Freaking FINALLY.. watercooled SR-2

Some people know that I've been trying to get my new mainrig up and running for 3 or 4 months now. Yes, I'm talking about the SR-2. First I didn't have a board, then I got one early thanks to Dave :up:
But then I didn't have a waterblock. So I sent the board to Eddy from Ek waterblocks, he reckoned it would take like 2 weeks or so.
Well, that was 2 months ago :rofl:

Anyway, today I got my board back, along with the first retail quality FC block from EK.. enjoy :)

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/CIMG2067.JPG
http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/CIMG2071.JPG
http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/CIMG2072.JPG
http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/CIMG2073.JPG
http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/CIMG2078.JPG

Of course, the board only arrived today, and as some of you may be aware, I'll be leaving for France tonight. After that, I'll be on vacation in Croatia, meaning that I won't get to build my new mainrig for yet another 3 weeks or so :rolleyes: :shakes: :mad:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Edit: Finally got some nice pics of my finished rig for y'all - enjoy! :)

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/IMG_1844s.jpg

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/IMG_1864s.jpg

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/IMG_1869s.jpg

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/IMG_1905s.jpg

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/IMG_1913s.jpg

Sounds like you would rather stay at home :rofl:

Have a nice holiday :up:

Believe me, I would - but I'm afraid that's not an option :rofl:

Wow. Just wow. Color me green with envy. It sure is nice to have connections in this world. Have a safe trip!

looks good man, enjoy it!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by shoota

Wow. Just wow. Color me green with envy. It sure is nice to have connections in this world. Have a safe trip!

---

What, you thought we call this "crunching Mafia" for no reason? :rofl: :cool:

That looks sick.

I wish SR-2 would fit in my case. Then I'd be saving my pennies.

really awesome man, have you checked the socket pins yet :0

What will you be putting in the x16 slots? :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Linus@ncix

That looks sick.

I wish SR-2 would fit in my case. Then I'd be saving my pennies.

---

Yep, I had to get me a new case myself - a custom MM Ufo. More on that when I get back ;)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Splave

really awesome man, have you checked the socket pins yet :0

---

Yep, all there & straight :up:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by lkiller123

What will you be putting in the x16 slots? :D

---

Dual 5870's for starters.. with matching EK Acetal/Nickel blocks, of course :D

Good to see it arrived, time to update your user title! ;)

Have fun! :up:

That looks great. You are going to hate that vacation.:rofl:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jcool

What, you thought we call this "crunching Mafia" for no reason? :rofl: :cool:

---

So how does one become a "goodfella" then? :)

Why did you stop to take pictures, get that thing plumbed already! :p

think i will look up you address and steal it while your on vacation but i promise to put it good use.

Clean that thing up a bit and put it in a box or something! So dirty! :o

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by haschioz

think i will look up you address and steal it while your on vacation but i promise to put it good use.

---

I can give you his address!:rofl:

much appreciated, mm! pm when hes gone:ROTF:

I can give you Dave's adress , best to put on your bulletproof vest though :ROTF:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jcool

What, you thought we call this "crunching Mafia" for no reason? :rofl: :cool:

---

And Dave is "Da GodFather". :ROTF:

Like creidiki said "EK is like waterblock pr0n". :up:

first sr2 block in your hands huh? awesome! what's the rest of the WC hardware? moar pics?!

Come on, you can't leave now, you will be thinking of this all day long in holiday. :rofl:

At least pump it up and post some temperature before you leave.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jaco

I can give you Dave's adress , best to put on your bulletproof suit though :ROTF:

---

Fixed..:rofl:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jaco

I can give you Dave's adress , best to put on your bulletproof vest though :ROTF:

---

Warning... Premises protected by Smith & Wesson! :shoot: :eek:

So so jealous...

(I don't think I'd make the plane)

Dude... that's just sweet.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jaco

I can give you Dave's adress , best to put on your bulletproof vest though :ROTF:

---

And even with the vest, you're gonna have some broken ribs in the morning. :yepp:

Given what I've heard about him, Dave would fit in back in Texas. :rofl:

That looks amazing.

Are you insane? Jcool, wtf man? You just flash a watercooled SR-2 and leave? Not cool man, not cool. Leaving us here for 3 weeks of torture ...

I am dying to see how it helps temps of PWM and etc.

Thanks for the pics jcool! Just ordered mine from the EK website. Should be here in a week or two.

Ok.. so I just got back home :)
Guess I'll start building on Saturday so I'll hopefully have some more pics, benches and infos for you guys - even though it will be less interesting now than it was 3 months ago, when I first got the board :S

Will you be hooking up to the "Big White Box"?....I hope so because I'm curious as hell about all the numbers that setup will produce...from temps to speed to boinc and I feel some vantage runs etc would not disappoint either :D.

You will need a holiday just to get this going :up:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by OldChap

Will you be hooking up to the "Big White Box"?....I hope so because I'm curious as hell about all the numbers that setup will produce...from temps to speed to boinc and I feel some vantage runs etc would not disappoint either :D.

You will need a holiday just to get this going :up:

---

You bet I will ;)
It's what the Chiller was intended for all along.. finally everything is coming together. But you are probably right, as in I'd need an extra vacation for this one :rofl:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jcool

Ok.. so I just got back home :)
Guess I'll start building on Saturday so I'll hopefully have some more pics, benches and infos for you guys - even though it will be less interesting now than it was 3 months ago, when I first got the board :S

---

It's about time..
Hell, thought we were going to have to send out the St Bernards looking for you..:rofl:

Glad to hear your back and safe jcool, I am very curious to see your temps once you get her up and running. Most of all your vreg temps with the EK fb block, I may very well purchase that fb block to replace mine depending on how your temps look ;)

Mine has been crunching strong and I love it .... I'm sure you will too :up:

we are waiting for pics

http://eaglelake.homelinux.net/~jura...es/popcorn.gif

Yeah, sorry - I spent a few hours on the build today, but ran into problems with that MM Ufo case... it's pretty flimsy and not as well-made as I'd like... certainly not German engineering :S
Anyway, the tray was all wobbly so I had to manufacture my own secondary support angle, which pretty much ate the afternoon. Then I had some friends over for dinner so I didn't really get to finish it... pics tomorrow, promise!

still no update ... slacker :shakes:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jaco

still no update ... slacker :shakes:

---

:ROTF:

Maybe he is still working hard on it.

Crunching first, pics second.

Give him some time..
The poor boy just got back from vacation and needs to regain his strength..:D

Wow, that was more work than I imagined.. mostly thanks to those slackers over at Mountain Mods :shakes:
I had to basically re-engineer the whole damn mobo tray mount so it wouldn't break down under the load of heavy hardware :p: There were also some minor annoyances like missing motherboard standoffs (SR-2 needs 11, 9 were supplied even though I ordered the special SR-2 ready tray :rolleyes: ), and so on.

I also had a small leak in one of the EK GPU blocks, someone at the factory apparently forgot to tighten the screws all the way down :rolleyes:

Anyway, the beast has been up & running for a few hours now. Fresh Win7 install + all the basic programs are there, now it's time to do an Acronis backup (in case I :banana::banana::banana::banana: up the OS) and get to OCing :D

Pics are crap due to my POS camera, I really need to get a new one. Anyway, here's the "hardware core" :D

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/CIMG2086.JPG

http://database.he-computer.de/Bilder/SR2/CIMG2090.JPG

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! :slobber:

sorry if ya mentioned before- but what are those video cards? can't tell from that angle way over here in New England:rofl:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by CaptMorgan

sorry if ya mentioned before- but what are those video cards? can't tell from that angle way over here in New England:rofl:

---

HD5870's if I'm not mistaken.

Yep, Dual 5870's :)
TBH I was pretty much satisfied with the performance of one 5870, but then I had this 2nd card lying here, and I thought to myself - meh, one card looks kinda puny, you need at least 2! :rofl:

Anyway, still trying to get the hang of this board. Seems it undervolts/droops the Vcore pretty heavily, almost 0,08V lower than bios set :eek:
No wonder I got BSODs with the first few tries.

E-Leet is very nice though, you can adjust settings on the fly if LinX or prime throw an error. No reboots needed, just like with Abit in the good old days :)

Temp readings are a little off, CPU 0 reads too low (idle 5C lower than water temp), VRM 1 is too low as well. Need to play some more...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jcool

Yep, Dual 5870's :)
TBH I was pretty much satisfied with the performance of one 5870, but then I had this 2nd card lying here, and I thought to myself - meh, one card looks kinda puny, you need at least 2! :rofl:

Anyway, still trying to get the hang of this board. Seems it undervolts/droops the Vcore pretty heavily, almost 0,08V lower than bios set :eek:
No wonder I got BSODs with the first few tries.

E-Leet is very nice though, you can adjust settings on the fly if LinX or prime throw an error. No reboots needed, just like with Abit in the good old days :)

Temp readings are a little off, CPU 0 reads too low (idle 5C lower than water temp), VRM 1 is too low as well. Need to play some more...

---

Now let me see..( time to harass a friend):rofl:
What are those things you have in the memory slots?
Can't be memory in the ones in the other left.
Never heard of them?:rofl:

Then those waterblocks. You make those yourself or were those a kindergarten project at a local school?:p:
Are they MIPS( Mentally Impaired People)

Last, that board block..
On a proper one like I have there is just an intake and output..one each where yours has this extra tube that needs to flwo over the board like it's lost or something..:ROTF:

Now to be serious, go into BIOS and set "Without V Droop"
Also vcore will run at 1.69 if you set at 1.65 so keep that in mind.
vrm 0 is the one to watch out for and seeing you have that wimpy board block you might want to get a fan on it..:rofl:

Oh,did I say looks good and best of luck?:p:

4.3 stabilized :p:
Time to go to bed and let the beast do its work...
Oh, and my VRM 1 temp is 33C :ROTF: :p: :shrug:

DIABLO RAM? wtf? :banana:

it's Compustocx CSX memory.
http://www.csx-memory.com/

Hell yeah.. Compustocx Germany, one of the biggest OEM suppliers for Apple Mac Pro's. This kit is rated for 2000 C9 at 1,65V - like the Gskill PI Black Kit (1600 C8), they carry Samsung HCF0 chips, which is why the 2 ram kits are a good match :)

SR-2 is stable as a rock at 4.3 - too bad I have to work or I'd start benching right away :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jcool

4.3 stabilized :p:
Time to go to bed and let the beast do its work...
Oh, and my VRM 1 temp is 33C :ROTF: :p: :shrug:

---

That looks good, you got good stuff there.
My VRM1 is low too, both at idle and load, on air. But that VRM0=61'C seams to be too high for idle. Mine idles at ~40'C and shoots up to ~63'C under prime-load, with a fan blowing right over it. I got much lower vCore and it may play a role too, but it seams to be too high anyways.

Your system and systems2 temps looks really good, and that means your WC-setup and MB-block is working good, but maybe that VRM0-block needs some adjustment?, or maybe that's just the normal affect of higher vCore?

That 60C is at load with the CPUs at 4.3Ghz.. my CPUs draw a lot more power than yours so I guess the temp is ok. I can't tighten it down more, and it's mounted the right way (had to do it several times due to a mixup in the manual on which pad to use). Even with the stock air cooling, the VRM 0 temps went straight to 45C in bios for me, so I guess the sensor may be out of whack (like most sensors on this board are).

Edit: Attached idle shot :sofa:
Well.. 10s of idle time :rolleyes:

Water at 20C.

acceptable..:p:
Now go crank that up to 4750 and post a sub 2 sec wPrime32 time..:ROTF:

*goes to turn down the water chiller to 6C, opens Window*

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jcool

*goes to turn down the water chiller to 6C, opens Window*

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :D

---

Go Josh GO! :cheer:

we want some moar mhz !!!

Jcool, my cpu0 pwm temps are high also with a fb block ..... I actually added a 60 mm Fan directly over them to keep the below 60c. I was hoping your were better:shrug:

whats the power draw? :)

Hunter, 60C is not "high" for digital VRM :)
It may seem high, but consider they are at least reated for 135C operating. It's like running your GPU at 45C instead of 100C with the stock cooler.
Besides, most sensors on this SR-2 are so out of whack that I wouldn't begin to trust any of those readings. I mean what the hell.. CPU0 always shows 10C or more higher than CPU1, VRM 1 is way too low, etc.

Didn't get around to benching last night by the way, too much stuff to catch up on. This is my work PC after all :D

STEvil, haven't measured yet. Not sure I want to know :fresse:

Yeah, probably those sensors are off. Some of your temps looks really off, tho. We need an infrared-reading to find out exact temps. We also need DMM-readings for temps and voltages om SR-2. Anybody got any of these yet?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sam_oslo

Yeah, probably those sensors are off. Some of your temps looks really off, tho. We need an infrared-reading to find out exact temps. We also need DMM-readings for temps and voltages om SR-2. Anybody got any of these yet?

---

If you sent me the system I could run it under an infrared camera for ya... :rofl:

But somehow I don't see anyone willing to send a system like that, and I can't send the camera. :rolleyes:

Naw, seems to be just what we said it is.. crappy sensors.
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=573635

VRM 0 is too high and VRM 1 too low, but who cares as long as it's running great :)
The 10C higher Coretemps by board default on CPU 0 do nag me though :rofl:

OMG!!!!! :eek::slobber::slobber:



I can't say anything else to this thread other than I got wood :rofl:

Lol, thanks.. my camera is still broken though, wait until you see real pics of the finished rig :wasntme:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jcool

Naw, seems to be just what we said it is.. crappy sensors.
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=573635

VRM 0 is too high and VRM 1 too low, but who cares as long as it's running great :)
The 10C higher Coretemps by board default on CPU 0 do nag me though :rofl:

---

Yeah those sensors seams to be really off, but your temps are are really good. Those VRM are rated for really high-temp, and you got ~40'C to go before it would make any instability or other problems. So you are on the same side, even if those sensors are really crappy.

Yes, the CPU#0 core-temp runs a lot hotter. I fixed it by using tow different CPU-cooler. The good one on CPU#0 has reduced it to 4-3'C. ;)

J , you must have a cell phone camera ;)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Duh

J , you must have a cell phone camera ;)

---

Sure, but it takes xtremely crappy pics. Just wait a few more days until my friend and his DSLR come visit me ;)

UPDATES ARE NEEDED!!!! :eek:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Panther_Seraphi

UPDATES WITH PICTURES ARE NEEDED!!!! :eek:

---

Fixed:D

I know.. still havent gotten round to even benching that thing yet. And no new cam either...

Long overdue update - I seem to recall I promised decent pics of my SR-2 setup. Here they are (see post 1) :)
Friend of mine took them with a DSLR.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jcool

Long overdue update - I seem to recall I promised decent pics of my SR-2 setup. Here they are (see post 1) :)
Friend of mine took them with a DSLR.

---

Beautiful work and excellent pics!:up::up::up::up: