Marcel - 3XS X58 Core I7 Build

[Philipp]

Pictures to follow

[Marcel]

Looking forward to them.

[Marcel]

1- Can I add an additional (6th):-

LN9036
120mm AK-183-L2B Akasa Amber Case Fan, 3 Pin, 2 Ball Bearing , Ultra Quiet and Long life

to be installed at the side of the case (left side panel).
Question is would this fan block the larger graphics cards?


2 - You have ordered 2 x 80Gb drive (1 x 300Gb drive removed/replaced by 2nd 80gb) and 1 x 1000Gb how would you like the drives configured and are there any partitions needed?

In response to your e-mail, the 80GB SSD drive should be the system drive with Windows (shudders) Vista 64bit ultimate.
No RAID array required.
As for partitions I’ll phone up Monday and hopefully speak to you Philip.
Any feedback from users is welcome, as I’m very new to partitioning.

Read somewhere that separating the OS, Data and Applications is a good idea. Multi-boot setup also sounds very interesting.


3 - Can you please make sure that the latest bios, (P6T Deluxe) 1403 Bios are put on the motherboard.

[Disturbedguy]

Why not put the smaller 80Gb Drive as your system drive and use the larger drivers for other stuff?

[Marcel]

Why not put the smaller 80Gb Drive as your system drive and use the larger drivers for other stuff?

I have finally read the whole SSD articles:-

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

and

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535

thanks Disturbedguy wouldn't have taken another look unless you posted.

[Marcel]

Pictures to follow

Gets popcorn ready; today is build day.

[Philipp]

Hi Marcel,

Sorry for the delay with the pictures



Systems just finishing build

[Marcel]

Hi Marcel,

Sorry for the delay with the pictures

Systems just finishing build

What does it look like put together; can we expect more pictures today?

[Philipp]

[Marcel]

My apologies to the engineer(s) who is/are building the PC, for the choice of a non-removable motherboard tray case and all the fans.

Can one PCI-E power connector be made available towards the first PCI-E slot, so that I can install my 7900GTO straight away, thank you in advance.


Pictures are looking good. If more pictures are getting made can we please have one for the back plate to see the cabling. And one showing the 6th fans (side panel) cabling.

[Philipp]

Hi Marcel,

We have left a spare PCI-E power connector free for your graphics card, its there just sat at the bottom

[Marcel]

Hi Marcel,

We have left a spare PCI-E power connector free for your graphics card, its there just sat at the bottom

Thank you

[Marcel]

Philipp can you please post results (when available) of the overclock achieved on this build, along with temps (ambient) and CPU.

[Marcel]

Any news on the 24 hour burn test, are we on track for the Friday delivery?

[Marcel]

Any news on the 24 hour burn test, are we on track for the Friday delivery?

Never mind been updating the 3XS System Support Tracking all day like a kid on Christmas day.

QC Test Details
BURN IN TEST
CPU Pass
MEM Pass
HARD DISK Pass
SOUND Pass
VIDEO PLAYBACK Pass
MEMTEST 86
NO: OF PASSES 21 (is that out of 21?)
TIME TAKEN 19:57
PERFORMANCE TEST
Score 3096.2/3111.

[Mossy]

As far as I am aware everything is A Ok and will be shipped as discussed.

Looking Good!