My New Build!

[Ashton187]

Hey guys, finally finished my new computer and would like to share it with you. Spent over 2 weeks going through scans horrendous returns procedure and then a none delivery from Home Delivery Network (who decided not to deliver my item because the football was on) and finally everything is finished.

Spec:

Intel Core i7 930 Overclocked to 4ghz @ 1.232v

Arctic MX-3

Noctua NH-D14

Asus P6X58D-E

3x 2Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3

2x 1gb Asus GTX 460 DirectCU Overclocked to 862 Core / 1724 Shaders / 2200 Memory (Using Afterburner)

Corsair HX 850w

1x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB

1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB

Pioneer DVD/RW

All wrapped nicely in a Silverstone Fortress FT02

Time for the pictures:

And the proof is in the pudding, so here is cpuz and gpuz:

Ignore the disabled SLI, its enabled. Just the screenshot was taken while 1 of the graphics cards was in RMA.

Temps:

Idle:

Core 0: 37

Core 1: 34

Core 2: 37

Core 3: 34

Load (After an hour of Prime)

Core 0: 68

Core 1: 64

Core 2: 68

Core 3: 65

Any comments or suggestions please feel free.

Thanks.

 

[AMDFTW]

what temps do you get on the 460's the top card tho.

what volts have you set them at

 

[Hay11Mac]

Nice work m8 looking good

 

[Ashton187]

what temps do you get on the 460's the top card tho.

what volts have you set them at

2 hours of playing Mafia 2

 

[SiN]

Nice!

You definitely chose the right parts, I am quite envious!

 

[Ghosthud1]

jelous

always wanted to try them silverstone cases. The airflow system is truly epic!

 

[AMDFTW]

2 hours of playing Mafia 2

you under volted them for a overclock? i dident think that would be stable

 

[SiN]

you under volted them for a overclock? i dident think that would be stable

Sometimes the card manufacturers give the cards some extra voltage to ensure stability, at the price of some extra heat.

That is why on a lot of cards you can leave it on the stock voltage and still get a nice, meaty overclock.

 

[AMDFTW]

i have only nown asus 460s and gigabytes to do that.

but i would use 1.025mv just to be sure its getting anough power

 

[Ashton187]

i have only nown asus 460s and gigabytes to do that.

but i would use 1.025mv just to be sure its getting anough power

Well now you mention the voltage thing.

When ever i start up games, i get a freeze at the beginning, (kinda like afterburner is applying the overclock) then a black screen and then boom it kicks in overclocked and working.

Its strange.

Thanks for all the comments

 

[AMDFTW]

msi afterburner applys the overclocks at system startup not load startup,but the 460's clock differ from 2d to 3d remember so it could be that,also yes check your volts i would bump it up to 1.025,also your mem is a tad high try 2180 or 2100 i had issues at 2200 and 2080 with a 880 core clock,but 2100 was solid i may of been able to get somemore herts but i jst dident bother

run heaven at them volts then restart and run it at 1.025 and see if there is any diff at all

 

[Ashton187]

msi afterburner applys the overclocks at system startup not load startup,but the 460's clock differ from 2d to 3d remember so it could be that,also yes check your volts i would bump it up to 1.025,also your mem is a tad high try 2180 or 2100 i had issues at 2200 and 2080 with a 880 core clock,but 2100 was solid i may of been able to get somemore herts but i jst dident bother

run heaven at them volts then restart and run it at 1.025 and see if there is any diff at all

Increased the volts and the freezing has stopped. Was stable at stock volts, just the extra stopped the freezing it seems.

 

[AMDFTW]

yep that can me the issue sometimes,when its getting used alot I.E games when it does not have the correct volts it will freeze.

did you use 1.025mv what fan speed or is it still auto

 

[sunjoo]

temps arent bad at all

 

[Ashton187]

yep that can me the issue sometimes,when its getting used alot I.E games when it does not have the correct volts it will freeze.

did you use 1.025mv what fan speed or is it still auto

Fans at auto.

 

[AMDFTW]

yer yours seem to do i better job than mine,mine stay at 25% at 45c lol o well i leave mine at 60% anyway i cant hear it anything above that tho i can.

so what are your clocks at the moment

 

[delusion77]

Sick build bud!

 

[Ashton187]

so what are your clocks at the moment

The 460's are stable at 1025v, 870 core, 1740 shaders, 2200 memory. The fan Idles on Auto at 25%.

 

[AMDFTW]

yer i think there is somethingnwrong with my auto fan at 55c its 30%,i leave it at 60c anyway for some 21c idle goodness lol,its cold in my room tho

 

[Steve-O-]

Nice build. I've been wanting to try out that case, they seem nice. If I get a new job soon I'm definitely going to have to save for a new computer. My Q6700 is getting oooooooold.