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[Gary Ledgerwood]

That worked! Seems to be all set now. I have everything in the proper slots and it recognizes all 32GB. Thanks so much for the help. If you have any final thoughts or suggestions for overclocking I am all ears. I am just using the OC Genie that is part of the BIOS on this board. I am currently running at 3.8 GHz. Should I be overclocking my RAM. Sorry for all of the questions. I am very new to this. I have a Boxx machine at work that is overclocked at 4.5GHz and it screams. I was trying to build a home machine that would be very fast as well without spending the same money I did for the Boxx. So far this machine seems comparable if not a little faster.

[numerobis]

Good to hear that it worked!

 

So you are running at manual RAM settings now? 2133MHz 15-15-15-36 2T 1.20V

Or Auto?

 

Regarding overclocking you should take a look at some guides like this one

http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.php/reviews/hardware/cpu/33127-oc-guide-bringing-haswell-e-to-its-limits.html

 

The improvements of RAM overclocking will be close to nothing for rendering and 3D. But 2400 or 2666 MHz could be possible for your RAM http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/ram/76257-crucial-32gb-ddr4-2133-memory/?page=2

 

But i really think its not important and i would start with the CPU only. RAM overclocking is a different thing with X99 and needs a higher base clock of 125MHz. But you could try it later...

 

If you overclock, you should stay below the max voltages, especially VSA and VTT!

4.2-4.5GHz should be possible with the Noctua depending on the CPU. Every CPU is different!

Edited December 28, 2014 by numerobis

[beestee]

Some interesting hardware articles that I have read over the last few weeks...

 

Samsung 850 Evo series @ $0.50/GB

 

Samsung 850 series 3D NAND longevity

 

Nvidia GTX 960 available in January possibly

[jensandersen]

Hi Gary, glad you ended up getting the ram to work. Looks like we ended up with the same build. My crucial ram sits in the 1,3,5,7 slots and i haven't messed with their settings. As numerobis says, it wont do much for your renders.

The OC Genie feature has me a bit confused to when it kicks in and how to really tune it, so I am using the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility instead. Here I increased the standard multiplier of 33 x and ran the stress test. I cant remember how high i got untill the system simply turned itself off / rebooted (here my heart skipped a beat). It simply resat itself to standard settings as the CPU wasn't getting enough power. I ended up with a multiplier of 44x (4.4ghz) and increased the Core Voltage to 1,200V before it was stable. This is with just 1 fan on the noctua cooler and where I find the temperature comfortable.

 

Best of luck!

[Stephen Thomas]

I also made the move to X99 over the holidays with the 5820k being a huge step up from my quad-core Q6600 home PC. Having previously built a sleek black minimal X79 Define R4 for the office I went full-on red and black gamer style for this one Although obviously the feature-set was the overriding factor in choosing components.

 

MSI X99 Gaming 7 mobo with MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G graphics card, Corsair H110 cooler and 16GB G.Skill DDR4 ram. I went for the Aerocool DS200 case in red, which has a very nice look in my opinion, as well as a proper temperature sensor with integrated led display and fan controller. All case fans replaced with Aerocool DS fans, including a couple of red LED ones on top showing through the mesh top panel. Don't judge me too harshly, haha.

[jensandersen]

Sounds great Thomas, we are all nerds, so you probably won't be judged too much

 

On a side note: My WD Blue 1tb hard drives are noisy as hell! It is such a relief once they turn them self off when not in use. Is this just because of resonance from my case? Would some other form of mountings help with this?

[Stephen Thomas]

Would definitely be worth getting some anti-vibration rubber mounts for your HDDs, they're quite cheap.