Show Us Your Rig [5]

[Bungee18]

Juan, that looks nice. I guess you've hit the big time with Gigabyte sponsoring you. Well done, you deserve it. You may have to go a little green with your theme to match the Gigabyte colors. Plus, a little color on the white case would make it stand out. Maybe a little Yoda. You're doing great.

Thanks Steve, I really appreciate your comments and input.

Regarding Gigabyte, well, all it actually means is that they are going to supply boards and video cards free of charge for our next 3 show builds in exchange for having their logo somewhere VERY visible on our cases.

The Yoda idea could definitely work. Will look into it although he's not one of my favorite SW characters.

Cheers,

J

What you meant to say was Yoda IS one of my favorite SW characters......fixed it for ya!

LOL Kelly.
He actually was my favorite when I was growing up, but then the dark side seduced me.

J

 

[essenbe]

If you've been seduced by the dark side, Darth Vader's your guy then.

 

[kbrady1979]

if you've been seduced by the dark side, darth vader's your guy then.

Darth Vader is not amused...

 

[A Guy]

A Guy

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hello guys.

Here's how it looks like right now.

Since I do not really like having the case full of tubes everywhere, I decided to experiment with tube routing and went kindda crazy. What do you think?
I could have done it with a shorter run of tubing, but with tighter bends, and since the pump has more than enough flow and head, I thought the additional length couldn't hurt. Besides it would have hindered what we need to do cable management wise.

Video cards should be here tomorrow, so maybe we'll be able to install the blocks before the end of the day and start testing the integrity of the loop.

Still looking for different alternatives for the case theme, but haven't found anything I really like so far,
although I have a very nice piece of news: Gigabyte is going to sponsor this rig, so maybe we'll go crazy and do something to match the board's color scheme!!! We'll see...

This is kindda turning into a build log, so let me know if I'm being annoying.
I'd really appreciate your input and advice.

Cheers,

J

No mate we like crazy it's one big club in here - you just got to remember to keep taking your pills

 

[ICIT2LOL]

if you've been seduced by the dark side, darth vader's your guy then.

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Darth Vader is not amused...

Bet the wife is even less amused then :roflmao:

 

[DocBrown]

I am going to sell sponserships on the side of the DeLorean to the drug companies to fund my next computer science experiment

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

if you've been seduced by the dark side, darth vader's your guy then.

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Darth Vader is not amused...

Talking about Darth Vader and tie fighters, this is what the front of my case looks like.

 

[kbrady1979]

if you've been seduced by the dark side, darth vader's your guy then.

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Darth Vader is not amused...

Talking about Darth Vader and tie fighters, this is what the front of my case looks like.

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Holy crap! That's awesome.

 

[shinigami8671]

 

[paulpicks21]

Looking gooood

 

[shinigami8671]

Thank you
And was hoping if someone could confirm what temp would be okay for i7 3770 non-k version? With intel stock Cooler it went to 98c with full load,with this cooler it is around 77c max,usually lower. IS that okay? On intel's site it says 67.4c max ARK | Intel® Core

 

[paulpicks21]

That does seem to be running a bit hot mate. I would think a non overclocked chip would run cooler. Mine only hits mid 60s at 4.6GHz.

Having said that, 77C is nothing to worry about. The 67.4C max thing is Tcase, don't worry about that. The max the CPU can handle before shutting down will be 105C so you are well within that.

 

[essenbe]

By full load, do you mean running a stress test? If you were running something like Prime, yes 77 is OK. The temp Intel talks about is a temp no software can measure. We have to go by the temp of the cores, which is 105 max. I try to make it a point to not let it go over 90-95. That is running a stress test.

 

[shinigami8671]

That does seem to be running a bit hot mate. I would think a non overclocked chip would run cooler. Mine only hits mid 60s at 4.6GHz.

Having said that, 77C is nothing to worry about. The 67.4C max thing is Tcase, don't worry about that. The max the CPU can handle before shutting down will be 105C so you are well within that.

By full load, do you mean running a stress test? If you were running something like Prime, yes 77 is OK. The temp Intel talks about is a temp no software can measure. We have to go by the temp of the cores, which is 105 max. I try to make it a point to not let it go over 90-95. That is running a stress test.

Yes while running a stress test it hits 77c for 5-10 seconds and then goes down,stays near 69c i think. Was running Intel Burn test and monitoring temp with CPUID HD monitor.
Also i am using a normal thermal paste right now,waiting for local shops to restock and then will buy some better paste too.

 

[kbrady1979]

That is fine for IBT. That stresses a CPU more than even Prime95....so NOTHING you will ever do will put more stress than that on it.

 

[paulpicks21]

Yeah I agree, for IBT that's fine

 

[shinigami8671]

ohh that's a load off thanks guys!

 

[Britton30]

I too agree, IBT makes my CPU go to 85C-90C with the standard test. As its author states, "..will bring any CPU to its knees."

 

[Apprentrice5]

So i have spent more money A new case - CM Storm Stryker, a new power supply - Corsair AX860, a new CPU cooler - Gelid GX-7, and a new external hard drive - Toshiba 3tb Store-E.

Took everything out my old case and set up ready to install the new cooler, and compared the size of the case to the box of my new one......



After wards i installed the cooler plugged everything in to start the benching to make sure all was running smoothly



After that came the process of putting all of the components in to the case and make sure the cables are nice and tidy



However becasue the case is soooo big and heavy i had to improvise a free standing workstation to work around it freely



All went smoothly and is now running like a dream





And then at 1 o'clock in the morning i decided it was time for bed, but had to spend 20 minutes making space for sleep