CFRP (Computer For Recreational Purposes)

System Owner: AMP_US
3DMark Fire Strike: 17,747
3DMark 11: 0
Community Score: 0
3DMark Vantage:
3DMark 06: 0
SuperPi 32M:

ELIGIBLE

System Details

Component Type Brand Product

Motherboard Asus Maximus Formula VII

CPU Intel i7-4790K

Frequency: 5 GHz FSB / QPI: 100 MHz Multiplier: 50 x Stepping: Default
VCore: 1.38 v VTT Voltage: Default PLL Voltage: Default

RAM PNY 2x XLR8 DDR3 8GB 1600MHz (PC3-12800) CAS 9 1.5V

Frequency: 1600 MHz Timing: 9-9-9-27 Voltage: 1.5 v

Graphics Card EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti CLASSIFIED

GPU Frequency: 1550 MHz Shader Frequency: 1550 MHz Memory Frequency: 8100 MHz SLI: No

Case

Fractal Design

Define R4 Blackout with window

Cooling

Swiftech

H240-X

Power Supply

EVGA

SuperNOVA 850 G2 Power Supply

Fan

Noctua

NF-A14 industrialPPC-2000 PWM 107.4 CFM 140mm Fan

Cooling

EKWB

EK-FC780 GTX Classy - Acetal+Nickel

Cooling

Alphacool

NexXxoS XT45 Full Copper Radiator 140, 140mm x 1

Hard Drive

Western Digital

BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Hard Drive

Seagate

Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Solid State Drive

Sandisk

Ultra Plus 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Notes

This rig has evolved quite a bit over the years. You know how it goes, you start off just wanting a gaming PC, then you want to run every game at max settings, and then you want to delid your CPU, then you want to use liquid metal TIM then you want to water cool everything, then you want to spend 3 hours going after 100 points in Firestrike.

My two main goals were silence and power. In the end, I did just about everything in my power to extract the maximum out of the silicon I was given. 5.0Ghz on the CPU and 1550/8100 on the GPU and temps below 60c. While I could reduce my temps by mounting a top 240mm radiator to my Fractal Design Define R4, I want to maintain a low noise profile.

Huge thanks to the EVGA forums and Overclocked.net for all the useful information.

For the future, I plan on waiting until there is a Pascal (1080) K|NGP|N or Classified. On the CPU side I will probably wait until Cannon Lake and Inte's Optane hit the mainstream.

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CFRP (Computer For Recreational Purposes)

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