BackDraft Evo (a Nanoxia DS1 Build)

[23RO_UK]

Originally Posted by The Orange One

WOW! Great work there mate!!!

Thank you kindly OO




Ok time to see what I can get from the GPU


The stock NVidia GTX 680 had a Core Clock of 1006MHz and a Memory Clock of 1502 MHz.


My own EVGA GTX 680 SC Signature (factory overclocked) has a Core Clock of 1085MHz and a Memory Clock of 1552Mhz.



Hmmmmm time to have a play





This translates to -


Core Clock further increased from 1085MHz to 1145MHz Boosting to 1210 MHz

Memory Clock increased from 1552MHz to 1652MHz (6208HMz to 6608MHz effective)



Not bad for 30 minutes messing about

[The Orange One]

Pretty decent OC There mate. How much of a performance boost do you get from that OC?

[23RO_UK]

Originally Posted by The Orange One

Pretty decent OC There mate. How much of a performance boost do you get from that OC?

Those settings are MAXXED out, I'm still messing about with them to try to prevent the thermal throttling.


But to put this into perspective just running my 680 SC Signature at a day to day 1115 MHz (+30) boosting to 1180MHz and with the memory at 1602MHz (+100) 6408MHz.

This leaves an overclocked ASUS GTX 770 DirectCU II boosting to 1293MHz (+135MHz on the GPU and with the memory at +550MHz) trailing in it's wake in Unigine Heaven 4.0 (DirectX 11 1920 x 1080 High 0xAA settings) by a clear 49 points (averaged over 5 passes).

Personally I would say that's a fair performance boost

[The Orange One]

That's a very good boost, fair play!

[23RO_UK]

Ok so the day to day overclock I run BackDraft at is 4.5GHz @ 1.39V, the memory I run at 9 11 10 27 1T @ 2133MHz 1.665V (no it hasn't yet blown up lol).


Now for the purpose of stress testing an overclock, I use OCCT 4.4.0 and Prime95.

Below is the results of an hour long stress test using OCCT 4.4.0, the test was conducted at an ambient room temperature of 23°C.





As you can see the hottest core never exceeded 66°C, I think this clearly demonstrates the efficiency of the loop

[alpenwasser]

Originally Posted by 23RO_UK

BackDraft Evo complete

Enjoy the pics...

Dammit, I go to the hospital for a few days and the world just keeps on turning without
me?! The sheer audacity!

Ahem, anyway: It's turned out really awesome, if we had "likes"/rep in this forum you'd
definitely be getting some from me.

[23RO_UK]

Hey Guys, it's been a long road but BackDraft has now finally evolved into it's finished form (yes I'm now finally happy with it)


From this -






To this -







As you may notice I've made a few changes...



I've removed the rear extract Alpenföhn 140mm Wing Boost Plus PWM Fan and replaced it with an MNPCTech "Brain Drain" 120mm Billet Fan Grill (CNC milled from 3/16" thick aluminum with a machined brush aluminium finish), the quality of the MNPCTech products are simply flawless


The cooling is now straight forward in through the front out of the top.







The grill ties in perfectly with the GPU backplate








I've rerouted the PCIe extensions for the GPU (I was never truly happy with them before).











Nanoxia have also now finally released the Windowed side panel for the DS1











BackDraft Evo is now complete proper.







Thank you for looking

[23RO_UK]

Just a quick note, Some of the above pics were to dark so I've brightened them up some

[Feronix]

This is beauuuuuuuuuuuuutiful

Only thing that I don't really like are the white zip tied (?) on the GPU cables. Black ones would be better imo.

[yassarikhan786]

Beautiful, love the PSU cover and the overall theme