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okay well, a 1070 ti is an older, less efficient gpu, and may have been drawing more power. Call a local computer shop and ask if they have a tester in their workshop.

if booting like that caused a failure, those components were likely faulty. I'd hold off on any kind of repair and wait until you contact asus; 3rd party repairs might cause issues with your warranty, unless best buy promises to replace the board.

so I just dropped the voltage to 1.3 volts, and i've run cinebench R20 five times. Seems stable, though I did try 1.275 volts, and it quit half way through, then I ran again and there was a BSOD. I tried a few ranges between 1.275 and landed on 1.3, which has dropped the average temp down 52 ~ 53 degrees C; about 4 degrees less than before. No core goes above 58 degrees C during a five run streak of cinebench.
 
I'm scoring between 1797 and 1803 pretty consistently.

1.35v is the Intel recommended max vCore, community-based testing says 1.40-1.45v is fine as a daily for 32nm 1366 chips. 2011 chips will take similar voltages without issue, they're on the excellent (clocks/voltage wise) Sandy/Ivy arches. 2011v3 chips are much better off at 1.35v (especially for Broadwell-E as it's first gen 14nm and doesn't take voltage well), though I've seen people claim they had no issues running 1.4v through Haswell-E. 2066 I don't have much experience with, AFAIK it's better to stick around 1.35v for heat reasons but they should be fine up to 1.4v? But they're also mesh chips and much higher core counts so they work a lil differently. 

in the expansive frozen wastes of canada, we still use nehalems as space heaters

in the expansive frozen wastes of canada, we still use nehalems as space heaters

remember, these are canadian neo-pesos, and I bought the 980x and X5690 right when ryzen 1st gen came out, so these six core chips were still considered a good value for that price.

yes, the secret is to overpay for old NVMe drives that have a built in legacy boot rom. That's why modern NVMe's don't boot on old systems, they only support UEFI boot. I bought 4 samsung 950 PRO drives for hobby and tinkering stuff. I've got 3 512GB, and one 256GB drive. I was planning on setting up a RAID with redundancy with the 512's, but I learned that you need an NVMe adapter with it's own bifurcation chipset when you're on motherboards/CPUs that don't have that feature. Those cards start at 400CAD, and that's for weird chinese brands you've never heard of.
 
I managed to grab all 3 from one seller for about 500CAD, the first one was 200, but the seller sold me his remaining two for 300. The 256 came as part of a bundle of used parts, about 120 bucks with a WD black 1TB that the seller shipped LOOSE IN A BOX WITH NO PACKING. NVMe works fine, but the WD black was DOA, seller gave me back a 20 bucks for the bad drive.
 
Warning, the prices for those NVMe drives have gone up considerably since I bought mine about 2 years ago. I think plextor made an NVMe drive with legacy boot rom, but I have never found one for sale online.
 
*edit*
950 PROs are totally plug and play, no tinkering, they are detected as IDE devices by the motherboard. As far as I can tell from benchmarks, they do not perform as best as they can, but they are still wicked fast for the X58 platform.

ebay is full of jabroni's like that. he wasn't a bad dude, genuinely sorry and I was fine with getting 20 bucks back for the bad drive, I was mainly buying it for the NVMe drive. 20 bucks for a used HDD is about the max I would pay anyway. Also, I don't know if I'm breaking any forum rules, but I'd be willing to part with my 256GB drive if you're interested. Shoot me a message and we can work something out.

Setup almost complete!

yes, the secret is to overpay for old NVMe drives that have a built in legacy boot rom. That's why modern NVMe's don't boot on old systems, they only support UEFI boot. I bought 4 samsung 950 PRO drives for hobby and tinkering stuff. I've got 3 512GB, and one 256GB drive. I was planning on setting up a RAID with redundancy with the 512's, but I learned that you need an NVMe adapter with it's own bifurcation chipset when you're on motherboards/CPUs that don't have that feature. Those cards start at 400CAD, and that's for weird chinese brands you've never heard of.
 
I managed to grab all 3 from one seller for about 500CAD, the first one was 200, but the seller sold me his remaining two for 300. The 256 came as part of a bundle of used parts, about 120 bucks with a WD black 1TB that the seller shipped LOOSE IN A BOX WITH NO PACKING. NVMe works fine, but the WD black was DOA, seller gave me back a 20 bucks for the bad drive.
 
Warning, the prices for those NVMe drives have gone up considerably since I bought mine about 2 years ago. I think plextor made an NVMe drive with legacy boot rom, but I have never found one for sale online.
 
*edit*
950 PROs are totally plug and play, no tinkering, they are detected as IDE devices by the motherboard. As far as I can tell from benchmarks, they do not perform as best as they can, but they are still wicked fast for the X58 platform.

yeah, I was gonna tinker around with that stuff, but I figured I'd try the path of least resistance first.

yeah, I'd guess it's the PSU. if you're ever going to spend a lot on a new part, it should be the PSU.

Alright y'all, THE TIME TO OVERCLOCK HAS COME.
 
I just got my be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4, it is rated to dissipate 250 watts of heat. Probably overkill, but I want to use it should I decide to upgrade in the future.
 
My current set up:
Asus Rampage III Formula
i7-980X or Xeon X5690
Cooler Master Hyper 212 (loud AF, only dissipates about 140-150 watts)
24GB DDR3 1600mhz Kingston HyperX
ASUS GTX 1070
512GB Samsung 950 PRO (boot and applications/games)
1TB WD NVMe Sata SSD (fast storage for non-application files
2GB WD Green (ew) for long term storage, (movies, archives, etc.)
Asmedia 106x SATA/RAID Controller PCI-E 2X
M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI (this card has windows 10 native drivers and IT ROCKS)
Seasonic 750W 80+ Titanium PSU
 
My plan is to swap out the venerable but loud hyper 212 for the Dark Rock Pro 4, but I have reached an existential crisis:
Do I try to overclock the 980X with it's unlocked multiplier, or do I install the Xeon X5690?
 
I'm looking to set things up and forget about it until I'm ready to upgrade to a new platform, which option would y'all pick?
 
I've never overclocked before, so I will be asking for help with that as well. Hoping for at least 4Ghz all core.
 
Thanks!

sounds dope!

and it's all back together!! i wanna give a shout out to the single voltage controlled noctua fan I found in my workshop.
 
all in all, I've got two be quiet! pure wings 2 fans pulling air in the front (pwm), a random 240mm molex powered fan on top that I think came with this thermaltake case, a noctua voltage controlled fan pushing air out, 2 80mm cooler master pentium 2 fans forcing air through the chipsets, and the dark rock pro 4, with a 120mm and 135mm silent wings fans.
 
you could say that my computer blows...
 
time to make sure it boots, and then it's time to OVERCLOCK.

this thing is stupid huge I love it!

Alright y'all, THE TIME TO OVERCLOCK HAS COME.
 
I just got my be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4, it is rated to dissipate 250 watts of heat. Probably overkill, but I want to use it should I decide to upgrade in the future.
 
My current set up:
Asus Rampage III Formula
i7-980X or Xeon X5690
Cooler Master Hyper 212 (loud AF, only dissipates about 140-150 watts)
24GB DDR3 1600mhz Kingston HyperX
ASUS GTX 1070
512GB Samsung 950 PRO (boot and applications/games)
1TB WD NVMe Sata SSD (fast storage for non-application files
2GB WD Green (ew) for long term storage, (movies, archives, etc.)
Asmedia 106x SATA/RAID Controller PCI-E 2X
M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI (this card has windows 10 native drivers and IT ROCKS)
Seasonic 750W 80+ Titanium PSU
 
My plan is to swap out the venerable but loud hyper 212 for the Dark Rock Pro 4, but I have reached an existential crisis:
Do I try to overclock the 980X with it's unlocked multiplier, or do I install the Xeon X5690?
 
I'm looking to set things up and forget about it until I'm ready to upgrade to a new platform, which option would y'all pick?
 
I've never overclocked before, so I will be asking for help with that as well. Hoping for at least 4Ghz all core.
 
Thanks!

and it's all back together!! i wanna give a shout out to the single voltage controlled noctua fan I found in my workshop.
 
all in all, I've got two be quiet! pure wings 2 fans pulling air in the front (pwm), a random 240mm molex powered fan on top that I think came with this thermaltake case, a noctua voltage controlled fan pushing air out, 2 80mm cooler master pentium 2 fans forcing air through the chipsets, and the dark rock pro 4, with a 120mm and 135mm silent wings fans.
 
you could say that my computer blows...
 
time to make sure it boots, and then it's time to OVERCLOCK.

this thing is stupid huge I love it!

this thing is stupid huge I love it!

well then, sounds like I'm gonna stick with the 980X. if it gets cooked, I'll move on to the Xeon.

sounds like for me (a beginner overclocker) the unlocked multiplier will make things a lot easier for me.

Alright y'all, THE TIME TO OVERCLOCK HAS COME.
 
I just got my be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4, it is rated to dissipate 250 watts of heat. Probably overkill, but I want to use it should I decide to upgrade in the future.
 
My current set up:
Asus Rampage III Formula
i7-980X or Xeon X5690
Cooler Master Hyper 212 (loud AF, only dissipates about 140-150 watts)
24GB DDR3 1600mhz Kingston HyperX
ASUS GTX 1070
512GB Samsung 950 PRO (boot and applications/games)
1TB WD NVMe Sata SSD (fast storage for non-application files
2GB WD Green (ew) for long term storage, (movies, archives, etc.)
Asmedia 106x SATA/RAID Controller PCI-E 2X
M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI (this card has windows 10 native drivers and IT ROCKS)
Seasonic 750W 80+ Titanium PSU
 
My plan is to swap out the venerable but loud hyper 212 for the Dark Rock Pro 4, but I have reached an existential crisis:
Do I try to overclock the 980X with it's unlocked multiplier, or do I install the Xeon X5690?
 
I'm looking to set things up and forget about it until I'm ready to upgrade to a new platform, which option would y'all pick?
 
I've never overclocked before, so I will be asking for help with that as well. Hoping for at least 4Ghz all core.
 
Thanks!

Awesome, let us know how it turns out! I've been interested in DUET for a while, I'd like to know what kind of performance you get, and whether or not it permits for a hands-off, silent boot. Does DUET require a certain size of usb drive? Does the drive need to be connected to a specific USB port, like on the motherboard? Or will it work with an expansion card. I have a bunch of pci usb cards with internal usb headers, I think it would be cool to have the usb stick inside the case.
 
Unrelated question, I'm started to get bothered by the noise my cooler makes. I'm thinking about a Be Quiet! Product, but I'm stuck on which TDP to use. Intel's description of TDP is confusing, so I have no idea how many watts of heat a 980x will put out. I know it's rated at 130w, but that is not indicative of how hot it will get under load or overclocked. Would a cooler with 150 watt TDP be effective? Or should I shoot for 200 if I plan to overclock to around 4ghz?
 
Also, I saw some people posting their builds, so here's mine!