Silverstone Tundra/Lepa AquaCharger liquid cooler, anyone not using their intel brackets? (Amz has it @ $43)

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Now it's $63, glad I didn't sleep on that $43 price and picked up a second one, my dual cpu Xeon x5680's (aka i7-980X) have blazed right through the stock supermicro (well stock for x5650's) & THETA X4's I've tried so far..

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I've only used it on my old fx-8320 and the cpu gave out long before the cooler did, @ 4200mhz stable 60c ish or 4400mhz unstable 65c ish. I'd take it over my old Corsair Hydro H50 HighPerf on both cooling, and ease of install, no "turn & twist" pain in the azz install like the corsair.. Of course I've emailed them 3x with this ? with no reply, so cust service sucks. It's been suggested the lepa is a silverstone tundra re-badge just e-mailed them 2c if they have them..
 
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I'm using dual xeon's so unless I drop $400 bucks on a used EVGA SR2 mobo (the ONLY oc'able dual cpu lga-1366 mobo ever made) my max is 3.3ghz/3.6ghz (turbo) of course that's 12-cores (24 hyperthreads) @ 3.3ghz/3.6ghz. And their TDP is 130W vs 125w for the fx-8320, so 1x2 blocks or 2x 240's is overkill..
 
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Seems the sr2 may not be worth the 4x what I paid for my ($100) Supermicro X8 board after all..

The wPrime benchmark also highlighted that while the SR-2 is great for overclocking, it isn’t the fastest dual-Xeon motherboard around, as the Supermicro X8DTU-F, beat it in wPrime and several other tests. This is hardly surprising given that Supermicro has been making dual-processor motherboards for decades, while the SR-2 is EVGA’s first such board. The Supermicro X8DTU-F also proved faster than the SR-2 in both Cinebench tests. However, while the former is a very straightlaced motherboard that doesn’t support overclocking, the SR-2 can speed up your Xeons. For example, in Cinebench 11, the SR-2 increased the score of its Xeon X5650s from 13.56 to 19.22 when overclocked, a performance increase of 42 per cent. What’s more, the overclocked X5650s were significantly faster than the X5680s, which scored 17.03 at their stock speed.

The four other professional application benchmarks we ran on the SR-2 all tell a similar story. Our CPU rendering test in LightWave 9.6 for example ran 44 per cent faster on the overclocked X5650s in the SR-2 than on the stock speed X5650s in the Supermicro X8DTU-F. FlamMap didn’t show as much of a difference, but there was still an additional 20 per cent extra performance to be had from overclocking. The CFD calculating benchmark Euler3D showed results midway between LightWave and FlamMap, with a 32 per cent performance boost from overclocking. The landscape generator Terragen 2 showed the least benefit from overclocking, with only a 12 per cent reduction in rendering time.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2010/08/17/evga-classified-sr-2-review/13
 
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One of the main reasons for building this rig was media encoding, and well it's just redonkulous..

2594 FPS!! Holly Shnikies Batman.. KERPOW!!

2 encodes 1700fps 3x/2200fps 4x/2600fps

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Just noticed it, but once I get the cooling sich straightened out it should have one more gear and foot to the floor @ 100% CPU have a shot at hitting 3000 FPS.. Wow..
 
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