Going to have to dump the optical, case is running too hot.

I already bought an external USB 3 enclosure for my optical drive. :) I love the giant glowing red fan :P

I see you went Prodigy Sav!  Looks like a sweet little case.  Good decision on dumping the optical.  I would have done the same.  I have better cooling luck the the rad mounted to the top or the front.  Let me know how you are liking that case and if the cooling is better on top for you.

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Anyone else having an issue with this board not running ram higher that 1600?

Don't know, haven't gotten mine yet.  And I won't be OC'ing the memory.  Plan to install 1333MHz dimms and leave it at that.  But I will be OC'ing the multipler on the CPU to see where the thermal thershold will be at.
 
The H80 that I have was used to cool a QX6700 processor, which is about 130W TDP.  It did fairly well and allowed me to OC a bit more than what was allowed.  Went from 2.66GHz stock to 3.2GHz OC'd and still kept the CPU temps in the 70's C on the low setting.  3.46GHz was where it required the med fan setting to keep temps down in at least the 80's.  At 3.7GHz, the H80 couldn't handle the heat anymore as temps were hitting 90's on the high setting.
 
Now as for the H100, love it.  Keeps the i7 930 OC'd to 3.6GHz below 70's all day long.  And that is with the fans connected to the mobo for temp control, all they do is idle.  Only when my room starts to get warm in the summer does the fan speed increase to keep the CPU in the low 70's.

EVGA_JacobF

savaticus

Anyone else having an issue with this board not running ram higher that 1600?

It should be good up to 2133MHz, what memory are you using?

 
I am using Patriot Viper 3 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000) Model PV316G186C0KRD

It's not an option.

We have that memory on the way, will take a look and try to reproduce the issue.

cpagdog

so what processor?  I know the 3770 is OVERKILL, but that is the one I have been looking at...but which?  The 3770, 3770S or 3770K?  all on newegg.

and crezno...do you think i can run your setup on air?  obviously not overclock it like you did, but how do you think the 690 or 700 series (whenever it comes out) will do in that small of an area? and have you seen all the new mitx cases lian-li has?  i think they are 2 small though...not enough room for power supply

Sorry for the long delay.  But yea you can do it on air. In fact, I had the 690 in there and a 2600K OC to 4Ghz on air and it was running just fine. The case allows the intake of the video card to get air from directly outside, so it runs cool, and the CPU has a quite powerful fan blowing right on it. It stayed within safe temps with the stock air cooler. There are a ton of low profile heat sinks you can use too.

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Your front fan is facing the wrong way. You may experience better temps by correcting this. 

 
Yeah it only mounts that way unless you have other hardware that it does not come with, so I moved the rad to the top and have the air flow reverse of normal, but uniform. IMO the bitfenix 200m spectre is a badly designed fan. I would have bought the 230mm spectre pro but it was out of stock pretty much everywhere when I ordered.

savaticus

☢ OMG A FURRY ☢
Your front fan is facing the wrong way. You may experience better temps by correcting this. 

Yeah it only mounts that way unless you have other hardware that it does not come with, so I moved the rad to the top and have the air flow reverse of normal, but uniform. IMO the bitfenix 200m spectre is a badly designed fan. I would have bought the 230mm spectre pro but it was out of stock pretty much everywhere when I ordered.

 
Yes, most 200 MM fans are poorly designed. The best one I've found is the NZXT 200MM, and even that needs zip-ties to install in most cases.

Nice! That is a tiny build man.

So after a night of letting it fold, its still running within the safe zone.  Temps did get a little higher than I wanted, but nothing a few tweeks won't take care of.  Also noticed the VCore is showing awfully low (0.848V), which is a good thing.  When this CPU was on the ASRock Z68, VCore was around 1.248V.  Guess I got room to OC some more past 3.8GHz if I can keep it within thermal limits.  A pleasant surprise when I went to sleep was the color effects on the front fan.  With the white & orange leds reflecting off the fan blades, it gave it a nice color defusing effect.  Plus I can see the LED Debug numbers through the fan when its spinning.
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Edit: Forgot to mention this in earlier post, but it seems the CPU temp is off by 15*C average too high.  So to make the fan speeds works correctly, I got to add 15 degrees to my desired temp setting.  Which is weird because on my X58, it is the opposite.  Got to subtract 15 degrees for the desired temp setting.  So this may need to be corrected on the next UEFI revision.

j33pownr

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EVGA_JacobF

savaticus

Anyone else having an issue with this board not running ram higher that 1600?

It should be good up to 2133MHz, what memory are you using?

I am using Patriot Viper 3 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000) Model PV316G186C0KRD

I got my board up and running tonight.  I am using G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Model F3-2133C9D-16GXH and all is well.  I had to up my VCCIO from .9v to 1.3v to even get in windows.  Im still testing but things are looking up.

 
Thanks I will try this setting this weekend. It's nut just windows though, you can't get into the second stage bootloader of linux with the frequency increased either.

I can't hear anything over the H80 lol.

Any one selling thier old ITX mobos for this one?  LOL  I need to get one more to finish my Server..... The EVGA boards will have to wait until after the holidays.