Sexy Hardware Close-Up Pic Clubhouse.

[fullinfusion]

This is about the 80mm thick alphacool rads right? I have not tried a dense radiator but my experience seems contrary to yours.

Does my picture of the ACool look like its 80mm? It's 45mm.

I had a no-name rad given to me by ChickenPattie a long time ago.
It worked well, but all the abuse and such left me looking for a new rad sence it was letting air into the loop when sitting for a few days turned off.

It had a high fin density but the fins were louvered and took more pressure to push air through it. The ACool rad only being 7 FPI was a bad choice imo and the temp's dont lie. The Black ice 30FPI fins are not louvered and thus the cooling isn't as good as the no name radiator but still very close to the same temps

I can run low rpm fans with the black ice and it's moving air through the dense fin array with no problems, and its quiet to boot. I listen to loud noises all week at work and dont need a screaming fan sitting next to me when I come home to relax.

 

[Shou Miko]

i picked up this big box at a store today where the mailman left it ^^

for more check spoiler

Spoiler

i got an awesome deal for this board it looks brand-new brought at komplett.dk's demo sector for about 406USD/313euros and i got the same warranty as if it was brand-new ^^

 

[cadaveca]

Great choice, dude. If you have any set-up issues, let me know, I've got my review sample as my memory testing rig, and it's ready to rock!


As an aside, BIOS 0021 or the latest 1708 or whatever, works best for me. I have 0704 on one BIOS, and 0021 on the other.

 

[Shou Miko]

Great choice, dude. If you have any set-up issues, let me know, I've got my review sample as my memory testing rig, and it's ready to rock!


As an aside, BIOS 0021 or the latest 1708 or whatever, works best for me. I have 0704 on one BIOS, and 0021 on the other.

thx, the board came with bios 1501 on it, and it runs perfect atm, and i haven't oc'd my cpu more then 4ghz at 1.140V in Bios atm but i will pay around later or tomorrow i think to see what i can to with voltage at max 1.200V.

 

[cadaveca]

BIOSes after 0804 and up to 1605 can corrupt on crashes. I suggest getting off of that BIOS ASAP, as too many crashes can lead to Intel MEI corruption, which can make changes in BIOS in-effective. The latest BIOS addresses this issue.

 

[Shou Miko]

BIOses after 0804 and up to 1605 can corrupt on crashes. I suggest getting off of that BIOS ASAP.

oki, and i am doing it right by connecting my audio card to the PCI-E x4 slot bcs i wasn't sure which other x16 port to take when i want my gfx to run x16 ^^;

 

[cadaveca]

oki, and i am doing it right by connecting my audio card to the PCI-E x4 slot bcs i wasn't sure which other x16 port to take when i want my gfx to run x16 ^^;

Yes, x4 slot should connect with Z77 chipset via the PLX PEX8606.


I put my VGA in second x16 slot, so PLX PEX8747 is active. I'm just using onboard. I couldn't use uppermost slot and use ram fans, so moved the card down and it still gets x16 link.

 

[de.das.dude]

cleaned my heatsink...

cleaned it goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

 

[dumo]

 

[de.das.dude]

made in USA FTW.

 

[de.das.dude]

cleaned my heatsink...

cleaned it goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

lol forgot the pic

 

[ALMOSTunseen]

Finally made the move to a mechanical Keyboard. Corsair K60.

 

[HammerON]

How do you like it?

 

[ALMOSTunseen]

How do you like it?

Definitely a big change from the rubber domes on my G19! I have noticed I am already typing a lot faster, though I am making a couple typos as I am still getting used to the keyboard. And I think my main - key is broken .
But otherwise, definitely worth it. I had been looking for a keyboard for a while now that had a good wrist wrest, a volume roller, cherry reds, and was good quality. I saw this, and went for it. Would have gone for the K70, although my local store wasn't going to get it for a month or 2, and my G19 was nearing the end of its life, and with half yearly exams coming up, I needed something solid to type up my essays on.

 

[cadaveca]

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4356/screenshotaaa025nc.png

You LUCKY BUGGER!!!!!!


But I bet you bought those, didn't you...

I am eagerly awaiting screenshots!!!!

 

[dumo]

You LUCKY BUGGER!!!!!!


But I bet you bought those, didn't you...

I am eagerly awaiting screenshots!!!!

Corsair CA said only 4 kits available worldwide (first retail batch)

I bought the third kit, only 1 left on their website

It should be fun with haswell and Z87

 

[radrok]

Corsair CA said only 4 kits available worlwide (first retail batch)

I bought the third kit, only 1 left on their website

It should be fun with haswell and Z87

Could someone be lucky to find a SB-E chip that runs these kits at their tested speed or it's just asking too much without T-topology?

 

[Aquinus]

Could someone be lucky to find a SB-E chip that runs these kits at their tested speed or it's just asking too much without T-topology?

You really need a cherry picked IVB chip for that. I'm not sure if SB-E can be coaxed to run that fast. Not to say that it can't run fast but if anyone knows for sure it would be Dumo. I would imagine that the fastest you're going to see on SB-E might be along the lines of 2666Mhz. It seemed to do okay at 2450Mhz on my 3820 but I don't have any memory to really be able to test higher than that.

I'm sure Cadaveca and Dumo can chime in, they've both done their own share of testing on SB-E.

 

[Tintai]

 

[de.das.dude]

wrong thread

 

[Shou Miko]

I picked up this little kawaii psu today at the mailbox system i brought it second handed for about 105USD/81euros and normal price for a brand new is 138USD/107euros so i saved a nice mount here on a good small psu for my wife's pc i am building for her ^^

only thing that's i think is a disappointment is that there is only one wire with 3xSATA connectors with this standart and another one with 3xMolex, it could use an update so u got 2 wires with 3xSATA connecters since more and more things run sata power ^^;

Some more pics in spoiler ^^

Spoiler

The psu in the case
it looks soooo loli in there soo small x:

all pics taking with my LG Optimus G Running CM10.1

 

[cadaveca]

Corsair CA said only 4 kits available worldwide (first retail batch)

I bought the third kit, only 1 left on their website

It should be fun with haswell and Z87

I heard rumor there was only a few kits, but I never imagined that few! Nice buy! I'll wait for your results!

You really need a cherry picked IVB chip for that. I'm not sure if SB-E can be coaxed to run that fast. Not to say that it can't run fast but if anyone knows for sure it would be Dumo. I would imagine that the fastest you're going to see on SB-E might be along the lines of 2666Mhz. It seemed to do okay at 2450Mhz on my 3820 but I don't have any memory to really be able to test higher than that.

I'm sure Cadaveca and Dumo can chime in, they've both done their own share of testing on SB-E.

Yes, IVB only. SB-E cannot even really do 2666 MHz. Those sticks are only rated to work with a couple of boards, too.

 

[n0tiert]

played with toys today

power usage, same on second circuit (of course not only this rack)

 

[d1nky]

played with toys today

http://img.techpowerup.org/130506/IMG_0015_new2.png

power usage, same on second circuit (of course not only this rack)

http://img.techpowerup.org/130506/IMG_0015_new3.png

notiert, I don't see you around too often and when I do, ya gone and robbed some banks mainframe!!

 

[Random Murderer]

notiert, I don't see you around too often and when I do, ya gone and robbed some banks mainframe!!

Bank? nah. Looks like he's in a datacenter.