Awesome rig... :toast: :toast: :toast: :woot:
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Awesome rig... :toast: :toast: :toast: :woot:
Very nice setup! (even though I'm not a fan of Xfire / SLI, can't get the point)
Seeing your setup makes me regreat returning the P5WDG2 WS Pro.
Also, don't forget, if you hit a FSB wall, changing the READ Delay setting to 7 will allow you to go higher
I'll be trying a P5B Deluxe instead!
And Natalia, if I may ask, where are you from?
I assume you capitalized that word in direction at my posts. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by RangerXLT8
Not that it matters cause I can't prove it on the internet but I'm an engineer as well. I have a bachelors in EE and a masters in physics focusing in materials and thermodynamics. SO I think I know a bit about what I am talking about. Can any of these supposed "engineers" say that?
Anyways ridiculous internet-resumes aside, that airflow diagram is ridiculous. I don't even know where to begin. Well it looks like the side influx and the top and rear exhausts are balanced in CFM, the sums(which isn't exactly an accurate measurement) are both around 160-170, which is nice. Throwing the front fans in there gives you an inbalance in favor of influx.
Now, that is the simple part, the more complex part is the fact that you have all that air flowing in different directions, which CAN create heat pockets due to hot air not escaping properly (regardless of what some people on here think).
That top exhaust fan could be causing a dead zone right in front of your scythe, depending on its actual location, hard to tell from the pics.
Here is how I would set it up:
Front:
3 fans - Influx (assuming you can put that 3rd fan in there)
Top:
1 fan - disabled
Side Door:
Left top and bottom - Exhaust
Right top and bottom - Disabled
Rear:
1 fan - Exhaust
That should give you pretty even airflow in terms of CFM (hopefully) as well as make a dual exhaust location behind your processor and a dedicated exhaust location for your video cards.
It is very hard to make these suggestions on those pictures. It will take a bit of testing. Its not the best suggestion but I smoke and I test out my airflow by blowing a bit of smoke through the intake fans (dont do this too often though tar and crap is not great for electronics).
I have yet to see one burned, but there are the ones who can't finish PCMark without erroring at default speed. Better safe then sorry. Now if the CPU is given to you, or you just don't mind the risk, then by all means pump 1.6:toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by mds47
Getting air circulating between your cards is the best way to reduce that heat build-up... just about all SLI/CF rigs suffer from some heat build up between the cards.. Looks like you have a great case for extreme ventilation, but perhaps you should change the direction of the two top side fans to exhaust, keeping the bottom two as intake.. so your intake and exhaust cfm will be more evenly matched, it might/should get more air /moving/ inside your case around your video card area which should hopefully shed some of that excess heat which is "pooling" between your cards...
If you've tried everything and are still having heat issues, you could try this:
http://www.logisyscomputer.com/views...08&DID=COOLDEV
mostly as a bracket to hold an additional side fan to really hammer air between the cards.. anyways.. just some thoughts.. nice rig BTW..
cheers!
you just don't give up do you:slap:Quote:
Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
nice rig!!!!!! now bring that thing over to the wcg section and get a real stablity test:D
Great work, is it still silent with all those fans?
Congrats :)
Looks like you put together a great rig there.
I'll send a vote kitts way.Quote:
Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
can you take another one as it is now if possible :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Natalia
I just received the same P5WDG2 WS Pro motherboard and have two E6600's to try on it, a week 25 and a week 27.
Andrew
kan this board change retail multipler in biose? like p5b .#36 looking forward in seing your results ,what cooling you intend using?
I Believe that setting is locked in the BIOS version I have.Quote:
Originally Posted by vanovich
all the bios versions for this board do not provide unlocked multi for e63-67 at this point, I was hoping to see it in 0307, but nothing yet, as this is a workstation board, I am not sure how much overclocking support we will get from ASUS in future releases
Have you considered using a Zalman VF900 instead of those stock coolers? I know those heatpipe coolers are pretty sweet, but maybe the VF900 is better :)
^^ that might be a good idea.. while those stock coolers do work well for heat dissapation, they are very large, and do not promote propert air circulation between the cards.. well, might not, I should say... the vf900 or even the vf700s, I am using, allow for a much more open "free flowing" air circ environment between the cards.. see the pic in my sig for my setup.. I have since (taking that pic) added a fan behind and on the side of the card pair, realy drenching them with air... as a result, my top card only runs about 1 or 2c higher than it's partner on the bottom.. they are both vmodded to 1.4v.. I think that's about as good as it gets with "reasonable" air cooling.. :)
edit: the big experiment will be in about a week when I go with X1900XT (and one XTX) in crossfire... they generate a TON of heat.. I am going to try the vf700s on them and see what happens.. might have to bust out with my maze4s and wc them... we'll see. :)
Okay, here might be a solution I missed.
In the picture from Cooler Master they have a cross flow fan behind the two right hand side fans, taking the perpendicular air and making it run parallel to the board. This could be a good thing :)
http://xs305.xs.to/xs305/06356/1083_16.jpg
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...t=pricegrabber
I think they meant 4x120mm fans or a crossflow. I could be wrong though.
That is the reason why I went for the ULTRA-QUIET PSU: SILENCER® 750 EPS12VQuote:
Originally Posted by Natalia
Now, I'm just curious to know how can you run SLI when there are no "official" SLI drivers for the 975X? And also if it helps, SLI works a little better when having the SLI bridge.
Overall, it's a nice system and overclocking speed you got there.
Btrice;Quote:
Originally Posted by Btrice
When done correctly, it will help. I did that on my Thermaltake Shark, put two 120mm fans and the temps in my MoBo dropped as well as my CPU's, but I couldn't bear with the noise so I took them out. When done correctly and having the proper case it will be a very cool system and the Stacker is the perfect case, otherwise it wouldn't have that frame mount for 4x120mm fans on the side panel.
So mds47 is right. I've done it and it made a difference, maybe I'll see if I can find 120mm fans that can do 1000 rpm and put them in my system so that they can blow straight onto the MoBo and keep it running cool as well. The key for max air flow? having a 120mm exahust fan and 120mm intake and for added bonus, a 120mm fan on top of the case, because we all know heat rises and cool air drops.
Hrm.... no, I think it's one of those long(ish) skinny turbine fans.. meaning, yes, in addition to the 4x 120mm side fans.. stats from the link:
Noise Level 0 dB (OFF)
22 dB (LOW)
30 dB (MIDDLE)
38 dB (HIGH)
Airflow 0 CFM - 0 r.p.m
25 CFM - 1400 r.p.m
32 CFM - 1800 r.p.m
46 CFM - 2500 r.p.m
whew.. 38db is pretty loud.. prolly sounds like a turbo spooling up. lol. anyways, you might want to consider other options before going that route.. well, perhaps... play with intake / exhaust variations to see what gives optimal results for your cards and case in general... you might want to consider getting a couple of more powerful 120mm fans for the bottom two on the case side, or well, the fans nearest the card pair.. another thought.
EDIT: but the more I think about it the more it seems like a pair of zalman vf700s (nicer price than the vf900s and work just about as well) would be the most thermally beneficial... if you don't get anywhere with changing the intake/exhaust configs...
double edit: lol, ok, after looking at the pics again, I see that dust filter stuff is still in covering the intake side of your fans.. try pulling that stuff out of the bottom pair side fans, so air will flow freely through them... that could very well improve things considerably.. you'll have more dust in your rig, yes, but that's going to happen anyways.. hope it helps!
sli works alot better with the bridge!!!!! i have seen benchies when two cards without the bridge do worse than one card!!!!!!!!
once agian nice rig:slobber:
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Originally Posted by hipno650
:lol:
I have a SLI bridge, Ranger gave me an ASUS flexable one, just not shown in the picture.
And the SLI drivers that ended up working for me are here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=113613
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nasgul
Unless you have this exact case, your anecdotal evidence isn't prudent to this situation, there are too many variables that go unstated that could skew the results. I don't know why you think this is the "perfect case" Is it because structurally it is well made? Is it because it costs $250? Do you know for a fact that somebody other than a packaging engineer (yes, that is a real degree, Michigan State has one of the better programs, but it is considered the degree to get for people who can't handle real mechanical engineering) designed it? Also you probably did not read my last post in its entirety, as I stated a workaround.
As an aside, not directed at you:
I love how all the know-it-alls on this board want to bow down and praise one company for making a foolish product (that knowledgeable people know will not work as advertised) saying "it was the engineers who designed it so it must be right!!" then when a motherboard or some other piece of hardware doesn't work: "its a stupidly designed product". Well guess what, chances are an engineer designed that too.
I am more than willing to back out of all hardware related arguments as a lot of people here know more than me. But this I won't, because nobody here has proven they know more or have direct anecdotal evidence with THIS CASE. So, I won't listen to anymore spewed unknowledgeable crap and I hope the OP won't as well.
That stock cooler is awesome, it is way better than zalman :) I wish Ati used something similarQuote:
Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
I agree. Stock cooler is better than VF900 and miles away from VF700.
Nice setup Natalia! :)