My first rig project :D

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This how it looks now.
Fan at the bottom is pushing air in mostly. Doesn't seem like I can fix this one to the top as the black fan header is in the way.
Blue fan at top is pushing out. Blue fan bottom right is pushing air out also (I should switch these around?)
There's a cable that hovers above the PS. Im a bit confused as to what this is. Its got two sockets at the end of it; one read HD audio, the other AC'97. It doesn't seem to do anything? (when unlplugged the sound still works)
Removing the black cable for extra USB ports, I dont use them.
Cabling at the bottom is a bit of a mess
 
After moving fan to the top left, with the watercooler.

Cpu is x44. Max temp I got on testing is 79deg.

Adding one of these soon; Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) [MZ-7PC128D/EU]

and also a reasonable gfx card
 
Robbiec053 said:
Cabling at the bottom of your case will be impeding the airflow from the bottom fan,
Mount your HDD the other way round and route your SATA power and data behind the motherboard tray.

The HD Audio/AC'97 is for your front panel headphone and microphone jacks; if these are unused you can unplug it provided you have somewhere to hide the cable.
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thank you that's useful.
i did move the fan from the bottom, attached it to the waterfan
 
Got the double boot problem (again) after overclocking. Increasing thd ram voltage seems to stop it; from 1.5 to 1.55.

Going to document the rest of the settings here for future reference.

AI Tweak
Ai O/c - Manual
By all cores - 42
Int PLL O/V - enabled
Mem freq - ddr3 16k (correct for my ram)
epi power saver - disabled
dram timings - auto

CPU power man.

Cpu ratio - auto
enhanced power thing - enabled
turbo mode - enabled
rest mobo auto

Load line cvalib - extreme
vrm freq - auto
phase control - ext
duty control - ext
cpu current cap. - 110%

cpu volt - auto setting it aT 1.23
DRAM - 1.55

the rest I left on auto

apart from cpu spread spectrum - disabled

Advanced menu

cpu ratio - auto
thermal mon - disabled
active processor cores - all
limit cpuid - disabled
execute disable bit - enabled
intel virtualisation tech - disabled
inhanced speedstep tech - enabled
turbo mode - enabled

the rest disabled
 
Got to add;

IGPU max freq (in ai tweaker) - auto, set at 1450
Cpu voltage, flickers between 1.18 and 1.2
 
also for the cpu current capacity; its actually at 100%. Now there's only options for 100 and 140%, whereas before there was for 110,120,130 also.
 
Thanks for your tips. I'll try making those tweaks tomorrow.

As for the cpu fans; shiiit, I thought they were supposed to be blowing cold air in? Thanks loads for pointing that out.

I've tested on prime 95 for about 10 hours now and hottest temps are 85.
 
Thanks; what is bclk pls?

Also does anyone have a view on which way my fans should be blowing? Surely I want the two water cooling fans pulling cold air into the case and over the radiator?
 
Redek said:
Thanks; what is bclk pls?

Also does anyone have a view on which way my fans should be blowing? Surely I want the two water cooling fans pulling cold air into the case and over the radiator?
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answered that one myself. it was set at 103 and I swicthed it to 100. (the double post problem came back again even though Id thought id solved it with changing ram voltage).

Thanks for the tip. Im going to open up the case and see if I can get temps down by switching the two fans at the top left so they#re blowing air out
 
thanks im switching the fans about now.

im keeping the bclk at 100, dont see any reason to have it higher than that
 
Switched the fans / cabling about and I am very happy.

The hard drive is switched around, to help with the cabling and it looks a bit tidier and helped A LOT with the rest of the cabling.

There's still a bit at the bottom, to the right of the PS, which could just use some tieing together.

The 'Ac 97' cable above the PS is actually hooked onto one of the PCIe slots to stop it dangling into the fan. In think I'll just slice it off though.

Water cooler fans switched to exhaust air - not inhale. Fan at the bottom and front are inhaling. Fan on top exhaling also. A nice 'push pull' system I think.

Main point is though; temperatures are maxing at 72 deg after 4 hours testing! Wuhu!

I might have to try nudging that 4.2ghz some :)
 
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