My Rig rebuild

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Well this update has been a long time coming since i installed all my bits in my TJ-07 about a week or so ago! So will include my build log as well :)

Firstly the system comprises of the following:

Q9650 (cheers Devious)
Rampage Extreme (thanks Clone :))
2x2Gb G.Skills 1600Mhz DDR3 7-7-7-18
Sapphire 4870
2x500Gb Hdd's (nothing special) in Raid0 + 250Gb IDE drive (had this drive for years and use it for backup/storage)
Coolermaster Realpower 620W PSU

The water cooling was the following:

PA 120.3
DDC 18w with Alphacool top
D-Tek Fuzion v2 with Nozzle kit (which i'm too lazy to take out as it doesn't make a difference!)
Swiftech MCW-NBMAX NB Block
XSPC single bay res

Firstly here is the rad or fanned up - had 2 Blue LED Zawards from previous build and in the middle is a Silenx (cheers Ricickle), did have 3 Zawards but one went MIA when looking for it..



And with both blocks now on the mobo, the NB block is perfect:




Mounted the motherboard and added in the 4870, the 4870 has the vortexx neo cooler on there, this will be getting the water treatment at some point though undecided on whether to just sell the 4870 and get an x2 rather than crossfire (once the factor of blocks/cost are involved for two cards over one), can also see the Xonar DX sound card in the top slot as well, never realised that would need a power connector!



As I had removed the hard drive cages in the bottom of the case to fir the rad I had to come up with a solution as to mounting the drives. The TJ-07 cages were slightly too long to fit in the front bays so could see them stick out from the side profile. The cage from my stacker 830 however fits perfectly and allowed the cables to route below it :):



First bit of tubing in place now! Feels like we're getting somewhere but still a long way to go!



I spent quite a while working out the best way for the tubing and this probably took the most time (apart from the cable tidying as best I could) Here is the pump going to the rad:



It just a bit of double sided tape holding the pump there but no problems whatsoever with vibrations or noise from the pump.

After much measuring with tubing, testing different bends the case ends up fully tubed:



One more from the side:



You can see why i wanted the HDD's flush.

Here is one now the loop has filled and with the Dominator fan I got from Bradley(cheers!):



We're nearly there now, fully wired up, plumbed and no leaks :D Booted first time fine so here are some night time shots - nothing too professional but think reasonable results:









Since these photo's were taken I have since found the other Zaward fan and that has now replaced the Silenx on the Rad, all the lights on there are even now and looks a lot better, have also removed ths stickers off the Dominator fan so this is pure black now, will get updated pics showing this. Have since bought another Silenx from Ricickle (cheers Ricickle for digging that one out!) so these two silenx will be going into the roof of the case, though it seems like it will be a lot of work replacing the fans there..

Overclocking Results:

Well i have decided on 4.275Ghz as my 24/7 overclock, gives some very nice results :)

Had the CPU stable at 4.275Mhz for 8 hours of small FFT's @ 1.352v:



However, have managed to drop this lower after some further tinkering today, only done a 2 hour blend run to test RAM as dropped a few other volts as well (NB, FSBt etc)



Proved stable for that 2 hour run and only 1.328v on CPU! :cool: :D

Nice to see some healthy bandwidth from this RAM as well:



And finally after some further tinkering and tweaking got this result:



Feedback and comments welcome :)
 
Nice volts mate - mine needs 1.42 for my 24/7 clock. Also very impressed with the FSB on that board! What sort of volts do you need for 4.4 prime stable?
 
Cheers dude ;)

I was shocked at the volts needed as well, I knew I got a good clocker from Devious but I think this is one sweet chip :D
 
wow great vcore for that clock, whats the max you can get at 1.4V? (go on you know you want to :))
 
Cheers dude ;)

I was shocked at the volts needed as well, I knew I got a good clocker from Devious but I think this is one sweet chip :D

Well i've heard that they are all pretty good and was thinking that i might trade up/down at some point if there is a substantial difference? Do you think you could get 4.5 for a 24/7 clock?
 
Having trouble with that, can get it to boot but stability is a no go at the moment.

Wil keep on tinkering with it and see what happens :)
 
I think i needed about 1.55 vcore to boot into 4.5Ghz so will be interesting to see what you need and if you can get it stable :)
 
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