Computer specs

[Zabhawkin]

AMD Athlon II X2 260 3.2 GHZ 8Gig ram
AMD Radeon HD 6800

yeah its a bit old.

[Lordred]

running an overclock for reasons....

[spavatch]

Two Asus Radeon 7970 graphics cards in Crossfire mode, Soundblaster Audigy, 8 GB of OCZ Reaper 8500 DDR2 RAM, Asus M3A79-T Deluxe mobo, all that stuffed into a CM Stacker STC-T01 case with dual 500W Seasonic PSUs and powered by Phenom II 1100T BE @4.0 GHz waiting to be pushed a bit more when I finally find some time and eagerness to swap the radiators...

[Lordred]

Back when I had my 1100T the highest I could get her to go was 4400mhz on 6/6 with 1.504v under load.

Skys the limit!

[spavatch]

Skys the limit!

Well, at least until AMD Zen comes out. I was flirting with an idea of switching to FX-9590 and running it at fixed 5 GHz but it would require buying new mobo and RAM (mind you, not the cheapest ones) which would still be Zen incompatible. Switching from AM2+ to AM3 and spending like a $1000 equivalent for stuff that would still be a stopgap setup half year before Zen CPUs being brought to the market is obviously a poor investment so I have to wait and enjoy what serves me well for 7 years now .

[Microwave]

Rule number 1 of Computers: Don't buy shit in advance. Take Broadwell as an example, it was hyped to be a big thing but turned out to only be marginally (and I mean marginally) better than Haswell so far.

[Lordred]

Skys the limit!

Well, at least until AMD Zen comes out. I was flirting with an idea of switching to FX-9590 and running it at fixed 5 GHz but it would require buying new mobo and RAM (mind you, not the cheapest ones) which would still be Zen incompatible. Switching from AM2+ to AM3 and spending like a $1000 equivalent for stuff that would still be a stopgap setup half year before Zen CPUs being brought to the market is obviously a poor investment so I have to wait and enjoy what serves me well for 7 years now .

Keep in mind, that the Stars final stepping E-O (Aka Thubans) are much faster than even the Piledriver C0 (Vishera) at instruction per clock.


Fastest My 1100T would do was a 4400mhz core clock, 3300mhz CPU-NB, and would handle DDR3 speeds of 2090ish. I had it on a M4N98td EVO, and it was running two GTX-480s.

Keep in mind that Skylake is very, very very fast. If Zen doesn't deliver I will have no quarrels with going to Skylake-E

[koolkei]

Skys the limit!

Well, at least until AMD Zen comes out. I was flirting with an idea of switching to FX-9590 and running it at fixed 5 GHz but it would require buying new mobo and RAM (mind you, not the cheapest ones) which would still be Zen incompatible. Switching from AM2+ to AM3 and spending like a $1000 equivalent for stuff that would still be a stopgap setup half year before Zen CPUs being brought to the market is obviously a poor investment so I have to wait and enjoy what serves me well for 7 years now .

still how did you managed to run 2 PSU at the same time??

[spavatch]

still how did you managed to run 2 PSU at the same time??

CM Stacker STC-T01 ATX/BTX case is designed to house two PSUs. There's a special passthrough cable that turns the secondary PSU on simultaneously with the first one with a single button. Just plug them in as you would with a single PSU in any other case and it works.

[koolkei]

oh there's a special connector. so it's running in parallel right?

[spavatch]

Exactly. I didn't need them for extra power though. Initially the idea was to run a RAID1 array the disks powered by separate PSUs for extra safety (I mean what's the point of RAID1 if you likely lose both of them when the PSU goes up in flames). Then the setup grew big around these PSUs - the best CPU supported by this mobo, two graphic cards, a liquid cooling setup with a quite powerful pump. I thought the blessing of 1000W in total shouldn't waste like that being unused .