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WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!Derrick70 said:
TEMPS, OVERCLOCKS COMING THIS WEEKEND.
In all seriousness, I have achieve great overclocks and temps with a Storm running 3/8" tygon (Aquastream pump, Thermochill PA120.2 rad) but it still looks bulky. I will give this a try as Sharka did not receive any Cuplex XT's and I am feeling lucky.
Plus it gives me a reason to install my tubemeters, and multiswitch.
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trying again to drive home your point regarding the importance (or lack thereof) of watercooling performance?
nice counter top either way. i bet that they told you that it's "granite" heheh......i'm currently taking minerology 1, that's not an empty jab. it looks nice regardless of the actually rock that it is made of.
nice counter top either way. i bet that they told you that it's "granite" heheh......i'm currently taking minerology 1, that's not an empty jab. it looks nice regardless of the actually rock that it is made of.
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unlikely to be a laminant based on the appearance of the quartz granules, and how some are deeper than others, under tha layer of epoxy/laquer.Derrick70 said:
the material doesn't have enough quartz in it to be a proper granite, if it is a real rock, just BTW.
Actually I am more interested in how well it maintains my overclock with fans running 3vdc on the thermochill radiator. If I am not sucessful, I will give the XP a try. Worth a try, that is for sure.DFI Daishi said:
Thanks! I had it installed early this year. Boy what a difference. For the record, the material is silestone. http://www.silestoneusa.com/ Both of both worlds in regards to durability.DFI Daishi said:
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cool. we looked at both natural granite and corian http://www.corian.com/corian/a/en/h/Main/index.html when we re-did our kitchen last year.R1ckCa1n said:
at the end of the day, we moved to laminant and did a bit more with the cabinatry instead. giong over to drawers for a lot of our storage space really did make more of a difference in terms of having a more functional kitchen than the more expensive counter top would have.
Yeah, I did the opposite. I replaced all the cabinets and lived off a "off the shelve" counter from Home Depot for two years until I got up to the countertops. I also created an island at the same time so it was good stuff. I hear you on the drawers. Two of the four main cabinets are drawers in my setupDFI Daishi said:
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R1ckCa1n said:Yeah, I did the opposite. I replaced all the cabinets and lived off a "off the shelve" counter from Home Depot for two years until I got up to the countertops. I also created an island at the same time so it was good stuff. I hear you on the drawers. Two of the four main cabinets are drawers in my setup
Since this thread doesn't have much point until R1ck gets done with his testing, and the conversation seems to be leaning towards kitchens....
My parents just redid the kitchen in our house. They went with green corian countertops and nice cabinetry all around. It makes a big difference! Also they got one of those fancy convection ovens...the thing has a digital thermometer you can stick in the turkey and plug into the oven, the oven then displays the turkey temp on the LCD. Another weird thing about the oven is that it is cool to the touch, but the LCD is warm.
Anyways, get some picks and results up, although I doubt it will make much of a noticeable difference. The temperature change shouldn't be enough to adversely affect your OC (unless your going all the way to 6mm tubing), and the CPU temp probe is too inaccurate to trust any results from it.
Yeah, I'm going all the way to 6mm. My original intent was to buy a Cuplex XT since I sold my other one but they didn't have one. Trust me I will be the first to rip it out if going that far down in tube size affects my overclock, which in my mind is the performance.Erasmus354 said:
This should be interesting because I have a good overclock (275 x 10) on my X2 3800+ and expect to maintain it. Only thing I am changing is the tubing. Pump, radaitor all stay the same. Hell I might try to do it without removing the block so I can take remounts out of the equasion.
R1ckCa1n said:WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!
TEMPS, OVERCLOCKS COMING THIS WEEKEND.
In all seriousness, I have achieve great overclocks and temps with a Storm running 3/8" tygon (Aquastream pump, Thermochill PA120.2 rad) but it still looks bulky. I will give this a try as Sharka did not receive any Cuplex XT's and I am feeling lucky.
NO XT's???
Top Nurse said:R1ckCa1n said:WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!
TEMPS, OVERCLOCKS COMING THIS WEEKEND.
In all seriousness, I have achieve great overclocks and temps with a Storm running 3/8" tygon (Aquastream pump, Thermochill PA120.2 rad) but it still looks bulky. I will give this a try as Sharka did not receive any Cuplex XT's and I am feeling lucky.
NO XT's???
nope
No shit! I can't beleive IT-Trade didn't ship any XT's. All I really wanted were the pads for the RAMPLEX and ended up walking out with the pads, a multiswitch, tube meter, res for one aquastream, and all new tubing.......Dillusion said:nope
Now my main problem is I cut the top radiator opening to an AquaComputer EVO 240 grill which is much larger than the grill I got from Thermochill. I might be getting a new case too for this rebuild. Decisions.....
whats up with sharka not having the tube meters thats a lil up setting to my self. i picked up a multiswitch from IT-Trade and now i have to place another order to get the stuff sharka didn get. but anyway any one have the book on the multiswitch?
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Derrick70 said:snap
i must be getting cheep 42 bux is a lil steep for some reason i though they were 30 bux tops
42 dollars to tell how much water is in your resevoir!?!
For that amount of money you could buy a monkey to cook your meals, clean your house, and stare at your resevoir all day.
Pardon me for choking on my drink over that...I guess if you have the money you dont mind spending it on your "super secret undercarriage coating that improves performance 1337%!!!"
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Derrick70 said:
apparently sarcasm is unknown to you...I dont know how I could have made it more obvious.....
The fact remains 42 dollars is a hell of a lot of money to spend on a superfluous piece of equipment. As I said in the original post, if you have the money some people dont mind spending it, they just want it to have it. If they have the money it is theirs to spend how they want.
I guess you also missed the subtle reference to undercoating, a scam that car salesmen use to get you to buy something that you dont need (which is actually fake).
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Im still waiting for this link to the monkey? did you find it yet?
undercoating on a car? do you live in a state where is snows and salt is dumped on the road? when i bought my truck 4 years ago i had it under coated it was 2000 bux. now i was more or less buying a paint and rust protection that lasts for 8 years. so any flaws in the paint or body and gm gets it back to fix it. thats not a bad deal to me. now if i lived in AZ or some thing i wouldent have gotten the protection.
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Derrick70 said:
Well usually when they scam you for undercoating they never give you any undercoating, since most people wouldn't A) bother to look under their car B) even if they looked wouldn't know if it had undercoating.
Anyways, stop trying to buy monkeys and lets try to get R1ck's thread back on topic.
I have a feeling he's far too young for that and that he doesn't actual earn enough money to buy a monkey or get married either
42 Bucks may seem expensive for those who don't work and still live with their parents.. but for the majority of working people here... it doesn't seem too much for peice of mind or even because they want too...
It seems mommy and daddy would have a fit if they knew junior had spent all his pocket money on an electric lollipop stick, although they may be pleased if they got a monkey instead.
42 Bucks may seem expensive for those who don't work and still live with their parents.. but for the majority of working people here... it doesn't seem too much for peice of mind or even because they want too...
It seems mommy and daddy would have a fit if they knew junior had spent all his pocket money on an electric lollipop stick, although they may be pleased if they got a monkey instead.
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J-Pepper said:
Actually I work part time and go to school full time (19 credit hours they wouldn't let me take more), I just plopped down 305$ on a new processor today, and bought two Xbox360's at launch. So please dont try and lecture me about working, or spending money. 42$ is nothing to me, I however like to put my purchases into things I will actually use (although the processor was just a lil birthday present for myself).
Keep the personal insults to yourself. It doesn't take much of a man to talk down to someone on the intraweb, it takes a bigger man to take the higher road.
As for its usefulness, for half the price you can pick up a bottle of MCT-5....22$ down the drain.
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Oo-er.. so if you want people to keep their personal insults to themselves, then so should you.
Taking the high road my arse...! it's easy on the web to make yourself sound high and mighty, but that doesn't get you anywhere when you violate the very thing you preach.
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So either I am personally insulting an inanimate object, or I am not allowed to have an opinion on anything? I dont get what your point is, I have not personally insulted you or anyone else in this thread. I have stated my opinion on the usefullness of the tubemeter, especially for its price. I have also stated numerous times if people have the money and wish to buy it that is their prerogative.