New Project

[MaadDaawg]

Still in the building mode. Pics should give end game away though :D

Going to require 3 circuits. 1 for each PSU and one for the SS. Should be interesting :thumbsup:

[Kal-EL]

sic!

[kikicoco1334]

dear god!

asus m5e?|

[OC Maximus]

Shablam!

[Witchdoctor]

:eek2:........... Ahhh

Yea .... SICK !!!!!

[thebanik]

Wow, gonna rip the bot MD, :D

[Mr.Scott]

Awesome! You got a fire extinguisher, right? :laughing::D

[DOM]

looking good MD :thumbsup:

Awesome! You got a fire extinguisher, right? :laughing::D
dont we all have a fire hose :rofl

[Mr.Scott]

looking good MD :thumbsup:


dont we all have a fire hose :rofl
Better question would be, has anybody ever had to use one, other than myself? :D

[MaadDaawg]

dear god!

asus m5e?|

ASUS R4E :D

[MaadDaawg]

Awesome! You got a fire extinguisher, right? :laughing::D

I didn't, but I will now! Great idea Mr. Scott :thumbsup: Don't know that I have the right kind around the house thought :P

[MaadDaawg]

nother pic :D

Going air to load and tweak the OS and apps, but doesn't that SS from RunMC look sweet :thumbsup:

[Mr.Scott]

nother pic :D

Going air to load and tweak the OS and apps, but doesn't that SS from RunMC look sweet :thumbsup:
Totally envious. It's freakin' awesome.

[Witchdoctor]

Looking good Daawg ............. :thumbsup:

Thing looks looks like the Botenator FTW :keeporder:

[MaadDaawg]

Just finished wiring the 3rd circuit into the room. All three within plug in range now :D

finishing up the tweaking on air tonight (below) and then the quad sli and SS get mounted tomorrow :)

[Neuromancer]

You are a sick bastard Daawg

you got 4 slims to bench them hardcore?

[MaadDaawg]

You are a sick bastard Daawg

yes, I know :D

you got 4 slims to bench them hardcore?

Nope, only got 1 slim and 1 fatboy - anyone got two or 3 slims I could borrow?

[Witchdoctor]

I would bench it as is, looks to be a total PITA to tear that all down

just throw the rad out the window, in Chicago it will be as good as a chiller ..... :laughing:

[MaadDaawg]

I would bench it as is, looks to be a total PITA to tear that all down

just throw the rad out the window, in Chicago it will be as good as a chiller ..... :laughing:

Actually, it's a piece of cake to tear down. The HS is just sitting on the CPU with the fans tilted over the SS mounts. Then it's an easy take out the Ti and ...

Been unusually warm around here.. still cold enuf to make a diff on a rad, but not at all the weather we usually get. I'm afraid winter's gonna hit around mid march and last till June :P

[Witchdoctor]

Well then

Fill that 50 liter up &

rtdKyuYI7Rc

[MaadDaawg]

no man, SS first. Not sure about the sb-E, but the SB didn't do anything more on LN2 than it did on air. Figure SS should be a good place to start :D After I finish the quad sli runs I'll plant my 580 Lightning with the fatboy bolted to it onto the rig and then get the dewar filled :thumbsup:

[MaadDaawg]

Coming down to the wire :thumbsup:

Finally finished with the OS and now transitioning to the horsepower. Just updated the firmware on the OC Key and loaded new BIOS yesterday.

Have the SS hooked up.. nice and silent machine now all I gotta do is gently drop the 20lbs or so of quad sli into their slots and get ready to rock and roll. Probably today unless I get some work to do :D

Oh yeah... the waterblocks on the cards passed their 24 minute leak test :rofl: 24 hours my butt:moon:

[Witchdoctor]

This is simply a Vantage & Whore

Nice work Daawg............. :thumbsup:

[DOM]

looking good :)

and what are you talking about leak test i didnt even do one on my 7970 :laughing:

[MaadDaawg]

looking good :)

and what are you talking about leak test i didnt even do one on my 7970 :laughing:

Well, in all honesty, I don't think mine lasted 24 minutes either.. just fit into the narative :rofl: I DID however learn the almost hard way to always leak test before putting power to the board. Lots of little puddles that day, but no damage :eek:

Quad Sli slipped in like a hand into a glove, or, a foot into a sock if you prefer.

One minor problem... need extensions for the power cords from PSU2 to the cards... fortunately, I've got em ;) somewhere :laughing:

[kikicoco1334]

dude that's some sexy stuff there!

[MaadDaawg]

Thank you Kiki :)

Good news is I found the extensions for the six pin cables. Bad news is I couldn't find the 8 pin (think I sold them with the Thermaltake they came with).

Good news is, I did a little rearranging and got the cables to fit :thumbsup:

In these pics everything is setup and connected. Now, I gotta remove all the power cords to the 3 cards on the left and use that PSU to fill and bleed the loop. Since that will get me to around when the wife comes home, looks like zero hour will be sometime tomorrow morning :D

Damn, hope it works as good as it looks :eek:

[Witchdoctor]

tell me this is not your 24/7 ride ........... :laughing:

[DOM]

Can't wait :popcorn:

[punx223]

pretty sick dude.... yeah SB-E does not scale past -80C in most cases....


you will get to a temp where performance will actually decrease and even sorta stall but you have a slow mode switch on the board that as long as you have LN2 mode enabled will keep you from freezing during unloaded parts of benchmark :)

[MaadDaawg]

tell me this is not your 24/7 ride ........... :laughing:

what a gamer it would make huh :laughing:

[thebanik]

Wow!!!!! looks sexy those pics.....cant wait to see the results

[MaadDaawg]

Good news is I kicked it over this morning and everything works :thumbsup:

Had to reinstall the video driver to get the quad sli recognized then I turned off everything I could think of (and probably then some). Ran Vantage at all stock speeds (47K+) just to make sure I didn't turn off too much and came through with flying colors.

All shut down now to cool off some while I eat lunch, then I'll start playing with the clocks and the volts and see what I can pull out of this :D

Anticipation.... rofl

[Witchdoctor]

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[MaadDaawg]

Could be very apropo WD :Dizzy:

So far it refuses to OC :eek: It hangs at 33 or 66 at times, and at other times hangs at 01 or 03. Won't even boot at the gamers preset for christsake. WTF you you want for a $1K CPU .. :wh2:

Either I have the crappiest processor built or something else ain't right. Going to let everything warm up, pull the phase head and possibly redo the eraser to make sure it's water tight.

Then, try again...

If that fails, I'll have to check out Intel's crappy overclocking chip warranty :argh:

Does LOOK pretty though don't it

[Witchdoctor]

pull the cards and see how the CPU clocks ........

just chuck any POS in the slot

that will give you the quick answer,

Could be power bro

possible one of your PS is not up to the job ......

I think that was holding me back benching this weekend in CF ....

[MaadDaawg]

Man.. I got 2 x 1200 watt PCP&C turbo cools on this thing :eek: Can't remember the number, but I had it up around 5ghz on air when I first got the board, so maybe you're right :Dizzy:

Going to be a bitch pulling 4 wc cards though... maybe I'll just use the switches and isolate the one PSU first... be a lot easier :argh: although AB shows all 4 cards up and running

[Witchdoctor]

yea but running them and over clocking them are two different animals, hit Patch with a PM, he did some 4x 580 benching, know he was scooping up AX power supplies as the TPQ Antecs did not have enough pizazz........

hope one is not going out on you, those PCP&C ain't no cheap date .......... :ohcrap:

Good luck bro ......... :thumbsup:

[punx223]

disable with switches all but the main card then see if cpu oc works

could be water entry to socket bro. but quick test first

[MaadDaawg]

Just had one to OCZ and they checked it and said all was fine ?? The other one ??? rofl


yea but running them and over clocking them are two different animals, hit Patch with a PM, he did some 4x 580 benching, know he was scooping up AX power supplies as the TPQ Antecs did not have enough pizazz........

hope one is not going out on you, those PCP&C ain't no cheap date .......... :ohcrap:

Good luck bro ......... :thumbsup:

[DOM]

how are the psu's set up ?

are you running all 4 cards on one psu ?

[punx223]

also like DOM asked are you loading the 5V and 3.3V on both PSUS?

[MaadDaawg]

ummm.. I'm using 1 PSU for the board, CPU, DIMMs and 1 580 - using the second for the remaining 3 580s, the water pump, and the rad fans. Using that little dohinky in the first pic to combine the PSUs... only 1 black and 1 green wire that jumps to the second one so I doubt if I'm using the 3.3 and 5v but :Dizzy:

Anyway, WD and the Punxster were right... dammit. Turned off the lanes of the 3 cards being powered by the second PSU and started it up, just set it for gamers oc to keep it quick, and it booted right up to 4700.

Is there another way to jump the two PSUs together that works better? Thinking I may need to take the Corsair AX1200 out of the wc gamer and use that instead. Maybe 3 PSUs ?? rofl

Just a thought...
One of the six pin PCI connectors from PSU 1 goes into the mobo to power the PCIe lanes. If I were to replace that with a six pin from PSU2 (which currenlty is connected to the 3x580s and used PSU1 to power two cards, would that give me a more even load?

[punx223]

hook a spare Hdd or 2 and a fan or 2 to the second psu an try again


KAL Had same issue awhile back.... (shit many years now) and we did that and all was well after :)

[punx223]

basically what happens is without proper crossloading the psu 12V rails will freak out and either shut off or just get buggier than a 2 dollar whore in hollywood

[MaadDaawg]

Interesting thought.

Add more load to PSU 2? Worth a try, and easier than disassembling the wc gamer and swapping PSUs around :P

thanks bro :)

I'll let you know what develops :D

hook a spare Hdd or 2 and a fan or 2 to the second psu an try again


KAL Had same issue awhile back.... (shit many years now) and we did that and all was well after :)

[MaadDaawg]

basically what happens is without proper crossloading the psu 12V rails will freak out and either shut off or just get buggier than a 2 dollar whore in hollywood

There are 2 dollar whores in Hollywood? shit, I used to live just miles from there and NOW you tell me :rofl:

[punx223]

Interesting thought.

Add more load to PSU 2? Worth a try, and easier than disassembling the wc gamer and swapping PSUs around :P

thanks bro :)

I'll let you know what develops :D

you dont have a result yet??? what are you ordering hard drives? :p

oh btw make sure you hook the fan to 5V

[MaadDaawg]

you dont have a result yet??? what are you ordering hard drives? :p

oh btw make sure you hook the fan to 5V

rofl, I have more spare hdds than I do spare change rofl but it's time to get ready for the wife coming home for dinner... gotta keep the priorities yada yada yada :D

Thinking of putting a 230mm fan on top of the cards and maybe a couple in front of the cards, then I'll plug in a couple hdds off to the side. I thought fans were 12volt too :Dizzy: Do the adapters from molex to 3 pin knock down the voltage? Prolly shouldn't use the big delta's huh :laughing:

[MaadDaawg]

Okay, added 2 92mm fans onto the 5v rail of PSU2 - had to help them start turning but they kept going on their own after than :)

Just let it boot into Gamers OC which I had set last night and it booted up on the first attempt. Nothing earth shattering at ~4700mhz, but better than it would do yesterday. Shitty RAM timings too on this one... default gamer oc I guess? Set the cards up to 845 and ran a vantage test (this time with with the CPU handling the Physx)

Hard to get a good screeny cause in this mode effing Speettrap is still on so it bounces from 1200 up to 4700. Caught it the fastest I could but forgot to drop down the box to show the 4 GPUs.

Next test will be full extreme oc, and we'll see what happens. May still need to balance the load between the PSUs better :D

[DOM]

I got a lot of runs with the cpu like that it doesn't matter I don't even put in the clocks its to much work :rofl

Let some what she can do MD :D

[MaadDaawg]

Having better luck manually OCing than using the presets. Ran Vantage set at 5.1gigs though CPUz shows less, should have waited before taking the pic lol
Worth only 5.9 boints cause everyone else w/ 4 x 580 is probably running them extreme.. oh well.

Just testing still anyway, and seems to be good room for improvement :thumbsup:

Wife will kill me if I don't straighten up before she gets home tonight :D

[Witchdoctor]

48K CPU ............... :blink:

Man I wish I had one of dem .......... :kneelsuckers:

Dude, I would trow every card that I own that will run Vantage on that beast ........

even with half assed GPU clocks you would clean up, especially if you are sitting on some 8800 nV and 3K ati's

best I can get on my 4 core is 37K @ 5.5 :blush:

[DOM]

Wife will kill me if I don't straighten up before she gets home tonight :D

I see who wears the paints in your house shell crack that whip on you :laughing:

But nice score can't you run 1000 core on water ?

[Witchdoctor]

Pipe that rad out the window ............ :thumbsup:

or use the Rick method, stick it in a cooler under Ice .......... FTW :clapping:

52K or bust ............ :laughing:

Edit, just checked the highest lowest clocked stock

try 290.36

[Mr.Scott]

Dude, I would trow every card that I own that will run Vantage on that beast ........

even with half assed GPU clocks you would clean up, especially if you are sitting on some 8800 nV and 3K ati's
THIS ^^^
Have fun.:)

[MaadDaawg]

Thanks guys :) Fortunately, it's getting better and better as I learn how to tune this thing.. owe grats to Punx223 who gave me the fix on the power imbalance :thumbsup: Added 2 raptors to the 12v rail of PSU2 and 2 fans to the 5v rail.. seems to have done the trick.

Coolest thing is, I don't think I've maxed out the proc yet :) Last runs were at 5.5gigs without a hickup. And that's WITH HT on :)

Weather is too damn mild in Chicago, had the window open and didn't even have to change out of my jammies :rofl: Think I'll setup my wet ice chiller tomorrow and run the coolant thru 50ft of copper tubing surrounded by 50lbs of wet ice .. should help :D

Here's the latest

and yep, she'd kick my ass if she came home and saw this room the way it looks now :eek: don't even want to think about it :laughing:


unfortunately, the only other cards I have around the house are a couple of 5870s and two 560T1s... no older ones... oh well :D

[punx223]

Okay, added 2 92mm fans onto the 5v rail of PSU2 - had to help them start turning but they kept going on their own after than :)

Just let it boot into Gamers OC which I had set last night and it booted up on the first attempt. Nothing earth shattering at ~4700mhz, but better than it would do yesterday. Shitty RAM timings too on this one... default gamer oc I guess? Set the cards up to 845 and ran a vantage test (this time with with the CPU handling the Physx)

Hard to get a good screeny cause in this mode effing Speettrap is still on so it bounces from 1200 up to 4700. Caught it the fastest I could but forgot to drop down the box to show the 4 GPUs.

Next test will be full extreme oc, and we'll see what happens. May still need to balance the load between the PSUs better :D

for SS just open superpi and run/minimize take ss :)

[punx223]

why does GPUZ show 2 way sli?!?!

[MaadDaawg]

why does GPUZ show 2 way sli?!?!

I noticed that too, but it does show all 4 in the drop down. All 4 lanes are on and all are powered, so I'm thinking it's a CPUz thing??? Could it be I'm not getting enuf power to the last 2? I think I'll turn up the juice to the lanes on the next run and see if that changes anything

[MaadDaawg]

for SS just open superpi and run/minimize take ss :)

At the risk of appearing dense.... huh? :laughing:

[DOM]

i wanna see 5.5+ in vantage :clapping:

[MaadDaawg]

i wanna see 5.5+ in vantage :clapping:

Coming soon to a theater near you dude :D

[DOM]

Coming soon to a theater near you dude :D
:thumbsup: dont kill it :scared:

[GFDuke]

At the risk of appearing dense.... huh? :laughing:

I think what he is saying is, open and run super pi. It will make your cpuz showits true settings cause it will be under load. so yea ope super p[i, run it and minimize so its not in your ss. Then take your ss while superpi is running.

[DOM]

I think what he is saying is, open and run super pi. It will make your cpuz showits true settings cause it will be under load. so yea ope super p[i, run it and minimize so its not in your ss. Then take your ss while superpi is running.
or he can just disable speedstep in the bios :laughing:

[punx223]

or he can just disable speedstep in the bios :laughing:

sometimes theres issues when disabling speedstep unfortunately lol.....

thats why on 3D os I always have Superpi on desktop and ready lol

[MaadDaawg]

Actually, I disabled it this morning in the BIOS before I ran any of the benches. Interesting idea though.

What sort of issues does disabling it in BIOS create?

Could that be why GPUz shows only 2 GPUs enabled?

[MaadDaawg]

Picked up 10 globals and 2 cups today. More team boints then personal :D

[Mr.Scott]

Picked up 10 globals and 2 cups today. More team boints then personal :D
Well done my friend. I find benching for the team more gratifying than personal points.

[MaadDaawg]

Well done my friend. I find benching for the team more gratifying than personal points.

ummm.. ahhh... yeah, I agree :D

[Witchdoctor]

Well done my friend. I find benching for the team more gratifying than personal points.


+1

I miss the days when all Hardware was counted towards the team total.

[punx223]

nah wont be reason showing 2 GPUs.

but I have seen issues where disabling will mess up overclock or cause issues with reaching max multi.

[MaadDaawg]

As per your request.. . Vantage at 5.5 gigs and 52K+ Vantage :D

Only way I could get the 5500 reading though was with physx on the card and not on the CPU. Wouldn't clear the CPU tests ... dammit.

The 52+ score at 5.4 is legit and I'm hoping will bring me a few more boints :D

WD - not a 48K processor, a 53K processor :eek:

However, this SB-E ain't no SB. What an effing PITA getting this thing to clock :ohcrap: Couldn't get it past 4.8 yesterday and took me hours to get it back up to 5.5 today. That's what I get for being a dumb shit the other day and not saving my settings :laughing: Finacky little bitch though

Was able to notch up my 03 score a little too :)

Still having problems clocking up my DIMMs too ? Maybe tomorrow (which I din't show anyway)

[DOM]

:clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping: :clapping::clapping::clapping:



Lets pray you didnt kill it :shock:



on a side note it snowed today and its still snowing sad part seems no ones coming to my 4yr olds party :(

[MaadDaawg]

Hey man,that's really a bummer :thumbdown: Parent's shouldn't deprive your little one of their birthday party just cause there's a little snow on the ground.. .. arseholes!!

You're gonna have to put on your thinking cap and do something special for them instead dad :laughing:

Hope they show up :thumhsup:

:clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping: :clapping::clapping::clapping:



Lets pray you didnt kill it :shock:



on a side note it snowed today and its still snowing sad part seems no ones coming to my 4yr olds party :(

[DOM]

Hey man,that's really a bummer :thumbdown: Parent's shouldn't deprive your little one of their birthday party just cause there's a little snow on the ground.. .. arseholes!!

You're gonna have to put on your thinking cap and do something special for them instead dad :laughing:

Hope they show up :thumhsup:
everythings already up and decorated and my parents dont like close there 7hrs away its just wifes side of the family that lives here, mine would of made it thats how we are :) wifes fam are a bunch of pussies :laughing:

only ones that just showed up where her aunts the guys are fags gave the same reason the roads are bad :thumbdown:

ohwell GL with the cpu :thumbsup:

[MaadDaawg]

Strange, GPUz now shows 3 enabled GTX 580s instead of the two it used to show, and look how much higher the score in vantage :Dizzy: nVc shows 4 enabled :Dizzy:

Wonder if all 4 aren't firing?

Finally got it running good again :thumbsup: but the bot seems to be down

*Added 2 hours later* checking out the sli I found that in nVcp I am running tri sli not quad sli. I've moved things around, replaced the bridge.. no change. Tomorrow I pull the quad sli again and check out slot 2. Tried assigning Phyx to that gpu and it took it.. weird

[MaadDaawg]

Now I'm thinking it's a driver issue.

cards 2,3,4 ran fine as a tri sli - so I thought it might be the oc key. Removed that and put the bridge back on with all 4 cards enabled, and the nVcp told me I had tri sli. Even though it graphically depicted 4 cards

wtf??

Well, further testing reveals it's not a driver issue either. Doesn't appear to be connected with power distribution either. The most it wants to recognize is 3 GPUs and 1 Phyx card, which doesn't really help with Vantage.

Any thoughts?

[MaadDaawg]

FINALLY GOT MY RIVE INTO 4 WAY SLI MODE :thumbsup:

I know you've all been secretly worried about his so thought I'd better let you know. :D

[Mr.Scott]

FINALLY GOT MY RIVE INTO 4 WAY SLI MODE :thumbsup:

I know you've all been secretly worried about his so thought I'd better let you know. :D
OK. What was the solution?

[MaadDaawg]

OK. What was the solution?

Solution was...

Instead of deleting the Nvidia drivers and leaving the Physx in place, I deleted everything nvidia using control panel, THEN, did a clean install using CUSTOM instead of EXPRESS and installed driver 290.53 and Phyx ONLY - none of the 3D or updater crap.

290.53 had been installed and unstable with the mb BIOS of 1201 and bsod'd several times on me. I thought it was the driver and was going to update it. Thought I'd give it one more go (thank god) and this time .. IT WORKED :)

Somehow, the express install had previously installed a component of 290.36 - not sure if it was that or the other crap, but hey... it works :)

Thanks again for your help yesterday Scotty :thumbsup:

[Mr.Scott]

Shitty driver install and delete. Got it. :thumbsup:
Anytime buddy.:)

[MaadDaawg]

Strange thing is, I had done several uninstalls and reinstalls of several different drivers - even this one did not work until I deleted the four different nvidia apps individually and reloaded that it worked :Dizzy:

[Neuromancer]

Thanks MD. I just got finished ranting against 3D elsewhere (I have not got into 3D gaming yet) but from 3D movie watching I can say it is a worthless effect that has not significantly changed over the last 30 years and is even MORE lame and superficial than it was way back when it was first developed.

It might be different for PC gaming but in video watching 3D is always an afterthought. That is the movie itself is not 3D mostly 2D with some 3D special effects