Nip/Tuck

[DrNip]

Well I thought it was time to go ahead and start a thread on this little o machine I have been working on the past few weeks. It is a week or two a way from being complete. All it is lacking is RAM, which should be here in the next day or two and a GTX 580 which should come the 1st week of February. My goal was to build a machine little, compact and freaking powerful. I got tired of big, over the top cases. This case is just big enough to fit a GTX 580 and that is it. No room to spare. Enough talk time for a few pics.

Not going to reveal the case yet but here are a couple sneak peeks if you will. Had to throw some paint on the inside to make it match the outside of the case. Ya'll are free to guess what it is if you like.

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And now for some pics of the mobo/CPU/RAM. The RAM is being switched out due to not being compatible. Too bad as I would have loved to run it.

Intel 2600k CPU
Asus Pro Micro Mobo
Samuel 17 CPU Cooler
Xigmatek XLF 120mm PWM Fan
Super Talent 2133 Cas 8 RAM

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More to come...

[DrNip]

Few more pics.

Silverstone 850w Strider Gold Series PSU w/ Silverstone PP05 Short Cable Supply

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Western Digital 640GB Sata III HDD & Crucial C300 256 GB Sata III SSD

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One more sneak peek of the case all painted up with black PCI slot covers. Two more Xigmatek XLF 120mm PWM Fans. Asus 24x DVD burner hidden up top there. Yes I painted it black too! ROFL

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Still more to come...

[Hondacity]

wow very nice..psu clears the cpu cooler fan?

what case is that? ist small ish

[DrNip]

Clearance of PSU and CPU fan is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/2" - 3/4". Not much I tell ya. I am a little worried about this but have plans of either a Coolit or Corsair H60 watercooling setup if this is a problem.

[Witchdoctor]

Looks sick Travis.

Nice work bro........ :thumbsup:

Can't wait to see this build come full circle ..

All bad on my end :ohcrap:

[Neuromancer]

Nice Nip :)

Looks a bit like some Brand Name PC cases from a while back. Early 2000 era IBM before they went all super SFF. IIRC

[kikicoco1334]

2600k ftw!

[Splave]

ooOOOoooOOH I like

[ny_driver]

Looks pretty sweet. :thumbsup: I just built a similar yet much less expensive box for someone that looked kind of like yours. Small black case and micro ASUS board with blue trim anyways.

[Chuchnit]

Nice case :D

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163164

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163159

Can't figure out which one....

[DrNip]

Haha Chuchnit you are sooooo close but no cigar. Guess again.

[HITandRUN]

Sweet looking rig. I bet you the 2600K is dying to see some LN2. :D

[Chuchnit]

Haha Chuchnit you are sooooo close but no cigar. Guess again.

What can I say? I know your style. At first I thought lian li, but the case looked metal, not ALU. Next move was to browse Silverstone. I'm guessing you maybe went with an older variant of those cases? I was thinking TJ-04 but that's not it. I'll guess it yet though... :)

[DrNip]

No it is their newest. I'm telling you you were so close. It is Silverstone. I did want an all aluminum case but couldn't find one that met my criteria. This one has an aluminum front and metal shell. I'll post some pics of it tonight.

[Chuchnit]

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_361&products_id=23941

You got the one with the handle on top. ;)

[DrNip]

Bazinga! You sir are a winner. Dunno how you didn't see it over at the egg? Man I love this case. It is about half the size of a mid tower.

[DrNip]

Few more pics. Look how little it is compared to the Cooler Master Storm Scout mid size tower! ROFL

This case had everything I was looking for in a case. It had to be clean, small/compact, light and have a carrying handle.

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[Neuromancer]

Not bad. Does the PSU mount with Fan towards the side panel or the CPU cooler. I can never remember what part the offset screw is on a psu lol

DUH I have one next to me lol

Very nice. Cant wait to see the temp results :)

[DrNip]

I believe you can mount it either way. I chose for the fan to be towards the side panel window. I have a feeling though I will be going with a watercooling setup in the end.

[Chuchnit]

Man 580 is gonna be TIGHT!! You sure it'll fit?

[DrNip]

Yep. :D

[DrNip]

Everything is up and running. Talk about different. I can tell you right now this CPU heatsink isn't going to cut it. Temps idle at 3.4ghz are 50 degrees!!! Prolly weould have been better off running without a cooler. ROFL

[Witchdoctor]

H70 does a decent job but not top notch by any means ....

tight build bro .... :thumbsup:

[DrNip]

Few more pics.

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Definitely decided to order a water cooling setup. Dunno if I can wait until the H60 drops in two months so will prolly go with the Coolit or Corsair H70. Dunno if the H70 will fit though. Also going to order some more fans as I'm not impressed with the airflow or lighting on these.

[ny_driver]

Holy power supply Batman!

[Witchdoctor]

They are the stix I asked G.Skill to send me back as they are out of the ones I am returning for RMA,

Thing is beastly bro ............ :thumbsup:

[DrNip]

Haven't tested them out yet beyond installing and turning the computer on. Sure they are nice though. Cas 6 @ 1600 with only 1.5volts = win for me.

I have an old 2xxx series ATi card in there for now to get me by until my GTX580 is ordered.

Didn't have much time last night or this morning to get to know the computer. Had it at 4.7ghz this morning so at least it isn't a dud so far. Sunday looks to be my best time to really get to know it.

[Witchdoctor]

they will do 7-10-7-27 @ 2000 I would bet

[DrNip]

OK, this CPU cooler isn't happening and is getting thrown off the I-40 bridge when my new Coolit ECO gets here. Can't wait 2 months for the H60 to go retail. Ordered some new fans too as these aren't jiving either. Temps were 80 degrees idle at 5ghz!!!

[Hondacity]

ouch...stock cooler ftw :D

[DrNip]

The thought has crossed my mind to put it on.

[DrNip]

Can't call it with this platform. Updated my BIOS to 601 and now when I disable CPU C6 Report I can't multi clock in Windows. I enable it and I can. Not to mention when enabled my Control Panel -> High Performance trick doesn't work anymore. CPU will downclock to 16 multi as well as volts downclock. Don't know if OS is reporting wrong but CPUz and Asus Suite II are both showing 16 multi but realtemp is showing 32-34 multi. Multi is set at 38 in BIOS. Fixing to roll back BIOS to original.

[Witchdoctor]

Ahh that is strange,

The High preformance trick works for me in XP but not Win 7 :Dizzy:

Asus I hope addresses all these weird problems....

[DrNip]

Oh and PS2 mouse quit working as well with 601 BIOS for me.

[Witchdoctor]

Did you try the gambit or just revert to shipped BIOS ?

[DrNip]

Won't let me revert back to any other bios. Keeps giving message that image is out of date.

[Witchdoctor]

That is bull shit !!!

Did you try 413 ?

[DrNip]

Tried everyone of them. 405, 413 and 414. Sick of this downclocking bullshit. Give me a mobo that doesn't have those features. Also sick of this +/- voltage crap. Give me a mobo that 1.3v is 1.3v in the BIOS. Tired of having to pull out a calculator to calculate what my voltage is if I set it to -.25 or something in the BIOS. Maybe I'm just frustrated talking but damn.

[rickss69]

Lol... http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1581788

[DrNip]

I'm quiting my focus on Windows overclocking and working on BIOS, or excuse me, EUFI clocking since this is mainly going to be an everyday, gamer pc. So far 4.5ghz stable at 1.27v. Think I can get more BCLK at them volts.

Here are some pics with Coolit ECO and Akaska fans in. I had to do some extensive modding to the fan casing and front clip piece to get the radiator and bottom 120mm fan to fit. Nothing a rotary tool couldn't handle. Temps are lovely now. Also switched my HDD and SSD around. Threw the SSD in a SDD mount with plans of getting another one on top of it for my benching drive.

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[rickss69]

Very tidy Nip! :good:

[DrNip]

I'll get the finalized pics in a week when my 580 drops.

[DOM]

one small ass case.... think ill step on it on accident :laugh:

[DrNip]

4.7ghz stable @ 1.32v. Back to the drawing board to see if I can squeeze a little more out at them volts. TBH, SB is waaaay to easy to overclock. Remember when you had to work for your overclock? No longer. Only voltage I have touched is vcore.

[DrNip]

Damn I wish I could do some Windows overclocking on the multi without it downclocking on me. Here is a 5.3ghz boot. :D

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1628984

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[DrNip]

5.4ghz boot. All on my little Asus Pro Micro that could. :D

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1629011

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Might have to invest in some better cooling and a MTX mobo.

[rickss69]

Good on you buddy - now mine won't clock at all lol.

[DrNip]

Sorry bro. sorry.

Hold the phones. 5.5ghz boot. :D

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1629011

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[Neuromancer]

What temps are you getting?

[DrNip]

Dunno didn't look. Will when I do it again.

[rickss69]

Mine will not accept vcore over 1.54 volts...refuses to boot even cold. 5.3GHz is the highest I have managed.

[DrNip]

Yeah I'm going to take this to the garage tonight where temps are ass cold and see what she can do.

[Witchdoctor]

Mine will not accept vcore over 1.54 volts...refuses to boot even cold. 5.3GHz is the highest I have managed.

Same here.... ?

New BIOS Please :keeporder:

[Hondacity]

Sorry bro. sorry.

Hold the phones. 5.5ghz boot. :D

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1629011

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you haz goooood chip...:thumbsup:

[Hondacity]

whats wrong with 1.54v and above? just disable cpu vcore monitoring..

[DrNip]

Strange, mine isn't disabled. That does make since for ya'll having problems though.

5.5ghz was really quite simple. All I did was disable the usual CPU downclocking settings in the BIOS and set vcore manually in BIOS or excuse me EUFI. That was it. No other volt settings touched. Of course I only have two other volt settings in EUFI well three if you count RAM, ROFL.

[Hondacity]

Strange, mine isn't disabled. That does make since for ya'll having problems though.

5.5ghz was really quite simple. All I did was disable the usual CPU downclocking settings in the BIOS and set vcore manually in BIOS or excuse me EUFI. That was it. No other volt settings touched. Of course I only have two other volt settings in EUFI well three if you count RAM, ROFL.

it could be their llc was overvolting and hitting the ovp(warning)...

[DrNip]

Over volting that far? That would have to be a pretty heavy over volt or else the over volt protection isn't that high on SB's. Can't call it on this one.

[Hondacity]

ovp warning...

its a warning

[DrNip]

I know it is a warning. I just can't imagine it overvolting that far is all. I don't know what it would be related to. Overvolting, BIOS or chip related I dunno.

[Hondacity]

youll bench later in the cold...try 1.6v and take pics of the ovp warning message..

[DrNip]

Ahhh your talking about the little annoying message that pops up in the bottom right of the screen. Gotcha now. Seen it already. Sorry. I'm a little slow sometimes. I was sitting here thinking OVP and thinking it was around 1.95 or so and was trying to figure out how their vcore set to 1.54 was being overvolted that high.

EDIT: Shouldn't he still be able to boot if he is only hitting the warning?

[rickss69]

whats wrong with 1.54v and above? just disable cpu vcore monitoring..

All monitoring on ignore/disabled. Still would not take over 1.54 volts.

[DrNip]

Wow. Just tried installing Xp and having the same problems witchdoctor did. After the initial loading of files I get a blue screen of death after the windows is now starting. WTF!?! I didn't even get to any options. Oh well, Windows 7 it is.

[Chuchnit]

Travis, you don't have ACHI enabled do you?

[DrNip]

Doh. Yeah. Good looking out bro.

Newest validation, 5.6ghz boot!!!!!!!!!!!

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1630881

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I can't overclock the BCLK anything past 100 on 5ghz or more. Thinking it might be mobo related. Thinking of getting a better mobo and seeing what she can do. Gots to find the money somehow.

[Kal-EL]

wow, 5.6ghz is promise land ish :)

[DrNip]

Still can't get XP to install. Have tried two different disk. I give. Asus P67 isn't capatible with XP or some shit. Keep getting a NTLDR is missing. PS2 and USB mouse doesn't work nor USB keyboard. Only PS2 keyboard. XP use to be an easy install and I have done it too many times. It ain't this hard. In the end somehow I ended up corrupting my Windows 7 install on my SDD? WTF? Looks like I will be a Windows 7 strictly bencher.

[rickss69]

Try the SATA 6.0 Gb's connectors just for giggles...

[Witchdoctor]

Still can't get XP to install. Have tried two different disk. I give. Asus P67 isn't capatible with XP or some shit. Keep getting a NTLDR is missing. PS2 and USB mouse doesn't work nor USB keyboard. Only PS2 keyboard. XP use to be an easy install and I have done it too many times. It ain't this hard. In the end somehow I ended up corrupting my Windows 7 install on my SDD? WTF? Looks like I will be a Windows 7 strictly bencher.


Same thing here, it is the defective chipset Asus told me. I got it on my 5th XP disc.

the Yellow one ...... :clapping:

[Hondacity]

on asus vanila p67...
i have 4 ssds....and two have xp...two have win7....easy installs with ide :D

[rickss69]

When you get ready to sell that chip Nip I call first dibs. ;)

[DrNip]

IDE enabled. 1st XP was a retail CD. I would get all the way to the black screen asking if display or resolution was ok. Tried everything I could to click the ok but couldn't because both PS2 and USB mouse wasn't functioning. So I tried a Winlite version that had that option took out. Could get to XP desktop but that was it. No matter what I did both mice didn't work. Loaded all drivers and still no jive. As soon as I rebooted I would get the ntldr missing error. Didn't even mess with the Taiserver as I imagine it would be the same but in a foreign language which would have pissed me off to the breaking point. Just going to run what I can in Windows 7, bench my GTX580 next week and call it until I can get a replacement mobo when the start to sell them.

[Witchdoctor]

Wow 5.6 ......... sick ... nice job bro

[DrNip]

Thank you, thank you. Didn't even try 57 multi yet.

[Witchdoctor]

How did you get past the voltage lock ???

Mine won't go past 1.53 ???

[DrNip]

What voltage lock? Mine doesn't have that. I just set it and forget it, lol.

[ReverendMaynard]

sick stuff Nip!

[Witchdoctor]

tLq27iOW0R0

[DrNip]

ROFL. If you guys are limited on your voltage then I retract my statement of it is your cpu to it might be your mobo. Some of ya'll prolly have a little more in your chips but your mobo voltage limit is holding you back. Just a therory, don't take it to the bank.

[Witchdoctor]

Don't know about other boards, But the WS is limited to 1.53 , no matter what I tried still got the exceeded voltage pop up ???

Boards going back though. I am on the sideline :shock: They have been pulled everywhere so it is up to Intel to get these new chipsets out ... and then for board makers to get them into their products ....

Not sure what I will be going with yet, just want 2 16X slots that have some seperation.

Your set up is ta Bomb bro .......... :thumbsup: Rock the Bot boat FTW

[DrNip]

Thanks doc. Just wish I could rock XP too. Oh well though. Can't cry over it forever. Moving on. Windows 7 reinstalled.

[DrNip]

Nothing special here. Just some Windows 7 runs. No tweaks, no wazza, no nothing.

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[Kal-EL]

look at me buddy drnip pimpin benchmarks :good:

[Witchdoctor]

And with a Purple desktop FTW ............ :laughing:

[DrNip]

look at me buddy drnip pimpin benchmarks :good:

It's been awhile and some might have thought I was dead in the benching area, they ain't the best but is all I can do in this busy life I have now a days. 3D benches to come soon. I haven't ran a 3D in a good year or so it seems.

And with a Purple desktop FTW ............ :laughing:

You like that? ROFL

[Witchdoctor]

Tear it up Bro.....

O what a feeling ............ :)

[DrNip]

Tried 57 multi. I get to the end of the Windows logon screen and it freezes. Prolly could of got past it with a little more volts as it was the same way at 1st with 56 multi. Gave it more volts and I was in.

[Witchdoctor]

What load temps you rolling with the Koolit ?

[DrNip]

Dunno on those clocks as I was out in the garage and old man winter was helping me. I was sitting idle at 20 degrees or so @ 5.5ghz.

[rickss69]

Keep bangin on that XP install...I wanna see a SPI 32M out of your rig. :good:

[Witchdoctor]

Dunno on those clocks as I was out in the garage and old man winter was helping me. I was sitting idle at 20 degrees or so @ 5.5ghz.


Nice, By the time the new boards come out it will be getting warmer, hitting it now = WIN

I can see the smile from ear to ear in every post bro ..... :thumbsup:

Working it out FTW

[thebanik]

Dunno on those clocks as I was out in the garage and old man winter was helping me. I was sitting idle at 20 degrees or so @ 5.5ghz.

This chip is beggin for Dice or atleast water man. I say go for it........

[DrNip]

Somebody made the comment yesterday for me to try my XP install on my Sata 6 Gp/s ports and I owe them a big thank you. I initially had the HDD I was trying to install XP on in the 1st Sata 3 Gp/s port because it was a Sata II and had my Sata III SDD and HDD plugged into the two Sata 6Gp/s ports. Plugged my HDD into one of those this time and got XP to install and reboot without the error message. PS/2 and USB mouse still doesn't work no matter what but I had my Bluetooth mouse plugged in still by accident and found out that it worked! ROFL

So I loaded everything on the install, went to the garage were it was 5 degrees and ran all my 2D benches just for them to be worse than my Windows 7 runs. I couldn't figure it out, it was cold so I went back in as I wasn't trying to stay out there too long.

I then proceeded to load TaiServer and mission was accomplished. Started up CPUz and noticed my CPU was at 3.4ghz instead of the 4.5ghz I had it at in BIOS. I then realized at that moment that I didn't have Throttlestop running on my XP install during my benches so my CPU was downclocking therefor making my benches suck! WTF! Total noob I tell ya. After my TaiServer run in a minute I will be putting XP back on and going back out in the cold to rerun my benches.

[Kal-EL]

:argh:

[DrNip]

This is a little better. :D

Need better RAM or RAM that can clock higher. I have this 2133MHz RAM but isn't compatible with my mobo. This micro has treated me well but I need an ATX.

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[thebanik]

This is a little better. :D

Need better RAM or RAM that can clock higher. I have this 2133MHz RAM but isn't compatible with my mobo. This micro has treated me well but I need an ATX.

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Please dont push those crazy volts on air/water. This is the only good chip remaining in OCA, :D. And it has to live to see many more WRs. And yeah agreed, this chip needs an ATX.

[DrNip]

Temps are 5 degrees or so out in the garage. Temps are well within reason.

[DrNip]

Guess I never posted the pics of the completed build. Not much more to look at except the MSi N560 GTX-Ti GPU. Also threw a 160GB 3 GB/s laptop HDD above the SDD with my XP install on it for various 3D benching as well as some 2D benching when needed. Also added the black thumbscrews and pci slot covers to clean up the backside.

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Wishing I had a better CPU for everyday use. Hella overclocking when it comes to high multi. Had to settle for 4.5ghz at 1.32v. Would have liked 4.75ghz at this voltage. Maybe one day I can snag another one and retire this CPU to strictly benching. Time to do some gaming now. Dead Space just ordered. Snagged it for $26.50 on EBay! Hope ya'll enjoyed another DrNip adventure. :D

[Witchdoctor]

that's some spooky shit :ohcrap:

Turned out nice man, clean work

[Neuromancer]

Looking real good Nip :)

[Splave]

nice man, I like compact builds

[ny_driver]

Looks nice. :thumbsup:

[DrNip]

Thanks. Would have loved to gone with the 580 over the 560 but just couldn't talk myself into spending $500 on a gpu again.

[DrNip]

Another tim replacement story for the good. Replaced the tim finally on my 560 gtx and temps went from 91 degrees to 82 degrees max with 30 minutes of Furmark running. That is good seeing I have space issues with less than normal air flow in my case. :D

[Neuromancer]

Excellent. I am worrying about my build going into a case period.. SB and 580 uh.. temps are great by the window in an open bench situation ... in a case let alone a tiny case.. Im sweating it.. but it has to happen before I go house sitting this weekend.

Great setup and temps for that totally wrong structure.lol

[DrNip]

Yeah that was another factor stopping me from purchasing a 570 or 580. Was afraid of the heat they would put off.

[marcam923]

Nip I think we have the same taste. This is soo similar to a customer build I just did it's scary. I will post up a thread for it with pics.

[DrNip]

As usual I can't just stay with a setup. Seems about every 3 months or so I am tossing it up. When I get done benching this Gene-Z mobo I will switch the setup over to it as well as a new case. I love this Silverstone case in this thread but just can't get adequate cooling with it. My 2600k is a 5ghz daily driver but I can't do it with this setup. I couldn't even do 4.5ghz without temps of upper 40's. Stay tuned.

[Neuromancer]

Looking forward to it Nip :)

I ran a case for almost a straight month.

I built a shelf over my desk and have my main rig spread out on it now for the last few :)

[marcam923]

As usual I can't just stay with a setup. Seems about every 3 months or so I am tossing it up. When I get done benching this Gene-Z mobo I will switch the setup over to it as well as a new case. I love this Silverstone case in this thread but just can't get adequate cooling with it. My 2600k is a 5ghz daily driver but I can't do it with this setup. I couldn't even do 4.5ghz without temps of upper 40's. Stay tuned.

I am going through the same thing. I have been going through hardware left and right lately. Got a new setup in the works now, will get a thread started as soon as the case arrives and I can get working on it.

Hopefully I will be finding myself a 5GHZ daily driver :clapping::good:

[DrNip]

Alrighty a complete overhaul already. Loved this build but it just wasn't practical for the overclocker in me. I had to keep the overclock around 4.2ghz due to heat.


New Parts are as follows:

Asus Gene-Z
Lian Li PC-Q06 Test Bench w/ M-ATX Tray
Noctua NH-D14
2 - Scythe KAZE MARU 2 High Speed
Lian Li 5.25" Quad Fan Controller
Single Braided Cables

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Sorry about the poor pics. All I had was poster board and a desk lamp, lol. I love the 140mm CPU cooler. Don't think I will ever go back to 120mm. Pushes a lot of air and waaaay quieter than a 120mm cooler. Also opted for the Lian Li 5.25" Quad Fan Controller as I have no use for a DVD drive. This device is a quad fan controller as well as holds two SSD drives. That is good seeing that the case only has room for one HDD. Plans of adding another 560 Ti are in the works. As soon as I nail down this overclock I will post. So far at 4.8ghz at only 1.35v! :D

[MaadDaawg]

Pretty Sweet :D

[DrNip]

This ended up being way harder to put togther than what I imagined. Trying to cram all them cables in that little box was a bitch. Not to mention this case is one of those designs that everything has to go together in order and right or else you will be stripping it back down to fix your mistake. The 140mm CPU cooler is trippling up as a RAM cooler, Mosfets cooler ontop of of being a CPU cooler. Going to be doing some extensive gaming with this the rest of the year seeing that there are many of game titles dropping this month and on. Also thinking about upgrading to 8 GB's of RAM. :D

A couple of running morning pics.

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Some results. Windows 7 stock system. Not going to tweak, twist and disable eye candy for benches.

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[MaadDaawg]

Bro, what kind of RAM you using - would Dominators fit?

[DrNip]

GSkill 2133 cas 8. They should fit.

[Neuromancer]

If they dont fit, just take off the red fins on top and they will :)

I have the noctua c12- uh D14... it is the 120mm version that uses a 140mm fan (with 120mm hole spacing for hold down)

I also like it a lit, and no need to control fan speed on it it is so quiet at full :)

Nice job Nip. Like the open bench design, everytime I try going back to a case, it lasts a week or so before I get annoyed at the too high temps.

[MaadDaawg]

My problem with cases is once I'm done, it was such a huge pain in the ass I don't feel like doing anything with it :P

That little case did look like it'd be a bitch packing all the wires and such in - you did a great job though :thumbsup:

[kikicoco1334]

holy damn bro! that looks sexy as hell!

[MaadDaawg]

yeah, but why didn't you use those sexy flesh colored Noctua fans :laughing:

[DrNip]

The wifey dogged on them the day they came in with the cooler. Never had plans of using them as I just can't rock the two tone flesh color.

I had plans of doing a detailed work log on this but once I started it was such a bitch that I didn't have time for the camera so sorry for lack of work log.

[Neuromancer]

meh work logs are only really neded if you build the case from scratch.

I used to take pics every coat of paint and stuff, but really, if your modding its only the final pics people really care about :)

[MaadDaawg]

yeah, Noctua fans are the most fug ugly fans on the market - have to wonder where they're thinking is come from :P

Agree w/ Neuro on the pics - the ones you put up are just fine :thumbsup:

[marcam923]

GSkill 2133 cas 8. They should fit.

Can you get a couple closer shots of that CPU cooler?

Also I have the same ram, what ram speed are you running at to pull those timings?

That looks like one very nice rig brother!

[DrNip]

Dunno what you are really looking for so I snapped shots from all angles. Also I don't have the original black GSkills in it that you see in the pics. I have blue 2133's in there now. :D

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[MaadDaawg]

Did you do all the sleeving ??

Looks great :)

[DrNip]

Heck no. I try to stay away from that if I can which this build I could because the connections from the PSU to the extensions are hidden within the case. Not to say I wouldn't if need be. If I were to do it I would do it without heatshrink, clamp the sleeving to the connector. Only had a day or so two build this due to selling the house so I had to get it out quick. Needed a gamer to keep me settled until new house is built which could be anywhere up to a year depending on how fast we sell this one.

[marcam923]

Those pictures were perfect, I have not seen that heatsink before, it's nice and according to the pics good temps too.

Yeah I have the same Blue Gskills 2133, I saw your crazy timings but couldn't make out what the speed was, I am imagining that you are not running them at 2133 to get those timings?

Another question, are you worried at all with the extension cables having another break in the connection before it gets to the board/gpu? I always considered doing some custom sleeving on a 24 pin, and on the GPU connectors, but I wasn't sure with having the extra break in there if it would possibly cause any power loss etc...

[DrNip]

If I were to run them at 2133 then it would be 7-9-7-22 or so.

Never had problems with it and this is my 3rd build to have single braided cables.