Seb's Sandy Bridge-E Rig

Seb.F · Dec 21, 2012

I lost my old account and didn't post up any of my pics/rig anyway so thought I may as well shove it all up here too!

Some is copy/pasted as there's no way I'm writing this beast up again from scratch.

Put together in December of last year but has evolved since, the longer you go down the post, the closer it gets to what it is now.

Spec is currently as follows:

Cooler Master HAF X (2x200m top, 1x200m side, 1x200m front, 1x140mm back)
Corsair HX1050W
Gigabyte X79-UD5
Intel i7 3930K & Corsair H100 (Push/Pull with 4x bequiet Shadow Wings)
4 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz
2 x 256GB Crucial m4 in RAID0 (455GB total)
500GB WD Caviar (Games & Steam Backup)
500GB WD Caviar (Documents & Other Backup)
1TB Seagate Barracuda - Full & ISO Backups
2 x Palit Jetstream 4GB GTX 680 (SLI)
2 x Sony DVDRW Drives (no need for bluray as I use the TV for that)
3 x iiyama 24" (5760 x 1080)
Razer Naga Epic
Logitech G510
Logitech X530 5.1 surround system
Plantronics GAMECOM 777 Headset

The Build

So, the pics mostly speak for themselves in the build process:

Original OCZ 750W PSU

And then something broke, had a few issues, sent some bits back to Aria, but more of my gear was needed for testing as they couldn't pinpoint the problem, queue me getting in the car...

Out it came

Also had a change of heart, the OCZ was only a few weeks old, but decided if I was going SLI with the new cards next year as well, stepping up to this would be a better idea:

Everything went back together ok (minus the Gigabyte 570) and in the meantime this arrived:

Along with the BoogiebugXL 'Desk' pad! The other half is getting me the Logitech G510 for christmas.

Below are some OLD benchmarks (Some still apply)

Benchmarking

Peak read @ 1010.58 MB/s, write @ 412.977 MB/s (this was with the 2x 128GB drives)

Damn windows score (My i7 920 @ 3.6Ghz scored 7.9 on CPU score!!)

Stock benchmarks/tests
i7 3930K @ 3.2Ghz (with Turbo enabled)
GTX570 @ 776/2100

Idle (Average 26 degrees - 18 ambient - delta 8)

IntelBurn Test in 107.67secs (Average 45.3 degrees - 18 ambient - delta 27.3)

GPU at idle (38 degrees - 18 ambient - delta 20)

GPU at load (55 degrees - 18 ambient - delta 37)

Boot Timer in 19.593 secs

PCMark 22668

X3 109.2fps

I've not bothered with 3DMark yet as the GPU isn't the main focus of the build, but did a quick Unigine 38.9avg, min 21.6 on Extreme

Overclocked benchmarks/tests
i7 3930K @ 4.37Ghz & 1.3V
GTX570 @ 835/2100 Stock Volts

Idle (Average 35.6 degrees - 22 ambient - delta 13.6)

IntelBurn Test in 58.42secs(Average 63.8 degrees - 22 ambient - delta 41.8)

Boot Timer in 15.303secs

PCMark 25401

X3 139.576fps

SuperPi 1M (8.6 secs)

Newer benches/pics

Got a single 2GB 680 to start with:

Changed to a 4GB Palit Jetstream

Added another

SparkleDJackson · Dec 21, 2012

Zing!!!

Noz_God · Dec 21, 2012

Nice

jamesriley94 · Dec 21, 2012

FANS!! FANS!!

FANS EVERYWHERE?!?!

MOAR!!

Bit loud is it?

And do you really need push/push/pull on an H100?

The Orange One · Dec 21, 2012

Nice Rig!

Seb.F · Dec 21, 2012

jamesriley94 said:
FANS!! FANS!!

FANS EVERYWHERE?!?!

MOAR!!

Bit loud is it?

And do you really need push/push/pull on an H100?

Fans everywhere indeed! The four large ones are very quiet, the beQuiet are too, the loudest one is the rear exhaust.

As for whether I need push/pull, probably not, but it means I can lower the fan speeds and still get decent temps. As with everything hobby-related, it's never about needing

Seb.F · Nov 26, 2013

I tend to lurk rather than post, but I should add a few updates to the rig.

At the moment, the HAF X is still around but looking at going to a Corsair 540 at some point.

SSD is now a single 750GB Samsung 840 EVO
GPUs are SLI Titans
Most of the mech drives are gone

I will take some better pics at some point.

Lyndon · Nov 26, 2013

Jesus christ. I really wish I had the money to do this. That's mental.

ObscureParadox · Nov 26, 2013

I assume you were running a ram disk for those last ATTO Disk benchmarks since those speeds seem impossible for a single 750GB evo.

Seb.F · Nov 26, 2013

No personally set ramdisk no. It's just a 'quirk' of the RAPID feature in Samsung Magician software, it does create an 'uncontrollable' ramdisk of its own that it will read/write from. Up to 1GB or so I think.

blockhd · Jan 2, 2014

A multi K RiG and 50 quid speakers

Looking great there m8!

Seb.F · Jan 3, 2014

New one is here matey http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=58770

For the record - with the speakers, I rarely use them and mostly use headset.

But for me, I think I get more satisfaction from building the rigs and messing with them than I do playing games on them!!

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