they should be here by Friday....

oh and I also forgot myself and added a second Radeon 4870

Hehe... jolly good... nice weekend building the beast up then!!!

And very cheeky... sneaking that second GFX card in there at the last second!

A few teaser pics of mine - managed to free up an hour and a half last night so got the mobo, cpu, memory and one of the Radeon 4870's in so far.

The case and CPU h/sink fan unit are Hooooge - it makes the motherboard look tiny; which it isnt!

Cant wait to get overclocking and benchmarking!

Lee

tasty

These GFX cards are starting too take over the cases these days !!!

Nice looking box though :thumbup:

These GFX cards are starting too take over the cases these days !!!

Nice looking box though :thumbup:

I was thinking something similar,

How would the cooling work on the graphics cards when you have more than one, as they will be next to each other and wouldn't it mean the cards with the fans blocked would overheat :confused:

There will be 'some' space between the cards as I'll use the furthest most PCIE 16 slot (not the adjacent one, unless this has a detrimental affect on performance in which case I wont! ). The airflow from the 120mm fans at the front will then supply a fair degree of air movement over and between the cards.

Saying the above though, I do see where you are coming from. The GPU's are going to be giving out a lot of heat and stacking them in the manner that dual PCIE requires seems to heighten the issue! :(

Lee

I reckon you might have to use the adjacent slot for the second GPU... but not sure it might work in the other one.

I reckon there will be sufficient air and space around the cards to cool them properly... not sure how hot they run those cards though!

This is giving me itchy computer upgrade feet!! hehe

Phil

p.s. I can see one problem though... they seem to have designed the northbridge heatsink with a top-down cooler in mind... I would be concerned about that gettin the cooling it needs although the heatsink behind the cpu heatskink looks decently high and is linked via a heatpipe so should be good to go!

Ordered it from DABS.com - always had good service from them before

I've just sorted the returns number for the drives and ordered the right ones - they should be here by Friday....

oh and I also forgot myself and added a second Radeon 4870

A second! :eek:

What was wrong with the drives? Which ones did you get instead?

A second! :eek:

What was wrong with the drives? Which ones did you get instead?

As per my earlier post on the thread: "all parts arrived today but the drives are wrong (oem version with no 3.5" heatsink surround) so they will probably be returned for the correct versions. May get to start the build over the next few evenings; watch this space..."

Got the optical drives in (bluray/HD DVD + DVDR unit) now, just waiting for the other bits to turn up now.

Got the PC up and running - ran the benchmark from the OP in this thread and scored 18685 - hopefully when the GPU and CPU are overclocked it should increase somewhat.

Will post back then.

...and with just 10 mins of playing before I shoot out for the day...

26625

Thats with NO voltage increases either! Have left it running to see how stable it is at that before pushing it further. Thats running the four cores at 3.81ghz.

Lee

Totally stable running at 3.9 GHz and that is still with no voltage increases over standard!!

Totally stable running at 3.9 GHz and that is still with no voltage increases over standard!!

****! :P

thats damn impressive!.. should play doom pretty well

My Q9450 was one of the early steppings thats a royal PITA to clock past 3.4

Been trying out other settings in the BIOS and was able to get the following results from a little Dual Core processor

Give me a few months and I think I can get over 4.5 GHz from the core speed

Slightly OT - but im thinking of selling up my above I7 rig to fund a little project next month. Could anyone advise on where to sell it ie any specialist forums? Im being almost generous with the asking price - 60+% less than I paid in fact - but I have no idea where to advertise!

Cheers,

Lee

Would it perhaps be worth stripping it and selling the parts?

Would it perhaps be worth stripping it and selling the parts?

I guess I could but just dont have the time to do it in all honesty. It would also have to be a local pick up thinking about it as I wouldnt want to pay carriage on this thing!!!!

I'll have a hunt around for some specific forums, cheers,

Lee

Hexus is a decent UK forum... as are overclockers

My computer is definitely going to get nowhere near any of the ones on here but at least it doesn't smell of burning anymore and doesn't seem to cut out after running for 5 minutes, so I'm happy.

Hexus is a decent UK forum... as are overclockers

Hexus is a 50 post minimum and OcUK is a minimum of 90 days membership and 250 post count.

If you're a member on here, the For Sale section is as good a place to start as any.

And ebay is still a decent place to sell stuff.

Just done mine and brian's work computers for the sake of it..

Mine is a Dual Core overclocked from 2.13 to 2.4ghz - Score 7,318

Brians is a Quad Core standard at 2.44Ghz - Score 12,811

I think i'll overclock his when he's away from the desk

Just did my brothers custom built laptop and my laptop what I paid £197 for at my works clearance event last October.

My brothers laptop: Intel Core2Duo Centrino 2 P9500 (2.53Ghz), 3GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600 (1GB) - Score 8372

My laptop: AMD Athlon X2 TK-57 (1.9Ghz), 3GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 7000 (128MB) - Score 4887

Just been playing with a few more settings in the BIOS and got my little 3.16GHz Core 2 Duo overclocked to 4595.083 MHz

and all this at the moment with 1CPU fan and a case fan

Anyone got any air con I can borrow :P I am going for the 5000MHz mark

Also not touched the Voltages yet, anyone understand these and how this will help hit the 5GHz mark

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This thread makes me so envious, lol. I made my computer faster by changing from Windows to Linux I doubt my AMD 2800XP will have anything on any of these beasts

Anyone got any air con I can borrow I am going for the 5000MHz mark

There used to be some seriously interesting CPU coolers out there, including liquid cooling, and I'm sure I remember some sort of fridge type one.

This thread makes me so envious, lol. I made my computer faster by changing from Windows to Linux I doubt my AMD 2800XP will have anything on any of these beasts

There used to be some seriously interesting CPU coolers out there, including liquid cooling, and I'm sure I remember some sort of fridge type one.

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