My Copper Parhelia Modding

[WyWyWyWy]

This realy looks good! Have you tried some overclocking yet? And how much noise does the fans generate

They are 2500rpm fans, so not much noise...
As my PSU (set to the quietest already) and the HDDs are quite loud... I can't hear the fans spining at all.

did anyone try watercooling?

There is another guy as well as HotKola.
The other guy is a musician looking for a quiet running system I think.

Good thing Matrox don't who you really are, this thread may give away the fact that you played with your P.

Hehe Oops did I reveal my serial number in the pics??

might i suggest to anyone trying to get their heatsinks off.. to freeze it, like put it in the freezer for a few minutes rather then heating up the card to get it off. it makes it a lot easier too.

But the contact (solder) between the chip and the PCB is weaken too!! In fact, the guys over DriverHeaven killed a Parhelia and a 9700 with the freezing technique... (or something like that as I'm told by 3dfx).

I got 15% overclock stable. Any higher and it would either lock up the system and video quality(mpeg, divx, et-c) degrades.

You think BladeRunner would sell one to me??

[borat]

ive got that same heatsink sitting here but dont know how to attatch it. i know that you glued it but is it removable now or is that a permanent measure?(ie no chance to rma it.

[Enak]

I've water cooled my Parhelia!

I've got pictures of how i did it all etc, but just haven't got round to posting any thing yet!

[WyWyWyWy]

Experiment of today...
I got it completes benchmark at 242/650.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=536417

Still not the toppest yet... KHXP has a much faster CPU than I have.

I got it up to 246/655 but it won't complete benchmark.
Room temp is around 21C.

There is no way I can beat that volt modded Parhelia on 3DMark01

[K6-III]

Wow!!!

245mhz with no voltmod!!!

My parhelia used to do 240mhz, but now tops out at 236mhz...

[Lim]

Originally posted by Enak
I've water cooled my Parhelia!

I've got pictures of how i did it all etc, but just haven't got round to posting any thing yet!

Hi Enak,
Can you overclock to 240 by watercool.

[Enak]

What % is that?

[WyWyWyWy]

10 or 11%, depends on whether you have good (220) or bad (217) card.

Just done 243/655... but forgot to close Task Manager... grrr...

[Enak]

I can do 11%, but my machine locks at 12% starting the troll test.

[Enak]

Ok... got it to 13% stable... 14% is a no go though! Maybe I'll try again tomorrow. (might need a fan on the P memory.

[Skee^]

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy

You think BladeRunner would sell one to me??

Sell one what?

You should yust see the Project im working with Bladerunner now, thoe its secret for the moment

[WyWyWyWy]

Originally posted by Skee^
Sell one what?

You should yust see the Project im working with Bladerunner now, thoe its secret for the moment

But I have seen the pics you posted!
And that is really nice are you worried about the weight?

EDIT:
And your H2O PSU is so damn cool!!!

[Skee^]

hehe yeah i remember you did see it before i removed it =)
you should see it now then

Someway the H20 PSU snook its way to hardocp.com thoe its not gonna be on that site. Well Gotta admit it looks very good and its mine ALL mine

EDIT: that is only the tip of an iceberg. you should see the Cooling Rack i have with four Heatercores

[chmodman]

My Parhelia Mod

Hey, I modified my Parhelia too and thought I'd post the pic for those interested. Its not as fancy as some of the H2O stuff I've seen lately, but this didnt really cost me anything, since I used an old Thermaltake Slim Volcano 8 that I had lying around. This is a 66x72x42.5mm HSF unit and fits nicely, with enough room for memory heatsinks too. BTW, I found my stock HSF came off very easily, I just removed it right after powering down the computer while the chip was still toasty.

Hey WyWyWyWy did that crazy glue hold up over time? I used crazy glue in the corners and arctic alumina thernal adhesive in the center of the chip, and let it dry for 5 hours Do you think this will last?? I'm little nervous that it might fall off, lol

Thanks!