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Recent content by Claxon

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    Cooling for Dual Opterons

    So heres the deal, I have a dual Opteron file server that I plan to water cool and I would like some suggestions. I am only going to be cooling the cpus. I also want to stick two barb blocks...not a big fan of triple barbed blocks. Brief system specs: AMD Opteron 250 (2) Tyan s2882...
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    Zalman Reserator 1 Installation (pics)

    A word of warning from a Reserator owner: The housing of the flow indicator is very very delicate. Over a matter of less then 4 months mine cracked and I unknowingly allowed my system to for an undetermined amount of days before noticing the smell of coolant in the air. I still do not...
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    Powder Coating

    A few years back the company I work for had extensive powder coating done on 1u and 2u server cases. When done in quantity the cost per case was between 80 and 100 USD. The powder coat always turned out quite nicely but was prone to scratching, but this can not be avoided with any coatings...
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    To those of you who have a cool rig, What's your actual job?

    Yes...sometimes. I live in San Diego, CA, The high rent capital of the universe. I have aprox. $1500 dollars worth of bills every month and a horrible addiction to bleeding edge computer hardware. :P So my $14.00 an hour justs cuts it...sometimes :P
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    To those of you who have a cool rig, What's your actual job?

    Manufacturing Engineer, Verari Systems Inc. $14.00 per hour. Fun=no Rewarding=no Pays the bills=...sometimes
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    Reserator: Can I get away with this?

    I have had no problems mixing blocks from different manufacturers, as I stated earlier I am using a mixed bag (which I plan to mix further in the next couple of weeks). My main reason from dropping the zalman gpu block was the design...after looking at it more more then 2 seconds you will notice...
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    Reserator: Can I get away with this?

    I currently have a reserator running on a (dis)similar config. P4 3.06 @ ~3.4GHz ATi 9800xt stock clock. CPU has never peaked above 44c and the 9800xt hits about 56c under load. This is quite impresive from a 9800xt givin the temps on the stock cooler are arpox ~71c at idle. With your...
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    $Card Vs. $Card...

    Thanks alot guys, I actually decided to climb off my wallet and just go to PCIe. I entended to save the full upgrade for later this year but I have some issues with being patient. So for now it'll be SLI capable motherboard but im just gonna roll with a single card for the first couple...
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    $Card Vs. $Card...

    Rest of system looks like this: P4 3.2Ghz 800MHz FSB Abit IC7-G Corsiar XMS Professional PC4000 2x Western Digial 74GB 10K RPM SATA HDD (Raptors) CPU and GPU are cooled by a Zalman Reserator (braces for impact), which I somewhat modded a lil extra cooling boost.
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    $Card Vs. $Card...

    Alright...I assume im beating a dead horse with this one but here it goes anyway. I'm looking to upgrade without dropping a ton of cash. At the moment I have a 9800XT. I'm looking at a BFG 6600GT OC. I am yet to see a single review or shoot out where these two cards are both included...
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