PCWormhole.com » phase change http://pcwormhole.com/blog A gateway to bleeding edge PC's and the innovators who build & bench them. Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:36:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 La Vida Loco ~ MaadDaawg! http://pcwormhole.com/blog/2009/10/06/la-vida-loco-maaddaawg/ http://pcwormhole.com/blog/2009/10/06/la-vida-loco-maaddaawg/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:31:14 +0000 MaadDaawg http://pcwormhole.com/blog/?p=481 [...]]]> Hot cars, HOT women, High performance rigs … the three things that make life worth living (although not necessarily in that order). Hot cars were years ago, hot women aren’t as numerous as I would prefer, but my rigs are EXTREMELY COOL!! I B MaadDawwg, and I live in a maad maad world where form and function meet to transform mere parts into a deadly design of overclockability and desire. Soon, my Maad laBORaTORY will be completed and god only knows where I shall wander next?

I’ve been building computers longer than I will ever admit to, but it wasn’t until about one year ago that I discovered the wonders and joys of OVERCLOCKING!!!! Quite by accident as it was….

While upgrading the graphics card in our “family” computer, I decided a good cleaning was in order. When I pulled the CPU HSF off, there was no CPU in the socket!!! AHHHHHH.. I screamed (not really, but the drama is good). Slowly I turned… the HSF over…. only to find the CPU stuck to the bottom of it, all it’s little pins bent from being pulled through the lock down device…. sob. FREAKED out, I was. Wife due home soon, she was. DEAD I was… soooooo, I scrambled to the nearest MicroCenter and put about $2300 on my AMEX and raced home to start assembling a new machine… maybe she wouldn’t notice?? hahahahaha

That rig turned out to be my first gaming rig. Based on a nVidia 780i, and Intel Q9450, 8Gigs of Corsair Dominator Ram, SLI XFX 9800GTX+, a huge HSF, and at least a dozen blue 120mm fans…. awesome dude! Also turned out to be my last blue themed rig?? (ps – I ended up buying a used Pentium and sticking it back into our “family” machine for her to use lol)

Got that bad boy up to around 3.6Ghz and my UT3 count was climbing. Then, Intel released the Core i7 processors and I was drawn like a moth to the flame. Consumed by the desire to build the ultimate rig I’ve gone where no (sane) man has gone before. From the infamous “Battlestar”, to the “Duelling Banchettos”. From the 775 socket to the socket 1366, from ASUS Rampage II Extreme to eVGA Classifieds, from water cooling to Phase Change I’ve evolved from a wannabe to a be ??huh?? 920D0, 965, 975, got one of each (only two rigs though???… note to self, build another rig)…I can see my NBOC brothers shaking their heads right now!

Soon the six core multithreaders will be out – 12 frickin virtual cores man!!!! I mean like WOW MAN!!! At least one of those unlocked versions WILL find its way to the socket in my Classified 759 mobo to be frozen into overclocking nirvana ….far f’n out man. Maybe one for my Classified 769 too ??? hmmmm… Anyway, that’s a brief look at the Maad me.

I’ll put up more on the rigs and my Maad theory behind their designs sometime soon (hints: the wc’d Banchetto boots at 4.6Ghz (with or w/o HT enabled) while the phased one boots at 4.8Ghz+.

Keep on clocking

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