Monday, 23 July 2012

Impatience and feedback on GK104

So yesterday I got sick of waiting for the inevitable upgrade of my motherboard and CPU and decided I would just "port" my old computer Vesy into her new body retaining what I could and beefing it up with the new parts.  I started working on it at about 11am and finished completely at about 11pm.  Here are some pics of the process:


 First tower I ever built in.  Won't make the mistake of buying just coz its the only one accessible.
The internals.  What a mess....

 Here's my old Asus P6T Deluxe v2.  Not a bad board.  It's missing SATA III and USB 3.0 which are about the only things that are worth upgrading for.
 Vesy, meet your new body!
 Set up the motherboard and seated the GPUs.  Made an absolute NOOB mistake of not putting in the raising screws onto the chassis before I seated it.  Had to redo that.  As you can see there's still some daylight at this point.
 Here we have it set up cables and all.  Sun is now gone, hence flash.  So neat, so clean.  Don't mind the lone HDD.  That's gonna be gone the moment I get an SSD.
 Door closed and all assembled.
 Vesy lives!!!  The UV light was probably a bit much.  The idea was to light up the white parts of the internals.  Unfortunately there isnt much white yet.  Not until the upgrade anyway.  Also seems that not everything white will light up.  Need to figure out lighting at a later point.
At this point, the computer started but there was no monitor signal.  This was about 9pm.  After another couple hours of trouble shooting, it ended up being as simple as removing the motherboard battery for a few seconds.











So my GPU performance is now enormous.  SLI was a little tricky to get my head around but its all good now.  The GTX670 is amazing.  It has HD Audio bitstreaming as well as not having the silent stream issue that previous nvidia cards suffered from.  Some games still see some slowdown but I suspect the SLI profile isn't kicking in.  BF3 singleplayer is a constant 59fps though which is perfect.


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