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About ApolloX75

  • Birthday Dec 05, 1986

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Ontario, Canada
  • Interests
    I tinker with various hardware; build boats; restore a classic (to me) car and drive a Camaro a lot. I do a lot of things.
  • Biography
    I worked for an engineering firm building large industrial line production robots. It was pretty awesome, but then became boring. So I went back to building boats. I'm an Electrical Technician by trade and an amateur mechanic as well. I have abandoned my stale marine career and have been invited to join a dealership team as an apprentice, we'll see how this plays out.

    I've been a computer tech both semi-professionally and amateur for the better part of a decade, and I built my first real gaming system in 2000 out of an Athlon Thunderbird and a Diamond Stealth 3.
  • Occupation
    Estimator

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  • CPU
    Intel Core i7 11700K
  • Motherboard
    Strix Z590-A WIFI II
  • RAM
    2x8GB Patriot Viper Steel 4400MHz
  • GPU
    Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC
  • Case
    Corsair 5000D Airflow White
  • Storage
    XPG Gammix S11 1TB x2, SP 1TB SATA, ADATA SU800 1TB SATA
  • PSU
    EVGA 1000W SuperNova
  • Display(s)
    Asus ROG Swift XG27AQ
  • Cooling
    Custom Loop! Corsair XC7, Bykski Gigabyte RTX 3080 Block, Corsair XR7 360, Corsair XR5 240 Rad, Freezemod Pump, Tube Res
  • Keyboard
    Razer Ornata V2
  • Mouse
    Razer Deathadder
  • Sound
    Razer Kraken USB
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Pro X64
  • Phone
    Pixel 6

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  1. ApolloX75
    I have more than a few water blocks bought new (old stock, 780s I bought last month) that have been sitting on the shelf a number of years, none of them have had o-ring issues. Even the ones for my 580s and 780s. Even CPU blocks I have that are old Koolance and Swiftech units work just fine with no signs of drying out and one of them is from 2005. I use Freezemod pumps off Amazon, they're DDC knockoffs and they work like a charm. I've got one going on three years daily use 7-10 hours per day average and it's still pumping strong and quiet. They just go until they don't and they're cheap enough you won't notice. I've used D5's of various makes, they're great but you don't need it.
  2. ApolloX75
    Words to live by in my book.
  3. ApolloX75
    Our competition has heated up quite a bit. Jeffro has thrown in the towel on his X58 attempts realizing his 920 can't match my 975 (even though it's dead, I have the broken spare that actually overclocks better) and has brought in the big guns with an Asus Z87-A and a 4770K, which he is now combining with a pair of 290Xs. Bravo Jeff, taking a note from my playbook. I'm not worried. He managed to overclock the 4770K to 4.6GHz (with my help haha) and has made a little custom loop (his first, aww, using my spare parts of course) to cool it. Respectable. However. The skies are darkening over his short-lived victory dance as my secret weapon has not yet been revealed.... It arrives next week and I shall call it the Jeff Crusher. Also my 780 Ti's are not worried by his 290X reinforcements, as they overclock like mad and run at 24C all day with the Heatkillers on them. Also I can add a third in at will now, I have the stuff to do it. In other news, one of my spare Ti's has bit the dust for now, but I managed to repair the other malfunctioning one. However it dislikes it's stock cooler, I'll find a workaround for that. I also have a Heatkiller IV Pro arriving this week for my secret weapon as my cheapo Amazon blocks likely don't have the surface area or cooling ability to handle what's coming. I have also secured high speed 2400MHz DDR3 with excellent timings to add to the mix. We have both agreed the competition stops here, as we are getting a little nuts and we're both stubborn as hell and don't know when to stop haha. Either way it's going to be a hilarious reveal when he comes down in a couple weekends for the final benchmarks.
  4. ApolloX75
    I remember when I bought my Creative 6x4x24 CD-Writer fondly. I also remember, quite a bit less fondly, how LONG it actually took to write a CD at 4x, let alone 6x.... Good grief that felt like months per disc.
  5. ApolloX75
    OH! My bad luck is back! I received my Z87 Sabertooth board today, the package looked like it had been through the ringer. Looks like customs tore it open and ripped apart the box, took the socket protector off and let it rattle around the board. Bent and broken pins. I know it wasn't the seller, he sent me photos of it being packed and it was very secure. I'm just so down now, I can't fix this easily. I can try replacing the socket but all the caps in the center on 1150 make it even more daunting and I'll probably just ruin it more. The seller is fantastic though, he sent me a full refund right away. I was smart and took pictures as I removed it from the box of course, so that helped my case. The hits just keep on coming, a couple weeks ago I got royally ripped off on FB marketplace, I don't usually use it but a guy in Quebec had a card I wanted and he agreed to ship it, got the tracking from him, etc sent him the money. Well it's been a couple weeks and he doesn't respond to my messages and guess what, no card. My hatred for Quebec continues to burn.
  6. ApolloX75
    Just Firestrike at this point. Last time someone ran it with this combo was 2014, so I'm sitting at top of the charts hahahaha. I'm sure I'll be there for a few years and someone will come along and blast it away again.
  7. ApolloX75
    Ahhhh.... Good news/bad news situation. Good news? I broke another 3D Mark record with the 975 and a pair of 780 Ti's. Sweet. Bad news? I found the max voltage my 975 can take. And it's gone. Time to get another from China I guess, but I also am picking up a six core X5660 on Friday with another Sabertooth X58 board. So I'll have some fun with that as well. Note to self: This jumper baaaaaaad
  8. ApolloX75
    Lol. Broke out the Rockit today. Lapped, delidded and then Conductonaut applied to a 4670K. If she wasn't an overclocker before, she is now. Z87 Sabertooth should be arriving any day now as well. Thermal paste on this little unit was dry as a bone anyways, I tested it real quick in a little H81 board to make sure it worked and just tore it apart afterwards. I can't wait, so excited, haven't played with Haswell in so long and it is by far my favorite platform to overclock on.
  9. ApolloX75
    Well after several late nights, I have a functioning water-blocked pair of reference 780 Ti's that currently overclock higher than a Classy or Gigahertz edition. And run at 24C full tilt while pushing 266W each. And that's with my 975 at stock right now because it's been a bit of a pill to get it cooperating with the Ti's. Tuning that will be tomorrow evening's challenge. Some eye candy.... My first water blocked pair, the second card went bad after a few runs even though they were at 19C and stock clocks. So after troubleshooting that and setting that card aside for some repair work later, I set out testing all four Ti's separately and then together to find who worked with who. The final pair clock amazingly well so far, +201 on the core first try and +400 on the memory. Boost clock is now 1220 and they hold thanks to the stupidly good Heatkiller blocks (and my massive radiators). I will continue tuning these cards as I've barely scratched the surface. I had one Ti that would tap out when it hit 83C, it no longer has that issue with the Heatkiller on it and it's clocking like a champ. Go figure. On the plus side, almost all the regular 780s seem to work fine, but I will need to test further and it's time consuming to swap, firestrike, swap, firestrike, swap..... etc. I am attaching 40mm heatsinks to the backside of the card, to the three VRMs that are on the reverse side, on all the air cooled cards and it's dropping the average temps by almost 10C on average per card.
  10. ApolloX75
    D5 vs DDC, I've used both many times and I've been running Freezemod DDC knockoffs for several years even with no failures. They all work well, soft tube or hardline. Flow meter is an absolute must for a big loop. I use the Aquacomputer NEXT personally and love it.
  11. ApolloX75
    haha, send 'em on over if you don't want 'em. I will happily take a look and use what I can. I imagine those P106 cards would use similar chokes to my reference 780 that needs one, maybe even caps too if I'm lucky. I've got two NOS Heatkiller waterblocks coming for the 780s and I found more I can get. I'm going to have way too much fun with these cards I think.
  12. ApolloX75
    I would love to take those off your hands! Definitely with coolers, I can repurpose them and salvage fans and the like out of them.
  13. ApolloX75
    Wow that hot plate was worth every penny. So all four 780 Ti's work fine now save an issue with one shutting down when it hits 83C. They're founders coolers so they suck, I'll waterblock that one and see how it reacts. They all hit 83C, just one doesn't like it. All the 780s so far work fine. In fact thanks to my hot air and hot plate I was able to salvage a choke off the exploded card and transfer it to the one 780 that would not boot, it had a cracked choke by the power delivery. That card works perfectly now. Edit: 9/10 ain't bad. That's a win in my books. And I'm reasonably sure that if I can salvage the right cap and another choke from some other card, I can fix the fireball 780 too and make it 10 for 10.
  14. ApolloX75
    I have one I'll be putting it to work tonight on a few of the cards just working with the cores. I like having the oven to do the complete board just in case it's an area I overlook. I even have a hot plate to preheat the PCB.
  15. ApolloX75
    I now have to bake 9 cards. They all seem to boot into Windows for the most part, but most fail to load their drivers, this is the same behavior exhibited by my 580s, 5850s, 470s, etc that all were saved by baking. So I am relatively unconcerned, at least about 8 of them. I am gonna order a damn toaster oven so I don't have to use my actual oven to bake a bunch of cards one after the other though. This is going to be time consuming. Good thing I've got a lot of thermal pads to spare now thanks to sales.
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