The Upgrade: All out on X79 with 3930K

Yaayuh!

Yaayuh!

Yaayuh!

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I was at a fork in the Intel road of platforms as per my thread here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18398184

My choice was
Z77 + Ivy Bridge
or
X79 + Sandy Bridge-E

I went with the Sandy Bridge-E option and i thought i'd write up my experience so far.

Before
CPU: i7 920 C0 @ 3.9Ghz
Heatsink: CoolerMaster V6GT
Mobo: Asus P6T Deluxe (v1)
RAM: 9Gb OCZ Gold 1600Mhz 8,8,8,24,1T
GPU1: Asus GTX580 Matrix Platinum
GPU2: Asus GTX520 Silent
Soundcard: Asus Xonar Essence STX
SSD: OCZ Vertex 2e 60Gb
HDD: 2x WD Caviar Black 1Tb RAID-0
PSU: OCZ ZX1000
Case: NZXT H2

After

CPU: i7-3930K
Heatsink: Phanteks PH-TC14PE
Mobo: Asus X79 Sabertooth
RAM: 16Gb Samsung Green
GPU1: Asus GTX580 Matrix Platinum
GPU2: Asus GTX520 Silent
Soundcard: Asus Xonar Essence STX
SSD: Crucial RealSSD M4 256Gb
SSD: OCZ Vertex 2e 60Gb
HDD: 2x WD Caviar Black 1Tb RAID-0
PSU: OCZ ZX1000
Case: NZXT H2



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Installing it all was a piece of cake, despite my NZXT H2 being RAMMED! (See pics below). However, the setup of the single SSD on the RAID controller with a RAID setup of HDDs was agony! I had to route around the net looking to the F6 RSTe RAID driver to install Windows7... took a few hours but this is required if you want to have a RAID setup because if you install W7 with AHCI set in the BIOS, you can't turn it to RAID afterwards, it'll BSOD when trying to load Windows..lame!

Other bad points
-- Phanteks heatsink was used and chopped up (B-Stock) and wasn't mentioned before purchasing.
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-- The Steelseries Xai doesn't work with UEFI BIOS
-- I need a bigger case :p

Good points
-- Asus Sabertooth x79 is layed out brilliantly, everything fits and nothing get's in the way (apart from the stupid size of the 580 Matrix Platinum get's in the way of SATA Ports, but it is a mammoth card..).
-- 3930K + Phanteks PH-TC14PE = Cold! (so far).
-- Crucial M4 256Gb is lightening fast and easy to upgrade the firmware
-- Samsung Green are seriously small, like tiny!
-- Plug and play, it all worked apart from installation of W7 needed the RAID driver.
-- Overclocking should be easy.

So here it is (sorry, bad pics taken last night):

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Currently all stock but the MASSIVE Phanteks is keeping it 26-32c idle and load is 48-54 in IBT so i've got a lot of hope for 4.6-4.8GHz and with the Samsung Green well over 2000MHz would be nice ;)

Will update with more pictures, benchmark and overclocking results and any issues i come across.
 
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i couldn't see anything wrong with your "old" setup :confused:, suppose if you have the money why not :p

nice build
 
Jony27 said:
i couldn't see anything wrong with your "old" setup :confused:, suppose if you have the money why not :p

nice build
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Rossi~ said:
Reasons for upgrade

I bought the RAM, Mobo and CPU within the first month of X58 release, it's been strong and loyal but it's old and has it's quirks.

CPU is hot and not a great overclocker.
Due to the motherboard, SSD and possibly the overclock settings; i am unable to recover the PC from sleep mode.
POST and the overall boot speed is so extremely slow.
USB3.0
SATA 6GB/s
Next year i will be buying a house, my annual PC upgrade budget will be pretty much destroyed .
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Nice setup.
We are following similar paths, as I am also going to move to SB-E shortly.
Anything else would be a step down :p
 
Ok, so overclocking is different than the x58 platform..

It seems so complex, too many voltages these days. I only needed to change a few things to get it to 4.5GHz and leave the lot at AUTO. Temperatures may be an issue... but that's because of my case it think, it's so rammed and the airflow isn't great, i need a powerful 140mm exhaust in the top i think.

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