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Oh yep, when is the approx. ETA? Does anyone know? I had a quick attempt at overclocking the 980 last night, it seemed to go really well however I'll be having another go tonight. I was hitting over 1500MHz on the boost clock at stock voltages/power levels with no artifacts through a run of Furmark. What sort of results have you guys had with 980 overclocks?

Nah the custom loop wont be coming over to the new build, it's my brothers computer but I still get to maintain it I felt like a bit of a change and my brother needed a new gaming pc, so he subsidised the new build, win-win I'm not used to the high load temps on the gpu though! The 980 gets high 70's on air under 100% whilst the 7970 in the previous build would not get past 50.

Hi everyone! So after an initial disaster with accidently frying my new motherboards fan headers and getting a replacement, I've got the new rig up and running! I'm going from a custom water cooling set up on the Z68 platform to a H110 setup just on the CPU. I was wanting a setup where I can easily upgrade and change parts..not that easy with my previous build. My brother has taken the Z68 build off me and I've got the new one B) See the photos at the bottom of this post. Motherboard: Asus X99-A CPU: 5820k using Corsair H110 RAM: 16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance GPU: Asus GTX 980 SSD: 1TB Samsung 840 Evo HDD: 1TB WD Green PSU: Corsair AX860i OS: Windows 8.1 Currently everything is running at stock. My CPU cores idle in the low 20's and the graphics card at about 30. Overclocking will happen very soon The plan is to get another 980 when they drop in price B) I'm sorry about the quality of the photos, camera phone + bad lighting :wacko: Previous build:

New motherboard arrived today! B) I'll post pics of the new X99 build tonight.

I'll take a look again and get back to you. I feel so stupid that I didn't take more care. I'm guessing it must have something to do with the fan headers as it caused them all to stop working.

But the CPU_OPT header has four pins, there is a 3-pin connection directly beneath that, this is the one that did the damage. The manual doesn't seem to make reference to this one.

Does anyone know what that 3-pin I connected the PWM fan hub into was?

The X99-A still has white trim on the heatsinks but they are just a little bigger on the Deluxe. The Deluxe also has a white shielding over the rear IO.

Yeah, just a reference photo. It is the same photo off the Asus website on the X99-A page. Those pins up the top are exactly the same though. I am so hoping it hasn't caused any problems to any other components connected to the board. There were things such as a 5820k, GTX980, 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM etc..

So it appears I may have fried my new motherboards fan headers I've got more fans that I do fan headers so I purchased a Phanteks PWM fan hub so I could plug my front 3x 120mm fans into it and then I plugged that into a fan header. The instructions also mentioned that I needed to get a 12v connection from the PSU for it to have enough power. The issue I was having however is that it was running at 100% RPM and I couldn't change it. I tried it in the CPU and CPU OPT headers but still the same scenario, then I noticed a 3-pin just below the 4-pin CPU OPT header. I plugged it into this, turned on the computer, the power light on the front of the PC flickered a lot, I heard a very faint pop and I immediately turned the power off. Now the board still powers up but none of the fans connected to any of the fan headers are working, except the CPU fan header that appears to be running. I know I should have investigated further as to what that 3-pin connector was I've read somewhere that it is some 3-pin Over Voltage (OV) header or something?? What does this mean and what is it supposed to do other than fry your motherboard fan headers I am going to seek a replacement board however I think I'm also going to go down the route of a fan controller. As I'm not 100% keen on splitting a single header

I just purchased a Corsair Air540 and was quite surprised to find that the side panel window is not completely flat but bubbles/bows outwards. Is this normal?? I'm not completely happy with it to be honest.

Sorry I mean, how do you tell whether a gpu will still get maximum performance out of a 8x slot?

Is there any information anywhere that advises how many lanes a particular gpu will use?

Thank you so much for the prompt replies! It puts my mind at ease Now to wait for my stuff to arrive

Hi everyone! I've ordered a whole lot of parts for my new build however after further researching I'd like to clarify a couple of concerns I have. 1.) Will the 28 pcie lanes on the 5820k negatively impact a two way sli (980's) config a great deal? 2.) On all three Haswell-E CPU'S it states a max memory freq of 2133 however I've ordered 2666 Corsair Dominator Platinums. Will my memory really be limited to 2133? Sorry if this is a stupid question.