Project Titan

Did a bit of overclocking last night...

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I'm sure I can still get more out of it...

The CPU still can't quite compete with my 5820k in overall score, but it certainly feels faster.

I hit 4.9, but it was using too many volts for me to leave it or even bench with it. I was really hoping to make the 5.0GHz barrier... but I would have to de-lid to get to 4.9, let alone 5.0

There's still some headroom there though, I'm going to try getting to 4.85-4.87 with different BCLK and the GPU has more headroom too.

GPU peaked at 45C in the tests :D The CPU managed to hit 70C.
 
I've settled on 4.7GHz as a 24/7 voltage... with my custom water loop... even under gaming conditions and with my custom PWM settings, the fans don't need to go above 40% and the pump 30% in order to keep the CPU under 60C and the GPU at 40C under load (even when the GPU is overclocked to 1537MHz core and 8GHz memory :D

This makes it almost as quiet as the iMac at idle and the same noise under load :D :D :D Quite happy with that as the 5820k with Corsair H110i would be quite noisy under load.
 
Excellent system, I love the contrast between the blue coolant and the white/silver colour scheme. The hardware also looks great in the Inwin case which looks stunning. The fact the system can perform great as well as looking good just rounds the whole build off. :D

What are your thoughts on the 6700K vs 5820K as I know you said the 5820K had a higher score and the 6700K felt faster but how is the real world comparison such as in games and other tasks?
 
harvey.l12 said:
Loving the look of this system
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TechMinerUK said:
Excellent system, I love the contrast between the blue coolant and the white/silver colour scheme. The hardware also looks great in the Inwin case which looks stunning. The fact the system can perform great as well as looking good just rounds the whole build off. :D

What are your thoughts on the 6700K vs 5820K as I know you said the 5820K had a higher score and the 6700K felt faster but how is the real world comparison such as in games and other tasks?
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Thanks both :)

I've only really played two games on this system, but they've both improved their frame rates.

BF4 has gone from 140-150FPS on the 5820k to a steady 200FPS... that includes a 100MHz overclock on the GPU, but that wouldn't account for the FPS jump by itself.

SW Battlefront has gone from 90-100FPS to a steady 120FPS.

I'm rather happy with that little jump... goes to show the improvement in single core processing capabilities, especially given the CPU is only running 100-200Mhz higher per core.

I haven't noticed the difference in processing time in Lightroom, but then I've only been doing 20-30 photos at a time... it would be more likely to show itself when doing 100x that. But the general navigation in lightroom and photoshop is a bit quicker.

Those are the best comparisons I have at the moment.
 
ah man, that looks so good mate! Soon as the glass-sided evolve's are released, a Hue+ will be mine. Are they supplying additional led strips yet?
 
Thanks :)

Glass sided evolve... is that a case?

No - they're not selling extra LED strips yet :(

When they do, I'll be picking some up... apparently these control boxes can happilly operate 8 strips per channel... so I can use one channel for case operations... and have the other fed out the back of the case to light up the rear of my desk and have the software to control it :D
 
crinkleshoes said:
That's given me a new idea... the LED strips are quite flexible... and they're white.

Wrap them around the watercooling pipework in a spiral?

:D :D :D
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Hahaha now that would be something to behold :eek:

Wow, 8 strips per channel x 4 channels (iirc) each with dif colours & effects? You could create some amazing lighting effects with that potential :)
 
What are your thoughts on the case? i built into one yesterday and it looks amazing (mines just an air cooling build for the moment though).

only thing i dont like about the case is that i cant put a fan controller into it, if it had a couple of drive bays (or even 1) it would have been perfect.
 
I really like it, generally... but there are some niggles... but then you can usually expect that when something is built for form over function (albeit reasonable function).

I dislike:
- The recessed IO panel is a pain to get to, I have to take the side panel off to access it and I don't have huge hands... I usually have to borrow the wife to plug something in - thankfully that's not too frequent.
- The front radiator mounting has next to no airflow, it's practically pointless... I wish I'd bought a 240 rad instead of a 280 so that I could have put it at the bottom of the case where the air intake is.
- The layout is not the easiest for the WC parts I wanted to use... with a rad at the front, I was forced to mount the pump and reservoir at the bottom and horiztontally which I didn't want to do, however getting the 240 rad instead of the 280 to mount at the bottom would have made that much easier.
 
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