Alright guys, so I was pretty much done with overheated Quad's of haswell 1150 (had enough of delidding), even though I had a pretty good run with the 4770K, that I got from the famous Gunslinger at EVGA. I've been following the x99 platform from the first leak that came out claiming a slight chance of a hexacore for a decent price. A few months later it became pretty obvious, so all I needed to do was to sit back and relax. 750 ti came out in february, it has been the most enjoyable card to play with, mine with, just not fold with (those guys still haven't got it working well with Core 17 WU's). And after knowing it's potential, the only question came to mind was, when would its bigger brothers hit the market? So from leak to rumor, I'm glad that Nvidia finally launched it on Game24.
So first, the processor:
The memory: (these are 2400Mhz DDR4, 4GB sticks, Cl 15)
The connector has shifted slightly towards the middle, with the pins being thinner at the edges and thicker towards the center:
So, initially, I got a Gigabyte x99 G1 Gaming motherboard, as you can see how nice it looks:
But here's what happened. The motherboard, regardless of how good it looks, was nothing but real crap, and I really mean it. You know after you BSOD, after a fail OC attempt, this mobo would go into either a reboot loop, or it would fail to boot beyond the bios screen, and guess what? You wouldn't know what the hell is going on as there is no post code or Dr Debug LED. Gigabyte thought that the audio should replace basic necessities as these, and they would rather have it in their WIFI version. Yes, how stupid is that. The way I see it guys, if I'm paying close to $300 for a motherboard, in this day and age, it should bloody well have a debug LED. So I sent his back to newegg, on their expense.
Moving on, I had my eye on the 'still yet to be released' x99-a of ASUS, as I thought of it to be the perfect board with all the features that it included and the price, but as it turns out, my eye caught the OC Formula that had just been listed last Monday, so I just grabbed that instead, even though being $50 more expensive, I thought, hopefully it's worth as much.
The x99 OC Formula:
And so now for the highlight of this unboxing, or at least the newest hardware that I got is none other than, GTX 970:
I got this earlier in the year but never unboxed it, so all of this is being powered by EVGA 1300W G2 SuperNova:
Putting all the good stuff together:
So this is it. I'm waiting on EK to release some x99 mobo blocks for the VRM, as well as for the 970's.
I don't know how well Skylake is gonna be next year, whether the per core power and efficiency would be more or less than the current Haswell, as I was a little skeptical of that, I built this rig. Time to retire the 4130 and Z87 deluxe, they've done well for the while I used them, not even one BSOD!
As for why didn't I get the 980? Well if I were on going for one card, or if I was PSU power limited, then I'd surely get the 980, but after seeing the actual retail prices, two 970's made perfect sense.
This is the first time that I'm not posting numbers, I may later on, in the other section, but I think most of you guys can roughly guess how this system would perform. Rough numbers would be the 5820K @ 4.2Ghz (1.153V), of course adaptive. And the 970's both at 1500Mhz on the core, real impressive stuff on these GPU's.
Now, what else could one want?
Thanks for looking!
So first, the processor:
The memory: (these are 2400Mhz DDR4, 4GB sticks, Cl 15)
The connector has shifted slightly towards the middle, with the pins being thinner at the edges and thicker towards the center:
So, initially, I got a Gigabyte x99 G1 Gaming motherboard, as you can see how nice it looks:
But here's what happened. The motherboard, regardless of how good it looks, was nothing but real crap, and I really mean it. You know after you BSOD, after a fail OC attempt, this mobo would go into either a reboot loop, or it would fail to boot beyond the bios screen, and guess what? You wouldn't know what the hell is going on as there is no post code or Dr Debug LED. Gigabyte thought that the audio should replace basic necessities as these, and they would rather have it in their WIFI version. Yes, how stupid is that. The way I see it guys, if I'm paying close to $300 for a motherboard, in this day and age, it should bloody well have a debug LED. So I sent his back to newegg, on their expense.
Moving on, I had my eye on the 'still yet to be released' x99-a of ASUS, as I thought of it to be the perfect board with all the features that it included and the price, but as it turns out, my eye caught the OC Formula that had just been listed last Monday, so I just grabbed that instead, even though being $50 more expensive, I thought, hopefully it's worth as much.
The x99 OC Formula:
And so now for the highlight of this unboxing, or at least the newest hardware that I got is none other than, GTX 970:
I got this earlier in the year but never unboxed it, so all of this is being powered by EVGA 1300W G2 SuperNova:
Putting all the good stuff together:
So this is it. I'm waiting on EK to release some x99 mobo blocks for the VRM, as well as for the 970's.
I don't know how well Skylake is gonna be next year, whether the per core power and efficiency would be more or less than the current Haswell, as I was a little skeptical of that, I built this rig. Time to retire the 4130 and Z87 deluxe, they've done well for the while I used them, not even one BSOD!
As for why didn't I get the 980? Well if I were on going for one card, or if I was PSU power limited, then I'd surely get the 980, but after seeing the actual retail prices, two 970's made perfect sense.
This is the first time that I'm not posting numbers, I may later on, in the other section, but I think most of you guys can roughly guess how this system would perform. Rough numbers would be the 5820K @ 4.2Ghz (1.153V), of course adaptive. And the 970's both at 1500Mhz on the core, real impressive stuff on these GPU's.
Now, what else could one want?
Thanks for looking!
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