So I inherited some good stuff about a month ago. A Asus P5Q Deluxe and a Q9650. I know, it's older technology. But I think I can make something nice out of it. At the moment I have it in a old Raidmax Smilodon case (one of the few I've owned with a removable hard drive trey, but piss poor for cable management). I installed 2 thermaltake 74CFM fans (intake and exhaust, although for intake I think its not working very well since it has a front door panel) and put in my 500W TruPower 2.0 500W PSU. It's about 2 years old, but hardly used. I also installed my 2 4770's in crossfire. According to the Antec PSU calculator And at 25% aging I get a total required wattage of 425W.
Also I put in 8GB of Patriot Viper DDR2 1066. And lastly I installed a Zalman 9900ALED cooler, since this thing tends to run warm. Initially I planned to overclock the machine (hence the Zalman) and got it to over 4 GHz and it was pretty stable. This being older tech. there are dozens of ways to "cookbook" the overclock. I plan to do that.
But for this machines last Hurrah! I want to water cool and overclock this beast to it's breaking point. I will not be using my current case or PSU. And I would consider watercooling the chipset, the CPU and strongly consider water cooling my twin 4770's. But since they run relatively cool I may just as well not do that.
I was thinking that I would use a Corsair 650W or 750W modular PSU and strongly consider a Corsair D700 (same as the D800, but no hot-swap drives). I want to run a water cooling setup that will keep the CPU to no more than 50C at 4.1Ghz. I know this is older tech, and the death knell has rung for the 775 platform, but I want to try this. Not so much for the over clock, but for the experience. If I fry this setup I will be a little sad, but since it was hand me down and last gen's technology. But if I can get this running well, and make it looks REALLY nice, I can take that experience and eventually create a monster 1366 system next year, or better yet OC my AMD setup (after I get a better motherboard, my 890GPA-UD3H is NOT the best board, I think.)
Any suggestions on what route to take on this project?
Also I put in 8GB of Patriot Viper DDR2 1066. And lastly I installed a Zalman 9900ALED cooler, since this thing tends to run warm. Initially I planned to overclock the machine (hence the Zalman) and got it to over 4 GHz and it was pretty stable. This being older tech. there are dozens of ways to "cookbook" the overclock. I plan to do that.
But for this machines last Hurrah! I want to water cool and overclock this beast to it's breaking point. I will not be using my current case or PSU. And I would consider watercooling the chipset, the CPU and strongly consider water cooling my twin 4770's. But since they run relatively cool I may just as well not do that.
I was thinking that I would use a Corsair 650W or 750W modular PSU and strongly consider a Corsair D700 (same as the D800, but no hot-swap drives). I want to run a water cooling setup that will keep the CPU to no more than 50C at 4.1Ghz. I know this is older tech, and the death knell has rung for the 775 platform, but I want to try this. Not so much for the over clock, but for the experience. If I fry this setup I will be a little sad, but since it was hand me down and last gen's technology. But if I can get this running well, and make it looks REALLY nice, I can take that experience and eventually create a monster 1366 system next year, or better yet OC my AMD setup (after I get a better motherboard, my 890GPA-UD3H is NOT the best board, I think.)
Any suggestions on what route to take on this project?
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