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Apparently I may have misthread one of my bridge connectors running in parallel between my vid cards. I had been concentrating on making sure that my reservoir did not run dry, and by the time I noticed the leak I had a nice size puddle at the bottom of the case.
Once I got that fixed I decided to not try and install the PSU till another 24hrs, just to be certain any stray H2O had time to evaporate. Black and bronze color combo looks hot, if I could do it again I would have planned my color scheme around that. Still I really like this Crosshair mobo. Would you believe it has 8 PWM fan headers? And I am using all eight
Glad you caught that leak before it caused any damage. Did any of the vid cards get wet? Can't wait to see pics. 8 PWM fan headers is great. Did you remove your fan controller or are you using it too?

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Wow a MOBO with 8 PWM headers, that is nice. Mine only has one, but I want to make most my fans PWM controlled. Can you set profiles for them individually?? PWM FTW
Couldn't agree more. PWM is da bomb....

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According to the specs this mobo can handle up to 84w/7A total through the fan headers.
You know, even if I bought a really nice fancy ass board like that, I would make myself a 12V cable with taps along the length. I would custom make it for my own use with as many 12V/gnd taps as I needed just so I could avoid pulling any power from the motherboard.

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Here's a pic of my eyefinity setup. I will unfortunately be ditching the three monitors for a single 27" so this is the last time I will see them......
That's too bad. Why you losing the sweet setup?
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Literally because I'm soooo pist that more than half the games I play don't support eyefinity and that the frames are drastically worse too, at least in some of the games. I will be able to fit more crap on the my desk too lol.
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Done!



The bridge on the left is wut gave me the headache. I should have spotted it before hand because when I was correcting it I could see some of the O-Ring sticking out from the joint



I think the pump/res has become an interesting structure in my case. Starting to look like a strange tree in a park,



And this is my H70 replacement. I don't know how it really performs yet but it looks imposing at the very least.

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Glad you caught that leak before it caused any damage. Did any of the vid cards get wet? Can't wait to see pics. 8 PWM fan headers is great. Did you remove your fan controller or are you using it too?



Couldn't agree more. PWM is da bomb....



You know, even if I bought a really nice fancy ass board like that, I would make myself a 12V cable with taps along the length. I would custom make it for my own use with as many 12V/gnd taps as I needed just so I could avoid pulling any power from the motherboard.
Yeah the bottom Vid Card got pretty soggy. But nothing except the pump had any power connections so I just wiped it up and left it alone for 24 hrs to dry.

As it turns out, looks like even though every fan header has 4 pins, so far I can only change 2 of them via PWM. That is disappointing. I had plans to control all my fans via the mobo ( I removed the fan controller). I am a little worried about the fan headers getting blowed up but I am using like 30% of its rated capacity, should be safe
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Literally because I'm soooo pist that more than half the games I play don't support eyefinity and that the frames are drastically worse too, at least in some of the games. I will be able to fit more crap on the my desk too lol.
I hear you man. It takes a lot of juice to play Eyefinity, thats why I think I need to go Tri-Fire, and even then I am going to have to OC just to get a decent amount of FPS in new games. If you go with one 27 incher, I would stick with an IPS display. I didn't and when I switch between monitors it really hurts my soul.


I only had this thing up and running a little while ago so I haven't done any OC yet. I did run it through Prime and Furmark just to make sure it was stable and the heat sinks were on correctly. Prime left the CPU at 21ºC above ambient after an hour. An hour of Furmark left one GPU at 27º above ambient, the other at 21º above ambient. These were at "stock" 6970 speeds. I am going to do a proper torture test and post info up as soon as I get my OC sorted out on this new board.
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Yeah the bottom Vid Card got pretty soggy. But nothing except the pump had any power connections so I just wiped it up and left it alone for 24 hrs to dry.

As it turns out, looks like even though every fan header has 4 pins, so far I can only change 2 of them via PWM. That is disappointing. I had plans to control all my fans via the mobo ( I removed the fan controller). I am a little worried about the fan headers getting blowed up but I am using like 30% of its rated capacity, should be safe

I hear you man. It takes a lot of juice to play Eyefinity.

Prime left the CPU at 21ºC above ambient after an hour. An hour of Furmark left one GPU at 27º above ambient, the other at 21º above ambient. These were at "stock" 6970 speeds. I am going to do a proper torture test and post info up as soon as I get my OC sorted out on this new board.
Wow, those are idle temps for my cards. Lol, what a difference. System looks awesome bud. The red rad goes great with the RAM and the mobo. I see what you mean about the copper. Amazing job bud. +++
Too bad about the PWM headers. I guess nothing is perfect. It seems someone at Gigabyte needs a spanking. Will they temp control through BIOS or are they stuck at 100%?

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Literally because I'm soooo pist that more than half the games I play don't support eyefinity and that the frames are drastically worse too, at least in some of the games. I will be able to fit more crap on the my desk too lol.
That's really sad to hear. I really would have thought two 6950s would handle it without any issues. I was thinking about a 3rd 27" monitor, but now I'm having second thoughts.
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post #2116 of 10563
Ok, I need your opinion ASAP ppl..

That site also has a gold bronze colored carbon sticker..


I think I want to take the gold, considering that I will have gigabyte 990FX UD7 for my future mobo..
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CesarNYC- System looks absolutely incredible! Still have to get all my goodies installed. Been dealing with this whole Force 3 SSD fiasco.
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Wow ceasarnyc! That's a phenominal build! That is literally what I want to and u did it better. Way to go man. +Rep again for that.

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That's really sad to hear. I really would have thought two 6950s would handle it without any issues. I was thinking about a 3rd 27" monitor, but now I'm having second thoughts.
No I'm not saying the cards cannot handle it by any means. Its just that many games didn't support eyefinity which was a HUGE bummer. The cards held their way for sure. BFBC2 I was at 65-70 frames which is great for 3 monitors and Crysis 2 I was at like 70-80. But Rift on the other hand, I was getting 22-28 max on three monitors which seriously pissed me off. These cards def. handle the gaming no doubt.
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can i join? just got a 600t SE today.
--EDIT----- for better pics

so far i absolutely love this case. although i wish there were more tie-down points behind the mobo tray.


Edited by hxcnero - 6/30/11 at 12:03am
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