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Sounds like a bad cable to me. Have had the same problem and it turned out to be the power cable running to some of my hard drives. Disconnect everything but mobo and gpu power and try a boot.
 
That's what I'm going to do, luckily the Rampage can disable individual pic-e slots via dipswitch as well, so I don't have to physically pull the cards out of the loop to test.
 
Houston, we have liftoff!





It may be a while before I can explain exactly what was wrong (if I even figure it out really), and boy was there some weird stuff going on, but the system is powered on (albeit in a gimped state). Will update when I can. Just the fact that the board and cpu aren't dead is a relief, I was certain earlier the board was kaput.
 
The problem (the main one anyway) was the secondary PSU jumper. I'll have to look into what is causing the issue, but the good news is everything is running (though all off the 1200w Seasonic for now).
 
I'm very haply for you. Sucks to have issues with those systems. But when you have a complicated system like yours, it is fairly normal to encounter some problems.
 
There is the first bench, cards at default clocks. Probably won't start pushing them all that hard until I get some more powwwar! I have yet to see the GPUs hit 40C BTW, primary card topped out at 39C while I was monitoring it last night.

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I'll throw this image dump out for now, no completed pics as I haven't had a chance to really do that yet, will get to that in the near future.

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A couple of these spots looked tight enough on the water lines to have me worried before I got them all snugged in.
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That is badass! Score is epic. Also, I didn't realize how gargantuan than case really is. Holy Syrup of ipecac, Batman.
 
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That is badass! Score is epic. Also, I didn't realize how gargantuan than case really is. Holy Syrup of ipecac, Batman.
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If the Logitech ARX applet is right, they all boost to 1366 out of the box. I don't much care for Galax's tuning utility, hopefully Afterburner works with these but I haven't tried it yet.
 
Tried a little overclocking, 110/250 offsets, I don't know what that works out to in actual clocks though yet. That's all I have time for tonight.

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Look at those lonely 980Ti's amongst all those TitanX's...I haven't even started to bear down yet. :twisted:

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I have some good and/or bad news depending upon how you want to look at it. First, so far the videocards don't appear to be all that spectacular other than the wicked cool looks and high default speeds. +120 offset on the core is all they seem to have at default voltage (keep in mind I'm only really interested in what the slowest one does, two of them may be capable of +250 for all I know but I'm syncing all the adjustments so weakest link in the chain and all). Second, I think the voltage tool floating around for them does work as I was able to get the memory working fine at higher speeds while using it than previously. Which brings me to the fact I will definitely need that second PSU working (or switch back to the Lepa). I know this because once I started playing with the voltage tool and had the 5960X running 4.75GHz, I had a shutdown/reboot after 3DMark loaded and started benching and was greeted with the previously unseen by me post error "Anti Surge feature rebooted your system due to unstable powersupply" or something to that effect. That is actually encouraging oddly enough, I may see better results once I get both PSUs online if it was that close to the edge to begin with.
 
YBS1, first THANK YOU for all the photos and hard work on your system. The more I play around with custom water cooling the more I am amazed at the detail and build of your system.

I'll post my result with 3DMark13 Ultra with a single GTX980TI SC with a 1102 core speed.
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My 5960x is at 4400 (44x100) and ram is at 2133.

The number you are getting with 3 of your HOFs is amazing. What power.

Finally, I wouldn't be too hard on yourself with 110/250 OC since the HOF at stock is already heavily OC'd to 1203 core. Adding 110 pushes the base (not boost) to 1313 which is darned fast.
 
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YBS1, if I were you, I would have already bought that ram. No way could I have come as far as you have on your system and refuse the temptation from a perfect matching set of ram sticks like that. That's just me though.
Regarding power shutdown, wow, that actually happened? Crazy. I DO like that the system told you about a power issue. That's actually pretty great that its smart enough to know it had a power problem.
Regarding cards not OCing enough, try to keep in mind that most 980ti's all clock pretty much the same or at least pretty similar, at least based on what I've seen and read. Bottom line really is that your cards should be able to get stable around 1440-1500 boost, possibly a little more with no added voltage. If you add some voltage you can push a little past 1500. I settled on 1440 for a standard OC for mine, with no voltage added, and they are stable as can be and mine are reference cards.
You cards come factory OC'd it seems. I'd pay more attention to the total boost value rather than be concerned with only being able to add about 150 to the boost without voltage.
Looking good though. THAT RIG IS A BEAST and I do like seeing those 980ti's holding their own while surrounded by titans on that score board.
 
They are some gorgeous sticks of RAM. Being that the ram is flanked around that red Bitspower bridge though I'm not sure they'd end up looking as good as the Redlines installed. I do have Newegg Premiere though so I don't guess it would cost me anything to try it, but that feels like taking advantage of the system.

As for the cards, I didn't go in expecting magic. I already knew most topped out in about the same range and these do run very high defaults which is great for me because I don't usually run my GPUs overclocked except for benchmarking. I think the number you all will be most impressed with though is my Heaven 4.0 at default card clocks. Whatever it is that Heaven thrives on, my system has it in spades. I should have posted it last night but the score is jaw dropping.
 
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Here's the Heaven 4 benchmark for a single GTX980TI SC (1102 core) at 4.4Ghz -5960x

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YBS1, those 3 Galax HOF WC'd 980TIs literally smoke that test.
 
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