Here is the work horse. My ace. My right-hand man. My...you get the idea. The EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified is not only the best motherboard for high BCLK, or the best at running i7 at high clocks under LN2, or an absolute rock solid platform for air testing; the Classified also happens to clock memory pretty damn well. Here are some photos of the setup with my tired and aging Chilly 1 single stage. Yeah, I'm doing this with the processor cold...what, you thought this was going to be on air? Crack head
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There is the jewel of my collection, the little 920 that could. It has been buried in that kneaded rubber eraser for dozens of sessions now without leaving. I am starting to wonder how much corrosion is going on inside that socket, oh well. The Blade modules are nice sized but definitely not too fat for 6 DIMM use and certainly not too tall to interfere with many - if any - heat sinks.
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These two photos depict the setup as it will run for the entire testing of this memory. Now you may be wondering why the PCI-E
and PCI card are mounted in the motherboard...and why the PCI-E card has a pot strapped to its face. You see, I prepped the board for a quick shake down of the GPU under LN2 because I wasn't expecting the memory to show up for another day. When the sticks knocked on the door, I wasn't about to tear down the GPU setup for LN2...and these modules were not going to sit idle overnight. Needless to say, I disabled the PCI-E port, popped in the PCI card at it was go time.
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Hardware used:
MB: EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified (BIOS S21S)
CPU: Intel i7 920 (845B026)
CPU Cooling: Chilly 1 single stage
GPU: ATI Mach64 PCI
NB Cooling: Stock
SB Cooling: Stock
PWM Cooling: Stock
PSU: Corsair HX1000W (single EPS connector used)
HD: Seagate SATAII 80GB 8MB NCQ
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Ambient Temperature: 22-23C
There we go, you have now seen the modules, you know the setup, I have insulted a few people...yup, sounds like we are ready to roll
