[Witchdoctor]

Vantage run required to crush the MSI lappy score ............

[rickss69]

May have to rethink this...I suspect there is a problem with this chip. No amount of tweaking will allow it to exceed 3100MHz on the Evga mb using water or air. It hits a wall there and simply refuses to boot. I have tried it in the Intel mb and it does not like it at all straying from default settings. I believe it corrupted the OS so I reinstalled, but it makes no difference.

[Witchdoctor]

That's a drag, must have pounded on it a bit to hard in the day. did you try dropping the 9550 in ........... ?

[rickss69]

I suspect you are right...I just recently picked these two up. Was watching it a moment ago at default settings with only Realtemp and cpu-z windows open on desktop...at idle it was drawing nearly 26% load lol.

EDIT: I was letting it run and walked in to check on it...it's now drawing up to 60% load at idle haha.

[Neuromancer]

Nice, keep us posted.

Was the high idle CPU usage from the bum chip or is it just that the chips are so out of date?

(I assume you had indexing and all that kind of stuff turned off?)

[rickss69]

While not as originally intended, this project turned out rather nice. It is stellar at most games and latest crop are doable. Just wish I had some other cards available...these GTX 295's just run too dang hot. I would trade them for a couple of GTX 460's or the like if the opportunity arose.

I guess I would rate this one as a decent mid-level gamer and a all around general workhorse. Need to find a good home for this one.

NZXT Phantom 410 case
Evga 790i Ultra SLI mb
Q9550 cpu
Evga GTX 295 (x2)
Thermaltake Frio
8GB ram
WD 1TB hdd
LiteOn dvd burner
Corsair 850w psu
Win 7 64 Ultimate

[Kal-EL]

Very clean build, appealing to the eyes.

[rickss69]

Just bought two 5850's for a song off ebay. Thinking those will be a perfect match for this rig and kill the heat monsters at the same time. Easier on the psu and I get DX11 as a bonus...

[ThreeDhero]

Nice throwback Rick looks sharp. Good cable management.

Surprised that 850w PSU and handle 4 GPUs

[Witchdoctor]

Nice job on the build bro .............

Ready for Prime Time