The Orange One
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Looks Good Mate! Love the Di-Noc'd WiFi card
Midnight Smurf: Watercooled Edition
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PapaSmurf6768
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Thanks! I don't even use wifi anymore but I think I'm gonna leave it in the build cuz it looks so dang good 
PapaSmurf6768
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OK guys, she's up and running again! FINALLY! So here's what I did:
Leak test was fine, after 5 hours no dripping or anything, so I got to the dye. This is one drop of Mayhem's blue, so I knew it was gonna take a couple to get it to where I wanted.
And this is 12 drops! It's still not all that dark, but I was afraid of putting too much in because you can always add more, but you can't easily take the dye out. I might add more later, but this is a good shade for now:
Picture of it as of this point:
And now, everything is wired up and ready to go! Love the clear tubing, makes it look so much... shiner? I don't know, but it's awesome.
So that's all I have for you guys for now, you'll notice I didn't use my BitFenix Alchemy extensions since I'm going to be sleeving soon and didn't want the hassle of routing all the extra cable. You'll hear back from me soon, once my sleeving gets here and I can start work on that. Once that's done, I'll take some pretty pictures to showcase the final product. Right now I really just want to install Planetside 2 and play BF3 until the sun rises... It's been too long! Thanks for reading everyone!
Leak test was fine, after 5 hours no dripping or anything, so I got to the dye. This is one drop of Mayhem's blue, so I knew it was gonna take a couple to get it to where I wanted.
And this is 12 drops! It's still not all that dark, but I was afraid of putting too much in because you can always add more, but you can't easily take the dye out. I might add more later, but this is a good shade for now:
Picture of it as of this point:
And now, everything is wired up and ready to go! Love the clear tubing, makes it look so much... shiner? I don't know, but it's awesome.
So that's all I have for you guys for now, you'll notice I didn't use my BitFenix Alchemy extensions since I'm going to be sleeving soon and didn't want the hassle of routing all the extra cable. You'll hear back from me soon, once my sleeving gets here and I can start work on that. Once that's done, I'll take some pretty pictures to showcase the final product. Right now I really just want to install Planetside 2 and play BF3 until the sun rises... It's been too long! Thanks for reading everyone!
andrevautour
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Nice work. looking forward to seeing more.
PapaSmurf6768
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On my old board, something was screwy where the base clock wasn't exactly 100 MHz, but more like 99.2 or something. Because of this, I never actually made it into the 5GHz club because setting the multiplier to 50 would give me less than 5GHz, and setting it any higher was impossible to get stable. However, with the new board, I can now proudly say I am an official member of the 5 GHz club 
Josh Weston
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Welcome to the party
andrevautour
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On my old board, something was screwy where the base clock wasn't exactly 100 MHz, but more like 99.2 or something. Because of this, I never actually made it into the 5GHz club because setting the multiplier to 50 would give me less than 5GHz, and setting it any higher was impossible to get stable. However, with the new board, I can now proudly say I am an official member of the 5 GHz club
Nice work! What kind of Cinebench scores are you getting out of it at 5ghz? I am currently OCing my i70-920 and so far I've been able to get it to 4.5ghz from the stock clock of 2.66ghz. Cinebench score for me is 7.57 at 4.4ghz - still trying to get it stable at 4.5ghz to run cinebench! I really can't believe the scores that this 920 is putting out though!
PapaSmurf6768
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There is absolutely no way I'm gonna be able to get it stable enough to run a Cinebench at 5GHz. I couldn't even get Chrome to open without crashing at that speed!
andrevautour
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Really? what type of voltage are you using? In this 3770k review they also bench the 3570k at 5ghz with 1.4V and it gets 8.22 cinebench.
(i know not all chips are the same maybe the chip they have is better than the one you have but it seems like it should be able to do it)
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/04/23/intel-core-i7-3770k-review/4
here is the various information on each of the overclocks and setups used http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/04/23/intel-core-i7-3770k-review/3
PapaSmurf6768
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Yeah I had 1.4V to get it to boot, but I'd need I'm guessing somewhere around 1.43 to get it relatively stable. Some people just get good chips.
andrevautour
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Yeah I know they are all a bit different!
speaking of good chips--this is what ive been able to get out of my 920 today
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2560761
PapaSmurf6768
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I know absolutely nothing about LGA 1366, but it looks good to me!
andrevautour
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Well 1366/X58 was the equivalent to the current 2011X79 Sandy bridge-E stuff. They had more model numbers though (920/930/950/960/970X/980Xthen990X)
So it was quite high end, but the 920 was the low end of the models. The stock clock for it is 2.6ghz so I got fairly close to getting an extra 2ghz out of it
if you look at that chart i linked to earlier the score of 7.6 cinebench i got @ 4.4ghz it's pretty impressive when compared to what the sandy and ivy bridge stuff gets.
the 3570k gets 6.3 stock and 8.2 at 5ghz and the 3770 gets 7.9 stock and 9.7 at 4.8ghz. The 2500k gets 5.9 stock and 7.7 at 5ghz and the 2600k gets 7.4 stock and 9.7 at 5ghz
CPMFW
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On my old board, something was screwy where the base clock wasn't exactly 100 MHz, but more like 99.2 or something. Because of this, I never actually made it into the 5GHz club because setting the multiplier to 50 would give me less than 5GHz, and setting it any higher was impossible to get stable. However, with the new board, I can now proudly say I am an official member of the 5 GHz club
well done mate...
congrats
andrevautour
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B NEGATIVE
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Here is mine ....completely stock...1333 clocked ram,the lot....
PapaSmurf6768
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The sleeving is here! Time to forge ahead. Gotta say I was a little worried when I saw how the package showed up, I was afraid one of the smaller bits would have fallen out.
The legendary Nils drawing
Here's what came inside my package. To my knowledge nothing is missing, but I'll have to check my order once the store opens back up. Here we have 30 meters of Grand Blue sleeve, 20 meters of Black sleeve, 250 pieces of heatshrink, pin removal tools, some Grand Blue SATA sleeving, some SATA heatshrink, and a couple samples that look equally as awesome.
This makes me very happy Love the personal touches.
So far very pleased with MDPC. Only wish everything would have gotten here last week, I've been out of school since October 27th because of hurricane Sandy. I still have the rest of today and tomorrow to get started though, so I should be able to make some progress and put up another update. Then I have school on Wednesday, and everything grinds to a halt...
The legendary Nils drawing
Here's what came inside my package. To my knowledge nothing is missing, but I'll have to check my order once the store opens back up. Here we have 30 meters of Grand Blue sleeve, 20 meters of Black sleeve, 250 pieces of heatshrink, pin removal tools, some Grand Blue SATA sleeving, some SATA heatshrink, and a couple samples that look equally as awesome.
This makes me very happy
Love the personal touches.
So far very pleased with MDPC. Only wish everything would have gotten here last week, I've been out of school since October 27th because of hurricane Sandy.
I still have the rest of today and tomorrow to get started though, so I should be able to make some progress and put up another update. Then I have school on Wednesday, and everything grinds to a halt...
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andrevautour
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Here is mine ....completely stock...1333 clocked ram,the lot....
Very nice. what do you use your system for?
PapaSmurf6768
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Made a lot of progress in the last two days. Sleeving isn't as hard as I thought it would be but it sure does take a whole lot of time. Anyway I'll show you what I've done thus far, let me know what you think!
Assembled my Molex pin remover tool, looks pretty cool to me!
Next I moved on to the molex cable itself. One problem I ran into was that I can't get sleeving on the wires that bridge two molex plugs without removing the wire from the pin, sleeving it, and then recrimping it. If anyone has any creative ideas here let me know.
Next I moved onto the SATA cables, kind of unnecessary but I think these look really good as well.
Lastly I started working on the PCI Express power plugs. This is the end that plugs into the PSU, as you can see one of the wires is still bare. This is because it's a double wire, which takes a whole bunch of time to do and I didn't have time to finish it up.
What the other end of the plug looks like. When they're plugged into the card there will be two of them and it'll look like the same pattern as the PSU end.
A double wire... This thing took a ton of time but it was necessary because this way you get single wires coming out of all the plugs, which looks the cleanest. I don't think I did too bad for my first time. Unfortunately Corsair power supplies have a ton of double wires so I will be doing more of these... Not fun.
So that's my progress so far, I'm hoping to maybe finish up the PCI power tonight and then move onto the CPU power, and then finally the dreaded 24 pin. So far I think it's going really well though!
Assembled my Molex pin remover tool, looks pretty cool to me!
Next I moved on to the molex cable itself. One problem I ran into was that I can't get sleeving on the wires that bridge two molex plugs without removing the wire from the pin, sleeving it, and then recrimping it. If anyone has any creative ideas here let me know.
Next I moved onto the SATA cables, kind of unnecessary but I think these look really good as well.
Lastly I started working on the PCI Express power plugs. This is the end that plugs into the PSU, as you can see one of the wires is still bare. This is because it's a double wire, which takes a whole bunch of time to do and I didn't have time to finish it up.
What the other end of the plug looks like. When they're plugged into the card there will be two of them and it'll look like the same pattern as the PSU end.
A double wire... This thing took a ton of time but it was necessary because this way you get single wires coming out of all the plugs, which looks the cleanest. I don't think I did too bad for my first time. Unfortunately Corsair power supplies have a ton of double wires so I will be doing more of these... Not fun.
So that's my progress so far, I'm hoping to maybe finish up the PCI power tonight and then move onto the CPU power, and then finally the dreaded 24 pin. So far I think it's going really well though!
seumasbeathan
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Looks nice to me
