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

[dalekdukesboy]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182275474050

There's my card! It's already shown as shipped or at least he got the tracking number etc so hopefully means he will send it tomorrow at latest if he didn't get it out this weekend, but I should have it in my hands this week sometime! Also I will have these items in my hands about the same time

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835146003

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835220056

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181101

Just picture that first fan adding another 30-40 cfm to my top fan on my antec 1200...and those 3 fans after it which are MAJOR high cfm with rather low noise relatively will all fit very nicely on the third item's radiator If I have any cooling issues now...it's because I'm trying for 5 ghz and my one core reading slightly high lol. Otherwise that combination of things added to the 6 fans I already got in my case should keep this thing downright chilly and now I will be able to care about how my case inside looks cause the massive air cooler will be out of it lol. I'm pretty sure case isn't big enough plus I don't want to jam that huge radiator in it so I'll just ghetto mount it on top/back/wherever I can make it work and actually should work even better because all the heat from radiator will not have to be pushed out of the case by fans etc it will already be outside.

 

[Kanan]

Have fun

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Figured wth, yolo. If I'm going to use stupid acronyms lol use a couple. Yeah, should be a blast, that is pretty much the best AIO cooler out there and in a couple places I saw it with my current cooler compared it was up to 10 degrees cooler on overclocked cpus. That is with the stock fans which are pretty high cfm but they are 114 cfm or so I think? I'm going to put fans I can get 170 cfm out of Yeah, I think that might make a difference. Plus that 200 mm fan I got will replace the big boy or whatever it's called fan in top of my antec 1200, it's a good fan up to 130 cfm I believe but this fan I'm getting is almost 170 cfm...that's a decent difference and every bit of cool air I can pump through this makes a difference or hot air I can pump out...Also with the big old air cooler out I have room now to put a couple fans in and around the motherboard and graphics card at least one of which will be the 3rd silverstone fan which is a serious fan so airflow in my case should go from very good as it is to insane windtunnel when I'm through.

 

[Kanan]

Yeah, you really need to make some pics then, want to see it!

 

[dalekdukesboy]

 

[Kanan]

Whole system pls !

You seem to like reptiles haha

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Yep, I took picture intentionally in a way to get the book title in it. I own 3 turtles, I may post pictures of those as well at some point, very interesting animals. Anyway I posted the 1 picture because I'm having issues getting pics to upload for some reason, taking forever and whatnot, my whole system is nothing pretty side is off cables hanging out etc because I've been in it so often and know I will be again lol. I'll take a picture still, but I got several more pics of the card I want to show you took that one to show the bare pcb that was whole reason the thing got fried in the first place.

 

[Kanan]

Very nice do pics of everything especially turtles, I'm very interested!

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I will, there's the naked and now dead pcb in middle pics and two end pics are the gaming msi cooler, it's actually very thin so hopefully it and/or the cooler my card comes with is up to the job to my satisfaction...of course I'll have all that new airflow in that case even a mediocre cooler probably will do well with so much airflow over it. Here also is the picture of my case with side panel off, which for now I literally just lean against the side lol knowing it will be off soon anyway.

 

[Kanan]

Ah big ol' tower hehe. well lemme see the finished pictures then.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Definitely, but that's my setup as you can see pretty common particularly when I bought it, the Antec 1200 was pretty much it along with a few others at the time for ultimate cooling/quality etc. Very big, but very helpful for huge motherboards like rampage plus huge GPU's and 7 fans to keep it all cool. However felt it was a good time to replace a few fans which will help greatly and I didn't want to hold my order up (both the newegg and ebay orders both show they should arrive tomorrow!) but I will soon probably replace the 120mm fans in my tower and get them from newegg. I'm not sure however which fans to go with I have a few I'm eyeballing but I don't want complete screamers but something very high cfm and with luck something I can control with a controller so might get Delta screamer fans and just tone them down to point I want and still get tons of air, with ability to crank them if I really want to overclock to the hilt. As it is, I have 3 really high cfm fans in that newegg order 2 of which will replace the decent but much slower fans provided by corsair for their cooler, and that leaves me one that I either will slap on side of my case (where no fan is currently) or wherever else a 140mm fan will fit in my case, it won't fit where the 120mm fans are sadly because they have no extra room around them as it is, but many ways I can find a place for it I'm sure.

 

[Kanan]

Yeah I thought so, I can clearly see by the layout it's a old tower. I had big towers too though my last was "medium" tower suited for server. Now I'm somewhat steped down to a "Full Tower", which is a new category. It only has 2 3.5" and 3 2.5" but 1 extra slot (8) and 5.25" is down from 4 to 2. But the room for the actual important hardware, mb, gpu etc. is very very high, I could install 2 or 3 AIO water coolings here - I really like this tower.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I was smart and took breaks and did NOT rush installing everything...this morning all my newegg stuff came in, two fans, corsair h110i, and 200 mm high cfm fan for case, then early this PM my video card came, perfect! So I finally got everything plugged in and unfortunately the bracket behind cpu had to be changed it wouldn't work with AIO like it did for the noctua cooler...kinda sucked, had to take out motherboard, means unplug every last thing in it and fight with cables as well as take off the old cooler and install new one. So yeah took a while, but everything worked perfectly! At first wouldn't go beyond bios...sigh, but few seconds of thinking I remembered one thing I never replugged was my hard drive, yeah kinda need it to get to windows. Anyway that was only hitch and windows had tons of updates from last shutoff so after those were applied here I am...I ran intel burntest at same settings that would cause me to hit 80+ and usually 82 Celsius within a minute or less...I did the same with this cooler and I'm not sure if fans are full speed or are limited etc have to go into the Corsair software but looks like I made a wise choice...check out the max temp on core 2....

I have to go back into bios and shut the speedstep off which is why it shows 3.5 when I took shot but when I stressed it of course it ran at 4.5 ghz and 73 was hot as it got! That was only for a moment too mostly 70-72...that's amazing compared to the old cooler. At same settings in that time it hit 80 quickly and usually edged up to 81 in seconds. Now I have to reboot see how the gpu does but so far so good and it got me to windows.

 

[Kanan]

I'd probably get a watercooler too, but at this moment I don't have spare money for it. Maybe some other time, or I stick with the NH-D14 until I have another CPU that's again easily cooled with it. Temps atm are in check, when playing GTA Online it's about 60-65°C on hottest core, so I'd say watercooling is not needed. Would be needed nonetheless if I'd overclock higher, but I don't want to abuse the CPU that much, so the only thing I'd care would be a few minutes with 5 GHz or more for benching and then clocking down again to 4.5 GHz.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Speaking of 4.5 ghz....that is exactly what I just did! I was down to about 4.2-4.3 ghz when I was doing 2450-2500 mhz memory due to heat issues...actually this cooler is even better than I realized, I have my memory at 2450 mhz and cpu at 4.5 ghz with the FSB overclocked (whatever it technically is called now) so it's clocked 300 mhz or so higher with same or higher voltage and it ran almost 8 celcius cooler lol, wow. Also I had to take out 2 fans in my case so I have less airflow to help cooler like before as well. Very impressive results, now I can combine the memory OC with hopefully even higher OC than 4.5 and really see what this ES is made of.

142 Gflops, pretty good result. Love finally seeing nowhere near 80 for high temp nevermind 81 or 82! I didn't even bother using the decent fans it comes with, seen reviews complaining they were relatively loud and other complaints so just mounted the 140 mm silverstone fans I got at same time which are 38mm versus the thinner 25mm or whatever the Corsair fans are...but ATM I just have case on its' side with radiator out and setting on case, so if anything it's not exhausting as well as it could since the case is stopping the air from flowing properly, so should be even a bit better when I find how to mount it and do so lol. I'll take a picture, you'll also see the 980ti which so far runs good as well

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[Kanan]

Thanks you should really learn to edit though, lol! Also join the Intel Extreme Club!

 

[dalekdukesboy]

I did edit! lol. I'm just a schmuck and probably have ADD and chronic stubbornness disorder so I edited a few of my posts to add stuff but as I think of things I just start another post because I feel like it AND it's easier.

The fact I just edited this post to add this line in (btw I edited every one of last posts ) proves...well what I just said above

edit #2...I just realized one of my fans on my cooler was set to low, it has a switch on these fans (very nice high quality fans btw very impressive) so yeah, I can do even better for sure. Only reason I caught it is I remembered seeing switch and I was wondering why one fan was bit louder plus pushed far more air...figured out why.

Intel extreme club? never heard of it truthfully....

 

[Kanan]

I did edit! lol. I'm just a schmuck and probably have ADD and chronic stubbornness disorder so I edited a few of my posts to add stuff but as I think of things I just start another post because I feel like it AND it's easier.

haha okay man I ignored it up to this point, so I can ignore it even longer

 

[dalekdukesboy]

You said before you weren't picking on me, now I know you are with that crack. After I just deleted like 3 posts and combined them too! Check out that post again I edited it like 3 times.

 

[Kanan]

hahaha yes I'm a bad boy - sometimes! Glad you did it though lol

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Plus when I edit older posts I find people miss it so I like to do a new post so it shows up and people see it! Anyway I'm playing with the gtx980ti atm. I took hours to do the watercooling conversion plus breaks and lunch etc so I just am getting around to seeing what the TI can do...so far I think I got a great deal. I'll post some screenies of it but I am using furmark which suitably tortures it and really tells me if my OC is stable...sadly this model doesn't even allow you to up the power limit but good news is so far I have hit 1480-1487 boost in furmark and that is limited by power so I think in game it will be 1500 plus easy. So far memory isn't tapped out and I got that well overclocked as well. Temperatures are quite good so far, I cranked fan to 80 % but hardly can hear it with all the other high powered fans I got and I so far am seeing mid 60's temps which are more than I can hope for such a big GPU being over stressed with a program that won't be near what I do in the most demanding game...so good stuff so far stay tuned!

 

[Kanan]

You know people will miss it, or you just think they do? That said, I rarely miss things.

I don't like Furmark, I would've tested it with Firestrike and Time Spy instead (DX11 + DX12). But good to hear anyway. A friend uses his 980 Ti with 90% power target @ 1380 to 1420 ish clocks so the efficiency is very great!

 

[dalekdukesboy]

You seem to very much dislike all the tests that really tax your system I notice. I only use them because it is quickest way I can detect a failure and not spend forever dicking with settings and having apps fail on me and not realizing my settings aren't up to snuff.

Ok, you said you were impressed with memory overclock etc, but check out this 4 gig memory burntest stable 10 times run I was trying for higher memory with higher clocks etc but figured 2400 mhz is still great for platform and considering I hardly know what I'm doing at this speed I am pleasantly floored I got 4.8 ghz even vaguely stable...I literally just picked a number higher than 1.42 volts because I think that bluescreened my first try and I just boosted it higher than I thought I needed it lol. STILL this cooler didn't hit 80 degrees, that's crazy, considering my room is 78 so not cool in here by any stretch.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

check ^ out!

 

[Kanan]

Hahaha no I like proper stress tests not ones who amd and nvidia are united in disliking. Yes I'm talking about furmark. The stress is unrealistically high so there's no point in doing it. Max clocks are better found with other tests I already mentioned. And it certainly doesn't take forever.

It's so that you like unrealistic stress tests that are over the top not the other way around with me.

Anyway good job your systems seems better now. Where's the pic of the system though?