It's a misconception that Heineken is a beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by rfarris
Anyway Mirai, I absolutely loved that video and actually learned a lot from it!
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It's a misconception that Heineken is a beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by rfarris
Anyway Mirai, I absolutely loved that video and actually learned a lot from it!
That's right I did see it on overclockers.co.uk. I guess what I meant was that I've never seen any of that stuff for pre-order in the US, and even if I did, I think it would feel weird to pre-order hardware like that because you never really know if there's enough coming to that site/store.Quote:
Originally Posted by rfarris
I don't think places really do pre-orders on hardware for that main reason. Games, on the other hand, are easily pre-ordered because there are tens of thousands of them (physical copies) being sold on day one. I doubt that Asus motherboard will be shipping and selling tens of thousands on day one, especially since the X79 chipset is about to be two years old, but I guess at $500 you're almost guaranteed that the pre-order ships to you on time because I doubt they'll be flying off the shelves with that price tag.
Unless the holiday season is incredibly good to me, I doubt I'll be buying that board or any video cards. Honestly, this EVGA was overkill, but for $400 I would've expected a better board than what I got. It's stable at 4GHz which is keeping me happy for the time being, but that's the thing, I don't want to spend my income on an extreme overclocking hobby, where, if I burn up my board or chip I can just dish out another $500 to buy a new one -- No thank you. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CDNProdigy
$500 is a lot of money for a motherboard that I'm not going to use the features on. A board like that is built to push overclocking records, when in reality, I have a conservative overclock because I'm cooling with air and I'd rather not degrade my chip in less than a year.
If I have a healthy amount of cash saved up by this time next year, I will most likely be dropping it on an 8-core Haswell-E chip on the X99 chipset -- That should be sexy -- But we're talking a lot of money since I'd like to move my hardware to a rack rather than a case that sits on the floor.
Woohoo! Rampage IV Black Edition is up on Newegg. Doesn't ship until 19-Nov.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813132053
My Rampage 2 has now become my bedroom home theater pc. That board looks sweet. I purchased a Corsair h80i watercooler and my i7 3770k is stable at 4.5 on my Asus P8z77-v pro board. I would highly recommend that cpu cooler. At load I may get 42C.Quote:
Originally Posted by rfarris
Order Summary:
Sales Order Number: 73625xxx
Sales Order Date: 11/18/2013 11:07:05 AM
1 x ($499.99) MB ASUS|RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION R
$499.99
Nice. Do you plan to do some extreme overclocking with the machine?Quote:
Originally Posted by rfarris
No, not really. lol. But I wanted a modern MB that supported a 6-core processor and 4-way RAM interleaving. I was pretty impressed by the post on ROG where one of the engineers mentioned that they'd prototyped 5 different memory layouts before they got to this one. Oh yeah, I wanted to be able to run multi-way SLI.Quote:
Do you plan to do some extreme overclocking with the machine?
And the difference in cost between the cheapest one I could find and $500 wasn't all that significant to me. If the price had been $1,000 I would have bought a different one. And I don't plan on buying another one for a couple of years.
This X79 Dark is just giving me too many issues and the EVGA X79 sub-forum has turned from excitement to disappointment with nothing but unresolved issues after their latest launch. Other motherboards I'm looking at just don't cut it for my needs (minimum 3-way SLI and lots of SATA III ports). My choices were pretty much Asus Rampage IV Extreme for $400, or the sexy Rampage IV Black for $480, so I took the plunge...
http://i.imgur.com/xcC3O98.png
The thing won't be here until next month some time because it's on back order, but oh well. This cuts into my video card fund like a mf'er.
Anyone want to buy an EVGA X79 Dark for cheap? :) :) :)
I figured they would go onto backorder - that's why I preordered mine. I still haven't got the memory. Probably in a couple of weeks.
@MiRai ... how did your Evga Dark fit your Silverstone being its a atx and the mb is a eatx? From the vid it looked like a perfect fit but I was wondering , I ordered the Asus Extreme VI mb and I currently have the Silverstone Ft02s-w my mb should be here Friday and I was gonna do a weekend build.But I don't wanna run into a oh crap case and mb don't work together then be sitting all weekend with parts(money) sitting in front of me.
It fits just fine because they're not real E-ATX boards, they're only about an inch wider than standard ATX. Here's a perfect quote from Wikipedia:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hohoz
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Although true E-ATX is 12 × 13 in (305 × 330 mm) most motherboard manufacturers also refer to motherboards with measurements 12 × 10.1 in (305 × 257 mm), 12 × 10.4 in (305 × 264 mm), 12 × 10.5 in (305 × 267 mm) and 12 × 10.7 in (305 × 272 mm) as E-ATX.
Thank you much for the info ... I ordered the Silverstone case because of you loved it in your vid just got the silver version instead , love the air flow if produces.
Finally got around to putting together the hardware upgrade footage from about a month ago (OP updated):
http://youtu.be/7IzzNeX2hQc
LOVED the video. Really nice system. I would like to know what you think of the RAIDR PCIe SSD. I thought it was supposed to bypass the limitations of the SATA III bandwidth.
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElectronDF
The RAIDR is... definitely a niche product that is still slightly premature in terms of the consumer market adopting it (or having a real need for it). I actually found the product overview on NeweggTV really useful and informative and it actually helped give me the final push I needed in order to make the purchase. It does bypass the SATAIII bandwidth limitation because it's not connected via SATA, but you probably won't really need to worry about those numbers unless you've got a lot of drives connected in RAID (J.J. shows this on his Asus channel -- There are some more videos on that channel as well about the RAIDR that I didn't get a chance to watch yet).
Apparently there are benefits to using it in a UEFI boot configuration as shown in Asus's marketing video, but I've yet to try all of that UEFI stuff out just yet. I would say that I probably wouldn't buy another one of these until the market was able to offer better performance (and price) from these than they do now, because, at the moment, I can just use a RAMDrive and blow any SSD (SATA or PCIe) out of the water in terms of performance.
Don't get me wrong, I do like it and it's not like that PCIe slot on my motherboard was going to be used for anything else. I'm slowly moving my games over to it, but because I'm still wary of the Sandforce-based SSD controller, I will keep an extra backup of my game folders on an external drive as well.
In keeping with the theme of this thread, I am short a kidney now.
Took a bit longer than I thought but I have ordered an LGA 2011 board and supporting sundries. I decided on the Asus X79 E Work Station MB for the greater option rom (for my LSI raid card) dual server nic and a genuine serial port. A 4930K, 3 Intel 730 ssd's and 2 EVGA GTX 770 classified round out the machine.
This will be fun to build and fun to use. If anyone uses ssd's on a backplane or want a secure installation platform, these Western Digital Ice Pack sleds are perfect.
Good stuff -- I imagine you'll have no issues multiboxing with that setup.Quote:
Originally Posted by moosejaw
Im waiting patiently for the Haswell-E chip and x99 MBs, my current rig handles anything im doing atm. I was going to 5box Wildstar and would have needed an upgrade for that, but that dream got smashed down into the dirt along with my heart 8(
An update, my first MB has a bent pin. Bonus Big Bang Theory background audio. Board wasn't as new as claimed. Returning it on Monday. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9zd0vNnXOU
Pfff.... Mirai, you need a men case, not a kiddie one!
Only one way to go:
http://caselabs.net/
That totally sucks. I had some "unidentified material" lodged inbetween some of my pins that I had to remove with a needle (or something I don't exactly remember). It probably wouldn't have affected anything, but it's better to be safe than sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by moosejaw
There are only two cases that I know of with vertical mounting and positive airflow that I'd be willing to use -- If there are more made by other manufacturers besides Silverstone, then I might consider them. However, I'd like to make the move to a nice rackmount setup (possibly water-cooled) in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pazgaz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBDTBHVIJiA
i got this one a few months ago, still gathering parts.
4 rads, dual pump and some other goodies already waiting.
It does look very nice, but with all that space I'd guess you really do need water cooling (or some incredibly loud and powerful fans to move a lot of air) or else there could be a lot of heat left in the case. I'd like to have that much room for... stuff, but when the case gets that big it becomes difficult to move around and that's when I want to move to a rack (with custom wiring and water loops), but that all comes down to money, money, and more money. =\Quote:
Originally Posted by Pazgaz
Yeah, it gets expensive... :D
But I'm spreading it over a few months. Figured it's better to get slapped every now and then than to get your skull crushed by a 20lbs sledgehammer ;)
I have my hex core up and running with the parts listed above. I used a Lian Li D600 Black case with a water cooling setup (vertical 360mm radiator) for the cpu. No crazy OC's just some mild adjustments. Now here is where it gets fun.
I ordered another 'open box' board (as a backup) from Newegg, the first 2 'open box' were from Amazon. The Amazon replacement board arrived first and was built with no problems. Flashed the Bios with just atx power and a thumb drive. The Newegg box arrived later and sat unopened. I was going to return the 'open box' Newegg MB until I saw the restock fee and shipping to the west coast, so ......
A couple days later with another processor (4820K), 3 gtx-670 FTW (from other machines), I have another gaming machine for the front room of the house. Playing Borderlands and Skyrim on the big screen are a joy sitting on the couch. This is also my main Windows Media Center recording machine so it will stay on 24/7. Leaving it in the low power profile unless I am gaming on it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :p
Thanks MiRai for creating the video's. I enjoyed watching them All.
As you know I am in middle of getting my parts together for my new pc and am going too 'attempt' to build it myself. Probably will be epic fail, but it is something I have always wanted to do myself. I have only ever changed memory/graphics card and roms/hdd lol.
And I forgot about the thermal paste for the cpu, so was good I watched your video.
As for your chilli..... eww.