UnOfficial EVGA X58 Classified Owners Thread

[S1nn3r]

So as to try and avoid fitting issues ive been looking at Triple Chan DDR3 kits which don't have silly big heat spreaders on as the margins for error with kits with them on is a lil to close for my liking.

Anyone have any thoughts on what would happen with the following(Classy 760/i7 920) -

Geil Black Dragon 12800
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=8&subcat=1389

G.Skill HK 12800
http://www.memoryc.com/computermemor...triplekit.html

G.Skill NQ 12800
http://www.tekheads.co.uk/product/GS...Kit_25117.html

Or have any other suggestions ?

My further thoughts on the above as im still trying to work out the memory situation..

Geil Black Dragons look awesome,have decant timings and are cheap, but they are an unknown quantity as they are new on the market as part of Geils resurrection of the Black Dragon brand, a brand which was well regarded last time around as i recall.

GSkill NQ looks a bit high latency but cheap and is red to go well with the classy.

GSkill HQ looks good but is blue and not red so would clash with the classy cosmeticly (hey.. it is kinda a minus if doing a windowed case), also pretty good value like pretty much every G.Skill kit.

Very tempted by the Black Dragons.. though hard to tell if Geil is still as well regarded as they have been as they have been keeping a low profile as of late so they are more of an unknown quantity vs the g.skill stuff.

Anyone have any comments or anything on the kits mentioned above ?

[S1nn3r]

Yes, I am sure. I owm Megashadow which is wider than True and G.Skill Trident (very tall RAM). 38mm fans are no go (2mm too wide combined setup), 25mm is perfect with plenty of space.



In fact, even if you're going to populate all 6 RAM slots it will still fit, you will just have to mount fans with something else other than those metal brackets. For True any setup should fit with ease, 3, 6 slots, as long as fans are 25mm. Might fit 3 RAM sticks and 38mm fans, but no promises.

No idea, really.
I went with Corsair myself due to the excellent quality and the premium service. My HX1000 has done a great job so far. But your call what to pick.
Antec 1200 PSU should be even better if you can afford that.

Thanks for the input and pic to prove the point .. this is the kinda feedback i like

[zalbard]

I can't say I really like any of the above in particular. I'd prolly go with G.Skill CL9 ones.
One thing I can suggest is doing some research in regards to memory chips used. Some cheap RAM can be a crazy clocker.
Maybe look into OCZ RAM (it's black) if you don't want to get a semi-expensive 2GHz kit.

[Utnorris]

I have the Classified (760) and I have noticed a couple things:

1 - My CPU temp sometimes is very low, for example it will show it at 22c when the individual cores are at 33c - 35c. It will actually swing back and forth between 22c and 33c constantly.

2 - During bootup it doesn't see my Merc Steel Series Keyboard until after it has gotten past the initial boot screen. This is only happening on my illuminated Merc board and I can plug in my non-illuminated Merc keyboard and it sees it fine. It's more of an inconvenience since I have to hook up my older Merc keyboard if I want to go into the bios.

3 - I haven't taken a volt meter to it yet, but it seems to be overvolting my VTT and Dimm voltages a bit. I set my VTT to +25 and it shows 1.21v in the bios, but in Windows Eleet shows it at 1.25v. My Dimm is set at 1.63v and it reports as 1.66v in Eleet.

4 - I am running Bios E760S61J, should I be running a different Bios?

I am overclocking it to 200BCLK for 4.2Ghz with turbo and HT on. The only voltage I have messed with are CPU vcore (1.26), CPU VTT (+25) and DIMM voltage (1.63v). All others are at default or auto.

Any suggestions or recommendations would be helpful.
Thanks.

[Salamndar]

Yes, I am sure. I owm Megashadow which is wider than True and G.Skill Trident (very tall RAM). 38mm fans are no go (2mm too wide combined setup), 25mm is perfect with plenty of space.



In fact, even if you're going to populate all 6 RAM slots it will still fit, you will just have to mount fans with something else other than those metal brackets. For True any setup should fit with ease, 3, 6 slots, as long as fans are 25mm. Might fit 3 RAM sticks and 38mm fans, but no promises.

No idea, really.
I went with Corsair myself due to the excellent quality and the premium service. My HX1000 has done a great job so far. But your call what to pick.
Antec 1200 PSU should be even better if you can afford that.

The COrsair is nothing but a CWT based PSU, which has a possibility to fail me like the 2 Thermaltakes I tried and the gigabyte Oden as all are CWT based PSUs, I think maybe the newer batches from CWT has fixed the issue, but you never know what you get.
The Antec is fine but I kinda hate the cables with that big fat plastic on them and the 80mm fan, I'll be pushing my systems too much and that 80mm fan while scream.

I'm currently using :

CLassified E760
950 corei7 will be overclocked to at least 4.5GHz
6GB OCZ blade CL9 DDR3 2000
2 x 4870x2 CrossfireX
1 Gigabyte GTS 250 for physX
4 HDs
1 DVD drive
water cooling system with 4 Fans and one Pump
2 140mm fans
1 220mm fan
2 Cold cathods.

so..............

[Touge180SX]

I've been running a Corsair HX1000 on my 760 since I got the Classy with no problems whatsoever.

[Utnorris]

Enermax EVO 950 and no issues whatsoever.

[[200]]

Looks like my board might be now dead.

I took it out of the box as I was about to sell it. Put everything back together and it wont even post. Changed memory, tried different video card but nothing. I tested the connection points for the voltages on the board with a DMM, everything read within what I would say normal parameters except the VCORE, only read .054V. I took the CPU out and powered it up, VCORE jumped to about 1.0V then immediately went down to about .08V. Put the CPU back in, only jumped to about .07V before going back down to .054V.

Any suggestions? All the pins appear to be making contact but I did have to bend one back in to place. Surely that wouldn't have caused a problem as I have done it with another board without any issues.

I am going to test a different CPU tomorrow.

[M.I.K.E.Y]

Hi everyone i am a owner of a brand new EVGA 4-way SLI+nf200 but before i read the entiere form here i d' like to know if this form is for the 4-way aswell ?
so i d'hont have to read it entirley for notthing lol ;-)
regards M.I.K.E.Y

[Utnorris]

Looks like my board might be now dead.

I took it out of the box as I was about to sell it. Put everything back together and it wont even post. Changed memory, tried different video card but nothing. I tested the connection points for the voltages on the board with a DMM, everything read within what I would say normal parameters except the VCORE, only read .054V. I took the CPU out and powered it up, VCORE jumped to about 1.0V then immediately went down to about .08V. Put the CPU back in, only jumped to about .07V before going back down to .054V.

Any suggestions? All the pins appear to be making contact but I did have to bend one back in to place. Surely that wouldn't have caused a problem as I have done it with another board without any issues.

I am going to test a different CPU tomorrow.

Did you try and reseat your PSU connections? Did you try a different PSU? Have you tried the cpu on a different MB?

[zalbard]

Hi everyone i am a owner of a brand new EVGA 4-way SLI+nf200 but before i read the entiere form here i d' like to know if this form is for the 4-way aswell ?
so i d'hont have to read it entirley for notthing lol ;-)
regards M.I.K.E.Y

Sure, all Classified boards are very similar.

[lowfat]

Finally had the time to throw my new 920 + classified under phase today. And wow what a blck monster. My X58A-UD7 tops out @ 237 blck. The E760 has no troubles at all getting up to 267. Really hoping to pull a 5GHz 24/7 clock out of this thing.

[SAE]

My goal as well^^. Great hardware you seem to have there. Wish you luck.

What kind of phase is it?

[zalbard]

Finally had the time to throw my new 920 + classified under phase today. And wow what a blck monster. My X58A-UD7 tops out @ 237 blck. The E760 has no troubles at all getting up to 267. Really hoping to pull a 5GHz 24/7 clock out of this thing.

Holy @#$%, lol. That's a lot more than most people get with LN2...

[lowfat]

My goal as well^^. Great hardware you seem to have there. Wish you luck.

What kind of phase is it?

Just a single stage w/ a rotory compressor. Nothing fancy. Ruffus is building me a two stage at the moment. So hopefully it won't be long till this is retired to my secondary machine.

[Salamndar]

I'm torn between the Galaxy EVO 1250 and the Silverstone ST1500.

Any suggestions before I place an order on any of them ?!?!?

Ohh I'll be receiving the EK full water block for my Classified tomorrow......can't wait to try it out.

[zalbard]

Silverstone's great, but do you really need that much power?

[Salamndar]

Silverstone's great, but do you really need that much power?

I currently use a Thermaltake 1500w, I want the ST1500 because of it's long CPU cables ! as I use a thermaltake Spedo case and the PSU is way below the motherboard.

[SAE]

Just a single stage w/ a rotory compressor. Nothing fancy. Ruffus is building me a two stage at the moment. So hopefully it won't be long till this is retired to my secondary machine.

But a cascade for 24/7 would be too much (money- and earbleeding-wise).

Hope it's a beast for heavy benching though.

(I am getting two rotary SS soon - at least I do hope so).

[lowfat]

But a cascade for 24/7 would be too much (money- and earbleeding-wise).

Hope it's a beast for heavy benching though.

(I am getting two rotary SS soon - at least I do hope so).

This SS is insanely loud as is. The guy who built it put 3 headache-inducing fans on the condensor. My air cooled machine has 2 45db Sanyo Denki's in it + a 9800GX2 @ 100%. When my SS is off my computer room starts to feel unnaturally quiet :p

[JoeBar]

My God are u sitting in the same room with the computer...?

[SAE]

lol... yep, rotaries are... erm... little silent bastages.

[Utnorris]

Finally had the time to throw my new 920 + classified under phase today. And wow what a blck monster. My X58A-UD7 tops out @ 237 blck. The E760 has no troubles at all getting up to 267. Really hoping to pull a 5GHz 24/7 clock out of this thing.

Wow!!! Isn't that a record BCLK? What multi did you use for that? How high did you go on your voltage?

[lowfat]

Wow!!! Isn't that a record BCLK? What multi did you use for that? How high did you go on your voltage?

12x multi. 1.4v.

[Salamndar]

12x multi. 1.4v.

Could you please inform us on all your BIOS settings?