ByRo's Crossfire Build


Rig Specs:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium x64
Motherboard: ASUS M2R32-MVP 0804 Bios
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ OC'ed @ 3.0GHz
Memory: 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 OCZ Platinum 4-4-4-12 1T @ 750MHz
Video Cards: 1 HIS 3870 ICEQ3 512mb (gift from gf) and 1 HIS 3870 512mb w/ reference cooler
Hard Drives: 250GB Western Digital SATA2 16mb cache / 750 Samsung F1 Series SATA2 32mb Cache
Optical Drive: Samsung SATA 20x DVD-RW
Power Supply: EnLight 650W 80+ Triple 12v rails.
Heatsink: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro w/ AS5
Case: Thermaltake Soprano DX

Cooling: 3 X 120mm LED Fans, 3 X 120mm Tri-cool Fans, OCZ XTC Memory Cooler.

Accesories:
Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gen.2
Mouse: Logitech G5
Speakers: Logitech Z-10
Race Wheel: Logitech G25
Monitor: Samsung 940BW 19" Widescreen 4ms DVI (gift from gf)
Headset: Sennheiser PC-161
Mouse Pad: Razer Mantis Speed

Benchmarks
3DMark 06 - 11744 CPU is a large bottleneck here | 3DMark06 16XAF 8XAA 10365
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3DMark 05 and here


3DMark 03 - 55529 20k 3dmark increase with Crossfire enabled here


3DMark 01 - 40697 I have no Idea how this scoring is calculated, lower 01 than 03...


HD Tune
Western Digital 250gb | Samsung 750GB


Crysis Bench This test seemed to have been acting weird, Ill retest some time to be sure.


Stability Testing - Prime95 + Fur Render Ran two threads of P95, one per core, and also ran 3DZon'es Fur render for 8h30m same as p95. temps were in check and no issues at all.


Just some fps from playing some games: CoD4 anywhere from 80-240 fps, TF2 anywhere from 70-180fps.

Pictures:

Heres some pictures of starting to work on cable management, and most components after I gutted the system awaiting the new PSU and 2nd HD3870 from NCIX.




Whooohooo Peices arrive.



Uh Ohh Some damage .... Ironic spot for damage on the box too.. lol



Turns out nothing was damaged although PSU looks like it took a nice hit and heres some pictures of it finished:



NEW Pictures, got a new case!:

Just some pics of the inside and work space. The cooler is now turned 90 degree and face the back, wouldn't fit that way at first but I made it fit (stupid OCZ mem cooler...)



Heres Wo0feR, came to see wut was up


Added Laptop, Why? because everyone seems to be getting one now

Model: Alienware Area-51 m5500
Model year: 2005
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Motherboard: Alienware 255/259 Series
Processor: Intel Pentium-M 740 @ 1.73GHz (800MHz Throttled)
Memory: 1GB Dual Channel (2x512mb) PC2-4300 DDR2 Samsung 4-4-4-11 @ 533MHz
Hard Drive: 40GB Samsung 5400RPM 8mb cache ATA 100 (After googling part # I thought it was SATA but opened the machine up today and its ATA)
Optical Drive: CD+- RW DVD Reader Combo Drive
Battery: 8-cell Lithium-Ion
Display: 15.4" 1280X800

Pictures:


HD Tune and GPU/CPU-Z

Not to bad for a 5400RPM 40gb ATA drive....


So thats it! Hope you guys like it and I'm looking forward to feed back.

If theres any pictures you'd like to see that arn't on here ask, Ill take them and post em.

This message was edited by ByRo on May 20 2008.

I want a gf lke yours

Bring your gpu's over and let me try 'em

Haha You wish. How many posts/time registered do you need to be able to do more then 1 URL :S I'm only allowed to do two, original post I was going to make had 48 (24 pics w/ thumbnails)

Lol meh, for the price deficit my computer 'pwns' I think it's like 50 or something. Then you can put more links & a custom title too and whatnot.

I want to say it's 35 posts...but that's without checking. It'll go in no time if you post a few times a day. It's a safe-guard against members who sign up explicitly to advertise.

Wow, nice GF you have there

quote Anonymous

want to say it's 35 posts

Yeah, I think it is 35 posts.

quote the slayer

Wow, nice GF you have there

Heh Thanks. At first she didn't want me to put that she gamme them on here, but after the first "I want a gf like yours" comment she asking me if any1 else was saying things like that... guess it made her feel good. Lol

Quite impressive, I would very much like to see a phenom and tri-fire config happen soon (=

my motherboard that I have been waiting exactly one month is scheduled to arrive tomorrow ... but byro already knows this lol...

ill post my build tomorrow or on the weekend

Update: Added all all pictures and benchmarks. Enjoy.

Haha sweet desk setup man, got a fridge closeby? you'll never have to leave with the phone, clock and fridge! some good stuff..

Unfortunately I don't have a mini fridge in my room. But the kitchen fridge is like... 12 steps away just across the hall... So really I am all set :]

Update Bench's on 3dm06 and 03

Post as normal with your update, then edit your first post if you wish to enter your scores into anything. Nice, BTW.

PSU's are built like tanks. i had a PSU that i was going to throw out.

slammed it against the side of a big dump bin thing. and it didn't break. so we decided to try and power it up and it stil lran perfectly with this massive dint in the side after being swung by the cables into a bin. lol