Quad FX-70 build. [Pic intensive]

This is the system that will receive the upgrade.

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1903/img1019mc4.th.jpg

It is my NAS rig.

Currently, it has a AMD X2 3800 with 1 gb ram.

8 x 250gb sata HDDs.
1 x 80gb sata HDD

and 1 x 150gb sata HDD for OS drive.

It runs on Windows xp 64bit.

Reserved for pics.

Here is the last shot of naked motherboard.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9...1016sb6.th.jpg

CPU installed.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6...1017rt6.th.jpg

AMD stock heatsinks are installed.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8...1018tl1.th.jpg

Here is what the CPU's IHS says. I took it right before I installed the heatsink.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6...1013nm8.th.jpg

Now ~, I open up my NAS rig.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9...1020gl7.th.jpg

Started to disassemble the current rig.

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8...1024vs0.th.jpg

The motherboard is in...

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5...1025xp9.th.jpg

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4...1026pd6.th.jpg

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http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/5...1029oy4.th.jpg

Final before starting up this new rig.

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8...1030ou3.th.jpg

nice system

but what is NAS :D

Network Attached Storage.

That's why it has many HDDs.

IC

thanks very much

but does NAS needs 4 cores ???

sorry for going :off:

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Originally Posted by SaFrOuT

IC

thanks very much

but does NAS needs 4 cores ???

sorry for going :off:

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Nope. But I have a separate rig for rendering. Going to get rid of that rig and let this rig do that stuff as well. It's becoming all purpose rig.

well, NAS is network attached storage, so this is his data server (I guess)

I think this rig will have some power, just wish you wont have any storage issues (I dare you nVidia!)
The mobos of today are gettin so crowded, that they sometimes have very weird component-placement, in this case - the battery for the cmos

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It runs on Windows xp 64bit.

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Alucasa, is there any chance of seeing some Linux or Vista benchmarks? From what I've read, the XP scheduler doesn't handle NUMA well. It would be interesting to see if NUMA has any performance impact.

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I remember someone asked me to get pics of BIOS screens. They are coming soon.

BIOS screenshots are here.

I do not see much of OCing ability within BIOS options.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/1...1032jv1.th.jpg

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5...1033cc3.th.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/2...1034vd6.th.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4...1035de5.th.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4...1036mq4.th.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/1...1037sk5.th.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4...1038gz0.th.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9...1039fh1.th.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/5...1040xf8.th.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/2...1041xb7.th.jpg

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5...1042hp2.th.jpg

so there's no unlocked multipliers, depite the FX name in the CPU's?

Looks great, Al.

looking good :eek:

Are you planning overclocking it ? :D

Well, I am having a problem.

The CPU fans are way too loud. I tried to run it fanless with just case air flow. (the chassis has 4 middle fans) But it got shut down by thermal sensor.

Now I am going to use the ASUS optional fans and leave the CPU heatsink fanless.

what do you get for options when you set AI Overclocking to "manual" on this screen:

http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1040xf8.jpg

thanks for the pics BTW, looks good.

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what do you get for options when you set AI Overclocking to "manual" on this screen:

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Crappy choices, heh.

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8...1043hl7.th.jpg

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5...1044ty5.th.jpg

you bought 125w cpu and looking for a silent rig... lol ;)

you could always see if Q-Fan works

Set to manual.

Now I see some nice options.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8...1047ql2.th.jpg

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5...1048xq3.th.jpg

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4...1049xx6.th.jpg

Q-Fan available in hardware monitor ?

edit : yes -> Smart Fan Control

set @ silent and probably no more 6000rpm...maybe 1500-2000rpm

there ya go...thats not bad, definitely enough to work with. thanks :up:

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Originally Posted by Supertim0r

Q-Fan available in hardware monitor ?

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that's what i was going to say, might be able to slow those CPU fans down a bit.

Here are more OCing options.

Not so bad. Actually, quite nice, it seems.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8...1054fh7.th.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6...1053kf3.th.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6...1054pu0.th.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1...1055tv4.th.jpg

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Originally Posted by Supertim0r

Q-Fan available in hardware monitor ?

edit : yes -> Smart Fan Control

set @ silent and probably no more 6000rpm...maybe 1500-2000rpm

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No Q-Fan.

Sweet system! What kind of hurtin did it put on the wallet, if you don't mind me askin?

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Originally Posted by bluep3ace

so there's no unlocked multipliers, depite the FX name in the CPU's?

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Yeah, same question here, is the multipliers unlocked upwards? I see it says max multi 25x in the earlier post, but it's greyed. Can you increase the multi at all? Nice rig btw. :toast:

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Sweet system! What kind of hurtin did it put on the wallet, if you don't mind me askin?

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1.200 CAD was all it cost.

1 quad fx 70 cpu cost me 371 CAD

Two of them, I bought.

350 for mobo.

I had all other components already.