Asrock Z68 Extreme 7

Crezzlin said:
Got your Ram yet>

Still not setup my board yet, keep putting it off incase i break it :)
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got it today :D

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16gigs of Patriot extreme division 2 1866

lol @ breaking board. i know what you mean, if i had the money id buy another and put it in a frame and keep it for show :D
 
I got mine yesterday(now that its well after midnight) but not had a chance to open it and look at it(thats all I can do with it untill I get the cpu and decide on the ram and order it).

crezzlin by your sig I notice you're using ripjaws, is that ripjawx? if so what cooler are you using? had a chance to get the 3 6950s up and running and whats the performance like?

I have the cpu(i2500k) on the way, can't decide on the ram tho.

due to the price of the red ripjawx(2 sets of 8gb kit @~£72) temptempted by that but not sure if the arctic freezer 7 pro rev2(will upgrade in the future, not sure if watercooling or not) will have issues with the fins.

the other option is the corsair vengence black lp.

didn't get the kingston hyperx genesis grey when they where @£40 as at that time wasn't planning on getting mb and cpu for a couple of months(but then they decided to put this mb up for 1 day only pre-order just days after the ram offer ended).
 
Thanks :) can't wait to see how they match up with the board.

WOWZERS!! Didn't realise the E7 was sooo big! Thanks for sharin the pics mate :)
 
just realised I'll have to upgrade my sound card, it's a pci(creative xfi extreme gamer) and there is only 1 pci slot which'll get blocked by the 2nd 6950.

I have logitech z5500 speakers so not wasting them on onboard sound ;)

what to get? will be mainly for gaming with watching iplayer etc, DVD/blueray will be done on the ps3.
 
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Mr.V said:
What case is that btw? Sorry for new post blackberry won't let me edit my last post
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Its a NZXT Phanton, good case for trifire as it has a large fan on side panel but cant fit a big cpu cooler on with side fan been so big, the h50 does a gd job for the size. What case you going to use.
 
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fowler002 said:
I got mine yesterday(now that its well after midnight) but not had a chance to open it and look at it(thats all I can do with it untill I get the cpu and decide on the ram and order it).

crezzlin by your sig I notice you're using ripjaws, is that ripjawx? if so what cooler are you using? had a chance to get the 3 6950s up and running and whats the performance like?

I have the cpu(i2500k) on the way, can't decide on the ram tho.

due to the price of the red ripjawx(2 sets of 8gb kit @~£72) temptempted by that but not sure if the arctic freezer 7 pro rev2(will upgrade in the future, not sure if watercooling or not) will have issues with the fins.

the other option is the corsair vengence black lp.

didn't get the kingston hyperx genesis grey when they where @£40 as at that time wasn't planning on getting mb and cpu for a couple of months(but then they decided to put this mb up for 1 day only pre-order just days after the ram offer ended).
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Hi yeah the X stuff, will run auto at 1866

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-062-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Not had chance to try PC yet cant get the raid0 to work, have installed winows but on reboot cant find boot device :s Try again tomo when awake :)
 
Crezzlin said:
Hi yeah the X stuff, will run auto at 1866

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-062-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Not had chance to try PC yet cant get the raid0 to work, have installed winows but on reboot cant find boot device :s Try again tomo when awake :)
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You should set drives in bios to run on AHCI mode not IDE, then you install windows. This way you have both drives setup as RAID and windows installed on both your drives under RAID 0 and be able to recognize and boot up properly.
 
Got my new CPU water block and graphics bridge. I now have everything running still at stock speeds though. The only remaining issue is the inverted mouse movement in the BIOS. Oh and some cable tidying.

Andi.

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Crezzlin said:
Its a NZXT Phanton, good case for trifire as it has a large fan on side panel but cant fit a big cpu cooler on with side fan been so big, the h50 does a gd job for the size. What case you going to use.
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sweet, love that case! esp the white finish.

im going to be using an old coolermaster Stacker which is part of my next modding project.

PakJai said:
You should set drives in bios to run on AHCI mode not IDE, then you install windows. This way you have both drives setup as RAID and windows installed on both your drives under RAID 0 and be able to recognize and boot up properly.
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+1

andicole0 said:
Got my new CPU water block and graphics bridge. I now have everything running still at stock speeds though. The only remaining issue is the inverted mouse movement in the BIOS. Oh and some cable tidying.

Andi.
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Nice Setup Andi did you buy a complete kit or individual parts?
 
PakJai said:
You should set drives in bios to run on AHCI mode not IDE, then you install windows. This way you have both drives setup as RAID and windows installed on both your drives under RAID 0 and be able to recognize and boot up properly.
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Also with the OCZ Vertex 3 drives, disable hotplugging in BIOS. It's called SATA Aggressive Link Power Management in the Extreme7 Bios.
 
Hamster said:
Here's mine. As you can see, i'm rubbish at taking photos and I've not decided on upgrading GPU so here it is with a lowly ATI5450!
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hmm a 1.2kw psu for a h100, soundcard, optical drive/s, hard disk/s and a lousy 5450?

just had a look at mne(arrived yesterday afternoon but not had a chance to look) and it seems I have the 'free' finger print also, no ant-statick bag, the front of the box is a bit scuffed also.
 
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