It's heerrrree...and I notice...

Well,
My monster machine just arrived.  I've unpacked it, the box was a little banged up but best I can tell it got here 'unscathed'.  A couple of things I immediately noticed is though I ordered the reference 980Ti's, I received the Strix versions.  At first I was pretty ecstatic over this as for those of you that helped me know I was going back and forth about this and didn't want to wait.  However, I'm a bit concerned that I using the Corsair 1200 AIX power supply.  I would have bumped it up to the Corsair 1500 as I'm also running a mild overclock on the 5960X processor.  I won't be doing any additional overclocking and really maybe only adding a hard drive or two down the road.  Should I be concerned here?  I do know DS stress tests but even when I was going through this initially D.S. (John) recommended the 1500 power supply if I was to do x3 Strix with the Stage 1 overclock.

The other thing was the fans.  When I spoke with Jana, they agreed to give me all the fans purchased (I paid the upgrade) so they would ship the 3 fans not being used.  She indicated that they'd be in the box but no such luck.   The did get the other instructions (SSD in the hard drive bay not the hot swap and x3 fans in front vs. x2) so I'm not sure what happened there.  Some sort of disconnect between sales and build/shipping I guess.  However the first point does kind of concern me.  What are people's thoughts?

I tend to think you're fine with the psu.    Here's a link that shows power dram for sli and if you add the 3rd card at 300 watts the recommended would be a 1200watt.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_geforce_gtx_980_ti_strix_review,8.html

This assumes you'll be maxing all three cards and that would be a stretch I think.  The 3rd card should stay well below the 100%.   Sli scaling is pretty good, not sure about tri-sli.   

I can honestly see you having zero issues with the 1200W. Even back in the much more power-hungry days a 1200W generally did fine with 3X SLI + OC everything.

And as mentioned, just give DS a shout about the fans. If they said they'd ship you the extras, then they'll make sure you get them. It's also possible they might be getting shipped separately, as DS does that from time to time.

Congrats on the new rig!

Originally posted by bprat22 Oh, congrats on the delivery.   Edit....  I'm interested in how the setup will handle the tri-sli Srix as far as heat.   I know you'll be doing some testing on that.

+1 Enjoy it trouble free.

UPDATE:

We actually used all six fans in your build, see below:

I can't get sound though - it's driving me nuts...Not sure if Windows 10 has anything to do with it but I'm trying to use the onboard Asus Rampage V sound.

Hi Dax,

Did you try the suggestions I made in your "No Sound" thread?

Frank

Hey bprat! I've been meaning to do up a review but life has been getting in the way big time. The PC is terrific. I'm very happy with it other than that RGB lighting issue. I probably should've just got the colored fans or something. I love the Air 540 case. It's very nice looking and it keeps everything pretty cool. Coupled with the H110i, the CPU hasn't gone above around 43 Celsius from what I've seen. The Strix cards and heat haven't been an issue either. So far, the warmest I've seen is I believe the top card got up to 54 Celsius. This is after basic gaming for a few hours (Dying Light). So I'm very happy with the beastly "Borg" cube. It's also quieter than my ancient machine. So other than the lighting (and probably needing new speakers which isn't a PC concern as I think at this point it could be the controller pod on the 5500 Logitech speakers), this gets a big thumbs up!!

Actually I misspoke. The top card does get warm (about 81 Celsius was the max) although the fans really don't kick on at all. The other two cards are much cooler middle card is 54 and 41 Celsius for the bottom. Not an issue really so far. I'm figuring if the Strix fans aren't kicking in, there isn't a problem (unless it's faulty of course - lol).

Originally posted by Dax Doomslayer Actually I misspoke. The top card does get warm (about 81 Celsius was the max) although the fans really don't kick on at all. The other two cards are much cooler middle card is 54 and 41 Celsius for the bottom. Not an issue really so far. I'm figuring if the Strix fans aren't kicking in, there isn't a problem (unless it's faulty of course - lol).

The STRIX fans kick in under pretty high load. I guess all the extra heat pipes and radiators that make the card so dang heavy are worth it.