Here's some new pics of my rig
 

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just got these new cables from corsair for dress up , but I'm taking a break maybe I'll put them in this weekend


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NICE! :drool:

Case labs very nice

It's a Lian Li pc343b

New desk, put the final coat of Varathane on a couple days ago.





Simple desk but I am pleased with how it turned out. Had a spare LCD, now no cable swapping when I want to run my legacy box.

Thats really nice. I love how that came out.

I keep thinking "Logitech" when I look at that room. :lol:

The colors are so Logitech. :bleh:

Yeah I am not fond of it, we have been slowly renovating the house, haven't made it to this room yet.

Thanks :)

I am not doing very well getting my new office setup and organized...

LoL that looks like a real PC enthusiasts room to me :D

Ladies and gentlemen, the change has happened from the green team to the red team, and without further ado, two pictures of the (cough) old setup while still air cooled as final tribute:





And the lovely water cooled GTX580's with coolance blocks, wich will be resting in storage for the forseable future:





And now the system with the 4 HD7970's in it, but still air cooled and yes the cards( all 4 of them afterall) scream like a banshee when i ran just the first of many benchmarks, with no overclocking:




And to get a feel for the setup at stock clocks...Unigine heaven at 2560*1440 4X AA, 16X AF and extreme tesselation mode:





Need mini display port to regular display port cables to get the side displays working and using the supplied HDMI to DVI adapter is only good for 1920*1080 on one of the side displays, wich isn't it's native resolution.

That's a ****ing monster... :eek:

Wait until i get the 4 EK water blocks, parallel bridge and back plates, as well as extra pumps and reservoir then...:evil:

awesome rig man.

Looks great, will look excellent once the water cooling is complete.

Worked on the secondary pc this weekend. Had a problem with the EK block where the mounting screw broke inside the block but after many hours. leak free and bubble free. Main pc is next moment I can get new gpus and blocks.

Nice secondary PC :drool:


I hate you rich people..

This was an investment in getting the gf to play bf3 without complaining. She was complaining the fans were too loud. Hearing her trifire fans and my quadfire fans I finally had enough as well. :bleh: She didnt get my pretty fittings SHHH:evil:

Haha you said it.:lol:

Nice looking rig.:up:

Hows it running ?, like a champ I bet.:D

Yup. I saved the one unlocked 6950 that I had that oced like a beast. so I got 1ghz core on all of them. :drool:

After numerous delays with parts, I've finally got my first water cooled rig up and running. :D





I guess cable management can be better but I'll save that for later.

Seems that EK seriously underestimated the demand for their water blocks for the HD7970 and simply didn't make enough of them, so i'll go with koolance yet again wich are much easier to get, and swiftechs double pump masterpiece to help out the current pump mounted on the front bay...

http://www.swiftech.com/MCP35x2PUMP.aspx


Going thru 4 GPU blocks and 2 radiators on a single pump is pushing it in terms of flow and overall restriction to overcome, so i'll add the above in series to speed it up the flow and act as a failsafe too.

Not a fan of ek anymore to be honest. Twice I have gotten insufficient thermal pads (once none in the box) and just recently I had a mounting screw break in the block from hand screwing it partially.

I'm a fan of the price on the full cover blocks from ek, they're 40€ cheaper than the ones from koolance.

Yes for single GPU users, but not so much for multiGPU users, as in order to look their best, they need specific adapters for each block and that big parallel part that goes over the 4 cards to complete the loop, so that makes up the difference anyhow....With koolance, all you need are the extensions between the cards and that's it, so it doesn't quite look as good i'll admit, but when paying 600$+ for either solution, there both not cheap anyhow.

Ordered more parts for the cooling, and the loop for the GPU will have no less than 3 pumps setup in series and PWM controled by a CPU fan header, and a front mounted reservoir with it's own built in pump in a 5 1/4 bay to keep tabs on the water level, with an Acrilic top between the 2 lower pumps along with some nice sliver extention fittings, angled adapters and compression fittings for the extra bling factor...There goes another 300$ with shipping...:lol:


Same company will get 4 koolance blocks reserved for me by next week too, at 130$ a pop...800$ to modify the loop for the new cards in total, but the system deserves it bigtime...3 pumps in series may sound like overkill but it serves as a failsafe should any one pump fail :D

Welcome to the club... I will never buy EK blocks again. I had a similar thermal pad issue. My Heatkiller GPU blocks I had for my 6970's were much better quality. Cheaper cost too. :nuts:

The biggest issue I've had with ek blocks is the issue in this thread.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...-temperatures&

It was a pretty frustrating issue since it did look like the block made good contact with the gpu, even if that was not the case.