New build advice please

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Cheers Tom.  I'll go for that.  Now hoping for the ATI 6000s before Jan VAT increase   

  

TOGEdit: Just checked out the 998626 Ridgeback that TTL suggested but the heatspreader is not compatible with the Noctua D14. 

  I'll see if I can get hold of 998805 which is Redline with the smaller FrostByte spreader that does fit under the D14 but otherwise is exactly the same RAM.

http://www.mushkin.com/Memory/Redline/998805.aspx

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

i'm too impatient to wait for the ATI 6000s to come out (I'll probably regret it) so I just bought these.

Silverstone FT02

i7-950

Asus R3E

2 x MSI Hawk 460s

Corsair AX850

Crucial C300 64G

Spinpoint F3 1TB

Noctua D14

3 x 2G Mushkin Redline Frostbyte 998805 DDR3-1600 CL6-8-6-24

Thanks for all the help.  Great forum as always.

 

TOG

 

[AMDFTW]

looks nice a nice build,get some pics up when its hear

 

[killablade]

looks nice a nice build,get some pics up when its hear

+1337!

Definitely post some pics!

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Finished building the rig and did a quick and dirty oc - cpu to 4 gig (Vcore 1.22/Multi 20/BClk 200/Ram 1603, 6-8-6-24) and gpu to 850 core/975 mem (stock volts). Prime stable for 3 hrs and 3DMark Vantage Performance = 33770.

Pics to follow shortly.

TOG 

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Had a bit of a chance to play and get my head round i7 overclocking.  It shaping up pretty well but I think I'm running out of psu headroom even with the AX850 when I push for high overclocks simultaneously on the graphics and cpu..  Gonna try one of the SLI Hawk 460s hooked up directly to a spare dedicated offboard 450W PSU.  Temps are pretty good and the CPU clocks easily up to 4 Gig stable with only 1.2V Vcore.  The most amazing thing is how much oc headroom there is on the Muskin RAM.  Runs easily at 1700 MHz with tight 6-8-6-24 timings and only 1.65V.   

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Here's a few pics before I fitted the cpu and Noctua.

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