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AXIA Tbird (1GHZ) at 1.5GHZ! That's a 50% overclock. pretty good these days.


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sweet, you got it to work this time!! That's the highest I've heard of for a 1 Ghz...you using your watercooler?

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Reply to dhlucke

yes.

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Reply to Grizely1

Cool.

Have you done anything special to make the water cooler really nifty? Or is it just a run-of-the-mill water cooler like the example that THG gave?

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Reply to slvr_phoenix

Nope it's quite different. all it consists of is a waterblock. im not runinng a pump or anything, as it's connected to my waterline downstairs. :smile:

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Reply to Grizely1

Cool. So then you don't have to worry about your pump dying. But what about condensation?

I was considering a double pump method myself in my 'dream system' so that I don't have to worry about a pump failure killing my chip. Plus I figured if the water block had twice as many inputs and outputs, it could really move a lot of water. Not that it would accomplish much more really. It'd be more like using RAID to keep a double image of your hard drive.

But then, I don't have a chip worth overclocking yet as I just can't afford my 'dream system'. So my design is all just speculation still.

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Reply to slvr_phoenix

I was also thinking of small, aluminum waterblocks for things such as memory on your graphics cards... or your SDRAM!

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Reply to Grizely1

Now that would be cool. Maybe even something on the board-side of each hard drive. It would be cool to see a system with a clear case and a watercooler running to each component with colored water in them.

But then, I'd also like to see a system that uses a fiber-optic bus instead of an electrical bus. We have fiber-optic SCSI now, so it's not too far-fetched to consider using fiber optics to connect the PCI bus, the memory, the CPU, etc. all together.

-Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Reply to slvr_phoenix

Electrical impulses travel at 500 something miles per hour, fiber optics travel the speed of light.... but would we really notice a difference?

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Our kids will. Imagine if you had a 1 Ghz computer OC to 1.5 Ghz back in 1984. You didn't even think about it then...

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Reply to dhlucke

Fiber optics are good for sending a signal over long distances with minimal degradation of signal. I don't know if they would be of much use as a bus connection.

Griz- elecrical impulses only travel at 500 miles an hour? Are you sure?

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Reply to mousepotato

I have my 1.0ghz AXIA @ 1.4ghz using the STOCK HSF!!! :smile:

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I'm still confused whether or not to buy the retail CPU and use the stock HSF, or use another HSF with an OEM CPU. I don't want so much noise that some of those HSF's make and I want a kickas s CPU that will OC good...

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Reply to dhlucke

Griz, I think your thinking of sound waves, which travel between (roughly) 600 and 750 MPH depending on conditions. Electical impulses also travel near the speed of light, that's why we can carry a telephone coversation with people across the world without noticing the lag in converstaion!

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Yes, electrical impulses (the movement of electrons, thus electricity) travels close to the speed of light. Think of lightning.

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Reply to dhlucke

No, I wasn't thinking of sound waves.... I remember what I was thinking of, the electrical impulses in our bodies! crap

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Reply to Grizely1

It isn't just about the speed of electricity compared to the speed of light.

It's about:
1) Speed
2) Electron noise
3) Heat
4) Layering

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Reply to slvr_phoenix

heat would be the majoring factor. degredation of the signal is barely any, if all, with electronic pulses.

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Reply to Grizely1

Thats quite a nice increase in speed. With any luck this one wont turn into a molten pile of mush like your previous excursion you posted some time back.But Hell I cant get over the fear of running water through my computer so I will just sit back and enjoy your adventures.Keep em coming.Cant wait for your next adventure.

Rock out with your AMD out

Reply to louie2001

Hehe, thanks.

My next adventure ----> memory waterblocks for GF3!

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Reply to Grizely1

Yeah I know. I was thinking more of the memory though.

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Reply to Grizely1

Just think if you could figure out how not to short out everything electrical you could just drop your whole PC in a bucket of ICE water and cool it down real good(HAHAHAHA)

Rock out with your AMD out

Reply to louie2001

It's been done. <A HREF="http://www.octools.com/articles/submersion/submersion.html" target="_new">Mission: Submersible</A> at OCTools.

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Reply to mousepotato

except it was a bucket of dryice fluorenert(orwhatever).

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Reply to Grizely1

Right, Flourinert cooled with liqiud nitrogen. The LN was overkill, and caused the Flourinert to gel. A refridgeration unit would be better, and it could double as a beer cooler, as well.

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Reply to mousepotato

for the first project, yes. the second one he didn't use LN. He dumped dry ice in the fluorinert.

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Reply to Grizely1

Ahh, didn't see the second expiriment. I still like my beer cooler better.

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Reply to mousepotato

Doesn't the GF3 have slower memory than the GF2 Ultra? (Meaning that it won't be likely to overclock as far.) I think if I was going to put my GF3 on the line, I'd see if I could get some faster memory. Then I'd desolder the slower stuff out and solder in the faster memory. Then I could just overclock the memory significantly without needing to watercool it. (Could you imagine water-cooling that though? Heh heh. It'd blow everything away.)

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