Project "XETM" - Worklog (56k Warning)

[rbsmontemor]

I'm assuming the hammer in the first picture is going to be used to smash the eVGA 680i board?

hahahaha nice one

[Patriote]

Yeah that or to smash myself for buying 2 used boards

[YugenM]

Yeah that or to smash myself for buying 2 used boards

"Unleashed Forces" indeed

[turtletrax]

You my friend have the worst luck ever


I will have the replacement for your first mobo as fast I can. I will see if they will test to confirm defect while I am in the shop and they will give me a retail box right after. Gotta love Memoryexpress IPR program

I went through a hardware killing phase about two years ago. I killed a DFI NF4 Ultra-D, and a FX-53 and 2 kits of TCCD all within a two week span. I couldnt beleive it, but haven't killed anything since.

It is too bad my board died tho. It was a cherry board and ran perfectly. I hope the new one is good to go too. I will have to test it for you before I send it, the worst thing I can imagine is sending you the replacement and it tossing C1 at you.

Keep your chin up laddy You will have one bad ass rig and one hell of a story at the end of this build

[Patriote]

Thanks man, you are a real friend

[Jedda]

Oh wow! Patriote, I feel your pain mate. You must be totally jonesing for this mobo.
Go do a good deed. Change your luck.

[marauder16]

man, I hate dying hardware...
great job so far Patriote, I was just thinking, did you get that bench table from somewhere, or did you make it yourself? (sorry if that's obvious, couldn't find it)

[Empty_Quarter]

I believe he got it from NCIX, Highspeed PC is what its called:

http://www.ncix.com/search/?q=Highsp...ice=Max.+Price

[Patriote]

I believe he got it from NCIX, Highspeed PC is what its called:

http://www.ncix.com/search/?q=Highsp...ice=Max.+Price

On a side note, I am still waiting for the new EVGA 680I A1 from my good friend Turtle.

[marauder16]

I believe he got it from NCIX, Highspeed PC is what its called:

http://www.ncix.com/search/?q=Highsp...ice=Max.+Price

On a side note, I am still waiting for the new EVGA 680I A1 from my good friend Turtle.

thnx

[Patriote]

Update! 11/02/2007 1:52AM

Hey Guys, guess what?

New and fresh board arrived! Thanks Turtletrax! Much love man!



I also placed a new order @ NCIX.com

1 - G9 Mouse
1 - G11 keyboard
2 - Thermochill Chrome barbs for my PA120.2

More to come. Tomorrow i have to hook that new board and see if it's working like i want it to work! If not, then it's right away...

[disruptfam]

awesome!!!

what happened to your tarantula keyboard??? didn't have any in stock (for replacement)??

[marauder16]

great, good luck (crossing fingers)

[Patriote]

awesome!!!

what happened to your tarantula keyboard??? didn't have any in stock (for replacement)??

You got it all right!

Man, i just woke up after a whole 10hours of sleep! I never sleep more than 4 hours or so. And i feel kinda screwed up lol Gonna work on the new mobo slowly but surely. Will post update later tonight!

[disruptfam]

You got it all right!

Man, i just woke up after a whole 10hours of sleep! I never sleep more than 4 hours or so. And i feel kinda screwed up lol Gonna work on the new mobo slowly but surely. Will post update later tonight!

WOOHOO UPDATES!!

[AllAgainstPaul]

you have klipsch speakers. Wow they are some of the highest quality brands.

[Idaho]

I don't care who you are, cylindrical rads are sexy!

[turtletrax]

UPDATE! 11/02/2007 1:52AM

Hey Guys, guess what?

New and fresh board arrived! Thanks Turtletrax! Much love man!

Anything for a dude like you

I really hope this board pans out for you!! LMK if not, but I pray it does...

[Patriote]

Yeah man, those speakers are the sh*t. You have no idea. 199.99$ for 2.1 speakers, they better kick major arses! And they do!

I don't care who you are, cylindrical rads are sexy!

Umm... lol ok

Updates will be posted tonight I have been working on the comp for 2 days now. Didn't started the watercooling tho. Just Air stuff for now. But the watercooling project will begin soon! Keep an eye on the thread

@ Turtletrax

Man, really, much respect and love The board is running super fine for now. No problem @ all. I even hooked the Tuniq tower with the back-plate and neopropen stuff and it's working awesomely. Temps are great as well

PS: I gotta walk to the PO and grab my new keyboard, mouse and barbs tomorrow!

[disruptfam]

Nice!!!

[turtletrax]

@ Turtletrax

Man, really, much respect and love The board is running super fine for now. No problem @ all. I even hooked the Tuniq tower with the back-plate and neopropen stuff and it's working awesomely. Temps are great as well

PS: I gotta walk to the PO and grab my new keyboard, mouse and barbs tomorrow!

Glad too help!!

I cannot wait to see this beast finnished. Everytime I see your MM UFO I have to hide credit cards on myself

[Patriote]

Small Update! November 05-2007

Ok, so as i said, the new board from my good friend Turtletrax is working

I had some problems tho. At first, i hooked everything (4GB RAM, G80s in SLI and Q6600) on air with stock cooler and booted. All went fine. I installed Vista and all required and latest drivers, loaded 3Dmark06 and got a 13k result... I was like WTF! I do that on a Single 8800GTX with my E6600 @ 3.7Ghz and RAM @ 1000Mhz 5-5-5-15 on my P5B Deluxe. So, i worked around. Installed a fresh Vista copy again, tried single card, formated again, reinstalled drivers lots of times etc... and finally, i thought "Hey, im running 2 8800GTXs in SLI on a Stock Q6600 (2.4Ghz) and im expecting something like 17k" lol

So, when running with a single 800GTX, i was getting like 10k. Thats all stock. Q6600 G0 @ 2.4Ghz (On stock cooler), Ram @ 800Mhz 5-5-5-15 *2GB* and nothing tweaked in Bios. When running dual cards in SLI, I'd get 13k.

So i thought, maybe by Ocing the CPU, I'll get a higher score? So, i went ahead and teared apart the system. Hooked my Tuniq tower on that new mobo and booted. Now i was running SLI and i started working on the Oc. I oced the Q6600 to 3Ghz with 1.32v Stable. I just ran 3Dmark06 tonight and here is what i got :



So that means that Ocing the CPU about 600Mhz = close to 3K more in 3Dmark06! So, for a normal Oc, say 3.6Ghz, I'd get around 18k Now thats better Heh! Maybe if i Oc a little more those 8800GTXs factory oced, i can manage 20k!

Anybody in here have 8800GTXs in SLI with a Quad core? What kind of score are they getting? Thanks!

PS: More updates will come tomorrow. I will try to Oc a bit more that CPU tonight and tomorrow i need to go grab my new G11 keyboard, my G9 mouse and those 2 Chrom barbs for my PA120.2! While I'm out, I'll go grab a few bottles of Distilled water @ my drug store And I'll get ready for the Watercooling part of the project!

EDIT: Here is where i am going to place the pumps.





I still gotta think how i am going to loop all that. I'll post pics with a new sketch-up tomorrow For now, I'm dead tired of that big day @ work... So I'm going to take it easy and go die in my new bed!

PS: Don't mind the dust all over the case... This project (And case..) has been sitting in my table for weeks now..

[disruptfam]

that score is abit bitter...

i score around 12-13k with a single gtx 650/1020 and quad @ 3.2ghz

I don't have sli running so i can't help ya with that.. sorry

[Patriote]

Yeah, it's better now Thread Edited BTW!

[disruptfam]

looking good mate... nice work on all that cable sleeving... i was reading your guide on how to sleeve cable's earlier today... good stuff!! i'm going to sleeve all my fan's pump's etc....

do you know where i can get a good de-pinning tool kit??