Show Us Your Rig [6]

[ganjiry]

Yes mate, pretty darn low!

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It's pretty cold in the cabin this morning Drew so the temps are very low. Last night with the heating on full the temps settled at around 29C average for each core at idle. The hottest it has gone so far was 55C after running 3D Mark.

I was proper shocked @ how low the voltage drop's My electric bill will go down a bit now lol

Nice temp's you got there too chap
I've not put any stress on it yet except a 30 sec run of RB2's encoding test just to see what voltage was applied. Just browsing and playing tunes though my temp's are 24-28c with an ambient of 22c. I'm itching to run some benches but wanna wait untill my psu arrives so I've not even installed any.

 

[paulpicks21]

Yes mate, pretty darn low!

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It's pretty cold in the cabin this morning Drew so the temps are very low. Last night with the heating on full the temps settled at around 29C average for each core at idle. The hottest it has gone so far was 55C after running 3D Mark.

I was proper shocked @ how low the voltage drop's My electric bill will go down a bit now lol

Nice temp's you got there too chap
I've not put any stress on it yet except a 30 sec run of RB2's encoding test just to see what voltage was applied. Just browsing and playing tunes though my temp's are 24-28c with an ambient of 22c. I'm itching to run some benches but wanna wait untill my psu arrives so I've not even installed any.

It sounds like all your psu problems are down to the low voltage mate, you could just turn speedstep off and run a fixed voltage of say 1.15v until you try the other psu.

 

[ganjiry]

It sounds like all your psu problems are down to the low voltage mate, you could just turn speedstep off and run a fixed voltage of say 1.15v until you try the other psu.

Yeah it seems that way chap, I don't want to be messing yet so I'll just wait until the other psu comes.
I have been going into the bios and just mooching though just to familurize myself with it a bit. The psu should be here tomorrow hopefully.

 

[sygnus21]

It's pretty cold in the cabin this morning Drew so the temps are very low. Last night with the heating on full the temps settled at around 29C average for each core at idle. The hottest it has gone so far was 55C after running 3D Mark.

OK, that explains it.

For comparisons, my ambient room temp is around 23; however, my Haswell core temps are around 30



However, I've only got my H100i cooler fans running around 400RPM for quietness...



I replaced the stock fans with Corsair’s Air Series SP120 PWM Quiet Edition fans, because the stock ones were loud. These can get somewhat loud too which is why I keep them at a low setting; especially since I'm not overclocking yet.

Anyway I was just amazed at how low your temps were.

Thanks.

 

[paulpicks21]

Yeah, it can be freezing out here first thing in the morning Drew, I have had temps of 0C before. But my normal idle temps with a regular room temp are pretty much the same as yours.

I took another pic, still an awful picture! But I changed the color of the case lighting to a shade of blue to make all the components blend in with each other a little better. It looks considerably better in real life. My camera on my phone struggles to show any clarity, but you get the idea.

 

[sygnus21]

Oh my God it does have wires - At least the photo shows off the clean wire management.

And man it must get pretty cold there for the CPU to hit 0 :shock:

 

[Dude]

Amazing job Paul, looking good

 

[Solarstarshines]

Looking sweet Paul

 

[ganjiry]

Looking good Paul, Very nice

 

[paulpicks21]

Thanks Guys, the camera does not pick up the shade of blue correctly, it is nowhere near as blue in real life, a lot paler, but it blends the color of all the components better than just having the led's White.

 

[ganjiry]

Thanks Guys, the camera does not pick up the shade of blue correctly, it is nowhere near as blue in real life, a lot paler, but it blends the color of all the components better than just having the led's White.

Your camera does the opposite of mine lol, If I take a pic with led lights in they look super bright and take over the picture but using a flash just washes the colour out.

 

[AddRAM]

Another new machine :shock: A $600 cpu :shock:

You`ve been a busy little beaver huh Paul, very nice

I think the only one that tops that is the 4960X at $1000

 

[paulpicks21]

Another new machine :shock: A $600 cpu :shock:

You`ve been a busy little beaver huh Paul, very nice

I think the only one that tops that is the 4960X at $1000

Thanks Brian, well it's not a new machine mate, just a new CPU and Motherboard. You know me, I like changing things from time to time and it's been a fair while since I changed to a new chipset

 

[essenbe]

I agree Paul. It's a very nice build. And looking at those pictures, you forgot to mention your new red case.

 

[Alsisgevat]

Wow, welldone Ganjy and Paul, I am going to upgrade exactly 4 October 2014 lol, then this computer convention comes up in South Africa. Lol, gratz again guys, the rigs are awesome!

 

[paulpicks21]

I agree Paul. It's a very nice build. And looking at those pictures, you forgot to mention your new red case.

Thanks Steve, it was not really a build, I didn't have to do much at all. All the cables stayed where they were it was just a simple swap.
I think I mentioned to you before, but mounting a cooler on 2011 socket has to be the easiest thing I have ever done. There is no backplate required so no fiddling around with 1 hand at the back and 1 at the front. The cooler just screws straight into 4 mounting points on the front of the board. I like nice easy things like that

Wow, welldone Ganjy and Paul, I am going to upgrade exactly 4 October 2014 lol, then this computer convention comes up in South Africa. Lol, gratz again guys, the rigs are awesome!

Thank you Alsisgevat. I wish you all the best with your build when the time comes and look forward to pictures

 

[Solarstarshines]

Thanks Steve, it was not really a build, I didn't have to do much at all. All the cables stayed where they were it was just a simple swap.
I think I mentioned to you before, but mounting a cooler on 2011 socket has to be the easiest thing I have ever done. There is no backplate required so no fiddling around with 1 hand at the back and 1 at the front. The cooler just screws straight into 4 mounting points on the front of the board. I like nice easy things like that

Interesting Paul just mounts right on huh seems like the price is worth the luxury
They should have have two types of boards for the same Chipset so us water guys can just mount our water right away and if you want to do air they give the standard board
They do this with GPU's so that would be pretty awesome

 

[paulpicks21]

Thanks Steve, it was not really a build, I didn't have to do much at all. All the cables stayed where they were it was just a simple swap.
I think I mentioned to you before, but mounting a cooler on 2011 socket has to be the easiest thing I have ever done. There is no backplate required so no fiddling around with 1 hand at the back and 1 at the front. The cooler just screws straight into 4 mounting points on the front of the board. I like nice easy things like that

Interesting Paul just mounts right on huh seems like the price is worth the luxury
They should have have two types of boards for the same Chipset so us water guys can just mount our water right away and if you want to do air they give the standard board
They do this with GPU's so that would be pretty awesome

The 920 Cooler comes with a different set of screws for 2011 socket (A bit shorter), you just tighten them straight into these holes and that is it Solar. No work at the back of the Motherboard at all

 

[Solarstarshines]

Sweetness i was in the furmark thread but found my minimal gain not worth posting

i got the GPU to stick at 1200/1600 i could get more maybe i was using trixx

I want a cool board like that now

 

[badger906]

Just transplanted my rig into my new corsair Air 540 case love the cube type design, no hot ugly psu in sight! Only downside to this case is that SSD's are hidden around the back so nobody can see them through the window.. only 3.5" drives go in the main bay.


Next up on my list is to build a custom water cooling loop to replace my corsair all in one. As well as a new gpu as my 6950 is showing its age.