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    £520 is roughly the current price of the 24 port card I have in my fileserver. It's been around for a long time though, SAS/SATA2. Areca ARC-1280ML

    Good card.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Purplz View Post
    Some changes to my setup since the last time I posted, heres an update:



    What case is that?! I DEMAND TO KNOW!

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    NZXT Phantom I think?

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    Corsair Graphite 600T

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    Black NZXT Phatom with With strips


    EDIT: Suck that the tubes cover the whole room
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aminozuur View Post
    Black NZXT Phatom with With strips


    EDIT: Suck that the tubes cover the whole room
    Yeah, most LC builds I've seen are either very conservative with their tubing, or they run their tubing in very specific places.
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    He actually could have made them shorter and changed the path a wee bit to help with that. Doesn't matter too much since he has a small loop, but the longer your tubing, the more it takes from your pump. If it's a long loop with many things in it you want to keep your tubing as short as possible. Or just have a better pump(s).
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    Well I'll be honest, Areca and LSi cards are REALLY good. I used to use an 8 port(2 MiniSAS connectors) LSI 8888ELP in my old desktop, awesome card. Had to sell the thing after losing my job since I wasn't using it at that point. Also at the time, I worked at a place where I could get stupid discounts. We cleaned up, repaired or refurb'd used hardware and the like and sold it. Many of the higher ups had no clue about technology, and I worked in receiving.

    Also both of those cards had breakout cables already, I didn't need to buy them.
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    Synthaxx what is the plan after the 20 SSDs and Ivybridge? New GPU since the 600 series and 7000 series should be around by then?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Synthaxx View Post
    Nah, i still plan to skip that generation of GPU's. Perhaps i'll sit on my hands until i can get 32GB 1600Mhz+ RAM, which should be soonish being 4GB modules have been around for some time. If not, i'll add in the last 4 SSD's for that card. I've not actually looked at Ivy Bridge specific details yet, and outside knowing it's 22nm and will work in P67 board, i don't think i'd be able to say much. I'm hoping for an 8-core hyperthreaded chip but feel that might be LGA2011 only.

    Still, having checked up on current prices, and knowing they're likely to drop as we head into the sales near years end, i've worked out that despite the cost from initial view, it shouldn't actually be as expensive on a per month basis as i originally imagined. The first few months are gonna be costly, but it kinda evens out after that.

    I guess i'm now at a point where i'm waiting on the tech itself to hit the market. First time i've been here, and it does bore me a little having to wait around, but i guess it's nice to relax once in a while.

    Now, if only it wasn't bank holiday tomorrow, i might have been able to get to work on replacing the board
    Dude I'm with you. This is also my first true custom-built computer (the old Gateway being the one from before... ew)... I've been pretty damn sure I was going to aim for Ivybridge since I heard about it several months ago, and that was before I had a job. Now that I have a job I know I'll be getting an Ivybridge, I hope for an 8 core as well. ^_< With any luck, they'll be as overclockable.... or even more-so than the 2500k and 2600Ks. ^_^
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    This can't be right...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drunkenvalley View Post
    This can't be right...
    Have you set voltage to 1.0ish or is it severe vdroop? How stable is it when running IBT 2.52?

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    that vcore does look a tad low, but i'd check it with a different program than cpuz

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wries View Post
    Have you set voltage to 1.0ish or is it severe vdroop? How stable is it when running IBT 2.52?
    Severe droop I believe. o_o I honestly don't know. I'll have to reboot and check.

    But it's stable so far when running Prime95...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drunkenvalley View Post
    This can't be right...
    Looks right to me. CPU-z is not very reliable for checking vcore from my experience.

    Also... I really need to start checking this thread on the weekends. I had to catch up with like... 7 pages. :s
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    similar results with my cpuz vcore screenshot.



    i assume it's because i have dynamic vcore on, as i cannot seem to set the vcore directly and alter it to a specific value. as a result, in all honesty, i actually have no idea what my vcore is. on an average day though it doesn't go much above 60C and on a hot/stuffy day it reached around 65C average, so it's not really an issue right now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Asera View Post
    Looks right to me. CPU-z is not very reliable for checking vcore from my experience.
    Then what to use? ;_;

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drunkenvalley View Post
    Then what to use? ;_;
    This: http://www.northerntool.com/images/p.../163100_lg.jpg ^^

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marest View Post
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    Don't even know where to begin with that.
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    =.= @ Marest

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