OcUK backroom project "Cobra"

shellshockmunch

shellshockmunch

shellshockmunch

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Hi guys, I am part of the tech team here at OcUK, I have been back at the company now for just under 12 months. I am currently working on a project and will be putting the pics and build process in this thread.

The case I am starting with is the Lian Li D600.
The case is available from OcUK from the link below

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-652-LL&groupid=2362&catid=187

I will be posting a few pics later of my current progress as I am currently stripping the case and applying a custom paint finish.....
 
ok so far i have totally stripped the case back of all bays and motherboard tray and rubbed it down ready for primer...

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I am currently using Ocuk backroom for spraying as the wife would go mental if I used the spare room for spraying. I'm looking at x99 but have not yet decided which motherboard to use but I think there will be hopefully a crossfire/sli set up. Would also like to get some superfast storage. There will a lot of work to do on the waterblocks as I plan on fully customising them.

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Ok so I got distracted for a bit, a colleague has a 3D printer so the idea of custom fan grills to match got my brain thinking, he has been playing around with the settings a bit and there is still a bit of tweaking but the image below gives the idea in mind ........
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Ok so I got distracted for a bit, a colleague has a 3D printer so the idea of custom fan grills to match got my brain thinking, he has been playing around with the settings a bit and there is still a bit of tweaking but the image below gives the idea in mind ........
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well finally I can get back to upload a few more pics of this build log, the fan grill has been revised a fair bit now and I think I am happy with the final outcome....

2nd revision

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3rd revision

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and finally have settled for the below :)

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Had to play with my motherboard and cpu a bit and after acquiring some ram from 8Pack I had the chance to do some tweakings, I banged it all on a test bed with an Asetek 240mm closed loop cooler and well I was shocked just how easy this motherboard was to use, the ram was 3200mhz at C16 and for starters I went in at 4.8 with no issues so I upped it to 5GHZ!!! Into windows and ran Intel xtu for an hour to check stabiltiy........

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it ran with no issues so I did a quick test on cinebench and I was surprised at what it was beating, anyway put it back away for now until its ready before I go breaking something :D
 
to be honest its a damn good cpu , I got this at 5ghz with 1.32 volts on the cpu with slight tweaks to the SA voltage and dram voltage but I cant wait to get it into my loop as it was running the 5ghz on the asetek cooler with a max of 67degrees so I'm hoping to push it a little further, also managed to push the cache to 4.4 too;)
 
I've been trying to do this on and off for a while now but every time I make progress work goes mental so I have to sideline it for a bit.

What voltage are you running to get the 4.4 Cenedd? I notice that your on a gigabyte board??
 
In my experience with gigabyte boards and skylake they do seem to run the stock volatge quite high, you may find that you could probably get the same speed as the turbo but with less volts if you clocked it manually, what ram are you using and are you on the latest bios for the motherboard?
 
Yes you can still have speedstep enabled but I didnt realise you were running 3733 ram, to be honest I would sacrifice a bit of that ram speed so that I could up the cpu a bit, I have noticed that with some gigabyte boards where they lose settings on a failed boot and was hoping they would sort it out with a bios update. I'm still pondering whether to use m.2 or not personally I might jus go for a 2tb ssd instead as I it seems the better option for me at the moment ;)
 
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