Big box of Nfail

Smirnoff · 22 Nov 2008 at 19:21

I decided to change the direction of my current system, I've had P35, X38 and my current motherboard was the Rampage Extreme which is an excellent board and preformed well but I just fancied something totally different so I came up with this.

Spec of my new system

QX9650
EVGA 780i F T W
8GB Gskills 8500C5
3x 280 GTX
2x 74GB VelociRaptor in Raid 0
1200w Pc Power and Cooling Supply

CPUZ

GPUZ

Vantage

Voltages

I am just amazed by this system even with its massive overclock its rock solid and heart touching

and it eats games like Crysis Warhead alive.

The key think I have learned is only use 45nm chips with these boards and keep the board nice and cool

setter · 23 Nov 2008 at 05:12

Good going smirnoff. I know that the nvidia chip boards arent that popular on here, i used to have an evga 680i a1 rev. Got my e6600 to 3.7ghz on air. The fact that your using a quad is even more impressive, because the 6/780i arent renowned for their quad clocking ability. Nice one.

paul8811 · 23 Nov 2008 at 06:33

obligatory you have too much bread comment.

Oh Nice system

khemist · 23 Nov 2008 at 09:24

I thought i was daft doing sli 7800gtx and 7900gtx!! costing almost a grand each time!.... enjoy.

1kiwi · 23 Nov 2008 at 11:11

Epic score mate. Why such a high multiplier?

Joe_P · 23 Nov 2008 at 12:08

Can we see photos of your build?

Smirnoff · 23 Nov 2008 at 12:44

setter said:
Good going smirnoff. I know that the nvidia chip boards arent that popular on here, i used to have an evga 680i a1 rev. Got my e6600 to 3.7ghz on air. The fact that your using a quad is even more impressive, because the 6/780i arent renowned for their quad clocking ability. Nice one.

Maybe I just got lucky with the board but the key thing I feel is using 45nm chips, If I stick a Q6600 in it doesnt clock half aswell as it should and the system is BSOD city.

beh* said:
Epic score mate. Why such a high multiplier?

I'm running 8gb of ram @ 800 MHz and I like to run everything in sync so 400 FSB x 10.5 = 4200

Joe_P said:
Can we see photos of your build?

Its just in an Antec 1200 that hidden under my desk its nothing special looking

Strife212 · 24 Nov 2008 at 00:27

Why no 790i? Really nice build though.

Happy · 24 Nov 2008 at 00:35

Strife212 said:
Why no 790i? Really nice build though.

Same thought popped into head :confused:

Nice build anyways

Smirnoff · 24 Nov 2008 at 00:50

DDR3 makes little difference and I didnt want to spend £400 + on ram, even with DDR2 this setup beats most I7 setups.

Cob · 25 Nov 2008 at 00:45

Smirnoff said:
I'm running 8gb of ram @ 800 MHz and I like to run everything in sync so 400 FSB x 10.5 = 4200

So nothing at all to do with the fact that you probably won't get much more FSB out of that board with a 45nm quad?

Smirnoff · 25 Nov 2008 at 20:06

Not really much need to when you got an unlocked multi and i'm not going to get 8gb of ram running much faster, I will try cutting it down to 4gb and seeing if there is any more FSB headroom on the board when i get time.

w3bbo · 25 Nov 2008 at 23:04

For comparison, here's my 2xGTX280 setup on a 790i:

The price difference between DDR3vs DDR2 and 780i vs 790i would pay for that extra GTX. I would wage tho that an extra GTX in my rig would break 30k. An i7 rig with triple SLI would no doubt beat both mine (even if I had triple SLI) and Smirnoffs.

steve258 · 26 Nov 2008 at 01:24

Smirnoff said:
...even with DDR2 this setup beats most I7 setups.

But Yewen posted a comparison benchmarks not long ago showing huge improvements under core i7 with tri-sli setup though.

Bobly · 26 Nov 2008 at 07:59

Nice! Personally I've been having a hell of a hard time getting my 790i stable, I just can't seem to push the FSB to anything above Q9550! >.<

Smirnoff · 26 Nov 2008 at 19:36

steve258 said:
But Yewen posted a comparison benchmarks not long ago showing huge improvements under core i7 with tri-sli setup though.

Its get about 2 - 3k more on the GPU score with the cards clocked the same.