4c Hajduk Veljko Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Thermaltake Kandalf (Liquid Cooling System), Etasis ET750 Power Supply, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UDR3 motherboard, i7-920, Gigabyte HD5850 video card, OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 RAM, OCZ Vertex 2 X 30GB in RAID 0, LG Blue-ray burner. The system runs BS very well. I still can not push all settings to max on FC. I am running it at stock speed so as to make sure everything works all right. In few weeks I'll start overcloacking the CPU. Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Ramstein Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Thermaltake Kandalf (Liquid Cooling System), Etasis ET750 Power Supply, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UDR3 motherboard, i7-920, Gigabyte HD5850 video card, OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 RAM, OCZ Vertex 2 X 30GB in RAID 0, LG Blue-ray burner. The system runs BS very well. I still can not push all settings to max on FC. I am running it at stock speed so as to make sure everything works all right. In few weeks I'll start overcloacking the CPU. what was the cost of all? ballpark is ok.. thanx.. ASUS Strix Z790-H, i9-13900, WartHog HOTAS and MFG Crosswind G.Skill 64 GB Ram, 2TB SSD EVGA Nvidia RTX 2080-TI (trying to hang on for a bit longer) 55" Sony OLED TV, Oculus VR
Kuky Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 give it a couple of day to a week of burn-in time for the CPU before overclocking. PC specs: Windows 11 Home | Asus TUF Gaming B850-Plus WiFi | AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D + LC 360 AIO | MSI RTX 5090 LC 360 AIO | 55" Samsung Odyssey Gen 2 | 64GB PC5-48000 DDR5 | 1TB M2 SSD for OS | 2TB M2 SSD for DCS | NZXT C1000 Gold ATX 3.1 1000W | TM Cougar Throttle, Floor Mounted MongoosT-50 Grip on TM Cougar board, MFG Crosswind, Track IR
Krippz Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 give it a couple of day to a week of burn-in time for the CPU before overclocking. Agreed. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 64th "Scorpions" Aggressor Squadron Discord: 64th Aggressor Squadron TS: 195.201.110.22
Konovalov Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Sounds like a nice rig. I'm jealous and feeling insignificant with my E6600 still chugging away. :smilewink: A few days of getting to know your new system then let the overclocking commence. I feel a +4.2Ghz overclock coming on with this liquid cooled system. However I would have gone with an i7-930 if available considering this being a new build. Apparently they have a little bit more overclocking headroom over the i7-920. Intel i7-8700K | Asus Maximus X Formula | Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 3200MHz | Gainward Phoenix GTX1070 GLH | Samsung 960 EVO NVMe 1 x 250GB OS & 1 x 500GB Games | Corsair RM750x 750W | Corsair Carbide Air 540| Win10 | Dell 27" 1440p 60Hz | Custom water loop: CPU EK-Supremacy EVO, GPU EK-GTX JetStream - Acetal+Nickel & Backplate, Radiator EK-Coolstream PE 360, Pump & Res EK-XRES 140 Revo D5, Fans 3 x EK-Vardar 120mm & 2 x Corsair ML140 140mm
4c Hajduk Veljko Posted March 22, 2010 Author Posted March 22, 2010 what was the cost of all? ballpark is ok.. thanx.. Kandalf Case $278.00 Motherboard $209.99 RAM $199.99 Windows 7 (OEM) $104.99 Video card $317.86 Blue-ray burner $148.99 SSD adaptors $20.97 30GB SSD (124.99 each) $249.88 Etasis PS $49.99 i7-920 $288.99 Total $1,869.65 Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
4c Hajduk Veljko Posted March 23, 2010 Author Posted March 23, 2010 Here's few pictures: 1 Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Konovalov Posted March 23, 2010 Posted March 23, 2010 Very nice pics. :thumbup: Look forward to your overclocking and benchmark results. Intel i7-8700K | Asus Maximus X Formula | Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 3200MHz | Gainward Phoenix GTX1070 GLH | Samsung 960 EVO NVMe 1 x 250GB OS & 1 x 500GB Games | Corsair RM750x 750W | Corsair Carbide Air 540| Win10 | Dell 27" 1440p 60Hz | Custom water loop: CPU EK-Supremacy EVO, GPU EK-GTX JetStream - Acetal+Nickel & Backplate, Radiator EK-Coolstream PE 360, Pump & Res EK-XRES 140 Revo D5, Fans 3 x EK-Vardar 120mm & 2 x Corsair ML140 140mm
goldfinger35 Posted April 4, 2010 Posted April 4, 2010 (edited) Nice rig! i7-920 is a great proc. I have pushed my i7-920 to 3.5ghz (with stock cooling). You only have two SSD disks, without HDDs? Or do you use SSDs only for OS and other stuff is on your HDD? Edited April 4, 2010 by goldfinger35 i7 920@4.0Ghz, 12 GB RAM, ATI 4890, LG L246WHX@1920x1200, Saitek X52 Pro, Saitek pro flight rudder pedals, TrackIR4, Audigy 2ZS, Logitech G9x, Vista 64bit.
Pilotasso Posted April 4, 2010 Posted April 4, 2010 standard large magnetic drives would be usefull for backups. SSD's are prone to some issues (not yet a mature technology) and if you only have those you might get some upsets. Next year I will buy a new system ,planning 1 SSD for OS and LOMAC and another magnetic size 2TB+ for my backups docs and movies. .
4c Hajduk Veljko Posted April 4, 2010 Author Posted April 4, 2010 Nice rig! i7-920 is a great proc. I have pushed my i7-920 to 3.5ghz (with stock cooling). You only have two SSD disks, without HDDs? Or do you use SSDs only for OS and other stuff is on your HDD?I brought my system up to 4.0GHz and it was too easy. I never even played with voltages yet. I'll give it several months and maybe continue pushing it up, but for now, I am spending my time playing FC and BS. :) SSD's in my system are for the boot disk and few applications. Later on I'll buy and install standard hard drives for other, none critical applications. Although I am tempted to buy few more SSD's and go further into the RAID 0. Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Vekkinho Posted April 5, 2010 Posted April 5, 2010 I'm very happy for you Haj!!! Sounds great, did you push FC2.0 settings to max with clock like that? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
4c Hajduk Veljko Posted April 6, 2010 Author Posted April 6, 2010 (edited) I'm very happy for you Haj!!! Sounds great, did you push FC2.0 settings to max with clock like that?Thank you very much my friend! Yes, I did put all settings on maximum and just this evening did some testing. Resolution is 1920 x 1200, zoom level in the cab is at max. Through this little testing, I confirmed what we already know about FC. The faster the processor the better FC works. I roughly OC's the processor for 49% and got almost 40% gain in FPS. Here are the test results: And few pictures: BTW, here's the link to the trk file I used for testing: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ebycfq Edited April 6, 2010 by =4c= Hajduk Veljko Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Pilotasso Posted April 6, 2010 Posted April 6, 2010 Looks like your set to go. Im doing next year hopefully. Right now would be a waste of money. .
goldfinger35 Posted April 7, 2010 Posted April 7, 2010 Nice results. Regarding total 3d mark score; I got similar results (small increase in total score when I overclocked my proc, huge increase in cpu score). You should also overclock your gpu (for other games; there is almost no gain in DCS and LO)... i7 920@4.0Ghz, 12 GB RAM, ATI 4890, LG L246WHX@1920x1200, Saitek X52 Pro, Saitek pro flight rudder pedals, TrackIR4, Audigy 2ZS, Logitech G9x, Vista 64bit.
Pyroflash Posted April 8, 2010 Posted April 8, 2010 (edited) All of you and your overclocking are making me and my I7-975 feel weak... Nice build! Really is too bad most games nowadays don't take advantage of the power offered by multiple cores. After all, you can only push electrons through those tiny transistors so fast... Edit: Hmm... it seems your QPI is only bustling along at 3.6 GHz, when your CPU is clocking in at 4.0 GHz. This could be limiting your overall performance and you may want to consider overclocking your motherboard as well. Of course, if everything is working fine, I wouldn't be the one to touch it. Edited April 8, 2010 by Pyroflash If you aim for the sky, you will never hit the ground.
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