Show Us Your Rig [3]

Britton30 said:

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

jeepmann4x4 said:

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

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

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.

Britton30 said:

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.

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

Nice new score Britton! Congrats.

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

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.

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

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

Thanx mate, yeah I am counting down the days!

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

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.