Menthols Test bench adventures

[Menthol]

I moved to a new location this week, still most stuff in boxes, Verizon FIOS has some sweet connection speeds like nothing I have ever seen. signed up for the 75 MB down 35 MB up, test shows I am getting 84 MB down 39 MB up, I like it. I got 2 test benches for my 2 systems before I moved and have been waiting to transfer the hardware until I moved. so this morning I transferred one system onto Top Desk Test Station and got it up and running. I will tackle the other as soon as I go through some boxes to find some parts, what a hassle, pack it up for easy identification and can find everything except what I'm looking for. I took a couple pics with my cell phone, not very good but posting them anyway.
M6E with a 4770K cooled by Corsair H100i for now, with 8 GB of GSkill 2666 mhz Ram and a GTX 680 this should keep me connected till I tear into the CaseLabs and install that hardware on another test bench.







I have no idea how you guys take such nice pictures

[Menthol]

No sir It seemed to be working OK but I don't trust it. I pulled it out and put my AX1200 back, with the sleeved cables directly from Corsairs site.

I am clueless on how you build your systems with such clean wiring, no mater how I try they just look like s**t.

[nikosa43]

I didn't try single modules. I was disappointed and I thought that if one module is faulty, what's the point. If they sell it as a pair don't have to be binned?

[Retired]

ok, i thought it was the red evga cables.. my misstake..

i have bought a AX 1200w myself now, since i got the HX1000w already, and that unit has never let me down..

i dont know if its the same manufacturer, but who cares.. good stuff

Blue cant Vantage, dont you agree? it need to be red.. anything else in not mating with the head in a right way..

[samual]

I inhale e-cigs, against the will of the health department, but cheaper and a step closer to quitting nicotine.

[nikosa43]

samual wrote:
I inhale e-cigs, against the will of the health department, but cheaper and a step closer to quitting nicotine.

Is this the electronic cig? I was thinking about. How it tastes?

[samual]

I use tabacco flavors , they are ok (wide variety), but I miss the smell of cigarettes. I takes time to get used to the fact that your not smoking, but I don't crave cigarettes.

[Menthol]

Awesome someone contested my Catzilla score from ages ago, there is not even points given for this benchmark. Didn't have a screen shot so I went to Allbenchmark site and took a screen of my results, it's even higher than what I posted on the bot.





I have entered results incorrectly before, but never intentionally

[Zka17]

No worries, my friend, it happens with all of us... - important is that you addressed the issue...

That guy was complaining more about him not being able to submit scores with that benchmark... maybe, you could send him a message on his wall how you did it...

[Menthol]

Well, your supposed to be able to enter your hwbot info at Allbenchmark site and the information of your run would be sent automatically, I don't remember if it worked at that time or if I entered them at the bot, I think if I would have entered them manually I would have included screen shots, it's been awhile, I just don't remember. There are no points for Allbench at this time so it's not like it helps your ranking

[Menthol]

There is a lot of hype about the Titan Killer but they have been hard to find in stock, now the Titan Killer Killer the 780 ti is released today so I have sold a couple of my 780 Classifieds and have a AMD 290x arrived today and a 780 ti should arrive tomorrow, I am a little skeptical that either can trump the Classified's but since I am a very stubborn person I am going to conduct my own comparison, 2 ssd's with Win7 one with AMD drivers and one with Nvidia drivers compare them out of the box, then see what overclock I can get on the factory air coolers, I have an EK block ordered for the 290x, non available for the 780 ti at this time. I have high hopes that if there is a winter Challenge it will be 3D and I will have my weapon of choice picked out before hand. Since I have my 24/7 rig now I am just going to bench with the x79 and buy, bench, sell gpu's and repeat
. I will post some benchmark comparison's if anyone is interested