Offical Show Your Rig Off

skylineaddict · Feb 18, 2011, 06:42 AM

Updated: Rewired everything and spent some time with cable management. Also, I added a side-panel fan and the main hard drive cage to help with hiding cables.

Scythe fan controller up front to keep the noise down

Top 23cm fan

Side door off

The very rough solution to the side door fan problem (Packaging tape and fan cable extensions).

Guts. Looking pretty neat, although I think I could've done better if I had more time.

What it looks like behind the motherboard tray (Scary isn't it?)

Blue lights all around:

Neshi · Feb 18, 2011, 09:31 AM

looking nice and clean! good job

Callandor · Feb 19, 2011, 12:41 AM

I like the way you did your cable management, that looks sweet!

blibbax · Mar 15, 2011, 11:29 PM

Here's something less pretty :P

I finally have a photo of my currrent configuration:

It's certainly not a thing of beauty, but it's cool, reliable and near-silent, so I like it

EDIT: In case anyone's wondering, the random bits of black foam are sound insulation I had left over after doing the sides and roof

- those removable panels are entirely covered, but there wasn't enough in the roll to properly do the bottom and the rest of the interior.

isaak · Mar 16, 2011, 01:11 AM

Does the foam work well? I really need something like it, my rig is getting on the annoyingly loud side

blibbax · Mar 16, 2011, 01:40 AM

It doesn't work miracles. It will suppress quiet, high pitched noises, but nothing more.

I keep the noise down in my PC with a fan controller for the GPU fans (the small black thing on the bottom of the case), resistor cables for the case fans and, of course, PWM control for the CPU fan.

Lowfat · Mar 16, 2011, 03:16 AM

A teaser of one of my current rebuilds.

BlueMak · Mar 16, 2011, 04:19 AM

Is it safe to work on your computer on a carpet?

Lowfat · Mar 16, 2011, 05:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueMak

Is it safe to work on your computer on a carpet?

I don't drag my motherboards across the carpet or anything. But otherwise I do all my modding on carpet. Just makes the metal shavings hard to clean up though.

Bolletje · Mar 16, 2011, 03:30 PM

An 8800GTS G80, isn't it dead yet :P?

Lowfat · Mar 16, 2011, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bolletje

An 8800GTS G80, isn't it dead yet :P?

I actually spray painted it a few days ago. So who knows.

skylineaddict · Mar 16, 2011, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lowfat

I actually spray painted it a few days ago. So who knows.

That cannot be safe.. Speaking of, I'm thinking about spray painting the inside of my case over the summer. Do you have any tips for me? Also, what kind of spray paint should I use (I want a matte black finish)?

Lowfat · Mar 16, 2011, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skylineaddict

That cannot be safe.. Speaking of, I'm thinking about spray painting the inside of my case over the summer. Do you have any tips for me? Also, what kind of spray paint should I use (I want a matte black finish)?

I masked off all the parts that put out quite a bit of heat. I've painted motherboards in the past w/ no issues.

Painting a case is tricky. If you want to do a quality job it is going to take a lot of work. Otherwise the paint will scratch off easily. Hell even if you take a lot of time w/ it, it will scratch.

If you can afford $50-$75 I would HIGHLY suggest getting it powdercoated. Super durable that way.

I painted one case in my life. It looked good until I started to throw gear in it. The paint scratched off so easily. Then it looked like a ghetto rig.

skylineaddict · Mar 17, 2011, 01:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lowfat

I masked off all the parts that put out quite a bit of heat. I've painted motherboards in the past w/ no issues.

Painting a case is tricky. If you want to do a quality job it is going to take a lot of work. Otherwise the paint will scratch off easily. Hell even if you take a lot of time w/ it, it will scratch.

If you can afford $50-$75 I would HIGHLY suggest getting it powdercoated. Super durable that way.

I painted one case in my life. It looked good until I started to throw gear in it. The paint scratched off so easily. Then it looked like a ghetto rig.

I was thinking about powdercoating, but I don't know if I'll be able to afford it. I knew spray painting would scratch of easily, but I looked up how to do it, and apparently it's pretty common practice, and a lot of people seemed to have spray painted it without any issues.

blibbax · Mar 17, 2011, 02:07 AM

Man, that matt black 8800 does look sick, but couldn't you at least remove the EVGA sticker? :P

Lowfat · Mar 17, 2011, 02:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blibbax

Man, that matt black 8800 does look sick, but couldn't you at least remove the EVGA sticker? :P

I don't think the eVGA sticker looks all that bad. Didn't know if there was a visble bearing underneath or not so I just left it.

Anyways, finally watercooled my gaming rig last night.

CPU tops out @ 60C @ 4.8GHz while running folding@home. GPU's top out @ 44C @ 975/1250.

isaak · Mar 17, 2011, 06:46 AM

Damn these 2nd generation i7s are good with OCing...

Is the top shelf of the rig bending slightly? It kind of looks like it is. Maybe its just the angle that the harddrive is on though

Neshi · Mar 17, 2011, 08:22 AM

gotta agree.. looks like it's bending. Hell of a beautiful rig, both of em.

coolmister · Mar 25, 2011, 02:00 PM

A few of mine past and present

System Spec:
Corsair Obsidian 800D
Corsair HX1000 PSU
Supermicro X8DAi Rev2
Intel X5680 CPU's
12GB DDR3-1333 Non ECC
32GB Intel Extreme SSD
2TB Western Digital Sata Drives x2
XFX HD 5970 Black Edition Crossfire

Watercooling Spec:
Watercool HK3 CPU Blocks
MIPs RAM Freezers
EK Nickel 5970 GPU Blocks
Hardware Labs SR-1 360 XFlow & 240 Radiators
Bitspower Fittings
XSPC Dual Bay-Res
Laing DDC Pumps
Tygon Hose

Not exactly new but this was my third or so Skulltrail build and the plan was to turn a Coolermaster ATCs 840 into the Zotac GTX295 Infinity retail packaging and mount a Nitro into the front bezel which all turned out pretty good

One from 2007

System Spec:
Tyan Tiger K8WE S2877ANRF
2x AMD Opteron 265 dual core SKT 940 Retail (1.8Ghz-0.9nm-2Mb)
4x 512GB OCZ 3200 EL DDR ECC Reg / Dual Channel
Gainwards 8800GTX Ultra Golden Sample
Antec 850 True Power Quattro PSU
2x 74GB Raptors

Watercooling:
2x Danger Den TDX A64 Blocks
Danger Den NV8800 Block
Danger Den Hard Drive Block
Laing DDC 10watt - Alphacool Dual Plexi Res
HWLabs Custom Made GTX X-Flow
2x Yate Loon D12SL-12
Tygon Hose

System Spec:
CM Cosmos S
CM 1100watt PSU
Intel Skulltrail Motherboard
2x Intel QX9775 Quad Core Extreme CPU’s (Socket 771)
Zotac 9800GX2
4GM RAM

Watercooling:
By me

System Spec:
Coolermaster ATCs 840 Chassis x2
Intel X5650's
EVGA SR-2 Motherboard
EVGA GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper *** - Quad Sli
12GB Crucial RAM
Kingston 64GB SSD's
Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 1200w PSU

CJLMTLCA · Mar 25, 2011, 07:00 PM

Demonic!

Tyrsonswood · Mar 25, 2011, 08:22 PM

Cool, I've see a few of them in the build threads....... Nice work indeed.

Do you expect someone to follow now with their measly quad core, crossfire setup?

Lowfat · May 7, 2011, 07:29 PM

isaak · May 8, 2011, 01:51 PM

Nice Lowfat. You always manage to make the cases look so good

S3MILOBON · Jun 30, 2011, 10:03 AM

hey guys , first post from me , gotta say , i like soe of these rigs guys , realy niceeeeee heres mine

loleafidas · Oct 31, 2011, 07:11 AM

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**Mousey** · Feb 2, 2012, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lowfat

Still on with the BTX form factor i see? Did that ever actually take off?

blibbax · Feb 2, 2012, 11:32 PM

That's not BTX. It's an upside-down EVGA SR2.

**Mousey** · Feb 3, 2012, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blibbax

That's not BTX. It's an upside-down EVGA SR2.

Holy shit how did i miss that

some pics of my rig coming soon

ChaosMinionX · Feb 16, 2012, 08:10 PM

My current rig for 2012! LGA2011 Upgrade coming soon!

OmegaRED · Mar 4, 2012, 05:41 PM

Wish I had a better camera, makes it look bad. Now that I've settled on a fan configuration I thought I'd show this off.

Cooler Master Cosmos 2 with 10 case fans +2 CPU fans all connected to the built in fan controller (3 splitters in use):
-CM 200mm LED top fan, 120mm Gentle Typhoon AP-15 Top fan
-AP-15 Rear fan
-Dual AP-15 fans in the lower hard drive bay
-AP-15 fan in Middle HD fan bay for GPU cooling
-CM 140mm front fan and a CM 120mm front fan just below it which adds cooling to the HDDs.
-Dual AP-15's in the side door blowing out

Feb 18, 2011, 06:42 AM	#2131
skylineaddict Sleep Deprived Ant Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 895 Rep Power: 136 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Updated: Rewired everything and spent some time with cable management. Also, I added a side-panel fan and the main hard drive cage to help with hiding cables. Scythe fan controller up front to keep the noise down Top 23cm fan Side door off The very rough solution to the side door fan problem (Packaging tape and fan cable extensions). Guts. Looking pretty neat, although I think I could've done better if I had more time. What it looks like behind the motherboard tray (Scary isn't it?) Blue lights all around: __________________ Couldn't come up with anything snappy to say, so I'll just be awkward.

Feb 18, 2011, 09:31 AM	#2132
Neshi S.N.A.F.U. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wellington, NZ Posts: 3,386 Rep Power: 183 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off looking nice and clean! good job __________________ 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

Feb 19, 2011, 12:41 AM	#2133
Callandor Forged on Dragonmount Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 7,250 Rep Power: 304 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off I like the way you did your cable management, that looks sweet! __________________

Mar 15, 2011, 11:29 PM	#2134
blibbax What does this do? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 4,262 Rep Power: 254 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Here's something less pretty :P I finally have a photo of my currrent configuration: It's certainly not a thing of beauty, but it's cool, reliable and near-silent, so I like it EDIT: In case anyone's wondering, the random bits of black foam are sound insulation I had left over after doing the sides and roof - those removable panels are entirely covered, but there wasn't enough in the roll to properly do the bottom and the rest of the interior. __________________ Donate the spare computing power of your PC to help to cure Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and cancer: Fold for HH!

Mar 16, 2011, 01:11 AM	#2135
isaak HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,286 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Does the foam work well? I really need something like it, my rig is getting on the annoyingly loud side __________________ The first step... shall be to lose the way. - Galway Kinnell

Mar 16, 2011, 01:40 AM	#2136
blibbax What does this do? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 4,262 Rep Power: 254 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off It doesn't work miracles. It will suppress quiet, high pitched noises, but nothing more. I keep the noise down in my PC with a fan controller for the GPU fans (the small black thing on the bottom of the case), resistor cables for the case fans and, of course, PWM control for the CPU fan. __________________ Donate the spare computing power of your PC to help to cure Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and cancer: Fold for HH!

Mar 16, 2011, 03:16 AM	#2137
Lowfat Xtreme Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Grande Prairie, AB, Can Posts: 4,254 Rep Power: 101	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off A teaser of one of my current rebuilds. __________________

Mar 16, 2011, 04:19 AM	#2138
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,483 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Is it safe to work on your computer on a carpet? __________________ 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.*

Mar 16, 2011, 03:30 PM	#2140
Bolletje HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,224 Rep Power: 79 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off An 8800GTS G80, isn't it dead yet :P?

Mar 17, 2011, 02:07 AM	#2145
blibbax What does this do? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 4,262 Rep Power: 254 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Man, that matt black 8800 does look sick, but couldn't you at least remove the EVGA sticker? :P __________________ Donate the spare computing power of your PC to help to cure Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and cancer: Fold for HH!

Mar 17, 2011, 06:46 AM	#2147
isaak HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,286 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Damn these 2nd generation i7s are good with OCing... Is the top shelf of the rig bending slightly? It kind of looks like it is. Maybe its just the angle that the harddrive is on though __________________ The first step... shall be to lose the way. - Galway Kinnell

Mar 17, 2011, 08:22 AM	#2148
Neshi S.N.A.F.U. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wellington, NZ Posts: 3,386 Rep Power: 183 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off gotta agree.. looks like it's bending. Hell of a beautiful rig, both of em. __________________ 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

Mar 25, 2011, 02:00 PM	#2149
coolmister HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: North East - England Posts: 93 Rep Power: 40	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off A few of mine past and present System Spec: Corsair Obsidian 800D Corsair HX1000 PSU Supermicro X8DAi Rev2 Intel X5680 CPU's 12GB DDR3-1333 Non ECC 32GB Intel Extreme SSD 2TB Western Digital Sata Drives x2 XFX HD 5970 Black Edition Crossfire Watercooling Spec: Watercool HK3 CPU Blocks MIPs RAM Freezers EK Nickel 5970 GPU Blocks Hardware Labs SR-1 360 XFlow & 240 Radiators Bitspower Fittings XSPC Dual Bay-Res Laing DDC Pumps Tygon Hose Not exactly new but this was my third or so Skulltrail build and the plan was to turn a Coolermaster ATCs 840 into the Zotac GTX295 Infinity retail packaging and mount a Nitro into the front bezel which all turned out pretty good One from 2007 System Spec: Tyan Tiger K8WE S2877ANRF 2x AMD Opteron 265 dual core SKT 940 Retail (1.8Ghz-0.9nm-2Mb) 4x 512GB OCZ 3200 EL DDR ECC Reg / Dual Channel Gainwards 8800GTX Ultra Golden Sample Antec 850 True Power Quattro PSU 2x 74GB Raptors Watercooling: 2x Danger Den TDX A64 Blocks Danger Den NV8800 Block Danger Den Hard Drive Block Laing DDC 10watt - Alphacool Dual Plexi Res HWLabs Custom Made GTX X-Flow 2x Yate Loon D12SL-12 Tygon Hose System Spec: CM Cosmos S CM 1100watt PSU Intel Skulltrail Motherboard 2x Intel QX9775 Quad Core Extreme CPU’s (Socket 771) Zotac 9800GX2 4GM RAM Watercooling: By me System Spec: Coolermaster ATCs 840 Chassis x2 Intel X5650's EVGA SR-2 Motherboard EVGA GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper *** - Quad Sli 12GB Crucial RAM Kingston 64GB SSD's Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 1200w PSU

Mar 25, 2011, 07:00 PM	#2150
CJLMTLCA 14X Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 633 Rep Power: 63 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Demonic! __________________

May 7, 2011, 07:29 PM	#2152
Lowfat Xtreme Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Grande Prairie, AB, Can Posts: 4,254 Rep Power: 101	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off __________________

May 8, 2011, 01:51 PM	#2153
isaak HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,286 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Nice Lowfat. You always manage to make the cases look so good __________________ The first step... shall be to lose the way. - Galway Kinnell

Jun 30, 2011, 10:03 AM	#2154
S3MILOBON HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: leeds Posts: 27 Rep Power: 8	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off hey guys , first post from me , gotta say , i like soe of these rigs guys , realy niceeeeee heres mine

Oct 31, 2011, 07:11 AM	#2155
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Feb 2, 2012, 11:32 PM	#2157
blibbax What does this do? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 4,262 Rep Power: 254 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off That's not BTX. It's an upside-down EVGA SR2. __________________ Donate the spare computing power of your PC to help to cure Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and cancer: Fold for HH!

Feb 16, 2012, 08:10 PM	#2159
ChaosMinionX USB 3 dot oh Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 1,911 Rep Power: 47 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off My current rig for 2012! LGA2011 Upgrade coming soon! __________________ ::Heatware:: How you can help DriverHeaven by using Digg!

Mar 4, 2012, 05:41 PM	#2160
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Re: Offical Show Your Rig Off Wish I had a better camera, makes it look bad. Now that I've settled on a fan configuration I thought I'd show this off. Cooler Master Cosmos 2 with 10 case fans +2 CPU fans all connected to the built in fan controller (3 splitters in use): -CM 200mm LED top fan, 120mm Gentle Typhoon AP-15 Top fan -AP-15 Rear fan -Dual AP-15 fans in the lower hard drive bay -AP-15 fan in Middle HD fan bay for GPU cooling -CM 140mm front fan and a CM 120mm front fan just below it which adds cooling to the HDDs. -Dual AP-15's in the side door blowing out __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs Last edited by OmegaRED; Mar 4, 2012 at 05:53 PM.