My First Creation (pics)

[Numfar]

Hey this is my first time building,modding, and overclocking a system. Is there any bad in it? What would you do different etc. Bought all my parts at ncix payed around $2700.
Specs:

-37" Sharp Aquos
-Gigabyte X58a UD7
-I7 920@3.8Ghz (mx2 thermal paste)
-Corsair H50
-Corsiar HX850W
-6GB G.Skill Trident pc3 16000
-2 XFX radeon 4890s
-2 WD Black 650Gb
-1 WB Black 1Tb
-LG and Samsung DVD writers
-On board sound...cringe...couldn't get my ht omega striker in.
-corsair obsidian 800d case (like it wasn't obvious from the pics;p)
-Aerocool 2000 fan controller (purely aesthetic)
-2000rmp delta fans x3 the rest are yate loon and corsair

I'm not sure how to take screen shots of my desktop to prove my overclock is it fraps?
So far i'm at 3.8ghz @ 1.35v
9-9-9-24 1900mhz @ 1.6v
qpi/vtt @ 1.460v (seems to be voltage hungry..to high?)
heat wise cpu is at 65 @ 100 percent load/north bridge is between 60-70
Passes memtest86 and 8 hours of prime95
3dmark06 score is 24900 and vantage was a few points shy of 20000

I didn't go crazy with the modding but i did a bit of cutting and spray painting. One day I would like to go full water cooling and use that nice north bridge block. Would also like to fold soon can anybody chuck me a good link about how to set that up? Cheers and Thanks

[SugarJ]

Welcome aboard! An honest man I see, even showed the back side. Nice build.

[Numfar]

Actually thats a earlier pic as i was building. I have even more wires now and i use some double sided tape to stick the on/off switch for the cold cathodes in the back. I also wanted to show off the back cause i painted the IO panel. I wanted it entirely black outside. On a side note I can fit a 140mm fan on the back, there is so much room but I am not sure how much it would help;p

[MonsterSound]

Very nice setup and a great case.
You can always hit "Prt Scrn" to put a screen shot (full desktop capture) in your clipboard and paste it into an app ("Alt" + "Prt Scrn" for top window capture only) or use one of the many free sceen capture products.
I just noticed that you are running Win7 - Win7 includes the snipping tool screen capture app.
Are you running the 2 x 640 WD's in RAID0? They would perform quite well.
You can get hooked on folding so watch out but it would be great if you joined the team.
Also, HWC has a folding contest on right now so you could win a GTX 260.
Folding info here.
You could even fold some serious bigadv units with your setup btw. The bigadv units require a fast powerful setup. bigadv setup info here.
Hope you join the team, Cheers.

[Numfar]

thanks for the info monster. No I'm not running in raid0 yet but I did ponder it. Right now I'm using the 1TB and the 640Gb to store downloads etc. I use the other 640 strictly for my OS and games. How much performance would i get out of raiding the 2 hd's? Would it speed up loading times much or help with encoding? And the ultimate question is it worth the time and risk?

[Numfar]

How is this?

[prozac26]

Nice build.

I love the screen. Good stuff.

[Snafu]

Looks cool! What is the front panel display?

[Polygon]

That's one sexy piece of machinery.

PS. YOU WILL NEVER GET THIS. hahah love that pic

[rjbarker]

Is it a C1 or DO stepping chip..?..if its DO stepping you should be able to lower your vCore considerably.
Welcome aboard!