Aeolas

System Owner: arestavo
3DMark Fire Strike: 20,066
3DMark 11: 25,193
Community Score: 7
3DMark Vantage: 60,292
3DMark 06: 39,302
SuperPi 32M: 7m 21.609s

ELIGIBLE

System Details

Component Type Brand Product

Motherboard EVGA X99 Classified

CPU Intel 5820K

Frequency: 4.4 GHz FSB / QPI: 100 MHz Multiplier: 44 x Stepping: Default
VCore: 1.325 v VTT Voltage: Default PLL Voltage: Default

RAM Corsair 8x 8GB Vengeance LPX 2800MHz

Frequency: 3200 MHz Timing: 16-18-18-3 Voltage: 1.38 v

Graphics Card EVGA 1080 ACX 3.0

GPU Frequency: 2202 MHz Shader Frequency: Default Memory Frequency: 11008 MHz SLI: No

Case

Enermax

Fulmo GT

Cooling

Corsair

H115i w/ two Noiseblocker NB-eLoop B14-3 140mm fans

Cooling

Kraken

X41 w/ two Noiseblocker NB-eLoop B14-3 140mm fans and a G10 bracket to cool my EVGA 1080 ACX 3.0

Solid State Drive

Samsung

512GB 950 Pro NVME in a AngleBird PX1 expansion card w/ passive heatsink

Accessory

Adaptec

8805 Discrete RAID controller

Hard Drive

Western Digital

Black, Eight 5TB drives in RAID 6

Power Supply

Seasonic

Platinum 1000W Fully Modular

Keyboard

Corsair

Lapdog with K65 RGB keyboard

Mouse

Razer

Chroma

Monitor

Sony

65" X810C 4K TV (Plus 1080P 120Hz!)

Sound

Creative

SoundBlaster X-fi Surround 5.1 Pro USB driving a 1000W Sony 5.1 Surround system via optical, and a Audio-Technica ATH-M50S Professional Studio Monitor Headphones via analog jacks

Accessory

Cyberpower

OR2200PFCRT2U PFC Sinewave UPS 2000VA 1320W PFC Compatible Rack/Tower

Notes

Stepped up my EVGA 980 Ti Classified to an EVGA 1080 ACX 3.0. Put it under my Kraken X41 and see 2.2GHz/11GHz and 39C!

Got my Gigabyte 980 Ti G1 Gaming replaced, after RMAing once, when they couldn't fix the coil whine that had gotten much worse even at 60 FPS (used to be 300+ FPS). The new card has a higher ASIC than the old one, but at 72% it is still lower than my 980 Ti Classifieds - BUT it overclocks to 1500MHz on air! So I put it under my X41 AIO cooler and got it to 1580MHz stable! VRAM is a little slower as it is Crucial and not Samsung (7950 Vs 8120). I couldn't QUITE get 1600MHz stable even without a memory OC. I even tried lengthening the TDR rate in the registry but I'd just get program crashes (not BSODs!) at 1600MHz, which is surprising since I'd get the black screen of death with my Classy with pretty much any OC that it didn't like which would always require a physical restart.

The Corsair H55 started to get warmer and warmer over time with the same ambient temperature (78F), so I sent it back suspecting a slow coolant leak - I did smell a faint trace of alcohol. To replace it I got a Kraken X41 as it has a 6 year warranty, longer tubes (very nice!), larger (140mm) and thicker (36mm) radiator. I purchased two Noiseblocker eLoop B14-3 for use in push/pull (exhaust - the fan next to the case grill gets loud, similar to the 120mm version's buzzing, when set as intake) - they have similar specifications to the 120mm eLoops that I used before. New max temperature while looping Valley: 44C! Mostly it sits around 42C while gaming - much better than the 52-55C that the H55 had.

Mounting the X41 in my Fulmo GT was a bit tricky. I couldn't mount it in the back above the PCIE slots with the tubes on the bottom - the housing bulges out further and blocked me from installing my 980 Ti in the top PCIE slot. So, I had to mount it with the tubes on the top. Even by doing that there isn't a lot of space, so folks with a backplate might have an issue.

Comments

Posted By Date Text

sgtharry
11/11/2016
12:11 PM

Very nice build! +1

DeathAngel74
10/16/2016
11:58 PM

+1 from me nice rig!

Gold Leader
09/06/2016
09:07 AM

Nice setup, yet some pics of how the system is on the inside is more the idea of the MODS RIGS Project, anyone can make a photo of a computer case even an empty one and upload it make a MR page and done, not really the idea, so please add more photo's of the insides of the case, just making it more legit.

Zuhl3156
07/26/2016
09:06 AM

Nice benchmark scores, +1

arestavo
07/25/2016
02:45 PM

Thanks gents! I'll see about posting more pictures, yet I'm afraid I'm more of a utilitarian so they won't be super eye candy.

Vlada011
07/24/2016
12:27 PM

Great hardware, show us more pictures...:)

notfordman
07/02/2016
10:13 PM

Quite a build hardware wise. Nice OC on 980ti, and also 3dmark score with a single GPU. I'm sure you're quite happy with the result. Dannngg on the storage!!! LOL +1 4u :)