Sir_Gawain
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Just stumbled upon this site and wanted to share the work I recently did on my R3. Let me know what you think!
Started of by swapping out the motherboard with an Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z/Gen3
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Next, was modding the side panel and making a side window.
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Last was to install proper power to handle overclocking my 2600k and 7970's. Also, to re arrange wires so my lower 7970 wasnt suffocated by the pile of wires directly under the GPU fan. I had to remove the left hand side hard drive bay, but that is of no loss to me. The rewire (although not fully complete, still going to tidy up) reduced the GPU temps drastically! When I set my Pcie fan to 50%, my temps on Ultra settings in BF3 havnt gone over 73C (overclocked!). Very pleased as one card would normally hit 81-82C in BF3 before.
Im very happy with the PSU as well. Im not sure if its in my head or not, but the system feels more responsive....almost like it was being held back lol. I played with some OC's yesterday to see how my system would hold up. I was able to do light GPU clocking and ran my CPU @ 4.5ghtz. No crashes, nice and stable! Im really going to fine tune my GPUs now as the 7970 is a monster of an overclocker for the most part.
By sir_gawain at 2012-03-07
By sir_gawain at 2012-03-10
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By sir_gawain at 2012-03-10
Started of by swapping out the motherboard with an Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z/Gen3

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04
Next, was modding the side panel and making a side window.

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-04
Last was to install proper power to handle overclocking my 2600k and 7970's. Also, to re arrange wires so my lower 7970 wasnt suffocated by the pile of wires directly under the GPU fan. I had to remove the left hand side hard drive bay, but that is of no loss to me. The rewire (although not fully complete, still going to tidy up) reduced the GPU temps drastically! When I set my Pcie fan to 50%, my temps on Ultra settings in BF3 havnt gone over 73C (overclocked!). Very pleased as one card would normally hit 81-82C in BF3 before.
Im very happy with the PSU as well. Im not sure if its in my head or not, but the system feels more responsive....almost like it was being held back lol. I played with some OC's yesterday to see how my system would hold up. I was able to do light GPU clocking and ran my CPU @ 4.5ghtz. No crashes, nice and stable! Im really going to fine tune my GPUs now as the 7970 is a monster of an overclocker for the most part.

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-07

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-10

By sir_gawain at 2012-03-10

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By sir_gawain at 2012-03-10