Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 9 Finding the Perfect Motherboard Isn't Easy Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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now as some of you have probably noticed my personal project has been on hold for
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a while in fact slick pointed out to me that in the entire time he's been
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working with me my personal rig has been
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sitting in this mess on this test bench
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which is obviously devastating for all
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of us so I may have the solution to the
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problem that has styed me so there's
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only so many x79 boards in the world
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this one's ugly uh where is it that one coil LS
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when transferring over the network even if I have an addin card this one is xlx
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so it doesn't fit in my tj7 case ah yes
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there that's the Gigabyte one in there you can't see it and this one this one's
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funny because this one coil winds when
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it's under a light load so I'm going to actually do something a little different
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I'm going to put my camera here sitting next to the CPU socket and I'm going to
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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
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please thank you come on there you go whatever Prime 95 is here running right
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now no coil wine now normally coil wine
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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
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when you're under an intensive load so okay listen listen listen ready and I'm
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going to stop the torture test and you're going to hear it kick
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in isn't that obnoxious
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so since I'm aiming to build a silent
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water cooled machine obviously I don't want it making
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little whining noises next to me I
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really hoping that this board will be the solution to my problem Rampage 4
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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
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ASRock extreme board the extreme 11 really caught my eye because it has gold
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caps it's an all black board the one thing that really bothers me about it
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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
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things about this board are the fact that it has seven dim slots with two plx
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chips so it's capable in Running of running 16 888888 bandwidth in
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right it also has eight dim slots and
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it's a standard ATX form factor board so what I'm hoping is that when I swap this
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into my test bench there I'm not going to run into any coil line otherwise I'm
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still not going to know what to do with my system build okay board swap is
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complete it's Moment of Truth time does the ASRock extreme 11 whine like a
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little girl or is it going to allow me to build a silent water cooled x79 Ma
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machine okay that's fans for now let's
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keep an eye on this fan right here because if that turns up very high then
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uh that's going to be a big problem for
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me um as long as it runs at a nice low RPM
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or maybe doesn't turn on at all unless
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it's needed well that might be the smartest
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thing I ever did
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see it's posted
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that's always a good sign you know what why don't I wait till
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I get into Windows and then I'll update you guys okay now it's time for the real
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moment of truth let's try a high CPU load so I'm going to run Prime 95 small
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fft I'm going to leave the camera right where I did before and you guys can find
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out with me useful stuff Prime 95 shortcut 2 here
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we go ready and now
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oo it sounds like we have a winner
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actually it sounds like nothing which is perfect let's try a blend test just to
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be sure oh no hold on I'm going to try a
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blend test with uh with more RAM
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usage so let's go with um let's go with
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like 15 gigs of
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RAM so even if we hit it pretty hard
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with a blend the as rock extreme 11 shrugs it
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off although as soon as we kick it into
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high low you hear that noise that just started up that little fan is going to
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go and I wonder why it's doing that because it's cooling the chipset as well
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as oh I wonder if it did it because of heat wao that's running hot couple plx
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chips down there you know what let's turn off the blend test and see what happens because that's going to be a
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deal breaker CU I really doubt that I can find um
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that t stop and's see if it turns off
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because I really doubt that I can find any kind of water block for this board I
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just don't think that's going to happen wow what a shame so there you go guys
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the ASRock extreme 11 wins the uh the
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pwm award for not being loud but loses
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the chipset cooling award for having a noisy little fan on the South Bridge
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as we used to call them
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so disappoint okay so I still don't have a board so I'll update you guys as soon
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as there's any kind of update but for now I'm going to throw the MSI back on
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