Since there is no owners club yet for this board I decided to make one. This thread is here for owners (and potential owners) to discuss their experiences and share information about this board. Please PM me to be added to the members list. I will be making updates to this thread frequently.
Product notes:
New board versions have 90 degree Sata 6gb/s ports
New versions also no longer have the "easy out" memory slots. They have standard ones.
hey strap as i said please review and comment on this build idea thanks -
Case - Antec Dark Fleet DF85 full tower
Motherboard - MSI Big Bang Xpower X58 ATX
CPU - i7950 Quad Core
CPU Cooler - Coolit Vantage
Memory - 12 GB (3x4GB) Corsair xm53 dominator DDR3 1600 (w/fan)
PSU - Antec 1200W 80plus gold
HD - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
SSD - OCZ Vertex extended Sandforce 2.5" 120 GB
Optical - LG WH10 Bluray writer 10 X
Optical - LG GH 22L550 22x/22x dvd rw w/lightscribe
GPU - MSI geforce GTX570 Fermi 732Mhz 1280MB 3.8Ghz
Originally Posted by Whycocomagh;11831138
hey strap as i said please review and comment on this build idea thanks -
Case - Antec Dark Fleet DF85 full tower
Motherboard - MSI Big Bang Xpower X58 ATX
CPU - i7950 Quad Core
CPU Cooler - Coolit Vantage
Memory - 12 GB (3x4GB) Corsair xm53 dominator DDR3 1600 (w/fan)
PSU - Antec 1200W 80plus gold
HD - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
SSD - OCZ Vertex extended Sandforce 2.5" 120 GB
Optical - LG WH10 Bluray writer 10 X
Optical - LG GH 22L550 22x/22x dvd rw w/lightscribe
GPU - MSI geforce GTX570 Fermi 732Mhz 1280MB 3.8Ghz
Most people here wouldn't recommend the coolit vantage, I as well would be more inclined to recommend the Corsair H70 because I have installed one for a friend before. But they both have good reviews.
Your PSU is overkill, you would really need no more than a 750w unit. Unless your planning an SLI with 570's
Other than that, good setup. One other question, why so much memory?
Originally Posted by hitman1985;11854976
hmmm, should i hook my cpu power plug (8pin) to one or should i split it up to the two headers ?
anyone got some input ?
lol..well as tsm stated, you'll need to unblock it and connect another 8pin to really push oc's. (I'll just venture a guess and state that it's made for extreme oc's with extreme cooling)
Originally Posted by hitman1985;11854976
hmmm, should i hook my cpu power plug (8pin) to one or should i split it up to the two headers ?
anyone got some input ?
Just hooking to the first one would be fine. The second one is really overkill for extreme overclocking like phase cooling. I personally have them both hooked up but I have two power supplies so I had the extra cable. I ran it for a couple of weeks without the 2nd one hooked up and it did fine.
EDIT.......for whatever reason all the other answers did not show up until I left a reply then when it reloaded the page they all listed. So my reply is a bit late and was not needed but I can't figure out how to delete it.
From some of my research mostly on the MSI forums I thought that controlled more than just the 6gb sata such as the network controls. I thought I had attempted it and it did not work. However I am getting old and very forgetful I will try it again when I get home because I have done so many things I don't remember which ones I have or have not attempted. I keep getting the no marvel drives detected as well as jmicron raid and I am not running raid. jmicron did not appear until I started trying to turn marvel off so I am not sure what I did. Right now I just went back in and loaded the optimal setting.
i woulda liked this board if it hadn't used a soundcard and had and extra x16 length lane lol
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