VAULT BOY - A Fallout inspired build (modded Bitfenix Prodigy)

[Trik'Stari]

Finally

 

All we need is a sexy music video of B-roll of the build, and some benchmark resuits, temps, etc...

[ciobanulx]

it looks like a mini factory damn it's awesome..

 

 

ITs lovely dude 

 

Thanks guys

 

Finally

 

All we need is a sexy music video of B-roll of the build, and some benchmark resuits, temps, etc...

 

 

Haha thanks man .

 

I will be posting my overclocking results, benchmarks, temps and everything in the days to come as I get around to it.

 

And I was thinking of a nice B-roll, never done one before but I'm willing to give it a go . Lets see what I can come up with

[ciobanulx]

UPDATE

Hey guys!

WARNING lots of pics! 

Here are some final shots of the build. I decided to take it outside again for the shoot. It was a little bit after sundown when I got home from work, pics start in the daylight and they end in night time . I took quite a few and can't really decide between them, you guys decide which ones you like    (HD pics on my Imgur)

Please check out the MOTM Voting Thread over on OCN and show some love for my build. I really appreciate the support, thanks guys   































































































I hope you all enjoyed my build log, here's for more to come

Stay tuned for overclocking, temps, benchmarks and hopefully a nice B-Roll


Cheers, Alex


 

[GhostWindGamer]

It looks fantastic

[acidydragon]

Amazing. Maybe some cable combs for those wires, instead of zip ties though...

Still beautiful.

[MarQue98]

Damn you meant it when you said there were gonna be a lot of pictures

[aliendejoe]

Congratulations! I love Fallout and certainly I love your build.

[deguzi]

Very pleased with how this turned out. Congratz on finishing! Cant wait to see where it's featured

[ciobanulx]

It looks fantastic

 

 

Amazing. Maybe some cable combs for those wires, instead of zip ties though...

Still beautiful.

 

Thanks . I tried using cable combs but I didn't like the look of it. The cables where too spread out on the GPU, with the zip ties I can have it nice and tight . Also there's no way I could fit anything on the 24pin cable, so tights in there hahaha

 

Damn you meant it when you said there were gonna be a lot of pictures

 

 

Congratulations! I love Fallout and certainly I love your build.

 

 

Very pleased with how this turned out. Congratz on finishing! Cant wait to see where it's featured

 

 

Thanks a lot guys . I'm so happy to see the build up and running. It's been a long 4 months but I enjoyed working on it

 

I also just entered it in the Featured Build Logs Competition

 

I might do some overclocking today and get those temp results out.

[alby800]

Looks stunning     

[ciobanulx]

Looks stunning     

 

Thanks

 

 

I have some more great news guys!

I just found out that I have been nominated for MOTM over on the Bit-Tech forum as well. I just can't believe the amount of support this build has received, thanks a lot everyone

Nomination and Voting Thread, please show some love

[rutwik]

Nice man Hope u get the MOTM award

[MarQue98]

Nice man Hope u get the MOTM award

ergh what does the first m in motm mean? {...} of the month.. i can't get to it

[ciobanulx]

Nice man Hope u get the MOTM award

 

Thans man , though there are some really good mods over there, probably the best. It's an honor just to be nominated

 

ergh what does the first m in motm mean? {...} of the month.. i can't get to it

 

It stands for mod, mod of the month

[ciobanulx]

UPDATE

The Vault Boy has migrated to my bedroom last night, so it's up and running, hooked up to my TV.

I finished the overclocks yesterday, it still needs some further testing but I needed the space on my desk for studying (yea I need to do some of that too haha).

I'm pretty happy with the overclocks, nothing to extreme as I'm no expert in overclocking (still learning ).

CPU

The 3570K is at 4.4GHz at 1.29v.

Anything over 4.4GHz would not boot, went with the voltage as high as 1.35 and still blue screen on the windows logo. I'm not willing to bump the voltage any higher than that for just minor gains in performance so I'm happy at 4.4GHz . Also at 4.4 if I lower the voltage a bit it will crash when stress testing after a short while. So 4.4GHz at 1.29v is all good. I think the CPU I have might not be such a good overclocker. The 3770K I have in my other build does 4.7GHz at 1.29v

GPU

The R9 290 is at 1150MHz on the Core and 1500MHz on the memory.

Stable with good temps and no artifacts. The voltage is +50 in MSI Afterburner and power is at max. If I bump the memory any higher, no matter the voltage it will crash even on the desktop . I also tested with 1200 on the core but there are artifacts even with the voltage at max in afterburner with only 1fps increase in Valley and Heaven so not worth it really , therefore I'm happy where it's at currently.

Temps and Benchmarks

I will do some further testing today and get the temps and benchmark results up tomorrow.

MOTM

Still about 3 days left to vote for MOTM on OCN, it's a really close race. The Vault Boy is currently coming in 2nd by just 2 votes.

If you have an OCN account and haven't yet voted, please do so. I would really appreciate it and it would help me out a lot

VOTE HERE


Cheers, Alex

[MarQue98]

It stands for mod, mod of the month

Thank you. My ocd van chill out again now

[ciobanulx]

UPDATE

I did some more testing this afternoon and recorded some benchmark scores and temps.

However I did have to increase the voltage on the CPU as when I went to power it on today I kept getting a blue screen. Yesterday it seemed to be fine at 1.29, went for about an 1hour in OCCT and Prime95.

So here are the OCs, some benchmark scores and temps. I might still have to play around with the CPU overclock. All temps are at an ambient of 28C - 30C and recorded temps are the max I saw after 1 hour of stress testing on the CPU and the GPU just by doing the benchmarks

CPU - i5 3570K - 4.4GHz at 1.31v (I also had to bump the LLC from ultra high to extreme and did see the voltage jump to 1.336 when stress testing)

Idle - 35C
Load (Prime 95 Small FFT and Blend) - 96C
Load (OCCT large and small) - 85C

GPU - R9 290 - 1150MHz Core, 1500MHz Memory

Stock Temps and Scores

GPU Idle 32C

Valley extreme 1080p

FPS - 56.4
Score - 2358
GPU Temp - 54C
CPU Temp - 73C

Heaven extreme 1080p

FPS - 50.4
Score - 1269
GPU Temp - 57C
CPU Temp - 73C

3D Mark Fire Strike Normal

Score - 8472
GPU Score - 10061
GPU Temp - 56C
CPU Temp - 80C

Overclock Temps and Scores

GPU Idle - 32C

Valley Extreme 1080p

FPS - 67.1
Score - 2809
GPU Temp - 61C
CPU Temp - 73C

Heaven Extreme 1080p

FPS - 59.5
Score - 1498
GPU Temp - 61C
CPU Temp - 75C

3D Mark Fire Strike Normal

Score - 9800
GPU Score - 12057
GPU Temp - 58C
CPU Temp - 80C



I also played Watch Dogs for 30min maxed out with overclocks and GPU was around 61C and CPU around 68C according to MSI Afterburner while I was playing. I thought the Prime95 temps were a bit high but everything else was all good I think. It started to get pretty hot here too so the ambient was quite high as well. I'm not too worried about the Prime95 temps as that will never happen in games. Around 60C on the GPU and 68-70C on the CPU when gaming with overclocks is all good to me at 30C ambient. Also the fans spin at very low rpms, 140s at 1000 and 120s at 1200.

What do you guys think of the overclocks, temps and scores? Would you like me to try other benchmarks?


Cheers, Alex

[Maki Role]

Well you got my votes in both competitions

[ciobanulx]

Well you got my votes in both competitions

 

Thanks a lot mate . Much appreciated

[ccRicers]

Hey, congrats on winning MOTM man! It was well deserved!

[rutwik]

Congo on winning the motm award u deserved it.

Yeah the Chou temp is pretty high but fans are at low and prime95 is a synthetic benchmark so no chance of getting it in real life .

BTW increase fan speed to moderate while gaming I use it to get better temp ambient here is like 32C

[WillFromGA]

Wow, simply amazing.

[Warthoger89]

UPDATE

The EK Monarch modules are now on the RAM and they're looking really sexy I might say .

These would look really good even on their own if someone wanted to use them

Here's the sexy naked RAM

G.Skill Rip Jaws heat spreaders

And the assembled RAM

I installed the EK modules in such a way so that the EK logo will be seen on both sides of the MB and that line that wasn't painted along with the mounting screws will be hidden on the inside between the RAM. Once I get the water block on, that won't be seen at all

Also after seeing TTL's latest RushKit video with the XFX R9 290, I had a closer look at my box and noticed that my reference design also has the unlocked voltage

I hope you've enjoyed my updates as they might be slowing down for a while as I've done pretty much everything I could do so far. I'm currently in the process of sorting out my sleeved cables but that might take a little while. And as for the motherboard cover that I want to make, I will have to wait till I get the EK Supremacy water block as I will need to have that mounted for my measurements in order to cut out the cover properly. I might start on it and do the sides and everything else but I'm also really busy with work and uni at the moment

I'm still waiting on those vinyl sheets in order to print out some cools Fallout stickers. I think that should arrive next week and that will probably be the next update

Stay tuned

Alex

Dude this rig is gonna be sweet! I like the looks of your other build in the background too, I'd totally hire you to mod my rig if I could.

[Vast]

Awesome job. Just happen to be playing through Fallout 3 again (finally evil this time around). Hard work paid off for you. Congratulations.

[ciobanulx]

Hey, congrats on winning MOTM man! It was well deserved!

 

Thanks a lot man

 

Congo on winning the motm award u deserved it.

Yeah the Chou temp is pretty high but fans are at low and prime95 is a synthetic benchmark so no chance of getting it in real life .

BTW increase fan speed to moderate while gaming I use it to get better temp ambient here is like 32C

 

Thanks a lot man. Yea I dialed down the CPU overclock to 4.3GHz and got it stable at 1.26v and the temps reach 85C max now no matter what I throw at it . Not a very good overclocking chip unfortunately, my 3770K in my other build does 4.7GHz at 1.29v .

Also I can't ramp up the fans as they are running at max rpm, went with pretty quiet fans as the build is in my bedroom , however the pumps ended up being the loudest component

 

Wow, simply amazing.

 

Thank you

 

Dude this rig is gonna be sweet! I like the looks of your other build in the background too, I'd totally hire you to mod my rig if I could.

 

Thanks a lot man, I'm honored that you would say that . Also would you please mind taking out the pics from your quote? you can edit and backspace on them , hope that's ok

 

Awesome job. Just happen to be playing through Fallout 3 again (finally evil this time around). Hard work paid off for you. Congratulations.

 

Thanks man . Yup truly an amazing game, I have to play it again when I finish uni