picked up a new toy to play with

Phenom II x4 965 black edition currently @3.9ghz
crappy msi 770-g45 mobo
corsair h50 watercooling
4 gigs corsair xms3 ddr3-1333 @ 1600
1gig xfx 5770 oc
700w psu
8x blu-ray

Pop in a bunch of bigass hard drives and you got a good HTPC or something, unless the case is a POS.

been playing around with it since i got it and it actully runs better then the i7, allways have liked amds better, dropped 8 gigs of ram in the amd, and gonna try it with my main water loop instead of the h50 see if i can get over 4ghz

Or just run it like I did my gamer. On a modified worstation platform if you swap enough parts.


Coming from a laptop guy now... (me)

Your "worstation" is missing letters (mainly a "h" and "e")! hoho!

Meh it was a hackjob afterall =p

Your "hackjob" is missing a "W" heh.

LOL

so, started combining parts from both systems and this is what iv come up with:

Phenom II x4 965BE @3.9ghz(for now just waiting for the am3 bracket for my GTZ to come in, last checked now and is on truck!)
that crappy 770-g45 mobo, got a crosshair4 in the works
8 gigs ddr3-1600 (4g or xms3 and 4 gigs ocz obsidian black)
5770 1gig
sb auditgy 4
8x bluray/dvd-rw
my good water loop (swiftech apogee GTZ, mcr-320 rad, microres2, mcp-655b, but switched everything to 1/2ID tubing)

With water cooling you should easily get that cpu above 4Ghz, my guess would be 4.1 or 4.2 at least - if not a little further.

The corsair xms3 1600 will clock to 2000Mhz you if want it to, with no volt or temp increase whatsoever. I had mine at the max spec the board was supposed to handle which was 1800mhz and again, no volt mod and cool to the touch.

OCZ obsidian black runs perfectly well with xms3. I am using 2 gigs of that ocz now with my corsair. Both have the exact same timing and volts.

The video card would not require cooling so thats money saved.

looking forward to build shots and benches along with oc results!

built it into the 690II, but cut away the top mesh to mount the rad instead of having it in the back, its nowares near finished (still waiting for good ol purolator to show up with my bracket ARGH lol) so everythings rough lol . ALSO, thanks to all of you this time i use hose clamps instead of zipties for the new water lines, give me a sec to upload a pic or 2 onto P-bucket and ill post them up

the smaller tube come UP from the res is just a temp fill tube till i figure out where to put a fill port, the 1/2" tube is the return from the block, the 3rd fan for the rad is mounted inside blowing the same dir as the other 2, the sata dock didnt have enough clearance with the fan up top and i use it quite alot

lol and you can see the h50 hanging out the side

correction mounting bracket just came! gonna finish the loop!

gtz mounted!, look at all that bubbly!, (usually takes 2 days for that to work its way out )

Shave that knee!