Show Us Your Rig [3]

Thanks everyone. It didn't turn out the way I wanted it to look, but so far it seems to run good. That's the most important thing. Thanks again.

essenbe said:

No, That case is the Switch 810. As far as anti freeze, I understand you can put a little in the water, but it turns the water yellowish. The tubes running to the front of the case is a front Dual 5.25 Bay reservoir ( more trouble than they are worth, IMO). For the XM, a 240mm (2X120mm fans) will fit fine, it won't take a 360mm rad without modifications. An H 100 would fit perfect. As far as air coolers, mass gets the best results. It has to have a very large surface area to cool right. If you are going to seriously overclock I would go for the Noctua NH-D14 or Silver arrow. They are both huge and take a lot of room, but your XM will take it. My XM has the D14 in it. IMO, the D14 is better than the H100, I've had both. The Closed loop coolers do not have a reservoir, so not as many tubes. here is my XM with the D14 in it. You just need low profile memory, there is 44mm available. I use G Skill Ripjaws or Sniper, they are 40mm tall. If you are talking about your 2500, it won't need such a large cooler. You can't overclock it that much. I'm not familiar with the cooler you chose, so can make no comments about it. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO is a good cooler if you aren't doing heavy overclocking. It's probably the best cooler in it's price range. I hope that answers all of your questions, if not, fire away.

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Steve that cooler I saw somewhere this morning is that a Deepcool Frostwin or the Deepcool Assasin and I cannot find a height for the Assassin and I'd like to know how much clearance there is as the Arctics I fitted to the Sandy Bridge were a very tight fit and I don't want to end up getting the wrong thing .
Also I am trying out the G.Skill Ares F3-2133C11Q-16GAO 16GB are these going to fit with that cooler do you reckon?

Sure, the Ares fit with most any cooler. The picture in my HAF XM case is a Noctua NH-D14. I believe it is 163mm tall and just about as wide. If it will fit, I'm sure most anything will. Cooler Master says it will support a CPU cooler up to 196mm.

ICit2lol said:

Steve that cooler I saw somewhere this morning is that a Deepcool Frostwin or the Deepcool Assasin and I cannot find a height for the Assassin

Overall Dimension (Without Fan)
140X128X158mm
Overall Dimension (With Fan)
144X154X160mm
Net Weight
1378g (With Fan)

Specifications, ASSASSIN - CPU COOLER, GAMER STORM

A Guy

Thanks fellas am hoping to make a start pretty soon now :)

essenbe said:

Well, it isn't pretty, but it works. I haven't cleaned it up yet, but not a lot to do. This case has given me fits. The wiring stinks. But, I'm too tired to care right now.

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It looks absolutely great to me Steve, real good job there!

And the most important thing is it's working well and doing it's job.



Paul.

FuturDreamz - Thats a very nice low profile chassis, it looks like a dvd player. Looks great!

Steve, I didn't even notice the new pics It looks great, congrats!

Loving the rig Steve, looks completely flush. What are you temps like?

Now, I have a question of my own that I'd rather ask here than make a separate thread for: how much would any of you sell two 6950's for knowing one of them (the Sapphire in my case) is the newer of the two and was purchased only about a month or two ago, perhaps three?

I also have a 4870 to throw in the mix.