So the Reiter rig is finally finished. I received the RMA'd RAM back on 3/4/2013 and loaded it into the Reiter rig and fired it up. The rig completed POST beautifully. For good measure I made sure that the overclocks were still set correctly and then fired up Memtest86+ to verify no problems with the RAM setup. Ran through two passes with no errors. Excellent! Now it was just up to making sure that the system was still stable within Windows after changing out the RAM. I wasn't expecting any sort of issues but would rather test it again and verify it's all working than skip it and hope for the best (considering how this build has been going). I have acquired a new tool to help with testing the system stability called IntelBurnTest which stresses the system even more than Prime95 (if you can believe it) based on how it calculates certain data. I won't go too far into specifics, but it came back saying that it passed stability tests. Using IntelBurnTest cuts down on time required to see if system is in a stable basic state as it doesn't require running for 24 hours to find out if it is working correctly. In any case, I still fired up and ran Prime95 for 24 hours to just verify nothing else was going to surprise me with a curve-ball The Reiter rig also passed that. So at this point in time, it seems like the Reiter rig is finally finished.
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| The insides of the Reiter rig (notice the replaced heat-sink fan) |
One thing I did decide to do with the Reiter rig is replace the Silenx fan on the heat-sink with an Antec fan of similar configuration (simply because of the track record of Silenx) to verify that it would last for quite some time. There wasn't a noticeable change any of the temperature values and continued to run stable for the IntelBurnTest and Prime95 runs.
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| The Reiter rig finally completed |
As the rig has finally seen completion, it's time to finally give it to the person I was building the system for in the first place. Hopefully nothing else will go wrong in the meantime with this rig as it's already seen enough problems to last a long time.
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Now, onto other rigs I've been working on. The Kentsfield rig has seen completion and has been deployed in the house without any hiccups. I will be doing a complete separate post on it in the future as there's a number of pictures about the rig I used and a couple of hiccups I had when setting up the system. Another rig I also have recently built is one using the Bitfenix Merc Alpha case. I am dubbing the rig the Mercenary and will also have a separate post about that one as well as there was a few design flaws I came across in the case that could see some fixing possibly but may just be the way the system was built. Also upcoming is going to be some posts about my own rig including a new power supply and mouse that I want to talk about. So stay tuned for a number of other projects I will be discussing over the next couple weeks.
