X79 and/or rampage IV OC'ing thread for those of us still left....

[FreedomEclipse]

Yeah. That 200cm3 must be an error. If you compare it to the pwm version which is faster but has lower cm3. (or is that not how its calculated?)

I was actually considering the same Silverstone fans a few years back but never got around to it.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Yeah. That 200cm3 must be an error. If you compare it to the pwm version which is faster but has lower cm3. (or is that not how its calculated?)

I was actually considering the same Silverstone fans a few years back but never got around to it.

The fans you spec'd are ok and definitely several shades quieter but if you just want one of the highest cfm fans out there for 140mm I think those are it, I've looked around a fair amount and haven't seen much close unless they are delta screamer fans.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

The fans you spec'd are ok and definitely several shades quieter but if you just want one of the highest cfm fans out there for 140mm I think those are it, I've looked around a fair amount and haven't seen much close unless they are delta screamer fans.

I had a pair of Nidec Servo Beta V's that were 120x35mm but i could never find screws long enough to mount them

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Ah, yes these fans are thick 38 mm however were easy to attach to my rad the way they mount but yes in some circumstances you have to mount it from outside and have to screw through both holes in the fan shroud and that requires long screws thankfully I didn't have to do that with rad...however had no way to attach rad to this case so I WILL post a screenie of side of my case open as Kanan has been patiently waiting for and I'll make sure I get a photo or two showing my redneck handiwork with the pretty fluorescent wrap ties to mount the rad to the case.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

There's my improvised handiwork in all of its' glory...I even managed to get the flash on camera to go off which amplified the intensity of the straps so you could see them all lol. And if you look closely down at the cpu you can see the less obvious white straps holding the 2 fans to the makeshift msi Gaming cooler since the fans that came with it had non standard adapters and thus are useless except on exact same pcb which this new card didn't. The "armor" ti and the gaming regular 980 use totally different fans AND fan connectors, the gaming uses totally nonstandard crap connections which ticked me off. Anyway got a few more pics to post just this is funniest one showing how things are attached

Also that fan you see vertically attached to chipset is same that are horizontally attached to the watercooler at top of picture, I have 3 of those same fans and those are those silverstone fans I sent info on earlier. Honestly I've thought of getting more because side of case I still have room for bunch of fans and I have some 120 mm ones but be nice to just use fewer 140mm ones and move similar air etc. Plus just less wires for fans to find to hook to things...already got like 10 fans right now something like that.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

And this gives you a very good view of the whole deal and you see how much room to the right of the mobo I have which in old case I had only an inch or two there was pain trying to route cables and plug stuff in. As you can see here even with the 2 fans attached to the hard drive boxes you still have like 4 inches plus till you even get to the edge of the motherboard. Also you can see side panel off and it has one 220 mm fan on it which came with it...but I will include a picture of it once I get the fans on it I want, which I'm deciding right now, have a pile of fans to use plus the thought of getting a few more of those silverstones and making this thing an official wind tunnel and indoor hurricane box.

 

[Kanan]

That's really a lot of fans you got there, wow, crazy! Also they are big, I guess noise is a non-factor for you.

The motor on the Corsair AF140 fans at the front of my case are louder then these HP-12's.

I use them at low RPM 600-ish where they are silent and at 1200 RPM when gaming, and only doing some windy noise, that said, they are absolutely okay noise wise, at least for me.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I'd love it to be whisper quiet, but my laptop was/is and it sucked in every other way so no thanks. The fans on the case already (8) I believe are all fairly low noise meh cfm so honestly not a ton of noise but definitely some simply due to so many, majority of noise is from the 3 silverstone fans which push more air than practically the other 8 fans put together. Also as I said that side panel you see is off and you can mount up to 9 of the 120 mm fans or a combination of 220/140 mm etc. Right now I just have one fan on it the 220 mm red led fan you see in the picture the other fan I had from antec case next to it immediately croaked so one less fan in my stack of fans...still struggling to get my settings stable though been a while since I worked with this beast so I'm going to have to actually look at my screenshots on my pc and in this thread to get an idea of what settings worked and what are simply wishful thinking.

 

[Kanan]

I'd love it to be whisper quiet, but my laptop was/is and it sucked in every other way so no thanks. The fans on the case already (8) I believe are all fairly low noise meh cfm so honestly not a ton of noise but definitely some simply due to so many, majority of noise is from the 3 silverstone fans which push more air than practically the other 8 fans put together. Also as I said that side panel you see is off and you can mount up to 9 of the 120 mm fans or a combination of 220/140 mm etc. Right now I just have one fan on it the 220 mm red led fan you see in the picture the other fan I had from antec case next to it immediately croaked so one less fan in my stack of fans...still struggling to get my settings stable though been a while since I worked with this beast so I'm going to have to actually look at my screenshots on my pc and in this thread to get an idea of what settings worked and what are simply wishful thinking.

Yeah those thick fan's are always kinda extreme, loud and strong. Is there no way to push some nice air through the case, maybe with that 220m one, without using loud/extreme fans like the Silverstones? I know I'd never use fans like that, it's simply too much. But then again you're overclocking like crazy compared to me.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

With that sid i should take a picture of my set up. Its pretty neat and tidy. I imported an Antec Spotcool 100 100mm fan to have some airflow over the vrms as i was suffering some stability issues during the heatwave of last year

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Here is my current setup.

 

[Random Murderer]

Here is my current setup.

Is that an Antec SpotCool? I haven't seen one of those in ages!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Is that an Antec SpotCool? I haven't seen one of those in ages!

Yeah lol. I had a hard time finding one in the UK then eventually had it shipped from the US off ebay. They need to keep these things in production!

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I wondered if the random murderer would show up again Welcome back! I know for a while we weren't around so sorry about that the thread was on hiatus for a while unfortunately I had some personal things going on and now part of reason I'm even here is just to take my mind off what was going on. Anyway yes that is very neat/tidy but mine isn't so bad particularly since I've just thrown it back together again lol. If you go back to the old pictures of my Antec 1200 case and the non modular power supply with 50 cables you are forced to dump in case you can see what a true mess of a case looks like! But yes I have to figure out how to route a few cables differently but main problem is a few are just barely long enough to reach top of case so I can't do anything but put them over my video card, like the two cables that power the CPU that go to the very top of the mobo. Yeah I remember the spotcool I considered getting one of those decades ago lol, is kinda neat to see one I never ended up getting it though I really liked the idea.

 

[Random Murderer]

I wondered if the random murderer would show up again Welcome back!

Yeah, I'm kind of back. A lot going on in my life right now, so TPU hasn't exactly been far up on my list of priorities. You'll see me around, just not as active as I'd like to be.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Here is my current setup.

Posting this separately because I wanted to specifically address what I see here vs. my other general post about cases and mr. Random t-rex murderer etc. Anyway I'm laughing and liking how similar it is to my setup, at first I saw the fan over the board assuming it was a cpu cooler till I woke up and realized with coffee you had the rad above it like where mine is, and you also have that fan like I've got just to cool the vrm, it really does help! I'm sure you at some point noticed that if you were trying to overclock hard without it. That said how do you have it attached there? I don't see anything at a quick glance holding it...Also if you had the RIVE iv board your setup would almost be identical to mine, you even have an asus board just the pro which is very similar, and you also have an MSI card with same cooler I got lol that's funny, just you have proper shroud and fans on it, and you have the newer 1070 vs my 980ti. I'd be interested to see how yours clocks and if you could give us some benches on the card? I almost got the 1070 vs the 980ti but I just found the ti for 300$ and couldn't resist was cheapest card in that performance bracket I could find, every 1070 was at least 400$.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Yeah, I'm kind of back. A lot going on in my life right now, so TPU hasn't exactly been far up on my list of priorities. You'll see me around, just not as active as I'd like to be.

Well, if you noticed in my post I said basically the same thing, so I hope your "lot going on" is better than mine put it that way, hopefully just busy or more mundane stresses, those can suck but hope no tragedies/really bad stuff! Either way, hope it gets less stressful for you. I was dating since around Christmas so that and holidays pulled me away from this, then she passed away and a coworker died...both 2 weeks ago the week of the 8th...not to emotionally vomit or TMI with you guys but just a heads up and least you know if I say something stupid or act strange maybe I'll have an excuse lol. That said, hope you all are well, definitely life gained new perspective for me since that week. Again that said, this is my escape tweaking this setup in new case and trying to get it more like Freedom's case and much less like my old mess of a case!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Posting this separately because I wanted to specifically address what I see here vs. my other general post about cases and mr. Random t-rex murderer etc. Anyway I'm laughing and liking how similar it is to my setup, at first I saw the fan over the board assuming it was a cpu cooler till I woke up and realized with coffee you had the rad above it like where mine is, and you also have that fan like I've got just to cool the vrm, it really does help! I'm sure you at some point noticed that if you were trying to overclock hard without it. That said how do you have it attached there? I don't see anything at a quick glance holding it...Also if you had the RIVE iv board your setup would almost be identical to mine, you even have an asus board just the pro which is very similar, and you also have an MSI card with same cooler I got lol that's funny, just you have proper shroud and fans on it, and you have the newer 1070 vs my 980ti. I'd be interested to see how yours clocks and if you could give us some benches on the card? I almost got the 1070 vs the 980ti but I just found the ti for 300$ and couldn't resist was cheapest card in that performance bracket I could find, every 1070 was at least 400$.

I should bench it. I havent done that in a while

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I should bench it. I havent done that in a while

Thanks, would love that. I'd be interested in Top stable overclock etc and maybe Heaven/3dmark benches I could replicate with my less than stellar ti OC'd and see with newest drivers how they stack up...particularly since I was leaning towards getting the 1070 but was just too much considering the ti was so close to it when compared. I'll have to work out what this thing is capable of and get a few of my own benchmarks and I'll post on here. Our systems are essentially the same from processor to mobo and if you have newest Nvidia drivers minus the two cards it's about as close a comparison of apples to apples systems you can get.

 

[Random Murderer]

Well, if you noticed in my post I said basically the same thing, so I hope your "lot going on" is better than mine put it that way, hopefully just busy or more mundane stresses, those can suck but hope no tragedies/really bad stuff! Either way, hope it gets less stressful for you. I was dating since around Christmas so that and holidays pulled me away from this, then she passed away and a coworker died...both 2 weeks ago the week of the 8th...not to emotionally vomit or TMI with you guys but just a heads up and least you know if I say something stupid or act strange maybe I'll have an excuse lol. That said, hope you all are well, definitely life gained new perspective for me since that week. Again that said, this is my escape tweaking this setup in new case and trying to get it more like Freedom's case and much less like my old mess of a case!

Your "lot going on" is definitely more tragic than mine. Sorry to hear about your losses. I guess, in a way, you just helped me realize my situation could be much worse.
Chin up, know we're here for you, as much as a faceless stranger on the internet can be.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Your "lot going on" is definitely more tragic than mine. Sorry to hear about your losses. I guess, in a way, you just helped me realize my situation could be much worse.
Chin up, know we're here for you, as much as a faceless stranger on the internet can be.

Well, I wasn't going to "go there" with my personal stuff but first off it could help me to vent to my faceless tech buds, and also I figured the odds are you were just having the usual stressful crap in life or just busy which you may feel better about hearing this. Even my situation could always be much worse, there always is, people poor, beaten, ill, oppressed by 3rd world dicatators/terrorists etc. Things I can't even comprehend, BUT I say this because I figured nothing I could lose by posting it here and possibly making other people feel better for what they have and also as I said one more place I can share and help myself. So, thanks for that bud and I appreciate it, very much. Anyway doing my best and just another character building experience and thanks for being a sounding board for me.


That said if you want to talk about this stuff with me fine, but if never again that's fine too considering this isn't a psychological forum lol.

Anyway my x79 wind box and telling you about it is a form of therapy even on the good days. So back to being OT as they say I'm going to try and get my setup stable, get my fans all in order and placed properly...I still haven't found a way to get the VRM fan totally over the VRM like FreedomEclipse has so I need to do that I think it's still hotter than it should be with fan slightly askew on it. Also I need to figure out what fans I will have on side panel and how to arrange them best to cool whole board/system down. At same time I will see what I can do for benchmarks with my 980ti and see how it does with best OC and newest drivers freshly installed as of yesterday.

 

[Random Murderer]

Anyway my x79 wind box and telling you about it is a form of therapy even on the good days. So back to being OT as they say I'm going to try and get my setup stable, get my fans all in order and placed properly...I still haven't found a way to get the VRM fan totally over the VRM like FreedomEclipse has so I need to do that I think it's still hotter than it should be with fan slightly askew on it. Also I need to figure out what fans I will have on side panel and how to arrange them best to cool whole board/system down. At same time I will see what I can do for benchmarks with my 980ti and see how it does with best OC and newest drivers freshly installed as of yesterday.

Yeah, I need to put a fan back on my VRMs if I want to push more out of the 4930K now that it has its own dedicated radiator, or if I upgrade to the Xeon I've decided on if Ryzen disappoints: the E5-2697 v2. That's 12c/24t with the same TDP as the 4930K, and a max multiplier of 35.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Yeah, I need to put a fan back on my VRMs if I want to push more out of the 4930K now that it has its own dedicated radiator, or if I upgrade to the Xeon I've decided on if Ryzen disappoints: the E5-2697 v2. That's 12c/24t with the same TDP as the 4930K, and a max multiplier of 35.

Interesting...just looked up that CPU which I've seen along with the troves of Xeons I've checked out as the replacement of my Sandy-e ES I'm itching to replace and that one is pretty interesting if you like Moar Coars lol. So you can get 3.5 ghz and 12 cores and perhaps really good memory overclocks. Not bad...if it were cheap enough I'd consider it, except I'm so spoiled I want at least another ghz on my overclocks lol. I definitely like your initial thought though of the 1680 v2 that I think is THE best chip for x79 from what I've seen, just ludicrously priced ATM. If I had use for any more cores other than benchmark bragging rights I can't even say the 6 cores I got are used properly, nevermind the 12 on the e5-2697 lol. For now not in a position to get anything which is good so I can see how Ryzen shapes up and where that puts the market.

 

[Random Murderer]

For now not in a position to get anything which is good so I can see how Ryzen shapes up and where that puts the market.

That's where I'm at.
Theoretically, I should be able to get a decent OC out of a 2697 v2 just by switching to the 125 strap (125 x 35 = 4375), with luck I may be able to get it to my ideal BCLK, 128.625. That would put the CPU at 4.5GHz and RAM at 2400. I doubt the VRMs would handle that, but if Ryzen ends up being a flop, I can pick up a 2697 v2 for cheaper than a 1680 v2 and at least try. You can pick up a 2697 v2 QS for ~$600USD right now, and from what I've been able to gather, the 8c/16T Ryzen chips will be $300+, so getting a 2697 v2 would still be cheaper than getting a Ryzen chip, X370 board that will OC well, and 32GB DDR4. That being said, if Ryzen lives up to the hype, I'll be building a Ryzen system as soon as I have the cash to do so and probably turn this X79 system into a server/cruncher. That's a big "if," though.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

That's where I'm at.
Theoretically, I should be able to get a decent OC out of a 2697 v2 just by switching to the 125 strap (125 x 35 = 4375), with luck I may be able to get it to my ideal BCLK, 128.625. That would put the CPU at 4.5GHz and RAM at 2400. I doubt the VRMs would handle that, but if Ryzen ends up being a flop, I can pick up a 2697 v2 for cheaper than a 1680 v2 and at least try. You can pick up a 2697 v2 QS for ~$600USD right now, and from what I've been able to gather, the 8c/16T Ryzen chips will be $300+, so getting a 2697 v2 would still be cheaper than getting a Ryzen chip, X370 board that will OC well, and 32GB DDR4. That being said, if Ryzen lives up to the hype, I'll be building a Ryzen system as soon as I have the cash to do so and probably turn this X79 system into a server/cruncher. That's a big "if," though.

Yeah all the "ifs" right now are the problem with deciding to make any moves with hardware.