[marcam923]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[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!

[MaadDaawg]

Pretty Sweet

[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.

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

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

[kikicoco1334]

holy damn bro! that looks sexy as hell!

[MaadDaawg]

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