I caved... Quad GTX 580 UD with new AC waterblocks.. New 990X and new 1500W PSU

[Phatboy69]

Ah, why not get just one big one? Or do you get better flow/temps with them? Or just look better?

I like the look of them and they will probably net a better temp, they are running in parallel so the flow is probably no better than a single block.
Ram temps dont matter too much though, the ram does get warm without them but I wouldnt say hot. At least not at the clocks Im running them at.
After degrading my 990x and getting lucky with an RMA with Intel, when I get the new CPU next week I wont be doing anymore 2200Mhz 1.8v runs on the ram!

[Phatboy69]

this is awesome, i really love your rig man, awesome setup!

everything is so well planned and executed, a lot is going on in there

keep up the awesome work

Thanks mate, yes certainly a lot of planning, and a lot more time than I would have liked. I still have a few things left to do too..
Still havent made the long USB cable for the controller yet and a couple other cables, and I still need to terminate all the sensors and wire up the water level meters.

Im having a break from it and enjoying the first gaming Ive been able to do for a couple months since I started the rebuild/upgrade.

[Phatboy69]

IL2 COD 6030x1080 Nvidia 2D Surround - Hurri's vs BF110's

4way SLI GPUs all maxed at 99% avg 30FPS - This game still needs heaps of optimisation and the developers have promised a minimum 50% performance improvement with the next patch. I used to get 60FPS with eyefinity quad 5870s with an earlier beta that used xfire/sli properly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbJfvrd553U

The beast that powers IL2 COD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHCNW1lkk4

[Phatboy69]

My brand new Intel 990X replacement arrived today so I can finally do some real benchmarks tonight!

I have put up a place holder for my new website and am learning to code and build a Joomla! site with dreamweaver and the Adobe creative suite. I've got a shopping cart system setup too.. Man what a learning curve dynamic PHP websites are compared to my first website, I was building static sites 10 years ago and this is a lot more complicated now content is seperate from structure and presentation! This might take a while! I'll do a build story on a new wordpress blog to start just to get some ideas because its easier and faster to see results! I might even look at Drupal too since it's a bit more advanced than Wordpress but not as complicated as Joomla!

[Phatboy69]

Im pretty impressed with this 990X chip!

Here's stock settings under prime95. Ambient room temp 26c.





Here's the max OC with stock volts and vdroop Level 2 turned on.




Here's what's really impressive.. I beat my old best score with a lower CPU 990x OC of only 4.8Ghz and the GPUs only 50Mhz more than the last best score. Thats with all 24GB running at 1600Mhz 8-8-8-24 1T...

Voltages are 1.48V CPU and 1.66V Dram. (DRAM reporting 1.63v)




Time for a Vantage run!

[Phatboy69]

Vantage not quite as close since it's more CPU skewed.
But still pretty close!

[xFEARx3]

I wish i had ur 990X. I need too much Voltage for +4,8 Ghz.

[[XC] Oj101]

This is one CRAZY build mate, I'll be following

[badbaker`]

Not sure if this has been asked already, But what does this thing draw from the wall?

[Phatboy69]

Not sure if this has been asked already, But what does this thing draw from the wall?

Assuming 90% efficiency I believe around 2300W with everything at max load. We are on 240V here in OZ so that gives us up to 2400W from a standard wall socket.

~350W per GPU and ~400W for the CPU add another ~300W for accessories (pumps/fans) and for MB chipset. = ~2100 /.9 = 2300W

There's not much around other than OCCT PSU test that can push everything that hard at the same time though! So normal use I would expect 1500W used for 1666W at the wall.
I'll get a couple of plug in power meters and measure it properly because Im interested myself!

[badbaker`]

Bloody hell, with my setup at normal use i pull 400w from the wall. And 800w running unigine and prime95.

I just bought a $20 wall adapter from woolies to see what i was using, even showed me the cost. And being in a old queenslander, i cant play games and boil the kettle at the same time or i overload the house and trip the curcuit breaker.

[Phatboy69]

Here's my best result at 5Ghz so far.

Still have a bit more tweaking to do but this looks like the best I can do till I get a bit more voltage into the GPUs.

3DMark Score P20670
Graphics Score 27595
Physics Score 12532
Combined Score 10835