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  • Offline Beaker

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Reply #15 on: May 12, 2009, 00:23:20 AM
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Athlon Thunderbird......


hmm, I just got my hands on a working 1.2Ghz Thunderbird
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Reply #16 on: May 12, 2009, 00:28:39 AM
pah, I made a waterblock 10yrs ago from copper pipe and plastic, no waterpump cos I couldnt afford it but the block filled with water ran my amd for a few minutes just fine - I even got an article published on some wcing website :)

Who remembers delta screamers then? Two of them glued on a sA heatsink and a set of earbuds?
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Reply #17 on: May 12, 2009, 00:49:07 AM
This is what old skool Watercooling looked like!

(note I ruined the carpet a few weeks earlier when I knocked over a 5L tub of blue antifreeze lol)

It was a time when beige was cool!  :puke:

(the printer is still going strong!)



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Reply #18 on: May 12, 2009, 18:39:00 PM
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Who remembers delta screamers then? Two of them glued on a sA heatsink and a set of earbuds?


2 of them? now that IS hardcore

I remember my first OCed system had a Globalwin FOP-38 with the original Delta Black Label 7K RPM fan on it. I didnt think it was too bad, but it resonated in the space between the floorboards and was actually louder downstairs than in my room so I had to replace it. IIRC I then fashioned an adaptor out of a couple of fan grills and put an 80mm fan on it instead (I was too tight/poor to pay for a plastic adaptor).

I was eventually driven to watercooling when I built a twin Athlon MP rig which sounded like a helicopter taking off on air. I had it easy really, by the time I got into it you could buy waterblocks which someone else had made. Hell I didnt even have to use a car heater matrix for a rad!

Shaun that is a true example of what watercooling should be. Slightly insane, looking likely to disgorge water everywhere at any moment, yet very effective.


Didnt someone, I think it was BladeRunner, have his res in the basement because it was cooler down there?
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Re:watercooling//// on the BBC ?
Reply #19 on: May 12, 2009, 19:50:58 PM
I never dabbled in watercooling, could never be assed with it.

However a long long time ago i grabbed a £75 (at the time) Beige Full Tower Case and sliced the sh*t out of it with various tools, and had Windows in both sides and the top, with a new respray and chrome grills (yeh the round ones that first came out) it looked proper tasty! :P Shame i dont have the original pictures :P
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Reply #20 on: May 12, 2009, 21:36:08 PM
I was pretty happy with that set up, it cooled one of those uber XP1700 up to 2300Mhz in my server, also cooled a 9800 in my gaming rig on top of the desk with a single 120mm fan on 5v, the pump on top of the res was for that loop.

BladeRunner dug a bloody big hole in his garden with a JCB for his massive res! :rofl: ... he was a engineer for a motorsport team, so you could understand him going a bit over the top lol  
Its knighty with his res in the basement IIRC.

My first self built system for OC’ing had a delta screamer as well!  Duron 800 at 1000Mhz, I also did my first voltmod on that mobo and that got me to 1108MHz  :panic:

Haha can’t believe that forum is still going: http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/showthread.php?t=121551
I was such a noob back then :P

Wish this place could keep it’s posts for more than 5 minutes.
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Reply #21 on: May 12, 2009, 22:23:56 PM
I wish i had photos of the stuff I used to do....

my first watercooled system was a home mate waterblock, by bin filled with water and a pump.... I used to have to freeze buckets of water and dump them in as giant ice cubes if i wanted to use my pc all day....
(that was before I even had a Internet connection!!!)

the submerged in oil at -30C
(was pretty crap tbh, oil was too thick at that temp so 00% of the oil was at -30C and the other 1% around the CPU was at 70C lol)

then on to the big rad in the celler.... which is still in there.... too big to get it out really.... was a BITCH to get in there :-o


I even bought a gfx card from bladerunner, GF3 iirc.... with his custom watercooling on it !!!
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Reply #22 on: May 12, 2009, 23:17:58 PM
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I even bought a gfx card from bladerunner, GF3 iirc.... with his custom watercooling on it !!!


You bought a gfx card from me at some point ...think it was a GF2?
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Reply #23 on: May 12, 2009, 23:41:34 PM
I bought some Slot A Athlons off someone on here years ago, i thought it was Clocked but he thinks its not :P

Anyway, still have one going strong in a rig at my bros place, quite shocking really, ive told him 20 times to upgrade but he is so stubborn.
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Reply #24 on: May 13, 2009, 01:28:39 AM
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I even bought a gfx card from bladerunner, GF3 iirc.... with his custom watercooling on it !!!

You bought a gfx card from me at some point ...think it was a GF2?



I probably did.... Ive spent way way way too much on computers over the years.... and still do tbh


I bought a CD writer drive (2 speed) when they first came out.... it cost £450.... and 10 blank cds for £10 each.... I broke 8 of them on the first night.....

I thought I was going to make a fortune copying games !!!
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Reply #25 on: May 13, 2009, 03:09:15 AM
I bought a Voodoo 3 3000 16MB from Jungle, they didnt stick around for long here, the shop closed a couple of months later.

I remember my mate building his computer back in the 90s so he could play Doom, he was so excited! And in late 90s when Carmageddon came out and we played it over lan, pure pwnage!
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Reply #26 on: May 14, 2009, 11:18:15 AM
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My first self built system for OC’ing had a delta screamer as well!  Duron 800 at 1000Mhz, I also did my first voltmod on that mobo and that got me to 1108MHz  :panic:


LOL Snap!! exactly the same system although IIRC I only got mine to something like 1016MHz, never quite had the courage to try the voltmod thing.

I also migrated here from HardwareCentral about that time, having bought my Duron from Sam in his Overclockingstore days.
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Reply #27 on: May 14, 2009, 13:27:03 PM
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Who remembers delta screamers then? Two of them glued on a sA heatsink and a set of earbuds?

I bought a 80mm one of those of some one on here, to mount on the HS cooling a  Athlon 1.4 on a (100Mhz FSB version) nearly lost a finger when I reached in to the case for some thing a a finger went into the fan
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Reply #28 on: May 14, 2009, 18:00:25 PM
Case in the first picture i think its a Globalwin 802, i remember them being Crazy popular! for a beige case, and ofc OCS were selling them :P
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Reply #29 on: May 14, 2009, 18:16:14 PM
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Case in the first picture i think its a Globalwin 802, i remember them being Crazy popular! for a beige case, and ofc OCS were selling them :P


The 802 was fantastic. I still have parts of mine although it doesnt look like one anymore. There just wasnt anything to come close unless you doubled the price
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