[linford585]

Maybe I will man!
Also you should get Right Mark and start benchmarking your audio

Or was that what you were doing? Wasnt sure if you were just doing subjective testing or what.

 

[Superjit94]

Saying "I'm jealous" would be an understatement...

 

[Krud]

I was distracted getting my laptop back in order, new motherboard and bezel swap.

Dell Vostro 3500, Core i5, 500gb, 4gb Ram

Now:

 

[VoodooActual]

I could only dream for a rig like this.. any gaming Benchmarks? I think you'd actually spank Crysis 2 or ARMA 2..

Oh, and about that Sound card.. By cheap, Do you mean 'Free'?

 

[Krud]

New Keyboard

 

[pchow05]

how cool is your case. idle and load please

for gpu and cpu thanks repped

 

[Krud]

Idle: CPU: 32 degrees GPU: 45/60/36 (45 is non-display 6970, 60 is the display 6970, and 36 is the GT430)

Load: CPU: 47 GPU: 87 (on auto settings, cooler (and louder) when user mapped)

 

[beefdog]

Not a fan of those zalman coolers but that actually looks pretty wicked

 

[Krud]

Thanks, i love the look of the cooler. More expensive than most, but it matches perfect and looks great.

Look what came in the mail today!
Samsung S27A950D 27" LED 3D PC Monitor
and
HiFiMan HE-300 Headphones

Review and real pics in a few days.

 

[Colin_MC]

You've got 47 degrees (under load) on AC with [email protected] with 1.52V? Do you live in an igloo?

 

[Krud]

47 degrees is actually the temps i get when gaming.
Under 100% load / stress test my temps are 58-61 degrees.

forgot to post these up earlier too...

some hard drive tests

 

[Krud]

Running well, but my ATI control center does not show crossfire options.... humm anyone ever have this problem?

 

[Shadow_Foxx]

Check out my thread, the suggestions didnt work for me, but I think it was my motherboard. Great lookin build by the way!

http://www.overclock.net/t/1183500/option-to-enable-crossfire-not-showing-up-6950s-955-msi-790xt/0_30

 

[Krud]

Hey, thanks for the link, i got a bit of good info that i will want to try.

The problem is, i cannot use 3D with crossfire enabled and i cannot disable crossfire without the option, so i'm missing out.

Will try some things this week and see what i find, worse comes to worse i will either reinstall the OS and try again, or RMA the board

 

[VoodooActual]

That's a real bummer - You can't use 3d with Crossfire enabled? You'd pretty much need the Crossfire for any playable frame rates :/

Hope that boards still in warranty for you bud, incase the worst happens!

 

[Krud]

I have an update...

I reformatted my rig, reinstalled the essentials, and I was able to get xfire to enable and disable again. Once i finished hooking up perepherals and playing around a bit I lost the option to enable and disable again!!

I found out what was causing it, when i started my PC with a monitor plugged into the Nvidia GT430 card the option would not be there, when i start my computer and plug in my monitor after it has booted into windows the enable / disable crossfire button is there!

/solved

 

[Krud]

Another update

So i bought a Synology DS413J NAS and have 3x 3TB Red WD drives in raid 5. So i dont need so much space on my desktop computer.

What I did was purchase a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD to increase performance. Will update in a few days to report the speed differences between the Raid 5 i had before and Single SSD I have now.