now as some of you have probably noticed my personal project has been on hold for
a while in fact slick pointed out to me that in the entire time he's been
working with me my personal rig has been
sitting in this mess on this test bench
which is obviously devastating for all
of us so I may have the solution to the
problem that has styed me so there's
only so many x79 boards in the world
this one's ugly uh where is it that one coil LS
when transferring over the network even if I have an addin card this one is xlx
so it doesn't fit in my tj7 case ah yes
there that's the Gigabyte one in there you can't see it and this one this one's
funny because this one coil winds when
it's under a light load so I'm going to actually do something a little different
I'm going to put my camera here sitting next to the CPU socket and I'm going to
walk away oh no no I have to show you the this first so check this out check this out so Prime 95 oh come on Focus
please thank you come on there you go whatever Prime 95 is here running right
now no coil wine now normally coil wine
and if you guys don't know what coil wine sounds like you're about to find out so normally coil wine shows up worst
when you're under an intensive load so okay listen listen listen ready and I'm
going to stop the torture test and you're going to hear it kick
in isn't that obnoxious
so since I'm aiming to build a silent
water cooled machine obviously I don't want it making
little whining noises next to me I
really hoping that this board will be the solution to my problem Rampage 4
extreme isn't going to do it for me because it's a blue and black themed build so and with a gold accent so the
ASRock extreme board the extreme 11 really caught my eye because it has gold
caps it's an all black board the one thing that really bothers me about it
right off the bat is this fan right here but I'm going to see if there's anything I can do about that few other cool
things about this board are the fact that it has seven dim slots with two plx
chips so it's capable in Running of running 16 888888 bandwidth in
right it also has eight dim slots and
it's a standard ATX form factor board so what I'm hoping is that when I swap this
into my test bench there I'm not going to run into any coil line otherwise I'm
still not going to know what to do with my system build okay board swap is
complete it's Moment of Truth time does the ASRock extreme 11 whine like a
little girl or is it going to allow me to build a silent water cooled x79 Ma
machine okay that's fans for now let's
keep an eye on this fan right here because if that turns up very high then
uh that's going to be a big problem for
me um as long as it runs at a nice low RPM
or maybe doesn't turn on at all unless
it's needed well that might be the smartest
thing I ever did
see it's posted
that's always a good sign you know what why don't I wait till
I get into Windows and then I'll update you guys okay now it's time for the real
moment of truth let's try a high CPU load so I'm going to run Prime 95 small
fft I'm going to leave the camera right where I did before and you guys can find
out with me useful stuff Prime 95 shortcut 2 here
we go ready and now
oo it sounds like we have a winner
actually it sounds like nothing which is perfect let's try a blend test just to
be sure oh no hold on I'm going to try a
blend test with uh with more RAM
usage so let's go with um let's go with
like 15 gigs of
RAM so even if we hit it pretty hard
with a blend the as rock extreme 11 shrugs it
off although as soon as we kick it into
high low you hear that noise that just started up that little fan is going to
go and I wonder why it's doing that because it's cooling the chipset as well
as oh I wonder if it did it because of heat wao that's running hot couple plx
chips down there you know what let's turn off the blend test and see what happens because that's going to be a
deal breaker CU I really doubt that I can find um
that t stop and's see if it turns off
because I really doubt that I can find any kind of water block for this board I
just don't think that's going to happen wow what a shame so there you go guys
the ASRock extreme 11 wins the uh the
pwm award for not being loud but loses
the chipset cooling award for having a noisy little fan on the South Bridge
as we used to call them
so disappoint okay so I still don't have a board so I'll update you guys as soon
as there's any kind of update but for now I'm going to throw the MSI back on
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