WOW, that looks really clean dude good job.

NICE! One of the cleanest setups I've ever seen. You sure that thing really runs :p

thanks dudes. it runs great! 4.4 at stock volts and oc'd the ram to 1866. not too shabby. :D

Set up at PDXLAN (right now):

all those lights would drive my eyes crazy.. sucks gettin old.

they are switchable.

Gaudy, but great work as always.

Finally re-build my PC on last Saturday. Although, it was pretty stupid to installed the new H60, I had to got washers at Lowes and got home. I put them in between the bracket and black washers. Now, screws are not loose anymore. It works great.

Looks fantastic!! Congrats on the new build and glad the washers worked out for you. :)

Amazing machine in person.

I'm guessing you didn't enter the mod contest, as some in the "top 5" were pretty generic.

no, was not even there for it as I had a class to teach on Saturday. Even if I was there I would not enter as my ethics preclude me from winning twice at PDXLAN.

how much does that beast weigh?

New case + added a 680 to SLi, man seeing 2 3 slot cards looks so beast.

Nice job CP! Shame that case door covers up those sweet looking cards though. Those things just look mean sitting side by side! :drool:

But can it run Crysis?

:p

Lol yeah it should. I played the MP demo with 1 card stock speed around 30FPS with all max settings. And that new driver apparently rose performance 65% :hmm:. Granted I won't be playing till teh game hits the sales bin. I don't have interest in the MP. And the SP is too short for the money.

Top card is running into quite a bit of heat issues. It's getting starved. I'm wanting to buy blocks but I don't want to spend $400 to just cool some VGA cards. I'm tempted to give a shot at 2 Accellero Hybrid coolers. Newegg has them on sale for $99ea, would be $200.

Very interested in your results if you do this. I've been eyeing those coolers as well. Curious how they'll handle the heat, and what extra OC headroom they may provide.

Also think they'd look kinda' cool in your setup. :)

The benefit as well if you look in my above pictures, where there is the built in 240/280 radiator location. I could easily put the 2 radiators there. Then everything has it's own loop to boot.

Seems kind of ridiculous to me to spend $200 on custom coolers when you're already water cooling the cpu and have a pump that can handle a few more blocks.

With those accelero type coolers you still need to force air inbetween the cards somehow. That fan by the end of the graphics cards may do the trick.

This. Blocks will cost you 10 bucks more than that ridiculous accerelo bs. You have the space for another rad already.

Reading and the 2 680s, and the 3770k with the RX360 assuming full load would put me at 10 delta. Nothing will ever run full load at the same time so I'm thinking I'd be more around 6-8 delta. Going to try and run it all on just the 360 with that math. See how it pans out.

It will work just fine.

If asus could cool dual 7970s with a cheap 120.1 alu rad, then you can easily cool your components with a good 120.3 radiator.

Currently pissed, how come there is no water cooling on the video cards?
oh nevermind, you're going to run everything with 1 rad.

the 680 directcu ii's don't need it they make little noise as is and run cool

They do, but as you can see in the pictures, the top card is getting massively starved of air, it gets as hot as 80c @ 100% fan spead while the bottom sits around 50c @ 40% fan speed

It would probably be fine. I saw a thread on Hardforum with a guy with a mini itx rig running a GTX 670 and either 3770k or 3570k on a single 120mm monsta and a pair of corsair fans in push pull. He got decent temps in BF3 which should do a good job stressing both the cpu and gpu.

Me, I would still throw in something like an XT45 in the bottom if you plan on keeping the case for a while.

I'm going to add a XSPC RX240 in a month. I've spent too much this month on PC parts.

Ordering 2x EK full blocks (are backplates necessary?)
8x Monsoon Compression Fittings
EK Dual Serial Triple Slot SLi Link

I'm probably going to just use MX-4 on them. Even though I have a lifetime supply of Coolab Pro, I want to be able to put back on the Asus coolers and sell in a year.

I took a look at the 2GB model on TPU and I don't see any thermal pads on the stock backplate so, I don't think that the backplates really serve a purpose other than looks.

I normally don't care much for the nzxt cases but your setup is pretty sweet, currently pissed.