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post #1 of 20
11/24/08 at 12:19am
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I'm working on a new water cooled rig in Arizona, and I'll post that up once I get further along, but thought I'd share a recent diversion. Some of you may remember my first adventure in water:




This machine stayed at our house in Florida when we unexpectedly moved to Arizona in January. Back in Florida for the Holidays and decided to do an upgrade. Having a liquid cooled machine at a house I only get to every few months is not practical, so decided to stick with air until I move back here permanently.


Some fun stuff arrived:




Here she is, my new plain Jane setup. The X58 and i7 920 build was a breeze, especially compared to my early nightmares with my Rampage Extreme X48 board. Definitely have to fill those bays. My MM case looks so empty now!




And, this will make you all cringe ... some of you may have never seen a stock Intel HSF installed It will be replaced, but works ok for now.



Components:

Mountain Mods Case
ASUS P6T Deluxe X58 mb
i7 920 2.66 GHz Quad
G.Skill 3 x 2 GB 1600MHz RAM
Corsair 1000W PSU
ATI Radeon 4870X2
Vista 64-bit
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post #2 of 20
11/24/08 at 12:49am
ncie shazza omg must be nice to have the money for this kind of stuff damn i got to stop spending! have fun with that rig!!! you do any gaming?
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post #3 of 20
11/24/08 at 1:21am
Wow, very nice. Florida in Nov must be a bitch...



Zoid
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post #4 of 20
11/24/08 at 1:24am
Hey Shazza. Are you seeing any real benefit to the quad cores?
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post #5 of 20
11/24/08 at 1:31am
Also what CPU water block you going with?
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post #6 of 20
11/24/08 at 2:11am
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No i7 build for me in the near future ... this one has been such a pain, I'm just going to try to finish it up and enjoy it.
Hmmmm, that was damn quick . Lookin good shazza, you beat me to it . Look forward to see what you go with for cooling. Dang thangs can get warm once you start to oc a bit.


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Wow, very nice. Florida in Nov must be a bitch...



Zoid
Know dat gots to be right
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post #7 of 20
11/24/08 at 2:15am
Pool boy...hold it! I'm pool boy you be attic boy.



Zoid
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post #8 of 20
11/24/08 at 2:18am
I'd be more than happy to run the skimmer from time to time . Pool, attic, you know either sounds fine.
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post #9 of 20
11/24/08 at 2:19am
...and she signs out. You didit!!!
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post #10 of 20
11/24/08 at 2:25am
Wasn't me . I didn't do it!
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post #11 of 20
11/24/08 at 3:18am
Nicely done. =)
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post #12 of 20
11/24/08 at 9:25am
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Originally Posted by galahad05 View Post
Hey Shazza. Are you seeing any real benefit to the quad cores?
So far, quad helps in synthetic benchmarks, but for gaming I don't really see an advantage. I have an E8600 in my other machine that runs everything I do just fine. There are several very good articles over at Hard[OCP] that review the i7 and actually show there is little benefit in gaming once you start using higher resolutions, as most games are GPU-bound. Amazingly, the 920 is not that much more expensive than the E8600 was.

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Also what CPU water block you going with?
This system will be staying on air for the next year or so ... I'll get an aftermarket Heatsink for the 1366 socket.

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Hmmmm, that was damn quick . Lookin good shazza, you beat me to it . Look forward to see what you go with for cooling. Dang thangs can get warm once you start to oc a bit...
I'll just go for a regular HSF ... there are several out now for the 1366 ... but the Noctua is not in stock anywhere, and the TRUE is heavier than I want to use for this vertical setup. May also go with the Thermaltake V1 which will do an adequate, if not great job. It's running about 40 degrees with the stock cooler, up to 50-55 when I stress it a bit. Not doing any o'cing until I sort out the cooling.


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...and she signs out. You didit!!!
Nah, just posted this before falling asleep. You know I got that pool room all ready for ya.


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Nicely done. =)
Thanks, GbQ.
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post #13 of 20
11/24/08 at 5:46pm
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Originally Posted by shazza View Post
I'll just go for a regular HSF ... there are several out now for the 1366 ... but the Noctua is not in stock anywhere, and the TRUE is heavier than I want to use for this vertical setup. May also go with the Thermaltake V1 which will do an adequate, if not great job. It's running about 40 degrees with the stock cooler, up to 50-55 when I stress it a bit. Not doing any o'cing until I sort out the cooling.
Yeah I went for the Noctua for now (only thing I'm waiting for this week). It is in stock somewhere (7 left atm) , has imho a better mounting system, and for the price comes with two fans that are not bad. So I didn't wait for the TRUE with it's few degree better cooling.
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post #14 of 20
11/24/08 at 7:50pm
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I saw them in stock at a very cold place ... but they don't specifically mention the 1366 mount, so I didn't want to get one, then have to wait for the mounting mechanism. I understand Noctua will provide it ...
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post #15 of 20
11/25/08 at 7:31pm
Yeah it's the model NH-U12P SE1366. Still a few in stock at the place I mentioned in the pm. Seems turkey day will slow mine down, get here Friday .
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post #16 of 20
11/27/08 at 7:03pm
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Thanks hulioni ... ordered one, we'll see if it gets here okay.

Ran into my first snag today. Noticed Vista and the BIOS were showing only 4.0 GB out of the 6.0 GB I had installed - which was working fine for a few days.

Tried exchanging mem sticks, different configs, etc., but looks like DIMM slots A1 and A2 are borked. Other than that, it's working fine. I guess I should RMA it to Newegg for an easy replacement ... but no one will be here for the return shipment, so have to figure that one out.
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post #17 of 20
12/13/08 at 12:45pm
Hey Shazza - you having problems with the Radeon and Vista 64bit? - There was a Newegg review bitching about it!

Also, you got OC memory where you can't load up to 12gb. I got OCZ Technology 10666 memory so I can max to 12 gb of memory because it's not XMP.
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post #18 of 20
12/13/08 at 3:37pm
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Hey Shazza - you having problems with the Radeon and Vista 64bit? - There was a Newegg review bitching about it!

Also, you got OC memory where you can't load up to 12gb. I got OCZ Technology 1333 memory so I can maz to 12 gb of memory because it's not XMP.
No problems at all with the 4870X2 and Vista 64-bit. Runs just fine & dandy.

... G.Skill memory. I had it running fine with 9 GB ( had a 3x1GB kit before the 3 x 2GB kits came in stock).

The system is dismantled at the moment. I was going to RMA the board because it's now only showing 4 GB of mem when I've got 6GB in ( or 2 GB of 3 BG, or 6 GB of 9GB). There have been at least half a dozen people reporting the same issue ... so I'm going to wait to RMA and see if it's a BIOS or memory problem. Otherwise, system runs flawlessly (or did, before I took it apart).
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post #19 of 20
12/13/08 at 7:48pm
I went cheap with a Geoforce 260 core 216 Black Edition but it almost as fast as a 280, then it was 279 + Far Cry 2 + $30 rebate + 3dmark Vantage Professional free. I mainly was attracted to Nvidia's Physixcs and that they said it was better for video processing. Then this card is not a megawatt / megapower VC too. It's happy on my Antec Truepower 650 Trio.

It smokes Crysis Warhead on 1900 x 1200, but how do I find my framerate in this?

I was cheap because I'm unemployed now.
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post #20 of 20
12/13/08 at 9:21pm
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Inspired ... to find your framerate in games without built-in benchmarks, just download an app called "Fraps" ...

fraps
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