Show Us Your Rig [5]

linnemeyerhere said:

I'm feeling half naked with only 16gb.

Guess my 8Gb is a thong

essenbe said:

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

linnemeyerhere said:

Juan,
I really like the white case, are you planning on using white water tint or lime green?

Thanks Alan!

We were going to use UV green coolant (Feser View plus Feser Base) with some UV cathodes and leds, but we are reviewing that due to some requests from a sponsor. We'll see.

Cheers,

J

DocBrown said:

Upgraded my GigaByte FX990 / AMD FX8350 box with two new front panels.

5.25 Media Dashboard and an Orico USB 3.0

Attachment 278452

AMD-FX-8350 Build
Thermaltake V3 Black Edition VL80001W2Z
OCZ 700 watt OCZ700MXSP Power Supply
GigaByte GA-990FxA-UD7 Motherboard
AMD FX 8350 8-Core CPU Black Edition 4.0 GHz
Seagate 2TB Hard Drive
LG Super Multi OEM DVD-R/W Sata Optical Drive
Replaced ******* GSkill RipJaws-Z 4 x 4GB DDR3 Memory sticks
with 32 GB Kingston DDR3 1600 CL10 ( 4 x 8gb ) Memory Sticks
EVGA nVidia GeForce 9800 GT 1GB DDR3 PCI-E 2.0 Video Card

3 - 120mm Case Fans ( 1 each of Green, Red, Blue)

Windows 7 Enterprise Edition SP1 (x64) From MS TechNet

Looking good Doc. Good job!

Well, since we'd like to plan our next show builds with a lot of time, here's the schedule

August: Steve, in progress
September: Paul, Gigabyte Z87 OC, 3 x 770, orange theme
October: Ryan ???
November: Alan ???
December: Two builds: 1. Tommy ???
2. John, gray and blue???

Guys, ideas and advice are more than welcome, as always!!!

We'll make our January build an air cooled cable management special. Lady F, start thinking!

Cheers,

J

Bungee18 said:

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

Hi Juan,

That looks very clean and neat so far and that is amazing news about the Gigabyte sponsorship! The next few builds will be truly awesome thanks to that, but well done to you for getting the sponsorship in the first place.
I look forward to seeing the finished article

Bungee18 said:

Well, since we'd like to plan our next show builds with a lot of time, here's the schedule

August: Steve, in progress
September: Paul, Gigabyte Z87 OC, 3 x 770, orange theme
October: Ryan ???
November: Alan ???
December: Two builds: 1. Tommy ???
2. John, gray and blue???

Guys, ideas and advice are more than welcome, as always!!!

We'll make our January build an air cooled cable management special. Lady F, start thinking!

Cheers,

J

Can't wait to see the next one, so I take it with the sponsorship you can now definitely use 3 x 770s then? This thing will look amazing with that motherboard too.