skullbringer

upgrading from 8120 to 8350 makes completely no sense to me. 8350 is good, but the very slight performance increase isnt worth the 200 bucks. Get a decent cooler, OC the hell out of that CPU and get a decent GPU for rendering (CUDA!).
If you have that much money, then you should upgrade to 3770k, much better performance per price then 8350.

tl;dw if the white polarity stripe on the cap near the postcode is on the left, don't run the system or leave it running unattended! 

Buildzoid just did a video and he thinks it is a backwards cap.
 

Long time no see, but I thought I wanted to share my progress of me getting into mining.
 
As you might notice from the v1.2, this is not the original configuration, but I will get to that later. 
 
Specs: 
Intel Core i7-4930k Asus Rampage IV BE Corsair H80 three Noiseblocker NB eloop B12-4's Corsair RM1000 some Seagate 1TB HDD two MSI GTX 1070 Armor 8G's some random 15-year old case which housed my first ever gaming pc back in the day All of these parts I had lying around from older builds, so I might as well put them to work mining, instead of sitting on a shelf. Apart from the GPUs which I managed to get for a reasonable deal NEW from Alternate.de
 
This is the most standard atx case you could have probably gotten 15 years ago, just cheapo thin metal, mostly riveted, with a plastic font cover, perfect for modding. So I just removed the front plastic cover and all the pre stamped metal 5.25 inch cutouts for air intakes. With v1.1 I also added the fan in the side panel to help airflow, originally the side panel was just solid all the way. Also all the fan mounts are for 80mm fans. I guess 120mm was not a thing back then, so fan mounting was creative. If you need a Windows XP license, there is one for you on the side panel xD.

 
Opening up the side panel, you can see the crowded interior, which was never meant to house this much and powerful hardware. In the back you can see the for me useless 80mm fan mounts. In Hotbox v1 I had a fan there, thinking it would help exhaust hot air, but placing it next to the gpus on the side panel was much more effective, so the psu fan does all the exhaust for the cpu area.
Also you can see the fan directly in front of the gpus to push as much air towards them as possible, being circulated by the gpu coolers and then exhausted by the side panel fan. This setup actually allows the gpus to run without throttling in this very confined space, whereas in v1 without the side panel fan, the gpus would be constantly at 93°C and throttling down.

 
From here you can see the H80 with its fan just sitting casually in the 3 5.25" bays pulling in fresh air from the front. The cpu is running at stock, as no cpu power is needed and hovers around 50°C idle.
You can also see that the HDD is pushed as far to the front as possible to make room for the motherboard. Since the R4BE is eATX, it barely even fits along side the hdd cage. The result is the HDD is poking out through the front 3.5" floppy bay. lol
Speaking of the HDD cage, you can see the traces of my modding efforts when making room for those GPUs. Below the now installed HDD would normally be another 5 bays, which I drilled out the bottom rivets and then cut out with a Dremel to allow for these beefy GPU coolers.

 
Finally, the heart of Hotbox, the two MSI GTX 1070 Armor 8G's. I got them from Alternate.de for 450 Euros per piece with 30 Euros cashback each. So a pretty good deal considering they are going on Ebay used for 500+
Understandably so, they are running amazingly well and even at the constant 100% fan speed I set them to reasonably quiet. And they overclock like a beast as well:
GPU1: 2088 MHz avg. core clock, 4325 MHz memory ~ 29.5 MH/s DAG 
GPU2: 2124 MHz avg. core clock, 4400 MHz memory ~ 31 MH/s DAG


 
The overall system power draw with this config is 440W. 
Originally Hotbox v1 to v1.1 consisted of a MSI P67A-GD55 and an i5 2500k, admittedly much more reasonable in terms of power usage for a dual gpu system. With this setup, my power draw was 380W total. 
But, since I wanted to add more GPU's I swapped the Sandy Bridge rig for Ivy Bridge-E, with some disappointment. 
 
The third GPU I added in (Powercolor RX 480 8GB Red Dragon) caused so much heat and very diminished returns, making it not viable in this chassis. It barely held 1000 MHz core clock and was constantly sitting at its tjmax of 90°C. Even when pushing the two GTX 1070s down to the bottom of the motherboard with no clearance between them, and having the RX 480 on top with spare slots between it and the 1070s and a fan blowing directly at it, it would not run reliably at 100% load. 
 
So this is what I am at for now, I am probably going to go back to spec v1.1 with P67A and 2500k with Intel stock cooler, but I am also in the process of building a mining rig out of some old slat frame. This way I should be able to run the R4BE with all its pcie slots populated with pcie usb extenders to its full potential.    
 
Star of the show for me are definitely the two 1070's. For about 160W power usage each, you get about 30MH/s DAG, 0.3GH/s Lbry and 450H/s Equi, which is slightly more than an RX480/580. Granted, RX cards are cheaper, but they also use more power (about 220W in my testing). Considering energy costs are quite high in Germany, the more power efficient 1070s look like a more profitable solution in the long run. Unfortunately, I can not get any more of them new for now, since prices have sky rocketed even more.
 
But then again, who knows how long this whole mining rush is going to hold up anyways, and if investing at this point even makes sense... At least I am having fun with some projects and am hopefully able to flip the cards for a reasonable return, in case things go south..
 
So what do think? RX or GTX for mining? Any way I could improve Hotbox for v1.3? 

Ok, so not the 1607 update, but the small updates and patches before fixed it already. My windows 10 installation stick was from the before 1511 days, so this could explain it.
 
Also, the guys on ocn have linked me to this thread, which has an even later bios (5803) than the one on the Asus download page.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1624603/rog-crosshair-vi-overclocking-thread

since device manager shows all 16 active threads, the cpu and the bios are not your problem. 
 
the issue is probably an old windows install that is based on your old 4 core, 8 thread cpu which your windows install is "used to". for windows to use all of your cores after the upgrade, you will either need to fiddle with windows startup options, see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/howto-get-windows-7-to-detect-your-new-multi-core/71519d51-f6cb-47df-b3ff-66c2928d6de4
or do a reinstall.

since device manager shows all 16 active threads, the cpu and the bios are not your problem. 
 
the issue is probably an old windows install that is based on your old 4 core, 8 thread cpu which your windows install is "used to". for windows to use all of your cores after the upgrade, you will either need to fiddle with windows startup options, see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/howto-get-windows-7-to-detect-your-new-multi-core/71519d51-f6cb-47df-b3ff-66c2928d6de4
or do a reinstall.

guess I'm late to the party, eh? 
whatever... 
AMD R7 1800x @ 27.5x150MHz = 4.125GHz, 1.45V
Asus Crosshair VI Hero @ 0702 bios
2x 16GB of GSkill ram @ 2800MHz, 14-14-14-34
Corsair H80i
Corsair HX850i
 

 
 
 
for comparison, my old system:
Intel Core i7-4930k @ 4.4GHz, 1.4V
Asus Rampage IV Black Edition
4x 4GB GSkill 1600MHz, 9-9-9-24
Custom Loop
Corsair RM1000
 

This might help as there should be not only a new version but also bug fixes included

Over a thousand more CBs than a FX 8-core!

Ok, so not the 1607 update, but the small updates and patches before fixed it already. My windows 10 installation stick was from the before 1511 days, so this could explain it.
 
Also, the guys on ocn have linked me to this thread, which has an even later bios (5803) than the one on the Asus download page.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1624603/rog-crosshair-vi-overclocking-thread

My new rig works! Ran cinebench in wine1.8. wine told cinebench that it was windows 7. I have a Xeon e3 1240 v5 at stock and turbo up to 3.9ghz 4c/8t. Sorry there is no cpu-z, wine did not like it.

ah nice, will try the beta bios tomorrow! thx

thanks for all the suggestions so far!
 
I feel like the 600C is almost too mainstream. I am looking for a unicorn if you know what I mean.
Silent Base 900 is definitely an interesting option!

Logitech G930 headset fell into tomato soup. Damn you wireless music while cooking!!

This > Any Corsair keyboard.

The famous Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate is available on Massdrop exclusively with Cherry MX Clear switches, in full size and tenkeyless varieties.
 

 
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/das-keyboard-cherry-mx-clears-massdrop-exclusive
 
FYI: Clear switches are basically a slightly heavier version of Browns with the same non-clicky tactile bump, more details on Cherry MX switch types here.
 
btw, my reaction:

the same time the non k chips will come out, so in the next 4 weeks? maybe?

the same time the non k chips will come out, so in the next 4 weeks? maybe?

So, I've been at it for the last 20 hours or so and this is what I finally managed to get stable out of my i5-6600K:
185 MHz x 26 = 4810 MHz Core, x 24 = 4440 MHz Cache @ 1.45V
RAM: 3145 MHz 16-18-38 @ 1.353V (G.Skill Ripjaws4 2 x 4 GB rated at 16-18-38 @ 1.35V)
All settings above were configured manually and ran stable for 30 min of OCCT., see below
Some additional notes:
- PCH was set to 1.2V, otherwise the CPU would not initialize @ more than 4.6 GHz.
- CPU current capability was set to 140%, CPU power phase control to Optimized.
- Intel speedstep and turbo were turned off, BUT turbo gets automatically enabled at a BCLK of 140 MHz or lower. So I stayed above it for a static core clock.
- Max load temps were 88°C, idle temps are about 35°C. 14nm seems generate an insane amount of heat under load compared to idle.
- It would not boot @ 4.9 GHz, even with 1.55V. Either there is a wall or I did not find the right setting to adjust.
- Using a dedicated GPU made no difference.
- System specs: Asus Z170-A, Corsair RM750i, Samsung SM951 nvme, Corsair H100i GTX, Zotac GTX 980 Ti reference
 

alright, Ill try that and check back soon. thx

Yeah, I saw that and really enjoyed it. I think I will do the bclk overclocking after wan show. Just multiplier for now...
 
 
 
I ordered one from my etailer of choice
 
 
 
It's just for testing around with skylake and maybe building a lan pc, running a 4930k on my main rig.

Huge thanks for this man, now my k95 can match my setup

I've been eyeing these for a while for my K95, just joined the drop.  Gotta keep in mind though that the standard set will not fit most of the bottom row of keys (CTRL, ALT, even space).  They've posted pics of a set of bottom row keys made specifically to fit the Corsair and Razer keyboards so whenever they come out they will sell just that bottom row separately so you can have everything be replaced.

yes, all z97 boards overclock basically the same.
 
edit: Although that is no guaranty for a good overclock, as it all depends on the silicon lottery with your specific cpu.