Playtime

[mehere]

Hi all digging this up for a bit of an update
I've changed the top rad from an alphacool XT45 to the monsta

in order to keep the bottom of the fans about the same height and hiding under that shroud the top fans went external

using the Koolance shroud and a homemade/mix and match grill

Having called this playtime for long enough I thought it was about time it had its name on it

reason for rad change, the fan controller run's them at half speed about 600rpm
with the temp probe fixed to one of the rads as coolant temp rises the fans step up to 1200rpm at a coolant temp of 30c and was doing so,Now with the monsta in there they stay on low speed

I've also change the 2500k for the 3770k, delided it and direct mount it

the die is 0.56mm high so I've used 0.5mm thermal pad around it, not for any heat transfer but to help steady any block wobble and give a more even pressure on the pcb

now for any change in temps
not a proper OC just set ram manually multi to 45 Vcore 1.3 and llc to high and ran it for before and after temps

before ave temp over cores 87c

after ave temp 64 a drop of 23c I'm well happy with that

now I'm one happy chappy

 

[alpenwasser]

Always cool to see this project pop up again, and nice
to see somebody do a direct mount without the heatspreader,
reminds me of the olden Athlon/Pentium III days.

 

[mehere]

its been 10 month since last update here
time to dig this build log up again
the sabertooth mobo has gone and got this baby to play with

gone are the 2 x 7970's cause we got 4 of them now

the RM1000 had to go its now replaced with a enermax 1500W plat
cranked up this pulls 1450W from the wall

storage is now 4x128Gb kingstons in raid 0
600Gb WD as game and junk storage

the purple feser coolant and clear hoses have gone (the hoses went cloudly)
replaced with black hose and distilled water and pnuke
all blocks reseated with liquid pro and of course the cpu hasn't got its hat on
psu cover has been replaced because of the longer psu
through it all together and got this
and yes I do still like carbon wrap (go on hate me )

with all this playing you've just got to bench it

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4156248

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4156300

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4156336

http://valid.x86.fr/37qbua (no its not stable post and validate only)
this is my 24/7 Oc http://valid.x86.fr/023ia4

any other playtime you may like to see is here http://hwbot.org/user/mehere1963/

 

[MrKambo]

Is that 3770K stable at 5.3GHz? or just a bench clock?

 

[mehere]

just for benching run 4.8 for everyday

 

[MrKambo]

4.8GHz is beastly for a 3770K nice!

 

[AlienALX]

Sweet. I love making carbon cover panels they're so easily wiped down !

 

[alpenwasser]

Aye, moar GPUs!