The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

You're a kitten, compared to some other moderators I've met on Doom9 I'll leave his name out of it.

 

At least you have my respect

 

ddp, we do seriously appreciate your general leniency. I'm sure a few of us would have bans by now if not for your understanding

I do try to think of Russ as he was a good friend and a mentor to me much like some other members have been. Ireland, Creaky, and Sammorris included. Russ spent many hours of his limited time left here helping me to learn better AMD OCing, and always had interesting stories to tell. He was going to be sending me a 990FXA-UD3 shortly before he passed. The box was sitting in his apartment with an address on it but no postage or anything. If anyone ever happens by him in the afterlife, be sure to drop him $50 for the shipping. I'll pay ya back when I follow

 

Kevin is such a suck up.... LOL

 

Your right Steve, is why I stick with MaximumPC, I have read tons of PC mags and most are bull, all suck up to their advertisers, Maxpc does not, thru the years they have pretty much been on the money, and again everybody has preferences anyway, I have learned a lot form that mag and not loaded with tons of advertising, again mostly you are right, many of those others the ratings and benchmarks suck.

 

Your on the money Est, anyway how come we don't the see The Creak anymore, and what ever happened to Ireland.

 

What and where is the windows forum, and is Creaky still with us?

 

No matter Creak, glad to know your still around and your OK, and yes visit once in a while, stay healthy and safe.

 

Hello creaky! Hope you're well.

I think binkie has been around recently too. Now we just need Neph, herbsman and LOCO to pop along and complete the set!

 

Nice to see you still alive and kicking Creaky

Oh, man. The OLD crew! I joined back in January '06 so was fortunate enough to meet a good chunk of our old timers I'm Still one of the younger regulars AFAIK.

 

Too many to list!

Edit: Just popped in to the Finnish forums and it all looks relatively alive and well!

 

Just an update. 990FXA-UD5 is here and installed as well as the rest of my fans. Everything works and runs A-OK. Not a DOA board lol *knock on wood* and a Rev. 3 so exactly what I was looking for. Seems promising to me. Prime 95 is impressive at stock settings. Maximum of 40*C after an hour. We'll see how it does when OC'd.

Also, no more modded chipset cooling for me. Idles at room temperature and haven't seen it higher than 30 yet. Very well cooled board

Also remember these are Prime 95 temps. Gaming never gets it that hot.

 

http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/62549-amd-fx-processors-wont-get-steamroller-cores-2014/

Any truth to this? If this is true, I may just opt for Jeff's board, or similar, for an encoding machine. Pair it with an 8 Core, and be happy for all of 2014, and likely beyond. I imagine Intel fans and AMD fans find this quite problematic. With such little advancements.

I found the childish remarks in this thread humorous LOL!
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...es_Kaveri_APU_with_Steamroller_x86_Cores.html

 

So the board manages only slightly better. Still limited to 4GHz by my cooler. Meh, that may have to be the next step. LOL I expected it.

 

The cooler in your sig? Looks like it's good size too! This is what I'm using.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233087
I haven't done much overclocking. But it seems pretty capable, provided the ambient isn't over 78 - 80F.

Actually, it's more my NB temperature that concerns me...

 

That is true the target date is the 17th last I heard now whether that pans out is another question. The Kaveri is actually already out to a few select groups, computer builders, so the Kaveri (steamroller) will be here very soon.

I love my 990FXA-UD7 and the UD3 and my transcoding is now freaky fast so I'm in heaven. The NB is the biggest hurdle for OC'n AMD platforms and I wish the heatsinks were more uniform so that we could have an H2O cooling system for them.

Jeff, is the UD5 the old fashion BIOS or the UD3 style GUI BIOS? My guess would be it is still like the UD7 traditional BIOS.