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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Ultron 2K18 | U P G R A D E

Thanks to the mining craze I was able to sell my two EVGA 1080 FTW for $1,000 ea. That's a $100 more than I originally bought them for!

My 3 year old Corsair 760T is great but I wanted more cooling capacity and did not need or want the 5.25in drive bays, also I wanted a glass case.

Picked up a new Thermaltake View 71 Tempered glass case and a EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 with a new waterblock from EK. Got some new radiators from Hardware Labs a Black Ice Nemesis GTX 360mm and 420mm.

I wanted to try a new coolant color, I originally picked up some of the new Primochill Vue in Candy Purple, but hearing all the horror stories about how it gunks up blocks and the effect goes away quick by having your system on for more then 8 hours worried me so I picked up some Mayhems Pastel white and dark grey, turned out pretty nice and subtle.

Also picked up:
i7 - 8700k 8 Core|16 Thread
Asus Maximus Formula X

I wasn't able to keep the temps down at 5Ghz I'd easily throttle due to the heat even with my loop! So I delid it and now am stable at 5Ghz @ 1.392v at load roughly 45° with an ambient temp of 22°.

Waiting on a second FTW3 if or when the prices drop then i'll be all set for now....

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Half-Ton

So I've been pretty pissed off with the luck of the STI lately. From a break-in to being rear ended.

So I got rid of it.

2017 GMC Sierra 1500

SLE

5.3L V8 EcoTec3 L83 - 355 hp @ 5600 rpm 383 lb·ft @ 4100 rpm

6-Speed Automatic

3.42 Rear End

Crew Cab - Short Box

Dark Slate Metallic

Jet Black Interior

Kodiak Edition

Elevation Edition

Z71 Off-Road Pkg.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Ultron 2K17

So I did another update to my rig, figure I'd update it to the latest generation and replace my Z97 board and loyal 4790K.

My XSPC Raystorm Pro was getting pretty oxidized so I upgraded to the EK Evo, and also I hated my Primochill 240 reservoir, thing leaked in the beginning and was too big for my setup. Opted to try Heatkiller's reservoir and I love it.

I also sold my Asus MG2789Q (144hz, Freesync, IPS, 1440p) and Samsung 34" SE790 ( 60hz, Ultra-wide, VA, 3440x1440) monitors and picked up 2 x Asus PG278QR (165hz, G-Sync, TN, 1440p)

Asus ROG Maximus IX Formula Intel Z270
Intel 7700K | Overclocked to 5.0Ghz @ 1.3v

Trident Z Series DDR4 3200 RAM Kit w/ RGB LED Lighting, 32GB (4x8GB)

EK-Supremacy EVO - Gold Plated
Heatkiller 200mm reservoir w/ MultiPort top

Bitspower fittings

Phobya PWM fan spitters

NZXT internal USB hub

Some cables here and there.

Planning on deliding maybe in the future, temps are easily managed with my loop though.

Here it is all 'lit'.

Processor (CPU)

CPU Name

Intel® Core™ i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz

Threading

1 CPU - 4 Core - 8 Threads

Frequency

5000 MHz (50 * 99.98 MHz) - Uncore: 4199 MHz

Multiplier

Current: 50 / Min: 8 / Max: 50

Architecture

Kaby Lake / Stepping: B0 / Technology: 14 nm

CPUID / Ext.

6.E.9 / 6.9E

IA Extensions

MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, TSX

Caches

L1D : 32 KB / L2 : 256 KB / L3 : 8192 KB

Caches Assoc.

L1D : 8-way / L2 : 4-way / L3 : 16-way

Microcode

Rev. 0x0000042

TDP / Vcore

91 Watts / 1.296 Volts

Temperature

77 °C / 171 °F

Type

Retail (Stock Frequency : 4200 MHz)

Cores Frequencies

#00: 5000.00 MHz #01: 5000.00 MHz #02: 5000.00 MHz #03: 5000.00 MHz

Motherboard

Model

Asus MAXIMUS IX FORMULA

Socket

Socket 1151 LGA

North Bridge

Intel Kaby Lake rev 05

South Bridge

Intel Z270 rev 00

BIOS

American Megatrends Inc. 0906 (03/22/2017)

Memory (RAM)

Total Size

32768 MB

Type

Dual Channel (128 bit) DDR4-SDRAM

Frequency

1600.1 MHz - Ratio 1:24

Timings

16-18-18-38-2 (tCAS-tRC-tRP-tRAS-tCR)

Slot #1 Module

G.Skill 8192 MB (DDR4-2137) - XMP 2.0 - P/N: F4-3200C16-8GTZR

Slot #2 Module

G.Skill 8192 MB (DDR4-2137) - XMP 2.0 - P/N: F4-3200C16-8GTZR

Slot #3 Module

G.Skill 8192 MB (DDR4-2137) - XMP 2.0 - P/N: F4-3200C16-8GTZR

Slot #4 Module

G.Skill 8192 MB (DDR4-2137) - XMP 2.0 - P/N: F4-3200C16-8GTZR

Graphic Card (GPU)

GPU #1 Type

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (GP104) @ 810 MHz

GPU #1 Brand

EVGA Corp.

GPU #1 Specs

GP104-400 / Process: 16nm / Transistors: 7200M / Die Size: 314 mm² / TDP: 180W

GPU #1 Units

Shader Units: 2560 / Texture Units (TMU): 160 / Render Units (ROP): 64

GPU #1 VRAM

8192 MB GDDR5X 256 bit @ 405 MHz

GPU #1 APIs

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) / OpenGL 4.5 / OpenCL 1.2 / Vulkan 1.0

GPU #2 Type

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (GP104) @ 253 MHz

GPU #2 Brand

EVGA Corp.

GPU #2 Specs

GP104-400 / Process: 16nm / Transistors: 7200M / Die Size: 314 mm² / TDP: 180W

GPU #2 Units

Shader Units: 2560 / Texture Units (TMU): 160 / Render Units (ROP): 64

GPU #2 VRAM

8192 MB GDDR5X 256 bit @ 405 MHz

GPU #2 APIs

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) / OpenGL 4.5 / OpenCL 1.2 / Vulkan 1.0

Storage (HDD/SSD)

Model #1

Seagate FreeAgent Go

Capacity #1

320 GB

Model #2

Intel Raid 0 Volume

Capacity #2

2500 GB

Model #3

Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB

Capacity #3

512 GB

Display

Screen #1

ROG PG278QR (AUS27B1)

Screen #1 Spec

27.2 inches (69.1 cm) / 2560 x 1440 pixels @ 30-144 Hz

Screen #2

ROG PG278QR (AUS27B1)

Screen #2 Spec

27.2 inches (69.1 cm) / 2560 x 1440 pixels @ 30-144 Hz

Miscellaneous

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows 10 (10.0) Professional 64-bit

Windows Subver.

(Build 15063)

CPU-Z Version

1.79.1 (64 bit)

Sunday, January 8, 2017

thirsty

Mated my 2x EVGA 1080 GTX FTW cards to a couple EK Acetal + Nickel GPU blocks and EK backplates with an EK FC Terminal Dual Serial block. Re-routed some lines and replaced some faulty fittings that were leaking as well. For coolant I used Mayhems pastel white.

Temps load (Dry):

CPU: 42° (previous loop)
GPU1: 85°
GPU2: 80°
VRM: 45° (previous loop)
Coolant Temp: 33°

Temps load (Wet):

CPU: 47°
GPU1: 48°
GPU2: 47°
VRM: 50°
Coolant Temp: 39°

Dropped temps almost by half under water.

Firestrike Extreme (Dry):

SCORE: 16 125 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080(2x) and Intel Core i7-4790K.

Firestrike Extreme (Wet):

SCORE: 16 542 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080(2x) and Intel Core i7-4790K.

Gained 400 points just with cooler temps.