Offical Show Your Rig Off

procupine14 · Jul 22, 2009, 04:16 PM

wow thats a nice setup! Good work on the custom table (pass it off as furniture so the wife doesn't blow a gasket) thing!

Mac Daddy · Jul 22, 2009, 04:25 PM

I got so busy last night I forgot to post a reply here

Coresong welcome to DH and what a cool mod. Hope you stick around and showcase more of your talents for us

procupine14 · Jul 22, 2009, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

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Coresong welcome to DH and what a cool mod. Hope you stick around and showcase more of your talents for us

Yes welcome!
To be honest I'm still wracking my brain trying to follow the liquid flow in all that tubing

Coresong · Jul 22, 2009, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by procupine14

Yes welcome!
To be honest I'm still wracking my brain trying to follow the liquid flow in all that tubing

It is a lot of inlets and outlets... interesting thing is that because of the high flow, there is very little localized heating, the temperature of the coolant is very consistent throughout the system once it reaches equilibrium.

Sad part is, that during the build I originally had a more traditional powersupply ( an ABS 1300), once I had assembled it all fired it up... I was getting only one of the GTX295's to show, one had a red light .... of course it was a GTX295 that I had modded with a 3rd party waterblock (thus voiding the warranty) so I actually bought another ... (was so frustrated that my ultimate machine was not going to be so ultimate, all reason went out the door), drained the system, reassembled... and STILL one GTX295 was redlighting ... frustrated I did some online research, came to realize my problem was NOT the GTX295, but rather a very poorly designed ABS 1300 powersupply that could not power (despite its lofty ratings) 2 GTX295's and my I7 extreme. Its split power rails could not handle essentially the 4 video cards of the GTX295s.

Soo I had to drain and replumb yet again, this time going with the monster oil immersed liquid cooled Koolance powersupply ( a thing of beauty...). Presto, all was well.. but it took three tries to get there . . .

Thats the big downside of ulitmate watercooling. If something goes wrong, it is a royal pain to take it apart and debug.

The upside of course, is that I can not get my i7 965 to ever go above 72C even under 4 hrs of running 8 threaded primes overclocked at 4.2GhZ. The GTX's also seem to top out at about 68C. I have temp monitors through the lines and monitor via a Koolance controller, the coolant temp equilibrates under full 3d Load at around 40-42C. The radiators pump out incredible amounts of heat when I OC, making it actually a nasty space heater... too hot to run full bore in the hot Arizona summers

.. but fun when I want to generate monster 3D vantage scores.....

Neshi · Jul 22, 2009, 09:34 PM

and in the winter you won't have to turn on the heating, just need to turn on your computer

procupine14 · Jul 23, 2009, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Neshi

and in the winter you won't have to turn on the heating, just need to turn on your computer

precisely

I know my water loop on my OC'd phenom heats up the room quite a bit. Enough that I finally moved the whole sytem into the guest bedroom because my room would not cool down and the Mrs. was a little annoyed

.

Yeah I gotta say that I agree with you about the liquid cooling I always let out a sigh right before I ha ve to change something or troubleshoot

. That and I trying everything in my power to fix things before I have to tear into the hardware

**kris23** · Jul 23, 2009, 09:38 PM

all the products made by those ABS guys have been shown to suck completely....... if i was you i would have looked at several reviews before buying because alot of things will surprise you

lepel · Jul 23, 2009, 09:58 PM

Does ABS belong to newegg like Rosewill?

procupine14 · Jul 24, 2009, 07:07 PM

I thought ABS was a branch of Tagan. Or at least they used to be. amirite?

EDIT:

perhaps I am mistaken. But I'm pretty sure that they had a product line called ABS

lepel · Jul 24, 2009, 08:05 PM

I wiki'd it. It was originally a subsidiary of ABS Computer Technologies when it was founded in 2001. I knew there was a connection.

**Mousey** · Jul 25, 2009, 02:38 AM

Is that Mobo for real? Seriously i've never seen so many x16 slots on a board... ever lol

Mac Daddy · Jul 25, 2009, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Coresong

Soo I had to drain and replumb yet again, this time going with the monster oil immersed liquid cooled Koolance powersupply ( a thing of beauty...). Presto, all was well.. but it took three tries to get there . . .

I missed a lot the day you posted this and just have a quick question as I am working on a full watercooled system Mod myself as time permits. You mentioned the Koolance PSU and I have been looking at a few of there products. In fact they are the only ones that make NB, SB and regulator blocks for my Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 so just looking for some feedback.

Cheers

Axxess+ · Aug 7, 2009, 06:54 PM

I'll post mine shortly, but here's the specs.
Case: CM690 Black, with 3 fans intake and two fans exhaust, all 120mm(Scythe Slip Jyuni)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 550 @ 3.1 Ghz(will overclock)
RAM: 2x2 Gb of DDR2 PC-6400 OCZ Blade
GPU: Sapphire Radeon 4870
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 640 Gb @ 7200rpm
PSU: Coolermaster Extreme Power 600W
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-MA770 AM2+/AM3
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

It's going to be pretty awesome, going from a P4 3.2 Ghz with integrated graphics and 1 Gb of RAM(DDR, that is.)

LilRazor · Aug 13, 2009, 06:16 PM

Just Got My Raven ^^ and i know raven 2 is going to be out but no go for me i prefer the raven 1 haha

spec : see my sig

the cable management is as hell to do this is the best i could do atm
some pic too have a look

Building halfway after 4 hours^^

behind the raven

Finish

blibbax · Aug 14, 2009, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Lowfat

...swapped the GTX295 to the HD4890's.

As you do...

coolmister · Aug 26, 2009, 01:33 PM

No pictures on this page yet so i thought i'd brighten it up with a couple of Skulltrails crunching merrily away

blibbax · Aug 26, 2009, 02:14 PM

Why Coolmister, why...

GigaWatt · Aug 26, 2009, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by coolmister

No pictures on this page yet so i thought i'd brighten it up with a couple of Skulltrails crunching merrily away

wow

... those look more like race car engines than PCs... LOL

... no offence of course...

procupine14 · Aug 26, 2009, 10:29 PM

They're ......BEAUTIFUL!

the part that made me laugh about the Cosmos S case was the GTX card that you literally have a cooling hose running through the hole where the fan used to be.

Good use of space! I commend you!

Chaos · Aug 26, 2009, 10:46 PM

very nice indeed

isaak · Aug 29, 2009, 01:11 PM

dude. coolmister :O

Lowfat · Sep 10, 2009, 06:29 PM

Still a work in progress, but you get the picture.

Chaos · Sep 10, 2009, 06:36 PM

looking damm fine Lowfat you must be a very patient prson to go to all the effort to sleeve every wire individually like that.

BlueMak · Sep 10, 2009, 08:19 PM

This is the first time I see the back fan outside the case.
Spotless case.

niceguyrichy · Sep 10, 2009, 08:38 PM

bloody hell..

that is totally obsessively neat, and very cool

I'd never have anything like the patience to get a case anywhere near that neat.
fantastic job

[hobo]eclipse · Sep 10, 2009, 08:41 PM

cmon lowfat, close that ram clip!

srsly tho, that sata pwr is slik

SeraphicSorcerer · Sep 10, 2009, 08:47 PM

That is one cleancut case. I commend your perfectionism, now come do mine :P

~~RE III - Frankie~~ · Sep 22, 2009, 08:33 AM

Cool rigs guys. Jealous here. My gosh.

~~RE III - Frankie~~ · Sep 26, 2009, 11:46 PM

Mousey has ruined this thread with constant pictures of his "dusty" Fuzzbox.

:

mine isn't even a small atx, it's uATX..

Eww.. Mousey get rid of that RIBBON! and do some sleeving

Takaharu · Sep 27, 2009, 01:43 AM

Believe it or not, I haven't been tidying these cables, just pushing them aside so they don't hang all over the place. The fan controller's cables & thermometers were a git to tuck in the sides of the casing.

I'll probably hide the cables better when I next upgrade.

Jul 22, 2009, 04:16 PM	#1831
procupine14 Why is it Beeping!?!?! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA, Missouri Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 56 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off wow thats a nice setup! Good work on the custom table (pass it off as furniture so the wife doesn't blow a gasket) thing! __________________ HTPC/file server: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom x4 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 800 (2x2GB) - 1TB WD Black - 4 x 1TB Hitachi DeskStar in RAID 5 - ATi TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner - HIS Raedon 4850 512MB - ASRock N68C-S UCC mobo - OCZ ModExtreme Pro 500W PSU GF's Gaming PC: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 1066 - 500GB Western Digital GP - HIS Raedon 5770 1GB - ASUS M3A78-EM - Zalman 650W PSU Media Streamer: Win 7 Pro 64-bit - AMD Athlon x2 3200+ - 4GB SuperTalent DDR2 800 - 250GB SeaGate Barracuda - MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - ASUS Raedon 5450 SILENT - FSP group 250W PSU

Jul 22, 2009, 04:25 PM	#1832
Mac Daddy DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 7,950 Rep Power: 78 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off I got so busy last night I forgot to post a reply here Coresong welcome to DH and what a cool mod. Hope you stick around and showcase more of your talents for us __________________ "My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance." - Tim Allen

Jul 22, 2009, 09:34 PM	#1835
Neshi S.N.A.F.U. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wellington, NZ Posts: 3,260 Rep Power: 150 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off and in the winter you won't have to turn on the heating, just need to turn on your computer __________________ If one does not attach himself to people and desire, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live? Life is just too damn short for if's and maybe's

Jul 23, 2009, 09:38 PM	#1837
kris23 Going Insane..... Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,990 Rep Power: 121 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off all the products made by those ABS guys have been shown to suck completely....... if i was you i would have looked at several reviews before buying because alot of things will surprise you __________________ Hardwareheaven Super-Moderator Building a new computer system and not sure where to start? Click Here! last updated (5/18/11) Rosewill FUTURE case replaces CM 690 II with its greater interior length. Building a PC: Step by Step Guide Written by Kristopher Pedemonte and Nathan Marks-Forder Edited by Allan Campbell Questions or Comments? feel free to post them in the forums!

Jul 23, 2009, 09:58 PM	#1838
lepel HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Belgium Posts: 552 Rep Power: 39 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Does ABS belong to newegg like Rosewill?

Jul 24, 2009, 07:07 PM	#1839
procupine14 Why is it Beeping!?!?! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA, Missouri Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 56 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off I thought ABS was a branch of Tagan. Or at least they used to be. amirite? EDIT: perhaps I am mistaken. But I'm pretty sure that they had a product line called ABS __________________ HTPC/file server: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom x4 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 800 (2x2GB) - 1TB WD Black - 4 x 1TB Hitachi DeskStar in RAID 5 - ATi TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner - HIS Raedon 4850 512MB - ASRock N68C-S UCC mobo - OCZ ModExtreme Pro 500W PSU GF's Gaming PC: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 1066 - 500GB Western Digital GP - HIS Raedon 5770 1GB - ASUS M3A78-EM - Zalman 650W PSU Media Streamer: Win 7 Pro 64-bit - AMD Athlon x2 3200+ - 4GB SuperTalent DDR2 800 - 250GB SeaGate Barracuda - MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - ASUS Raedon 5450 SILENT - FSP group 250W PSU Last edited by procupine14; Jul 24, 2009 at 07:13 PM.

Jul 24, 2009, 08:05 PM	#1840
lepel HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Belgium Posts: 552 Rep Power: 39 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off I wiki'd it. It was originally a subsidiary of ABS Computer Technologies when it was founded in 2001. I knew there was a connection.

Jul 25, 2009, 02:38 AM	#1841
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,156 Rep Power: 243 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Is that Mobo for real? Seriously i've never seen so many x16 slots on a board... ever lol __________________

Aug 7, 2009, 06:54 PM	#1843
Axxess+ DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off I'll post mine shortly, but here's the specs. Case: CM690 Black, with 3 fans intake and two fans exhaust, all 120mm(Scythe Slip Jyuni) CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 550 @ 3.1 Ghz(will overclock) RAM: 2x2 Gb of DDR2 PC-6400 OCZ Blade GPU: Sapphire Radeon 4870 HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 640 Gb @ 7200rpm PSU: Coolermaster Extreme Power 600W MOBO: Gigabyte GA-MA770 AM2+/AM3 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit It's going to be pretty awesome, going from a P4 3.2 Ghz with integrated graphics and 1 Gb of RAM(DDR, that is.)

Aug 13, 2009, 06:16 PM	#1844
LilRazor HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Malaysia,Kuala Lumpur Posts: 158 Rep Power: 24 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Just Got My Raven ^^ and i know raven 2 is going to be out but no go for me i prefer the raven 1 haha spec : see my sig the cable management is as hell to do this is the best i could do atm some pic too have a look Building halfway after 4 hours^^ behind the raven Finish Finish

Aug 26, 2009, 01:33 PM	#1846
coolmister HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: North East - England Posts: 87 Rep Power: 39	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off No pictures on this page yet so i thought i'd brighten it up with a couple of Skulltrails crunching merrily away

Aug 26, 2009, 02:14 PM	#1847
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Aug 26, 2009, 10:29 PM	#1849
procupine14 Why is it Beeping!?!?! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA, Missouri Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 56 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off They're ......BEAUTIFUL! the part that made me laugh about the Cosmos S case was the GTX card that you literally have a cooling hose running through the hole where the fan used to be. Good use of space! I commend you! __________________ HTPC/file server: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom x4 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 800 (2x2GB) - 1TB WD Black - 4 x 1TB Hitachi DeskStar in RAID 5 - ATi TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner - HIS Raedon 4850 512MB - ASRock N68C-S UCC mobo - OCZ ModExtreme Pro 500W PSU GF's Gaming PC: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 1066 - 500GB Western Digital GP - HIS Raedon 5770 1GB - ASUS M3A78-EM - Zalman 650W PSU Media Streamer: Win 7 Pro 64-bit - AMD Athlon x2 3200+ - 4GB SuperTalent DDR2 800 - 250GB SeaGate Barracuda - MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - ASUS Raedon 5450 SILENT - FSP group 250W PSU

Aug 26, 2009, 10:46 PM	#1850
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,269 Rep Power: 165 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off very nice indeed __________________

Aug 29, 2009, 01:11 PM	#1851
isaak HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2,253 Rep Power: 108 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off dude. coolmister :O

Sep 10, 2009, 06:29 PM	#1852
Lowfat Xtreme Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Grande Prairie, AB, Can Posts: 4,251 Rep Power: 99	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Still a work in progress, but you get the picture. __________________ 27" iMac: i5 750 * 80GB X25-M G1 * 4GB DDR3 * HD4850 Stacker: 2600k * P8P67 Pro * 4GB DDR3 * 80GB ioXtreme * 30GB X25-E * (2) HD6950 * Asus D2 * Enermax Revo85+ HWD: (2) Xeon E5649 * EVGA SR-2 * 6GB DDR3 * 8800GTS * 1000W Antec FT01BW: (2) Xeon E5645 * EVGA SR-2 * 6GB DDR3 * GTS210 * Gigabyte 800W Odin GT Storage: (2) Sans Digital TR8M-B * 29TB

Sep 10, 2009, 06:36 PM	#1853
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,269 Rep Power: 165 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off looking damm fine Lowfat you must be a very patient prson to go to all the effort to sleeve every wire individually like that. __________________

Sep 10, 2009, 08:19 PM	#1854
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,248 Rep Power: 328 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off This is the first time I see the back fan outside the case. Spotless case. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Sep 10, 2009, 08:41 PM	#1856
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,897 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off cmon lowfat, close that ram clip! srsly tho, that sata pwr is slik

Sep 10, 2009, 08:47 PM	#1857
SeraphicSorcerer HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 2,295 Rep Power: 154 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off That is one cleancut case. I commend your perfectionism, now come do mine :P __________________

Sep 22, 2009, 08:33 AM	#1858
~~RE III - Frankie~~ Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,754 Rep Power: 0	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Cool rigs guys. Jealous here. My gosh.

Sep 26, 2009, 11:46 PM	#1859
~~RE III - Frankie~~ Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,754 Rep Power: 0	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Mousey has ruined this thread with constant pictures of his "dusty" Fuzzbox. : mine isn't even a small atx, it's uATX.. Eww.. Mousey get rid of that RIBBON! and do some sleeving

Sep 27, 2009, 01:43 AM	#1860
Takaharu I can fart in 7 languages Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: England, UK Posts: 1,631 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Believe it or not, I haven't been tidying these cables, just pushing them aside so they don't hang all over the place. The fan controller's cables & thermometers were a git to tuck in the sides of the casing. I'll probably hide the cables better when I next upgrade. __________________ I don't get paid to know the answer, therefore I'm far more likely to give you a straight and honest answer. Mods Rig, Box Mods Rig, Folding details Last edited by Takaharu; Sep 27, 2009 at 01:51 AM.