Rampage IV Extreme + 3930K rebuild with 4-way SLI GTX580

[335th_GRAthos]

Eheem... the last pictures seem a lot darker Phat. Is it because the fuses in your house burnt when you powered it up???? LOL!


Nice stuff!!!!


~S~

[FS~Phat]

I was playing COD for an hour today in 6048x1080 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 controller system!

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

[FS~Phat]

A few more small upgrades! I'll have some more sleeving to do!

How does 1 GigaByte per sec RAID 0 sound? Dam its really fast!
CLOD loads REAL fast now!

Havent installed the HDD's yet, I'm still working out the best way to add them with the limited ports on X79 chipset...

[ems9]

Omg! You going really hardcore man! You don't have there a computer, you have there a plane!

I bet it's amusing for you to make a full check list when in game.
-Mixture = ok
-Radiator position = ok
-Plane engine oil temperature = ok
-Plane engine oil pressure = ok
-Plane water temperature = ok
-Plane water pressure = ok
-Plane engine rpm's = ok
-PC CPU temp = ok
-PC MB temp = ok
-PC Rams temps = ok
-PC water cooling water temp = ok
-PC water cooling pressure = ok
-GPU 1/2/3/4 temps = ok
-GPU 1/2/3/4 rpm's

Flaps down! And take off!

You got there a kick ass system! The only thing I don't like is the power needed to keep that babe running.

[FS~Phat]

Your a funny Man! Yes the power usage is a small issue..... 2.5Kw under full load!


Here's some drive benchies from the new SSDs

New Drives
4x Sandisk Extreme 120GB in RAID 0 @ 128Kb stripe, default OS NTFS allocation size. Using Intel X79 SATA2 ports


Old OS drives
2x OCZ Vertex2 120GB in RAID 0 @ 128Kb stripe, default OS NTFS allocation size. Using Intel X79 SATA3 ports

[Katana1000S]

Wow, this is very impressive my friend ... remember reading about your hardware on here before.

I recently bought an Asus Rampage IV Extreme board socket 2011 build too, but went the whole hog for the I7-E 3960X as a pre overclocked 16 GB bundle at a guaranteed 4.6 GHz and in the past month or so of owning it, its not missed a beat.

http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemID=1374

I also have a GTX 680 2GB in use in this machine, with SSD's too for mainly flight sim ... in hindsight I should have waited for a GTX 780 or just the GTX 680 with a currently available 4GB for the higher resolutions I need.

It looks like you have went for the ultimate in many ways, but why not a 3960X? I know it only offers about 100MHz over a 3930, but the 3930 lose's out in cache too and not by much I admit, but there are other difference that probably only Intel could tell us ... but on CPU cache is important for what I do.

4 x 580's Wow, still we have 680's now.

I'm not knocking you mate, even you have to build within a budget I guess.

Highly highly impressive ... WTG

BTW here is link to my recent socket 2011 stuff Its in that thread somewhere pics too.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=31872

Let me know what you think, more than does the job though for all Flight Sims I own

[Helrza]

omg phat!!!! that things absolutely crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Aer9o]

I also have a 3930K, there is no point to spend £300 more for the extra 3mb cash in 3960K! With the new 304 Nvidia beta drivers on my 680gtx COD is a much smoother affair!

[FS~Phat]

Finally Finished!!! :wired::wired::wired:

Here's the updated pics...


The Final Product!



Here you can see the final Sata sleeving and the new SSD PCI hotswap slot mounts for the 2x OCZ Vertex 2 120GB in RAID 0 for boot OS. They are removable from the back panel. I ran out of room for SSD's so I also mounted the 4bay hotswap SSD bay below which has 4x Sandisk extreme 120GB in RAID 0 for games. Yes I have everything backed up and an automated daily incremental backup goes to external RAID arrays.. which Ill get to at the end.


Full side on.



Full top view - note nicely painted BL-Ray drive (new 14x LG)


4way sli close up


Front to back view


Back to Front view



GPUs again..




CPU side view


Top down view



Back view


Close PCI slots.. far right see the hotswap SSD cradles.



Front View


Zoomed in..


Front top angle view



All Buttoned up!!






Power Up! (and working!)

[FS~Phat]

The Full Enchilada!!!!




External RAID arrays... connected via e-SATA
On the left 8x WD 3TB Green drives in 2 lots of 4 drive RAID 10 sets. (5.46TB usable each RAID volume - these are hardware RAID giving about 200MB's)
On the right the slightly older 4bay RAID now with 4x WD 1TB blacks in RAID 0 for some game storage. Giving about 250MB's.

All data from SSD's and the WD blacks is backed up to one of the RAID 10 volumes and all my critical data is again backed up to the second RAID 10 volume including some data from the other RAID 10 volume.

Thats All Folks...!!!!