http://hdimage.org/images/xe1mvti55vrjbpu5f412_lotr.jpg
LoTR Special Extended Edition! Good man.
http://hdimage.org/images/xe1mvti55vrjbpu5f412_lotr.jpg
LoTR Special Extended Edition! Good man.
Building a folding rig, with a secondary purpose of a home file/FTP server. Just got the 1TB drives installed, next I have to pick an OS, set it up, and rewire my network to fit this in.
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?t=1238057166
Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with a 9800GTX+ as they are about $120-130 on newegg open box.
Get 'em while they're still around.. Nvidia's rebadged them as the GTS 250 and increased the price 20 bucks.
Home "office"... as I like to tell my wife >_>
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...8/DSC01947.jpg
lolToys x_x
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I went from this (Disregard the mess, I took it as I was packing to move so the desk has a whole bunch of stuff on it that normally wasn't there)
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My laptop say where the speaker is off to the right
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To this
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Mess on the bed is cables that are unused now that I'm down 2 machines + a cable box. And yes, thats a computer I screwed onto the wall; it was in a cardboard box because the case it was in got destroyed and it was proprietary.
Cat food in case you get hungry?
I did, took about 4 painstaking months last year x_x
Case is a custom made Mountain Mods case, main specs:
QX6850 CPU, Currently overclocked to 4.00
8 Gigs of Corsair Dominator DDR2 @ 1066 (overclock these sometimes)
2x 8800 Ultra, both overclocked
2x Raptor 10k HD in Raid 0 for main, several back up HD's
Vista Ultimate 64
I built 2 separate water lines, both running PA120.3 radiators with 6x 120MM fans on each, 2 separate pumps, fan controllers etc. First line cools the CPU, 2nd line cools the 2x GPU, keeps things close to room temp even with high overclocks.
Couple more pics of the build:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...8/DSC00235.jpg
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^ I'm not even a huge computer gizmo but that thing makes me semi-hard. Is there anything you can't do with that thing?
It's a beast and I really enjoy it until something goes wrong and I have to work on it... I had a hell of a lot of fun building it and will probably keep the base build and upgrade CPU/GPU etc down the road, but I doubt I will ever use another water build after this. Swapping out the motherboard = 3 to 4 hours of work at minimum (draining + flushing both water lines, changing out the heat sinks on the CPU, reapplying thermal compound etc)
It's sick and runs pretty cool it's just too bad that every month or 2 a new cpu or vga card comes out that is better than what he has. Current spec runs all current games on full settings though I'm sure, as mine does and probably cost a few $ less.
What boggles me is how cool that case looks like it would run in comparison to mine, more fans, water cooling, yet if those temp monitors are case monitors then as cluttered as my case is it runs the same temp. I'm sure your components all run much cooler than mine though.
Sick rig man! Now that's something I need to build!
That beast has to be noisy as all get out. However with a good pair of headphones you probably don't notice it.
Not if he keeps the fans on low, which in all honesty, there shouldn't be a need to turn them high.
My case is kind of annoying, but only when I OC the 4870x2 and put the fan on 100%. Instant Hairdryer.
It's actually extremely quiet. All of the fans are very low db versions, and as Boyiee mentioned, I have no need to turn them up (every fan in the computer is connected to a fan controller) unless I am benchmarking etc. - much quieter than any air cooled system I have ever had, and is *almost* silent at low settings aside from the sound of the water flow
The temp monitors are component - the first one is attached to the heatsink on one of the GPU's, the 2nd is connected to the heat sink on the CPU. Definitely runs cool, and even in the middle of summer I will rarely see those temps go much above room temp, though the room itself will run a little warmer than most of the other rooms in the house given all the electronics running
Ewww, the 5.25" bays? Did you have too?
I've been using Koolance/FrozenCPU/DangerDen parts since '05 now whenever I build watercooled computers, but I prefer playing with pumps and reservoirs myself. Besides, the TMC interface boards Koolance puts out are much much more interesting and enjoyable to use for configuring your watercooled system. Those bay all-in-ones are crap in my honest opinion. Much better stuff to use.
Otherwise, the case reminds me of the DangerDen water boxes. Interesting build.
If I were doing 1 line to cool all the parts I definitely would have gone with the pump + separate res combo, but as it is, the 2x 5.25" bay controllers are overkill on my system - definitely stronger options out there that I looked in to, but for everything I want to use my system for, the flow rate etc. is more than enough, not to mention I had aesthetics in mind for this build as well