ThiefZero

Update
Big announcement guys!

The Build is finished and already on its way to Dreamhack Leipzig, Germany where it will be showcased at the ASUS booth. Such a great honour to me!
The first little wave of final pics is online, there will be more when i receive the system again
But first i have some shots of the building process, please excuse that i only took them with my smartphone.















Now, let me show you the first pics of the final build









A big thanks to ASUS for supporting and showcasing this project, it is a honor to create a build for such a company! I also want to thank my other sponsors, CoolForce for their great fittings, tubes, rigid UV LED strips and the unique mixed UV dye, BitFenix Deutschland for the orange Fans and LED strips and my friend Matthias aka ModdingStylez for the decals, tools and for supporting me since i started casemodding! And Thanks to nubcustoms.com for creating these awesome GPU backplats!

Stay tuned for more pics

Man typing all my specs, parts and what not is just too much... I am a very lazy guy with way too much to do :D, so here is a link to the list I made on PCpartpicker if you are interested about the build... the overall finished product has changed just slightly but the pc itself still the same.
 
 

for test - 26 Degree Celcius Ambient temp indoors.

Cyprus

Here are the Results.
Case Look had to move gpu one slot down back plate heat sink touches the ram slot clips but since i wont do sli or use any expansion cards i am ok now my case looks full

 
 
GTX 1080TI Accelereto IV Default Fan Profile - Firestrike Ultra Stress Test
 

 
 
GTX 1080TI Accelereto IV Max Fan Profile - Firestrike Ultra Stress Test
 

 
so far it looks and cools great and even at max fan speed its completely silent next to case fans and compared to stock ... no please

Update. The Beast is Here. Took me 1 hour to install with care.
 
They had more than enough thermal pads - used them all no chip left behind
 
 

Or, you could read Apple's statement rejecting the claims, and realize that the report is mostly speculative (we didn't get the performance we assumed we'd get here... conspiracy!).
 
Seriously, folks: don't just read an article uncritically.  Just because it's in Bloomberg and has graphs doesn't mean it's the absolute truth.

First, specifying -u origin master every time is unnecessary. -u is short of --set-upstream, which you only need to do the first time out push a new local tracking branch.
 
Instead, I recommend this:
git config --global push.default simple Then you can simply run:
git push When adding new files, use short version of git add flag:
git add -A If you're in the top-level directory of your repository, you can just run:
git add . When working with files that are already tracked, you can add and commit in one step with the -a flag (--all):
git commit -am "message" So to recap, your workflow can be simplified to:
git commit -am "message" && git push As others have suggested, you can access git commands more easily by creating Bash aliases or even a function in your .bashrc.
 
Happy coding.

By popular demand, i bring you the ultimate, most utterly good, extremely helpfull, full of usefull info,
(ran out of atributes) guide on how to properly set up Speedfan, with the option to turn your fans completely off,
just like Linus' M-Cubed T- Balancer.
 
 
 
Where to download:  http://www.almico.com/speedfan449.exe
 
Please watch it on youtube, so you can like and subscribe if you want to
 

 
 
Here is the written version, a little bit longer than the one in the video:
 
   1.  First off, you wanna download the installer, from almico.com/speedfan.php. After that is ready, open it, it installs very easy, next next next style, and then open it.
 
   2.  This guide will include how to set the fans up to a temp curve, and also how to completely turn them off. This was the feature i was looking for, because maximum silence.
 
   3.  In order to do this, you wanna set the control to manual, then turn all the fans down except one. This way you will be able to identify them, and rename accordingly in the *fans* tab.

 
   4. Then you should head on to the advanced tab, and check that the motherboard fan controlling hardware is selected properly. Also, manual mode must be selected for the pwm controlling options.

 
   5. After this, you will need to set the minimum value at which the fans should spin, and the max one in the *speeds* tab.
 
   6. Next up, you gotta open the *Fan Control* tab and set up a curve for each and every fan. Be carefull to select the mobo controlling hardware and according CPU temp probe, Speedfan recognises all the temp sensors and headers in your PC.


   7. Then, after all this is done, start a stressfull application, like Prime95, Aida64 system tester or intel burn test, to raise the temps and verify that the controlling suite works.
 
   8. After that, all you need to do is go in the startup folder ( C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup) and create a shortcut to Speedfan. Credits for this go to @cooperred (sorry i think i pronounced you name wrong in the video, still a shoutout tho ), thanks alot for this tip, it's been very helpfull.
 
Well guys, that's all, thanks for having a look at this guide, share it with anybody that is looking for something like this, also feel free to message me regarding any guides that you wanna see, through youtube message, or on facebook, my name is Vlad Nicula, or on twitter, @Techmorfy.

Bingo! Most PCBs for motherboards and components are typically 3 layers, and there will be traces between the layers to connect things together. As such, @Zanderlinde, trying to use solder will probably only make the situation worse, and you will risk compromising your motherboard in the process since you could end up shorting something. Declare it a loss and move on. $650+ lesson learned.

Even if you didn't hit any circuits on the surface(visible to the eye), you may have drilled through circuits that are within the PCB itself, which often times are layered.

I did something stupid, haha.
 
Recently bought a Zotac 980ti Amp GPU.  It worked fine. Gamed on it for a few days before realizing my processor sucked. So i switched my mobo to a z170 and i7 skylake.  
 
So here's what I did wrong. The heatsink for the Zotac card is huge, and doesnt fit in my custom case I made out of steel. So I bought a Corsair bracket to utilize a Corsair Hydro water cooler.
One of the holes on the card didn't line up with the hole on the bracket. (Design flaw I think.) And the screw needs to be there, or else the card bends when you screw down the water pump to the card.
So I masked off the card, and put it in my drill press and moved the hole just a tiny bit in. From what I can tell, I didnt drill through any circuits on the card. But now when I use the card on my brand new motherboard, The monitor won't boot. (keyboard and mouse both stay lit up, and the gpu fan is getting power) I know the board is fine, because I tested another gpu on it, and tested the 980ti on my friends board. (same problem).

I realize that I probly broke it, Just looking for other possible scenarios.  You can all mock me if you wish. Thanks! 
 
http://www.corsair.com/en-ca/hydro-series-hg10-n980-gpu-liquid-cooling-bracket

k a few things
 
1) PCBs of computer components are not double sided, they usually have 5-10 layers
even if there are no traces on the surface there will pretty much always be some underneath
 
2) the card was 100% dead the moment you drilled that hole, there is no way to repair that kind of damage
everyone saying it could be repaired is wrong
 
3) putting the screwdriver in there was quite dangerous, you could have killed your motherboard or CPU too
 
4) snapping the card in half just prevents someone from putting a nice GPU on their wall
the card was impossible to repair in the first place, so snapping it cant make it worse
 
5) make a keychain out of the GPU die?  I see people doing it with CPUs but not GPUs

It takes a fair bit of time, but I do love doing it. Unwrapping everything and putting it together, then pressing the power button for the first time...
 
and see it not boot.
 
Can't put a price tag on that  !

Hey guys,
 
Which is the best of the 3 and why would you choose it?
 
Thanks!

Classy and HOF cards are both some of the best cards you can get for overclocking, but you run them at stock you will get a damn good life span out of them as well as them looking great. I got my first Classy a month ago and its impressed me enough to get one for maxwell when the time comes.

It’s high time to start shutting down some of these myths. There have been too many poorly written and misleading articles published on various tech “news” websites, generating hype out of nothing. Pascal is entirely focused on HPC (high-performance compute, a.k.a. supercomputers and servers) and NVIDIA hasn’t said so much as a word about gaming. But at every turn people keep trying as hard as they can to interpret every statement as "amazing for gamers!", and every time NVIDIA specifically says “compute performance” the words somehow turn into “gaming performance” in people’s minds, leading to a lot of false impressions and expectations. I'm not saying Pascal won't have amazing gaming performance. I'm saying we have no information about Pascal's gaming performance so far. Pascal might be great for gaming, it might be rubbish. NVIDIA has said nothing on the topic, basically none of what they've said so far is really applicable to gaming.

But anyway... let’s get busting!

"10× the Performance of Maxwell GM200!"

"NVLink!"

"8-Way SLI!"

"32 GiB of Memory!"

"HBM2 (3D Memory)!"

The things NVIDIA has actually claimed specifically:
NVLink will be useful as a replacement for PCI Express in supercomputers, and will have 80 GB/s of total bandwidth shared between the CPU and the number of GPUs in the system. (NVIDIA developer blog) NVLink can be used as a GPU-GPU interconnect without replacing PCIe as the system interconnect, which provides great benefit for HPC and multi-GPU accelerated computing algorithms. No word on what this means for regular desktop cards and multi-GPU gaming. (NVIDIA developer blog) 2× the power efficiency (performance per watt) in SGEMM operations compared to Maxwell GM200; that’s a bit out of my depth so I don’t know how relevant that is to gaming applications, but I do think it’s important to notice that NVIDIA was very specific not to claim 2× power efficiency just as a general statement, so it probably won’t be, otherwise they would have just said that. (slide from keynote) 4× FP16 performance in mixed precision mode compared to Maxwell GM200; not really relevant for gaming, though it could mean the FP32 performance of Pascal is 2× that of Maxwell, this is only speculation so I don't know why I'm even mentioning it in this section (slide from keynote) Very roughly 10× the overall throughput for deep learning problems compared to Maxwell GM200 (slide from keynote) Up to 32 GiB of 3D memory (HBM) in highest-end cards (and not necessarily highest-end GeForce cards) (slide from keynote) Up to 3× the memory bandwidth of Maxwell GM200 (so, ≈1 TB/s) (slide from keynote) 8 GPUs in a future Pascal-based deep learning devkit (SLI not mentioned) (end of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdNRqZSRgfA)
So, I don’t mean to dampen the mood or say Pascal won’t be great, not at all; the reality is we have absolutely no idea how Pascal will be for gaming, there’s been no information about that topic yet. It might be only a marginal improvement, it might be totally amazing. Everything we’ve heard so far is about compute capabilities. As much as the sensationalist “news” sites across the web want to make it seem like all these things are applicable to gaming, they simply aren’t. So far the Pascal architecture seems to be entirely centered around high-performance compute and accelerated computing.

We’ll see what kind of gaming performance Pascal brings to the table in due time. For now, just sit back, relax, and be careful of what you read on the Internet.

Full GTC 2015 Keynote:

GTC 2016 Update:
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/

NVIDIA has released specifications for the GP100 GPU ("Big Pascal"), as well as the NVIDIA Tesla P100, a compute acceleration module which will use the GP100 GPU.
 
Specifications of the GP100 GPU include:
3840 FP32 cores, 1920 FP64 cores (1/2 FP32) Cores are arranged in to 60 groups of cores called SMs, with 64 FP32 cores and 32 FP64 cores in each group 240 texture units (4 per SM) 4096-bit HBM2 memory interface (8 × 512-bit) 4 MiB L2 cache 15.3 billion transistors 610 mm2 die area Manufactured by TSMC on a 16 nm fabrication process Specifications for the Tesla P100 compute accelerator include:
A GP100 GPU with 4 SMs disabled (56 out of 60 enabled), for a total of 3584 FP32 cores active (1792 FP64 cores) A 1328 MHz base frequency and 1480 MHz boost frequency 224 texture units enabled Up to 16 GiB of HBM2 DRAM on a full 4096-bit memory interface 300 watt TDP 5.3 FP64 TFLOPs at boost frequency (3× compared to Kepler GK110's 1.7 TFLOPs, and 25× compared to Maxwell GM200's pathetic 0.2 TFLOPs) With FP64 = 1/2 FP32, this implies 10.6 TFLOPs in theoretical FP32 performance, which is 16% faster than the theoretical performance of a Maxwell GM200 GPU at equal frequency (1.4 GHz), and 72% faster than a 1.0 GHz Maxwell GM200 GPU (TITAN X stock frequency). Also keep in mind that this is with only 56 out of 60 SMs enabled.  

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I'm starting to think they all do, but some people are just not as sensitive to it or play less demanding games on 60 fps.
 
Really contemplating about rolling the dice myself though. Thanks for the review.

Thanks! I allready noticed that v-sync helped and I have it enabled on most games. Even on gta 5 I have the v-sync halfed because I'd rather have smooth 30FPS and it lowers the sound just a bit. I will also google some stuff. thanks!

Sorry if this is a repost.
 
https://www.humblebundle.com/
 
On the homepage you get four Capcom games for only one dollar.
 
I bought it for Strider, which is an AMAZING platformer that I think everyone should give a try. It's a great game, completely worth it for the one dollar. Also, it's even better if you have a controller.
 

After many months of saving money, I was able to purchase this card to replace my 660 Ti SLI setup. When I bought it, I wasn't sure if it was going to make any discernible difference in gaming performance.






Pleasantly enough, this card blew my previous cards out of the water. With a 1080p monitor this destroys any game I throw at it, with the exception of ultra-modded Skyrim and Total War Attila. I have not tested it with a 1440p monitor but I am confident that it would run well at that resolution.

Games I've tested: Witcher 3, Star Wars Battlefront 3, Skyrim, Garry's Mod, Europa Universalis 4, Just Cause 2, Chivalry Medieval Warfare, Far Cry 4, Dying Light, Mount and Blade: Warband, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Total War Rome 2, Total War Attila, and Kerbal Space Program.

Alright, let's get to the list of pros and cons.

Pros:
-Amazing Gaming Performance at 1920x1080p resolution
-Much better cooling than reference 980 Ti (Runs at load 70C-74C whereas reference runs 83C-86C) due to ACX fans
-Amazing EVGA Customer Support
-3 year warranty
-Warranty covers overclocking
-Came with extra 8 and 6 pin connectors that I actually needed for my PSU
-Runs silent when not gaming
-Very small premium on card for extra cooling and factory overclock
-Clock speed reached 1272 MHz without any manual overclocking
-Changeable LED name color
-Card looks great

Cons:
-Loud under load (coil whine)
-Not the best for overclocking, could only push it to 1400MHz before experiencing problems (silicon lottery)
-Packaging had no foam, only plastic
-Power draw (250 Watts)


Neutral:
-Card is very large, will not fit in some cases
-Accidentally tore off warranty sticker on card because I could barely read it, had to put it back on

Overall, I am very happy with my purchase. The card's pros outweigh the cons and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to purchase a premium 980 Ti card without shattering the bank.
 
8.5/10