CplMOFO Posted March 22, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 22, 2011 Just received a "your order has been shipped" notice! For: -CPU/RAM/MOBO/Cooler... Looks like if everything is fine, I'll have a Sandy-Biatch in my case by the week-end... Awards
Bama Posted March 22, 2011 Member ID: 19 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4445 Content Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 2769 Achievement Points: 29415 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 3, 2024 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: Windows Posted March 22, 2011 So, where did you end up on GPU? If you are still tinkering, I luvs this guy for info: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-graphics-card-geforce-gtx-590-radeon-hd-6990,2879.html Awards
CplMOFO Posted March 22, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 22, 2011 I have to order in two shots...I did the first one (cpu/mobo/ram/cooler). Now, I'll wait for Wednesday's sale (March 23th) to order my graphics...in case some good sale comes up...and after all the 590 comes out on the 24th...might as well wait and see. Not dead set on what to grab yet...the gigabyte HD6990 can be found for $680 (3-year warranty), but it's LOUD! I'd rather go XFX for the lifetime warranty...Also, for the same price, you can grab 2 x Hd6970s which would give you an extra 8% perf, while maybe been not as loud...the HD6990 EXHAUSTs inside the case too (and against the airflow on top of that! Awards
CplMOFO Posted March 23, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 23, 2011 Finally got my first order in! As you can see, the noctua cooler is huge compared to the tiny CPU box... Also, notice the "New P67 B3 REVISION" notice at two different locations on the Asus motherboard box... It means it's the new version...it HAS to be a B3 (all brands would show either a B3 or REV 3 notice if they're the OK ones). For reference, the B3 means: new batch with corrected P67 chipset that doesn't have the SATA2 port degradation issue... Also, the Gskill Ripjaws X Ram modules are somewhat low in height, so no issues with the cooler's fans & fins...it's also 1.5Volts, for the best Sandy Bridge compatibility. actually, that rAM shows on the motherboard's QVL list (qualified RAM for this product).... Awards
Bama Posted March 23, 2011 Member ID: 19 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4445 Content Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 2769 Achievement Points: 29415 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 3, 2024 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: Windows Posted March 23, 2011 Very NICE MOFO.. I know you are excited. I noticed that NewEgg is sold out of that Mobo. Must be quite popular. I noticed that the PCIe is only x8x8 if you go CF or SLi.. so I guess you are just going with one card to get the full x16. Keep us up to date on the build. I wish you well!! Awards
CplMOFO Posted March 24, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 24, 2011 Bama, LOL I could go all out, grab a HD6990 (can be found for $680) and benefit from that 16X slot! GTX590 comes out tomorrow morning also...dual 580s downclocked to 600mhz... BUT, The PCI-E bandwidth on P67 brings something new compared to 8x/8x PCI-E 2.0 The CPU itself provides 16 dedicated lanes and the chipset an additional 8 lanes. On my board, there is also a PLX chips that adds "legacy" PCI support aside, without taking bandwidth from actual chipset... Also, this new bandwidth thingy below, taken from anandtech's review... The other major (and welcome) change is the move to PCIe 2.0 lanes running at 5GT/s. Currently, Intel chipsets support PCIe 2.0 but they only run at 2.5GT/s, which limits them to a maximum of 250MB/s per direction per lane. This is a problem with high bandwidth USB 3.0 and 6Gbps SATA interfaces connected over PCIe x1 slots. With the move to 5GT/s, Intel is at feature parity with AMD’s chipsets and more importantly the bandwidth limits are a lot higher. A single PCIe x1 slot on a P67 motherboard can support up to 500MB/s of bandwidth in each direction (1GB/s bidirectional bandwidth). so all high-bandwidth device will benefit form extra bandwidth at 500 MB/s both ways per lane... The analysis from Techpowerup shows that there is a 2% loss from going 8x/8x instead of 16x/16x on a GTX480...2% difference is not noticeable...also, the price of dual 16X/16X enthusiasts boards is a good $90 to $100 more...for a 2 to 4 % gain...and that was with the older p55 PCi-E slots at 2.5GT/s... ME WANTZ TEH SLIzzzzz Awards
Bama Posted March 24, 2011 Member ID: 19 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4445 Content Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 2769 Achievement Points: 29415 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 3, 2024 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: Windows Posted March 24, 2011 Ah, because the bandwidth of the lanes is doubled, x8/x8 on a 5GT/s is effectively equal to a x16/x16 on a 2.5GT/s.. minus a 2% loss. Makes sense.. looks like you have done your homework. I wonder why they didn't name it something different? (PCI-E 2.0+ perhaps). I guess the dual x16 boards for intel are much higher, cause I spent a little less than you did on an AMD CPU Mobo and got 3 x16's (if you triple up GFX.. it is actually only x16/x8/x8, but x16/x16 in dual CF/SLi). I have often thought about building an intel rig. I'd like to see your stress test results when your done. Have fun!!! Awards
CplMOFO Posted March 24, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 24, 2011 Well, Intel is out for our money, and they're masters at market segmentation...they're bad at it...right now, for 2X 16X on Sandy, the boards are selling for $300+...or you can go backwards and grab a socket 1366 boards...or wait for Ivy Bridge (socket 2011)... AMD always offers a little more, especially bandwidth...mostly for Crossfire boards tho...SLI certification on AMD boards is less common (they have to pay royalties to nVIDIA to get the certification/permission and they change 5$ to $10 a board to the mobo makers) Intel did bad when: -You want to OC = Unlocked cpu (K-series+P67 board) -You want to benefit from onboard video (imbedded in Sandy's CPU core) you NEED a H67 board which don't OC...lol Z68 chipset will offer both Overclocking AND the use of the SB graphics... Awards
Mr-Turkey Posted March 24, 2011 Member ID: 681 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 61 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/18/1977 Posted March 24, 2011 Glad u got your stuff Mofo , I ordered a few bits for my build yesterday and they turned up at work today Got my Ripjaws memory , Frio cooler (can't believe how big it is!) and a nice new Antec Truepower 750 psu. Will be ordering the 2600k and an Evo mobo on monday or tues next week to complete the line up. Let us know how you get on with your stuff Paul.
CplMOFO Posted March 24, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 24, 2011 I will keep you guys updated for sure....the revised Asus Boards are apparently coming with the latest BIOS, so it's good to know...almost all the "kinks" are already worked out! and I just ordered my Graphics card....CALL ME AN XTREME IDIOT!!!! FOR YOUR INFO, you don't want to manually overclock a card like that... Good thing EVGA offers lifetime warranty!!!!!!!!!! Yea...I know...crazy... The classified is a factory Overclocked card with dual GTX580 chips onboard, linked together by an nVIDIA NF-200 PCI-E bridge chip. NF-200 (SLI bridging interface) It comes with: -The custom EVGA backplate (pretty sexy IMHO) -EVGA GTX590 t-shirt -EVGA high quality mouse pad/ gaming surface (seems like the Razor Destructor mouse pad I estimate a $40 value) -A FREE full copy of 3DMARKS11 -LIFETIME WARRANTY!!!! I know a little overkill...BUT those cards are drawing LESS wattage than dual GTX570 SLI...but you have GTX580 chips (abeit a little downclocked) to keep power within reason...good thing I got an XFX 850 Watts Black edition 71Amps single-rail (made by Seasonic).. the color is a little weird, but it's upside down in my case I'll keep this updated!!! I'll wait for the card to show up to build, that way, I won't install ATI drivers on the fresh install...I'll start nVIDIA from the get go... Awards
Mr-Turkey Posted March 25, 2011 Member ID: 681 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 61 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/18/1977 Posted March 25, 2011 No way! A 590! Jeez you are gonna have one hell of a nice system! That will be an exciting delivery
CplMOFO Posted March 25, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 25, 2011 Yes it will be really nice, but I have the strong feeling that I'll be keeping this new rig for a long long time (not by choice).That's why I went a little "extreme"... after this rig, I think next time I speak "computer upgrades" with my old lady, she's gonna "assassinate" me...lol my life is in dangerz Also, it's one of the reasons why I picked a 2500K instead of the 2600K...I saved a much appreciated $100 that I put towards the graphics...at least that's how I seen it... Reviewers are using Intel 980X and 990x CPUs for benchtesting their hardware, but Sandy bridge ( with an high-average overclock) offers almost the same CPU power for much less...that 2500K is the most bang for the buck gaming CPU in a long time...if not of all time..even the 2600K+hyperthreading is CHEAP compared to a $999 i7 extreme 980X... I seen a video of the gTX590, where the guy mention the famous "SOURCE" games...(L4D, TF2 and all those) and the GTX590 is so fast in those, it's not even worth it to benchmark using those games... (cause there too easy for today's cards to run) In this day and age of "console ports", like Black ops, this 590 should be good enough until the launch of COD ALL-STARS 50th anniversary (joke)... At least I'll be ready for Battlefield 3 with it's "frostbite 2" demolition engine, Doom 4 (iD software,on the production line), Rage (also from Id Software) Awards
Mr-Turkey Posted March 25, 2011 Member ID: 681 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 61 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/18/1977 Posted March 25, 2011 When is the beast being delivered? I decided not to wait as I had some cash come in today so I whacked it in my bank and ordered my cpu and mobo this morning for a Saturday delivery so you can guess what I will be upto tomorrow lol.
CplMOFO Posted March 25, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 25, 2011 As I ordered at night, it hadn't shipped that night...so I assume that might ship tonight, but Purolator doesn't deliver during the week-end...so Monday or Tuesday...it's coming from the next province over... I will have time to build my rig and will install an ol GTX260 for a day or two...then I'll be ready for the card when it comes... So Turkey, what did you order exactly? Awards
CplMOFO Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 26, 2011 First few pics...I started building. My RAM is REALLY close to the heatsink!!! About 2mm or 1/16"... Also, the Noctua NH-U12P is pretty easy to install..nice little guide... Tomorrow, I'll "secure-erase" my OCZ Vertex 120 GB SSD, to get it ready for Win7 64 install...then I'll swap...if everything goes according to plan, tomorrow, I'll be testing my new platform...I'll install my old gtx260 (just to install an nVIDIA card) and to NOT corrupt the driver install with ATI drivers (that's why I won't put my HD5870 in there for a 2-3 days, until my GTX590 shows up) Awards
tsw 8.5 Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 144 Topic Count: 537 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 17539 Content Per Day: 3.13 Reputation: 42642 Achievement Points: 151906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 691 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Online Last Seen: 8 minutes ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Posted March 26, 2011 dam nice looking rig so fr ..that cooler looks like it will not fit in any case .big ass thing Awards
CplMOFO Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 26, 2011 LOL...you know what? Those "close-up" pics are deceiving...if I measure from mobo to top of cooler, it's 7" thick...so many 8"-wide gaming cases are good to go... The right one is mine... Coolermaster ATCS840 full tower...besides, it's my former Antec 300 (which a pretty good cheap gaming case BTW). Now my daughter uses it... That little spoiled brat will get my Q9550/4GB/HD5870 once my Sandy rig is all set... That Antec 300 could fit my Radeon HD5870 with a 1/4" before it touches the hard-drive cage...pretty good, those Radeons are a little long (11 inches). Of course, the 300 is a little old and there is some nicer alternatives, like the coolermaster Haf 912 ($60 US at newegg.com) and stuff...but something to keep in mind! It all depends on what kind and how many videocards you want to be able to fit inside... Awards
Mr-Turkey Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 681 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 61 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/18/1977 Posted March 26, 2011 CplMOFO As I ordered at night, it hadn't shipped that night...so I assume that might ship tonight, but Purolator doesn't deliver during the week-end...so Monday or Tuesday...it's coming from the next province over... I will have time to build my rig and will install an ol GTX260 for a day or two...then I'll be ready for the card when it comes... So Turkey, what did you order exactly? Yeah , I wouldn't be able to wait to build. My stuff is here! Delivered at 8am! Lucky I was up early with my daughter. I have infront of me - i7 2600k Asus P8P67 Evo B3 revision 8gb G.skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600mhz 8-8-8-24 Blue ram Thermaltake Frio cooler Antec Truepower new 750 psu Time for the build to commence! Will post some pics later and my thoughts if you like? Cheers Paul.
CplMOFO Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 26, 2011 Thanks a really nice setup you got there indeed!!! You'll be happy, I'm sure... for the Thermaltake cooler, it's a good one, but apparently it's a little bit of a pain to install, if you take your time you'll be fine. I'll start building this morning, so I'll be offline for the day I guess...crossing fingers!!!!!!!! Awards
Mr-Turkey Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 681 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 61 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/18/1977 Posted March 26, 2011 Goodluck with your build Mofo. The frio was not too bad , just had to read the instructions a few times before fitting. The system is all up and running now , all windows updates done , security , drivers etc Even found the time for a little overclocking lol Just gone for a 4.5 clock for now till I get used to it , hit a max temp of 66 degree's when I was running Prime95 I am extremely impressed with the setup , its benchmarking very sweet. I am gonna attempt to put some pics up , might go wrong so bear with me , I am an idiot when it comes to pics for some reason! Will be testing it out on some games later Edit- Can't get pics up so have put some direct links below. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/paulpicks21/pc/Pic1.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/paulpicks21/pc/pic2.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/paulpicks21/pc/pic3.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/paulpicks21/pc/pic4.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/paulpicks21/pc/pic5.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/paulpicks21/pc/45OC.png http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/paulpicks21/pc/wei.png Cheers Paul.
CplMOFO Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 26, 2011 Nice pics? What's that gfx card? A Powercolor 5870? My build is good to go too...haven't fiddled too much with cable management yet... My old setup... God loves motherboard trays...easy to build... My new setup....got a 4.2GHz overclock I don't know why or how, I haven't looked into it yet...LOLZ I think that's an auto OC setting...lol In the case, with some cable clutter....I'll be working on that when the GTx590 with show up to my door...now the old GTX260 back on duty!!! Awards
Bama Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 19 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4445 Content Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 2769 Achievement Points: 29415 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 3, 2024 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: Windows Posted March 26, 2011 Is that an old GTX in that case? Sure looks like a Radeon card.. (Couldn't stand it?) Awards
Mr-Turkey Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 681 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 61 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/18/1977 Posted March 26, 2011 Very nice and shiny! My card is a 5850 , recon I will upgrade that around christmas time when I have saved a bit. Clocked mine to 4.8 earlier but it wasnt stable and I was at 1.39vcore , still alot of speculation as to what a safe everyday voltage is for these chips so I backed it down to 4.6ghz at 1.36v which will be fine for now lol. Passmark performance test result was amazing at 4.8ghz tho , check the scores out for all the other top cpu's on this list - www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html At 4.8ghz my 2600k scored 12443 Not bad considering the price eh!
CplMOFO Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Device: Windows Author Posted March 26, 2011 Bama: This is a spare EVGA GTX260 Core 216 card...Monday or Tuesday, I'll receive my GTX590. Because the GTX590 is nVIDIA (of course), I didn't want to reinstall my Radeon 5870 and load CCC drivers on my new win7 install... LOL, I'm running the same settings!...4.6GHz, 1.36V, staying below 70 degrees Cel. I can get to 4.8 easy, but at 1.4V and the temps are at around 75 a little high IMHO It's pretty easy and nice to deal with that new EFI (BIOS replacement)... Awards
Mr-Turkey Posted March 26, 2011 Member ID: 681 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 61 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/18/1977 Posted March 26, 2011 Oh yes , the new EFI bios is sweet to work with , great to use the mouse in it and is pleasing on the eye too! Your 590 is gonna be awesome , far too much money for me atm , in the uk they cost the same as all the bits I have just bought put together! Have fun Paul.
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