DrNip-Enstein
 

You all should know me by now whether it is from this forum or others as I have been around. I am one of your local admins here as well as one of the site designers. I hope you enjoy the experience here as it will only get better! Anyways, my rig has gone thru many of transformations and I will just pot pics.

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To Blue Tubing & Bigger GPU's
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To A Bench Station For DICE Sessions
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To Everyday Cruising When Not DICEing
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i7 920 Everyday Cruiser
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Still Working On This Portable Water Cooling Setup
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Just need to get some quick disconnects. That way I can go from CPU cooling to cooling my GPU's during a DICE session. Just been putting this off for a bit while I stack cash! :D

Well might as well go ahead and start to show you guys what I got goin. After a all new hardwood flooring in the house; installed by me as well as new paint, I got me a new desk today for my stuff. That's my 28" Hannspree in the background.

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Very clean if you ask me. I have all the new sockets and covers, just haven't installed them so don't give me hell about the one in the background. Color me stupid but I spend thousands and thousands on hardware but I only get a $25 keyboard. :ash1:

Here is the RAM.

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Tomorrow will be the mobo and hopefully after a delay already the D0 CPU will be in towards the end of the week. :green4:

WOOT WOOT!!! Sending the above RAM back as the egg just got the same versions as above in but the elpida version. Cas 8 they are and they were only $154.99. WOOT WOOT!!!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820104083

I bought that this morning!

I looked there all day but for the 3x2 versions. Didn't bother to check for the 3x1 versions until tonight. Glad I did as these elpida's go fast when there in stock.

I almost went back to the Mushkin 1600 MHz at 7-8-7-20.....then I saw those Kingston. I have some GSkill 2000 MHz but they are CAS 9, and the Mushkins would actually outperform them in benches.

Anybody seen these yet?

http://www.mushkin.com/doc/products/...ail.asp?id=745

And gskill has 3x2gb elpida chips but they are 300 bucks.

No but I think if you use:

xtremesystems.com

You get a discount on Mushkin RAM.

Yep it works. It wasn't for a while but it works again.

Nice table :)

Thanks...they must have just added those. I was at Mushkin a few days ago and those were not listed.

The Gskills that are available now have the Elpida chips are a lower binned chip and CAS9. The Gskill Perfect Storm 3 x 2GB runs at CAS7 2000MHz and should be available soon. These are the ones I am waiting for but until they come in I have ordered the HyperX 2000Mhz CAS8 3 x 1gb modules.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=221646

You my friend are a hardware junky. :rofl

Very wise as this is the route I took. I guess you can call it a band-aid until somethin else comes in. I will prolly hang onto these 3x1GB's myself for awhile as I really have no need for 6GB's of RAM. Maybe by the time I get ready to upgrade the RAM the rest of the Elpida's will have gone down in price!

Well I buckled down today and started gettin my tech station ready for action this week. I finally got around to screwing down my psu and zip tied all the extra cables down out of the way. That was a task in its own. I also put velcro strips on my fan controller and the station to hold the controller down in place. And finally I got rid of the one fan on the station and squeezed two fans in its place. That way air is being blown across the whole board and not just down the middle like it was doing. I used my SilenX fans as they blow alot of air at a pretty quiet db. They just weren't that good on a rad but in open air they are. The fans turned out easier than what I thought they would be. I just had to turn the brackets around to the middle and use three small zip ties. Now I will get air blowing directly across the RAM, NB and mosfets. :D

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sign6Very nice drnip. Lookin great

Just a simple little mod that should drop my temps all around. I've never had a quad processor before. Got this i7 just staring away at me. Tuesday can't get here quick enough.

Muh, out with the SilenX's and silver accessories and in with the San Aces and black accessories!

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Damn i7 and HyperX's just sittin over there talkin to me!!!

I'm liking that mod nip. Now get that board in.

New mobo should up and what do ya know. This one is packaged right unlike the last one. The box has a lid that opens and when opened you are able to view the mobo thru the window. The last one had the mobo in there backwards to when looking thru the window you couldn't see the mobo but instead you saw the accessories box. Sorry bastards. I know I received a return mobo the 1st time.

Well lets hope this one works.

Problems with this mobo already. 1st one was physically damaged and the 2nd won't boot. The gpu fan isn't even turning on. Here is the code it is displaying.

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I have a 920 D0 cpu. Intel says for mobo to recognize new D0 steppings you need to flash your BIOS but I would think they you could get to the boot screen to do this. My mobo isn't even going to the 1st code let alone any of the codes. Rest of specs are in my sig. I have never encountered anything like this in the 10+ years I have building, tweaking and twisting computers. I don't know what code that is displaying. I have reset and reset the cmos. Pulled the battery for a couple of hours and same o scenario.

It might be that the BIOS needs flashing as here is a response by snipe dogg

"if the mobo gets a halt on an incompatible processor in the socket it most certainly wont come close to posting because if it didnt have this fail safe it would risk board damage if there was a short..."

which makes since I guess.

Anybody have a C0 or know anyone that will let me borrow it to try flashing this BIOS would be greatly appreciative. I will pay for all the shipping.

Totally sucks nip, but if that's your only problem then you are all set. If I had an i7 bro I'd sure send it to ya.

Anyone have a Micro Center close in case I need to paypal some money to get one? At least it is only $229.99 there. :(

I think there is one close to me... we would just need to call and make sure they have it in stock.

Thanks Jeffro. I thinkin I will try an RMA as the very 1st boot was code 8.8. I then did a reset of the cmos and that is when it started displaying that crazy ass code. From what I have read code 8.8 is time for RMA. So prolly going to wrap this mutha up today and send it on a vacation.

Damn.... thats two in a row, I hate that! I guess I got lucky as hell with my 790i's.

Does MC not have online ordering? I've never tried so I don't know. But i'll be glad to do that for you not a problem.

Yeah you can order online then pick up. I think I will RMA the mobo today and go from there. If the next one is the same case then I will try to get a loaner. If I can't then I will be out another $229.99.

Sounds like a plan.... hopefully the RMA will do it.

Well eva2000 has sent DFI a email about the situation. Going to wait for their response on the matter that way I know for sure if it is needing an update or not. Otherwise I have my finger on the trigger and waitin to fire away.

Thank you eva. :D

This is where I got to in all of its glory. It was soon all down hill from there though. Man that shit pissed me off.

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Damn that looks impressive.:broomstick:

Yeah and it only had 1 of the 3 sticks in it a 1 of the 2 GPU's in it.

Still no word back on my situation and I have asked every main forum as well as DFI and the Amandtech article where they used the same exact setup as I had.

Received a response from RGone over at DFI Forums.

GOD i hope it isn't the CPU as if I have to RMA it and get back a C0 I will be pissed!!!!!!

My money is still on the board not reconizing the CPU. How many DOA intel CPUs do you here about?

But the DFI guys in Taiwan said they rolled it back to an earlier BIOS and it still boot. I bet the mobo is toast. I really don't think it is the CPU. I just can't see the mobo not at least booting to a certain point. It will through an error before it tries to load windows but it should still at least boot to the point where you can flash your bios.

Well lets hope you just need another board.