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How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart.

In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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Considering ordering the Nepton 280l or just going for the 240m which is available in my country(if I order the 280L I'm going to pay at least 30% on the original price(tax+customs)). The 280L is a better performer but the 240m is quieter, I am just wondering if the pump on the the 240m is also quieter (because I don't care about the fans as they would be switched for the Noctua A14PMW). The official specs state that the pump on the 240m is quieter but the reviews and comparisons only mention the overall noise or the fan noise.

 

Also going to switch out the case fans for Noctua A15's.

"because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

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Tempted to build a rig around a 5930, going to splurge a bit

 

You going for SLI/Crossfire? Either way this article will interest you

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_980_PCI-Express_Scaling/1.html

 

No SLI. Might actually just get a 5820k, instead. Save some money but still have a platform if I want to nab an upgrade later on (well for the brief window..). Means DDR4 though, bah.

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Considering ordering the Nepton 280l or just going for the 240m which is available in my country(if I order the 280L I'm going to pay at least 30% on the original price(tax+customs)). The 280L is a better performer but the 240m is quieter, I am just wondering if the pump on the the 240m is also quieter (because I don't care about the fans as they would be switched for the Noctua A14PMW). The official specs state that the pump on the 240m is quieter but the reviews and comparisons only mention the overall noise or the fan noise.

 

Also going to switch out the case fans for Noctua A15's.

 

Called the CM branch in my country, it seems that the new shipment of the Nepton 280L will arrive in the middle of January so I will probably go for that. 

"because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

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If you zoom in the second to last picture you will see "PCIE_16/8_3" marking for the slot the card is currently in. So in essence it should still support x16.

Have you tried the very bottom PCIE 3.0 slot? According to the newegg page, the board properly supports 40 lane CPUs, so while the middle slot seems to be designed purely for x8, I don't think the bottom is.

 

(edit) Looking at the manual, it seems like the third slot is the correct one for dual x16 usage with the first. I am guessing the fact that you have a 28 lane CPU is the problem - even though the port actually supports x16, your 28 lane CPU seems to not be configured to do so. I'm not sure if Asus could correct that in a BIOS update, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

 

 

The board does only supports two x16 PCIe channels with 40 lane CPUs, I think the 5820K is the only i7 LGA 2011 to not support 40 lanes. 2*16= 32, 5820K has 28 lanes, so double x16 channels aren't possible.

 

The Rampage V only supports x16 PCIe in the top slot unless running SLI/Crossfire.

 

It doesn't make a difference in terms of performance right now unless you're running 3 or more GPU in SLI/Crossfire. It barely makes a difference with single cards.

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Right. My point, similarly, was that the port DOES support x16 - it's just not working at x16 either because the CPU was not configured for it, (because it's a 28 lane CPU, as you said), or because the motherboard is dumb and has an arbitrary restriction.

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How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart.

In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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Right. My point, similarly, was that the port DOES support x16 - it's just not working at x16 either because the CPU was not configured for it, (because it's a 28 lane CPU, as you said), or because the motherboard is dumb and has an arbitrary restriction.

 

On the Asus forums they said that it's like that and that they won't/can't change it.

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Apparently the Fractal Define R5 doesn't support EATX, I thought if I removed the drive cages and mounted one to the bottom I could make it work but the R5 has a recessed MoBo tray, meaning most EATX MoBos will hit the tray around the cable management holes. I'll be getting the Fractal XL R2, it's bigger and has less features but it's cool and silent, most other silent cases I looked at, out of the few that support EATX, had glaring issues. It's possible the R4 would work, and I was really tempted to try, I've seen pics with EATX MoBos in them, but they're not officially supported and the Rampage V is bigger than most, unlike the R5 the R4 doesn't have removable 5.25" bays.

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Newegged the following:

 

Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/480G 2.5"

AMD Radeon™ RP1866 Performance Series 16GB

ASUS A88X-PLUS FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X (Bolton D4) HDM

Fractal Design FD-CA-CORE-3500-BL-W Black Steel AT

SeaSonic G Series SSR-550RM 550W ATX12V / EPS12V S

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120

ASUS 24X DVD Burner - Bulk 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X - OEM

 

Will be paired with an AMD A-10 5800.

 

Won't be my rig, but building it for a relative with light gaming in mind. Going to see how well it works without a discrete GPU.

 

 

Finally got around to finishing my build on this sucker. Paired with an Asus VN248 23.8" IPS monitor, and some legacy peripherals: circa 2001 Harmon Kardon 2.1 speakers from an old Dell system, a Unicomp "IBM" Model M keyboard, and MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0.

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In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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Bah. Oh well. I got it for cheap though, so there's atleast that.

 

What'd you get it for, out of curiosity?

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In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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I hate to, er, rain on your already decidedly downcast looking parade, but...that's actually not all that good - in fact, it's rather bad for an SSD of that calibre. I saw a Crucial MX100 500GB being sold for as low as $140 pre-Black Friday - I got a Samsung 840 Evo the day before Black Friday for...I think it was either $180 or $190, (I actually wanted the Crucial MX100, but I was a day late...and even with the Evo's old-file performance problem, it's still a better drive, so oh well). I also saw a Sandisk Extreme II at around $170-$180 a few days ago. All of those are much better drives than the gimped Kingston V300, haha.

 

Honestly, people should be able to get refunds for what they did - although I think it's been long enough now that people should know.

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How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart.

In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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Oh well. I actually got it well before Black Friday -in late October. In hindsight, I should have waited for post Thanksgiving since I didn't actually finish the build until this past weekend.

 

Not my rig anyway... :-

"Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin.

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The price difference isn't all that huge to Australia, but still, bless Amazon free shipping (with Amex).

I didn't get free shipping, but I saved the GST (VAT/Sales Tax) a few years ago when i bought my gfx card that. An Australian peculiarity, they don't bother with that particular tax at customs when buying stuff less than $1000. The card was around $998 or so (the two currences were around 1:1 at the time) wink.png

 

I would love to upgrade the board/cpu/memory part of my pc now, but... where are the next generation of motherboards??? Seriously, those old intel chipset things with sata2 and usb2 is a joke.

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

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I bought my current card from Amazon too, though it was a far more modest R7950. The free shipping thing is just a promotion they've been doing for the last few weeks, don't think it's meant to be a long term thing.

 

I've also bought a complete road bike from the UK and got it under the tax threshold, we do have it pretty good with imports. Indeed usually the biggest obstacle to American imports is the silly 110V standard they have there. :p

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To the best of my knowledge, the US uses 110v 60hz. the rest of the world 220v 50hz.

 

The power outlets in the walls have different shapes and forms in various countries though.

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We aren't nearly the only ones that use the 100v range as it's common throughout the Americas (also Taiwan and Japan) but I think it's probably pretty rare in Europe

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country#Table_of_mains_voltages_and_frequencies

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Almost done. I discovered I can't use the same pair of fan connectors for my H110 because the pump is 3 pin and the fan is 4, and the fan won't reach one of the other 6 connectors, so I had to order an extension. Running on one fan and surprisingly the CPU doesn't go above 31C, all the fans are running at sub 1000RPM, the PSU and GPU fans turn themselves off unless under load, it's practically silent. The H110 is a bitch to install on your own, I managed it, but I'd call someone to help me if I had to do it again. Something is up with the WD Black HDD, sometimes I can't boot with the MoBo error code A2, I think it might be a faulty cable or faulty drive, I've tried reseating and swapping ports, thought that sorted it but the error came back. Really impressed with the Define XL R2 case, corsair k70, k551 heaphones, and AOC gsync monitor, everything else pretty much as expected.

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