Project Evolution

johnnyrotten665 · 6 Oct 2015 at 22:32

Apologies for the further delay, had to rush my daughter into hospital with pneumonia over the weekend so further pics will appear once I have time to sort them out. Overclock details and benchmarks will probably appear at about the same time.

<edit>The loop ran happily without leaking for 12 hours and is pretty much free of air. Im quite happy with that...</edit>

ukxenon · 7 Oct 2015 at 05:06

PC looks nice but that can wait....hope your daughter is ok

colinmcr · 7 Oct 2015 at 07:10

Hope your daughter recovers well...

I tried using the monsoon hardline only did two pipe one was leak free the other one cracked at both ends. I decided considering the value of my dual cpu sli rig not to risk using hardline. I'm not saying there collars are faulty, I probably overtightened them but for me it too much of a risk taker. There just isn't much play in the pipes if you align it even slightly off.

Luggs · 7 Oct 2015 at 08:21

Sorry to hear about your daughter, that's gotta be tough.

Well, the pc is looking great tho, the aurora especially looks sweet. Very nice work.

johnnyrotten665 · 8 Oct 2015 at 22:45

OK then!
As promised some more pics of the (now) completed system. They may be a bit naff... I may have continued my habit of using my phone to take them. I don't really care, I'm too busy playing with my new toy...

First up, the pics:

Acouple of exterior shots (sorry about the flash).

Some close ups.

And a few shots with the side open.

And now, for my next trick... The overclock and benchmarking details!

I decided to leave the ram at xmp and I managed to get a respectable 3.7Ghz out of the cpu at 1.355v, I reckon I could have got 3.8 but I was pushing the voltage a bit too high to be comfortable during stability testing.

I also managed to coax an extra 230Mhz out of the gpus but I couldn't get them to budge on memory speed at all.

CPU-Z

HWMonitor

Afterburner

And now, some benchmarks:

Cinebench R15 (cpu & opengl)

Valley Benchmark

3DMark:
Firestrike

Firestrike Extreme

Firestrike Ultra

And Finally, just because I felt like it, a brief video lookaround of the finished system (assuming I can make youtube work).

SamyBoy13 · 9 Oct 2015 at 14:45

These new boards look so sexy, but unfortunately this is not a reason for me to upgrade ;/ Especially with water cooling looks amazing. Outstanding build!

kaku · 9 Oct 2015 at 15:58

What could be the reason for consistently lower physics scores after OC?
Never done direct before/after comparisons before so that was one thing that surprised me.

johnnyrotten665 · 9 Oct 2015 at 18:08

SamyBoy13 said:
These new boards look so sexy, but unfortunately this is not a reason for me to upgrade ;/ Especially with water cooling looks amazing. Outstanding build!

Thanks. Not bad for a first time watercooler I feel.

kaku said:
What could be the reason for consistently lower physics scores after OC?
Never done direct before/after comparisons before so that was one thing that surprised me.

No idea, last time I overclocked anything, I moved jumpers around on the mainboard, so this is relatively new territory to me.