Win our fully loaded Aries - CoolerMARS 840 PC system to start the new year
How to Enter....
Published: 23rd January 2010 | Source: OC3D |
COMPETITION NOW CLOSED!
Win Aries - the time has come!
It's OK to admit it, the post New Year period isn't many peoples favourite time of year. The festive parties are finished, the bills are due in, the scales have probably moved in the wrong direction again and to top it all off you have to go back to work as well. Well here at OC3D we like to give our presents in January to help ease the New Year blues.
This year we have teamed with the biggest names in the industry to bring you the most exclusive prize ever given away on an enthusiast website. Thanks to ASUS, OCZ, Bitspower, Intel, Cooler Master, Steelseries, Kustom PC's & Time To Live Customs we bring you the Aries CoolerMARS 840 project. A fully water cooled Intel P55 i7 870 based system with RAID 0 OCZ Vertex SSD's and the worlds first and only water cooled Asus MARS ever to be given away in a competition!
The prize list is our biggest ever, and combined with a full version of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 sets you up with everything you need to have one of the most powerful and up-to-date systems imaginable. Just check out the full prize list below....
1st Prize:
Aries CoolerMARS 840 project: Asus Sabertooth P55 Motherboard, Intel 1156 i7 870 CPU, ASUS MARS GPU with Ltd Edition Bitspower water block, Matt Black Bitspower fittings, 4GB OCZ Gold 1.35v 1333mhz, 2x OCZ Vertex 60gb SSD in Raid 0, OCZ Gold 850w PSU, Cooler Master 840, Powdercoating, Watercutting, Watercooling system, Operating System & build by Time To Live Customs.
Zowie Hammer Headphones, Zowie G-TF Pro Mouse Mat, Steelseries Ikari Gaming Mouse, 1x PacMan Energy Drink, 1x Blood Energy Sachet, 3x Bawls Energy Drink, 2x Mana Energy Potion.
5 Runner Up Packs:
5x Bitspower Matt Black Series Swivel 45 degree fittings, 5x Bitspower Matt Black Series 90 degree fittings, 2 Packs of Bitspower UV reactive O-rings, 1x Bitspower DDC Mini Tank Reservoir, Steelseries Merc Gaming Keyboard, 1x Zowie P-TF Pro Mouse Mat 1x PacMan Energy Drink, 1x Blood Energy Sachet, 2x Mana Energy Potion.
How do I enter?
You may now be thinking I'm going to have to run to the end of the earth and back to be in with a chance of winning this, you would be wrong. All you have to do is answer the few simple questions below and be willing to join our mailing list. Yes, that's it. You're in with a chance of winning Aries, or one of our 5 runner up packs.
COMPETITION CLOSED
Rules & Regs
• Only one entry per person. Names & Addresses will be checked!
• Competition is open to both members and readers.
• Competition ends Sunday 31st January 2010 at 11:00am GMT.
• Normal forum and website terms and conditions apply to your entries.
• One entry will be picked at random to be the winner.
• Overclock3D reserves the right to refuse entries.
• You will be automatically added to our mailing list.
• Winners outside the UK may be asked to contribute to shipping costs.
• Winner of the Aries PC system is required to post a picture of themselves with the system on our forums a maximum of 1 week after receipt.
• Sale or exchange of Aries system is forbidden for 1 year after receipt.
You can discuss the prizes and any questions you may have in our forums.
You can join our Aries Competition Facebook Group here.
We could not have brought you this competition without the support of our sponsors so please take the time to view their websites.
Asus - OCZ - Bitspower - Intel - Zowie - Kustom PC's - Cooler Master - Steelseries - Time To Live Customs
Most Recent Comments
It will loose the settings on an upgrade, you just have to turn it all back on again dude, all the data and the raid will be there once its all re-enabled.
Thats the thing, when I updated the bios to 1308 it was fine, enable raid and it finds it. But when I reset to default values on the old bios, after changing the setting back to raid it couldn't see it. I had to leave it unplugged for a while and restarted it about 10 times to find the raid.
Thats why I'm reluctant in trying an older bios again as it may not find the raid array at all.
I bet your all confused, I am aswell. It doesn't make sense, hence why there must be some sort of bios bug or incompatibility issue.
http://forum.novatech.co.uk/showthread.php?t=15892
I am having some issues with a P55 motherboard this morning that I want to reach out to our community about and see if you guys have any ideas what is afoot here.
The problem is this. I have installed 4GB of RAM (2x2GB), but the OS only sees "1.99 GB Usable." I have used both Core i5 and Core i7 processors in this ASUS Maximus III Gene motherboard as well as confirmed this issue with Corsair, Patriot, and OCZ memory modules. The problem however is not static. It has "gone away" once when changing out the processor, but then returned when switching out RAM modules. The original thought was that the DIMMs were not seating well, but I have gone as far to put a 5lbs. weight on top of the DIMMs. I am using an v7600 Windows 7 64-bit OS. I have tried turning off Superfetch services as well as disabling remapping the memory in the BIOS.
Image is HERE.
As you can see in the screenshot above, 1.99 GB is marked as usable and the Task Manager verifies that total usable. Trying to force more will "lock up" an application. But do notice that CPUZ does see the full 4GB. When the system POSTs however, it only shows as having "2048MB" installed.
I have found one more instance of this on THG forums using a GIGABYTE P55-UD4 motherboard so it does not seem to be an ASUS-only issue. If you have any ideas, please sound off in this HardForum thread. Hopefully I am just overlooking something simple.
Edit: Our solution to the issue.
Sounds kind of crazy, but we have verified that testing here today. If you did not see our post earlier, we had an ASUS P55 system that was "losing" half of its installed RAM. After about 7 hours of testing here today, we finally have verified what the issue is. It seems that I was tightening the water block down too tight on the P55 chipset motherboard. Simply loosening the water block solved the issue and allowed all the RAM to be seen. I am also currently testing a P55 chipset board from DFI. I was able to replicate the issue on that motherboard as well.
I have to admit to NOT using the tensioning springs as shown below. Koolance water blocks specify that these mounting springs be used and I was ignoring that, obviously the springs are there for more than just one reason.
The socket is a Foxconn :( , this may be the problem.
After loosening the block, I got a bios recover message on startup and windows did a memory check. All went ok. I then went back into the bios and guess what in auto, the turbo mode settings are back again. :) so the cpu in stock config clocks itself up to 3.5ghz :).
So that is some thing positive. As with the other chap in the linked thread above, there seems to be a problem with the socket pins of the mobo. This may the the reason why the bios is acting all funny, loosing raid, only seeing 2gb, turbo not working, but now the turbo is.
LOL panic over
Glad you got your problems sorted out
Haven't been on forums for a while, but am back now LOL
Aries is a beast. The powder coating that Tom (TTL) has done is top notch, very good quality and looks to be very hard wearing compared to a spray can job. :)
I cannot describe how nice the cut side window looks, it is so cleanly cut are nicely arranged. Really like the design. The mars is huge, its like a brick in the middle of the pc, can't wait to game on it. The water block keeps it really cool, well done bitspower. Atm the MArs is idling at 33 and 35c each core. :) And cpu bouncing between 15 and 23c :).
This pc is like WOW!!!
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No go at 1.5v, the funny thing is that it did work for a bit, then with the same settings doesn't. i think it is defiantly a bios problem though. I want to try an older version of bios but I don't want to loose the Raid, on the bios revision that you had loaded on, it lost the raid array when I reset the bios to default settings, even when I set the sata settings to raid enabled, etc.
Looking on the internet it seems I am the only one with this particular problem, everyone else has managed to fix the problem with the uncore settings.