I was planning to go for a 3.2GHz Prescott, is there any reason I should
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ange??

Is water cooling really necessary?? I am looking at the Lian Li PC 6070
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ent Aluminum Midi-Tower from Overclockers and wasn't planning on water
cool=
ing.

What other memory can be used with this board without ruining its
performan=
ce as the OCZ stuff at =A3350 is a little bit to expensive.

Cheers

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 12 June 2004 07:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] any overclocking experts around?

Thanks Simon,

I already have an Abit IC7 Max3 with P4 3.0GHz o/c to 3.4 on water
cooling :) Works well (in most places)

I wanted another system based on a different m/b as I have had some
weird problems with Premiere Pro and a matrox RTx100 edit card that I
and tech support haven't been able to solve - apart from getting another
power PC, the hope was to solve the problem along the way.

I've just ordered the following:

Chieftec DA-01SLD Silver Dragon
2 x Seagate SERIAL SATA Barracuda 7200.7 200Gb
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Intel 875P Canterwood Motherboard
OCZ PC4400 Performance Dual Channel 2 x 512MB Memory
Asetek Waterchill Antarctica CPU/VGA/Chipset POWER KIT ! KT12A-L30
(220V) 10mm
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 3.4C Ghz 800Mhz Retail Boxed
Antec True Control 550W ATX PSU inc. 5.25 Control Panel (ORANGE BOX)
Mitsumi 7 in 1 Internal Media and Floppy Drive (Silver)
Papst 8412N/2GME Sleeve Bearing 3 pin 80mm Fan

I went for the PC4400 memory as you can see - after reading a few
reviews that ran it on the P4C800-E. I'm a bit confused why you said not
to go for it, given I'm getting this m/b??? I also just realized that
this was the performance range and not the EL gold series :( (which
overclock.co.uk) don't do. Is there likely to be a big difference -
should I return it and go for the EL gold (from overclockers.co.uk)???

I guess my main confusion was over all the talk of PC3500/3700 memory vs
PC4000/4200/4400 and ram timings etc - couldn't find an answer as to
which was better.

Thanks,

Paul