Show Us Your Rig [3]

[ganjiry]

ganjiry,
I like the cool blue air blowing in and getting red hot as it's charged with computing power and exhausted. The filters came out very nice, you smoothed the mesh and trimmed it with precision. I've found that much more often cleaning is needed as these filters do trap a good amount of dust. Have you noticed an increase in case temps for the reduced air flow? Overall a wicked looking rig and set up!

Thanks for the complements
It came out alright enit. I found it a lot easier to do the filters this time for some reason. As for temps my case temp has only raised 2c to 28c but i also added another antec true quiet at the bottom which is bringing in some nice cool air for my gpu. Gpu temps lowered by about 3 or 4c. Airflow hasn't been affected much as the holes in the side panel mesh are 0.8mm i think. I should notice a big difference in dust in my gpu though as eventhough the 200mm corsair fan on the side doesn't move much air it seemed to suck up some dust lol.
The fans on top are exsaust so the filter there is just to stop falling dust really.
Eventhough the filters need cleaning more often its more managable as barely any dust gets through. The front panel filter is still the stock Corsair as i didnt want to affect the main intake airflow but will see how it goes. I may change it eventually

 

[raideruk]

Got my 180 rad in my case now, updated pix.

Temps are pretty good, the GFX cards are gtx465 's over clocked to 750Mhz, I get 44 degrees max after an few hours gaming, my CPU (i7 2600k) is at 4.2ghz and max temp is about 45ish degrees so I am quietly pleased.

 

[ganjiry]

nice lookin rig raideruk, nice temps too

 

[A Guy]

Looking good raideruk

A Guy

 

[windude99]

Got my 180 rad in my case now, updated pix.

Temps are pretty good, the GFX cards are gtx465 's over clocked to 750Mhz, I get 44 degrees max after an few hours gaming, my CPU (i7 2600k) is at 4.2ghz and max temp is about 45ish degrees so I am quietly pleased.

Nice rig Raideruk

 

[Solarstarshines]

ello folks LOOK! no dust
i finally got round to installing my led's and had a better clean so heres a couple more pics for ya
i also changed the direction of the fans on my H50 to intake instaed of exsaust and added the bottom fan as an intake. .no change in cpu temps but my gpu is a few degree's c less. now ive definately got a positive airflow n should have the dust well n truely under control.
oh and i had another attempt at gettin the steel and copper mesh in place as filters. this time i got it sussed

Very nice and im glad you found the swabs and alcohol to be a good investment

 

[ganjiry]

ello folks LOOK! no dust
i finally got round to installing my led's and had a better clean so heres a couple more pics for ya
i also changed the direction of the fans on my H50 to intake instaed of exsaust and added the bottom fan as an intake. .no change in cpu temps but my gpu is a few degree's c less. now ive definately got a positive airflow n should have the dust well n truely under control.
oh and i had another attempt at gettin the steel and copper mesh in place as filters. this time i got it sussed

Very nice and im glad you found the swabs and alcohol to be a good investment

Cheers chap just the job

 

[Alsisgevat]

Ganjiry - Welldone mate! It looks great, and soooo clean! Good job.

Raideruk - Nice rig you got, liking the blue liquid allot.

Everyone else -

I installed another ssd,so now I have my 3some... and got the backplates so far, so STILL waiting on the pump.

 

[ganjiry]

@Alsisgevat cheers chap i got there in the end.
ark @ you with ya 3 ssd's tis gonna be well quick enit. i bet your pulling your hair out waiting on that pump ent ya :banghead::mad2:

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Alsisgevat,
You're building a killer rig. Are you using the various SSD's as ultra fast storage or as ultra fast raid? May I ask how you like your cases unusual mobo configuration with it's IO ports pointing up and it's wires running along the top and out the back?

 

[paulpicks21]

There are some amazing rigs in this thread

Expect a few pics from me next week as I have an Antec 1100 on it's way.

 

[Alsisgevat]

@Alsisgevat cheers chap i got there in the end.
ark @ you with ya 3 ssd's tis gonna be well quick enit. i bet your pulling your hair out waiting on that pump ent ya :banghead::mad2:

You have no idea,haha. But it will arive this week, so then by next weekend I will b fully watercooled!

Alsisgevat,
You're building a killer rig. Are you using the various SSD's as ultra fast storage or as ultra fast raid? May I ask how you like your cases unusual mobo configuration with it's IO ports pointing up and it's wires running along the top and out the back?

Thanx mate, the bottom ocz ssd is for the OS, and the top two corsair ones are for games, at first it was going to be for RAID, or storige, but then I desided on using them just for games, seeing as I usually only install about 10 games before I format, it works well. And loading games are so much better on a SSD.

As for the chassis, I can honestly say this is one of the best features of the chassis, it makes accessing the "back" usb ports allot easier,and having the gfx's standing so vertical next to instead of over and under each other makes it feel safer when adding water cooling, and I personally think it looks cool. And the heat from the gfx's card go out the top instead of into the cpu cooler. As for the wires running on top, the top pannel hides them at least, and it makes them come out as one neat bundle type thing. But it definitely is a change,and one needs to get use to it.

 

[Mashed1316]

So far it seems like a killer rig, Alsisgevat!

I don't know about prices in S.A. but can you tell me how much have you spent so far? with my latest build i've spent about US$ 1.900 (prices here are almost double the US price ) and i don't have a "supreme" top of the line build, but i like it

EDIT: I just did a quick math and my actual rig is worth (newegg prices) about US$ 1.110, so now that i think about it... the overprice it's about 72.73%

 

[Alsisgevat]

The prices here are crazy too, for example. One silver rotary fitting from bitspower cost 10.50 last I checked, here it costs R280.00. Ruffly if the currency was the same it meant they cost R280 dollars here. And I know we usually add a 0 after our prices then its the same. Because a 600 dollar graphics card in the US cost R6000 here. But thats not the same with importing, it seems we pay more on importing taxes then the product itself. So you can imagine how it sucks to pay so much for a single fitting.

I checked on frozenCPU for the watercooling and chassis. On newegg for the hardware and some random store for the gfx cards, because I couldn't find it on newegg. And here are their prices.



So the total ruffly when purchasing these items now would be around 3970.37 dollars.

But that is without out specials. And believe me I hunted down the special here in S.A, so it should be cheaper.

 

[ganjiry]

shockin prices rather you than me. its gonna be a well nice rig when done

 

[Alsisgevat]

Thanx mate, but the only prices this year was the watercooling ones, and one og the gfx cards. The other stuff were last years problem.

And if I may, I looked at you previous pics again, and seeing as you have the red lights and the hole red and black theme, I was thinking it would look pretty sweet if you repainted the yellow stuff on the fans. (those yellow things on the corners of the bottom and top fans,) Cause I like the hole setup, but the yellow stands out allot IMHO.

 

[ZaLiTH]

So the total ruffly when purchasing these items now would be around 3970.37 dollars.

And then there's the sad issue of international postage.. Did you perhaps see how much that would add to the price?

 

[Alsisgevat]

Well it worked out around +/- 20-30% extra on SOME stuff. Others only about 5-10%...

 

[ganjiry]

Thanx mate, but the only prices this year was the watercooling ones, and one og the gfx cards. The other stuff were last years problem.

And if I may, I looked at you previous pics again, and seeing as you have the red lights and the hole red and black theme, I was thinking it would look pretty sweet if you repainted the yellow stuff on the fans. (those yellow things on the corners of the bottom and top fans,) Cause I like the hole setup, but the yellow stands out allot IMHO.

agreed the orange does stand out loads but its a really soft rubber. the fans are held inplace by these things https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-053-AK
they are good quiet fans though
Antec TrueQuiet 120 120mm Case Fan Review - YouTube

 

[Alsisgevat]

Oh, it looked yellow-ish, anyway yeah I saw a bunch of reviews that liked those fans, but I personally would have sprayed them red by now.Or white in my case hehe.

But atleast the rubber makes the fans more silent, so it helps