Your PC ATM

[MxPhenom 216]

Dude...






You left your flashlight on, I think the batteries are running low.

Dude...

I know!

 

[badtaylorx]

These maybe the options I am referring too. If that is the case then I misspoke. Either way I was not trying to get too technical with it. I was listing out my reasons for choosing the way I did.
The buddy I refer to is actually coming over tomorrow so that we may update his BIOS for better stability when overclocking. I will review my findings then. If I am wrong I will come back here and admit it.
But until then I stand by my thoughts. As the saying goes "Your first choice is usually the right choice" and my first choice tells me I remember something bigger then fan controls.

Do you own both boards? While I don't I own the Sniper and have actually used the UD5.

As for the PLX Bridge chip..... show me concert proof they lower performance enough to even worry about. The PLX/NF200 issues you speak of are not even enough to be noticed by benchmarks let alone a human brain.
I would still put the PLX speed against cards going x8/x8 through the CPU. That there actually is performance loss on. (Even if it's just a little a few hundred points)




This is coming who has been comparing his benchmarks to people who are running X79 systems W/O the PLX chip.
I would also like to add the direct comparison to GTX 680 SLI vs the GTX 690 (Which uses a PLX chip) and is only about 5% slower because of the clocks.... not the PLX chip

As I stated by my original post....I said the Z77-UD5 is a great solid board that would do for most everyone. I also said I was considering that board before any other until the sniper released.
But as you stated the Gigabyte Sniper 3 is better in a good amount of ways.

Yikes!!! i just thought the ud5 would match better

 

[cadaveca]

Yikes!!! i just thought the ud5 would match better

IF it did, there'd be no reason for them to charge $60 extra for the G1.Sniper 3.

 

[badtaylorx]

IF it did, there'd be no reason for them to charge $60 extra for the G1.Sniper 3.

sorry...i meant athletically

 

[cadaveca]

sorry...i meant athletically

I don't agree that that is true. They are virtually equal in overclocking ability, but of course, I've already posted that.


See, the thing is, I didn't pay for my boards...they were given to me by Gigabyte. So I don't care which is better... What I do care about, however, is cooling, and those PLX chips put out some heat, let me tell ya. The Z77 PCH does as well, but that's besides the point. The VRM coolers are basically keeping the PCH and PLX chip cool...because the MOSFETs, under the maybe 125 W that Ivybridge pulls when overclocked, barely get hot.

I dunno...20mmrain, he's got some stuff confused...he says he doesn't own the Sniper 3...but it's in his pics of his rig. So he's either posting pics of other people's rigs and saying they are his, or made a mistake. I think he just made a mistake, like he did about the third slot on the UD5H.

IF a board is poopy, believe me, I'd tell ya, since that's kinda my job here

 

[Lionheart]

Got bored & took some pic's of my rig, plus I haven't done it in awhile

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

World Domination Headquarters!

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

World Domination Headquarters!


http://img.techpowerup.org/120629/001.jpg

hahahaha, is your desk on beer cases?

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

hahahaha, is your desk on beer cases?

It's actually a coffee table on beer cases!

 

[Random Murderer]

It's actually a coffee table on beer cases!

So much win...
Had you bought a desk from Ikea, you would have had to deal with a bunch of hex-head screws and assembling it yourself... Instead you grabbed a coffee table and drank your way to assembly!

 

[trickson]

I redid my water loop. What do you think? I know I really need to paint this case.

 

[Random Murderer]

I redid my water loop. What do you think? I know I really need to paint this case.

The nylon-braided tubing is a nice touch, you don't see that often.
Aside from a paint job, you could use a little more uniformity when it comes to color. Otherwise, it looks great!

 

[trickson]

The nylon-braided tubing is a nice touch, you don't see that often.
Aside from a paint job, you could use a little more uniformity when it comes to color. Otherwise, it looks great!

Yeah I know it needs a paint job some day soon I will be doing just that.

 

[Soup]

I know I really need to paint this case.

I kinda like how the case looks like it wheeled its way through a battlefield.

 

[Lionheart]

I redid my water loop. What do you think? I know I really need to paint this case.

Every time I read one of your comments, I always put Carl's voice on in my head for some reason

 

[trickson]

Every time I read one of your comments, I always put Carl's voice on in my head for some reason

 

[t_ski]

I redid my water loop. What do you think? I know I really need to paint this case.

I kinda like how the case looks like it wheeled its way through a battlefield.

I was thinking it looked like it rolled off a moving truck

Cable management is nice, just needs paint and a unifying color/theme

 

[trickson]

I was thinking it looked like it rolled off a moving truck

Just the look I was shooting for.

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

So much win...
Had you bought a desk from Ikea, you would have had to deal with a bunch of hex-head screws and assembling it yourself... Instead you grabbed a coffee table and drank your way to assembly!

As I have said in another thread somewhere about the problems I had building ULTIMATEVORTEX2: (ram failure - G.Skill Snipers and putting my AM3 1055T into the socket the wrong way while trying to flash my CHIVE to accept the FX-8150) "I always succeed in my mission tho, beer just delays it."

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

So much win...
Had you bought a desk from Ikea, you would have had to deal with a bunch of hex-head screws and assembling it yourself... Instead you grabbed a coffee table and drank your way to assembly!

I just noticed that. LOL Nice ideal CA.

 

[Athlonite]

How the fuck did put your 1055t in the wrong way round get a little to pissed and said fuck it if it don't fit force it in

 

[mm67]

Just moved my hardware to a new case :

 

[cadaveca]

Nice job on keeping the loop simple!


VGA looks a bit crooked though!

 

[mm67]

Nice job on keeping the loop simple!


VGA looks a bit crooked though!

Angle of picture maybe makes it look like that but distance between top radiator and back plate of VGA board is actually same at back and front, I just measured it.

 

[trickson]

Just moved my hardware to a new case :

http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz182/mm_67/shinobi006.jpg

Very nice!