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I use whatever configuration works best in a given situation. It's not difficult to gather temperature measurements in various fan configurations. The most effective pressure design (positive, negative or [approximately] equal) can be determined through a trial-and-error process. There are...

My only pseudo-mod is a "top hat". It's a 140mm Noctua that sits above the SLI configuration and exhausts upward. I always try flipping the fan over to push air in from the top. It's easy to measure temperatures both ways. For this SLI configuration, the "top hat" is exhausting hot air out...

Final Assembly

The "E" in "EVGA" Is "Eventually" Waiting is the hardest part. After six weeks that included a four-day slip in the estimated ship date, EVGA finally began shipping on May 5th.

Sorry, I am anti-mod, as you have already noticed and noted. How about a video?

Just finished building a new system featuring two EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING cards in SLI. This video documents the build and provides benchmarks at the end:

EVGA Pre-order Apocalypse "The horror!" From past experience it is folly to rely on EVGA pre-order email notifications. By the time the email arrives the product is invariably already sold out; pre-order windows last just a few hours. I've received email notifications the day after...

Raise The Ryzen I am eager to see how the CoolerMaster HAF XB/Noctua air configuration performs under load... Cable management on the simpler side of the chassis... Good HD-15 clearances and air flow... Cable management on the busy side of the motherboard... Half...

The Ryzen Also Rises It is now time to execute "Noctuaization Procedure 13". For this procedure the following parts are required: Noctua NH-D15 Noctua NM-AM4 Mounting Kit Grass skirt and pineapples for the Mt. Noctua-toa volcano sacrificial rituals The mounting kit: typical Noctua...

Ryzen Or Bust! I have long fantasized about a sub-ten second Windows boot sequence, and this 960 EVO is going to make that dream come true-- finally! I can remember when 64-GB of physical memory required major organ donation to afford. Now, there's plenty of 16-GB modules to choose from...

Roll Ryzen Tide All motherboards should have THE RED BUTTON... Yes, the memory slots are also shiny... This looks like a diorama for a new symphony house or something... I just realized most of this bling will be covered up when I install the behemoth Noctua NH-D15 and two...

Ryzen It Up! It's time for "Noctuaization Enhancement Procedure #9". CoolerMaster makes great cases for sure, but those fans are already for sale on eBay... First things first: The Noctua "Top Hat" in preparation for the crowning of Yori . . . TRADITIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED! AH, much...

UNBOXING

INCEPTION Yori handles demanding 4K digital content using a small form-factor, air-cooled design. The system supports full-stack software development using multiple VM sandboxes, video/photo editing, bulk encoding, 3D rendering, streaming, folding and occasional gaming. The goal is to...

UNBOXING

INCEPTION Derezzer v2 will handle demanding 4K digital content using a small form-factor, air-cooled design. The system will support multi-sandbox software development, video/photo editing, folding and gaming. The goal is to deliver a powerful 4K rig that remains quiet while maintaining good...

This must be a very late-arriving commission from the Sun King in France, a CPU for his chateau in Versailles...

Solid-- I can almost feel your relief . . . and excitement! I am very pleased to hear about your clean build-- not an easy thing to pull off with these tightly packed configurations and heavyweight parts. I know others are also looking forward to seeing your new machine and your thermal...

Excellent. Much good luck with your build-- and please keep us in the loop along the way.

I've communicated with another builder who really likes the Dynatron R17 cooler. All-copper heat pipes in a small 4U package with 92mm fan. The fan is loud during this stress test, but the temperatures are really good-- and I think these are 3.8 GHz 135W CPUs. Perhaps a Noctua will deliver...

Given all of the tight clearances you must overcome, I suspect option #1 is the way to go. Regarding clearance, it has nearly every advantage when space it tight all around. The cooler is small enough to mount two towers side-by-side in either configuration, pushing air out the back or up to...

Noctua appears to be advising the towers be placed so the fans push air upward instead of out the back (by rotating each tower 90 degrees from the current placement). However, the CPU sockets are too close to allow this configuration, although you could mount the tower this way easily if...

You are doing a great job and should avoid all of the pitfalls out there. The parting overall impression I'd like to leave with is this: The SuperMicro and Asus dual LGA 2011 ATX mainboards are tightly packed and touchy-picky-finicky, especially in regards to the following: memory...

Yes, we went with the Asus mainboard for the same reason. The server has been working flawlessly since the burn-in earlier this year. Regarding PSU selection, to avoid possible heartache the feedback I received from Asus tech support was to opt for a very recent PSU that fully conforms to...

After many attempts using various tactics, along with a little advice from EVGA Technical Support, here is the only way I have been able to get around the installation failure issue and actually install the latest 320.18 driver on my system. The installation issue seems to be isolated in an...

This 320.18 driver quickly fails during installation on my system. As the NVIDIA installer begins to execute the initial "System Check" step, the install process halts almost immediately with the error "NVIDIA Installer failed". None of the components are installed and the only option...

I am totally thrilled with my TITAN 3-way SLI configuration. There are two primary reasons to SLI with TITAN: 1. Gigantic 6GB VRAM frame size for insane multi-panel resolutions 2. Myriad Kepler CUDA cores for insane horsepower OLE!

The credit thing is nothing more than a vehicle to compare relative throughput across various systems . . . and it probably encourages obsessive/compulsive nerds to go broke even faster as they build ever larger folding empires... ;->

The system has received an average of 117,000 credits per day after 3 days crunching at 100% with this configuration. It has remained solid throughout this period, so I am ready now to declare all three TITANS fully burnt in and operational.

I decided to turbocharge the system's folding performance by tuning BOINC with release 0.40 software from Lunatics. The default configuration assigns one work unit (WU) per TITAN, leaving each card with a zillion latent CUDA cores. The Lunatics configuration allows threaded GPU-assist on...

Sorry for the delay. Here are some Precision/OSD numbers while playing Crysis 3 with maximum rendering quality at 2560 x 1600. There is no doubt Crysis 3 puts the heaviest load yet on this SLI configuration. The levels are tremendously gorgeous to play through, with frame rates remaining...

That's probably the right move-- adding a big external control system usually means an equally big mess of cables to manage...

I didn't realize Corsair offered monitor/control hardware. Something like the link system is better than having no form of external/hardware monitoring and control-- don't like flying blind. Several cases and some motherboards don't have adequate fan/temp headers, monitoring or control...

You are correct, and yes, I am pleased! Enabling PCI-E GEN3 improved the 3DMark 11 score by 3%, producing a score of 25,921. The prior PCI-E GEN2 score was 25,177. Although not a big gain, the faster GEN3 bus lanes did produce a noticeably higher 3D score. I'll take whatever gains I can...

Good question! Yes, all three TITANS are running in faster PCI-E Gen-3 bus lanes: However, PCI-E Gen-3 was not enabled by default on the MSI Big Bang XPower II mainboard when the cards were first installed. Note, to enable PCI-E 3 I did NOT need to run the NVIDIA "force" utility (hack)...

Sorry for the delay, but I promise to gather Crysis 3 benchmarks in single and multi-player no later than this coming weekend...

I have experienced zero issues thus far, but it's only been a few weeks. In that limited time frame, this system has been through several 3DMark 11 stress tests, three days of continuous folding at 100% utilization, and around six hours of heavy BF3 and Crysis 3 gaming. I have encountered...

You can purchase a TITAN back plate from EVGA for $20 here: http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=M021-00-000023 Some consider these plates nothing but eye candy, but they do offer protection from other hardware while inside the case and also during transport, if you plan on moving the...

I think EVGA removed built-in OSD support in the 4.1 release: The server is no longer being distributed as a part of client applications like EVGA Precision. Now it comes with own installer and can be optionally installed when necessary. EVGA Precision will automatically hide any server...

All three cards are totally stock, no brackets. The highest temperature I've encountered so far is 77C from the "middle" card during BF3 multi-player game play. I have not seen any card reach 100% utilization yet, not even for just a moment; the highest utilization I've seen across all three...