[BL] Feronix goes ITX
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Feronix
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When he's not on cam, he's modding like mad!
Nice work buddy!
Why must you make me sound like a porn star :lol:
Thanks!
Haha yeah, the entire thing was executed in less than 24 hours from the moment I even got the idea!
Thank you mate
Update
There's been one bit of stock kit that has annoyed my since I built the PC, which is a specifications sticker on the back on the front intake fan. Cause the fan is 230mm big, the sticker is ø60mm.
Made an empty 60-60mm PhotoShop document (again resolution at 300).
Then, I made the brush with 100% hardness go from edge to edge, in my case 710 pixels and made a black dot exactly in the middle.
I then posted the White Lotus image over top of it.
Lastly, hold alt and click between the dot and WL layers, making the white lotus and overlay of the black dot. Also, remove the background layer for transparency.
Printed a few of them cause cutting them out actually circular is going to be a bitch :lol:
Found this beer glass that will help me make a circle. Alcohol to the rescue!
Time to start cutting!
Stock look:
New look:
Highlander89
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Looks good. Is that some kind of sticker paper that you printed on, or did you use glue?
Beerglass was clever, I guess there's no shortage of those?
Feronix
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Looks good. Is that some kind of sticker paper that you printed on, or did you use glue?
Beerglass was clever, I guess there's no shortage of those?
Thanks mate, looks better than some information sticker and I think small details like this really do matter.
I didn't trust the sticker paper for this one so I used regular paper and an industrial glue
Personally, I'm more of a whiskey person
Innocent159
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To think you just doing basic mods and it makes the build so much better. I love the attention to detail and "behind the scenes" effort and time you put in to your work.
Awesome build and well done
Awesome build and well done
Highlander89
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Yeah, the devil is in the details. I think it's nice that you not only covered the "ugly/stock" option but a made the white lotus theme more prominent.Thanks mate, looks better than some information sticker and I think small details like this really do matter.
I didn't trust the sticker paper for this one so I used regular paper and an industrial glue
Personally, I'm more of a whiskey person
+1 for the (scotch) whisky
Permafrost
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awesome work dude!
Feronix
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Thank you mate!
Still think you should do an orange Prodigy *wink wink*
Yeah, these are generally pretty easy mod that don't take that much resources at all. I guess that's why people like them. Simplicity has always been good and it's a nice way to show them what they can do to their rigs, even on a lower budget or without top-of-the-range hardware
Thank you!
Yeah, the devil is in the details. I think it's nice that you not only covered the "ugly/stock" option but a made the white lotus theme more prominent.
+1 for the (scotch) whisky
Aye, I'll explain the White Lotus theme in the rig gallery once the rig is finished!
eventually :lol:
Thank you mate
Grey_beard
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Keeps getting better Rick very detailed! keep em coming!
very detailed! keep em coming!
Feronix
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Keeps getting better Rick
Thanks mate, will do! Got some nice plans... for next month when monies have arrived again
Feronix
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Ran some benchies this morning!
Big thanks to Joe for hooking me up with a 3D Mark code
Did a CPU test on Cinebench first. You can see the the Xeon 1230 V3 really performs about the same as a stock clocked 4770k, and beats a stock 3770k by a fair marging while being much cheaper than either of the i7s. The Xeon can't be overclocked though, and as you can see an overclocked 4770k runs away from it quite happily.
Then I did the OpenGL test for which the GTX760 reached a nice 129 FPS. Not really sure why Cinebench compared my result to a bunch of Quadro cards and at the bottom even Intel HD Graphics, so it doesn't really give you a general idea of anything. Ah well, at least it beat all of them
Next up I moved on the 3DMark. Ran the Firestrike test first. Tried is Friday and got better than 59% of all results. Updated my GPU drivers this morning and voila.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6323811?
Nearly 6000. Nothing special, but it's a single mid-range GPU at stock clocks so I'm not complaining.
Then I decided to hand the system its arse in Firestrike Ultra. Got a solid 2-10 FPS! :')
As the last Benchmark I ran Heaven 4.0 at 1080p on ultra-presets. 8x aa, Quality on Ultra and Tesselation on extreme. Probably my favourite benchmark as well, it looks gorgeous!
Not a bad score I think
So how did the GPU do during all of this? Not bad. GPU Boost 2.0 bumps it up to 1202MHz without a sweat. Temps never exceeded 82 degress at 60% fanspeed. Just not sure why Afterburner told me it ran at 540 MHz?
HWMonitor seems to have gotten it right though:
Big thanks to Joe for hooking me up with a 3D Mark code
Did a CPU test on Cinebench first. You can see the the Xeon 1230 V3 really performs about the same as a stock clocked 4770k, and beats a stock 3770k by a fair marging while being much cheaper than either of the i7s. The Xeon can't be overclocked though, and as you can see an overclocked 4770k runs away from it quite happily.
Then I did the OpenGL test for which the GTX760 reached a nice 129 FPS. Not really sure why Cinebench compared my result to a bunch of Quadro cards and at the bottom even Intel HD Graphics, so it doesn't really give you a general idea of anything. Ah well, at least it beat all of them
Next up I moved on the 3DMark. Ran the Firestrike test first. Tried is Friday and got better than 59% of all results. Updated my GPU drivers this morning and voila.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6323811?
Nearly 6000. Nothing special, but it's a single mid-range GPU at stock clocks so I'm not complaining.
Then I decided to hand the system its arse in Firestrike Ultra. Got a solid 2-10 FPS! :')
As the last Benchmark I ran Heaven 4.0 at 1080p on ultra-presets. 8x aa, Quality on Ultra and Tesselation on extreme. Probably my favourite benchmark as well, it looks gorgeous!
Not a bad score I think
So how did the GPU do during all of this? Not bad. GPU Boost 2.0 bumps it up to 1202MHz without a sweat. Temps never exceeded 82 degress at 60% fanspeed. Just not sure why Afterburner told me it ran at 540 MHz?
HWMonitor seems to have gotten it right though:
Feronix
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So after buying this card used I was unpleasantly surprised with the noise it made in idle mode. I figured I could just set a custom fan curve, but it wouldn't help. After some research I found out the fan won't go below 40% due to a vbios lock.
I then contacted EVGA if there was anything they could do, or if there was an updated bios available, but honestly their tech support couldn't be arsed with me and suggested that I'd 'Take a look at their new 970 and 980 cards'. Yeah, cause after buying a used card for €160 I'm clearly going to trade up for that...
I decided to fire up GPU-Z, make a .rom file of my vbios, save one backup and then make a new one. In the new one I changed nothing but setting the minimum fanspeed from 43% to 31%.
I've had the bios files on my desktop for months now but couldn't figure out nvFlash and honestly I was afraid I'd brick the card. Today I finally took the plunge and modded the vbios on my GTX 760 SC with some help from TPC, thanks mate
Started making the bootable USB with the HP tool, bla bla bla, booted into DOS. Here we go:
Pressing enter means point of no return... or is it?
Woops, I swear I have a 760 in there! Apparently it was an older version of nvFlash that didn't recognize my card yet. Booted into Windows, updated the version of nvFlash on the USB and tried again. This time with a better result.
Y it is then, must admit my fingers were a tad sweaty at this point...
In suspence I clicked Enter on accident and had to start over :lol:
Whooooo FINALLY THAT'S THAT.
After looking up how to actually restart DOS... I booted back into Windows... Doesn't seem quieter yet?
Well, that's a real shame. Apparently the fan might have its own little bios that is locked too. Thanks EVGA, you really screwed me over here. I spent so much time researching and money buying quiet components and you toss it all out the window with your shit bios.
Safe to say I'll probably be switching videocards when money allows it and not going EVGA again.
I then contacted EVGA if there was anything they could do, or if there was an updated bios available, but honestly their tech support couldn't be arsed with me and suggested that I'd 'Take a look at their new 970 and 980 cards'. Yeah, cause after buying a used card for €160 I'm clearly going to trade up for that...
I decided to fire up GPU-Z, make a .rom file of my vbios, save one backup and then make a new one. In the new one I changed nothing but setting the minimum fanspeed from 43% to 31%.
I've had the bios files on my desktop for months now but couldn't figure out nvFlash and honestly I was afraid I'd brick the card. Today I finally took the plunge and modded the vbios on my GTX 760 SC with some help from TPC, thanks mate
Started making the bootable USB with the HP tool, bla bla bla, booted into DOS. Here we go:
Pressing enter means point of no return... or is it?
Woops, I swear I have a 760 in there! Apparently it was an older version of nvFlash that didn't recognize my card yet. Booted into Windows, updated the version of nvFlash on the USB and tried again. This time with a better result.
Y it is then, must admit my fingers were a tad sweaty at this point...
In suspence I clicked Enter on accident and had to start over :lol:
Whooooo FINALLY THAT'S THAT.
After looking up how to actually restart DOS... I booted back into Windows... Doesn't seem quieter yet?
Well, that's a real shame. Apparently the fan might have its own little bios that is locked too. Thanks EVGA, you really screwed me over here. I spent so much time researching and money buying quiet components and you toss it all out the window with your shit bios.
Safe to say I'll probably be switching videocards when money allows it and not going EVGA again.
Highlander89
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That sucks mate. Perhaps you could try to control fanspeed manually with a fan controller?
Dawelio
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+1, that really sucks mate... well atleast now you got another thing on your list on "why not go EVGA" :lol:
You could get upset at nearly every manufacturer of fan controllers and fans for limiting the minimum fan speed. There are so many reasons and ultimately they couldn't bare the risk of dead hardware due to stalled fans. Nearly all wide RPM range PWM fans will be capped at a minimum of 40%, the only way to get around that is with voltage control which obviously you can't just do with a graphics card.Holding this against EVGA is just weird, they built a card to meet the specifications advertised, it does, it was reviewed as such and your mad because it doesn't operate outside of those parameters.
JR
Feronix
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Hmm, I have another idea!
Yeah exactly, "Support is useless" :lol:
Holding this against EVGA is just weird, they built a card to meet the specifications advertised, it does, it was reviewed as such and your mad because it doesn't operate outside of those parameters.
JR
It's not really the minimum fanspeed I am mad at EVGA for. It's the fact I contacted support and they they quickly mentioned there was no other way to let it spin slower except a vbios mod which would void my warranty. Then proceeded to tell me I should buy their GTX970/980 cards that would come out in a few weeks.
I finally took the plunge of modding the vbios, with the risk of bricking my card and voiding my warranty (even if that was already gone due to the paint job) and it didn't even help as there are hardware limitations on the card that prevent it from spinning under 40% which imo is just unnecessary for a mid-range GPU that idles at 28 C.
I understand your point and agree to an extend. I love the card and it's a solid performer but the noise does my head in. I paid extra for a reference EVGA card over cheaper other brands and invested a lot of time and money in a quiet idling rig for audio recording, but it really is the way that EVGA customer support just didn't seem to care and let me take the risk of killing the card even when they knew it wouldn't help.
Either way, I have a new idea...
What's the chance I can find a same-size blower-style PWM fan, but with a lower max RPM somewhere on the internet?
Feronix
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Experimenting with the stock Corsair white braided cables and markers. This works surprisingly well, interesting...
Not a perfect first try, but the idea works and if I do one colour at a time while shielding the rest of the cables off and let it dry properly...
Edit;
Did a quick hair dryer test and the colours seem to fade a tiny bit in warm airflow conditions. This is a single layer with 10 minutes of drying though, I'm thinking that it's kinda the same concept as painting. Multiple layers and good drying should do.
I also found out I'm going to need new markers as my old black one turns out slightly purple-ish
Not a perfect first try, but the idea works and if I do one colour at a time while shielding the rest of the cables off and let it dry properly...
Edit;
Did a quick hair dryer test and the colours seem to fade a tiny bit in warm airflow conditions. This is a single layer with 10 minutes of drying though, I'm thinking that it's kinda the same concept as painting. Multiple layers and good drying should do.
I also found out I'm going to need new markers as my old black one turns out slightly purple-ish
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