Show Us Your Rig [3]

[ganjiry]

Looks nice jeepman, but shouldn't nVIDIA have green lights?
My latest project was to upgrade an old Compaq SR1710NX and keep the old case. It came with XP, Athlon 64 3500+, 1GB DDR400, fast for it's time.
I completely disassembled the case and washed it, even the front panel parts and card reader and painted the outside. It's now The Dark Knight.
The new parts, some of which I already had
W7 Ult 64 bit
ASUS M4A88T-M
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T, 2.8GHz, clocked to 3.68GHz
G.Skill Ripjaws Z 1600 8GB, 2x4GB
Corsair HX650 PSU
Hyper TX-3 CPU cooler with two Noctua 92mm fans
1 Noctua 92mm exhaust fan
Dirty case to start with.
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After the paint job.
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Some parts ready.
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Board with some cables attached going in.

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The wiring process in progress.
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Wiring done, OEM cases don't lend themselves to much cable management.
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Here she is up and running well. I had the board running on the board box for 3-4 weeks to make sure it was stable.

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..and the completed project back at home. This will be used as a backup rig.

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And the scores you'll want to know.
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The cooler leaves just enough room to get to the RAM.

nice job of breathing new life into that old case chap. looks nice

Quote: Originally Posted by Britton30
Looks nice jeepman, but shouldn't nVIDIA have green lights?

My MB,ram,case,kb and mouse are all black n' red....hell even my NVIDIA 570's are black n' red..So I was kinda thinking I should go with it.....but I do like green :huh:

another smashin job, lookin good mate

i'll av a few pics for ya soon'ish. just waiting on some fans to arrive.
no doubt Alsisgevat gonna take the piss now

 

[Britton30]

I got a new WD Blue 250GB HDD today and cloned the old one to it, my WEI drive score went up to 5.9 from 5.4. I'd discovered the old drive was SATA 1.5GBs and was failing.

The reboot time is good too.

 

[jeepmann4x4]

I got a new WD Blue 250GB HDD today and cloned the old one to it, my WEI drive score went up to 5.9 from 5.4. I'd discovered the old drive was SATA 1.5GBs and was failing.

The reboot time is good too.

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Always good to find out its dieing than find it dead....

 

[Alsisgevat]

Nice new score Britton! Congrats.

On a separate note, to everyone else I received these in the mail yesterday:

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Alsisgevat,
Oh happy days! That is some powerfully cool graphics you're about to install. Congrats and we all know you'll be happy when the fittings are all tightened on these bad boys ! If you can shoot a whole series on your water cooling install and the set up and install of these.

 

[Alsisgevat]

Hehe, thanx mate. Yeah I will try to make a build log or something. These cards are ALMOST as beautiful as Megan Fox in that transformers movie.

I basically have all the parts,pumps and fittings, I just need time to install it all. So when my xams finish in a week and a half I will upload those pics

 

[ganjiry]

nice1 Joey bet ur buzzin now they've arrived.
i bet u can't wait till ur exams r done and do it b4 lookin forward to the pics chap

 

[Alsisgevat]

Thanx mate, yeah I am counting down the days!

 

[ganjiry]

all my fans have been dispatched now so only a couple of days. i hope

 

[ganjiry]

ello folks
finally my cougars turned up yesterday so i could finally install my H100
ive swapped out my xms3 memory for some 1600 vengeance 2x4GB
installed the H100 under the mesh cover on top with 2x120 cougar vortex pushing up through the rad n out.
1x120 cougar rear intake so its bringin col air just underneath the h100.
1x120 cougar as intake in the bottom.
my case temp has dropped by about 3c,
cpu idle temp is down to 31c. its usually about 39c at this time of day.
my gpu idle has dropped by about 4c as the cougar is bringin more air up underneath it. so all is good i just have to get shot of the stock corsair fans from the front and side as i can hear them over the others.

 

[Alsisgevat]

Orange'd you glad you waited for the cougars? hehe, Looks great mate, congrats on the cooler, you will get allot of years from it.

 

[ganjiry]

cheers chap
yeah glad i waited, im gonna get another couple for the front next . it looks better without the led fans i had. a tiny bit louder though but its still very quiet and temps r down so all good. smashin job

 

[paulpicks21]

ello folks
finally my cougars turned up yesterday so i could finally install my H100
ive swapped out my xms3 memory for some 1600 vengeance 2x4GB
installed the H100 under the mesh cover on top with 2x120 cougar vortex pushing up through the rad n out.
1x120 cougar rear intake so its bringin col air just underneath the h100.
1x120 cougar as intake in the bottom.
my case temp has dropped by about 3c,
cpu idle temp is down to 31c. its usually about 39c at this time of day.
my gpu idle has dropped by about 4c as the cougar is bringin more air up underneath it. so all is good i just have to get shot of the stock corsair fans from the front and side as i can hear them over the others.

Looks great ganjiry

 

[ganjiry]

cheers paul

 

[edwin222]

i7-960-ROG-SLI cable management update

After seeing so many clean rigs, I had to do something with my own. I got rid of all extra cable/s, moved some power connectors and now I have something worthy of SevenForums.
I was saving for new 500 watt speakers, but had to use it for a new lawnmower. I realized I really need a third LCD monitor and should get one while I could still match my other 2, so I squeezed enough together to get a third Asus VE228H monitor. Now I can run 3-D with Surround. I really liked what I had before, but this is incredible.

 

[A Guy]

ello folks
finally my cougars turned up yesterday so i could finally install my H100
ive swapped out my xms3 memory for some 1600 vengeance 2x4GB
installed the H100 under the mesh cover on top with 2x120 cougar vortex pushing up through the rad n out.
1x120 cougar rear intake so its bringin col air just underneath the h100.
1x120 cougar as intake in the bottom.
my case temp has dropped by about 3c,
cpu idle temp is down to 31c. its usually about 39c at this time of day.
my gpu idle has dropped by about 4c as the cougar is bringin more air up underneath it. so all is good i just have to get shot of the stock corsair fans from the front and side as i can hear them over the others.

Very clean and cool looking rig you have there

After seeing so many clean rigs, I had to do something with my own. I got rid of all extra cable/s, moved some power connectors and now I have something worthy of SevenForums.
I was saving for new 500 watt speakers, but had to use it for a new lawnmower. I realized I really need a third LCD monitor and should get one while I could still match my other 2, so I squeezed enough together to get a third Asus VE228H monitor. Now I can run 3-D with Surround. I really liked what I had before, but this is incredible.

Very nice job on the wire management. The 3 monitors look cool as well

Might I inquire about how noisy the Kingston Memory Cooler is? I have been eyeballing one for some time, matches my Kingston ram perfectly. I don't need it, but... you know

A Guy

 

[Britton30]

ello folks
finally my cougars turned up yesterday so i could finally install my H100
ive swapped out my xms3 memory for some 1600 vengeance 2x4GB
installed the H100 under the mesh cover on top with 2x120 cougar vortex pushing up through the rad n out.
1x120 cougar rear intake so its bringin col air just underneath the h100.
1x120 cougar as intake in the bottom.
my case temp has dropped by about 3c,
cpu idle temp is down to 31c. its usually about 39c at this time of day.
my gpu idle has dropped by about 4c as the cougar is bringin more air up underneath it. so all is good i just have to get shot of the stock corsair fans from the front and side as i can hear them over the others.

Very nice assembly!

After seeing so many clean rigs, I had to do something with my own. I got rid of all extra cable/s, moved some power connectors and now I have something worthy of SevenForums.
I was saving for new 500 watt speakers, but had to use it for a new lawnmower. I realized I really need a third LCD monitor and should get one while I could still match my other 2, so I squeezed enough together to get a third Asus VE228H monitor. Now I can run 3-D with Surround. I really liked what I had before, but this is incredible.

Nice one, you adid find a valid reason for a third monitor even.

Might I inquire about how noisy the Kingston Memory Cooler is? I have been eyeballing one for some time, matches my Kingston ram perfectly. I don't need it, but... you know

A Guy

Bill is your RAM getting hot? I put my rig through some hard stress tests and my RAM is only slightly warm.

 

[edwin222]

Ganjiry: wow!

A Guy: The Kingston HyperX KHX-FAN is super quiet. I hear1 GPU fan occasionally, otherwise, my rig is very quiet.
I forgot to include my WEI. 7.7-7.7-7.7-7.7-7.4 with the 7.4 being disk data transfer rate.

 

[A Guy]

Bill is your RAM getting hot? I put my rig through some hard stress tests and my RAM is only slightly warm.

No, as I say, I don't need it...but I'm wanting it.

A Guy: The Kingston HyperX KHX-FAN is super quiet. I hear1 GPU fan occasionally, otherwise, my rig is very quiet.

Thanks, I have my PC Noc'd up, and a radiator on the GPU. Didn't want to add noise. A Guy

 

[ganjiry]

cheers folks

@edwin222 fairplay! it looks loads better now u have sorted those cables. i bet ur well happy now u switched that center screen out. lookin good mate. ive been thinking of gettin a 3rd monitor but i dont have room. yet i think i may build a new desk thats more fitting to the job than my coffee table lol