Your PC ATM

[Athlonite]

Originally Posted by ChaoticAtmosphere

As far as SLI is concerned for these monstrosities I have designed and will implement and market PCIe extension cords for the facility of linking these cards in SLI.

I doubt you could get two in a case in SLI

Jokes. That is overkill on cooling and obtrusively ugly.

ah yeah fuglyest thing I've ever seen but strangely I still find myself wanting one

EDIT: I will also design and market a "video card case" to hold these cards after installing extensions off the MoBo and even have holes for watercooling in case we got some crazy enthusiast who wants to watercool them!

you build it and I'll market it well be rich I tells ya RICH

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

[Arrakis+9]

All finished

[Radical_Edward]

Love the beast PC hidden in a cheap small case thing you have going on there.

Is that sleeving on your tubing? Because it looks great.

[Arrakis+9]

Ya it is, its the PPC's tight weave sleeving

[Soup]

Originally Posted by Radical_Edward

Love the beast PC hidden in a cheap small case thing you have going on there.

Agreed, very slick.

[MxPhenom 216]

[erocker]

Originally Posted by nvidiaintelftw

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...9/DSCN1539.jpg

Dude...






You left your flashlight on, I think the batteries are running low.

[MxPhenom 216]

Originally Posted by erocker

Dude...






You left your flashlight on, I think the batteries are running low.

Dude...

I know!

[badtaylorx]

Originally Posted by 20mmrain

These maybe the options I am referring too. If that is the case then I misspoke. Either way I was not trying to get too technical with it. I was listing out my reasons for choosing the way I did.
The buddy I refer to is actually coming over tomorrow so that we may update his BIOS for better stability when overclocking. I will review my findings then. If I am wrong I will come back here and admit it.
But until then I stand by my thoughts. As the saying goes "Your first choice is usually the right choice" and my first choice tells me I remember something bigger then fan controls.

Do you own both boards? While I don't I own the Sniper and have actually used the UD5.

As for the PLX Bridge chip..... show me concert proof they lower performance enough to even worry about. The PLX/NF200 issues you speak of are not even enough to be noticed by benchmarks let alone a human brain.
I would still put the PLX speed against cards going x8/x8 through the CPU. That there actually is performance loss on. (Even if it's just a little a few hundred points)




This is coming who has been comparing his benchmarks to people who are running X79 systems W/O the PLX chip.
I would also like to add the direct comparison to GTX 680 SLI vs the GTX 690 (Which uses a PLX chip) and is only about 5% slower because of the clocks.... not the PLX chip

As I stated by my original post....I said the Z77-UD5 is a great solid board that would do for most everyone. I also said I was considering that board before any other until the sniper released.
But as you stated the Gigabyte Sniper 3 is better in a good amount of ways.

Yikes!!! i just thought the ud5 would match better

[cadaveca]

Originally Posted by badtaylorx

Yikes!!! i just thought the ud5 would match better

IF it did, there'd be no reason for them to charge $60 extra for the G1.Sniper 3.

[badtaylorx]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

IF it did, there'd be no reason for them to charge $60 extra for the G1.Sniper 3.

sorry...i meant athletically

[cadaveca]

Originally Posted by badtaylorx

sorry...i meant athletically

I don't agree that that is true. They are virtually equal in overclocking ability, but of course, I've already posted that.


See, the thing is, I didn't pay for my boards...they were given to me by Gigabyte. So I don't care which is better... What I do care about, however, is cooling, and those PLX chips put out some heat, let me tell ya. The Z77 PCH does as well, but that's besides the point. The VRM coolers are basically keeping the PCH and PLX chip cool...because the MOSFETs, under the maybe 125 W that Ivybridge pulls when overclocked, barely get hot.

I dunno...20mmrain, he's got some stuff confused...he says he doesn't own the Sniper 3...but it's in his pics of his rig. So he's either posting pics of other people's rigs and saying they are his, or made a mistake. I think he just made a mistake, like he did about the third slot on the UD5H.

IF a board is poopy, believe me, I'd tell ya, since that's kinda my job here

[Lionheart]

Got bored & took some pic's of my rig, plus I haven't done it in awhile

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

World Domination Headquarters!

[TacoTown]

Originally Posted by ChaoticAtmosphere

World Domination Headquarters!


http://img.techpowerup.org/120629/001.jpg

hahahaha, is your desk on beer cases?

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

Originally Posted by Kevinheraiz

hahahaha, is your desk on beer cases?

It's actually a coffee table on beer cases!

[Random Murderer]

Originally Posted by ChaoticAtmosphere

It's actually a coffee table on beer cases!

So much win...
Had you bought a desk from Ikea, you would have had to deal with a bunch of hex-head screws and assembling it yourself... Instead you grabbed a coffee table and drank your way to assembly!

[trickson]

I redid my water loop. What do you think? I know I really need to paint this case.

[Random Murderer]

Originally Posted by trickson

I redid my water loop. What do you think? I know I really need to paint this case.

The nylon-braided tubing is a nice touch, you don't see that often.
Aside from a paint job, you could use a little more uniformity when it comes to color. Otherwise, it looks great!

[trickson]

Originally Posted by Random Murderer

The nylon-braided tubing is a nice touch, you don't see that often.
Aside from a paint job, you could use a little more uniformity when it comes to color. Otherwise, it looks great!

Yeah I know it needs a paint job some day soon I will be doing just that.

[Soup]

Originally Posted by trickson

I know I really need to paint this case.

I kinda like how the case looks like it wheeled its way through a battlefield.

[Lionheart]

Originally Posted by trickson

I redid my water loop. What do you think? I know I really need to paint this case.

Every time I read one of your comments, I always put Carl's voice on in my head for some reason

[trickson]

Originally Posted by Lionheart

Every time I read one of your comments, I always put Carl's voice on in my head for some reason

[t_ski]

Originally Posted by trickson

I redid my water loop. What do you think? I know I really need to paint this case.

Originally Posted by Soup

I kinda like how the case looks like it wheeled its way through a battlefield.

I was thinking it looked like it rolled off a moving truck

Cable management is nice, just needs paint and a unifying color/theme