Soldato
Well thought i'd make a thread, mainly so I can track progress myself more than anything.
Cut a long story short I ended up with a couple of 7990 cards due to the mining craze and due to their heat decided to drag my test bench out of the loft. This then progressed to water cooling them to keep the temps down (and mostly noise) as much as possible.
I decided that my gaming laptop just wasn't up to the task of newer titles and so I grabbed a 2nd hand AMD 8320 and ASUS board from alex off these forums and used it as a gaming system too.
An early image of the test bench with one 7990, a MSI Gaming Z87 motherboard and a Pentium CPU
I sold the MSI Gaming motherboard when I moved the system over to AMD and put the 8320 under water at the same time too
I managed to get a decent overclock from the 8320 but I knew before buying it quadfire was never going to work properly. Then came along Mantle and although there was a performance increase it didn't really work how I wanted it to.
Then changes were made..
I grabbed myself a 4770k and using a Gigabyte Z87X-OC board I had in my work system (with three 290 mining away) I swapped things around so that the AMD system is now at my office and the faster 4770k would hopefully overclock well and offer better performance, at least in crossfire if not quadfire too.
At the same time I decided I wanted a proper case too as the bench would get covered in dust so easily. After looking around I stumbled across the LD Cooling V7. A full aluminium case with space for two 360 radiators, 8 HDDs and plenty of open space - perfect.
Gigabyte board fitted - I had moved the button panel to the top but this was going to prove awkward for cabling so moved it back to it's original position
Since the case didn't come with PCI blanks I had a look around and managed to find some that matched the looks of the case. With the dust filter removed they match the slots in the case
With a single 7990 fitted and running distilled water to flush out previous fluid. Not sure where to fit the pump yet
EK single slot 7990 brackets to replace the dual slot ones
New front grill cover for the 2nd 360 radiator. Leaves me with one free drive slot (one taken by the button panel) if I wish to fit a fan controller
That's it for the time being. The 4770k isn't the greatest so i'm in two minds at the moment whether to sell it and grab a 4790k or just delid the 4770k and see what happens.
I'm waiting for the EK terminal blank to arrive so I can use the EK 3 slot terminal block for the 7990s. I have been running two 290s recently and although they are better core vs. core than the 7990, the extra expensive of 290 blocks and the fact that i'd end up with 4 cores vs. 2 when it comes to mining has swayed me.
Cut a long story short I ended up with a couple of 7990 cards due to the mining craze and due to their heat decided to drag my test bench out of the loft. This then progressed to water cooling them to keep the temps down (and mostly noise) as much as possible.
I decided that my gaming laptop just wasn't up to the task of newer titles and so I grabbed a 2nd hand AMD 8320 and ASUS board from alex off these forums and used it as a gaming system too.
An early image of the test bench with one 7990, a MSI Gaming Z87 motherboard and a Pentium CPU
I sold the MSI Gaming motherboard when I moved the system over to AMD and put the 8320 under water at the same time too
I managed to get a decent overclock from the 8320 but I knew before buying it quadfire was never going to work properly. Then came along Mantle and although there was a performance increase it didn't really work how I wanted it to.
Then changes were made..
I grabbed myself a 4770k and using a Gigabyte Z87X-OC board I had in my work system (with three 290 mining away) I swapped things around so that the AMD system is now at my office and the faster 4770k would hopefully overclock well and offer better performance, at least in crossfire if not quadfire too.
At the same time I decided I wanted a proper case too as the bench would get covered in dust so easily. After looking around I stumbled across the LD Cooling V7. A full aluminium case with space for two 360 radiators, 8 HDDs and plenty of open space - perfect.
Gigabyte board fitted - I had moved the button panel to the top but this was going to prove awkward for cabling so moved it back to it's original position
Since the case didn't come with PCI blanks I had a look around and managed to find some that matched the looks of the case. With the dust filter removed they match the slots in the case
With a single 7990 fitted and running distilled water to flush out previous fluid. Not sure where to fit the pump yet
EK single slot 7990 brackets to replace the dual slot ones
New front grill cover for the 2nd 360 radiator. Leaves me with one free drive slot (one taken by the button panel) if I wish to fit a fan controller
That's it for the time being. The 4770k isn't the greatest so i'm in two minds at the moment whether to sell it and grab a 4790k or just delid the 4770k and see what happens.
I'm waiting for the EK terminal blank to arrive so I can use the EK 3 slot terminal block for the 7990s. I have been running two 290s recently and although they are better core vs. core than the 7990, the extra expensive of 290 blocks and the fact that i'd end up with 4 cores vs. 2 when it comes to mining has swayed me.
