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kiwi84000

Anti wrote: »

And the cardboard case of win !

LoL!! Thats just cool!



Whats the specs of your new rig?

Anti

Yeah i think that was my favorite case ever. So much fun making it. Was epic on boot as the blue light would stat flashing too !

Current specs are:

I7-965ee (es) Soon to be swapped back to a i920
Evga x58
6GB Dominator dhx+
8570
haf922

Still waiting on my MDPC sleeving kit which should arive this weekend, then i need to find somewhere to powder coat the inside of the haf too.

DECEiFER

Here's some pics of my PC's insides.

Note the sellotape to keep the back metal slots from falling onto the circuitry. The case is old, I bought it in 2005.

kiwi84000

Anti wrote: »

Yeah i think that was my favorite case ever. So much fun making it. Was epic on boot as the blue light would stat flashing too !

Current specs are:

I7-965ee (es) Soon to be swapped back to a i920
Evga x58
6GB Dominator dhx+
8570
haf922

Still waiting on my MDPC sleeving kit which should arive this weekend, then i need to find somewhere to powder coat the inside of the haf too.

Why you dumping the 965 EE!.

Also i am sure you mean 5870 not 8570 on less your just back from the future

Also. I was thinking about the getting the HAF 932 to replace my Antec P180

Deano12345

kiwi84000 wrote: »

Why you dumping the 965 EE!.

Also i am sure you mean 5870 not 8570 on less your just back from the future

Also. I was thinking about the getting the HAF 932 to replace my Antec P180

That 8570 is a ''work special'' lol

Whats that ES like for OC'ing Anti ?

Also,what was the damage for the MDPC kit,I'm thinking of ordering one myself
@Decifer : Holy mass of cables !

I'd get managing them in some way ASAP

Heres my most recent cabling (actaully a word ?) change and a pic of my new parts (4890 + HX850)

leninbenjamin

I got bored today so I decided I'd do some cable management and post the results!

me setup:


the innards:




the look is kinda ruined by the top exhaust fan cable trailing over everything. But it works.

farna_boy

My current rig:

Asus P5Q-E
Intel E7300
4 GB OCZ Reaper
Sapphire Raedon 4670
250 GB Hard Drive
750 GB RAID 1 Drive
Coolermaster 632 Mystique
600W OCZ Stealth Xtreme
Windows Vista Business (64 bit)

Venom

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The Megashadow is not as shiny as the flash makes it out to be in real life, kinda a black silk look. Not that heavy either but pretty big as you can see with the Game box in background.

leninbenjamin

ooh... I want to see the shiney Megahalem!

Smau5

Crysis on highest settings. :cool:

Venom

HAF 932, i7 920 D0 @ 3.80ghz, Prolinatech Megashadow + Xilence Redwing 120mm fans x2, Gigabyte EX58-UD5, Corsair DDR3 Dominator GT 1600mhz, Corsair HX 850, Samsung F3 1TB x2, LiteOn IHAS324-32 24x DVD±RW, Razor Lachesis, Logitech Z5500 speakers.

lmimmfn

dont have any pix for mine, besides its all dusty.
i7 920@4.05Ghz( Noctua NH-U12P cooler )
Gigabyte x58 UD5
3 Gig Corsair C9 DDR3( need to get another 6, was too expensive at the time )
ATI 5850
8800Gt( for physx and to drive one of the screens )
Xfi Xtremegamer
Gigabyte Aurora case
Samsund 22" & 2x 19" LCD screens( LG & HP )
G5 & crappy logitech keyboard
Hard Drives, Samsung Spinpoints: 2x750Gig, 1x1Tb, Seagate Baracudas 7.10's 400Gig & 500Gig
Thermaltake Toughpower 850W

BeansBeans

Anti wrote: »

Ah i found the tj07 when first built

Bloody beautiful case, i have to say.
I love Silverstone stuff. I had a tj06 for the last build i did eons ago . Loved the big ugly bugger its found a retirement home in the office now though .
Have had to settle for a more economical case these days.

kaimera

added a second gen intel 80gb ssd - did a fresh win7 ultimate x64 install this evening.

added 2*samsung f3 1.5tb drives - removed a 250gb ide.

cabled up the front 2 intake fans in the hdd cages.

removed the second fan from the noctua hs - wayy to fiddly to get the fan back on with the mobo in place so I gave up after about half and our of trying

Antec 900
msi x58 platinum
i7-920 @stock.
noctua hsf in single fan config.
12gb ddr3
intel ssd OS
2*1.5, 1*750, 1*500, 3*500 & 1*160 external drives
22" samsung syncmaster 2253BW
creative 5.1 audio
logi g15 & mx518
ati 4870 512mb in boost mode.
42" panny plasma via hdmi as secondary for the time being.

IrishGrimReaper

Here's my own. Sorry for huge pics ;(

Case:Custom modded Lian Li P80 Armorsuit(most expensive part haha)
CPU: i7 920@3.9Ghz Noctua NH U12P Cooler
Mobo:Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Ram:3x2GB OCZ 1600Mhz
GPU: PNY GTX 275 896mb
PSU: Corsair 520HX
HDD: Intel X25 M-G2 80GB SSD + 500GB WD Black.

Solitaire

IrishGrimReaper wrote: »

Here's my own. Sorry for huge pics ;(

Horizontal scroll bars FTL :P

But as I see the words "Lian Li" all is forgiven

IrishGrimReaper

Solitaire wrote: »

Horizontal scroll bars FTL :P

But as I see the words "Lian Li" all is forgiven

I see a man that has good tastes hehe.

For some reason the pics have now started to change to the size I edited them to. 1 more to go, then it's bye bye scroll bar!

BeansBeans

Ah thats a beautiful case.

How are those xiggy 14cm fans. I was contemplating buying one, i just love the look of them. Have read good things about them too , rear exhaut though, ahem so i probably wont even use it, will see iwill ooh.

IrishGrimReaper

They are great! Look really good compared to them blue yate loons or whatever was in it before.

Was looking at buying them weeks ago, but pretty much the whole of UK went out of stock on them. Took a few weeks of waiting to get them!

Mounting them was a big hassle though, as the fan cables aren't that long so the top fan I had to use an adapter and the one I had was quite big so they're stuffed hidden in there. The fan filter barely gets in ;(

Tr1PoD

Enjoy looking at all these pics so here is mine

I7-860, Hydro H50 water cooler, 8GB DD3, 32GB SSD, 1TB HD, ATI 5870, 3 23" Dell monitors and an Antec Skeleton case. I really need a new table lol.

Anti

nice setup. Especially liking the ghetto mounting of the H50 and the table is just win

ED E

Lovely desktop.

I dont know what to think of those cases. Really slick, but not computer-ish if you know what I mean....

Tr1PoD

Yeah, I really just wanted something a bit different. I like the look of it and it seems to do a very decent job of keeping everything cool and blowing away any dust.

I wouldn't recommend it in general though simply because you really need to make sure that your hardware is going to fit. Luckily the 5870 just about slides in (and I think I may just squeeze a second one in later :P) but I think plenty of other cards that are a small bit taller wouldn't work. Similarly with the CPU fan, only low profile fans will fit and they are usually not much better than stock, at least the small amount currently available for the 1156 socket. I'm really impressed with the H50 though, very nice temps especially when you add a second fan to the radiator.

Anti

Oh really ?

Ive read bad things about using push pull with the h50's. I'm going to have to give it a whirl

leninbenjamin

Anti wrote: »

Oh really ?

Ive read bad things about using push pull with the h50's.

I'd hazard that's primarily because people have reversed the exhaust fan without ensuring there's adequate airflow out of the case? With the 800D you should be fine though, it has a fine big exhaust that one

Tr1PoD

Anti wrote: »

Oh really ?

Ive read bad things about using push pull with the h50's. I'm going to have to give it a whirl

Not sure since I haven't seen anything bad said about this setup. One review showed a drop in temps of about 5-6C compared to using one fan. Seems to drop mine by about 3 or 4. Probably depends a great deal on the fan that you use.

stephenmarr

@Tr1Pod what fans are you using on the h-50 im about to build my system is the standard fan adequate?

Tr1PoD

The stock fan seems to be perfectly fine. You only really need to put a second one on if you really need the extra couple of degrees to hit whatever overclock you are trying to achieve.

I'm just using the stock fan and a Akasa 120mm LED Fan that is the same specification, 1700 rpm and 59.1 cfm airflow.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1025/6/

That review got a good improvement over stock using two Noctua NF-P12 120mm which are also quieter at 19.8 dBA instead of 29.8 dBA.

kaimera

kaimera wrote: »

added a second gen intel 80gb ssd - did a fresh win7 ultimate x64 install this evening.

added 2*samsung f3 1.5tb drives - removed a 250gb ide.

cabled up the front 2 intake fans in the hdd cages.

removed the second fan from the noctua hs - wayy to fiddly to get the fan back on with the mobo in place so I gave up after about half and our of trying

Antec 900
msi x58 platinum
i7-920 @stock.
noctua hsf in single fan config.
12gb ddr3
intel ssd OS
2*1.5, 1*750, 1*500, 3*500 & 1*160 external drives
22" samsung syncmaster 2253BW
creative 5.1 audio
logi g15 & mx518
ati 4870 512mb in boost mode.
42" panny plasma via hdmi as secondary for the time being.

^^
added pics - had to redo the cabling today - I'll explain in another thread.

Anti

Okay so time i added this in

I7-860
8gb Corsair 1600mhz ddr3
5780 x 2 (one is being rma'd)
1000w corsair psu
Corsair H50 with push pull
Corsair performance 64gb ghetto mounted as it isnt recognized when in the hot swap bays
4 x 1tb samsung f3's
Corsair 800D





Really need to do more cable tidying and sleeving over the weekend.