Z68/GTX 1080ti build

[AMDMike]

when I first got into pcs z68 was new, at the time I was young and couldn’t afford to play with it, so here I am now building and modding this system.

 

The build so far; 

-Maximus IV gene-z/gen3 Z68

-i7 3770

-EVGA 1080

-16gb patriot ram

-250gb crucial ssd 

-2tb wd black 

-Noctua NH-L12S 

-EVGA 650W psu 

-currently in a Lenovo case 

 

I do plan to make some changes. 

 

-Fractal meshify C mini

 

-EVGA 1000W 

 

-storage may change 

 

-may swap to x79 eventually 

pc is running very well, and handling starfield low at 1080. 

 

will continue to update this as it progresses, not a lot of people interested in Z68/Z77 anymore 

 

[filpo]

8 minutes ago, AMDMike said:

EVGA 1000W 

 

-storage may change 

 

-may swap to x79 eventually 

 

this whole project has been about building what I wanted when I was younger. Being the 1155 platform was my first build 

what's your budget for the whole upgrade (not including the case cost since you've already ordered it)

[AMDMike]

2 minutes ago, filpo said:

what's your budget for the whole upgrade (not including the case cost since you've already ordered it)

No real budget just picking away at it, finding whatever catches my interest. Once it’s done I’d like to be all ssd storage, 4tb at least, maybe x79, two 1080s or a 2080, for fun this system itself is more of a hobby than using it honestly. 

[AMDMike]

I should have posted this to build logs! I completely forgot that topic was there 

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, AMDMike said:

No real budget just picking away at it, finding whatever catches my interest. Once it’s done I’d like to be all ssd storage, 4tb at least, maybe x79, two 1080s or a 2080, for fun this system itself is more of a hobby than using it honestly. 

Oh so you're not looking for upgrade advice

 

1 minute ago, AMDMike said:

I should have posted this to build logs! I completely forgot that topic was there 

No problem. You're relatively new so one of the mods should move it shortly 

[AMDMike]

3 minutes ago, filpo said:

Oh so you're not looking for upgrade advice

 

No problem. You're relatively new so one of the mods should move it shortly 

Yeah mainly just having fun messing with hardware lol, love the 1155 and 2011 platforms,  I have 3 total as of now 

[Spakes]

9 minutes ago, AMDMike said:

No real budget just picking away at it, finding whatever catches my interest. Once it’s done I’d like to be all ssd storage, 4tb at least, maybe x79, two 1080s or a 2080, for fun this system itself is more of a hobby than using it honestly. 

Yeah, don't go SLI route. It's dead af. Also x79 will be hella slow in modern games due to lower IPC count. Or, shall I say, not much faster than 3770. Don't waste your money, go for Ryzen 2nd gen and 3060 (it's close to 2080 while may cost the same or even less).

[AMDMike]

1 minute ago, Spakes said:

Yeah, don't go SLI route. It's dead af. Also x79 will be hella slow in modern games due to lower IPC count. Or, shall I say, not much faster than 3770. Don't waste your money, go for Ryzen 2nd gen and 3060 (it's close to 2080 while may cost the same or even less).

The fun of it is messing with these old systems, I do not wish to build another Ryzen system as I have one. (5800x/6700xt)

[Somerandomtechyboi]

41 minutes ago, AMDMike said:

EVGA 1000W 

Why?

Pretty pointless upgrading the psu if you dont have to

 

42 minutes ago, AMDMike said:

this whole project has been about building what I wanted when I was younger. Being the 1155 platform was my first build 

neat

a non k 3770 seems kinda odd though you can simply just raise the multiplier by 4 since theres limited unlock where you can raise multi by 4 on sandy and ivy then add abit of bclk ontop, usually 105 is acheivable but you may have a good cpu thats capable of >108 on air

 

Imo if you build on an old platform like that youd probs wanna fully max it out with some absolutely ridicolous overclocks

 

 

when i started getting into pcs around 2018 for whatever reason my dream system was x58, maybe its something to do with being able to run pretty good ocs on it or just the charm of an old system being a ryzen killer

 

2022 finally got my first taste of 1366 with a p6t deluxe v2 and x5660, sold as broken got for 20$ but turns out the main pcie x16 slot was dirty hence no display, can tell that it posted simply because i have a pci debug card that displays postcodes, obligatory boot into bios at 5ghz within 2 hours of getting the thing =p, dissapointed with the xeon though because 3rd core is a flaming pile of garbage and the imc is complete dogshit (doesnt run over 2200 ddr3) so after awhile just got bored of it and when i had the chance to sell it off i sold it off for 24$ + a crappy msi h55 and x3440

 

After getting a broken x58a ud3r that needs its bios resoldered (which i havent done yet still) alongside a dud p6x58d-e that wont bclk properly i recently got this x58a ud3r for 25$ (x58 depreciated a ton since 2022) and just for shits and giggles and cause im too lazy to take that x5650 out of the p6x58de decided to put an i7 950 for testing, i figured that i probs couldnt get it to run >2000 ddr3 cause of that 1:2 memclk uncore bullshit but apparently thats just something asus boards force, giga ignores that rule and welp i can clock rams, i wasnt expecting much more than 2600 but boy it hit 2900 before hardwalling

 

put in a spare i7 930 to test see if its amobo or cpu hardwall turns out it was a cpu hardwall and i managed to boot 3000 in windows and rarely post 3200 in bios, my crappy green pcb transcend 1gb 1333 psc based sticks have topped out and it seems like this imc is capable of quite abit over 3200 ddr3 so ive got some samsung m378b2873gb0 1gb g die as ive heard that theyre good for stupid high freq so now im aiming for even higher freqs, maybe 3400-3600 post in windows, so far got 3000 to post but need to do more testing once i get home, for whatever reason doesnt post with 16 or 18 ram multi without a dummy stick in the 2nd channel (just put my crappiest transcend psc on there that doesnt even do 2700 ddr3)

[AMDMike]

3 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Why?

Pretty pointless upgrading the psu if you dont have to

 

neat

a non k 3770 seems kinda odd though you can simply just raise the multiplier by 4 since theres limited unlock where you can raise multi by 4 on sandy and ivy then add abit of bclk ontop, usually 105 is acheivable but you may have a good cpu thats capable of >108 on air

 

Imo if you build on an old platform like that youd probs wanna fully max it out with some absolutely ridicolous overclocks

 

 

when i started getting into pcs around 2018 for whatever reason my dream system was x58, maybe its something to do with being able to run pretty good ocs on it or just the charm of an old system being a ryzen killer

 

2022 finally got my first taste of 1366 with a p6t deluxe v2 and x5660, sold as broken got for 20$ but turns out the main pcie x16 slot was dirty hence no display, can tell that it posted simply because i have a pci debug card that displays postcodes, obligatory boot into bios at 5ghz within 2 hours of getting the thing =p, dissapointed with the xeon though because 3rd core is a flaming pile of garbage and the imc is complete dogshit (doesnt run over 2200 ddr3) so after awhile just got bored of it and when i had the chance to sell it off i sold it off for 24$ + a crappy msi h55 and x3440

 

After getting a broken x58a ud3r that needs its bios resoldered (which i havent done yet still) alongside a dud p6x58d-e that wont bclk properly i recently got this x58a ud3r for 25$ (x58 depreciated a ton since 2022) and just for shits and giggles and cause im too lazy to take that x5650 out of the p6x58de decided to put an i7 950 for testing, i figured that i probs couldnt get it to run >2000 ddr3 cause of that 1:2 memclk uncore bullshit but apparently thats just something asus boards force, giga ignores that rule and welp i can clock rams, i wasnt expecting much more than 2600 but boy it hit 2900 before hardwalling

 

put in a spare i7 930 to test see if its amobo or cpu hardwall turns out it was a cpu hardwall and i managed to boot 3000 in windows and rarely post 3200 in bios, my crappy green pcb transcend 1gb 1333 psc based sticks have topped out and it seems like this imc is capable of quite abit over 3200 ddr3 so ive got some samsung m378b2873gb0 1gb g die as ive heard that theyre good for stupid high freq so now im aiming for even higher freqs, maybe 3400-3600 post in windows, so far got 3000 to post but need to do more testing once i get home, for whatever reason doesnt post with 16 or 18 ram multi without a dummy stick in the 2nd channel (just put my crappiest transcend psc on there that doesnt even do 2700 ddr3)

That is awesome, I do want to mess with that platform as well,  I would love to get an Evga x58 ftw3. 
 

 

as for the oc, I have never done one but I do want to learn and mess with that, both the cpu and gpu, the non k was just included with mobo but if my local shop gets a k I will snag it (he sells em for $20) 

 

I absolutely love seeing people still using, pushing, and enjoying this older hardware today. For me it is far more interesting and fun to mess with than new stuff, my Ryzen system is great but I don’t love it, I don’t want to keep messing with it like I do with these. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

50 minutes ago, AMDMike said:

That is awesome, I do want to mess with that platform as well,  I would love to get an Evga x58 ftw3. 
 

 

as for the oc, I have never done one but I do want to learn and mess with that, both the cpu and gpu, the non k was just included with mobo but if my local shop gets a k I will snag it (he sells em for $20) 

 

I absolutely love seeing people still using, pushing, and enjoying this older hardware today. For me it is far more interesting and fun to mess with than new stuff, my Ryzen system is great but I don’t love it, I don’t want to keep messing with it like I do with these. 

For newer systems the fun is all in ram overclocking since you can still do some insane overclocks, all you need is a stick with good ram ics like hma81gu6jdr8n and you are good to go, bare pcbs is the cheapest and best way of getting good ics since you can use their model number or straight up look at the ram ic itself directly, decent hynix djrs id expect 5200+ out of em if you arent being a sissy with voltage (>1.7v vdimm, scales to around 1.9v)

 

Btw the ram that i used to get to those speeds is just this meekly transcend stick

I was looking for good ics at the time mainly elpidas or pscs but stumbled upon these transcends that just so happened to have the pscs i was looking for so yes i absolutely stand by buying bare pcbs as theyre cheaper and outright faster than buying xmp 3200c16/3600c18 with a simple lazy overclock to 3800-4000, 8gb double sided sticks in particular are pretty good since good ones like m378a1g43eb1 or hma41gu6afr8n can run <300 trfc

 

These pscs are kinda meh though with the best stick only doing 3200 bios 3000 windows worst not even being able to post >2700 but works well as a dummy stick to overclock my samsung g die which wont run at 16/18 ram multi without a second stick in the second channel

 

ill give an update when i fully test these g die sticks, for now ive only got 3000 to post

 

 

As for that cpu mobo and ram you just set cpu multi to 43 or whatevers max multi and keep raising bclk till it stops posting, usually you know when youve hit a bclk wall when it doesnt try to post and the postcode on the board displays 00, you simply back it off by .2-.5 bclk or however much you need to back off on bclk till p95 largeffts/smallestffts stable

 

For the rams send a thaiphoon burner screenshot or if theyre bare pcb no heatspreader send a pic of the black squares (ics) with the text visible alongside a pic of the ram sticker with the ram specs and model number, also details for config (4x4 or 2x8) ill probs be able to come up with something but i doubt itll hit 3000 or atleast be stable at 3000, asus ram oc on their 60 boards is pretty shit topping out at a mere 2200 except for the gene but idk if the 2800 hwbot sub for it is a hardwall or not, i mean the highest ram freq sub for the x58a ud3r is only 2750 with a 980x and i blew right past that with a nehalem on air

[Slottr]

-Moved to Build Logs-

[AMDMike]

12 hours ago, Slottr said:

-Moved to Build Logs-

Sweet thank you! 

[AMDMike]

18 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

For newer systems the fun is all in ram overclocking since you can still do some insane overclocks, all you need is a stick with good ram ics like hma81gu6jdr8n and you are good to go, bare pcbs is the cheapest and best way of getting good ics since you can use their model number or straight up look at the ram ic itself directly, decent hynix djrs id expect 5200+ out of em if you arent being a sissy with voltage (>1.7v vdimm, scales to around 1.9v)

 

Btw the ram that i used to get to those speeds is just this meekly transcend stick

I was looking for good ics at the time mainly elpidas or pscs but stumbled upon these transcends that just so happened to have the pscs i was looking for so yes i absolutely stand by buying bare pcbs as theyre cheaper and outright faster than buying xmp 3200c16/3600c18 with a simple lazy overclock to 3800-4000, 8gb double sided sticks in particular are pretty good since good ones like m378a1g43eb1 or hma41gu6afr8n can run <300 trfc

 

These pscs are kinda meh though with the best stick only doing 3200 bios 3000 windows worst not even being able to post >2700 but works well as a dummy stick to overclock my samsung g die which wont run at 16/18 ram multi without a second stick in the second channel

 

ill give an update when i fully test these g die sticks, for now ive only got 3000 to post

 

 

As for that cpu mobo and ram you just set cpu multi to 43 or whatevers max multi and keep raising bclk till it stops posting, usually you know when youve hit a bclk wall when it doesnt try to post and the postcode on the board displays 00, you simply back it off by .2-.5 bclk or however much you need to back off on bclk till p95 largeffts/smallestffts stable

 

For the rams send a thaiphoon burner screenshot or if theyre bare pcb no heatspreader send a pic of the black squares (ics) with the text visible alongside a pic of the ram sticker with the ram specs and model number, also details for config (4x4 or 2x8) ill probs be able to come up with something but i doubt itll hit 3000 or atleast be stable at 3000, asus ram oc on their 60 boards is pretty shit topping out at a mere 2200 except for the gene but idk if the 2800 hwbot sub for it is a hardwall or not, i mean the highest ram freq sub for the x58a ud3r is only 2750 with a 980x and i blew right past that with a nehalem on air

You have made me want to mess with some oc on my systems 

[AMDMike]

The Lenovo case has officially been retired, meshify mini is a fantastic case, definitely might grab another for my other systems 

[thrasher_565]

im making a x79 build with 980ti in it atm for an xp pc. trying to get a titan...

 

[AMDMike]

On 9/21/2023 at 7:29 PM, thrasher_565 said:

im making a x79 build with 980ti in it atm for an xp pc. trying to get a titan...

 

That is badass I absolutely love x79 for some reason, I have a micro atx build and am after a Maximus iv gene and a 4960x 

 

[AMDMike]

A cheap $80 upgrade for the pc today, more parts arriving Friday! 

[thrasher_565]

31 minutes ago, AMDMike said:

A cheap $80 upgrade for the pc today, more parts arriving Friday! 

1080ti for $80 nice.  evga one too.

 

32 minutes ago, AMDMike said:

That is badass I absolutely love x79 for some reason, I have a micro atx build and am after a Maximus iv gene and a 4960x 

 

ya its nice. but i had to clean it. un decided if ill ise the cpu block as there junk in it. i can take out the jet plate but i dont no.

i love nical plated copper thow. the nb black has it and a bit of elbo geese and it clean right up.

 

 this is one that i wanted but they guy never shipped it... oh well maybe when i see a back one for ok price ill get it.

 

 

 

Edited September 25, 2023 by thrasher_565

[AMDMike]

7 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

1080ti for $80 nice.  evga one too.

 

ya its nice. but i had to clean it. un decided if ill ise the cpu block as there junk in it. i can take out the jet plate but i dont no.

i love nical plated copper thow. the nb black has it and a bit of elbo geese and it clean right up.

 

 this is one that i wanted but they guy never shipped it... oh well maybe when i see a back one for ok price ill get it.

 

 

 

I may possibly sell my Jedi order titan xp lol I’m currently offloading all my extra hardware 

[thrasher_565]

5 hours ago, AMDMike said:

I may possibly sell my Jedi order titan xp lol I’m currently offloading all my extra hardware 

ya there worth alot...

[AMDMike]

5 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

ya there worth alot...

I was considering tossing it up on eBay I have both 

[AMDMike]

Noctua low pro is out, Evga aio arrived. Also scored a 1tb mx50 for $30