Bugs Gunny
21-06-2006, 12:57
We all know it, summer comes and our overclocked rigs start to suffer.
Same with my outdated overclocked computer.
Mobile amd 2500+ overclocked to 2520mhz on aircooling with 92mm fa and sp97 heatpipething, 6 added fans in the case and open windows in the room.
Okay, so i did as any normal and responsible grown person does, you sneak out of the house buy 200 euros worth of watercooling shit and decide not to tell the wife about the new insides of the computer.
Step 1: Clean your computer using an automotive aircompressor so you make the fan fly off the videocard (broken blades).
Step 2: Remove all units and harddrives from your case, make sure you DO NOT label which one of your 5 harddrives contains the windows xp installation, it's all a waste of time and you want this shit done tonight.
Step 3: remove your motherboard, unbolt the old sp-97 and start getting your board ready for watercooling
Step 4: hey, how about doing the northbridge too? The store might still be open you know. You rush there, to find some odd and old waterblock that the clerk says "might" fit your kit.
Step 5: come home and find out the tubes won't go in..... You curse and go to bed
Step 6: You rush to the store the next day and get some thinner tubing that fits and fidle around with the thing and fill it up. You reassemble your pc and spend 3 hours trying to find out how the hell your xp won't boot.
Step 7: you now find out about the broken fanblades on your videocard and sneak off to the store once more to get a waterblock kit for your videocard.
Step 8: Drain the system, add more tubing and you now have blue water flowing over the videocard cpu.... man this is starting to look like pro modded shit
Step 9: You finaly manage to boot up your pc, to find out that as you start adding the other drives your two old psu's won't hold or give stable enough voltage for the overclocking deal.....
Step 10: Rush to store and get a 600W coolermaster psu to replace to old crap.
Step 11: Finaly you got it all..... Your computer runs nice and quit and you decide to hit the overclocking again...... Then your computer locks up while writing the bios....... UH OH....
Step 12: An hour later the thing still won't boot, not even after trying an autoexec floppy with biosflash.....
Step 13: You go on ebay and order a new bios chip which takes 7 days to arrive to your place..
Step 14 : While you see the chip for sale you also buy an eeprom writer, just in case you decided to DIY your computer again.
Step 15: You keep looking at those eprom things and notice "can also write to car ecu's"..... hmmm.... chiptuning
Step 16: You end up buying another 300 euros worth of software, obdII and kwp2000 hardware to chiptune your friends cars and make a buck on the side.
Step 17: You try to explain all this to the wife as she starts waving the visa statement in front of your face........... :-)
Same with my outdated overclocked computer.
Mobile amd 2500+ overclocked to 2520mhz on aircooling with 92mm fa and sp97 heatpipething, 6 added fans in the case and open windows in the room.
Okay, so i did as any normal and responsible grown person does, you sneak out of the house buy 200 euros worth of watercooling shit and decide not to tell the wife about the new insides of the computer.
Step 1: Clean your computer using an automotive aircompressor so you make the fan fly off the videocard (broken blades).
Step 2: Remove all units and harddrives from your case, make sure you DO NOT label which one of your 5 harddrives contains the windows xp installation, it's all a waste of time and you want this shit done tonight.
Step 3: remove your motherboard, unbolt the old sp-97 and start getting your board ready for watercooling
Step 4: hey, how about doing the northbridge too? The store might still be open you know. You rush there, to find some odd and old waterblock that the clerk says "might" fit your kit.
Step 5: come home and find out the tubes won't go in..... You curse and go to bed
Step 6: You rush to the store the next day and get some thinner tubing that fits and fidle around with the thing and fill it up. You reassemble your pc and spend 3 hours trying to find out how the hell your xp won't boot.
Step 7: you now find out about the broken fanblades on your videocard and sneak off to the store once more to get a waterblock kit for your videocard.
Step 8: Drain the system, add more tubing and you now have blue water flowing over the videocard cpu.... man this is starting to look like pro modded shit
Step 9: You finaly manage to boot up your pc, to find out that as you start adding the other drives your two old psu's won't hold or give stable enough voltage for the overclocking deal.....
Step 10: Rush to store and get a 600W coolermaster psu to replace to old crap.
Step 11: Finaly you got it all..... Your computer runs nice and quit and you decide to hit the overclocking again...... Then your computer locks up while writing the bios....... UH OH....
Step 12: An hour later the thing still won't boot, not even after trying an autoexec floppy with biosflash.....
Step 13: You go on ebay and order a new bios chip which takes 7 days to arrive to your place..
Step 14 : While you see the chip for sale you also buy an eeprom writer, just in case you decided to DIY your computer again.
Step 15: You keep looking at those eprom things and notice "can also write to car ecu's"..... hmmm.... chiptuning
Step 16: You end up buying another 300 euros worth of software, obdII and kwp2000 hardware to chiptune your friends cars and make a buck on the side.
Step 17: You try to explain all this to the wife as she starts waving the visa statement in front of your face........... :-)