Live: Ultimate Overclocking PC Restoration & Water Cooling

[@MrHeHim]

Takes me back! in 2008 I had a Q9550 @3.625GHz running super quiet on a Tuniq Tower 120, the highest i got it running rock solid was 4.05GHz but with the fan and thermals getting higher than i felt comfortable around 80c overnight running prime 95. Paired it with 8GB 1150MHz CAS 5-5-5-11 ram and a HD 4850 that i volt-moded and i think ran at 850MHz with a 4 heat pipe CPU cooler i took out an HP business PC lol, the GPU was also whisper quiet at full load over hours of use. Also had a 120GB SandDisk Extreme wiff dat SATA 2 connection and a 1TB WD Black drive ;-) FYI, I lapped the CPU and heatsink to a mirror finish with Artic silver 5, which i needed just a pea size that still got mostly mushed out anyway because of how flat the two surfaces were against each other.

[@JuxZeil]

WOW!! This brings back some nostalgic memories.... I had the original Striker Extreme, and they had an LED lit I/O shield too, and if I remember correctly, it also had an LED readout for info too. I went for the EVGA 780i SLI(with the chipset fan add-on) after, and I still have that with the Q6600 G0 stepping(24/7@4.2GHz) and 4GB's of the Ballistix LED RAM and 2GB's of the SLI RAM sticks too. My mothers PC has the watercooled KFA2 GTX 470 that I was using with that mobo but I still have the Sparkle 8800GT that I was using with the Striker mobo though......🤔 Can't wait to see the bench scores. 👍

[@Alexanderkowaliuk-s7i]

Alexander kowaliuk here just watching every single video to start buying my own experience. Props to the person that sent you this computer even being a bit older its super cool. Has that machine pro look .

[@chungushimself3712]

Dude i gotta confess. Just about5-6 short months ago, i recieved my first pc. A custom pre-built from i buy power. (BB981 to be specific, i5 9400f {yea ik} 1650 super B365 chipset)Which to deviate slightly, you might be happy to hear that i recieved the system in awesome condition. Nothing was not connected, no glue anywhere in fact it honestly looked like a nicely cable managed custom build.BUT there was 8gbs of ram installed in one stick vs 2 four gb sitcks in dual channel. Anyway ive not only gotten comfortable enough to perform the average gamerboi upgrades, adding identical ram IN dual channel, new gpu, soon to be new cpu, ive also gotten comfortable to dissasemble my system purely for the opportunity to get better aquainted, Intermediate disassembly for thermal interface replacement, waterblock installations, and even some mild expert lvl situations, like de-lidding an i7 to replace the stock thermal interface with liquid metal for reduced thermals and data transfer acoustics (yes that is a rough quote from you lol). I wouldnt have been able to make a quick study of some of these things without your content dude. Thanks alot man, ill be moving on to locate that awesome shirt patrick is wearing in this vod, Thanks again for the guiding light Obi-Wan Luke

[@mafcarvalho]

Man, it made me cringe so hard seeing you guys completely lost in that BIOS settings. Unfortunately I didn't watch this video live. I could have "helped you" setup and overclock your system. I "upgraded" two months ago from my very own Striker II Extreme, Core 2 Quad Q9450, 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz, to a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU running on a Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite with 16 GB Kingston HyperX Predator 3600 CL16 memory. Can you imagine the feeling? I tried Cinebench r20 on my previous setup and it reached 163 points in multi-threaded mode. My Ryzen 3000 series easily reached 3830 points. That's the scale of my upgrade. 23.5x the score. Thanks GN for the great vids and the great work!

[@mafcarvalho]

@Patrick G I know that AVX isn't supported by the Q9450 and that was one of the main reasons I had to get rid of it. :-D Thanks for your reply.

[@TheRealWanderingMan]

It's amazing the change in design and performance in the 12 years that motherboard has existed.

[@rolux4853]

This motherboard looks so much better than everything that is sold today, I wish they would bring back those designs.. Today’s boards that try to look cool so 13 year olds will buy it are just ridiculous! Trying to look aggressive and slapping huge amounts of unnecessary plastic on it is ridiculous! I wish we could go back to visible copper and no non functional parts on our parts. Graphic cards are even more ridiculous, the most stupid ones are those that try to have a „diamond“ surface (or whatever they are trying to resemble) full of multicolored flashing leds. Oh and how I miss green and red pcbs.. ATI cards looked so amazing back then!

[@__dudewitagun__4607]

@1:34:58 That's a really nice older board. would love to set it up and play games from the era, as well as see what it can still manage to play today.

[@AlvaroLR]

Time to push the FSB as far as it can go! (plus the memory controller if the mobo allows to)

[@mafcarvalho]

Yes it does!

[@infernaldaedra]

I usually wouldn't OC the IMC unless you're only doing benchmarks

[@welchianachi7707]

IPA aka isopropyl alkohol can not be drink cause it is poisonous, thus can be sold without any extra additives.

[@robr4662]

Awesome video, love the nostalgic builds! Keep up the good work!

[@hadin101]

Omg i used to run two 560tis in SLI. They murdered Battlefield 3

[@NatetheGR8PC]

if Only nvidia and game devs pushed SLI still :( SLI was so amazing in some games. If you could get at least 50% performance of the other card it was awesome. RIP SLI :(

[@GarrySkipPerkins]

Neiva I had an EVGA superclocked 660ti, and everyone wanted me to SLI it. I upgraded to the 970 I have today, but both the 560ti and the 660ti were great cards for the money at that time

[@anthonyrennick6541]

Just came across this. I can tell you that Carrie is the office lady at my place of employment that the mail account is under. I'm surprise you didn't just use it as wall art. Its all from my first water cooled PC build. Every thing was bought used off Ebay so I didn't spend anywhere near retail.

[@shinokami007]

64:04 Màquina is a machine in spanish ...Makina is also the name of a popular kind of electronic music in spain ;)

[@jeffschwager1407]

Less is more when it comes to applying the thermal paste. You probably aren't messing anything up on the GPU because there were no discrete components very close to the GPU die, but on the chipset that drop was too much and it could be problematic IF the paste is conductive. You don't want the paste spreading beyond the top of the die. Carey Holzmann has a good technique for applying thermal paste (albeit it uses a latex glove) and he manually spreads the paste with his finger and he dabs it evenly across the entire surface. This technique uses less paste and results in more efficient heat transfer. The closer the heat sink is to the die, the more efficient the heat transfer.

[@Capzielios]

Is this a copy pasta?

[@__dudewitagun__4607]

IDK why ppl ask why ppl do this. Playing with old hardware, setting it up and testing it is fun. Seeing what its capable of etc....exactly it doesn't really have a point bc you could search online and find the info...BUT yes is there really a point to playing games either? both are something ppl find entertaining.. its about entertainment.

[@rolux4853]

Man I wish you would repeat something cool like this today!

[@madness727]

Overclocked this board a lot! Did 4.5GHz with a E8400 and even achieved a super high memory bandwidth with G.Skill RipJaws 1600MHz @ 2000 8-10-9-20 CL2, 500FSB Scored 14,962 GB/s Read, 10,639 Write, 11,206 Copy, 50.9ns Latency in AIDA64 MemoryBench Tripple SLI testing was fun too but insanely CPU bottlenecked

[@HardWhereHero]

cool to see me and the tech jesus own the same belt. You have baller style Steve. 1:47:39

[@dermharse9614]

The Tater Tot meme was great! 45:30

[@xthelord1668]

I run Q9550 at 3.51 ghz on asus p5kc with 4gb ddr3 ram paired with rx560,this thing still pushing well in 2019 only amount of ram is shit but other then that no issues

[@patrickharrison4421]

Great numbers and graphs on this show

[@ecarter2747]

1:39:43 Probably because Corsair was proud of just how far one of those keyboards would fly when it bugged out and you threw it across the room... :P

[@S.ASmith]

It's widely understood all ASUS motherboards require a blood sacrifice prior to or during assembly. I too bled for both a ROG STRIX B350-F Gaming & an ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard (yes...FX series, I had a 6300 and a 8350). My ancient ASUS X5DIJ (K50 series laptop) has had a blood letting too during the 5 or so repairs i've made to it

[@19971997gt]

You gotta toughen up those hands pretty boy lol. I feel you tho. Built many a system that tried to scar me, luckily my career in construction has got me covered. Maybe I'll drop some blood for the 3950X when she arrives!

[@zeroclockgaming]

windows 10 is pretty amazing with just switching rigs, I put my 2600k etc SSD in my laptop which is running a core 2 duo and it just worked

[@19971997gt]

Oh how I remember the days when changing mobos, fingers crossed, please don't make me reinstall, please don't make me reinstall, please... Fkkkk. Where's my damn windows XP CD. (Almost said DVD 🙄)

[@666Necropsy]

this is a great system to play around on. should be good teaching tool to overclock for younger people.

[@GodlikeIridium]

1:09:32 No! Bad camera guy^^ I get it from an OCD side point, but the copper side goes up^^

[@laowai2000]

What a treat. Wake up to Tech Jesus. Keep it up.

[@yakacm]

Wow SGI Depot, I bought an Octane II system of Ian about 15 years ago, I went to his house in Edinburgh to pick it up, nice guy. I hope he doesn't mind me saying but he was of the geek scale, his house was rammed with hardware, and systems waiting to go out. The STI gpu's are the granddaddy of all Nvidia cards, I remember Ian being a bit dismissive of the contemporary Nvidia cards, lol.

[@andrewryder3075]

Socket 775 was a great platform in its day! Also, the closest Intel ever came to AMD-like generational support - (between Conroe, Yorkfield and Wolfdale, Intel had 85 CPUs that were LGA775 compatible). Nice to see you implementing this classic architecture.

[@rangersmith4652]

In a few years, will my EK-cooled 6850K system with 980Ti cards in SLI be featured on someone's KZbin channel as a retro rebuild? It might be very 2015, but it still works very well.

[@yakacm]

I had, actually still have, a 560Ti somewhere, and it has the biggest cooling solution of any card I have ever had, pretty sure it was an Asus heat pipe thing but it is a triple wide card, those Fermi cards ran hot hot hot

[@bobbyhockey93]

do you think the cmos was still giving power to the board? I know i recently messed up ryzen master settings and it took me like 5 hours to figure out i needed to put a jumper on jbat to reset it. idk much really about electrical engineering outside of phy101 just know you don't want to bridge points to over amp or over volt resistors, or if some of the components on the board still hold a charge, like with a psu, for the distilled water on the board and the ultrasonic cleaner.

[@liquidgh6962]

Hi! why don't do a pressure test for the cooling system to make sure the pump output (plus tube size) mach the results? a dry run in different words?

[@teddy7746]

My friend Phillip seriously looks like he could be Patrick's brother, their facial hair even grows the same way.

[@faverodefavero]

LGA 775, 1366 and 2066 are THE BEST things Intel made. Quality.

[@hynekboruvka8346]

There *is* a point to playing video games. Strategic games, obviously, but there is some serious research proving improvements in brain by playing FPS games at least 30 minutes a day that stays for about 6 months. Pretty great actually.

[@JwFu]

1:56:05 U forgot to mention the use of tweezers

[@Smakheed]

Patrick, I wish you were old enough to remember when "SICK" meant "VOMIT", and this era was when the colour scheme on this board made you "SICK".

[@massgrave8x]

I wish you were young enough to not have a fuckin' minion as your profile photo

[@Smakheed]

@@LaurgoFTL speak up...

[@Tutankhamun1333]

The audio is only working in the center speaker in 5.1 channel surround sound so i have had to switch back to 2.1 for it to work on my audio setup.

[@C_C-]

Best 🥔 Ever

[@marekcelko580]

man, just put it in the shower, flush it clean totally, then dry it with a warm air. Much more effective than flossing.

[@duanecook4227]

Actually watching this on a Q9560 LGA775 system.

[@marekhorak4453]

Duane Cook lol yes my son runs my old asus rampage extreme ddr3 gskill 8ghz qx9650 3.6gh Samsung ssd 1tb in pcie sata3 adapter win 10 , gaming on it runs smooth with gtx1080 like his kids games and it’s not lagging or dropping at all basically all games of 2018 runs pretty good on it.....I didn’t try crysis 😂

[@Killadog1980]

perfect vid to fall asleep to XOXO

[@unixtreme]

Shit I had that exact same MOBO. I feel old.

[@smashallpots1428]

oh my god a 775 system i love this ive been really wanting to get a system that uses that board

[@bdhale34]

Just a quick minor correction here Steve, nvidia keeps their hardware in more up to date drivers but they do not optimize or add any support for them for very long usually only until the generation after the following launches the cards from two gen old get no love anymore. Just because the card is in drivers from 2019 doesn't mean it's had any updates at all since 2013, OS compatibility aside.

[@milossenzala]

Cmon ppl upvote the video!

[@lambda23]

I have a Q6600 running at 3.00GHz on a Abit AB9 Pro w/ 2x2GB RAM at stock. I tried getting the Q6600 at 3.15/3.20 but windows crashes, and BSoD when i put more than 1.4v in the core... so i might change the cooling (it's on air for the moment, zalmann old one lol), any ideas or advices ? PS: yeah i know this is not a forum but whatever i think there are a lot of good overclockers here and i love this community

[@voided76]

Maybe it's time to build a period correct PII 400 / voodoo banshee/3 for some quake 2/unreal/half life

[@ChrisGR93_TxS]

1:02:58 washer indeed fell on the floor

[@dynamic_4064]

Might need that hazmat suit now.

[@Adam-qs5ir]

So, this was an interesting stream. Has, for whatever reason, inspired me to find some old systems on eBay to disassemble. Oh, and before I forget...Tater Tots.

[@__dudewitagun__4607]

Gimme some of your tots! I want to build a retro-esq system too

[@mrdriver511]

Did u guys change camera quality is 1080p max

[@Jordan-oi4kj]

Should commission Jay to build a show piece out of it for the set.

[@19971997gt]

I wouldn't commit this gem to such a I'll fate. Respect Jay but he isn't the guy for that. This should go on the GN wall. A true piece of history.

[@React2Quick]

could someone tell me what that spray Steve used was to clean off the thermal paste off the GPU die?

[@19971997gt]

Most likely isopropyl alcohol spray. I have a can of that. Was sold as "car interior cleaner" by Audi. $35cad bottle of 99c alcohol

[@React2Quick]

@@19971997gt that's what i thought but was not quite sure. Thanks though

[@paulburkey2]

You should bios mods it to run a Xenon E5450

[@critsology]

I fell asleep watching youtube but how tf die i end up here

[@rk137066]

please revisit i7 980x or 990x in 2019. that would be fun.

[@ofoufoutos7110]

BY FAR THE MOST PROMOTED CHANNEL ON KZbin , NO WONDER WHY KZbin IS BORING !

[@Lewis1995]

I actually upgraded from a 4690k to a 4790k this week

[@enlightendbel]

I've seen pubes in keyboards and laptops, but that's my first time seeing pubes inside a waterblock.

[@LolJolk]

whats better overclocker this maximus extreme or a 790i ultra sli board?? I have mine running a q9550 at 4ghz but I never actually pushed above that (because its unstable)

[@mafcarvalho]

This is a Striker II Extreme with a 790i Ultra SLI chipset from nVidia.

[@LolJolk]

Thank you sorry I thought it was the maximus extreme it looks very similar

[@omg_RANCORS]

the gpu on the right had red stickers and the one on the left had red. that be yer difference gentalmen

[@alexisfougeres6549]

Classic is all the hype now i see

[@gudenau]

Looks like I can only see one third of the archive. :-(

[@ChaosHusky]

And yep, Windows can do that.. Even older Windows can do that if you enable the driver and services for other chipsets or move it to a similar or same brand chipset.. example iaStor is usually for Intel AHCI, or you can always have Legacy IDE mode running so you don't get the classic 7B boot device not found lol multiplier set wrong.. nobody noticed or said that CPU should be unlocked, too...

[@edsknife]

Joe and the Agitaters

[@Gunni1972]

that Mobo looks more steampunk than Asrocks Tai chi series lol

[@userdsp]

No one seems to have an idea what duralumin is...

[@ClellBiggs]

I only eat tater tots on National Tater Tot day.

[@paulburkey2]

you gota love that redicilously expencive old hardware when Asus still made the best gear too bad Windows 11 is killing the Core 2 era hardware, love my Asus Rampage 3 Gene looks and preforms great with a Xeon 6 core 12 thread solid overclocker

[@tom42069777]

I died laughing @18:35

[@19971997gt]

Hey Steve and co. Great stream! Loved the retro (old enough to be retro?). I really want to make a order for GN mouse, mod, and toolkit... There's one issue tho. Although I respect the blue and black. My 1000D build is hardcore into the red and black, any chance in the future for a red and black mouse pad and mod Matt? The 1000D is so fkn heavy I currently have cardboard under it so I can slide it into a rotation. Would love a mod mad there but the the blue gonna clash. What do you say bro? Limited edition red black theme? ✌️🇨🇦

[@ImOnMy116]

does anybody know what Steve had the motherboard mounted to/where you can buy one? that seemed really cool!

[@Coloneljesus]

Might be a Kingpin bench stand.

[@LemonChieff]

Wait… Who's the dude on the left? Never seen him before, or since. 😕

[@chadbrick67]

I'm a time traveller from September 2020. Wait for the RTX3080

[@kyler247]

I'm a time traveler from October 2020, these people were right, but you're gonna have to wait at the very least 6-8 months to get your hands on 3000 series GPUs, as Chinese crypto miners and bots have ensured that the likelihood of you feasibly buying one in the split second they are available is almost 0. Sorry guys!

[@chadbrick67]

@@kyler247 I'm a time traveller from December 2020 wait for the RTX 3080 20gb version.

[@SpuriousECG]

AMD drivers at the end of the stream? /s

[@Fly-Co2]

Shit ! ...I almost missed the LIVE

[@PsiQ]

hmmm. the aquacomputer gpu and cpu coolers back then were way cooler ..i mean nicer to look at ;-)

[@skoopsro7656]

Evgas live stream going down really fucked alot of people who had been watching since hour 1 of their 24hour live stream. The crash enabled people to be able to watch the playback and get the giveaway codes and fake their attendance for the entire stream. It sucked. But the OG who stayed are ballers for a fact.

[@paulburkey2]

but will it run Crysis

[@IND4GR0V3]

test this pc with a modern gpu plz

[@Nik-ff3tu]

You guys are making the assumption that people actually go to the dentist every 6 months...

[@chaython]

i like led in io so i can see my io; very useful

[@cartoonhead5819]

For some reason I never get sound on your live streams anymore?

[@Tech-NO-City]

Computer Jesus is my Nightquil

[@Havocnewf]

Could you use an older KB??!!?!..lol!

[@omg_RANCORS]

please use "shill" in yer codes more often.

[@marekhorak4453]

Cool rig lol. It brings memory from back time on my asus rampage extreme mobo....

[@babyUFO.]

why nobody uses actual coolant instead of just crappy tapwater is beyond me

[@barral69]

Coulda put a frozen tater-tot in the res. ;p

[@MatthewJamesMJ]

The dude abides..

[@T_Perkins]

Overclocked my q6600 to just u der 3ghz per core on stock cooler...

[@19971997gt]

Holy sh*t stock Intel cooler? Lucky it didn't overheat and form a micro black hole.

[@T_Perkins]

This build steve and Patrick did is pretty much what I was going to do.. 10/11 years ago. I still have my striker extreme 2, all peripherals, box, manual etc. I was surprised, I swear by buying an expensive/decent mobo. It is the heart of a PC build imo. If you don't have a decent ticker, the other bits wont work as well It still turns on and has the correct date and time on it - still have the build up together. I got it to 2.93ghz, but it ran rather hot, it was more stable around 2.8(2.86.. iirc) and ran fine, no problems. Got a little uplift in performance but I was using a gt8500 and frankly.. it was a rubbish card and was a stop gap. But, the full build never materialised :( Tell you what, I wish the strikers watercooled vrm/southbridge heatpipe could appear on an x570 board

[@T_Perkins]

Have a 2.8ghz p4 with a gtx with 256mb gddr3.. I cant remember the model number, wanna say 2760, but that's probably wrong, but that was just an hp consumer PC The more weird one is the dos one in the loft(ran dos originally, not sure if it has 98 or xp on it). I remember my dad building it when I was three and I learnt how to enter dos command lines at the age of 3/4... I remember when we got a 8x CD drive with write capability with 95... in 98 that was a holy grail- that I remember was definitely a Pentium 266 processor and I remember having to do some weird stuff with the native dos to get some games to work correctly (especially ones made for dos) as they were at this point sometimes still bound to cpu speed and ram.. so if your cpu was faster than the spec it would run at light speed and be unplayable, Haha Look at me rambling.. probably still have some dos 40mb hard drives lying around somewhere.. haha

[@ChaosHusky]

Got the keyboard and mouse the wrong way around? Eyyyy i've been around hardware too long... lol (Edit: scratch that, almost forgot some high end boards even back then started doing a single PS/2 port haha..)

[@FlanK3rCZ]

Lol, Nihu, what are u doing there?🙂

[@ShroudedWolf51]

Frankly, Ron White and the rest of those Foxworthy lads are about as much to comedy as standing around at the mic blowing raspberries is to killing it on stand-up night. So, only vaguely related to "comedy".

[@jp-ul3iv]

Tater tots.

[@fafdus]

i wish being honest was the standard and people realized the actual power we have and i dont think million dollar plus companies should be able to right shit like computer hardware off as business expense...............

[@unijabnx2000]

this should be longer than 57 mins .... right??

[@ColtaineCrows]

It's 3 hours and some minutes long.

[@-tf-boforsho4008]

screw on bottom