Ok, i finally found the info i needed. Motherboard mounting holes are exactly .156" in diameter, or 5/32". That means any screw smaller than that in diameter should fit fine. I can now order 6-32 screws and standoffs confidently b/c their diameter is .138". Woohoo!

Ah... Well just pick up one of these for benching. This is single card btw. 



Andd.... The results:   

 




Just kiddin.

Strike what i said about 3dmark06 & the 980x....it pretty much owns...

To give you an idea, I saw 7fps on cpu test #2...crazy.

Dam can't get a 980x here in Australia... (for the rite price)...until early April i want one now!!!!!!!

beating a 975...yes..
beating an e8600 at super pi..nope (not 32m)
3dmark01....nope.

at least not yet anyways.

chip works extremely well with ati...hope this fairs for fermi as well.


side note:
just for you nate ole buddy
phase is almost done. just need to gas and tune it.

the before shots







the after the repair of broke flex line with new flexline made by ron mccall over at under the ice.
repair done by terri at talent air AC more insulation and then the re-gas.







my board prep work...it's a work in progress sort of thing...lol
i have another layer covering the whole cpu bracket...just waiting on my ss to get finished.

Halo_003

Very nice John! Is that the LS that Shock sent you?

Yep. Got majorly pooched in shipping but he got it modified. Want to see some numbers soon myself.

Halo_003

Very nice John! Is that the LS that Shock sent you?

yep. that be the one.

ShockTheMonky

Halo_003

Very nice John! Is that the LS that Shock sent you?

Yep. Got majorly pooched in shipping but he got it modified. Want to see some numbers soon myself.

yeah, me too.. i haven't put up any numbers in a while.

voklskier4452

Actually the 980x handily beats the e8600 at spi 32m 

5min 41s vs 7min 19s

the next closest CPU is the 670 (for 32m, the 670 dominates at 1m) with a time of 6min 2s

good thing you we're paying attention when i said super pi and not super pi 32m
===beating a 975...yes.. 
beating an e8600 at super pi..nope (not 32m) 
3dmark01....nope. === 


edit: it should have read i5-670 for super pi though. so i see what you mean there. 
because the e8600 was for 2001se

part my fault..i was rush typing and didn't have it worded correctly.

dont get me wrong..the 980 is kicking but! and at 3d it's doing the same...not sure what to make of it with nvidia though....waiting on some of the top's to re run those.

seems q56 was losing points in his 3d gpu benches..sure hope this is NOT  a trend!

 Installed 980X only showing 4cores 8 threads. Re flashed bios (49) same thing. Why?

Yep that was it, unchecked "number of processors"
 Thanks
 Bios says cpu temp is -1, Yeah right.

awalleyeguy

Yep that was it, unchecked "number of processors"
Thanks
Bios says cpu temp is -1, Yeah right.

NP.
 
Do you have extreme cooling enabled for mode 1 in the bios?

ShockTheMonky

awalleyeguy

Yep that was it, unchecked "number of processors"
Thanks
Bios says cpu temp is -1, Yeah right.

NP.
 
Do you have extreme cooling enabled for mode 1 in the bios?

Nope
I corrupted my drives though and had to fix that.
I do believe this is a keeper.
cmos has been cleared many times.
From what I am seeing temps do mot seem to read correctly on these chips.

johnksss

could it be the 759 board?

Possible. This one is getting replaced this week.

So far 4.9Ghz and good to go on the 980.

Will do. Do not have a powerful card right now but can compare to earlier run with same card. 

johnksss

the more cards the better...old or new gen...just want to be sure that Intel and nvidia didn't have some unforeseen fall out....lol

Nvidia\Intel doesnt have a magic combo. CPU architecture doesnt favor any type of GPU's.