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Jan 08, 08 11:52AMByRo

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.

Thread Recap (last 10 posts from newest to oldest)

May 20, 08 03:35PMByRo

In light of Slayer adding his Laptop too the worklog and ParanahJoe mentioning thinking about it I decided to do it aswell although I know I'm going to have the worst spec'ed one lol (really can't win having a 2005 laptop vs 07/08 lappy's). Im going to add the HDTune for my 750gb as well soon, I forgot I didn't update my specs when I got that so I did that as well.

Mar 20, 08 04:54AMByRo

Well... overnight did a long format and It seemed to fix the massive speed droop, dont know about errors though going to run that b4 I leave for school/work avg speed is 71.5mb/s bursts around 155mb/s sweet drive.

Mar 19, 08 02:32PMByRo

Hahaha, not completely free. They finally charged my cc last night at like 9:50 took 4 days, Oh well. its at 6 errors now on the read surface scan....

Definetly is going back, to bad though my right side side panel is a biatch to put on and off from all the wires behind mobo tray lol.

Mar 19, 08 01:54PMParanahJoe

Thats what you get for free. >.<

Mar 19, 08 01:34PMByRo

OK So, a little update, my Samsung Spinpoint F1 750gb showed up today, unfortunately it was DOA so Im going to have to RMA it

In HD Tune it scored avg 75ish avg but got a minimum of 2.2mb/s

, but it got an error in the health status, so I downloaded the samsung HDD tester and on a random surface scan it got 2 errors, so Im curerntly doing a Read Surface Scan and it has found 3 errors so far only at 50%, in HD Tune the problem seemed to occur around 65-75% of the test being complete so im expecting alot more errors to show up soon

Feb 19, 08 07:48PMByRo

Was bored tonight and decided to run a 3DMark06 Test @ 1280X1024 with Max AA and AF (8aa/16af) To see what the performance drop would be surprisingly it was very small. Only lost 1379 3dMarks, Still above 10k Im very curious to see how these cards would perform with a quad backing them so There would be no bottlenecking, but I'm still impressed and surprised, just shows there is still alot of headroom to be unleashed from these monsters.

Feb 15, 08 11:24AMBufu120

Lans are fun

Feb 13, 08 09:26PMByRo

Lol... Mark won;t be comming at least im pretty sure he wont be.

What exactly do you plan on buying now?! :S

Feb 13, 08 07:32PMParanahJoe

Only $250? That's awesome. Is he coming to the LAN too by chance? I start work the middle of next week, so I'll be buying computer hardware like mad. Full time 'till september and no bills to pay, woot! Well actually 700 for insurance, but I have 6 and some change for that already.

Feb 13, 08 07:06PMByRo

quote Leenseen
Mate, that stainless case is a thing of beauty...

Thanks, I have to agree, I thought about getting the black version cuz it was on sale at one point for $80 less, but I thought I wouldn't be happy with it and end up replacing it quick so I splurged on the one I wanted, no regrets.

quote ParanahJoe
Holy shit how much did you make?

Only $250, Making $250 is better than make $0 and having it sit in the closet.