tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77859476255467033242024-02-21T01:55:23.191+08:00LiChye's Tech ZoneA blog to share anything about techies I owned or used...Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-64714406329768839802010-07-08T16:26:00.019+08:002010-07-09T00:35:42.145+08:00Introduction to Water Cooling<div align="justify"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 50%; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 50%" border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/WaterCooling/murderbox-03.jpg" /><b>What is Water Cooling (Liquid Cooling)</b><br />Water cooling also known as Liquid Cooling is a method of heat removal from components. As opposed to air cooling, water is used as the heat transmitter. Water cooling is commonly used for cooling internal combustion engines in automobiles and large electrical generators. Other uses include cooling the barrels of machine guns, cooling of lubricant oil in pumps; for cooling purposes in heat exchangers; cooling products from tanks or columns, and recently, cooling of various major components inside high-end personal computers. The main mechanism for water cooling is convective heat transfer.<br />[Source from Wikipedia]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Why Water Cooling</b><br /><u>Better Cooling Efficiency</u><br />Water has a thermal conductivity of 0.6062 W/ (m*K) whereas the thermal conductivity of air is only 0.0262. This means heat can be drawn away from components more efficiently with water. Water also has a much higher specific heat capacity than air (1.0 J/ (kg*K) versus 0.24), which allows the water cooling system to absorb a lot more energy before heating up. Using liquid to cool components allows the heat to be carried to a remote location, usually a radiator where the heat can be dissipated more effectively than with a heat sink. Because the radiator is mounted remotely, it can be larger than a chip-mounted heat sink, and therefore will be able to cool more effectively.<br /><u>More Silent Setup</u><br />Because all major components in the computer will be cooled by the same system, there will be fewer fans, and therefore less noise.<br /><br /><br /><b>Components for Water Cooling</b><br /><u>Water Blocks</u><br /><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 20%; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 20%" border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/WaterCooling/sidewindercomputers_2110_9011295.jpg" />A water block is the watercooling equivalent of a heatsink. It can be used on many different computer components including the central processing unit (CPU), GPU, PPU, and Northbridge chipset on the motherboard. A water block is better at dissipating heat than an aircooled heatsink due to water's higher specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity. The water is usually pumped through to a radiator which allows a fan pushing air through it to take the heat created from the device and expel it into the air. A radiator is more efficient than a standard CPU or GPU heatsink/air cooler at removing heat because it has a much larger surface area. Installation of a water block is also similar to that of a heatsink, with a thermal pad or thermal grease placed between it and the device being cooled to aid in heat conduction. Picture on the left shows a Watercool HEATKILLER® CPU Rev3.0 CPU block.<br /><br /><br /><br /><u>Radiators</u><br /><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 10%; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 10%" border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/WaterCooling/GTS-120BK-B.jpg" />Radiators are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating. In PC water cooling, it responsible for transfering heat from water to air. Larger cooling area provide better performance.<br /><br /><br /><br /><u>Reservoirs</u><br /><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 10%; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 10%" border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/WaterCooling/bay525bkhuge.jpg" /> The reservoir is used to hold the water that is pumped through the system to a location that will be easy for the pump to pull the water from. The other purpose of the reservoir is to help remove the bubbles form the system when it is initially filled. This process is called bleeding.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><u>Pumps</u><br /><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 10%; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 10%" border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/WaterCooling/sidewindercomputers_2113_69369882.jpg" />The water pumps move fluids inside the cooling system. It move the liquid from heated blocks to the radiator and reservoir before entering the waterblocks again. Pump performance vary on specification such as Head Pressure and Flow rates.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Useful sites about water cooling</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=70">XtremeSystems Forum</a><br /><a href="http://www.realredraider.com/vbulletin/index.php">RRTech Forum</a><br /><a href="http://www.overclock.net/water-cooling/">Overclock.net Forum</a><br /><br /><b>Sources of Water Cooling Components in Malaysia</b><br /><br /><a href="http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1049742&hl=">Clawhammer (Alvin) from Lowyat.net forum</a><br /><a href="http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1352417&hl=">Vladtheimpaler (Joe) from Lowyat.net forum</a>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-91852660862080548412009-10-17T14:50:00.006+08:002009-11-01T18:04:57.462+08:00PC-A05N add-ons: Lian Li BS-03<div align="justify">Just came back from my KL trip for my holiday. Did some changes on my PC-A05N built, take out the HDD cage for better airflow for PSU, leaving only primary HDD as the only HDD unit in the casing. Installed the Lian Li BS-03 side patented fan to improve the air flow of the case, especially the VGA compartment.<br /><br /><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Lian%20Li%20PC-A05N/?action=view¤t=IMG_3029_871x580.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100%; float: left; height: auto;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Lian%20Li%20PC-A05N/IMG_3029_871x580.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br />Swapped out 500gb HDD now will sit in here as my external HDD, 80gb HDD will keep in my shelf as backup HDD.<br /><br /><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Lian%20Li%20PC-A05N/?action=view¤t=IMG_3035_871x580.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100%; float: left; height: auto;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Lian%20Li%20PC-A05N/IMG_3035_871x580.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-58940241218337992132009-10-10T21:25:00.006+08:002009-11-01T18:05:44.170+08:00Lian Li PC-A05N Water Cooled Mini i7<div align ="justify">Phew... finally complete migrating all my hardware from the Old Good CM Stacker STC-01 to this little mini tower case from Lian Li. Specification mostly the same as the previous built but now with smaller radiator, means no more 4.2ghz run. But the Syscooling 120mm radiator I am using surprisingly yield quite impressive results. I able to handle 4.2ghz for prime run but crashed at LinX run. For 4.0ghz, it was on par or even better than Swiftech MCR-320QP from my PC-A6010 setup acting as intake instead of exhaust.<br /><br />Enough talking, time to show off this little powerful rig.<br /><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Lian%20Li%20PC-A05N/?action=view¤t=IMG_2878_871x580.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100%; float: left; height: auto;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Lian%20Li%20PC-A05N/IMG_2878_871x580.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The hardware components inside. Intel Core i7 920 @ 4GHZ, 6gb Kingston DDR3 1333 @ 1523, ASUS 4890 (3D rendering), MSI GTX260 (Physx mode), Corsair TX750.<br /><br />Water Cooled components, DD CPX-Pro, Bitspower Bay reservoir, D-Tek Fuzion v2, Syscooling 120mm Copper radiator.<br /><br /><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Lian%20Li%20PC-A05N/?action=view¤t=IMG_2869_871x580.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100%; float: left; height: auto;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Lian%20Li%20PC-A05N/IMG_2869_871x580.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br />More to come about the ATI + Nvidia Physx run...Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-66816179116264259492009-08-29T20:06:00.003+08:002009-08-29T20:22:23.414+08:00ASUS P6T and KVR1333 @ 210 BCLK @ DDR3 1678<div align="justify">After some working days, finally get some free time, time to tweak my PC system.<br /><br />System Components:<br />Intel Core i7 920 C0/C1 stepping<br />ASUS P6T 0502 BIOS<br />6gb Kingston DDR3 1333 Value Ram<br />ASUS 4890<br />Western Digital 80GB HDD. (WD80JD)<br />OS = Windows 7 RTM version.<br /><br />Cooling system: <br />D-Tek Fuzion v2, Swiftech MCR320QP, Danger Den CPX-Pro, Bitspower drive bay reservoir.<br /><br />The main objective of this run is to try out higher BCLK + RAM frequency at around 4ghz clock for CPU frequency. Here is the screenshot after LinX run and Memtest run to make sure everything is stable.<br /><br /><a href="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/DDR3LatestSS.png" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 275px; float: left; height: 175px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/DDR3LatestSS.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a> Although its nothing special for this tweak since I think most people who into overclocking shall reach it. This is my first time success of pushing my system past 200 BCLK stably and to my suprise my value ram which rated at 1333 able to reach DDR3 1678. So I am quite satisfied with the outcome, and I will tweak my system again in future when I got the free time. </div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-44830868516524357922009-08-21T19:50:00.009+08:002009-08-21T23:11:25.984+08:00DDR3 1333 Kingston Value Ram<div align ="justify"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 94px; float: left; height: 38px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/ktclogo.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" />Bought 3 stick of 2gb DDR3 1333 Kingston Value RAM last week just in time before the price hike in the memory market hit Malaysia. Bought it with the price before price hike, so glad that I was able to made it just in time for the cheaper ram.<br /><br />The ram modules I got no longer were the hynix chips, which previous batch of KVR module were using, instead they are replaced by qimonda chips. The hynix according to some forumer over at lowyat forum, is quite OC'able, at least it does ddr3 1600++ CL8/CL7.<br><br /><center><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/?action=view¤t=KVRshots.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/th_KVRshots.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" ></a><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/?action=view¤t=KVR1530run.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/th_KVR1530run.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" ></a></center><br />So, after getting the KVR 1333 2gb stick with qimonda chip, I tryout how fast these qimonda batch KVR can do. Surprisingly, it does DDR3 1520 CL9 stable, not bad although its not as good as the hynix chip.<br><br /><a href="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/kvr.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 275px; float: left; height: 175px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Kingston%20Value%20Ram/kvr.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">With Vista x64 Ultimate, the size of memory does impact performance of a PC. I opted to upgrade to 6gb kit as it benefits more using Vista x64 compare to 3gb Kit. This time I save cost by getting the value ram over performance ram as stated in my previous <a href="http://lichyetan.blogspot.com/2009/08/intel-core-i7-in-depth-performance.html" style="color: yellow;">article</a>, the difference is not much, and I managed to push it to DDR3 1520 just like my previous 3gb Team Xtreem Kit could do. I have not pushed the chip to the max as I do not want to mess up with current settings I got which is 190 BCLK * 21 @ 3990MHZ with DDR3 1520. But I believe these Qimonda batch KVR able to push to higher speed as DDR3 1520 definitely not maxing out them yet. </div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-58663712223002012642009-08-13T11:42:00.005+08:002009-08-13T13:57:57.482+08:00Intel Core i7 In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis from Madshrimps<img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 110px; float: left; height: 87px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Core%20i7/110px-Intel_Corei7_2009.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 110px; float: left; height: 87px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Core%20i7/110px-Intel_Corei7_Ex2009.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /><div align="justify">I came across this useful article <a href="http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=1&artpage=3872&articID=898" style="color: yellow;">Intel Core i7 In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis</a>, while surfing over at <a href="http://www.madshrimps.be/" style="color: yellow;">MADSHRIMPS</a>. The article is quite useful for i7 user that interested to overclock their PC as it has lot of analysis data for different overclocks and performance gain from them.<br /><br />The article analyze the overclocks of QPI Links, Uncore frequency, CPU frequency, BCLK frequency and memory frequency. Other than that, it also covers memory latency and channels performance scaling.<br /><br />The results show that overclocking CPU frequency yields the best performance gain followed by uncore frequency. But then, the overclocking uncore frequency is the only way to get higher memory clock since the 1:2 Memory frequency to Uncore frequency in Core i7.<br /><br /><blockquote>In short: the third memory channel increases the bandwidth SO much that even a 4GHz uncore can't really keep up with the enormous amount of data coming from the memory. Overclocking helps to reduce this problem.</blockquote><br />What surprises me from the article is the performance gain with memory frequency overclocking, overclocking memory frequencies does not seems much difference, it only show difference in Everest memory benchmark and does not help much in gaming. And when it comes to latency CL6 is not that much faster than CL8 or even CL9, 1T and 2T difference are not even 1%. And also the minimal gain from third channel of ram, dual channel seems the are the optimum channels.<br /><br />So in conclusion, I think that for regular user there are no point to go for mid or high end kit performance ram which cost double or triple the price of the value ram. Unless you are really a benchmark enthusiast that want maximum performance form your PC. We can usually overclock ram frequency of value ram to some decent speed depends on luck and chip that the value ram used. On some X58 motherboards it's actually quite easy to tune your low-clocking memory kit to have the performance of a highly overclocked memory kit by changing the Back-to-back Cas Delay memory timing.</div><br /> <br /><div align="justify"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 210px; float: left; height: 183px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Core%20i7/photo3_210x183.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /><br>For PC and benchmark enthusiast that want maximum performance only, not for Gamers that just want smooth frame rates. Indeed spent the amount of money saved on purchasing a value ram and invest it on a high performance graphic card yield more performance gain. But if you got the cash, why not... </div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-28176483618525553192009-08-12T21:44:00.010+08:002009-11-21T20:31:01.616+08:00Energy Efficient Atom Based File Station and Net surfing PC<p align="justify"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 62px; float: left; height: 76px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Intel%20Atom/atom_62.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" />With the recent increase in electricity billing charges, I decided to built a new machine to serve the purpose of 24/7 downloading, internet surfing, file sharing, web based application hosting energy efficient PC. Talking about energy efficient with processing power that capable enough for full time downloading and internet surfing, I immediately think of the Intel Atom processor.<br /><center><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: auto; height: auto;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Intel%20Atom/atom_marquee.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></center><br /><div align="justify">What is Intel Atom? Intel Atom is Intel's smallest chip. It is built with the world's smallest transistors. As Intel's smallest and lowest power processor, the Intel® Atom™ processor enables the latest Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), and another new category of devices for the internet called netbooks and nettops. Intel® Atom™ processors were newly designed from the ground up, 45nm Intel® Atom™ processors pack an astounding 47 million transistors on a single chip measuring less than 26mm², making them Intel's smallest and lowest power processors. All this while delivering the power and performance you need for full Internet capabilities.</div><br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 386px; float: left; height: 257px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Intel%20Atom/IMG_1609_581x386.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /><div align="justify">There are numerous of Intel Atom motherboard and processor combo available around the market, after some survey and budget tinkering, I decided to opt for the Intel D945GCLF2D, Intel Atom processor 330 Dual Core set. The main reason I opted for the this was due to the cheaper price tag compared to other same solutions and also I do not need HDMI and the better 9300GS VGA from the Nvidia ION platform.<br /><br />To further emphasizing the power saving capabilities of the Intel Atom 330 platform, I come across some articles over the Internet with experiment done to calculate the exact power consumption comparing Atom 330 and E8500.<br /><br />According to the article, they compare a E8500 @ 3.16GHz on Asus P5E3 Premium system with Atom 330 @ 1.6GHz on Intel D945GCLF2, listed below are the data of the experiment,<br /><br />The main advantage the Atom 330 has is low power consumption - supposedly it has a maximum total power draw of 8W.<br /><br /><blockquote><div align="justify">Here is some experimental data:<br />· E8500 @ 3.16GHz on Asus P5E3 Premium: 92W idle, 118W loaded<br />· Atom 330 @ 1.6GHz on Intel D945GCLF2: 41W idle, 45W loaded<br />It looks like going to full load from idling at the desktop the Atom 330 only used 4W more - so the 8W TDP figure is quite believable.<br /><br />Let's say it is being deployed as File Server/Download Server for 24h/day, it would idling most of the time. So let's calculate how much power would be used in a year.<br />24h/day * 365 days = 8760 hours<br /><br />Atom 330 @ 41W * 8760 hours = 359,160 W/hr = 359.16kWhr<br />E8500 @ 92W * 8760 hours = 805,920 W/hr = 805.92kWhr<br /><br />Now let's say we pay $0.10/kWhr<br />Atom 330 would use $35.91 in electricity running for a year<br />E8500 would use $80.59 in electricity running for a year.<br /><br />Now let's say we are in a place that charges $0.25/kWhr<br />Atom 330: $89.79 for a year<br />E8500: $201.48 for a year<br /><br />Where electricity is expensive, a small Atom 330 based home server would save the cost of the motherboard in less than a year! </div><br /></blockquote><br />The file-station will be installed with Windows XP Professional SP3 O/S with IIS hosting capabilities. The downloading and file sharing task will be supported by suitable software. The system spec is as following:<br /><br /><blockquote><div align="justify">- Intel BOXD945GCLF2D Intel Atom processor 330<br />- 2GB Team Elite DDR2 800<br />- Intel GMA950 Onboard Display<br />- Built in Audio<br />- Western Digital 200GB SATA HDD<br />- Cooler Master 350W PSU<br />- Lian Li PC-A6010 casing (a bit weird with ITX mobo on an ATX casing)</div></blockquote><br /><br />With this system setup, I can enjoy 24/7 downloading, file sharing in a fairly low running cost with processing power that capable enough to take the job.</p></div><br /><br />Reference: <a href="http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/D945GCLF2_atom_330/15.html" style="color: yellow;">Neoseeker Intel D945GCLF2 & Atom 330 Review</a>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-47305189640968926022009-08-11T21:35:00.000+08:002009-08-13T22:05:45.166+08:00Corsair H50 Compact Liquid Cooling Kit<img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px; float: left; height: 300px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/Corsair%20H50/7w.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /><p align="justify">The Corsair H50, I came across this cooler few days ago while surfing the web. The Corsair H50 liquid cooling kit is a compact pre-filled liquid cooling kit, it is very user friendly, easy to install and least maintenance required. I was messed around with mid high end DIY liquid cooling kits. It is true that they are hard to install, require some modding on the casing itself for big radiator installation, and they are lot of work during the maintenance job. It is regularly takes up few hours or even almost half a day just to get the water cooling loop properly setup, it would take almost a whole day inclusive leak test and hardware installation. Most people stay away from high end DIY liquid coolers due to reasons above.<br /><br />Many thought that compact liquid cooling kit always lose to high end air cooling heat sink such as TRUE120, IFX14, etc, this in fact were true on those crappy thermaltake kit. However, with the Corsair H50, most reviews show that it can beat the high end air cooler.<br /><br />I come across this video while surfing at <a href="http://ianho.blogspot.com/2009/08/corsair-h50-vs-true.html" style="color: yellow;">Ianho's ( famous PC modder in Malaysia ) blog</a>.<br /><br /></p><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DQxw9Sx1-Uk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DQxw9Sx1-Uk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center>Its a funny video that Corsair name the air cooler Brand X, and it shows that the H50 do beat the high end TRUE air cooler.<br /><br />Other than that, here are some reviews about the H50:<br /><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2009/07/29/corsair-hydro-h50-cpu-cooler-review/1" style="color: yellow;">Corsair Hydro Series H50 CPU Cooler Review from Bit tech</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=1&artpage=4174&articID=939" style="color: yellow;">Corsair Hydro Series H50 CPU Cooler Review from Madshrimps</a>.<br /><br />In my opinion, a good compact liquid cooling kit such as the Corsair H50 or the CoolIt Domino ALC has the capabilities to beat high end air coolers if the radiator are properly located to intake fresh air instead of hot air inside the case. Take the Corsair's review in Bit Tech as example, setting up the fan at the radiator as intake yields better result than acting as system's exhaust. Besides that, the water block that are small in size provide empty spaces around the CPU area allowing user able to use ram cooler or Mosfet cooler around that area. Unlike high end coolers which is huge in size that restrict user to use other cooler around CPU area. <br /><br />The Corsair H50 liquid cooling kit are now in retail market in Malaysia, you can get them at <a href="http://www.modernopc.com/store/index.php" style="color: yellow;">Moderno PC</a> or <a href="http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1099128&hl=cex" style="color: yellow;">CEX Computer</a> or any retail shop that carry the product.</p>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-81159229682070012232009-06-22T22:47:00.028+08:002009-08-05T17:22:41.593+08:00Project: Stacker Revamp Completed<p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcLOdmPRkWH7Kf2xmNvdF8Y7wZsLCcnZlmgTtYjRo6SYid31cRmQ1BgRZAAVW4RoK7ls-odLmU6KKmoCRzxysAr8rscBT0nzbTVdkE1YsTPlnDUGE1jZDH1DDQr_xXCYjUkeqP882BsA/s1600-h/DSCN2508R.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 300px; float: left; height: 400px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350164670538339026" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcLOdmPRkWH7Kf2xmNvdF8Y7wZsLCcnZlmgTtYjRo6SYid31cRmQ1BgRZAAVW4RoK7ls-odLmU6KKmoCRzxysAr8rscBT0nzbTVdkE1YsTPlnDUGE1jZDH1DDQr_xXCYjUkeqP882BsA/s400/DSCN2508R.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Objective:<br />Reuse my Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01 casing which sitting in my store room in quite a while.<br /><br />Scope:<br /><br />Repaint the casing internals to black colour.<br />Cut the top panel of the casing to fit 3x120mm radiator.<br />Repaint the external to Gold + Black theme. ( Not yet final decision )<br />Mod the case to become more water cooling friendly case.<br /><br />Casing:<br />Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p></p><br /><p align="justify">Water Cooling Components:</p><p align="justify">D-Tek Fuzion v2 with i7 bracket, Swiftech MCR-320QP, Danger Den CPX Pro Inline pump, Bitspower 5"25 Bay Reservoir,1/2" OD Chrome Barbs, 7/16 ID tubings. </p><p align="justify"><br />Major PC Components: </p><p align="justify">Intel Core i7 920, ASUS P6T, Team Xtreeme 3x1gb DDR3 1600 CL8, ASUS 4890. </p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;">Phase 1: Repaint the motherboard tray.</span><br /></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHatUeUbWrZEQBRGFG77WP4nra4efOh-Zb6pYPxgJEUl4gOY4OXm6Ck-7Z65MbHsvw_V6geITIHDhuPTFjv_CggjTp298oOzbzYQkGBxdUzKzfta3ivRjgLCrBlERJvOXUd0oroDJbXJs/s1600-h/DSCN3349R.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350167319871304498" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHatUeUbWrZEQBRGFG77WP4nra4efOh-Zb6pYPxgJEUl4gOY4OXm6Ck-7Z65MbHsvw_V6geITIHDhuPTFjv_CggjTp298oOzbzYQkGBxdUzKzfta3ivRjgLCrBlERJvOXUd0oroDJbXJs/s400/DSCN3349R.JPG" border="0" /></a> Everything were taken down, drill out the rivets to take out the PSU cage for painting and cutting jobs.<br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4dSug5UBWxLVGkjKDmiz-yLjyw68EL3IdyMSNBxpFcBz683Dze1kAvvAm-83CCDnm77p6VViApoEM7ifJStSfF0xydZogXlhgsY-ByvTiBjJZEFjwFwPF1wTvy9cw0ykRi-8UQVu758Y/s1600-h/DSCN3353R.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px; display: block; height: 400px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350168939753099042" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4dSug5UBWxLVGkjKDmiz-yLjyw68EL3IdyMSNBxpFcBz683Dze1kAvvAm-83CCDnm77p6VViApoEM7ifJStSfF0xydZogXlhgsY-ByvTiBjJZEFjwFwPF1wTvy9cw0ykRi-8UQVu758Y/s400/DSCN3353R.JPG" border="0" /> </a><p align="justify">Picture above show that the old surface was rusted. It was then being sanded to prepare the surface for spray painting.<br /><br /></p><p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMZQeq8sAOpmOD8oCE4o3ayJ4YZmUKNHvNphfh58wzSQ6K8jeNs7FUT6Wx05l5Tks4yQBdG4PM1WL6DByJrAtmiQyBn5HUo0vjSboGCU3ft9F9k4n5xxPMar2ciSJjTsKy4meoBo3wjgE/s1600-h/DSCN3356R.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px; display: block; height: 400px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350169505732556450" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMZQeq8sAOpmOD8oCE4o3ayJ4YZmUKNHvNphfh58wzSQ6K8jeNs7FUT6Wx05l5Tks4yQBdG4PM1WL6DByJrAtmiQyBn5HUo0vjSboGCU3ft9F9k4n5xxPMar2ciSJjTsKy4meoBo3wjgE/s400/DSCN3356R.JPG" border="0" /></a> The paint station being setup and the paint job has started. Picture above was taken during the mid of paint job.</p><p align="justify"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvZPJSJXLGL9m1nx9pIhGEl5A-xuZPbmhkoBEs8osYMQRQJ9V0VV4j1CR_vDXP4xsXg2MzxzD9jHooNluMB-2caTLRl2qv1HpXmyFj94Tr6AyB_93Cs4c9dg4C8WJGUjJAGWZpWXkncc/s1600-h/DSCN3363R.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px; float: left; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350170248634692242" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvZPJSJXLGL9m1nx9pIhGEl5A-xuZPbmhkoBEs8osYMQRQJ9V0VV4j1CR_vDXP4xsXg2MzxzD9jHooNluMB-2caTLRl2qv1HpXmyFj94Tr6AyB_93Cs4c9dg4C8WJGUjJAGWZpWXkncc/s400/DSCN3363R.JPG" border="0" /></a> The final product was quite statisfied by me, at least my first spray paint job went through succesfully.<br /></p><p align="justify"><br /><br />Post another shot to conclude phase I, it had when through succesfully, the paint job were good and everything went on well. I shall proceed to phase II which involve cutting the top panel to fit 3x120mm radiator next week.<br /></p><br /><br /><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify">There are change of plan according to the original plan, instead of going for Black-Gold theme, I decided to make it full black and sent it to powder coat to make it pure black edition Stacker. Here are some pictures after the powder coating job and initial built.</p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="center"><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/?action=view&current=IMG_1616Medium.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/IMG_1616Medium.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a> </p><p align="center"> Front view with the Bitspower bay reservoir, Scythe Kaze Master, Multifunctional Bay Panel etc</p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/?action=view&current=IMG_1615Medium.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/IMG_1615Medium.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center">Top View with AC Ryan 3x120mm rad grill.</p><p align="center"><br /></p><p></p><p align="center"><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/?action=view&current=IMG_1623Medium.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/IMG_1623Medium.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a> </p><p align="justify"></p><p align="center">Shot of interior of the built with all hardware installed inside. With water cooling components, case accessories and PC Hardware.<br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/?action=view&current=IMG_1613Medium.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/IMG_1613Medium.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center"> Close up shot of CPU block, Pump, and Radiator.</p><p align="center"><br /></p><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/?action=view&current=IMG_1647Medium.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 300px; float: left; height: 400px;" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/IMG_1647Medium.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify">The Stacker revamp project have been done 90% so far, there are still to be minor changes in future such as PCI slot covers, Top radiator compartment rear cover, and better cable management. After changing the radiator to MCR-320QP from MCR220-QP I got around 5-10c (depends on ambient) improvement over the previous setup. I can achieve 3.99ghz OC with HT off at core temp at around 66-72c LinX stress test. </p><br /><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><br />Below are more pics of the project:<br /></p><p align="center"><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/?action=view&current=IMG_1620Medium.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/th_IMG_1620Medium.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/?action=view&current=IMG_1625Medium.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/th_IMG_1625Medium.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/?action=view&current=IMG_1642Medium.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/CM%20Stacker%20Revamp/th_IMG_1642Medium.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></p>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-55019600841465609432009-05-21T17:09:00.003+08:002009-05-21T17:16:12.038+08:00Lian Li Aluminium Bezel with Vent and FilterVisited Lowyat Plaza last few days, visited one of my favourite store, ATE. Suprisingly, I saw the new batch of Lian Li casings and accesories have reach there. So bought this:<br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfyqai8XMc5OaAbpVhuh23SnkLpjmYf3aqGc5OEsL58hd1KmNzcGARCJV8utIxvcG1o2STDHdE0KnpZFhKkeghyomYtjxvERH_nc0hRAODZclxFLEE4GF3RzvdkYbeVEGBj69HA-MpfE/s1600-h/DSC02735(2).JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338202387779385874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfyqai8XMc5OaAbpVhuh23SnkLpjmYf3aqGc5OEsL58hd1KmNzcGARCJV8utIxvcG1o2STDHdE0KnpZFhKkeghyomYtjxvERH_nc0hRAODZclxFLEE4GF3RzvdkYbeVEGBj69HA-MpfE/s400/DSC02735(2).JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosDZlIgH0bAnHBnU57BhZMxrzp8mkmSiPE5HHb5VoeTk3_2pyiFwGx9UdO2_HtqIZW30Hwlzt2Ion9gjUXH3b4TQZFW-3B1l_Ni9Yph66ffLm3qcS0tiVUVS-bFnfqzg_NWZzQ8XE3Hc/s1600-h/DSC02720(2).JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338202390430792450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosDZlIgH0bAnHBnU57BhZMxrzp8mkmSiPE5HHb5VoeTk3_2pyiFwGx9UdO2_HtqIZW30Hwlzt2Ion9gjUXH3b4TQZFW-3B1l_Ni9Yph66ffLm3qcS0tiVUVS-bFnfqzg_NWZzQ8XE3Hc/s400/DSC02720(2).JPG" /></a><br /><div> </div><div>Yay !!! Now my system have better airflow than before, the radiator are taking in fresh air from the vents. CPU temp dropped 2-3c, so as system temp. </div><div> </div><div>This is the only update available at May due to exams. More projects to come this coming June.</div><div> </div><div>Stay tuned...<br /></div><div></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-34805295036571462712009-04-20T14:45:00.012+08:002009-05-18T17:28:50.131+08:00Something I made to save table spaces.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2PW-KqLVz7pwGco8akzWE3SO1NO34yv5boDK6KFKwgrwodpCidwWee61Z-M6n8dF7zJMon522kbpnEeyGqs7p1f9pI2J9G_3G0NAKOKRj-mbwdYXM2pbSvmmQirh2GtvvFJcLLaKs24/s1600-h/DSC02562.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326671413337223586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2PW-KqLVz7pwGco8akzWE3SO1NO34yv5boDK6KFKwgrwodpCidwWee61Z-M6n8dF7zJMon522kbpnEeyGqs7p1f9pI2J9G_3G0NAKOKRj-mbwdYXM2pbSvmmQirh2GtvvFJcLLaKs24/s400/DSC02562.JPG" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rXBHRk7ozuO6XCj6TMUFOrfOnxUcb4rDrpEXVaDQeDmvt2zxLpBak8N-Gudd_rPEv-I4CSaOgAngYjEwI6qDYQayBvzxPAdx5wjtwumVsYBZPWWcrCOsVs-jKomRv7Wkis-zWY1sGEY/s1600-h/DSC02565.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326671402410994306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rXBHRk7ozuO6XCj6TMUFOrfOnxUcb4rDrpEXVaDQeDmvt2zxLpBak8N-Gudd_rPEv-I4CSaOgAngYjEwI6qDYQayBvzxPAdx5wjtwumVsYBZPWWcrCOsVs-jKomRv7Wkis-zWY1sGEY/s400/DSC02565.JPG" /></a><br /><div>Recently surfing around the web and see others people's invention to save spaces for a small table. After searching around the market for sources and materials, I made an U-Shaped acrylic mini table alike rack to solve this problem. Its hard to find this kind of thing in the market, especially made by acrylic.<br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0f4O3f__ZhyphenhyphenJqXLBPgXHMzisHWi-qCsQHZipYJErJ2z92OevKYtrqluL7xfUGienC6HOJ47RNzUP7d1zsZdNyBByKFkDClcFHbQy7SGW3zYe6eMzcKVmYifFmQHmMxOh1Y-EDsTCWwP4/s1600-h/DSC02564.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326662094346832562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0f4O3f__ZhyphenhyphenJqXLBPgXHMzisHWi-qCsQHZipYJErJ2z92OevKYtrqluL7xfUGienC6HOJ47RNzUP7d1zsZdNyBByKFkDClcFHbQy7SGW3zYe6eMzcKVmYifFmQHmMxOh1Y-EDsTCWwP4/s320/DSC02564.JPG" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfbdyJHAUkhe9wmW6JFJ0gTUW_6fsCtVER8BAudtAk1MoNQoruE0_HTvuPqPijHVGTfKX-RxgXsh05e-XZtO_p00NCqpcnhiXsefQc5vWmuhf_GW4J4ZM2t_8EEgDin0AT6Coe-nOxPo/s1600-h/DSC02561.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326662088924388034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfbdyJHAUkhe9wmW6JFJ0gTUW_6fsCtVER8BAudtAk1MoNQoruE0_HTvuPqPijHVGTfKX-RxgXsh05e-XZtO_p00NCqpcnhiXsefQc5vWmuhf_GW4J4ZM2t_8EEgDin0AT6Coe-nOxPo/s320/DSC02561.JPG" /></a><br />Pictures above shows that how it really help out to save spaces for a table, you would slide the keyboard to bottom of you LCD monitor easily when you need the table space for other job. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioUgF64f7CWBRqx26cPeuo71SHUSmb8pQQF_3WBMrnv-el40PPRJo6-v3I_atCr6kzlECcjipbA2Qnvkyal7hm2Akc6HAgKOasiuKHJwuOLAfU9zORqlc1LrBUDDZflPg2EMzxecQMsdU/s1600-h/DSC02560.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326665254077483394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioUgF64f7CWBRqx26cPeuo71SHUSmb8pQQF_3WBMrnv-el40PPRJo6-v3I_atCr6kzlECcjipbA2Qnvkyal7hm2Akc6HAgKOasiuKHJwuOLAfU9zORqlc1LrBUDDZflPg2EMzxecQMsdU/s320/DSC02560.JPG" /></a>The acrylic rack are made using 10mm acrylic and strong enough to hold certain amount of weight, but its not suitable for CRT monitor for sure. I currently got 2 units available for sale as I've made 3 units of it. So if anyone interested, you can contact me for details. Pricing are around <span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>RM 85</strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"> (contact me to nego).<br /></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4V0ia0_yOEwwnosmsquProHuxK0xpuywmR3jrk_tfSn6vpjKzff8BqmPB_ecnn-FpYZIQ0LKCw2YAGzMZ0cDv0mUROYBDvYdjYU1UgZ5ol915_an83oZyA9lTGFB4Ci3_r2nBWXh4Yo/s1600-h/DSC02560.JPG"></a></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-40717852750087926312009-04-17T10:58:00.005+08:002009-04-17T11:09:40.304+08:00Recent PurchaseMy Recent loot:<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYS75W0I6DVY4CbSi24rOU-ZDuevFi8UprN9zYtYhsVvRwhjqN_18IXubZTvH8aT6dvZuu6MHZRcyLrFqKhkeZ3SRS-hw6zS6rAk-rMiOS-GoCRZK5wND_tZ20svlIS6KmSwi6oyhsiI/s1600-h/DSC02550.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325489732698448482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYS75W0I6DVY4CbSi24rOU-ZDuevFi8UprN9zYtYhsVvRwhjqN_18IXubZTvH8aT6dvZuu6MHZRcyLrFqKhkeZ3SRS-hw6zS6rAk-rMiOS-GoCRZK5wND_tZ20svlIS6KmSwi6oyhsiI/s320/DSC02550.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0YkyQUrMBBCn7DWpJpwvEaMTLEaaf5sdEKA-bOsblkZuvjzDH0Wjv7lYCSeKCtRnX7AW-Go0xGUjVQBSNE11OJaTTlQzmWxWGr9NBlLrRsVn9XCsIKj7YDymPOI1PVbJMqEGxLclHAZQ/s1600-h/DSC02325.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325489733092894226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0YkyQUrMBBCn7DWpJpwvEaMTLEaaf5sdEKA-bOsblkZuvjzDH0Wjv7lYCSeKCtRnX7AW-Go0xGUjVQBSNE11OJaTTlQzmWxWGr9NBlLrRsVn9XCsIKj7YDymPOI1PVbJMqEGxLclHAZQ/s320/DSC02325.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNXYXWX5QNoKwzeUTFEUziTQdsI8zEeYRnO7UHZsyymchd4LhWACl0-w1TDBb00MQC_7opLlA8ugshEFAkZl51xF4CYy8alpOhbmsqRG-UKiIoDHq0et85oz9nkgVi-ZIy1EYmEvzh3M/s1600-h/DSC02551.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325489740265611090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNXYXWX5QNoKwzeUTFEUziTQdsI8zEeYRnO7UHZsyymchd4LhWACl0-w1TDBb00MQC_7opLlA8ugshEFAkZl51xF4CYy8alpOhbmsqRG-UKiIoDHq0et85oz9nkgVi-ZIy1EYmEvzh3M/s320/DSC02551.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-X8gHOPLlGnCG5_z58nWmZubDFcPnOxMCtXJZhErV9lL_rKlSztcj407reiWA0YEnTWomRQSpZ2mi5q85aan7m8ECsbJpI6I73GpPtJdvGyjw_SKJudz4LBjv6uc9je9A5Xwwlk-dCpE/s1600-h/DSC02557.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325489737596225490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-X8gHOPLlGnCG5_z58nWmZubDFcPnOxMCtXJZhErV9lL_rKlSztcj407reiWA0YEnTWomRQSpZ2mi5q85aan7m8ECsbJpI6I73GpPtJdvGyjw_SKJudz4LBjv6uc9je9A5Xwwlk-dCpE/s320/DSC02557.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Its DLink DGS-1005D Gigabit Switch and Cruzer Contour 16gb Pendrive.</div><br /><div></div><div>My room is officially GigaLAN now, making the file transfer between my link station and PC faster than ever.</div><br /><div></div><div>The 16gb Cruzer Contour is a high speed pen drive, now i can move my media to my pendrive faster than ever... !!! LOL... </div></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-3718080188461522122009-04-17T10:37:00.010+08:002009-04-17T11:10:23.497+08:00New Pump, Danger Den CPX-ProIts been a while since the last post. Well I've update my PC a bit. Removed DVD-ROM, better cable management and a new smaller and stronger pump, the DD-CPX Pro 18W pump. Temperature decreased by few Cs due to lower heat dump from the pump compare to D4/D5.<br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div>Let's the pictures do the talking:</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwuRasIAhpu70oJ0Zv8Zeltx1N7VV0E2YC82AsWmVbpFUG31N2e1gkN5vS4P20aPupl9XqQJTh5sRv3SJja5fs-7tK537QPmcDX37vPrdtBMezURSFMSmQ2gzCwFTJAi9k-kwodsJK2Jc/s1600-h/DSC02553.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325488169048061666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwuRasIAhpu70oJ0Zv8Zeltx1N7VV0E2YC82AsWmVbpFUG31N2e1gkN5vS4P20aPupl9XqQJTh5sRv3SJja5fs-7tK537QPmcDX37vPrdtBMezURSFMSmQ2gzCwFTJAi9k-kwodsJK2Jc/s320/DSC02553.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Je-EngTms4L7_bMxRi_3zeyW5W62wKOLu0BJ0nd-AhQlHI1sU8HdMAJRvNQeQ19tE1dQWZMadyB9rG0_KV1suhPR1Kyz0ljffhtoBE7ogNJGvrReDWyOgf5sxxmCYdsXHsetY2ZnNHM/s1600-h/DSC02554.JPG"></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFWLROQfDKCcVSIsmpyMR-EULBEp9aCJQnD-pzq8HTw0ZT31vpqBjQR1gEgZPzrOMy7NsqlYBxEmnWb8eFSdMD0twoYIZKQHO7swHY3GtatIctyAsdZJdbHqNbPrs9bT1yH4fH-hPkEg/s1600-h/DSC02552.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325488354893898418" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFWLROQfDKCcVSIsmpyMR-EULBEp9aCJQnD-pzq8HTw0ZT31vpqBjQR1gEgZPzrOMy7NsqlYBxEmnWb8eFSdMD0twoYIZKQHO7swHY3GtatIctyAsdZJdbHqNbPrs9bT1yH4fH-hPkEg/s320/DSC02552.JPG" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /></div><div></div></div></div></div></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-69123156962269640822009-03-18T00:23:00.015+08:002009-03-18T00:51:43.972+08:00Some add-on to my PC - The Scythe Kaze Master<div align="center"><br /></div><p align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314194406809328562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ1dHXm5-7nCIVY9qiZym0XS1atNZIT0XaGoqr6P1197tc8BAO3JKUrsJm9P7NwSXguuyqLEOZjaq7OSuADh5qDv28nW7p4zsMfwNAJRz9p7NTII5QoajblvDentiMMK3X-DhXRT4QY0/s320/DSC02293.JPG" border="0" />I purchased the Scythe Kaze Master 4 Channel Multi-Functional Fan Controller last week and its finally arrived to my door step couple of days ago.</p><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314194413511928498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgJdlndSpVr461UiN0MWRwgP-7FKNUliaBZxUXbtFeCs1w_aI14w8jg4NBAHCJS65CA3rlWzy0FFlUhNoMUwxV1alq-S0UoM-410dEkiX_9OTLJzq8Bfwj69vmQtsbMndyY3i1ZvS2ew/s320/DSC02294.JPG" border="0" />The fan controller are meant for 12v fans usage with 12watt per channel.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314194415062944754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW4BUqdiUjzW9ryCmXeR-9VMKL8uMNQT03GljtM-d8sml9jV65lIHo2XO_lbg5EpE5Fjv-ciMEVCs_ypoCCEH5uYZnXXynn9tfkSFhz7KxwnaSr5q2V9dhFkMrtZ2zAaTa9WcVgDg3LKo/s320/DSC02296.JPG" border="0" />The Kaze master bundled with plenty of wires and thermal sensors.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314194415900814258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOPKPRa358NV5GzxvDuPV_tjuD_EY3mvvdofz67EgW-wEtwIbYaK9OuvYuCXLgO1YDNFkwZhqzQ2ILJ4SOmY9RHife_TtlX21e3Otkyn9Cgw-Q7OZnZzEqoa-O__s-U4lmpQIvLyfgNI/s320/DSC02297.JPG" border="0" /></div><div align="center">A zoom-in view for the Kaze Master.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314194421782708386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh13YI6LahSbGeFof6lcZmWu3rNQXuCe9nw3kVukQf0tDeUAmV_Vb5Ikc4HslL4PkpmJ8lumrV0NtIdiQRk_aE0M43jueqIVE61AGjY805NDuUdUl5ENNahpfEh5xaK38rdTquaqfNDPjg/s320/DSC02298.JPG" border="0" />Excellent built quality and good PCB design.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314195862543936002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7Z6JMSCAe0hkD7VbOnBUrtk8caC7bnPBUmxNJXr2-f7Vd8DeLJFEB6yBU0zMoNoOI5ev_Z622KQupqPc8gz_e-2dBy-N_yGkoRzZu99ZTXIpq1173wuOh3gERosWnjIVMnB5ET_3UyQ/s320/DSC02299.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="justify">Finished install onto my i7 system, the Kaze Master serve its purpose to control fan speed (provide a much more silent system and yet flexibility of providing high air flow when its needed) and also provide cool lookings for the system.</p><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"><strong>Pros:</strong></div><div align="justify">12Watt Per Channel</div><div align="justify">Excellent built quality</div><div align="justify">Can turn off the fan if turned the knob to minimum(full counter clockwise)</div><div align="justify">Cool looking</div><div align="justify">Temperature Monitoring</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><strong>Cons:</strong></div><div align="justify">Come in expensive price tag </div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-63905004632082078472009-03-09T22:37:00.013+08:002009-03-09T23:50:11.165+08:00Simple ATi 4850 Overclocking Guide using ATI Overdrive<div align="justify">Its been a while since my last post, well in this post, I am going to share some easy way to overclock your graphics card using ATI Overdrive. This is guide mean for newbies and not for extreme overclock.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify">*This guide are mainly for ATI Graphics Card, as I have no nVidia graphics card around, but the methods are almost identical.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Warning: This guide is just for your reference and knowledges, I have no responsible for any damages caused by this Overclocking guide. Be Cautious !!!</span></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">Graphics Card that we are going to overclock today: </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">GeCube ATi 4850 Reference Model.</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311207494949996322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0BrS1yhiOHOUUH20K5YLb6kS-_rX-i6xz39jANKUV_ULPISrqzGoZ30UWAJ3mrnQqinHbDtxsptFIqDAyU4eNKV3x3-4lK3q9t8pMn8qdKX4g-6o5k7fGhKt14zMJuLEJcZ_SZh5GgY/s320/HD485PG3-E3_B.jpg" border="0" />Specifications:<br /><br />HD4850 (RV770PRO) (55nm)<br />Core/Memory Frequency: 625Mhz/993Mhz<br />Memory Size: 512MB<br />Memory Type: GDDR3<br />Memory Bus: 256-bit<br />Interface: PCI-Express® 2.0<br /><br />Tools Required:<br />ATI Catalyst Control Center<br />Furmark (for Stress Testing purpose)<br />3D Mark Vantage or 3D Mark 06<br /><br /><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311208792477766818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxA7g05YXLjXSnwDMKUYdpo81KSHvvIxdMVbDTsoVlVSXeLlFvKGWlQ5sNFyIatbmm2umMGZ0NFF2MRCqfWW27WJdFMloGklSvFQKslGgM7IZ_JDeuZmvmPgOnim4hu48yqYHL2Wfcgo/s320/DSC01828.JPG" border="0" />Changed the HSF to Scythe Musashi due to poor cooling capabilities of the reference heatsink.</div><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311206521068809362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpMnKCrDlofHeiJxBoKcC1ThPQaOrF5w4gln-RojvXqlUb-RGMc4MtL0ufP1A0z5MBbd6l5r2P3VyZLvCofPx8F-yYPOaW_mTubdl6I6ZV7xGwX_gmjfvJER_uvDZXY7kT_-xdlXwrCos/s320/1.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="justify">First of all, run your Catalyst Control Center by right-clicking on the desktop, and select Catalyst Control Center.</p><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311206999925062946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 312px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEbQmXKtXf9JMVqmyyBAYaWqBsTx7Z7UMTKnDV3DGHW6-TpUYuwdxj2lmKrTLHSrpn5MxYudUUKlEtSZtiBbR6wRr6VLRQOUCqXA1h-GFcGhBmIrptau0VJJYOAtVRvJLQSsZFtTN9xo/s320/2.jpg" border="0" />Select ATI Overdrive and click enable ATI Overdrive box, it will prompt a warning message, proceed by selecting "Yes".<br /><br />Adjust the slider of the GPU Clock and MEM clock to overclock, it is adviced not to increase the clock too much, adjust accordingly try 5-15Mhz increment each time before performing Furmark and 3D Mark test for stability. Observe for any artifacts when running the test. Try to find your maximum core clock by keeping your mem clock at stock and increase the GPU clock only until you notice artifacts during the furmark test or 3D Mark test. Back down a little, to obtain stability. Same goes to your memory clock, try to keep the GPU clock at stock while finding the max mem clock.<br /><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311210415334764562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Kn8aSwdgFQdp-yaGkGVr_0DJnA4_CPjhj1JJGRXuKkXvf_DLsZRNNurRYviBRWFV_lV82XS9tW2hni9HQwzZWuJzam6sr7FmjGGoWGdnlSOGZrdMZ7cBJnu1lHWeBRgTO10utESLUic/s320/3.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div align="justify">I obtained maximum of 700Mhz for my core clock and 1100mhz for my mem clock, no artifacts noticed or crash occured, back down to around 675mhz / 1050Mhz for long term run.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify">*Do remember to keep an eye on your graphic card temperature. If its too hot, lower your OC, heat will kill the graphic card in long term run. 3rd Party better cooling capabilities HSF are recommended before OC your graphic card.</div><div align="justify"><br />Well, after clocked the card we enjoyed some bonus speed from the reference card through overclocking.</div><br /><div align="justify">There are pre-overclocked non-reference cards available nowadays with better HSF and OC capabilities, that come with slightly higher price tag. In my opinion its worth go get since these cards came with better heatsinks and were able to clock even higher due to better HSF and also better power circuitry. (Eg. 2 phase power circuitry for reference card, 3 phase for Palit's non-reference card)<br /><br /><br /></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-50722177175690138362009-03-03T16:24:00.016+08:002009-03-03T17:34:20.426+08:00How To Jump Start an ATX Power Supply Unit<div align="justify">To jump start an ATX Power Supply is an easy process, before proceed with this guide, please remember safety first, <span style="color:#ff0000;">I will not responsible for any damage or injuries as a result of this jump start mod,</span> please make sure you have proper tools as well.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Why we need to start an ATX PSU without motherboard ? </div><div align="justify">Well doing so gives us a test base to test new hardwares, without fear of damaging our system or frying our CPU(mainly benefits those with water cooling system when doing leak test or bleeding the system). It makes testing and swapping around devices much more easier. You could even use a second PSU to power devices in your main rig, should you run out of molex's (which is probably not needed these days as ATX PSU tends to come with more molex nowadays).</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Other than that, we also can use it as a 12v,7v and 5v DC Power Supply just in case we need to power up some 12v,7v,5v DC devices instead of buying an Standard Switching Power Supply or 12v adapter. We can get a regular ATX Power Supply (ayam brand ) for around RM30-50 which is way more cheaper then Standard Switching Power Supply and yet much more useful than a Power Adapter which deliver fairly low wattage.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Tools needed:</div><div align="justify">Plier, Jumper Wire, Cutters.</div><p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk7v_Moy2z3BFYouy59sS_sy6jSAtO5J4MCmOm_gvFcvQFDoCThk3kVBG4vgbq_2z_ZyQMyY3yTOev2pkXxYpPx3M0xgsQIvsry6S7Gsw2YnmYqO5jlYp_1RrYlTOk1LCnWEIYc3vQrgU/s1600-h/DSC02198.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308876088547721250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk7v_Moy2z3BFYouy59sS_sy6jSAtO5J4MCmOm_gvFcvQFDoCThk3kVBG4vgbq_2z_ZyQMyY3yTOev2pkXxYpPx3M0xgsQIvsry6S7Gsw2YnmYqO5jlYp_1RrYlTOk1LCnWEIYc3vQrgU/s320/DSC02198.JPG" border="0" /></a>Picture above shows part of the tools that we need for this guide. A plier, and jumper wire, cutter missing when this picture was taken.<br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308875443706855394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0S8VFPty1VJAsi4C7oMLeE4UP5r-QdltaBhxU9osskSgOcDsnDMaUf5WcsV3HUSK_kS3qUzXweC3LrwU7LHXfsFHUz6N9NDpfFdlfgzjSqzaCgTBw7-tQXkvcpa8au1KOaGJvh-n4eNI/s320/DSC02187.JPG" border="0" /> <div align="justify">First of all, we cut out a jumper wire using cutter and strip of the protection layer on both end. Twist and make it like the picture above.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308875443836092690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOpNnl3zf6Gmob9ufk06-E8Kf3RxUl143o67t_-UrRAkIeEaA_qLsVin9t4XobynEU3isp1CAMg8c-u7mR2s4IMeQhXk5HkaiSuuCYyC2Km18CQuFXqxkNsiHa7vGZoJCVtZuT4ZXPGdQ/s320/DSC02191.JPG" border="0" /></div><div align="justify">After done with the wire, take out the PSU that wanted to be start without the motherboard, short circuit the green and any of the black wires. Picture above shows that I short-circuited the green wire with the nearest black wire.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308875445668827282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomPxSjo_-kqc4flx_-NinvHqSbIgxiRmTdhi8KwtTrGb2bUV0WqTFKbDMEP-bN_2CCvYaFD6kHHb-YWjz3fqpCXddk2r4iTqJR-zqG5d6vIrPY2qTOwNcp0Y-WtKr9GtqMYqQgDm-xQw/s320/DSC02194.JPG" border="0" /></div><div align="justify">To determine whether the PSU being started or not, I connect a fan to the PSU to verify it.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308875452726154674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUzPau3917Fl4xY2cjkqKMGXKViRLW7NItl8bYJQUYWr1_xffC-EORkcqhvipP_YNuZ-2j-dUPoissN1tQ80y-vRG6TE3QDQGb18VGMNGk5Zt-E5VohhZDe-EJgTGQty07lh_zNUosEo/s320/DSC02195.JPG" border="0" /></div><div align="justify">After turn on the power on the wall socket, the PSU successfully started, the trick successfully workout.</div><div align="justify"></div><p align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308876083759117330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAer9B-XmVzG_WiU2nPutcleT11z8B8xS8rGYqehMNmWFSEW45LwQBq_48-C4Eg2qiiI6RikxIQC6n9JEwHYQS6rZDX9YdCfHkydQUJJHBMspYEBAvxaJD84MMr3RF3JTvkOZzOIBUaUY/s320/DSC02196.JPG" border="0" /></p><div align="justify">For long term usage, we can custom made an ATX power on connector as shown by picture above from electronics store.</div><div align="justify"></div><p align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308876084970800418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4fqvxMhcH-L1N9oKcq1YMh4yvp5LdLdlr3pDLbtlhPjnbNDsBURrHsBggwsBAKxA0N6m3ymMABAronHDafrRIFv6paebQSIo3m7rrh7X_BatdAhmApxXYaG3LGDfulYTk-GNMP4LuDGU/s320/DSC02197.JPG" border="0" /></p><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The custom made ATX Power On Connector in action. The connector come with some price, the mod guide above are much more economies way.<br /><br /><br /></div><div align="justify"></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-69348833572339100002009-02-28T14:33:00.017+08:002009-03-03T17:18:51.940+08:00A failed Hybrid Cooling Project<div align="justify">The hybrid cooling project, I got this idea when I saw Dell using their H2C cooling system in their XPS series. What is a hybrid cooling system ? Well, its basically a cooling system that based on water cooling and peltier cooling.<br /><br />In conventional Water Cooling System, the liquid is cooled by the radiator before returning to the reservoir. The hybrid cooling system basically are based on the same concept but instead of cooled by only the radiator, the liquid cooled by TEC units before radiator. A high wattage TEC module could easily cool a CPU below ambient, so when things cooled below ambient, we have condensation problem. Theoritically with the hybrid cooling concept, the radiator will make sure the temperature of the coolant will stay around ambient temperature.<br /><br />Here is a quick peak of the Dell H2C:<br /></div><p align="center"><object height="240" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F5rXpdPngsw&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F5rXpdPngsw&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"></embed></object><br /></p><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307739459350797362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGPWwcU3Vstd_az4m4aRbEKtL57vfgAkYNEf7FYNFEMThaPwu0ORXe1PG_cAVHO9Sws4YbHpDwcxlC5-PuU8Fp-CqsXvSgFaWhPA1u2shymViDkP-mguEmaYUQ5zkS9pnB0zOGFIyixVQ/s320/DSC01813.JPG" border="0" />And here is my own custom built with the same concept but with some low end feature without any sensors nor controllers. But its based on the same concept of the H2c, the liquid coolant ( instead of H2C's gel alike coolant) flow from pump to CPU Waterblock, cooled by the TEC module, then by the radiator and flow back to the reservoir. The hotside of the TEC module were cooled by CM Hyper 212 Air Cooler. TEC used were 90watt peltier if I not remember wrongly. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">The time I built this, I was on C2D e8400, i got 2-3c lower only with the TEC module on, and nowhere its near the ambient, so I guess its a failed project. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">Major factor of the failure:</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">-Not enough cooling surface for the coldside of the peltier module, should have gone for dual peltier in parallel setup with a huge copper plate linked to at least 2 or more waterblocks so that the cold side have sufficient contact with the loop.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">-The radiator are pulling hot air from inside of the system, and bringing up the temperature.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">-Maybe I need higher wattages peltiers.</div><div align="justify"><br /><br /></div><div align="justify"></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-3114508675905077742009-02-28T00:25:00.014+08:002009-03-03T17:18:26.584+08:00Lets Built A Silent PC, Sound Insulating My PC<div align="justify">Recently I've been annoyed by the sound generated by D4 pump and cooling fans of my PC, especially when the ceiling fan in my room running in low speed, the "humming" and "whinning" sound make me uneasy with it.<br /><br />So I've came out an idea to silent the noise generated while not sacrificing too much cooling performance by using industrial grade sound insulation foam and downvolting the fans.</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307709351127911378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxD-vzZCNJL6_gSCdA-Ax4oI3dzAFwxNqzoK064DFLL_0G45JzrmUb5YHEO0vFiNT1aD47D346WzDBZkMAE-Hvk6Rlq8Pr-abw40Y71s9r5a5oj9I7BVq8BCx40x-MSRs9MRhN2a7Z9GU/s320/DSC02161.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center">Pictures above shows that the sound insulation foam I am going to use on the project.</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307710443227923602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTkCezIF2aa7_SiwzqgqaiURLWTDGuSLs73uy6sRWPmu7WBIZ-Qh9hSW9z4g1HMi5VxICxzhwtT__C05q7iAwurjYBAHTJ_PSsOztb5L6Rw0lRA6act9dViNo5uQdXp0spcQ3nFT1AMs4/s320/DSC02160.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center">The foam attached to the side panels.</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307709344983899090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEF3LTP4ypXlMJIlSfd7G0dIkj4ldy3A_mkMLRbpy2b6vx6T7QC3nZHiD8ITWHWM5iEW-diu-wPptMeRAkmDoT6eN-gXL2vJMG7jpy_v-kza0pcXaMYybmPnoEIdkwEhYTL-VfjOOawtc/s320/DSC02158.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center">The foam attached to the bottom part of the system. </p><p align="justify"><br /><br />The concept of using those sound insulation foam is to prevent noise generated by vibration. As we know, vibrations generated by pump and fans tends to generate noise when came into contact with metals. The sound insulation foam's capabilities of absorbing those vibrations will definately making sure that there are no noise generated caused by vibrations.</p><div align="justify">Next we proceed to downvolting part. As we know, our Power Supply Unit(PSU) used for our PC able to provide 12V,7V, & 5V DC voltages.</div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307709346915509138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pmk6UHaFXMSlK_3ipeIiEnJgSysNyaF8U7u3xI2ub-QG8qYCUhPQ_b4lKNp5UAZ3UkIOIL5cFbRE25EuOJRwntFWjz9kLAbV9I9y-5DJSj0KGG4B4-6wNHW7LaFv5gOzVW7idgKzQaU/s320/DSC02153l.jpg" border="0" />From the pic, we can see that there are 4 wires in our standard 4 pins molex which used in every PSU.<br /><br /><div align="justify">To work with 5v mode, we connect the red wire(+) of the cooling fan to the red wire and black wire(-) to the black wire of the molex.</div><br /><div align="justify">To work with 7v mode, we connect the red wire(+) of the cooling fan to the yellow wire and black wire(-) to the red wire of the molex.</div><div align="justify"></div></div><div align="justify">I tweaked mine to 7v mode so that I get decent air flow and low noise from the fans.<br /><br />Fans tweaked were 2x2000 RPM which cooling the radiator. The intake and exhaust fan were controlled by a fan controller which come with PC-A6010. </div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-87512057305897100352009-02-23T14:57:00.016+08:002009-03-03T17:35:11.000+08:00Overclocking of The Intel's Core i7 920<div align="justify">The new i7 CPU are quite a good overclockers, here are some rough OC i done this weekend, havent run any benchmarks though, but just to shows that its easily reaches these clocks and stable for 30mins of Prime95 Small FFT rough stability test.<br /><br /></div><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/?action=view&current=i732.jpg" target="_blank"></a><p align="center"><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/?action=view&current=i732.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/th_i732.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div align="justify"><br />The screenshot above shows the i7 920 can easily reached 3.2Ghz with ease, what we need to do is just bump up the BCLK, to 160 with a multiplier of 20 (160*20=3200), do note that clocking of i7 are different from the old Intel Core series, thare are no longer headaches of GTL references etc, but on come a new problem with the value i7 920 series. The Core i7 is a modular design with two main areas, the “core” and the “uncore”. Inside the chip, the actual execution cores that do the heavy lifting are treated as the “core.” The other parts, such as the integrated memory controller, L3 cache, and the Quick Path Interconnect are treated as the “uncore.” Since they’re separate entities, you can overclock the execution cores without overclocking the uncore to the same degree, in theory. This should let you hit higher speeds, since you wouldn’t be running the QPI, memory controller, or L3 quite as hard. In reality, however, it doesn’t work that way. Intel’s non-Extreme Edition Core i7 CPUs offer limited control over the uncore multiplier, so a boost to the base clock boosts the uncore speeds as well. Hence, I need to bump the QPI voltage while i increasing the QPI voltage to 1.275V to maintain stability for the QPI as well as set the DRAM frequency to DDR3 1600 in BIOS. My chip did 3.2ghz no sweat with stock vcore.<br /><br /></div><p align="center"><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/?action=view&current=i738turbo.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/th_i738turbo.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div align="justify"><br />The screenies above show another run in this morning, I was able to push to chip towards 3.8ghz with HT on with vcore of 1.35v, QPI voltage of 1.425v. Passed 30mins Prime95 Small FFT for rough stability test. </div><p align="center"><a href="http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/?action=view&current=i74ghzHToff.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/lichyetan/th_i74ghzHToff.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div align="justify"><br />The overclockability of i7 are quite suprising me, after reaching 3.8GhZ, i tried to OC further, with HT off, i manage to obtain 30+ mins small FFT prime95 stable with clockspeed of 4Ghz, with Vcore of 1.4v and VQPI of 1.54375v, its quite high to run 24/7 but its up to your call, u can try running this clockspeed and voltages settings 24/7 as i saw bunches of people leaving such settings for 24/7. The Core i7 920 definately worth the buck among the top end CPU market considering you can obtain 50% or more performance through overclocking.<br /></div><p align="justify">* Note that those OC are not yet run full stability test with Orthos Small FFT priority 10.<br />More benchmarks coming soon... stay tuned !!!<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-69626518213593887992009-02-23T14:04:00.017+08:002009-03-03T17:17:43.365+08:00i7 built...<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibTGh8U6Tsh-gCYT4CVcSHmzh3k73n5xsqNsavGw5APxtCir3pd-96bupAJz_dYg3CkdO5Ss0l1HT3HN3jT-Se6WIFkVKGkaC7QPXPkG44O03-j3GJu-svFUQtPQnflw_9qsqsaMtJVAM/s1600-h/ci7x_78.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305881259534580626" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 78px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 95px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibTGh8U6Tsh-gCYT4CVcSHmzh3k73n5xsqNsavGw5APxtCir3pd-96bupAJz_dYg3CkdO5Ss0l1HT3HN3jT-Se6WIFkVKGkaC7QPXPkG44O03-j3GJu-svFUQtPQnflw_9qsqsaMtJVAM/s320/ci7x_78.gif" border="0" /></a>After long months of funding and selling of my old rig, finally got a chance to built a new Intel Core i7 rig. The Core i7 are Intel's latest Quad-Core microproccesor based on Nahelem Microarchitecture. Unlike its predecessor the new i7 chip no longer rely on the ancient front-side bus that connect all of the current-gen intel CPU cores. Instead, cores will connect and communicate via a high speed interconnect, also noticable changes are outs of the needs of external memory controller, which Intel relied on gluing two dual cores chip together under the IHS to make its quad core cpu in the past, now they are placing all four cores on a single die.<br /></div><div align="justify">The most noticable changes and significant improvement for the i7 are the built in memory controller. Instead of memory access going from CPU through Motherboard Chipset, now with the IMC, it eliminated the needs of front side bus and external memory controller, the result is dramatically lower latency compare to the older Core 2 and P4 based system.<br /><br />The i7 CPU is designed to be very wide chip of capable of executing instructions with far more parallelism than previous designs. But to keep the chip feeding, the i7 feature an intergrated tripple channel DDR3 controller.<br />Another feature of the new Core i7, the Hyper-Threading. The Hyper-Threading partitioned the CPU's resources so that multiple threads can be executed simultaneosly.<br /><br />With an improved loop detector routine, the i7 will save power and boost performance by detecting larger loops and catching what the program asks for. Besides that Intel also polished its branch prediction algorithms, Branch predictions are those yes/no questions faced by the CPU, if the CPU guess wrongly, it has to drain its pipeline and restart the process. So with the improved algorithm, its offering incredible performance improvement. (Reduced delays in fetching data with the new IMC and Branch Predictions algorithm)<br /><br /><br />References from Maximum PC issue Dec 2008.<br /><br /><br />Enough of Crapping, lets show off some of my built.<br /><br />The spec of my built is:<br />Intel Core i7 920<br />Asus P6T<br />TeamXtreem DDR3 1600 CL8 x 3<br />GeCube ATi Radeon 4850<br />Corsair TX750W PSU<br />Lian Li PC-A6010 Casing<br /><br />Cooling Gears:<br />CPU:<br />D-Tek Fuzion v2, Swiftech MCR220QP, Swiftech MCP-650, Swiftech Micro Reservoir.<br />GPU:<br />Scythe Musasshi<br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYjB5F-iXFKNdmybqKR6IbN7rGSAStw_rBCw_ZVqVE7xfnUFCCZhr1zLxsE-fGNuNfx0Cbg6HFlzcfn8OO6KhFpYe7rForlhlWNp9c5qza11Xbn1MeDfROh1Nl2_NlfJ-j3ksOJCPO0U/s1600-h/DSC02099.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305878605118797810" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYjB5F-iXFKNdmybqKR6IbN7rGSAStw_rBCw_ZVqVE7xfnUFCCZhr1zLxsE-fGNuNfx0Cbg6HFlzcfn8OO6KhFpYe7rForlhlWNp9c5qza11Xbn1MeDfROh1Nl2_NlfJ-j3ksOJCPO0U/s320/DSC02099.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center">The overview of the new system.<br /></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEildHNjRc6hBd7HDbPsdhzdGUNGw1sSkJT0cmOny0yct8cSAoq5eTEiwH3ODwRFhMjU8zVmeZ0vbnQ392XuNj350K4dZPtVEFXqxTofVenYE8p5ZPOm28uo1i_nX0jEASqRrVTNAf7q2QM/s1600-h/DSC02109.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305879745893555234" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEildHNjRc6hBd7HDbPsdhzdGUNGw1sSkJT0cmOny0yct8cSAoq5eTEiwH3ODwRFhMjU8zVmeZ0vbnQ392XuNj350K4dZPtVEFXqxTofVenYE8p5ZPOm28uo1i_nX0jEASqRrVTNAf7q2QM/s320/DSC02109.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center">The internal view of the system.</p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW2akl1vc5ccy4e8jRyFefcNrGXxVN-VRDz-zTK9jkvQHTlcRpE0C2B4e3S6ok0QyWMBy-xh9f8LlOWVDxuqxMEhTbeOXJRq6JYrmtsMCdDtICgs6ek3KBT7_3x-8es1JRmdv9SdWuN6U/s1600-h/DSC02057.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305880884104479874" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW2akl1vc5ccy4e8jRyFefcNrGXxVN-VRDz-zTK9jkvQHTlcRpE0C2B4e3S6ok0QyWMBy-xh9f8LlOWVDxuqxMEhTbeOXJRq6JYrmtsMCdDtICgs6ek3KBT7_3x-8es1JRmdv9SdWuN6U/s320/DSC02057.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p align="center">The top view of the system. </p><div align="center"><strong>Cooling Concept of My Built</strong></div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305942548308265314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ3z02Y-Td9MH_Ecztio0xi-tBQ2etYahIZAx85Lt1mfwJijBH-Q9zhKXrv7jUPGwODNRRZ03COQQk1CnqsLT6IL7UYwEjE3LDMAEfd65TFFEWuiQZByRPVdvOq6hlq2K84lDmwKH-iNs/s320/DSC02109cool.JPG" border="0" />The case cooling are base on passive air cooling concept, which a case cooled by more intake fan then output fan. The blue arrows in the picture above represent cool air or cool liquid while the reds represent hot air or hot liquid.<br /><div align="center"></div><div align="left">In genaral, Liquid Cooling consist of several components, they are Waterblock, Pump, Reservoir or T-Line andRaditator. The waterblock are cooling plate that transfer heat into the loop from the Intergrated Heat Spreader of CPU or GPU. The pump are moving the liquid inside the loop and the Radiator transfer the heat from the loop into the air with the help of cooling fans. The reservoir and T-Line basically are for bleeding purpose. </div><div align="left"></div>So how a liquid cooling system works ? From reservoir or T-Line, the liquid sucked into the pump, then pumped into the waterblock and absorb the heat from the CPU or GPU or other components, depends on what block we are using, then the heat were released to the air around by the help of cooling fan by radiator then the cooled liquid move back into the Resevoir/T-Line.<br /><br /><div align="left"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div>Tan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785947625546703324.post-84310510410980614762009-02-23T13:43:00.001+08:002009-03-03T17:16:15.205+08:00Welcome...!!!Welcome to my blog... this is the first blog entry that i created... just wanna say Hi and Thanks for visting for any visitors...<br /><br />*sry for my bad english and grammer mistakes... LOLTan Li Chyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13443546059818667979noreply@blogger.com0