My new PC

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

Orthas runs ok but I'm not sure how I can get this running on all four cores?

Make two separate directories with 1 copy of Orthos in each, open the application from each folder but don't start yet. Open task manager and find both Orthos entries under processes. Right click on each and select set affinity. Make sure one has 1&2 only ticked and the other has 3&4 only ticked. Close task manager and start both Orthos' running - et voila

[Admiral Huddy]

Your are a star I had four instances of it running on one core.. Needless to say, I had to hit the reset button

Have you had CPC Benchmarks running on Vista64?

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

Your are a star I had four instances of it running on one core.. Needless to say, I had to hit the reset button

You're welcome

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

Have you had CPC Benchmarks running on Vista64?

Not yet, only on Vista 32bit - worked fine on that. Worked fine on XP64 but I'll try it with Vista 64 when I get back.

[Admiral Huddy]

Cheers Mate..



Ok, now spec me a watercooling system for this:

[Zirax]

Watercooling, now you are talking my language. Yes I am a sad git and I watercooled my machine. Excessive, yes but I have a two year old machine running at 1900*1200 at high settings still.

What case is it that you have there? How would you feel if I told you to take all the innards out and start drilling holes in the case? It looks midi size which is going to be a tad fun to fit your watercooling in there. What is possible is to build a rad box and stand the machine on the box.

Really you are looking at a 120.3 PA setup with fans. Which is 44cm long, 13cm wide, and 12cm tall with the "silent standoff". Another word of warning is that it will take a long time to install water cooling and get a case setup correctly. Standard Laing DDC ultra or D5 pump, your choice of GFX and CPU blocks. One thing to note is to get a gfx block that you can re-use (so not a full face block). Set aside £2-300 but remember that a lot of bits only need to be bought once.

[LeperousDust]

I would say after a shuttle build he's got oodles of room in there zirax About the graphics card good idea, but what if he wants to cool memory too? I don't think it would take that long to install if you go about it logically, just fit a few blocks where heatsinks should be, bold a rad on somewhere sensible, and a res (not really needed in my books) and throw a pump with some room somewhere, tube it, bobs your mothers brother....

[Admiral Huddy]

It's a full tower Matt. Slightly wider than most too. That's a GTX in there so you can see just by that the amount of room I have.

I'd like to fit CPU and GPU cooling for now. I'm not sure about the Chipsets and memory yet. The chipset had a large heat pipe cooling the VRMs. Taking this off might be tricky.

Making holes isn't something I'd want to do but if I have to, then it's not a problem. I'm not keen on having a sepearte cooling tower either. I have kids with little fingers around

Can you spec a purchase list of items I'd need?

[Zirax]

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

I would say after a shuttle build he's got oodles of room in there zirax About the graphics card good idea, but what if he wants to cool memory too? I don't think it would take that long to install if you go about it logically, just fit a few blocks where heatsinks should be, bold a rad on somewhere sensible, and a res (not really needed in my books) and throw a pump with some room somewhere, tube it, bobs your mothers brother....

Good points, gah shuttle watercooling would be a nightmare. I would just have a slow turning fan over the gfx memory in the future. Thats not to say that the full face coolers are not good, I have an EK block and its excellent. This will depend on if he wants to spend 60-80 on a block each time he buys a new gfx card.

Agreed on the res point, and make sure you have a drainage point sorted.

Paul, i'll knock something together either over the course of the day or when I get back. Just to check, as a full tower does that have space for a second psu?

[Mark]

Unless that desk is extra high then are you sure that's a full tower? I have a pair of CM Stackers and they come a lot closer to the bottom of the desk than that does.

[LeperousDust]

Huddy you probably won't need a chipset cooling block, unless the chipset is noisy? Not sure about these new motherboards, the chipset heatsinks are bigger than my old CPU heatsinks now days =/

I'd possibly look into a full face cooler as more and more graphics cards are coming with full face coolers as standard ready for water cooling now days too, so you don't have to worry about upgrading. That way you get a lot of extra performance out of the graphics card (via memory and gpu tweaking). I assume youre doing this for overclocking, my main concern when it comes to watercooling is not of this. It's replacing every fan in my case with something quiet. So i never did cool my memory, and if you're aiming for silence rather than bleeding edge overclocking, i'd still suggest the reserator. I doubt your kids would screw it up, worst they could do is unplug the pipes to the reserator as thats the only connection. At the couplings have a valve on them so you can unplug the pipes without it just empting water everywhere. Don't do it while the PC is on mind .

I still managed to overclock with the reserator, moreso than i could with air too but not as much as some hard cord watercooling systems granted. Difference was, you didn't know if my PC was on or off... PSU was the only fan/moving part generating . THAT is how computing *should* be!