Time to build a monster

[essenbe]

I'm hoping to build an X99 Monster myself soon....Hoping to.

I may even start my own thread. For true enthusiasts only. An old long time enthusiasts last build. What should it be. But it has to be a true killer rig.

 

[ThrashZone]

Steve your build might be good at A tour with big foot

 

[essenbe]

Sounds good to me. I want one that will last me the rest of my life. Because, I used to build about 8-10 rigs a year, just for the love of doing them. I think I have built 2 this year and every one has really been tough for me. It's getting harder and harder. That's why I have stayed with this rig for so long. I feel like I have 1 more good build in me. At least a major build, I want to build one for my Sister, but that wont be any major thing. But, if I can come up with the money, I want it to be a hum dinger. Kind of my going out party rig.

 

[kbrady1979]

Steve, I sincerely hope you have several builds left in ya!

 

[essenbe]

Thanks Kelly, I appreciate it. It means a lot coming from you.

 

[kbrady1979]

Me and my friend are going to be building a mutual friend an X99 based system later this year that is going to be an absolute beast. He does video and image rendering/editing and can actually utilize all this new stuff. Pretty much waiting for Windows 9 and it's a go.....all of the hardware is already available. Will post details, specs, and pics when the time comes. Very exited to say the least!

 

[Layback Bear]

Go for it Steve. It will give you something to do and keep you off the street corner.

The reason I have been off the forum in the last week or so because I'm redoing my less than a year old system. I have been spending about 12 hours a day on this thing. It is costing me more than I planned on but their is no stopping in the middle. I'm going hard tube for the water cooling. It takes for ever moving things and measuring and moving things trying to line things up so their will be as few fittings I can get away with. I don't like builds when you can't see anything but fittings and elbows.

I got one of those hard tube bending kits. I should start on the bending in a couple of days. I do enjoy doing these kinds of things. It would be a lot more fun if I was using someone else's money.

 

[essenbe]

I bet you are. That would be fun, especially when someone else is paying the bills. That would be fun.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Sounds good to me. I want one that will last me the rest of my life. Because, I used to build about 8-10 rigs a year, just for the love of doing them. I think I have built 2 this year and every one has really been tough for me. It's getting harder and harder. That's why I have stayed with this rig for so long. I feel like I have 1 more good build in me. At least a major build, I want to build one for my Sister, but that wont be any major thing. But, if I can come up with the money, I want it to be a hum dinger. Kind of my going out party rig.

Steve, rig building is a disease for which the only cure is building another rig. Heck, I haven't moved my present computer into its new case yet and I'm already making plans for the next case (near total homebrew; funny how both cases I modded were to be the case to end all cases). Even if it's just building a machine for someone else, I can't see you ever stopping building until you are pushing up daisies.

 

[Layback Bear]

Hell I'm just doing a little remolding and I have already spent $1500.00 and I got another order going in tomorrow. Performance P.C.'s and Royal Business Supplies are on first name bases.

Money is useless when I'm dead so I will spend it on computers while I can.
I use to build race cars. Computer are much cheaper to build.

 

[NoN]

Ah...i see what you meant by Monster!!

 

[Lava King]

Sorry for serial posts...


I'm thinking I should have bought a cheap air cooler for bench testing. My EVGA Superclock cooler doesn't do Socket 2011.

Ooh, look! I'm quoting my own post!


Silly me, Socket 1366 coolers will fit on Socket 2011 and the EVGA Superclock will fit Socket 1366. However, I have an Asetek water cooler (about the same as H50) that I'm going to use for the bench testing.

I'm not going to dismantle the Core 2 machine until the X99 has been tested.

 

[paulpicks21]

Just to let you know Kent in case you don't already.

Fitting a cooler on the 2011 socket is the easiest thing in the world, I was so happy when I fitted mine. No crap of a backplate and trying to fiddle around with 1 hand behind and 1 in front. You just lay the board flat, align the cooler and screw it straight in. It's a total breeze mate! Just a couple of mins and it's done.

 

[Lava King]

Just got home from UPS office, look what I found there.

(plus the parts that I got Friday)

It's my day off tomorrow, I'll get started on bench testing bright and early.

 

[essenbe]

That looks great, but how can you wait until tomorrow? I couldn't sleep. That Motherboard box looks huge.

 

[paulpicks21]

Awesome Kent, have fun!

 

[Lava King]

First impressions:

The motherboard is very heavy, could be the heatsinks and socket.

Cooler mounting is a breeze, all sockets should be made that way.

The on-board buttons are great for bench testing.

The orange sockets aren't as obnoxious as I thought they would be.

Only 4 sticks of ram in an 8 socket system looks sparse.

There are some odd incompatibilities with Windows 7 SP1 that may or may not be fixed by updates, I'll find out when I connect to the net.

The highest clock I've seen so far is 3.7 GHz with everything set to stock, don't know how many cores that clock applied to.

The lowest clock I've seen is 1 GHz when sitting idle at the desktop.

The cheesy Asetek cooler works fine, idle temp is 20C, highest I've seen is 26C. Of course when this is properly installed I'm going to be using the H105.

Catzilla gives me a hard system lock, have to power off.

Using an HDD is S L O W ! ! !

 

[NoN]

First impressions:

The motherboard is very heavy, could be the heatsinks and socket.

Cooler mounting is a breeze, all sockets should be made that way.

The on-board buttons are great for bench testing.

The orange sockets aren't as obnoxious as I thought they would be.

Only 4 sticks of ram in an 8 socket system looks sparse.

There are some odd incompatibilities with Windows 7 SP1 that may or may not be fixed by updates, I'll find out when I connect to the net.

The highest clock I've seen so far is 3.7 GHz with everything set to stock, don't know how many cores that clock applied to.

The lowest clock I've seen is 1 GHz when sitting idle at the desktop.

The cheesy Asetek cooler works fine, idle temp is 20C, highest I've seen is 26C. Of course when this is properly installed I'm going to be using the H105.

Catzilla gives me a hard system lock, have to power off.

Using an HDD is S L O W ! ! !

Reviewed here: Gigabyte X99 SOC Force Motherboard Review

For Ram, is that not the best for overclocking to have only 4 sticks in main slots than all fill up in such board?

 

[essenbe]

I'm not sure about the actual architecture of the X99 chips, but for all other sockets it is best. All other ones have 2 memory controllers in the CPU. By using only one of them, it puts less strain on the CPU and is better for overclocking and most everything else. Now the quad channel on the X99, I'm not sure how many memory controllers they have on chip, but the philosophy should be the same. Even if they have 4, using only 2 would be better for the stress on the CPU. But, I really don't know how it is set up. I do know, and it's common sense, the less strain you have on the CPU, the better it will function. Many of the big overclockers, when going for a high overclock will even downclock their ram before trying, to reduce the strain on the CPU. I've seen a lot of them running 2400MHz or higher ram, downclock it to 1333 before going for a high overclock.

 

[Lava King]

Whoa! 16 threads looks awesome! Doing a bit of testing with Prime 95.