SkullTrail anyone???

[Torphoto]

and what about these

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835227004

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835704001

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835202003

[Zytek_Fan]

The Corsair and OCZ are fine, but the CoolIT RAM fan moves barely any air.

[TiN_]

I don't like thermaltake, so I vote for enermax
It's much more reliable and 24\7 comfortable for use.
As for >1k wattage - just to tell everybody that you have cool megasuperwattaged psu? Or what? Your skulltrail, even with 4 Ultras and 10 HDD's will be near 750-800W load MAXIMUM STRESSED What for all that megawatt trash? Better spend some money and buy 6 15000RPM HDD's SAS with controller

[Clockwork_Apple]

I don't like thermaltake, so I vote for enermax

Nice objective review there

[Zytek_Fan]

I don't like thermaltake, so I vote for enermax
It's much more reliable and 24\7 comfortable for use.
As for >1k wattage - just to tell everybody that you have cool megasuperwattaged psu? Or what? Your skulltrail, even with 4 Ultras and 10 HDD's will be near 750-800W load MAXIMUM STRESSED What for all that megawatt trash? Better spend some money and buy 6 15000RPM HDD's SAS with controller

You sure it's more reliable?
I can't count how many stories I've heard of Enermax Galaxies failing this past year...

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

go read the PSU section, TT toughpower PSU's are top quality and have excellent line stability and reliability.(not that i approve of all the rest of TT)

[RLM]

You expect thermaltake to be crap due their dodgy water cooling stuff.

You should check out this review

http://www.jonnyguru.com/review_details.php?id=115

I remember reading these reviews a while back, and it was on the strength of them I picked up a Thermaltake back in the UK. Looking at the ripple factor the thermaltake was actually better than my Silverstone OP-1000.

As far as I remember Jonny said that the components inside these psu are actually very good.

RLM

[NapalmV5]

pci placement is really bad for now

itll make sence when auzentech releases their next sound card @ pcie

silverstone OP1200
2x tuniq towers
cm stacker 830 se
areca raid
bunch of little friends

all waiting..

[Crazypinoy9]

Ok guys i've been making a few phone calls throughout the day and i've got some bad news.

quad sli drivers are in super beta right now and doesn't work properly. The drivers that i have right now only allow 2way.

I will keep you guys update!

[Torphoto]

Don't worry about the sli yet, there are so many other tests you can do

[Blauhung]

yeah, we want to see overclocking options! Need BIOS Screenies!

[Movieman]

Yup yup... this man speaks the truth.

And thanks for the PM dude.

My pleasure..cheap and works..

yeah, we want to see overclocking options! Need BIOS Screenies!

You got it..That is what people want to see..
And of course if you can get that bastage to 4000mhz!

(Ahh,Crazy, since your stuck with 2 extra vid cards and ahh, well my address is..)

[IanY]

These are the ones MM was using.

http://ec.transcendusa.com/product/I...S256MFB72V8U-T

GamePC also has DDR2-800 FB-DIMMs in stock. But because they are a custom builder, they are going to charge you an arm and a leg.

Many thanks !

Confirm that CAS 5 is as low a latency as they come at this time, and in any event, the quad channels make latency less of an issue. Correct ?

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Some more hardware pron for y'all.

Mbob: TYAN tempest i5400xt w/ SAS

[Torphoto]

Some more hardware pron for y'all.

Mbob: TYAN tempest i5400xt w/ SAS

Totally uncalled for, your making me jealous

[Cronos]

FB DIMMS really aren't anything to be "afraid" of. They're cheap enough now, plus, if you can run in quad channel, the bandwidth is enough to feed the chips the data they need.

This really depends on applications of yours.
The quad-channel controller in previous version of this chipset -5000X -was so slow that it lags 20-30% behind dual-channel P35 at the same DDR2 speed.

Now split this 0.8 bandwidth between two CPUs and you have only ~1/3 bandwidth per CPU, compared to desktop. Now adds the possibility to use high-speed DDR2 or even DDR3 on desktop boards (for those with bottomless wallet) and you easily get 1/4 difference.

So, this platform really was/is not for bandwidth-hungry applications.
Thats why i am so anxious to see memory bandwidth benchmarks on this new platform.

[masterg]

where can we get 1?

[Zytek_Fan]

where can we get 1?

The SkullTrail board or the Tyan board a few posts above?

[LinusTech]

does that Tyan board support Crossfire?

[Zytek_Fan]

does that Tyan board support Crossfire?

It should. Both slots are electrical x16.

[threeply]

These pics are making me drool all over the screen.

Tyan has a 5100 chipset board S5375. Wonder if that board will have better Latency scores since its not tied to FBDIMMS.

[Cronos]

5100 chipset has dual-channel controller and requires Registered DDR2 memory. It supports only 1333FSB (officially).
I doubt its memory controller is better than 5000X , surely it cant compete with 5400 MCH.

FB-DIMM latency is not a problem, this series of chipsets is optimized for low latency. The real problem is available bandwidth.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

the one I posted is the 5400 chipset and it was a PITA to get a hold of, seriously I was calling wholesalers and e-tailers for weeks trying to find it.

[Cronos]

SNiiPE_DoGG
Can you please run memory bandwidth benchmark?
Download RMMA suit from here:
http://cpu.rightmark.org/download.shtml

Find Multi-Threaded Memory test (in the folder there the package will be installed ) and run it. Set amount of tested memory to 20Mb per process or more. Compare total score with 1 and 8 threads.

P.S.
Its interesting to note that Tyan implemented 6-phase design for their server 5400xt board and Intel uses 5-phase for the Skulltrail.. It should be otherwise.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

SNiiPE_DoGG
Can you please run memory bandwidth benchmark?
Download RMMA suit from here:
http://cpu.rightmark.org/download.shtml

Find Multi-Threaded Memory test (in the folder there the package will be installed ) and run it. Set amount of tested memory to 20Mb per process or more. Compare total score with 1 and 8 threads.

P.S.
Its interesting to note that Tyan implemented 6-phase design for their server 5400xt board and Intel uses 5-phase for the Skulltrail.. It should be otherwise.

I will in about a week... lol, I have a lot of college applications to do ASAP, so I wont be building until i have time to mod the case for the radiator and get my order from petras