intel core i7 Owners Club

[peche]

Nice!
I ran a quick cpuz bench.... surprised at how competitive 1156 i7 still is @ stock clocks, even with several generations down the line, at least with that test suite...
Currently got it installed under win10 on GA-P55A-UD6, whole setup been in hibernation some 5 yrs already. Still in excellent condition. It's involved with Memtestx86 ram testing atm.

they still brave enough, as i said before, my everyday quadcore is an i7 870, on intel board, SSD, R9 380, Win10 and this babe does work hard and i play harder on it,

My best soldier? lol... for my current gaming needs atm, AMD is where I am.
fanboi TRAITOR...

i do respect AMD lovers, i dont like AMD processors, but their video cards are decent enough, some of the older ones were brave soldiers, some still standing for several users,

Regards,

 

[cucker tarlson]

This is pretty sufficient for the foreseeable future, next upgrade is probably not an i7 but a highly clocked i5 with fast DDR4 though. 8600K is faster overall when you use fast memory but I'd like to have 32GB in my next machine, and this is going to cost me an arm and a leg at current prices.

 

[peche]

This is pretty sufficient for the foreseeable future, next upgrade is probably not an i7 but a highly clocked i5 with fast DDR4 though. 8600K is faster overall when you use fast memory but I'd like to have 32GB in my next machine, and this is going to cost me an arm and a leg at current prices.

welcome aboard sir, dont be silly, give that i7 a chance, game on, oc and tweak it , enjoy it,
also any real reason or specific situation that makes you go to 32GB ram?

 

[cucker tarlson]

it's about as tweaked as it can get, runs 4300MHz (20% oc), edram at 2GHz, memory at 2133 9-9-9-27 1T. It's still plenty for gaming. My ram usage usually hovers around 11-14GB when gaming, 16GB is still enough but it's time to think ahead.

 

[phill]

I decided to keep hold of my first i7's, but then the collection has increased somewhat over the years.. Most of them I still use as daily PC's for crunching cancer as I've recently bought some new PSU's so I can.. Otherwise, I've kept them for the collection and the hope of one day I'll have enough cash to put PSU's in all of the builds I have here
So I still have -

2 x 920 D0s - Both seem decent overclockers, 4.5+Ghz with LinX stress testing When I last had them working, they where running along at 4.2Ghz @ 1.29vcore
i7 920 - Not sure if this is a D0 or not, not used it yet as I was given it, not throwing it out or selling it, so it can stay with the collection of X58 hardware and spare Xeon's I have
i7 950 - bought this with one of my Gigabyte X58A-OC boards..
i7 960 - This came with the first Gigabyte X58A-OC board, turned out the boards CPU socket was knackered and wouldn't post.. Sending it to the USA to get the CPU socket swapped out I've no idea how good or bad this or the 950 overclocks.. I've a spare PSU around here, when I get the other board back I'll test them both but under water..
i7 2600k - Ran pretty well for a good year or so before I upgraded to a CPU I've only recently started using again after 2.5 years of owning it.. Runs at stock to crunch, used to run at 4.2Ghz to 4.8Ghz
i7 4770k - Apparently a cherry picked CPU from my overclocking days, 5Ghz @ 1.2vcore. Delidded and runs well. Will run at stock to crunch, but would probably get it to run around the same speeds as the 2600k if I'm honest..
i7 6700k - Bought this with an Z170 OCF for a bit over £200 all boxed, couldn't say no. Just runs at stock for cancer crunching. Not sure if it's a good overclocker as I've not really tried it!
i7 5820k - I've had a couple of these, never had the 5930k tho, but the i7 5960X stopped me buying them as from the 920 D0 days, I wanted to upgrade to an 8 core monster for gaming.. When I was offered the CPU below, I couldn't say no....
i7 5960X - Cherry picked CPU from my benching days again and hardly used it as mentioned.. Bad things happening at the time, bought it and then had no cash to finish the build together (something over the top really) At the moment it's ticking over at 1.15vcore @ 4.5Ghz perfectly stable, but will do 5Ghz on ambient water but not stable and I wasn't willing to push it to see lol £1000 CPU tends to change your outlook on how far you will go.. According to the previous owner, it will do 5.7Ghz on LN2 but its far better on ambient

Aside from buying a few Xeon's for my servers and my SR-2 board, I've not bought another Intel CPU yet.. I think I might be turning back to AMD with the Ryzen 2700/X for my daughter and a Threadripper 2 for me at some point.. Not that I need it or my daughter for that matter but, times change and I think I need to move forward a bit more than I am currently Loads of time to wait tho

Sorry I hope everyone hasn't fallen asleep reading this....

 

[peche]

it's about as tweaked as it can get, runs 4300MHz (20% oc), edram at 2GHz, memory at 2133 9-9-9-27 1T. It's still plenty for gaming. My ram usage usually hovers around 11-14GB when gaming, 16GB is still enough but it's time to think ahead.

great numbers for gaming, anything beyond 3.50 is decent enough for gaming IMHO

I decided to keep hold of my first i7's, but then the collection has increased somewhat over the years.. Most of them I still use as daily PC's for crunching cancer as I've recently bought some new PSU's so I can.. Otherwise, I've kept them for the collection and the hope of one day I'll have enough cash to put PSU's in all of the builds I have here
So I still have -

2 x 920 D0s - Both seem decent overclockers, 4.5+Ghz with LinX stress testing When I last had them working, they where running along at 4.2Ghz @ 1.29vcore
i7 920 - Not sure if this is a D0 or not, not used it yet as I was given it, not throwing it out or selling it, so it can stay with the collection of X58 hardware and spare Xeon's I have
i7 950 - bought this with one of my Gigabyte X58A-OC boards..
i7 960 - This came with the first Gigabyte X58A-OC board, turned out the boards CPU socket was knackered and wouldn't post.. Sending it to the USA to get the CPU socket swapped out I've no idea how good or bad this or the 950 overclocks.. I've a spare PSU around here, when I get the other board back I'll test them both but under water..
i7 2600k - Ran pretty well for a good year or so before I upgraded to a CPU I've only recently started using again after 2.5 years of owning it.. Runs at stock to crunch, used to run at 4.2Ghz to 4.8Ghz
i7 4770k - Apparently a cherry picked CPU from my overclocking days, 5Ghz @ 1.2vcore. Delidded and runs well. Will run at stock to crunch, but would probably get it to run around the same speeds as the 2600k if I'm honest..
i7 6700k - Bought this with an Z170 OCF for a bit over £200 all boxed, couldn't say no. Just runs at stock for cancer crunching. Not sure if it's a good overclocker as I've not really tried it!
i7 5820k - I've had a couple of these, never had the 5930k tho, but the i7 5960X stopped me buying them as from the 920 D0 days, I wanted to upgrade to an 8 core monster for gaming.. When I was offered the CPU below, I couldn't say no....
i7 5960X - Cherry picked CPU from my benching days again and hardly used it as mentioned.. Bad things happening at the time, bought it and then had no cash to finish the build together (something over the top really) At the moment it's ticking over at 1.15vcore @ 4.5Ghz perfectly stable, but will do 5Ghz on ambient water but not stable and I wasn't willing to push it to see lol £1000 CPU tends to change your outlook on how far you will go.. According to the previous owner, it will do 5.7Ghz on LN2 but its far better on ambient

Aside from buying a few Xeon's for my servers and my SR-2 board, I've not bought another Intel CPU yet.. I think I might be turning back to AMD with the Ryzen 2700/X for my daughter and a Threadripper 2 for me at some point.. Not that I need it or my daughter for that matter but, times change and I think I need to move forward a bit more than I am currently Loads of time to wait tho

Sorry I hope everyone hasn't fallen asleep reading this....

wow, totally envy your collection lad, amazing, i7 former farm! lolz

 

[Vayra86]

Redid my 8700K OC because 1.31v on my attic at ~36 C ambient really didn't make anyone happy Saw peaks of 96 C and a BSOD and I even noticed that the CPU was throwing errors on a daily basis :O

Now sitting at a cool and quiet 46x allcore multi @ 1.19v, no complaints, no noticeable perf loss, 60-65 C at full load in the same ambient temp No more errors in Event viewer either

And yes... I will delid this some day, whenever the 46x needs boosting.

 

[peche]

Redid my 8700K OC because 1.31v on my attic at ~36 C ambient really didn't make anyone happy Saw peaks of 96 C and a BSOD and I even noticed that the CPU was throwing errors on a daily basis :O

Now sitting at a cool and quiet 46x allcore multi @ 1.19v, no complaints, no noticeable perf loss, 60-65 C at full load in the same ambient temp No more errors in Event viewer either

And yes... I will delid this some day, whenever the 46x needs boosting.

Great numbers, cooled by the listed beQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 ?

 

[Vayra86]

Great numbers, cooled by the listed beQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 ?

Yep, but the numbers.. meh. This isn't a great chip, it effectively craps out at 4.9 unless I push volts beyond 1.36v which is totally not efficient; that's over 150w going through a 95w part.

 

[phill]

wow, totally envy your collection lad, amazing, i7 former farm! lolz

I am very much a collecting kinda guy lol It's only going to grow as well I think I might be tempted with a 980X or something but I think they have all been hammered to hell and back lol I've no interest at all with the newer 6900k, 7900k and the like...

I think I might try and start grabbing some AMD CPUs but that's for another thread It would be nice however to see if I could find a decent or good 3770k to go with my 2600k 4770k and 6700k That said my OCD is that strong, I'd like to actually grab a 2700k CPU just so I had all the x700k's!! lol I have a problem!!

 

[peche]

Yep, but the numbers.. meh. This isn't a great chip, it effectively craps out at 4.9 unless I push volts beyond 1.36v which is totally not efficient; that's over 150w going through a 95w part.

air cooled, not delided, decent temp and numbers for a retired oc'er, golden chips are now legend in this new era i guess,

I am very much a collecting kinda guy lol It's only going to grow as well I think I might be tempted with a 980X or something but I think they have all been hammered to hell and back lol I've no interest at all with the newer 6900k, 7900k and the like...

I think I might try and start grabbing some AMD CPUs but that's for another thread It would be nice however to see if I could find a decent or good 3770k to go with my 2600k 4770k and 6700k That said my OCD is that strong, I'd like to actually grab a 2700k CPU just so I had all the x700k's!! lol I have a problem!!

dont have to tell, i do wish a 3770K to swap for my locked Ivy, just for fun, ill probablly end up at stock settings, but your collection is something pretty big, in terms of hardware and also money,

 

[phill]

Well if I can find another motherboard with a good to decent overclocking 3770k I would possibly try and grab hold when I could That said another 6700k would be lovely as it could go in my other OCF board Not to mention if I could find one of the Z170M OCF's as well...

Any particular board that would compliment a 3770k??

 

[RealNeil]

It's been a while since I've looked at this thread and since then, I've made a few changes.

My Two i7-7700Ks are both going out the door, and are being replaced with i7-8700K systems.
(on a side note, I kept my 6600K box and let the second 7700K go instead) The 6600K is a great little CPU paired with a Gigabyte Z170-Gaming 6 and DDR4-3200MHz. RAM.
I donated my Ryzen 1500X board and chip here at TPU, and my Ryzen 1600X went to my wife's PC in her office.
I still have the i9-9700X box and I did get a new ASUS Rampage VI Extreme motherboard for it. I'm going to sell the MSI X299 Gaming M7 ACK, but I can't mention that here because it's an i7 thread.
I still have a Ryzen 1700X box, but I'll be selling it too.

Got the first 8700K up yesterday and it's wicked-fast.

 

[phill]

What is the performance difference like from a 6700k to a 7700k? I would say about the 8700k comparison, but I'm not sure if it's apples to apples considering it's another 2 cores and 2 threads...

I've not heard of a i9 9700k? I'm guessing maybe 7900k??

From what I've read, the Ryzen 1700/1700X is about where it's at for the new AMD CPUs.. The latest ones are just even better...

 

[peche]

Any particular board that would compliment a 3770k??

i had a 2700K with a GAZ68X ud5, there were amazing Z77 boards from gigabyte and the incredible Z77 saberthooth from asus, i wish they will continue doing tuf boards like that, not the crap they sell now days,

It's been a while since I've looked at this thread and since then, I've made a few changes.

My Two i7-7700Ks are both going out the door, and are being replaced with i7-8700K systems.
(on a side note, I kept my 6600K box and let the second 7700K go instead) The 6600K is a great little CPU paired with a Gigabyte Z170-Gaming 6 and DDR4-3200MHz. RAM.
I donated my Ryzen 1500X board and chip here at TPU, and my Ryzen 1600X went to my wife's PC in her office.
I still have the i9-9700X box and I did get a new ASUS Rampage VI Extreme motherboard for it. I'm going to sell the MSI X299 Gaming M7 ACK, but I can't mention that here because it's an i7 thread.
I still have a Ryzen 1700X box, but I'll be selling it too.

Got the first 8700K up yesterday and it's wicked-fast.

another brave i7 owner, i might be interested on that 7700K, gonna upgrade in december...also we can make this one, intel i7 & i9 owners club, lolz

What is the performance difference like from a 6700k to a 7700k? I would say about the 8700k comparison, but I'm not sure if it's apples to apples considering it's another 2 cores and 2 threads...

.

diffence might be minimal, boost and temps mostly, between skylake and kaby

 

[phill]

i had a 2700K with a GAZ68X ud5, there were amazing Z77 boards from gigabyte and the incredible Z77 saberthooth from asus, i wish they will continue doing tuf boards like that, not the crap they sell now days,

another brave i7 owner, i might be interested on that 7700K, gonna upgrade in december...also we can make this one, intel i7 & i9 owners club, lolz

diffence might be minimal, boost and temps mostly, between skylake and kaby

I have a Z77 Asrock OCF board, love it In fact, the Z77, Z97 and Z170 boards are all Asrock OCF boards I was just wondering tho, would the 2600k be better for crunching on or would the 2700k be a little better on top?? Sad thing is I'm not sure if they are that cheap and I'm kinda not really in the place to be putting down £100+ on a CPU I don't really need as such just because I have OCD

 

[RealNeil]

've not heard of a i9 9700k? I'm guessing maybe 7900k??

Yes, it's corrected now, thanks for pointing it out.

The 7700Ks are faster than the 6600Ks are, but it's no earth-shattering chasm of speed. (maybe 15% more) I found it to be evident in benchmarks, but not in games.
The 7700Ks generated more heat when overclocked, so I de-lidded both of them and put pure copper lids with more surface area for cooling on them.
I didn't do it to clock them higher, I did it to keep them cooler while running a mild 4600MHz. O/C.
Both of them are in ASRock Z270 Killer SLI/ac mainboards with 32GB of DDR4-3000MHz. RAM in them.

I never felt that I had to do a de-lid with the 6600K. It's running at 4600MHz. and stays pretty cool.

 

[Tomgang]

Seems others are giving updates how it goes with there systems. So after one year and a half, is a little update from me and my I7 980X. Still going strong, very strong infact. It has never run better than it does now. Added a few thing over the time and yeah for how old it is, really running well. CPU now runs at 4.42 GHz at 1.41 volts still on aircooling. It took a bit of time to get there cause of cooling and settings needed to be upgrade or tweaked to get there cause where i live its hotter than it is normal, so i had to upgrade cooling. Maybe climate changes causing the heat, i dont now. I just know that cooling no longer where sufficient.

So full system spec as of today is. One of the goals for the system cause it is in my living room to keep the system anonymous. So besides the GPU RGB, there is no LED or RGB light in it now.
Core i7 980X @ 4.42 GHz
Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler with 3 x noctua nf-f12 industrialppc-3000 pwm 120 MM fans mounted. Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut cooling paste between CPU and cooler. CPU is not delid since this cpu is soldered from factory.
ASUS P6X58D Premium second gen X58 motherboard that means it has Sata 3 and USB 3.0 onboard. Chipsæt heatsink now been added some fans to keep it cool.
12 GB DDR3 memory Corsair 1600 MHz triple channel (6 x 2 GB).
2 x Samsung 950 PRO 256 GB M.2 NVMe SSD for OS and games that has a long load time. M.2 does help there.
CRUCIAL MX300 2 TB sata SSD only for games.
WD RED 4 TB til storages and backup
WD AV-GP 2 TB til storage and backup
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 GAMING its already factory oc, but i have taken it from factory oc that is Base/boost/memory: 1557/1671/1376 MHz to 1632/1746/1514 MHz that is every day oc. For benchamrk i take it up to 1647/1761/1556 MHz. Higher oc results in driver crash.
Thermaltake ToughPower 1500 Watt PSU
Antec Twelve Hundred case where all stock fans are now replaced with Corsair ML120/ML140 PREMIUM/PRO fans and all fans are controlled by 3 x NZXT SENTRY 3 fan controllers
Windows 10 PRO 64 bit OS.



A few benchmark i have run.

Far Cry 5 benchmark max settings.

This is what a M.2 SSD does to boot on X58. Not so bad i think.

CPU temperature when it is at it worst with Prime95. For every day use it never becomes this hot. Temp Arent to bad but not great either. But remember this is air cooling only and out side temperature when i testet those cpu temp where close to 30 degrees celsius outside, so not the greatest condision to test load temp.

To end it here are a few pictures i took of my system after replacing fans. Because there in some pictures are different fans on CPU cooler is because i made it over two times and zip ties holding cpu cooler is to prevent cooler to hit chipsæt fans below it.

The first pictures below here is the ugly or "the spaghetti" side no one wants to show really or am i wrong?

So yeah there you have it. I7 980X is still going strong and works hard every day with out any complaints. Its the hardware around it that over the years gets replaced and/or worn down. While CPU and motherboard just keeps on going. Next cpu is gonna be a I7 or I9 for sure again.

 

[RealNeil]

So after one year and a half, is a little update from me and my I7 980X

That thing is and always has been a beast.

 

[Tomgang]

That thing is and always has been a beast.

Yeah. Im glad i back then let it replace the I7 920 i had. I7 980X really took X58 and gaming to another level and alowed me to get a powerful GPU with out it being a massive bottleneck. As you can see it handles the latest 2018 games a max settings still with out dropping FPS below 60, that is my goal for games. below 60 FPS is for me not al right. But as long it can keep games maxed out and still be over 60 FPS i will keep this CPU.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Seems others are giving updates how it goes with there systems. So after one year and a half, is a little update from me and my I7 980X. Still going strong, very strong infact. It has never run better than it does now. Added a few thing over the time and yeah for how old it is, really running well. CPU now runs at 4.42 GHz at 1.41 volts still on aircooling. It took a bit of time to get there cause of cooling and settings needed to be upgrade or tweaked to get there cause where i live its hotter than it is normal, so i had to upgrade cooling. Maybe climate changes causing the heat, i dont now. I just know that cooling no longer where sufficient.

So full system spec as of today is. One of the goals for the system cause it is in my living room to keep the system anonymous. So besides the GPU RGB, there is no LED or RGB light in it now.
Core i7 980X @ 4.42 GHz
Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler with 3 x noctua nf-f12 industrialppc-3000 pwm 120 MM fans mounted. Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut cooling paste between CPU and cooler. CPU is not delid since this cpu is soldered from factory.
ASUS P6X58D Premium second gen X58 motherboard that means it has Sata 3 and USB 3.0 onboard. Chipsæt heatsink now been added some fans to keep it cool.
12 GB DDR3 memory Corsair 1600 MHz triple channel (6 x 2 GB).
2 x Samsung 950 PRO 256 GB M.2 NVMe SSD for OS and games that has a long load time. M.2 does help there.
CRUCIAL MX300 2 TB sata SSD only for games.
WD RED 4 TB til storages and backup
WD AV-GP 2 TB til storage and backup
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 GAMING its already factory oc, but i have taken it from factory oc that is Base/boost/memory: 1557/1671/1376 MHz to 1632/1746/1514 MHz that is every day oc. For benchamrk i take it up to 1647/1761/1556 MHz. Higher oc results in driver crash.
Thermaltake ToughPower 1500 Watt PSU
Antec Twelve Hundred case where all stock fans are now replaced with Corsair ML120/ML140 PREMIUM/PRO fans and all fans are controlled by 3 x NZXT SENTRY 3 fan controllers
Windows 10 PRO 64 bit OS.



A few benchmark i have run.

Far Cry 5 benchmark max settings.

This is what a M.2 SSD does to boot on X58. Not so bad i think.

CPU temperature when it is at it worst with Prime95. For every day use it never becomes this hot. Temp Arent to bad but not great either. But remember this is air cooling only and out side temperature when i testet those cpu temp where close to 30 degrees celsius outside, so not the greatest condision to test load temp.

To end it here are a few pictures i took of my system after replacing fans. Because there in some pictures are different fans on CPU cooler is because i made it over two times and zip ties holding cpu cooler is to prevent cooler to hit chipsæt fans below it.

The first pictures below here is the ugly or "the spaghetti" side no one wants to show really or am i wrong?

So yeah there you have it. I7 980X is still going strong and works hard every day with out any complaints. Its the hardware around it that over the years gets replaced and/or worn down. While CPU and motherboard just keeps on going. Next cpu is gonna be a I7 or I9 for sure again.

I was thinking of doing the same thing with 40mm fans mounted on the holes by the GPU in my full tower, great idea.

 

[peche]

So yeah there you have it. I7 980X is still going strong and works hard every day with out any complaints. Its the hardware around it that over the years gets replaced and/or worn down. While CPU and motherboard just keeps on going. Next cpu is gonna be a I7 or I9 for sure again.

i really admire you as older i7 enthusiast, your i7 is a beast and all tweaks, Oc, mods and so on your computer describe how long you want to get! thanks for all the new ideas, mods and more you have always shared with all techpowerupians, mostly benchs and results you always provide, and welcome sir, to i7 owners club, we all are glad to have you here,

I was thinking of doing the same thing with 40mm fans mounted on the holes by the GPU in my full tower, great idea.

this post came with several ideas for my rig, i guess i'll make some changes on mine, lol

 

[cucker tarlson]

You've done great with airflow Tommgang. I'm working on that in my case as well, but I don't wanna use any fan controllers so I basically have to make do with six fans. My case is much harder to work with though (Zalman H1). I basically ripped out half of it already. Got rid of the whole ahv system, placed one 140mm on top blowing air inside. I removed the 5.25 covers and placed a 120mm as intake, cut out the bottom of the case for a 120mm intake too. I pulled the rubber grommets on the back of the case, it left a few holes right by the gpu, dunno if I'll ever install 40mm fans there but at least the heat doesn't get trapped. I ripped the half of the front panel cover too but what I still have to do is get a 200m aerocool dark force fan,just about only 200mm fan with decent air pressure, and replace the factory stock 200mm which does almost nothing for the airflow. I got to get rid of hdd cages before I can do that though, so replace my 3 sata ssds with one big m.2 drive and buy one big hdd instead of two smaller ones I have now.
I know I can just buy a good case for $100 but I like my frankenstein more.

 

[Tomgang]

I was thinking of doing the same thing with 40mm fans mounted on the holes by the GPU in my full tower, great idea.

The fans i use at the GPU is 60 MM. 40 MM really dont move much air. I have tried it by the way. But yeah the fans simulates a blower fan style since most after marked coolers just recirculate the hot air and keeps temps high. By sucking some of the hot air away so that it can be replaced with fresh air from the front mounted fans and the fan mounted in the side panel.

i really admire you as older i7 enthusiast, your i7 is a beast and all tweaks, Oc, mods and so on your computer describe how long you want to get! thanks for all the new ideas, mods and more you have always shared with all techpowerupians, mostly benchs and results you always provide, and welcome sir, to i7 owners club, we all are glad to have you here,


this post came with several ideas for my rig, i guess i'll make some changes on mine, lol

I want to get every thing out of X58 so that when i finally moves on to a new system, i can say for sure that i got every thing possible out of my invest ment but also trying new things is fun and when it works its doble the fun.

But also to show people that you dont have to bay new hardware every dam time you replace exsample GPU you dont al ways need a new CPU or for that matter its fun to prove people wrong. A round in forums not so much here on TPU but on other forums i see way to often that some ask for help to bay a new pc. But many times i turns out they just need a new GPU maybe a bit more memory and a SSD to keep them going again and the classic cpu oc. Other times ask for help to upgrade there old pc and then some noob comes by and se he´s hardware is maybe 7 years old so he automatic thinks its old and slow = useless. But many times it turns out the person that sujest it havent even tryed the hardware with he´s own hands first, so he has no idea of what it is capable of.

All to often people whant to upgrade to get exsample M.2 SSD or other features like sata 3 or USB 3.0, when there are cheaper options like PCIe adaptors, Samsung 950 PRO with legacy mode and so on. That it also one of the things why i go so long with X58 to prove what i possible on even old hardware.

But im glad that all the things i do also comes others to use and new ideas.

You've done great with airflow Tommgang. I'm working on that in my case as well, but I don't wanna use any fan controllers so I basically have to make do with six fans. My case is much harder to work with though (Zalman H1). I basically ripped out half of it already. Got rid of the whole ahv system, placed one 140mm on top blowing air inside. I removed the 5.25 covers and placed a 120mm as intake, cut out the bottom of the case for a 120mm intake too. I pulled the rubber grommets on the back of the case, it left a few holes right by the gpu, dunno if I'll ever install 40mm fans there but at least the heat doesn't get trapped. I ripped the half of the front panel cover too but what I still have to do is get a 200m aerocool dark force fan,just about only 200mm fan with decent air pressure, and replace the factory stock 200mm which does almost nothing for the airflow. I got to get rid of hdd cages before I can do that though, so replace my 3 sata ssds with one big m.2 drive and buy one big hdd instead of two smaller ones I have now.
I know I can just buy a good case for $100 but I like my frankenstein more.

I think i have airflow under control now. If you dont have all the fan connections you need on your motherboard and dont want to use fan controllers, why not use splitters so can run like 2 fans on the same connection like this splitter: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Akasa-AK-CBFA04-15-Splitter-Cable-Fans/dp/B005FWXWPS

There are many different types of splitters for 3 and 4 pins and molex for that matter. Just be careful not to put to many fans on one connection cause that can overload the motherboard. That is also one of the reasons why i am using fan controller. Motherboard dosent have that many and i dont wanna risk frying fans connections on motherboard and by that damage motherboard and the fan controller can handle up to 15 watts per fan channel, while i dont think motherboard can handle that much and with fans controllers i also have full control on every single fan now just with a finger touch (fan controllers has touch screen).

But since you guys seems to like what i do. Here are some more details of my pc and a older image from then i dit not make much into doing wirering great (be warned that image will hunt your soul, cause it is really ugly compared to how my system is now).

This is from about 4 years ago from where i ran GTX 970 in sli. Not so pretty

And here are a few ekstra pictures of my system and more details how i have done the wiring and the use of zip ties also. Some of the mods are not so pretty like fan in side panel (i had to use tape because i had to do som mods to that also and mount fans a bit off so it cut be there for the CPU cooler) and i have also today moved the case fan at the cpu cooler out side the case cause that is more effecient and dosent trap air between cpu cooler fan and case fan + it also lowered the fans noise because the air flow dosent hit the case fans so hard now. Its not so pretty either but some times its function over looks.

The last two pictures shows the back side of fan controllers and wires from there.

The biggest problem now is that after doing all this, is that i have found out that i find great enjoyment on building pc´s and trying out new ideas. Building pc from buttom and up is fun

 

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want to get every thing out of X58 so that when i finally moves on to a new system, i can say for sure that i got every thing possible out of my invest ment but also trying new things is fun and when it works its doble the fun.

But also to show people that you dont have to bay new hardware every dam time you replace exsample GPU you dont al ways need a new CPU or for that matter its fun to prove people wrong. A round in forums not so much here on TPU but on other forums i see way to often that some ask for help to bay a new pc. But many times i turns out they just need a new GPU maybe a bit more memory and a SSD to keep them going again and the classic cpu oc. Other times ask for help to upgrade there old pc and then some noob comes by and se he´s hardware is maybe 7 years old so he automatic thinks its old and slow = useless. But many times it turns out the person that sujest it havent even tryed the hardware with he´s own hands first, so he has no idea of what it is capable of.

All to often people whant to upgrade to get exsample M.2 SSD or other features like sata 3 or USB 3.0, when there are cheaper options like PCIe adaptors, Samsung 950 PRO with legacy mode and so on. That it also one of the things why i go so long with X58 to prove what i possible on even old hardware.

But im glad that all the things i do also comes others to use and new ideas.

all those inputs are totally apreciated, also as you say the fact that you can get the most of your hardware and could have tons of fun, well is something i wish more and more people could try, implement and learn from it, i do something similar but with VGA's, i like to get the most from video cards, if possible OC and tweak, squeeze the most from it!

Thanks for your well made input sir again,

Regards,