Asus z7s ws Build

So here is the Semi-Final build with a few pictures.

Specs
Motherboard : Asus z7s WS (Bios Rev:401)
CPU: Intel Xeon x5450 3.0ghz Quad core X2
Memory: Dell DDR2 FBDIMM 667 8gb ram( 2x 4gb sticks)
Video card: ATI 1900gt (next on list to change)
Cooling: Swifttech Dual 120mm rad.
Thermaltake Single 120mm Rad.
Koolance 301 CPU water blocks
Thermaltake Ram Coolers (Passive)
Case: Thermaltake Armour Series case

once i get it burned in, and running stable, the overclocking will begin. The thermaltake Case , i must say is the best case i have used in a long time. It droped my 45C Motherboard temp to 35C and it never budges from that.
CPU 1 stays from 38c to 45C under load, but cpu2 has jumped as high as 65c and i had to kill the stress test to save it. The second rad. for that cpu doesnt have a fan yet :( .. once i get a fan on it, ill see if the temps stablize..

As for the OS, i am running a Dual boot Config. 2Sata 250gb HDD for Windows Vista x64 and 2 Sata 250GB HDD for Leopard OSX with a 1TB storage drive to swap between the 2.

Here are some quick pictures of the almost completed rig, i took these last night at 12am, so ill get better ones soon.

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Very nice build, I like it :up:
Now let's see that baby producing some serious crunching numbers :toast:

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Originally Posted by jcool

Very nice build, I like it :up:
Now let's see that baby producing some serious crunching numbers :toast:

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will do, just need to fix the 2nd cpu from overheating.. , need a fan for 2nd rad... after that we will see what this thing can crunch..

Nice build , I like that rad at the bottom.

I'm at 440x9 =3960Mhz with my E5450's. Aircooled that is :D
Those 667 Fb-dimms could be hindering your overclock.

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Originally Posted by [XC] Jaco

Nice build , I like that rad at the bottom.

I'm at 440x9 =3960Mhz with my E5450's. Aircooled that is :D
Those 667 Fb-dimms could be hindering your overclock.

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this

as far as that 65* goes....something is definately wrong there since you are water cooled. i've never even hit that with my X5460's stock heat sinks OC'd to 3.8Ghz

No fan so the water will continue to heat up and the radiator won't be able to radiate the heat without airflow. Wait till he gets some fans on the second radiator :up:

ok, moved one of the 120 mm fanes to other radiator, had some problem then i noticed, i only screwed down once side of the damn heat sink, so it was not making full contact with cpu.. so straightened that out, seems to work alot better except for 1 minor thing, and i think it is The PC probe software.. it said that cpu was running at 147c for 4 seconds and it keeps telling me Vcore voltage is out of tolarnce ant 0.0.. if that were true, the pc would shut down.. time to find better temp and monitoring software..

Coretemp ftw :)

ok, i used everest and coretemp, seems under full load temps get to about 55C when overclocked to 3.6ghz, idles at 38C, i wish i could get it a bit cooler, but i can live with this for now..

Nice looking setup. http://www.bitbenderforums.com/~dark...blingmeter.gif

thanks, i just ran a Cinbench10 and got 26685 on multicore rendering... gonna tweak out all the bugs, but seems to run pretty stable. i just wish i could lower the TEMPS a bit more.. gonna have to try some experiments... its the damn Southern Louisiana weather... lol..

next step, find a water cooler and tear it apart salvage the parts from it.. and make a chiller..

Nice build! With a chiller, those clocks could soar. One question about your case though- does that side-panel fan get in the way?

no, side panel fan is very thin, it is inches away from anything..

found a headache with this system.. so i have 4 250 Sata hdds, and 1 TB sata hdd and also a Sata DVD-rw.. perfect , i got 6 slots.. nope wrong, once you active raid, you lose the dvd-rw... so i cant install windows.. then i get an idea, hey i hve this IDE dvdrom , lets install from there.. wrong.. error during install.. seems to me like this dvdrom cant read a section on the disk, it fails to copy over , i installed windows from sata drive not 3 hours before on another hdd...

i am trying right now to make a pen drive install disk.. we will see how that goes.. man raid can be a pain in the ass..

enable raid after install.

its raid 0, and i foudn the problem, it was a dirty disk.. :P lol...

well scratched up disk.. damn... that was my only copy of vista 64... off to torrents

Well got the raid working, turns out it was the DVD, i made a Install pendrive and it works great.. installs in 15 min.. woot!!

here are some pics.. i maxed out vista at 5.9 on all but graphics i got a 5.7. has anyone gotten higher than 5.9??

cinebench 10 gave rendering multicpu a 26170.. not to bad..

Just installed 2 ATI 4850 1gb Asus boards to the build in Crossfire. 5.9 across the board on vista index, 8813 on Geekbench 32 bit

I am downloading 3dmark right now..

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Originally Posted by shanems3

found a headache with this system.. so i have 4 250 Sata hdds, and 1 TB sata hdd and also a Sata DVD-rw.. perfect , i got 6 slots.. nope wrong, once you active raid, you lose the dvd-rw... so i cant install windows.. then i get an idea, hey i hve this IDE dvdrom , lets install from there.. wrong.. error during install.. seems to me like this dvdrom cant read a section on the disk, it fails to copy over , i installed windows from sata drive not 3 hours before on another hdd...

i am trying right now to make a pen drive install disk.. we will see how that goes.. man raid can be a pain in the ass..

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You have to plug the SATA DVD in before the RAID HDDs, like into sata 1. Somehow it stops looking for drives as soon as it has found its raid, lol. Bios is still pretty buggy.

And remember, stay clear of the version 9 chipset drivers, they :banana::banana::banana::banana: up the raid 0. Stick with the 8,6 from the Asus CD.

cool, gonna have to try that, i had a Sil 3132 card running my spare hdd and DVDrom..

Jcool, you would happen to know what NB and SB chipset coolers(aftermarket) would work on this mobo. I want a copper sink instead of this heat pipe aluminum. It can have fans, noise doesnt bother me, i have both my ati cards at 100 percent fan control on...

Thermalright makes a chipset cooler that works well. Noctua's NH-U6 works but is very hard to install.

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Originally Posted by shanems3

Just installed 2 ATI 4850 1gb Asus boards to the build in Crossfire. 5.9 across the board on vista index, 8813 on Geekbench 32 bit

I am downloading 3dmark right now..

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Yeah, all great but how many ppd can it do in WCG? ;)

had to get my temps stable before i tried... thats next on the list..

3798 mips per cpu
7800 integer mips per cpu

I am guessing that that is x8 since i have dual quad cores.. any other Boinc benches??

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Originally Posted by loonym

Yeah, all great but how many ppd can it do in WCG? ;)

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My guesstimate would be 36-37k/d sustained at 400x9, using my E5420's (34k at 430x7,5) and X5450's(41,5k at 451x9) for reference :up:

shanems3, get the 64bit BOINC client, it does approx. 10% more work in the same timeframe.

shanems, here's the latest stable 64bit version for windows: LINKIE for 6.2.19 and here's one for the LATEST beta version 6.3.23

cool, ill try it out, on another note, i seem to have ran into a problem. i got some ddr2 fbdimm in, 800mhz, instead of 667, but it still comes up as 667.. only way i can clock it at 800 is to overclock the system.. ?? any ideas?? is there a jumper to switch 800 mode on..

Is the board set to read the SPD? Perhaps you need to reset something.

The board runs the memory 1:1 with the CPU.

That'd do it.

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Originally Posted by STEvil

The board runs the memory 1:1 with the CPU.

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that will explain why its so rock solid at 400fsb in bios... 430 it can boot to windows but is buggy, 440 cant boot.. 400 is stable.. whats the highest yall get?

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that will explain why its so rock solid at 400fsb in bios... 430 it can boot to windows but is buggy, 440 cant boot.. 400 is stable.. whats the highest yall get?

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you could get some DDR2 800?

Already does have that, thor... read ~6 posts up. Got a good fan on your memory and decent case air circulation?

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Originally Posted by STEvil

Already does have that, thor... read ~6 posts up. Got a good fan on your memory and decent case air circulation?

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crap, I missed it. When people dont have avatars..I scroll to fast and dont notice :(

if its not stable UP THE VOLTAGEEEEEEEEEE

what voltage, Vcore??

Yes, i have 4 DDR2 800 2gb sticks with aftermarket thermal take ramsinks.. with a fan going across the sinks

ok, very frustraited, i installed a sil 3132 sata controller to use my dvd rom on it, while using the onboard raid.... i was playing COD:world at war, i get a bsod, i am thinkin it was somthing to do with my setup in crossfirex. anyways, i reboot, i get an error cannot load pci device into memory.. it never loads my onboard raid. i remove the Sil 3132, boots fine.. wtf is going on .. Am i overloading my PCIe Bus?? i have 2 Asus ati 4850, sil 3132, and the MIO audio card that comes with the mobo.


damn this build has alot of quirks in it.. shesh.. fix one thing , another thing pops up..

Sil controllers suck.

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Originally Posted by STEvil

Sil controllers suck.

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So very true.

ok, running Boinc 64 bit build, working great, doesnt even impact my gaming with COD5 so i always have it running in the back ground. my benchmark was 3800/11000, and i am on the xtremesystems team, so hopefully ill contribute to the team pretty good.

I settled with 411 FSB, with 8 cores running at 3.7ghz.
I did notice that due to me having Crossfire config, my top video card is hitting 90c temp, so i ordered 2 Water blocks, extra radiator for GPU and external Reservoir for easy filling. After that is installed, the rig will be complete and ill have more time to work on my Project Flooded pc(Oil cooled PC).
Overall i am satisfied with the setup minus the lack of overclocking support in bios.
I will post pictures of the final setup after the new parts come in from FrozenCPU.com