Micro-ATX I7 Build

Smirnoff · 11 Apr 2009 at 22:29

Specs are as follows,

I7 920
Asus Rampage II Gene
Patriot Viper 6GB
2x EVGA GeForce GTX 285
4x OCZ Vertex Series 30GB Raid0
Lian Li PC-V351B
Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 1000W
Custom water cooling

I've got most of the system together today and I am just blow away by the Rampage Gene board, after a few hours of tweaking I have got the following.

The only disappointing thing I have found so far about the board is any PCI_E speed above 101 makes the LAN port disappear :confused:

Hopefully this will be fixed with the next BIOS release.

Raid performance with the OCZ drive is outstanding everything opens in a split second loading time are next to nothing. It feels like a massive step up from my old VelociRaptor raid the only downside the 120gb of space.

I'll try and get a better camera and post some pictures tomorrow

alex24 · 11 Apr 2009 at 22:32

Wow nice spec. I should imagine things get rather cramped inside the V351, would love to see how you've cooled it.

Hope the obligatory crysis benchies are forthcoming too, seems like a well balanced rig in terms of CPU/GPU performance.

Smirnoff · 11 Apr 2009 at 22:35

I was planning on just using air cooling at the start but 100c + with the stock cooler at 3.3Ghz put an end to that

RJC · 11 Apr 2009 at 22:38

Nice going

Will keep an eye for pics.

alex24 · 11 Apr 2009 at 22:42

Smirnoff said:
I was planning on just using air cooling at the start but 100c + with the stock cooler at 3.3Ghz put an end to that

Crikey, though can't say i'm suprised with all that kit in such a small space! At least the gfx cards exhaust most of their heat out the system.

Looking forward to the pics matey

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Smirnoff · 12 Apr 2009 at 11:37

Ducky Spud · 12 Apr 2009 at 12:43

Impressed you've got all that to fit in there!! haha, nice work!

And that so makes me want 4 SSD's as well!! my poor little 7200rpm drive can only dream of being that fast haha

JediFragger · 12 Apr 2009 at 20:15

Nice rig there In the words of the Dark Master 'Impressive, most impressive' :cool:

SBD · 12 Apr 2009 at 20:59

WoW really nice looking setup making me think about upgrading my HTPC which uses the V350 hehe

Not sure if I'm missing something but where have you stored the rad :confused:

Ducky Spud · 12 Apr 2009 at 21:42

And where are the SSD's? Cant actually see where they are, SATA cables just seem to go off behind the PSU, cant see the drives :confused:

SBD · 12 Apr 2009 at 21:53

Maybe he can't fit everything in

If you can please show us as i'm really thinking about upgrading now

Smirnoff · 12 Apr 2009 at 22:04

The SSD's are just jammed in the hard drive bay at the moment as for the rad I've got a Thermochill PA120.3 under my desk

p4radox · 12 Apr 2009 at 22:59

Good work Smirnoff. Any plans for a fully internal WC setup?

Tute · 12 Apr 2009 at 23:09

Would you not advise trying to cool this with something like a Mini-Ninja then?

RJC · 12 Apr 2009 at 23:36

Wondered were the rad was

are you going to keep it that way.

Mikeey44 · 13 Apr 2009 at 00:43

thats freakin awesome! 4.2 clock is

1kiwi · 13 Apr 2009 at 00:49

Would imagine that the HD performance must blow everything away! The above SSD drives have to be the best upgrade right now. Wise i could afford 4

rjk · 13 Apr 2009 at 23:03

very nice work
im glad to see that this case does not harbour any bread

Big.Wayne · 14 Apr 2009 at 01:08

Smirnoff said:
Asus Rampage II Gene

I think that's the coolest board, been looking at that closely!

I look forward to some stability and thermal tests! . . . CPU-z stable is a start I suppose!

Smirnoff · 19 Apr 2009 at 20:06

I've been playing games on the system for a week now and no crashes or blue screens, I dont really have the time to run Prime95 for hours on end

Updgrading from a [email protected] Ghz this new I7 chip does seem faster and smoother, Going from 3x 280 GTX's to 2 285 GTX I've noticed zero difference in games I think HT, memory bandwidth and better SLI bandwidth have made up for loosing a card.

You should be able to make iut the rad in the lower left hand corner of the picture