New PC - PC-A70B mod.

DanishDevil · Jun 11, 2008

Remember, investment in cooling is an investment in hardware if you're an overclocker or are likely to keep your parts for a long time

wtf8269 · Jun 11, 2008

Agreed 100%, but for now I'm sticking with high-end air. If I went water I'd have to go all the way with all four GPUs, CPU, and north bridge. And a setup that could cool all that I estimate easily being $400-$500 or even more. I think a good WC setup will be the next major investment in this system sometime during my college years.

commandercup · Jun 12, 2008

you wouldn't have to go all the way?

just cool the CPU, then when you have funds, add a rad and the chipset blocks... or just buy a really large rad at the start etc.

but dang... that is looking beautiful

Cold Storm · Jun 12, 2008

commandercup said:
you wouldn't have to go all the way?

just cool the CPU, then when you have funds, add a rad and the chipset blocks... or just buy a really large rad at the start etc.

but dang... that is looking beautiful

That is true... I'm going to start getting everything ready for just a CPU block and so forth... The GPU is what kills in most water set-ups... But, here is what I look at. Your going to be putting more stress onto your CPU then anything else. So, its better to get the CPU set-up and then start building there..

wtf8269 · Jun 12, 2008

Well I'm finishing up the last bits of my wiring before my PSU comes in today. I've decided to not run a power LED because A: It'll be blatantly obvious that my PC is on, B: I'm too lazy to solder a red LED in place of the blue one, and C: I lost one of the two little clips that hold the LEDs into the case so I can only have one in there anyway. :laugh:

I'll post some pictures here shortly. I'm really happy with the way the wiring is turning out so far.

intel igent · Jun 12, 2008

nice!

can't wait see it completed and some more pix :rockout:

wtf8269 · Jun 12, 2008

Basically finished with the wiring. I may alter a few things, but I'm pretty happy with everything.

So do you guys like where I put my switch for my cold cathodes? Yeah, me too.

Well I was taking these pictures when all of a sudden this thing showed up...

intel igent · Jun 12, 2008

great work with the wires so far! llooking VERY clean

lovin the placement of the cathode switch :rockout:

hurry up and get that PSU in there

wtf8269 · Jun 12, 2008

Well she's up and running and powering up normally... but... the PSU is making an awkward noise. Almost sounds like electricity arching. I would almost suspect bad fan bearings, but it seems almost too sporadic for that to be the case. Actually just stopped the fan momentarily and it's not that. Oh noes not another RMA....

wtf8269 · Jun 12, 2008

Just requested an RMA... Taking the PSU back out of the tower now... :ohwell:

intel igent · Jun 13, 2008

man your'e really having bad luck with these PSU's :shadedshu

DanishDevil · Jun 13, 2008

If I get out of the computer game, will a 750W be enough? Probably not...

wtf8269 · Jun 17, 2008

Small update the Silverstone shipped out last Friday and will be arriving Thursday or so. Hopefully I'll have a running PC by the end of next week. My new sound card (HT Omega Striker) came in today. Also I had ordered some cabling from Performance-PCs; a single 4 pin molex to dual 3.5" power connectors splitter as well as a 4 pin molex extender. This will allow me to run power to the two 3.5" connectors on my mobo cleanly.

intel igent · Jun 17, 2008

keep those batteries on charge

wtf8269 · Jun 25, 2008

Interesting... my power switch seems to be getting grounded out somewhere in the case. So when I first powered up the system with the new PSU it turned on and then turned right back off. Gave me quite a scare I think you could imagine. :laugh:

Oh well I diagnose that problem further later on. For now I just turned it off by jumping it with a screwdriver.

Cold Storm · Jun 25, 2008

What is the problem with you and PSU's! lol... I hope you can get that fixed fast and finished with! :toast:

wtf8269 · Jun 25, 2008

Lol yeah it wasn't an issue, I just moved the wire and it's fine now. I ran 3dmark06 and got about 14,000. Seems to me Crossfire probably isn't working.

Edit: Reinstalled CCC & drivers and ran 3dm06 again and got 14,700. Unchecked crossfire in CCC and ran 3dm06 again and got 14,200. So I'm thinking crossfire isn't working...

wtf8269 · Jun 26, 2008

Well as a small update: System keeps locking up every few hours at random, Crossfire is almost definitely not working and I can't figure out why, I'm not happy with my new sound card, both CS:S and HL2DM crash whenever I try to load them, I can't seem to set 5.1 as my speaker setting on any of my Valve games, and I'm still hearing an arching noise while in games. I'm thinking it might be my second video card.

Cold Storm · Jun 26, 2008

Whats your sound card??? Because I don't know of any HT Omega Striker sound card... That one I don't know anything of.. or even if I'm right on saying its that...

wtf8269 · Jun 26, 2008

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829271001&Tpk=ht+omega+striker

I got it, because it was the best rated sound card on newegg and because of it's available ports.

I think I may have the crashing issue figured out. I think it was because I had the ram timings and voltages set to auto. So I just plugged in 5-5-5-15 2.1v and we'll see how it holds up. I took one GPU out and now I'm going to see if I get the same benchmarks as before.

I still haven't the slightest clue as to why I can't set my sound settings to 5.1 in any of my Valve games though.

wtf8269 · Jun 26, 2008

Well I still got crashes even after plugging in my RAM timings. So I tried putting my PC Power & Cooling PSU (which also came in yesterday). The arching noise still seems to be there, coming from the GPU (or I suppose it could be somewhere on the mobo in that same area?) it did not seem as prominent though. This could have just been because the PCP&C is so fracking loud. One thing is that I'm not getting any crashes with the PCP&C. So who knows... hopefully I can get this all settled soon.

Edit: Just crashed with the PCP&C.

Cold Storm · Jun 26, 2008

Didn't you Rma that board itself? If so... What haven't you RMA'd with that set up...
Also, thanks for the link. That sound card is pretty sweet. I like the fact that it has the front audio ports.... I don't know what to think... Lol...

InnocentCriminal · Jun 27, 2008

Sorry t'hear you're getting shitty issues. You should continue testing with other components (if possible) check for a BIOS update (for your motherboard) might be worth a shot in the mouth if there is one.

What motherboard are you using, I'll have a fish about t'see if I can find any similar problems.

wtf8269 · Jun 28, 2008

All my system specs are in the drop down menu.. This shit is really starting to fucking piss me off. Especially the arching noise. It's like a fucking midget is inside my case welding shit.

Cold Storm · Jun 28, 2008

Wow... Its not liking one another... Hmmmm

System Name	Big Devil
Processor	Intel Core i5-2500K
Motherboard	ECS P67H2-A2
Cooling	XSPC Rasa \| Black Ice GT Stealth 240 \| XSPC X2O 750 \| 2x ACF12PWM \| PrimoChill White 7/16"
Memory	2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Arctic White 1600MHz CL9
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 780 ACX SC
Storage	Intel 520 Series 180GB + WD 1TB Blue
Display(s)	HP ZR30W 30" 2650x1600 IPS
Case	Corsair 600T SE
Audio Device(s)	Xonar Essence STX \| Sennheisser PC350 "Hero" Modded \| Corsair SP2500
Power Supply	ABS SL 1050W (Enermax Revolution Rebadge)
Software	Windows 8.1 x64 Pro w/ Media Center
Benchmark Scores	Ducky Year of the Snake w/ Cherry MX Browns & Year of the Tiger PBT Keycaps \| Razer Deathadder Black

System Name	Onus
Processor	E8500 @ 3.95ghz ~1.25v
Motherboard	ASUS P5E Deluxe
Cooling	Scythe Orochi cpu, 5x 120mm Zalman red LED case fans, stock GPU coolers
Memory	8gb (4x2gb) G.Skill PC8000 5-5-5-15
Video Card(s)	2x ASUS 3870x2s
Storage	4x160gb RAID 0 Main, 2x 500gb RAID 0 media storage.
Display(s)	LG W2600H
Case	Lian Li PC-A70B, painted black and other modded aspects :)
Audio Device(s)	HT Omega Striker. Klipsch RF-3II fronts, Yamaha NS-A222 rears, Klipsch RC-3II center, Klipsch SUB12
Power Supply	Corsair CMPSU-750TX
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate x64, lots of games, photoshop n stuff.

Processor	Intel Pentium E2200
Motherboard	EVGA 680i SLI T1
Memory	2GB Patriot Memory
Video Card(s)	PNY 9600 GT 512MB
Storage	250GB Maxtor
Display(s)	HP w19
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Power Supply	OCZ StealthXStream 600W
Software	Windows XP Media Center

System Name	Haro
Processor	AMD 1700x
Motherboard	AsRork x370 Taichi
Cooling	EK Custom Loop - CPU only
Memory	32gb G-Skill Trident Z
Video Card(s)	EVGA 1080 Superclock 2
Storage	Too Many
Display(s)	Viewsonic VX2450WM-LED 24" & LG 32 IPS
Case	Cooler Master Cosmos II
Power Supply	Cooler Master V1000
Mouse	SteelSeries Rival 500
Software	Win10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	i5 750 4.62ghz pi runs // Evga FTW p55

System Name	Onus
Processor	E8500 @ 3.95ghz ~1.25v
Motherboard	ASUS P5E Deluxe
Cooling	Scythe Orochi cpu, 5x 120mm Zalman red LED case fans, stock GPU coolers
Memory	8gb (4x2gb) G.Skill PC8000 5-5-5-15
Video Card(s)	2x ASUS 3870x2s
Storage	4x160gb RAID 0 Main, 2x 500gb RAID 0 media storage.
Display(s)	LG W2600H
Case	Lian Li PC-A70B, painted black and other modded aspects :)
Audio Device(s)	HT Omega Striker. Klipsch RF-3II fronts, Yamaha NS-A222 rears, Klipsch RC-3II center, Klipsch SUB12
Power Supply	Corsair CMPSU-750TX
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate x64, lots of games, photoshop n stuff.

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System Name	old school / new school
Processor	3.0e C0 @ 3.6 / e5200
Motherboard	p4p800e-dlx / p5q-DLX
Cooling	custom water see sig / air
Memory	2x1g oczPC4000EbPl / 2x2g ocz2rpr1066
Video Card(s)	3850AGP / 4890vaporX
Storage	36g raptor+120g wd / wd 1001fals 1tb
Display(s)	BenQ / sharpAQUOS LC-37D64U
Case	modded antec plusview / generic
Audio Device(s)	audigy 2zs / ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3
Power Supply	fan/cable modded powerstream 520 / OCZ 700mxsp
Software	Xp pro SP2 / VISTA ultimate OEM

System Name	BeeR 6
Processor	Intel Core i7 3770K*
Motherboard	ASUS Maximus V Gene (1155/Z77)
Cooling	Corsair H100i
Memory	16GB Samsung Green 1600MHz DDR3**
Video Card(s)	4GB MSI Gaming X RX480
Storage	256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Display(s)	27" Samsung C27F591FDU
Case	Fractal Design Arc Mini
Power Supply	Corsair HX750W
Software	64bit Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	@ 4.6GHz *@ 2133MHz