SFF ocing

[illicitsc]

is it safe to oc with a small form factor case? i get the feeling that cooling will be a problem and so would the psu

 

[dvdpiddy]

well if you using air cooling which i asume you are then no but if you replace the heatsink and get the zalman external water cooling kit drill a few holes in the case then yeah it should be fine

 

[MadModMike]

Drill a few holes? You want his case to look like it was shot up? lol that'd be sweet. Roll down to the ghetto and act all tough, "My comp got shotup, what now G? I'll bussa cap in yo face foo!" lol that made me laugh.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[dvdpiddy]

what i saw someone do it online it looked cool though the holes were just the air holes made bigger

 

[MadModMike]

I'm sayin' it'd look cool, if you just drilled holes in your case. It wouldn't do jack for cooling (unless as you said, they were fan holes) but it'd look pimp none the less. haha, somethin' to add to my Modding, drilling small holes in cases to simulate a badass gangsta comp, lol priceless.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[dvdpiddy]

ok man lol btw illicitcs what kind of sff case do you have anyway?

 

[illicitsc]

well i dont have a SFF yet... but i want one lol. and no i dont want holes in a 500 dollar cdn case...my oc right now is all on air and stock cooling, so im wondering if i'd be able to get similar oc results with a sff

 

[dvdpiddy]

ok man if you want get this one its the best for water coolin(look at the layout)

 

[illicitsc]

i noticed that sffs have psus tht range from 250w to 350w. can either of those support a 7800gtx?

also how the hell does shuttle advertise a sli sff with only a 350w psu??? thats insane

 

[Crashman]

SFF is crap, it's a bad idea. And the only reason you want one is because you think it looks cool. Like buying a Ferrari kit car based on a worn out Pinto.

 

[noblekitty]

I have gone through 4 SFF barebones from Shuttle and I have to say they have to be the best out there. The ICE cooling system from these barebones works wonder, considered the size of the case. I like the idea of being able to suck the CPU heat right out of the case instead of blowing it around inside and try to get it out with another fan.
For overclocking, these won't do extreme overclock due to the limited bios settings. But you can still do very decent OCing with them. Here are some of my experience:
- First barebone - no OC because no options being offer in bios ( was a pentium III barebone)
- Second - AMD athlon XP running at 183 mhz bus ( from 133) on barebone SN41G2
-Third- Opteron 148 running at 11X250 mhz bus on barebone SN95G5 V3 ( when I put this same cpu into a case at home I can get it up to 11X270 mhz. I think the limit of the SFF here is the ability to add voltage to the Nforce chipset in the bios)
-Fourth and current Pentium 4 3.06 mhz socket 478 at 23 X 153 mhz on SB61G2 V3 barebone( some may ask me why i step back from the Opteron system- it is because I need the hyperthreading for what I am doing right now with the SFF and I didn't want to spend more moneys on a dual cores Opteron)When i ran this same cpu on an Asus motherboard, I could only do 23 X 145 most.

I just sold my SN95G5 case on ebay and kept the Opteron: item #8768330041

In my last 2 systems I had a 200gb 7200rpm HDD, a DVD recoder, a WIFI card, and an ATI X850XT PE AGP in them and they both run perfectly. The PSU in these SFF are very well built and can handle more stuffs than you can imagine. Just do a search on google and see what video card others ran on these SFF. You will be surprised!

http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.aspx?catid=46&threadid=77707&enterthread=y

http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.cfm?catid=43&threadid=88614&enterthread=y

http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/1/11249.html

The ICE cooling system from Shuttle is genius. The only draw back on these systems is the noise of the fan if you are going to overclock on it.

 

[dvdpiddy]

Like buying a Ferrari kit car based on a worn out Pinto.

lol crashman lol :lol: