Show Us Your Rig [8]

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Actually, the CPU has 16 PCIe lanes. If you ran the GPU in the white x16 long and the sound card in the red x16 long lanes, you would throttle your GPU to x8. The x1 slots and the bottom black slot (x4) get their lanes from the chipset. Running the sound card in one of them shouldn't throttle the GPU. Check your manual to be sure.

Not many sound cards does accept running on the black slot x4, some motherboard allow to change that black slot to x2 mode in bios, which is the max output a PCI-E sound card can have in general. Not too good for the sound card that will receive to much power and might burnt. So is the same on the with red lane, unless this one does x4.

Mime run max x2 on the black slot, but i've lately swap it to simple a PCI-Express.

NoN said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Actually, the CPU has 16 PCIe lanes. If you ran the GPU in the white x16 long and the sound card in the red x16 long lanes, you would throttle your GPU to x8. The x1 slots and the bottom black slot (x4) get their lanes from the chipset. Running the sound card in one of them shouldn't throttle the GPU. Check your manual to be sure.

Not many sound cards does accept running on the black slot x4, some motherboard allow to change that black slot to x2 mode in bios, which is the max output a PCI-E sound card can have in general. Not too good for the sound card that will receive to much power and might burnt. So is the same on the with red lane, unless this one does x4.

Seriously? That's just wrong! A PCI-e card of any kind will run on no more that the lanes it was designed for and draw no more power than it was designed for. You can run a x1 card in a PCIe slot designed for x16 without any problems to that card (you may throttle another card running in a shared slot as I mentioned above). I've never seen a PCI-e sound card that needed more than one PCIe lane (x1) and they will run just fine in any PCI-e slot. I have one running in an x4 slot right now and it's been doing just fine for almost two years now.

rvcjew said:

ThrashZone said:

Well I got most everything assembled... still lacking Ram and GPU but I updated the first post
Partial build started
Lots of fun :)

looking good, I did a delid last week and brought new life to my own rig.

Thanks
Are there images to show :)

When I finish this one I plan on transplanting this machine in a new case with some new goodies
Like a better psu first of all.....
Make it a little more like a media computer or something like that :)

ThrashZone said:

rvcjew said:

ThrashZone said:

Well I got most everything assembled... still lacking Ram and GPU but I updated the first post
Partial build started
Lots of fun :)

looking good, I did a delid last week and brought new life to my own rig.

Thanks
Are there images to show :)

When I finish this one I plan on transplanting this machine in a new case with some new goodies
Like a better psu first of all.....
Make it a little more like a media computer or something like that :)

EDIT: Flipped pics right direction now.
Here you go, was waiting till my new keyboard came in to make one post but...
I used the vice method and it took one clean wack. I removed the silicone and am using the retention bracket for the socket to hold on the IHS so it is completely flush inside. The TIM inside is Liquid Ultra and the outside is GC-Extreme. It has literally dropped my load temps at 4.4 28-30c. Before I only had the GC-Extreme.

That is a big drop in temps. I don't have the nerve to try the vice method.

Now that's tinkering

All done, for now

Sweet Brian :)
What happened to the new 980 :/

Have to sell the Z77 and 3770K first.

The Titan X SC will have to wait. No rush :)

Dude said:

That is a big drop in temps. I don't have the nerve to try the vice method.

I'm too big of a coward to try any method, including the vise method. Of course, my 3930k has the IHS soldered on so there is no need to delid it.