I prefer using water over oil (less damaging to the thermal paste between heatspreader and CPU die, if you get it in the vent, and the sandpaper lasts longer) and I have noticed virtually no difference in performance between two very flat, and two slightly convex surfaces. The latter seems to have a lensing effect and spreads the thermal compound more thinly in the center, where the die of the chip is.
Otherwise, I like it.
| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | Graphics |
|---|
| 3930K (C2) @ 4.3GHz, HT on, 1.308v | GA-X79S-UP5 (F4v) | Radeon 7950, 1053/1650, 1.163v GPU, 1.65v mem, ... | Radeon 7950, 1080/1675, 1.081v GPU, 1.65v mem, ... |
| RAM | Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Hard Drive |
|---|
| 32GiB Samsung MV-3V4G3D/US @ 1600, 8-8-8-24-T2,... | Kingston V+100 96GB | 4x WD Scorpio Black 500GB RAID 10 | 3x Hitachi 7k1000.C 1TB RAID 0 |
| Cooling | OS | Keyboard | Power |
|---|
| Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 + 2x NF-P14 + PK-1 (TIM) | Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise | Flico Majestouch Tenkeyless (MX Brown) | Antec True Power New 750w |
| Case | Mouse | Audio |
|---|
| Fractal Design Define R4 + 6 Cougar CF-V14HB | CM Storm Spawn (firmware 61) | Realtek ALC898 |
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | Graphics |
|---|
| i7 970 3012B113 @ 4GHz, 1.264v, HT On | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 rev 2.0 | Radeon 6870 1GB | Radeon 5750 @ 918/300 (cryptography coprocessor) |
| RAM | Hard Drive | Cooling | OS |
|---|
| 6x4GiB Samsung MV-3V4G3 @ 1600, 8-8-8-24-T2, 1.4v | 1TB Hitachi 7K1000.C, 2x250GB Seagate 7200.10s | Prolimatech Genesis | Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 |
| Monitor | Monitor | Power | Case |
|---|
| ASUS 22" | Acer 22" | Enermax Modu82+ 625w | Antec P182 |
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
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| AMD FX-8150 @ 4.52GHz (210x21.5), 1.45v load | GA-970A-UD3 rev 1.0 (F8a BIOS) | Radeon 6950 @ 945/1425, 1.2v | 4x8GiB G.Skill Ares @ 1680, 9-10-9-28-T2, 1.5v |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Cooling | OS |
|---|
| Samsung F3 1TB | 2x Samsung F3 500GB RAID 0 | Lapped TRUE + Panflo FBA12G12H1BX | Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 |
| Monitor | Power | Case |
|---|
| Dell S2740L (27", 1920x1080, 7ms, IPS) | Corsair TX650w | Cooler Master HAF 932 |
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | Graphics |
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| 3930K (C2) @ 4.3GHz, HT on, 1.308v | GA-X79S-UP5 (F4v) | Radeon 7950, 1053/1650, 1.163v GPU, 1.65v mem, ... | Radeon 7950, 1080/1675, 1.081v GPU, 1.65v mem, ... |
| RAM | Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Hard Drive |
|---|
| 32GiB Samsung MV-3V4G3D/US @ 1600, 8-8-8-24-T2,... | Kingston V+100 96GB | 4x WD Scorpio Black 500GB RAID 10 | 3x Hitachi 7k1000.C 1TB RAID 0 |
| Cooling | OS | Keyboard | Power |
|---|
| Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 + 2x NF-P14 + PK-1 (TIM) | Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise | Flico Majestouch Tenkeyless (MX Brown) | Antec True Power New 750w |
| Case | Mouse | Audio |
|---|
| Fractal Design Define R4 + 6 Cougar CF-V14HB | CM Storm Spawn (firmware 61) | Realtek ALC898 |
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | Graphics |
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| i7 970 3012B113 @ 4GHz, 1.264v, HT On | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 rev 2.0 | Radeon 6870 1GB | Radeon 5750 @ 918/300 (cryptography coprocessor) |
| RAM | Hard Drive | Cooling | OS |
|---|
| 6x4GiB Samsung MV-3V4G3 @ 1600, 8-8-8-24-T2, 1.4v | 1TB Hitachi 7K1000.C, 2x250GB Seagate 7200.10s | Prolimatech Genesis | Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 |
| Monitor | Monitor | Power | Case |
|---|
| ASUS 22" | Acer 22" | Enermax Modu82+ 625w | Antec P182 |
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
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| AMD FX-8150 @ 4.52GHz (210x21.5), 1.45v load | GA-970A-UD3 rev 1.0 (F8a BIOS) | Radeon 6950 @ 945/1425, 1.2v | 4x8GiB G.Skill Ares @ 1680, 9-10-9-28-T2, 1.5v |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Cooling | OS |
|---|
| Samsung F3 1TB | 2x Samsung F3 500GB RAID 0 | Lapped TRUE + Panflo FBA12G12H1BX | Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 |
| Monitor | Power | Case |
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| Dell S2740L (27", 1920x1080, 7ms, IPS) | Corsair TX650w | Cooler Master HAF 932 |
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