New PC - PC-A70B mod.

Cold Storm · Jun 28, 2008

Sorry to do that double post thing... But WTF, have you tried to set up the computer with everything out of the case? Might be something to do with the case... I know you have done this before but, I think it might shed a light on something..

wtf8269 · Jun 29, 2008

Well apparently the CF issue is because X2 cards don't play well with DFI boards. So now the question is do I scrap the X2s and get some 4870's or do I scrap the mobo and get a different one?

DanishDevil · Jun 29, 2008

I'll tell you I'm having a bit of trouble selling my x2 cards. You'd probably have better luck with selling a mobo, but the 4000 series is tempting. I'd say get a couple of 4850s now from a local store with a loose return policy, and when the 4870x2s come out, grab one (or more) of them!

Cold Storm · Jun 29, 2008

See, the problem with going "Spider" and going "Quad Sli" is that they haven't worked out any driver issues... Even going "Tri-fire" and "Tri-sli" there is some type of problem... It mainly has to do with them not wanting to build special drivers for the products... And thus we have problems. A few have gotten "Spider" to work, but not many. It just how the Board treats ya... I'd say do some research, and find out what boards are going great. Then, if you want trade the board, and if not, go with the new cards...

InnocentCriminal · Jun 29, 2008

I'm with swapping out y'mobo tbh. It's only a matter of time before drivers for the X2's are mature and you could quite easily find another board that doesn't give you any shit. If y'can, sell the DFI and save for a Nehalem based board, if y'can't I'd look into a ASUS or a Gigabyte that have the same features the DFI you have, have.

wtf8269 · Jun 29, 2008

Well I'm leaning toward a new mobo right now. Does anybody have any suggestions? Something in the $200 or so range preferably. I'm doing some research right now and it seems that ASUS boards seem to do fine with X2's in CF; which makes sense since they make X2 cards themselves.

Cold Storm · Jun 30, 2008

If your looking for a good Asus board that is under $200 dollars I would suggest a PQ5-Pro Or even a Biostar T-Power.

wtf8269 · Jun 30, 2008

Well I want to stick with an X38 chipset. I'm leaning toward an ASUS Maximus Formula.

Cold Storm · Jun 30, 2008

wtf8269 said:
Well I want to stick with an X38 chipset. I'm leaning toward an ASUS Maximus Formula.

Just know that the board is very picky with ram. But, other then that its a great board. I have it flashed to the rampage Bios right now, and its pretty nice..

wtf8269 · Jun 30, 2008

I think t_ski is running the same ram as me with a Maximus Formula, and a quick search for reviews of my ram on newegg shows people mentioning running it with a Maximus Formula. I think we have a winner.

InnocentCriminal · Jun 30, 2008

w00t!

Buy it before returning your DFI so you can rule it out.

Cold Storm · Jun 30, 2008

From what I have seen so far with this board in all the forums is that the G Skill Ram is the best ram to have in the system.. Very stable ram

InnocentCriminal · Jun 30, 2008

ARRRRH!

I want a new computer so I can mod my Lian Li.

:cry:

Hope you can get this monster sorted so you can get on with the build, until then have some inspiration...

wtf8269 · Jun 30, 2008

Check this out guys. OC'd to 3.8ghz and ran 3dmark06 and kept GPU-Z going in the background on each of the four GPUs. Check this out, perfectly even load? Makes me wonder. Also my 3dm06 score was 18493. I'm going to keep OCing until I hit a wall then rund 3dm06 again, record the score, then take out a GPU and see what score I get. Cross your fingers in hopes that it was just a CPU bottleneck the whole time. Probably wasn't... but who knows.

wtf8269 · Jul 1, 2008

Stress testing @ 3.95ghz 1.23v ~54ºC right now. Have not benched at this speed, nor have I tried benching with one card yet either. Odds are what GPU-Z showed was just a fluke and crossfire isn't actually working.

Cold Storm · Jul 1, 2008

I don't know for ya bro... Might be the board, might not....

Hayder_Master · Aug 6, 2008

i give you 11/10

InnocentCriminal · Aug 6, 2008

wtf8269 said:
Stress testing @ 3.95ghz 1.23v ~54ºC right now. Have not benched at this speed, nor have I tried benching with one card yet either. Odds are what GPU-Z showed was just a fluke and crossfire isn't actually working.

What resolution are you running at, weird that it sounds but your monitor could be a bottleneck.

wtf8269 · Aug 6, 2008

Lol, man I thought people might have lost interest in this. That's why I haven't updated it. Well...

-I've got an ASUS P5E Deluxe now and Crossfire is running flawlessly.

-I'm still keeping 3.95ghz 24/7 clock. With that clock I get just shy of 20k in 3dm06. I feel like I can do better than that, but I'm not going to get obsessed over benchmark scores.

-I used to not be able to get more than 60fps in the HL2: Lost Coast benchmark regardless of my CPU clock. At stock clocks now with CF working properly I get 150fps, at 3.95ghz I get just over 190fps.

-I can boot into windows at 4.2ghz, but it is unstable. What would you guys consider a safe voltage/temp for an e8500? I'm still back in the Opteron 146 days where you didn't want to pass 60º or 1.6v.

The only things that are still bothering me about this machine:

-My heatsink rattles, I think because of it's clip-down mounts and the vibration of the fan. For now I've shoved some postit notes in between the heatsink and the upper PSU mount and it's been quiet. I think I might just end up making a better looking shim to solve the problem lol.

-I still haven't bought any knobs for my fan controller. This isn't that big of a deal. I've just been pretty lazy, and too busy actually being able to play games for the first time in over six months. (OMFG Bioshock is AWESOME!)

-One of my white cathodes burnt out already.

Cold Storm · Aug 6, 2008

Man, IC, I was thinking a bout this the other night.. lol. Glad to see it's going godo for ya man. :toast:

kyle2020 · Aug 24, 2008

You have to be one of the most unlucky people i have ever come across! dead motherboards, faulty PSU's and welding midgets in your case! :laugh:

Looks nice so far, killer setup and nice voltage on that 8500.

Should be a killer system once its all done and dusted!

wtf8269 · Aug 24, 2008

Yeah it's done now all except for needing some fan controller knobs. Well, the bottom cathode is burnt out like I mentioned, but I don't know that I'll bother with that anytime soon. I've just been too lazy to take pictures for you guys.

theJesus · Aug 26, 2008

I've seen it in person a lot, and I can verify that it looks at least as awesome as you expect, if not more.

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.

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	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	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

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System Name	MASTER
Processor	Core i7 3930k run at 4.4ghz
Motherboard	Asus Rampage IV extreme
Cooling	Corsair H100i
Memory	4x4G kingston hyperx beast 2400mhz
Video Card(s)	2X EVGA GTX680
Storage	2X Crusial M4 256g raid0, 1TbWD g, 2x500 WD B
Display(s)	Samsung 27' 1080P LED 3D monitior 2ms
Case	CoolerMaster Chosmos II
Audio Device(s)	Creative sound blaster X-FI Titanum champion,Creative speakers 7.1 T7900
Power Supply	Corsair 1200i, Logitch G500 Mouse, headset Corsair vengeance 1500
Software	Win7 64bit Ultimate
Benchmark Scores	3d mark 2011: testing

System Name	Desktop\|\| Virtual Host 0
Processor	Intel Core i5 2500-K @ 4.3ghz \|\| 2x Xeon L5630 (total 8 cores, 16 threads)
Motherboard	ASUS P8Z68-V \|\| Dell PowerEdge R710 (Intel 5520 chipset)
Cooling	Corsair Hydro H100 \|\| Stock hotplug fans and passive heatsinks
Memory	4x4gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 \|\| 12x4gb Hynix DDR3 1066 FB-DIMMs
Video Card(s)	MSI GTX 760 Gaming Twin Frozr 4GB OC \|\| Don't know, don't care
Storage	Hitachi 7K3000 2TB \|\| 6x300gb 15k rpm SAS internal hotswap, 12x3tb Seagate NAS drives in enclosure
Display(s)	ViewSonic VA2349S \|\| remote iDRAC KVM console
Case	Antec P280 \|\| Dell PowerEdge R710
Audio Device(s)	HRT MusicStreamer II+ and Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 \|\| Don't know, don't care
Power Supply	SeaSonic X650 Gold \|\| 2x870w hot-swappable
Mouse	Logitech G500 \|\| remote iDRAC KVM console
Keyboard	Logitech G510 \|\| remote iDRAC KVM console
Software	Win7 Ultimate x64 \|\| VMware vSphere 6.0 with vCenter Server 6.0
Benchmark Scores	Over 9000 on the scouter