Quad FX-70 build. [Pic intensive]

[alucasa]

This is the system that will receive the upgrade.



It is my NAS rig.

Currently, it has a AMD X2 3800 with 1 gb ram.

8 x 250gb sata HDDs.
1 x 80gb sata HDD

and 1 x 150gb sata HDD for OS drive.

It runs on Windows xp 64bit.

[alucasa]

Reserved for pics.

Here is the last shot of naked motherboard.



CPU installed.



AMD stock heatsinks are installed.



Here is what the CPU's IHS says. I took it right before I installed the heatsink.



Now ~, I open up my NAS rig.



Started to disassemble the current rig.



The motherboard is in...











Final before starting up this new rig.

[Okda]

nice system

but what is NAS

[alucasa]

Network Attached Storage.

That's why it has many HDDs.

[Okda]

IC

thanks very much

but does NAS needs 4 cores ???

sorry for going

[alucasa]

IC

thanks very much

but does NAS needs 4 cores ???

sorry for going

Nope. But I have a separate rig for rendering. Going to get rid of that rig and let this rig do that stuff as well. It's becoming all purpose rig.

[Aerou]

well, NAS is network attached storage, so this is his data server (I guess)

I think this rig will have some power, just wish you wont have any storage issues (I dare you nVidia!)
The mobos of today are gettin so crowded, that they sometimes have very weird component-placement, in this case - the battery for the cmos

[oldblue]

It runs on Windows xp 64bit.

Alucasa, is there any chance of seeing some Linux or Vista benchmarks? From what I've read, the XP scheduler doesn't handle NUMA well. It would be interesting to see if NUMA has any performance impact.

[alucasa]

Booting successful ....

I remember someone asked me to get pics of BIOS screens. They are coming soon.

[alucasa]

BIOS screenshots are here.

I do not see much of OCing ability within BIOS options.

[bluep3ace]

so there's no unlocked multipliers, depite the FX name in the CPU's?

[pplapeu]

Looks great, Al.

[Supertim0r]

looking good

Are you planning overclocking it ?

[alucasa]

Well, I am having a problem.

The CPU fans are way too loud. I tried to run it fanless with just case air flow. (the chassis has 4 middle fans) But it got shut down by thermal sensor.

Now I am going to use the ASUS optional fans and leave the CPU heatsink fanless.

[3oh6]

what do you get for options when you set AI Overclocking to "manual" on this screen:

http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1040xf8.jpg

thanks for the pics BTW, looks good.

[alucasa]

what do you get for options when you set AI Overclocking to "manual" on this screen:

Crappy choices, heh.

[Supertim0r]

you bought 125w cpu and looking for a silent rig... lol

you could always see if Q-Fan works

[alucasa]

Set to manual.

Now I see some nice options.

[Supertim0r]

Q-Fan available in hardware monitor ?

edit : yes -> Smart Fan Control

set @ silent and probably no more 6000rpm...maybe 1500-2000rpm

[3oh6]

there ya go...thats not bad, definitely enough to work with. thanks

Q-Fan available in hardware monitor ?

that's what i was going to say, might be able to slow those CPU fans down a bit.

[alucasa]

Here are more OCing options.

Not so bad. Actually, quite nice, it seems.

[alucasa]

Q-Fan available in hardware monitor ?

edit : yes -> Smart Fan Control

set @ silent and probably no more 6000rpm...maybe 1500-2000rpm

No Q-Fan.

[m411b]

Sweet system! What kind of hurtin did it put on the wallet, if you don't mind me askin?

[awdrifter]

so there's no unlocked multipliers, depite the FX name in the CPU's?

Yeah, same question here, is the multipliers unlocked upwards? I see it says max multi 25x in the earlier post, but it's greyed. Can you increase the multi at all? Nice rig btw.

[alucasa]

Sweet system! What kind of hurtin did it put on the wallet, if you don't mind me askin?

1.200 CAD was all it cost.

1 quad fx 70 cpu cost me 371 CAD

Two of them, I bought.

350 for mobo.

I had all other components already.