Completed Build - Thanks tom

[lt_wentoncha]

Edit: Well, uhhh, had a typo in the title, I meant: Completed Build - Thanks to All

Howdy everyone,

Started about two weeks ago here:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1510088
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1514371

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped out.

OC is below, it's hitting 4.0 and it idles at 36C and tops out at 71C w/ HT on and Turbo/EIST/C1E off. I can get it to 4.2, but QPI/VTT needs to be at 1.5 and that is too uncomfortable for me to run. For anyone else who's gotten it at 4.2 stable without WC, can you point me to your settings?

Overall, the build was good. The H50 was kind of a pain to install, but it got on nonetheless. Not shown is another fan I put on the H50 for push/pull, shaved off 1C by my calc.

One interesting thing to note: I have the GT 240 that I setup as the Physx processor. In 3DMarkVantage, I get lower performance with dedicated Physx than I do just having the GTX 480 handle everything. I even clocked the GT240 to 700mhz, no sig improvement (well, I used that eVGA tool so I don't know if that was legit to do on a Gigabyte card). At any rate, anyone have recommendations for this? Do something else to make the setup better? I originally had it to do tri monitor setup, but I think the GTX 480 can do it all by its lonesome.

Thanks again.

Edit: Ram is at 7-8-7-24 @ 1520. I see now I overspent on this since its stock is 7-8-7-24@1600. Too finicky to go higher with 21*191 multis, so with a mem multi of 8 I'm underclocking manufacturer spec. Oh well.

Specs:

CPU: i7 930
Heatsink: Corsair H50
Mobo: Gigabyte x58A-UD5 269
Ram: G.SKILL PI Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
PSU: CMPSU-950TX 950W
GPU 1: Gigabyte GTX 480
GPU 2: Gigabyte GT 240
TV Tuner: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR
Boot Drive: 1 TB Samsung
Case: Xclio Windtunnel

Pics:

 

[Dangman]

Nice work man!

Not familiar with PhysX configuration so you might have to ask in the PhysX subforum we have.

 

[engiNURD]

ooooh, pics! thanks! tidy them cables!