Silverstone Tundra/Lepa AquaCharger liquid cooler, anyone skipping the intel brackets? (Amz has it for $43)
Silverstone Tundra/Lepa AquaCharger liquid cooler, anyone skipping the intel brackets? (Amz has it for $43)
Changed from AMD to Intel and couldn't locate the 2 Intel mounting "ears". Hoped an AMD had some available for a low price. By the way, Amazon has it for $43, which is the best deal on CPU cooler. Edit now it's $49 :-(
https://www.amazon.com/Lepa-AquaChanger-...quaChanger
It's $63, glad I missed the $43 deal and got another one. My dual CPU Xeon Xeon X5680 (i7-980X) really outperformed the stock Supermicro and THETA X4 models I've tested before.
I've only tested it on my old fx-8320 and it failed before the cooler stopped working. At 4200mhz it was stable around 60C or so, but at 4400mhz it became unstable around 65C. I'd prefer this over my Corsair Hydro H50 HighPerf because of better cooling and easier installation—no frustrating "turn & twist" issues like with the Corsair. I've sent them three emails about this, but got no response, which is frustrating. Someone suggested it might be a Silverstone Tundra re-badge, so they should have sent it if they had one.
I attempted a 240 (Cooler Master Glacer 240L) and wow, installing 240s is tough even in my large CM HAF-XB EVO compared to the 120s, and the dual CPU setup didn't go as planned.
Fascinating... This case is interesting. I have the identical issue, and now everyone I know in real life wants to acquire the same one, hehe. I've observed people making some really unusual modifications to fit triple 240mm rads, even extending to 360mm at the front.
I'm working with dual xeon processors, so unless I cut about $400 off by getting a used EVGA SR2 mobo (the only dual cpu LGA-1366 board ever made), my top speed stays around 3.3GHz/3.6GHz (turbo) with 12 cores and 24 hyperthreads. The TDP is 130W compared to 125W for the FX-8320, meaning 1x2 blocks or 2x 240's would be excessive.
It's impressive how much thought went into the SR-2. EVGA truly put on a strong display with that release.
It looks like the SR-2 might not be worth the four times the cost I paid for my ($100) Supermicro X8 board. The wPrime test also showed that while the SR-2 excels at overclocking, it isn’t the quickest dual-Xeon motherboard available, as the Supermicro X8DTU-F outperformed it in several tests. This makes sense considering Supermicro has been producing dual-processor boards for years, whereas the SR-2 is EVGA’s first of its kind. The X8DTU-F also performed better than the SR-2 in Cinebench comparisons. Although the X8DTU-F is a very rigid board without overclocking support, the SR-2 can enhance your Xeons. For instance, in Cinebench 11, the SR-2 improved the score of its Xeon X5650s from 13.56 to 19.22 when overclocked—a 42 percent increase. Moreover, the overclocked X5650s outperformed the X5680s, which scored 17.03 at their base speed. The other four professional benchmarks we conducted on the SR-2 all support this trend. Our CPU rendering test in LightWave 9.6, for example, showed a 44 percent speedup on overclocked X5650s in the SR-2 compared to stock models in the Supermicro X8DTU-F. FlamMap didn’t display as much improvement, but overclocking still added about 20 percent more performance. The CFD benchmark Euler3D gave results that were roughly in between LightWave and FlamMap, with a 32 percent boost from overclocking. Terragen 2, the landscape generator, saw the least gain, only a 12 percent reduction in rendering time.
The main goal for building this rig was media encoding, and honestly it's quite impressive.
2594 FPS!! Holly Shnikies Batman.. KERPOW!!
Two encodes at 1700fps, 3x/2200fps, 4x/2600fps.
Just noticed it, but once the cooling is sorted out, it should have an extra gear and foot to the floor at 100% CPU – I think it could reach 3000 FPS. Wow..