Yveltal1151 PC Build - Day 1&2 - Building and Setup [3/3]
After finishing the build (I just had to put the board into the case, do proper cable management and re-install the GPU) I set to the lab! Actually my mom’s office, but whatever, I wanted to use Ethernet at least for the setup.
DAY 2: Yet another struggle! The L-bracket to hold the PSU in place actually covered up the space for the clips on 2 of my 3 SATA-Power slots, so I could only use 1 cable with 4 outputs. In the end I settled on putting the DVD-Burner in the lowest slot, which I really don’t care about, because it enables better cable management due to only using 1 cable for 3 hardware parts! Onto the windows installing...which went by very fast. SSD <3<3
The picture is from my first stress test with actually not exhaust fans, because I thought the cpu cooler would more then sufficiently work for that, but I didn’t know I had it in reverse at that point. Still 50°C under full load is very good!
As I still had that random fan around, that I pulled out of the rear slot in my case, I decided to put it into the top-back slot so to cool the cpu heatsink even more.
There it is, back in its case for now. My plan actually worked out and I got from 50°C to 40°C just by putting that fan back. So next step: Overclocking. Now here’s my result: 1.25V, 45x100 BCLK. It’s actually 1.28V while on load, but it runs stable at this crazy speeds, that is 1000MHz over the stock clock speed. From what I’ve read on the laptop while doing longer stress tests on the PC, my chip is actually a really really good one. Silicon Lottery considered won!
Here’s a picture of the last stress test with my final settings:
Back to 50°C, which is still awesome, but now we’re rocking 4.5GHz on this baby!
After that I did a longer 4hour stresstest on aida64 and another 4 hour one on Asus Realbench, both passed and I had already downloaded most of my software on the laptop and actually had a lot of free time on day 2.
Plans for the future: The next thing on the list is fixing that cpu cooler (it’s still wrong...I’m just that lazy at this point) and putting in 3 brand new Aerocool Shark Fan Devil Red Edition - Transparent Black Red LED (120x120x25mm) 1 in the rear slot and two in the top. I even bought a Y-Splitter cable so I can run the two top fans in one slot. I’m going to change the front intake to CHA1_FAN and decide where to put the rear and top according to motherboard layout. I also deconstructed my old prebuilt machine and put my old 1TB HDD into the 3.5″ bay already, maybe I’ll try installing it soon, I can get back some more data, if that drive still works. I might also built an ITX machine with the parts from my old PC (Still have RAM, i5-2500 + stock cooler and my trust AMD Radeon HD 6870!). Sadly I’m kinda broke now, (Michelle stop buying Pokemon cards...goddamnit) so that ITX build will have to wait a bit, if I don’t end up selling just the parts. I also started on my rainmeter setup. I love Rainmeter, even used it on my old laptop, just to casually watch that poor i3 thermal throttle like hell, without knowing what’s going on I guess...of course this time with a black/red-Yveltal Theme in mind :)
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