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

[FS~Phat]

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!!!!!!!!!

[FS~Phat]

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!

Ill do some CoD benching now!!!

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

[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