The Slaughter House

[Crow2099]

Build Log: Slaughter House

 

This Pc is an Absolute beast compared to my prior machine which is an AMD Phenom II x4 9600b on a Micro ATX Biostar Motherboard with Patriot (2x2GB) 4GB DDR2 400Htz ram and an XFX Radeon HD 6870 2GB graphics card.

 

The new Rig

Processor: Core i7 5960x

Motherboard: Asus Rampage V Extreme

Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum (4x4GB) 16GB DDR4 2800MHz

GPU: 2x EVGA Geforce GTX 780 Ti Classified Kinpin Edition in SLI

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110 with Corsair 140SP fans instead of the fans that came with the unit.

Power Supply: Corsair AX1200i

Case: Corsair Obsidian 900D

Hard Drives: SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB, WD Black 1TB

 

Peripherals

Monitor Main: Asus RoG Swift PG278Q

Monitor Secondary: SAMSUNG SyncMaster TA350

Keyboard: Logitech G15

Mouse: Madcatz R.A.T 7

Left hand unit: Nostromo n52 by Belkin

Speakers: Logitech Z-506 5.1 Surround

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I plan on doing a custom water cooling loop for the two GPUs and at a later date a custom water cooling loop for the CPU. I have already spent around $5k on this PC and I need to recuperate a bit.

 

I have to give a huge shout out to my buddy Ray up at Frys for helping make sure I got everything I wanted for this build. Thanks a lot man.

 

As for benchmarking I am still working on getting this rig into the Futuremark Hall of Fame for Firestrike and Firestrike Extreme. But I was able to get get into the Hall of Fame for SkyDiver at 59th place this morning.

[vigorstick]

Dude. Jelly :angry:

[Jerakl]

Nice, although I would have chosen a different case.

And Firestrike HoF is full of quad/tri SLI/CFX isn't it?

[Meawa]

Sooo jelly...

[Crow2099]

Nice, although I would have chosen a different case.

And Firestrike HoF is full of quad/tri SLI/CFX isn't it?

 

It does have results for those configurations but there is also a Hall of Fame for single card and two card SLI/CFX configurations.

[Jerakl]

It does have results for those configurations but there is also a Hall of Fame for single card and two card SLI/CFX configurations.

I thought you were talking about the general HoF which is all configs

[Crow2099]

I thought you were talking about the general HoF which is all configs

 

lol. If only. But that would require me doing LN2 cooling of my whole rig and having extensive knowledge of proper overclocking to get up in those rankings.

[Crow2099]

I have to say the true bottleneck for me in this rig is the 3GB of Vmem from my GPUs. Running CoD AW at max settings I still run at the games capped frame rate of 91 FPS but it does take up all 3GB of Vmem. I can run Crysis 3 at max settings at 80-120+ FPS and it takes up all 3GB of Vmem (Crysis 3 really puts the strain on my cards by running up my GPU temps to 80 Degrees Celsius). And running Skyrim with all of my mods and ENB Series it still crashes out and I firmly believe it is due to the limited Vmem. So I am really wanting 2 EVGA Geforce GTX 980 Classifieds for 4GB Vmem and if Skyrim still crashes out on me then I will just have to do away with ENB Series.

[Crow2099]

So I have made a couple of changes to the build and it now has a G. Skill Phoenix Blade 480GB PCIe SSD and that holds my games and most commonly used programs and I replaced the two 780 Ti Kingpins with two 980 Kingpins. I also have a water cooling set up in my rig for the GPUs but unfortunately the 980 Kingpins do not have water blocks made for it yet so my water cooling set up is no longer in use till EK releases the new blocks.

[Crow2099]

I have written my own review of the new 980 Kingpin on Newegg. If you would like to read it the reviewer name is Richard D. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487099&cm_re=980_kingpin-_-14-487-099-_-Product