Project "Black N Blue Typhoon"

[enRodjavel]

Black N Blue Typhoon

 

"The new apartment killed it,... Rebornish"

 

So heya All, This is just my tired Build thats gona be getting a little Boost of performance over the next coming weeks.

 

First off all, the Rigg is now dead, my new apartment had some faulty wiring and this create a short circuit when I booted it up for the first time Today =/, A light smell of burned plastic and a tiny "puff" of smoke!

 

Atleast my fusebox's residual-current circuit breaker works , after taking everything apart and trouble shooting I'w found two soot spoots around the CPU-Socket and on the backside of the Southbrigde =/ the smell of burned plastic is getting more pungent.

 

The Motherboard won't start up at all, no Power, LED's dont light up, Fans won't start spinning and no boot-sound from the little PC-speaker.

 

After checking the MB and CPU (both Dead) I take a look at the GPU, this POOR sucker didnt suvive either =(.

 

Specs were:

 

 MB: Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 @ Beta Bios

CPU: Phenom II 1055t @ Stock

CPU Cooler: BeQuite! SR2

RAM: Corsair Value 8GB @ 1600MHz

GPU: Asus GTX 560 1GB @ Stock

PSU: Ocz ZT 750

SSD: 3x Kingston SSDNow300 120GB 

 

 

Setup and Temporary Office.

 

My Keyboard and mouse.

 

Case window sideview.

 

Case open insideview.

 

Motherboard.

 

Backside of things. (yber-cablemanagment)

 

 

So now I'm left with a PSU that actually still works , Some DDR3 RAM and 3 Kingston SSDnow300 120GB drives (won one, got one from the Mrs. and bought one for 20$ and they are all the first GEN =D.)

I won't be using the PSU cause I don't truly know if it's in fully working condition after this event. I have 2 new in box  psu's, 1 ocz zt 750 and 1 seasonic  (ddon't remember the model nr but it's a 750W And atleast bronze)

 

Time for the small Boost in Performance:

 

Specs will Become:

 

 MB: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 @ Beta Bios

CPU: FX 8320/8350 @ Stock as a starting point

CPU Cooler: BeQuite! SR2

RAM: Corsair XMS3 16GB @ 1333MHz (AMD stock settings)

GPU:  SLI Gigabyte GTX 670 OC 2GB @ Stock as a starting point

PSU: Ocz ZT 750

SSD: 3x Kingston SSDNow300 120GB 

 

Arrived:

 

MB: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (27$)

GPU: 2x Gigabyte GTX 670 OC 2GB (120$ for the Pair)

 

Still Waiting on:

 

CPU: FX 8320/8350, Depending on which one runs the coolest (getting both, only paid 70$ for the pair)

RAM: Corsair XMS3 16GB (24$)

SLI Bridge, I forgot to take it with me from the old apartment

Alchemy white braided Cable extensions (orded a bunch for 20$)

Paracord in Blue and Grey +shrinkable tubing (50M of each, 20$)

 

 

Motherboard and GTX 670  SLi setup.

 

Motherboard and GTX 670  SLi setup.

 

Motherboard and GTX 670  SLi setup.

 

Just Cause.

 

 

So that's the beginning of the little Boost of Performance.

 

 

Updates will be coming as stuff arrives/gets found/gets here =D and ofc I have the time to upload...

 

 

//enRodjavel

[enRodjavel]

So here Comes an update of my little Boost in performance,...

 

In the First Post the Pics are from the beginning of the Month, and these ones are from Today =D

 

Parts took some time getting here but now let's start the essembly.

 

First of the MB gets some Work done

 

Heatsinks off

 

TIM

 

And Done, Time for SLI =D

 

Let's get the Corpse out of the Coffin

 

Cooler out

 

a smudge

 

Old MB and dead 1055T =/ served me well

 

Empty and that Cablehorror

 

Reflection, Clean CPU Cooler

 

Went with the FX 8320 as it arrived first, got the CPUs sent in 2 different parcel

 

TIM and Backplate on

 

Time to Anchor the BEAST

 

Screwed

 

All Tightened

 

RAM goes in, might not be the right Slots but I can change it xP

 

New Body back in the Coffin

 

SLI hug time

 

Some Droop

 

All SLIed UP =D Big happy FACE

 

 

SO here She is in a body shoot.

 

 

This is as she stands right now, I know the Cablemanagment aint the best but she still got some Benchmarking and Testing to GO through before Getting a Grooming around the edges =D

(Sry for my not so awsome english but English aint my spoken language so bear with me.)

 

That's that for now, Benchmarks coming during the day, atleast Stock ones.

 

//enRodjavel

 

(didn't forget the tiny battery)

[Gnun1x]

Awesome!

[elecxonica]

You should hang up the dead mobo and CPU as a piece of art (if possible in your apartment that is)

[enRodjavel]

You should hang up the dead mobo and CPU as a piece of art (if possible in your apartment that is)

 

Yeah that thought has crossed my mind, and when the Mrs. is done doing her homemakeover there will be a Art-piece hehe

[Just The Tips]

I see it as white and gold though 

 

I'm sorry

[enRodjavel]

Small Update with some Benchmark scores.

 

I'm Sad, my kit of 16GB XMS3 1600MHz DDR3 is dead=/ so there is only my old kit of 8GB 1333MHz in the system right now.

 

Done some Testing and Benchmarking on this little Machine.

Starting with the regular syntetic Benchmarks Valley, 3Dmark11 and 3Dmark Firestrike @ Stock Clocks.

 

 

ValleyExtreme Stock Clock score.

Temps and GPU clock.

 

3Dmark11Extreme Stock Clock Score.

 

3Dmark Firestrike Stock Clock Score.

[ELSknutson]

you should turn you cpu cooler so the letters are facing the right direction 

[enRodjavel]

you should turn you cpu cooler so the letters are facing the right direction

I can't, atleast not with a AMD Socket. The braces will only fit one way.

If I change my platform to an intel then the Text could be the right way but the temps would be a little worse in theory cause the heatpipes wouldnt get maximum airflow coverage (it shouldn't but still)

[ELSknutson]

I can't, atleast not with a AMD Socket. The braces will only fit one way.

If I change my platform to an intel then the Text could be the right way but the temps would be a little worse in theory cause the heatpipes wouldnt get maximum airflow coverage (it shouldn't but still)

That would bug the crap out of me 

[enRodjavel]

A small Update...

 

Quick Overclock on the CPU and GPUs

 

CPU = 4200MHz and auto Volt @ 1.376

GPUs = just 110% powerlimit 

 

This equals to a slightly higher performance on 3Dmark Firestrike and Valley but on 3Dmark11 there seams to be little to none increase on performance (i dont know if a score of 100 more in 3dmark11 equal the same kind of increase as the score of aroudn 1300 more in Fire strike.

 

Fire Strike

 

Valley

 

3Dmark11