C'mon, show us ya rig! (Not dial-up friendly)

[SilentWolf.AUS]

faaa, nice monitors Tas. Have you considered putting the Sammy in the middle? Ya know, just for symmetry's sake.

[Rnegade]

copied n pasted from another forum, cant be assed retyping it all up.

A small update on my current rig sporting the following hardware:

i5-750 @4GHz
8GIG GSkill DDR3 1600
Gigabyte P55A-UD4P
2x GTX570 Gigabyte Windforce Rev2.0 OC Edition
XFI Fatal1ty Titanium Champion PCIe
Kingston 120GIG SSD
WD 1TB Black

RX360
RS120
MCR360
EK RS250
Laiing D5 Vario with EK Block
XSPC Delta V3 CPU Block (want to update this!)
7/16 Black Tubing
EK 1/2" Barbs - some short threaded / short barbed.
EK 45degree and 90degree matt black fittings

LOOP: RES > PUMP > MCR360 > (GPUs will be here eventually) > RS120 > RX360 > CPU > RES

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OK, so now the fun part!

With the 2 GPUs in the mobo the only place for the sound card was between them, this was a pain int he **** as the top GPU had its fans restricted for airflow and temps were higher then they should be and so was the noise!

With the NB heatsink covering up the top PCIe 1x slot i finally got pissed off, cracked out the dremel and little grinder and took half of it off, thus allowing a full size PCIe card to be placed in there. Temps, stability etc all seem FINE with half the heatsink missing also. Its been like this for over 2 weeks with some warm temps in my PC room and some serious benching being done.

Ofcourse I had the mobo in a anti static bag while i was modding, i cut out a section enough for the NB sink to poke out and sealed it as best as possible and i was blasting out the alloy filings with my air compressor as I went and I also covered all sockets for extra protection incase any small bits slipped past the bag seal.



RX360 is mounted in the top with some Scythe 120mm Ultra Kaze 3000RPM Fans running from a fan controller, RS120 is mounted where the rear 140fan was (will replace with a RX120 probably if i do a mobo change as the new 2011 sockets have better space fro the IO sheild to the cpu socket)

I have NOW mounted a MCR360 in the bottom, removing the lower HDD cage and I have mounted the pump in there aswell. I was trying to get the best loop layout, and that seemed to do it. When the rebuild happens I will throw a RX360 in the bottom and get a dualbay res that the D5 will mount onto, that will neaten things up even more and give the rad more room.

I am going to mod the side panels to allow better airflow through the lower section, not sure on what I am going to do yet, might get fancy!

The current tubing loop is setup so that I can simply cut the tubing below the GPUs and then add the GPU blocks and then it will flow into the RS120, RX360 and then onto the CPU.

Also next PCCG order I will get some more braided GPU cables and ditch the conduit - i promise.






Previous setup.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/Rnegade/700D/IMG_1930.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/Rnegade/700D/IMG_1931.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/Rnegade/700D/IMG_1927.jpg

next is to put the GPUs under H20 but as they are NON reference PCB i have to run some blocks from ether EK or XSPC and then some ramsink setup, which is not ideal. I might change the GPUs down the track to the new Nvidia 6*** Series in 6 months and get some blocks for them. I LOVE my GTX570s and with Surround, BF3 on Ultra I still get 70-90fps. I enable VSync to cap at 60 and its just amazing!!!

And my desk setup for now - replacing the 27" with a 3rd Dell 24" Ultrasharp when I get the spare dosh!!!

[Atmosphere]

Just finished moving into my new place and got everything setup nice and comfortable like.



From left to right

Secondary Gaming/Spare
Intel Q9400
4gb DDR2 800
TEAM 32gb SSD
320gb Samsung
Antec twelve hundred
BenQ 22" LCD 1080
Sapphire HD6950 2gb
Logitech MX Revolution Mouse
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard K800

Travel Laptop
Apple Macbook Pro Mid 2010
4gb DDR3
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz
Corsair 115gb SSD

Torrent system
Lenovo Z560
Intel i5 2.67ghz
4gb DDR3
750gb HDD
GT310 1gb
Logitech Alto
WD Mybook 1tb

Beige File Server box
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500
4gb DDR2
Logitech S520 keyboard & Mouse
200gb SATA -Primary
750gb
4x 1tb
1x 500gb
1x 2tb

Primary Machine
Cooler Master Silencio Case
Intel i7 2600K
Corsair H80 Water cooling kit
Asus P67Pro
16gb DDR3 1333 strontium
ASUS HD6950 2gb
Corsair 120gb Force 3 SSD
2tb WD EARS
Razer Lycosa keyboard
Razer Mamba Mouse
Logitech Z-10 speakers
2x Samsung S24A450BW
1x ASUS VH238H

[Nightstaar]

Awesome setup!

[Tas]

faaa, nice monitors Tas. Have you considered putting the Sammy in the middle? Ya know, just for symmetry's sake.

The Samsung is actually old, I gave it to a friend for Birthday pressy.. I bought a third Asus VE278Q to make em all same. But the strange thing is, I cant get em all lined up. even sitting flat on desk there are gaps between them for some reason. When I run the bezel alignment, I cant get the vertical adjustments to work, only the horizontal....

So when you turn the outside screens dont match up with the middle....

[psychofruiterer]

Checked desk is perfectly flat?
Weight of the monitors themselves maybe bowing it the tiniest bit and making gaps possibly?
I had issues getting 3 screens all lined up perfectly (2.5m long desk that bowed slightly under the monitors weight)
In the end i just mounted them onto an arm system and an hour or so of wrestling got them perfect.

[Vitamin K]

[Ash_Williams]

Should've run that CPU power cord around the back

[Ball0fire]

man that mobo must be tiny hehe

cos it looks small even in that case

[peake]

my rig.
contains
Processor: Intel I7 2600k @ 5000Mhz 1.45V, Custom loop
Mainboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper.2
Graphics Card: MSI R6950 @ 925/1400 CF (unlocked)
Memory: G.Skill (4GB x 2) PC3-12800 DDR3 7-8-7-24
Storage: HyperX 120 SSD / 1TB Hitatchi x2
Casing: Fractal Design XL black
PSU: Seasonic XP Platinum 1000W
Monitor: Alienware AW2310 120hz 23"

custom loop;
Radiator 1: EK XTC 420
Radiator 2: EK XTC 280
Radiator Fans: Noiseblocker PK-3 140mm - 1700 RPM
Pump: MCP35x
Reservoir: EK MultiOption Res X2 250 Advanced Reservoir
Tubing: Primoflex Black 1/2ID 3/4OD
CPU Block: XSPC Raystorm
Fittings: a mixture of XSPC, Enzotech, Swiftech, and EK
Biocide: Silvercoil
Fan Controller: NZXT Sentry Mix Fan Controller
Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H1
Grills: Phobya 420
GPU blocks: Swiftech MC82 with Enzotech 9g copper heatsinks
Crossfire bridge: Swiftech universal 2slot

[Tas]

Checked desk is perfectly flat?
Weight of the monitors themselves maybe bowing it the tiniest bit and making gaps possibly?
I had issues getting 3 screens all lined up perfectly (2.5m long desk that bowed slightly under the monitors weight)
In the end i just mounted them onto an arm system and an hour or so of wrestling got them perfect.

yer ill have to try that, worst thing is lining them up in eyefinity, the images are out of alignment.

[X66WeeD666X]

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=192321

Check out the link and skip to the my last post on page 2, wasn't gonna repost it all here, that be my new rig!

i7 980x @ 4.5ghz
Corsair 12gb 9-9-9-24 @ 2000mhz
ATI HD7970 DirectCUII Top x2
Thermaltake HAF-X
Rampage 3 Extreme Mobo
Corsair 1000W P/S
LG Blu ray writer
G19 Keyboard
Naga MMO edition mouse
Alienware headsets
Razer Goliathus mouse pad

Can't remember what the hard drives are but they are fairly fast and they are RAIDed

[Bluefire]

The things having a 2yr old does to you... shed now houses 4 monitors.. 2 cases under the bed..
Clean and tidy (and as compact as possible!)


24" monitor connected to:
Laptop:
i7-2630QM 2.0ghz
8GB DDR3
GTX 560M 1.5GB
MS4000 ergo
Razor Naga Epic

Media Box:
e6600 3.0ghz
4GB DDR2
GTX 260 896MB
Misc logi keyboard/msi mouse

Need to order a KVM to get rid of the 2nd keyboard and mouse.. but meh!

Also in view:
Cisco network drives
Asus eepc/ext-hdd/ext-burner
Big arse clock so Im not late!

Desk was built at home, MDF+25mm steel tube
Monitor is in a cheep 2 tier bookshelf with middle shelf ripped out and shelf turned sideways to allow extra storage above and center speaker below.

[Nightstaar]

Just remote into the media box

[Bluefire]

Considered it, lappy isnt always home tho and want to be able to web access when its not.