Plowing ahead with Bulldozer

Here's a quick shot of the back side. Can only assume that access to the cpu bracket is geared for Intel motherboards.

Nice to come back to TS to find your thread kicking hard. Pics are fab, It's coming on really well.

Yeah, I've seen them a slight cheaper than that. It's what you need though.

Done the H100 yet?
If it's anything like the H50 you are best attaching the pump(cpu fan) "fan" to a case/chassis fan header so it runs full speed all the time, and both res fans to CPU fan header. That way you can use smart fan control for CPU(res fans) and allow the pump to run at its full speed. I used a splitter that takes a power connection to connect both res fans to the CPU fan header. Mind you I have a top/blowhole fan in the Corsair 600D which I pushed the fan cables out beside and connected all the messy bits behind the motherboard, then just brought the end through to connect to the cpu header.

I am hoping to get the H100 installed this evening. Think I'll take your advice Arris on how to cable the power, like the idea of letting the pump run at full speed. Won't be too worried about how the cabling looks initially, can always tidy that up later.

Although I originally planned to wait for the FX 8170P am already thinking about snapping up a FX 8150 when they come out

Yeah can't wait to see it when the H100 is in there.

I just hope it works well, there aren't many reviews out there yet. The one on HardOCP is only doing a 3.6GHz overclock on a i7 920 for load testing; I am hoping to go a good deal higher than that

Hope it all goes well for you. I was actually thinking of using the H100 in my build..

Ill take a look at yours and see where it leads ya

BTw thanks for posting up pics and test results with your new build.

Well it's up and running, going with the stock configuration for starters just to see how well the block controls the fans. Will be putting it through it's paces over the next few days, want to see results at low, medium and high settings. Here are a few more pictures, at least all the major parts are in place now

Goodbye Stock Cooler

Start Mounting Fans

Bottom Fans Installed

Prepare the Workarea

Mounting Top Fans

Need More Hands

Right Side Up

Tighten Things Up

Ready to Mount Block

Put It Back Together

Hit the Power

looks nice mizz

Thanks, running the first test now. The H100 is on low and running 3.8GHz on the 1100T; only bumping the cpu multiplier and all other BIOS setting are at default.

very nice looks nice and cool.

How much is the H100?

Goes for about $120 on newegg.

Quite a lot. What case is that BTW?

To be fair I think I read that recommendation somewhere else when building my PC.
I did try it with the pump being run with fan control and didn't seem to have any detrimental effect on the CPU temps but thought that having a constant flow though the system of slightly cooler/warmer water(depending on res fan speeds) was a better solution than changing speed of flow. Plus the pump was pretty darned quiet

PS: Are you short of an SLi bridge in the pics?

Actually, after I got the fans installed it was just easier to go ahead and tap the four headers built into the block Still plan on connecting the radiator fans to the Scythe controller but got anxious to start testing. So far even with the block set to low the temperatures are looking pretty good. From 3.8GHz through 4.0GHz cpu barely got over 40C with all cores at 100%. Getting ready to load test at 4.1GHz with vCore at 1.55, will post those results later.

I was also expecting to see dual bridge connectors but that's all there is on the GTX 590.

In the shot "Ready to mount block" there seems to be a bridge header on the 590 card. Are you running quad SLi with the two 590s without an additional bridge? I thought both SLi and Crossfire needed a physical additional bridge ribbon cable to work.

That "Ready to mount block" shot is a little deceptive as it does make it look like there are two bridge connectors. Don't have a good picture of the bridge but here's a shot from xbit that makes it easier to see.



My last three rigs have all been Crossfire and this is my first SLI configuration. The motherboard came with the more typical wide SLI bridge but there was no way to install it on these cards. Guess it's something unique to the GTX 590.