Which type of Platinum should I go with?

[peanutz94]

Your quite welcome Mathew! Thank you for taking time to post this.

I'm glad everything fired up as it should. Enjoy your new rig!

I'm jealous! :)

[RAM GUY]

Your system looks great by the way and thanks for posting the Pics!

[MatthewScores]

Thanks, that means so much coming from you guys. I added a simple overclock just a level up in bios of 4.2Ghz/2133Mhz, what do I know, only been an overclocker for two days.

Cannot thank you guys at Corsair enough for your advice, insight and positive direction during this build. It’s pretty cool for a science rig; some of my colleagues have watched the progress and now want one for their desks, hahaha.

Some more pics farther along, please excuse the untidy cables, that’s coming up next.

[MatthewScores]

...the new pc kinda feels like this:

[Wired]

Ducati didn't make the Tron Lightcycle, the Parker Brothers did:
http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-ce...ycle-20110922/

[MatthewScores]

Originally Posted by Wired

Ducati didn't make the Tron Lightcycle, the Parker Brothers did:
http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-ce...ycle-20110922/

hahaha, right as always.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1im1to-alnw

[MatthewScores]

Nicely subdued with the window panel in place.

[RAM GUY]

Nice Looking system, are your friends Jealous?

[MatthewScores]

I wouldn’t say jealous, but four, five business friends and people I work with now realize to have an extremely responsive system that is also quiet to inaudible (10.6db or less) you just have to build it yourself. And they are going forward with my help. Even running simple office apps the speed is amazing, not sure if it’s the hyper-threading, the 4.2Ghz CPU overclock, the 2133Mhz memory overclock or the three factors combined. I did o/c the CPU to 4.4Ghz and it’s just unbelievably fast, but then temps rise to around 35C even when idling with speed step engaged. 4.4Ghz is just blazing fast. Not completely sure why the idle temps rise from 4.2 to 4.4, idle is idle, when speedstep is engaged and CPU speed drops back to 1600Mhz, maybe higher constant volts applied to the CPU, ready for the o/c to kick in, just a guess.

4.2Ghz with speedstep idle CPU temps are around 28 to 31

4.4Ghz with speedstep idle CPU temps are around 34 to 36

…with H100 as an intake (fresh cold air directly into the radiator) yet fans running slow between 700 and 800rpm.

The next CPU Level Up is 4.6Ghz, have not been there yet, can only imagine…

[peanutz94]

All three combined. But it' is nice. I think you've been bitten by the OC'ing bug.

BTW 4.4ghz at 35c is quite acceptable. My idle temps,although a different proc, are about 38 at 4.5ghz. I'll take that any day of the week!

Glad your having fun with it!

Not completely sure why the idle temps rise from 4.2 to 4.4, idle is idle

Watch your CPU voltage when speed step kicks in. It may raise slightly to match your overclock. Thats where your extra heat is coming from.

[MatthewScores]

Originally Posted by peanutz94

All three combined. But it' is nice. I think you've been bitten by the OC'ing bug.

BTW 4.4ghz at 35c is quite acceptable. My idle temps,although a different proc, are about 38 at 4.5ghz. I'll take that any day of the week!

Glad your having fun with it!


Watch your CPU voltage when speed step kicks in. It may raise slightly to match your overclock. Thats where your extra heat is coming from.

Vcore is 1.282 at idle and when the 4.2Ghz kicks in it just stays at 1.282, yet temp rises during the oc and then falls back to under 30C when idling again.

4.2 Vcore 1.282
4.4 Vcore 1.330
4.6 Vcore 1.336

Hey peanutz94, how you doing man? Are these volts anything to worry about? Tried 4.6 for the first time, it's scary really, idle temps were ok 35-36C but when the 4.6 engages oh man 45 to 48C, way hot. Spinning up the fans from 788rpm to 1200 dropped only about 2C.

Feeling more confident with 4.4 for now and with the H100. 4.6 better with a water loop and large 63mm low FPI radiator.

Someone at Asus has suggested that 2133Mhz is the sweet spot for the Ivy memory controller, adding the right amount of responsiveness without increasing the thermals so much, I really love it. Asus also has said that 16GB will add more responsiveness. The last statement I am unsure of. I could see it true if your apps are bottlenecking at 8GB then of course, but none of my apps use more than 6GB on the memory meter, so would it still increase responsiveness? That one is puzzling bro.

[MatthewScores]

pretty happy with the H100 temps on 4.2Ghz/2133Mhz with the Summer heat, it's doing a good job even at low fan rpms.



Another reading with the fans spinning slower, still good thermals.



Screenshot H100 in push/pull four fans at full 1500rpm max, great thermals, but running at 1500 is way too loud. Still a nice experiment just to see. 22C with an H100, pretty cool, temps are idle not load with speedstep enabled. 4.2Ghz/2133Mhz selected, but at idle with speedstep the CPU is only running at 1600Mhz. still good numbers.



I asked a holyman from India, named Sangzeel over at the ROG forums to bless my build, he waved his hand over photos of the build on his idyllic screen (his iPad) and it seems to have worked. Karma can be very positive.