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Hello, glad I found this thread. I have a Filco Majestouch 2 TKL, a Ducky Pro TKL and a Ducky Zero. They are all Browns and I love each one. The feel on the Filco is my favorite, it's not quite as "wooden" as the Ducky keyboards. It has a bit of play here and there which gives it some character. Thinking about PBT keypads for it.

I got M$ MCSD certified in 1999 after a diploma, so I started on VB6 building web based "distributed" financial systems back then. After that I went straight into .Net and C# and have never looked back. These days it's all web development on ASP.Net MVC, lots and lots of JavaScript (Angular et al) and still lots of distributed back ends; all in C#. Currently building stuff used in pathology labs to assist in the diagnosis on cancer and other diseases.

I have locked in this spec for devs now: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/3FkYCJ We should get the boxes within the month, so I'll update this thread with the results. Thanks @Stefan1024 for your input to date.

So on a RAM disk I get ~8.5s build times as opposed to ~13s on my Samsung 840 Pro. That's fairly significant. That's 8 threads @ 4.6GHz as opposed to the 5930K's 12 threads @ 4.4GHz, which achieves the same result of ~8.5 seconds with it's 850's in Raid 0. Surely the 750 will make a dent then. If I can get the 4790K build down to ~10s on the 750, that would be a great result. I think it may be doable...

Hi @Stefan1024, That's surprising. Hmmm... I might just have to get a 750 and hope for the best. I'm using Visual Studio for .Net based stuff which does use all available threads for builds when allowed to do so. We've already noticed significant gains when adding more threads (hence the 5930K), but the overclock is not helping as it appears compile times are now IOPS bound. A slower 3.6GHz hexacore Xeon is achieving the same build times (found out today) and both machines have the same SDD Raid 0 configuration. Based on your findings I'm no longer certain that the disk will make much of a difference. I'm going to use a RAMDisk and have a look. Thanks for your reply

Awesome thanks for the response. I'd really be interested in the results vs the 850 pro.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here has experienced performance gains using the Intel 750 over a top end SSD like the Samsung 850 Pro? If you have lots of fast cores and one of those I'm thinking parallel builds are just going to fly. My work spec is: Intel 5930K OC'd to 4.4GHz 32GB DDR4 @ 2666 2 x 850 Pros in Raid 0 I'm wondering what impact an Intel 750 might have. If it's really going to make a dent, I'm thinking opting for a 4790K instead for the cost benefit and saving $1000 per machine. I get 4.6GHz easily out of my home 4790K, so the loss of 4 cores with a much faster disk may seem like a worthy trade off for only a little perf hit. Any thoughts welcome ------------- As a matter of interest, we had some "top end" Dells before (Xeon + SSD and whatnot) and compile times for a full build of the entire code base was over a minute. May not sound like a lot but when you're doing it all day it a bloody eternity... Especially when tools like NCrunch are doing it all day long in the background. The spec above does the same build in 20s. Normal builds (not rebuilds which clean everything first) only take 8-10s. AMAZEBALLZ!

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So I reset the CMOS and got the same result. I purchased two NF-F12 PWM fans to replace the DC push and pull CPU fans I currently have. They just worked... go figure. Once I set the fans to PWN in QFan control in the ASUS BIOS, everything just worked. One strange thing though; after my first reboot I decided to go do some tweaking to the fan profile in the BIOS and when I did the profile automatically reset to the "Max" profile which sets the fan to 100%! I backed out and used the ASUS Fan Xpert software instead and it worked (although it did not before). So there may be a bug in the BIOS? Or perhaps the header is slightly damaged but the PWN pin in saving the day? Anyhow, I'm happy. These fans are awesome. Temps are low and its really quiet. Thanks for helping.

Thanks for the reply. I tried a low voltage adapter and the fan failed completely. I got a CPU fan error and didn't reach POST. I connected a top exhaust fan to the CPU header and the CPU fan to fan header 3 (random header exhaust fan was connected to), and the swapped fan stuck at 100% too. The NF-F12, now connected to header 3 slowed down and behaved. So it seems like the CPU fan header is either faulty or trying to treat the fan as PWM (as you suggested @blackadder) and failing or something... I do have the latest BIOS. Perhaps I should clear the CMOS and start again? BTW, this all just worked until I added the new 32Gb RAM kit.

Hi, I have a Asus Z97-A mobo and NZXT Havik cooler with a Noctua NF-F12 (non PWM) push fan. The pull fan is the 140mm NZXT which shipped with the cooler. Had to change for RAM clearance. I have a fan splitter cable to connect the two fans to the CPU fan header. Neither fan is PWM. I bought a 32GB RAM kit and turned everything on, and immediately the NF-F12 fan hit 100%. I tried to use the various pre-baked fan settings in the BIOS to set the fan to "Silent" or any other profile... all to no avail. I also tried using Q-Fan in the BIOS to manually set the temp thresholds and respective fan voltages for the CPU fan header and nothing works. I am now going to try a pair of NF-F12 PWM fans to see if that works. Does anyone have any idea of what's going on here? I don't know if this helps, but previously (just a few days ago) this happened: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/393040-no-post-and-red-cpu-led-when-display-port-monitor-connected/ Does this all point to a larger problem, perhaps power supply? Thanks

I run BF4 ultra settings @1440p no problem on this card. Considering its cost I think that's amazeballs

I got another cable and it's all good. Thanks

Hi all, I got a third monitor (Dell U2412M - 1920x1200) and I have a R9280x. I am currently using the two DVI ports on the card for my existing monitors, a 1920x1080 and a 2560x1440 monitor. The display card has two DVI ports and 4 display ports, so I am using a new display port cable to connect the new monitor. If I plug it in when my PC is off, I get no POST and the cpu LED in red on my Asus Z97-a mobo. I turn the PC off with a hard power off, and remove the display port cable, and the PC boots to POST and I get a "overclocking failed" message. Enter BIOS and exit without changing anything and it reboots just fine to the OS. Every boot without the monitor plugged into the display port works just fine thereafter without any overclocking failure messages or anything like that. I have a 4790K overclocked to 4.6GHz on air, running very respectable temps. Do I need more power? I have a Seasonic G650W PSU. Is my graphics card faulty? Thanks for any help.

Yes the frequency is different. Thanks I'll do it again.