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  1. That’s what I’m leaning towards. There are a few hurdles I need to overcome first with the cooler itself but I’m definitely leaning towards a custom loop at this point. In the meantime, would it be acceptable to run the 1080ti without the backplate and without heatsink cooling on the VRAM/Mosfets/VRM’s if I install the 1080ti into the Kraken G12 bracket?
  2. So I’ve recently acquired an Aorus 1080ti Xtreme for a pretty good price that came with a full EKWB waterplate attached, and no stock cooling parts. My initial plan was to use the Kraken G12 bracket and X72 I have currently attached to my 980ti, but after a little searching I found out that unlike the 980ti the 1080ti doesn’t have a separate VRAM/Mosfet/etc cooling plate, and as mentioned above it doesn’t have the stock cooling backplate either. I don’t have full confidence in my abilities or knowledge to attach generic cooling solutions to the appropriate components (also seeing that the only tutorials for doing so are on EVGA 1080ti’s with different layouts) so I’m a little unsure of what my next step should be. I’d imagine the easiest solution would be to keep the EKWB attached and just install a custom loop, but that also worries me a bit as I’ve never done one. Do I just cut my losses, sell the water cooling components and search for a loose stock cooler? Or is there a potential solution I’m not seeing? I’m willing to try anything as long as there’s some sort of reference for doing so.
  3. May have figured out the issue, my memory model (CMK16GX4M4A2400C14R) is apparently not supported in 8 dimm config on this board per Asus memory support page for this board. honestly had no idea this kind of a resource even existed. https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA2011/X99-A/X99_Series_DRAM_QVL0603.pdf
  4. bios reset multiple times, I’m gonna try reseating the CPU tomorrow see if that fixes it.
  5. i did do the config as suggested on the board, but only just noticed the the layout. I slotted the dimms in numerically by suffix serial number correlating to their kit (36, 37, 38, 39/40,41,42,43) and then seated them in according to the alphanumeric slot (A1/36, B1/37, C1/38, D1/39, A2/40, B2/41, C2/42, D2/43). After attempting this only C1/C2, D1/D2 show as populated. Any other ideas?
  6. Regardless, I did find the correct config for the channels, I’m gonna see if arranging the dimms alphanumerically will do anything
  7. Picked up a couple of used X99 boards bundles recently, swapped parts I wanted and sold off the rest. When I installed what I thought was a 32gb kit (8x4gb) I found out that it was actually two 16gb (4x4gb) kits and the Asus X99 Deluxe II (i7-5960x) board I kept doesn’t recognize both kits installed simultaneously. Both kits are fully functioning, and all memory slots are detected (double checked all of this) but the computer just doesn’t recognize both kits being socketed in. The kits are identical (Corsair LPX 2133mhz 16gb) I just can’t figure out what might be causing the issue. It’s my understanding that this is a quad channel motherboard so maybe I’m misunderstanding the order the dimms go in. I assumed it was a kit mixing issue and looked for a 16gb (8x2gb) kit but found out through searching a while that these either don’t exist are are incredibly hard to find. Tried a few “fixes” I found but couldn’t get it figured out, I’m gonna start from square one and assume I haven’t tried anything yet. Am I missing something really obvious here? TLDR: Picked up an Asus X99 Deluxe II motherboard, have two working 16gb (4x4) 2133mhz Corsair LPX memory kits that don’t want to work when plugged in together. Am I attempting the impossible? Am I misunderstanding what order the kits should go in? Open to solutions.
  8. I dunno if this is the right forum to post this in, but I'm curious if I can use this for anything other than a remote server/remote storage rig. I have a Dell T610 socket 1366 server currently running: - Dual Xeon X5550 2.6ghz (3ghz boost) (4 cores 8 threads, 8 cores 16 threads) - 24gb 1066mhz ECC - Perc H700 raid setup with 1gb cache - 1tb 2.5in 5400rpm HDD (Windows 10 Pro) (temporary as I have no HDD's for the raid setup yet) - 860w proprietary PSU In its current setup, it's not capable of doing much except for acting as a very limited server. I have a few things in the works, such as a couple Xeon X5672 cpu's coming in (3.2ghz, 3.6ghz boost) which should see a pretty hefty speed increase as well as a few 2tb HDD's down the road when I can get them a little cheaper through work. In terms of additional upgrades I'm kinda stuck. The mobo only has 5 PCIe x8 Gen 2, lanes 2 of which operate at x8 while the others operate at x4. The manual suggests that the lanes only get supplied with 25w, but what I'm seeing is that that's apparently only a suggestion due to the limited space the chassis has as well as heating concerns, and that they actually get supplied with upwards of 75w. But I have no way of testing that until I get a GPU to try that with. I could upgrade the Mobo to a T710 instead, as they are rather inexpensive and it provides me with a true x16 PCIe lane, but again according to the manual "it only gets 25w". But would a GT 710/GT 730 function fine in this case for a graphics driver for higher resolutions? I'm currently only able to run a 4:3 monitor stably. On top of that, I've also run a few recording runs using OBS trying to see what some of the results are, and I've only gotten black screens at all resolutions. Though in native 4:3 the load is much lower with no overload, but the video still comes out with a black screen. So is there anything I can do to make this into more of a workstation? From the few posts I've come across online there is some success, though followups to said posts are pretty few and far between and I can't be certain. If I can do something along those lines I'd love to as I happen to actually have 2 of these and I definitely don't need 2 NAS servers.
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