Show Us Your Rig

[96accord]

@96accord: Again, best of luck with that board *crosses fingers that it's not DoA*

Thanks Freelancer. I do have my fingers crossed.

 

[Colonel Travis]

You gamers have no clue. I can't even show you my whole rig because it takes up my entire house (it is my entire house).

Power button - impossible to turn on by yourself.

House/computer is under the third stack from the left. CPU heats up to about 790 degrees Kelvin in the winter, had to reroute the river to go through the cooling stacks. Summer temp can reach 1,000 K easy, have to use glacial melt AND the river or else I am totally screwed.

 

[Ranger093]

My Rig.

Here's my rig...
Intel Core I7 920 Oc; 3.5 ghz.. ON STOCK INTEL AIR! XD
Gigabyte EX58-UD4P
6 Gigs OCZ DDR3 Oced to 1700. CAS: 17
1 Terabyte Western Digital Caviar Black HDD.
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Edition Sound Card
2 Sapphire HD4850's
Antec 1000w PSU
All wrapped in a Antec P182 Gunmetal Black Case.
Samsung T240 24" Monitor at 1920 X 1200
Steelseries G7 Keyboard
Razer Mamba Mouse
Razer Carcharias Headset

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Samsung 32" LCD
Belkin N1 Vision
PS3
This is mainly my workstation when I work on other peoples PC's.

 

[96accord]

Update: Still haven't received the board yet

Purchased March 31st -> Currently April 7th.

Contacted the seller a few days ago -> no response.
Contacted the seller again today -> waiting for a response.

 

[smarteyeball]

^^That sucks mate. It's a crap feeling

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I decided I didn't like the green side fans, so I finally found some red ones that were in stock.

Instead of the HAFMAS TREE, I now have the RED MENACE




Excuse the poor PQ

 

[Mark]

Looks good Smarteyeball, do you get much dust having so many fans?

 

[smarteyeball]

Lol, yeah. About once a month i give all the fans a good clean. It's due for a complete strip down and a going over with the air compressor. Worth it though

 

[Mark]

Lol, yeah. About once a month i give all the fans a good clean. It's due for a complete strip down and a going over with the air compressor. Worth it though

Make sure you drain any water out of your air compressor before you do it lol, wish I had one of those handy.

 

[96accord]

Holy Crap Fans! LOL

 

[mansrm81]

That motherboard looks so small in that case.

 

[96accord]

That motherboard looks so small in that case.

It does look microscopic! lol

 

[smarteyeball]

Make sure you drain any water out of your air compressor before you do it lol, wish I had one of those handy.

I'll be keeping it away from the electrical stuff, water or not I did a test run on an old video card, put it back in and lets just say the electrical fizzing sound was not inspiring Card still works though. I picked up the compressor pretty cheaply from Bunnings.

It does look microscopic! lol

Imagine a micro-atx in there

 

[96accord]

damn i would need my magnifying glass for that! LOL

 

[harmann]

What case is that smarteyeball?

@ the guys with EVGA FTW boards:

You probably have heard this, but do yourselves a favor and replace the NB fan! I just did mine with a Vantec Stealth 60mm and all I can say is WOW. My PC now doesn't "whine" anymore; now it sounds more like an air conditioner.

Even at max rpm the Vantec is still easier on the ears than stock fan at 30%. Biggest difference is when booting. My rig would sound like a vacuum cleaner because the NB fan jumps to its max rpm >.<

Not only that, the Vantec seems to have better airflow for the same rpm. I had to run the stock fan at 30% of 5500rpm (which is about 1600rpm) to reduce noise. NB sink temp = about 45C. Then I ran the Vantec at 60% of 2700rpm (~1600rpm too). NB sink temp now = about 37C.

I feel pretty proud of myself now. I've been sleeping every night for a year, 3 meters away from that little hurricane and 9 other fans in the case. :devil:

 

[smarteyeball]

It's a Cooler Master HAF 932 and it too sounds like a quiet air conditioner even with all the fans maxed. Just a steady whoosh

 

[XeRo]

Harmann, it's a good tip but how would one go about fashioning a fan into where the stock one just clips in? Also with the stock CPU fan that north bridge fan is in a tight spot I couldn't imagine a larger fan in there. Pics?

 

[96accord]

eVGA 750i FTW motherboard came in yesterday!! WOOT!

Haven't had time to install it yet tho.

 

[96accord]

Picture:

 

[XeRo]

WOW, looks exactly like mine!

 

[harmann]

Sorry for late reply. Here ya go.

The fan is 25mm thick so make sure you measure first or find thinner fans with around 3000rpm max. Barely fit under my OCZ Vendetta.

I made it blow up into the CPU heatsink instead of the GPU like the stock fan. That shaved off about 3C on the GPU. There's no noticeable effect on CPU temp as far as I can tell.

I cut some double-sided foam tape into 4 triangles and put them in the corners where the screws normally go, as you can see in the pic.