Rampage IV Extreme + 3930K rebuild with 4-way SLI GTX580 fully Aquacomputer water blocked.

Phatboy69

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Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 1:44pm

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Hi all,

I didnt bother posting any updates on my last build, but I did just about get it all finished over christmas. The replacement RMA 990X for my X58 UD9 build was degrading too and no longer stable so I decided to grab an Asus Rampage IV Extreme and 3930K CPU to upgrade as it was about the same price as a replacement 990X. (thats if you can even find them now!)

I will be re-using everything else in my system including the 4 Way GTX580's all the water blocks and the Corsair Ram for now.

In addition I will be using the new VGA hotwire feature to voltage mod the cores on all 4 GTX580. I will probably upgrade the Ram to a 4x8GB kit and get the koolance Rampage IV motherboard water block in the future too.

I'll update the thread with a full list of the components and photos when I get started in the next couple days.
Wish me luck!!

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Phatboy69

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Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 1:44pm

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Nihil Simile

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Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 5:12pm

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How long did you have your other build? Didn't seem to last that long.

Phatboy69

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Thursday, January 26th 2012, 6:30am

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Yeah the 990X CPU's were a bit fragile, I went through 2 in 6 months!

First bench done with my first manual OC @ 4.7Ghz 1.45v.. 100x47 Ram @ 2000Mhz

Not bad! Bios was a little confusing but once I worked out where everything was and what it does it starts to make sense.

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hobbes_dmS

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Thursday, January 26th 2012, 7:22am

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impressive setup! :thumbup:

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Phatboy69

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Thursday, January 26th 2012, 12:30pm

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Quoted from "hobbes_dmS"

impressive setup!

Thankyou~

Now @ 5Ghz 1.54v

Extreme 3dmk11 X9074
Here you go > http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2625446

Performance #3dmk11 P22139
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2625495

Last synthetic bench for today!

It beat my old 990X score by 5000pts!

http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3845281

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "Phatboy69" (Jan 26th 2012, 2:46pm)

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Scott Loves Dogs

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Thursday, January 26th 2012, 5:10pm

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Very nice setup. But don't you find that the 90 deg. fittings and the quick disconnects reduce the flow quite a bit?

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Phatboy69

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Thursday, February 9th 2012, 12:23pm

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4x New 3GB GTX580 Cards and the MB block arrived today!

I picked up a few more bits n pieces today to make the next attempt at hotwiring the cards less hassle and help me to repair the old cards.

A finer tip 0.3mm tipped iron for precision soldering.
2pin connectors to mount to the PCB so I dont have to have wire hanging off the cards and risk pulling pads/resistors off! I'll just plug the wires in after the cards are installed!
Ribbon cable for the PCB wiring to the 2pin connectors.
Chipquik SMD kit to lower the melting point and make it easier to safely remove the CORRECT resistor now I have the right instructions.
Flux Gel.
Fine tip needle hooks and tweezers to help with precisely holding the wire/components in place.
pics to follow

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Phatboy69

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Thursday, February 9th 2012, 12:24pm

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Success! 1st card modded and working and it's even a cleaner mod than I had hoped!!

Here's the stuff that arrived and the pics of the finished card. I still have to re-mount water blocks and do the other cards.

The solder job

The 2pin socket mounted

The cable connected

Installed for testing

The 1st card vcore (VGA1) registering in software @ 0.978v (default 2d volts with VGA tweak disabled)

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Phatboy69

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Thursday, February 9th 2012, 2:52pm

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All 4 cards successfully modded and tested!
Blocks and full testing tomorrow!

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Nihil Simile

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Thursday, February 9th 2012, 6:55pm

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What does the Mod to your GPU's do??

Phatboy69

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Friday, February 10th 2012, 12:45am

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Quoted from "Nihil Simile"

What does the Mod to your GPU's do??

It should allow me to push the vcore voltage higher to take better advantage of water cooling and push a higher overclock than you can get with the 1.3v software voltage limit.
I should be able to get up to around 1100Mhz on the GPU core with 1.5v from what I've seen.

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Phatboy69

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Friday, February 10th 2012, 1:40pm

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All up and running 1st Go! Pheeeww!!!!

Here's the Koolance block installed on the R4E along with CPU and Ram blocks.

Here's the whole board assembled for checking.

Installed and running!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now off to tweak!!!!!!!!!

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Phatboy69

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Friday, February 17th 2012, 11:56am

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Mission Accomplished!
CPU 5Ghz @ 1.55v max temp 78c
GPUs 1000/2200 @ 1.32v max temp 55c
Peak power draw PSU1 1300W PSU2 850W (at wall)

Not sure if I can really go any further than this and I've achieved the holy grail of 1000 on the GPUs!

3dmk11 P23133 http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2778260

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Phatboy69

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Saturday, February 18th 2012, 9:27am

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I got a bit more out of the CPU and Ram for Vantage. Will go back and do another 3dmk11 run!

CPU 5.1Ghz @1.63v max temp 88c
Ram now at 2100Mhz
GPU's still at 1000/2200

3dmkVantage P65926

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Phatboy69

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Saturday, February 18th 2012, 9:28am

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Hooley Dooley!!!!
3dMk11 draws 1350W and 850W off both PSUs at these settings.....

3dmk11 P23431

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Saturday, February 18th 2012, 9:45pm

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OMFG this is awesome

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Namron

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Sunday, February 19th 2012, 11:26am

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MMMmmmmmmmmm!!!.... Pure PC Porn.... Excellent job once again PB :thumbsup:

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Phatboy69

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Wednesday, February 29th 2012, 11:41am

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I was playing my flight sim for an hour today in surround which pushes all 4 GPUs to 100% constantly.

It pushed the GPU core temps to 61c and water temp to 51c out of the GPUs and 47c after cooling in the radiators. This was after 1 hour. The CPU wasnt much better at 42c after CPU and 40c after cooling.

Ambient temp in my room is about 28c at the moment.
CPU idles at 40c with 35c water & peaks at 75c with 40c water
GPUs idle at 34c with 34c water & peaks at 61c with 47c water

The system was rock solid and stable drawing a constant 1800Ws from the PSU's during that time.

You should have felt the hot air coming out the exhaust fans! Almost as hot as factory GPU air coolers when on max load! Ambient temp in my room went up to about 32c.

Also did a proper noise level test at ear height (sitting next to it) and the system makes 36dbA at idle and 46dbA at full noise. A few people asked a while ago and I didnt have a meter capable of going below 50dbA.. I bought the most expensive iphone App ive ever seen! Signal Scope Pro for $80. So there you have it.

Subjectively that means it sounds about twice as loud under full load compared to idle but it's actually pretty tolerable really!
The joys of having an Aquaero 5 XT system!

Oh and it's barely liftable at 52Kgs!!! (114 pounds)

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Rampage IV Extreme + 3930K rebuild with 4-way SLI GTX580 fully Aquacomputer water blocked.

Rampage IV Extreme + 3930K rebuild with 4-way SLI GTX580 fully Aquacomputer water blocked.

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