"Bulldozer Blues"

[badtaylorx]

well where to start......this started as a bulldozer build. had a sabertooth 990fx , some mushkin radioactive... and a cppl 6970's... well along came the fx8150 reviews and out went the bulldozer build... to be honest the phenom II 975 be prolly would have been enough for quite some time,,, but i really wanted to go sandy bridge....so here is what im going with.....

ps....dont mind the mess.....im not the tidiest person around!!!

here is my pile of stuff....im only going to do minor mods....nothing big this time around

tape&paint

and we get.....

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than take these

tape&paint

and we get.....

lil more paint and tape....i only did the "x" and the support bar on the back on my hs

ill post some more later

bTx

 

[dugdiamond]

more specs please

 

[hmmblah]

Looking good so far, but I agree with above.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Looking good mate

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[badtaylorx]

sure no prob........

cpu.....Intel i5

mobo....Asus P8P67 WS Revolution

ram.....Mushkin Blackline,,, 2133mhz cl 9 1.5volt with Xigmatek Dragoon heat-spreaders

cooler..Was going to use a Zalman cnps11X....was......it dont fit tho

alternative cooler......headed to bestbuy to pick up an H60

ssd.....2 Crucial M4 64gig in RAID 0 and Mushkin Callisto 120 gig as a secondary drive

and one 320 gig hdd in the hotswap bay

gpu....Twin Asus Radeon HD6970 DcII in CFX

case...Silverstone RV02-B-E

psu....NZXT Hale90 1000watt

 

[dugdiamond]

2500K

 

[badtaylorx]

yeah....sorry,,,should have included that!!!

 

[Solidarity]

ram.....Mushkin Blackline,,, 2133mhz cl 9 1.5volt with Xigmatek Dragoon heat-spreaders

I was wondering what those xigmatek things were. I really couldn't tell when i first looked.

 

[badtaylorx]

i know they're not exactly necessary....but they look pretty cool (heat-spreaders)

mmmmmmmmmmmm progress

gett'n there!!!!!!

love'n the looks of these bitfenix cables.....but man can they be a bitch to mate to other cables.....one i literally had to take a pair of vice-grips to!!!

i LOVE the spacing of these pci-e slots on this mobo......it skinnies up these fat 3ripple slot cards up a bit.....

and this is what i was using whilst i build away!!! just somthing i through together for my lil brother.....

 

[badtaylorx]

 

[SieB]

That looks awesome, if you can, spray the PSU blue as well that will make it look even better

 

[Solidarity]

Only downside is the crossfire bridge isn't black. the rest is good

 

[badtaylorx]

just to set the record straight........

the H60 was NOT my weapon of choice!!! notice the Zalman CNPS11X that i had painted some blue accents on (the "X" and the stability bar)....

but damnit all if it didn't fit past the vrm heat sinks on the motherboard!!!!!

im not sure what im going to do on a more permanint basis but it WONT be the H60

**********UPDATE*****************

wtf........i got this H60 at bestbuy as a stop-gap measure just to get my rig up and running......i've never liked the "looks" of a noctua but am well aware of its cooling capabilities.....so i was internet window shoping considering this and that...when i realised i hadn't actually tested out my H60.........

now granted this isn't stock......im using two Zalman 120mm Shark Fin fans instead of the one corsair fan,,, and also helping it along is the fact that the rad is at the top of a SilverStone Raven 02 case.....

but here is my screen shot......

ambient temps @ 18c

and this is the THIRD 15 min run of burnintest.....cpu@100% and also ram @ 100% (figuring the mem controller adds some heat)

well aint that some shit???

a 19.5 delta???

and thats on the MAXIMUMs not the currents!!! if i go by the average of the current temps its a 12.75 delta......

thats frikin nuts.....am i to assume that this corsair is just more efficiant at lower ambient temps??? (than other coolers)

 

[233Kosta]

If anything, get prime95, take idle and load temps. Run the large FFT test for about 30-60 minutes for the load temperatures. Run the fans and pump on the H60 at 12V. Also, see if you can get a temperature probe in the radiator. If the rad's temperature is higher than the chip's - you have your answer, it's a bad calibration on the sensor. Bare in mind that these things are calibrated for distance from Tjmax reading and programs have no way of establishing what each individual chip's Tjmax is. That's something Intel do at factory level. Have fun!

 

[CPMFW]

looking good mate

 

[Josh Weston]

If the OP has yet to fix his problems after a year, I don't know what to say
Be careful about bringing back older threads, dude.

 

[233Kosta]

Yeh, I'm still trying to find my way around forums properly.