margaux

System Owner: VAXman65
3DMark Fire Strike: 15,960
3DMark 11: 21,645
Community Score: 0
3DMark Vantage: 23,821
3DMark 06: 0
SuperPi 32M: 8m 29.840s

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System Details

Component Type Brand Product

Motherboard EVGA X99 Classified

CPU Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core

Frequency: 3.5 GHz FSB / QPI: Default Multiplier: 45 x Stepping: 2
VCore: 1.297 v VTT Voltage: Default PLL Voltage: Default

RAM G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-3000

Frequency: 2667 MHz Timing: 15-15-15-3 Voltage: 1.37 v

Graphics Card EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0

GPU Frequency: 1607 MHz Shader Frequency: Default Memory Frequency: 8008 MHz SLI: No

Case

Lian-LI

PC-B16B

Cooling

Swiftech

H320 X2 Prestige

Fan

Silenx

EFX-12-15 (120x25mm 15dBA 74CFM)

Power Supply

EVGA

SuperNOVA 850 G2

Solid State Drive

Samsung

XP941 256GB

Hard Drive

Seagate

ST1000DX001 hybrid 1TB

Hard Drive

Seagate

ST1000DX001 hybrid 1TB

CD/DVD

BH16NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (retail)

Mouse

EVGA

TORQ X10 Carbon

Keyboard

Logitech

G910 Orion Spark

Keyboard

Logitech

G13 Programmable Gameboard

Sound

Logitech

Z906 500W 5.1ch Speakers

Monitor

Acer

B286HK

Monitor

Dell

P2411H

Monitor

Dell

ST2420L

Monitor

Dell

P2412H

Notes

I wanted this to be a system that was fast, quiet and stable - not too bleeding edge. I think I have in here pretty much everything that I wanted. And yes, there is a lot of EVGA product here: X99 Classified, SuperNOVA 850 G2, GTX 1070 FTW and a TORQ X10 carbon to top it off. At least I should never have to worry about vendors points fingers at each other!

About a year after the initial build, Margaux got a major case and cooling upgrade. I moved the system into a Lian-Li PC09-WRX case and swapped the cooling for a Swiftech H320 X2 Prestige. This chassis features a two-compartment design, with the drives and power supply in the solid aluminum side, and the mobo, vooler and video on the glass side. I now have red LED on strips around the case, on the video card and on the cooler radiator and pump and red dye in the fluid.

For now, my pictures are rather crap, as I am finding it tough to show the case and contents without picking up annoying reflections or glare. Once I get my PowerLink and clean up the cable runs a little more, I'll try again for better pics.

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VAXman65
07/18/2016
07:42 AM

I have pulled my pair of GTX 760 FTW cards and replaced them with a single GTX 1070 FTW. With the GTX 760 FTW SL setup, my old benchmark scores were: 3DMark Fire Strike: 10,341 3DMark 11: 15,533 3DMark Vantage: 24,628

VAXman65
03/26/2015
11:18 AM

My Viewsonic 28" panel died, so I ended up replacing with the Acer B286HK 28" panel. It is a 4K panel and will push that at 60 Hz so long as you use the display port connector. I have not been able to push the OC on the GPUs very far at all. Only 25 MHz with PrecisionX 16. However, I was able to get the mem offset up to 500. The system has been stable over the past month and I figure the thermal grease has completed its "burn in" time and should be fully effective by now. Nevertheless, i do get concerned about the CPU Socket temperature which seems to always be about 10 degrees higher than the cores.

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