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cherryghost

Excellent build, looks great, nice hiding of the mess behind the case You should defo get some cable ties/sleeves and pretify the back!

NTMK

deejer wrote: »

Did you do a 6970CF build also?

That rig will be put up once the psu is returned. so hopefully in a week or two i will put up pictures of it.

Tea_Bag

deejer wrote: »

Actually when you posted the question about the 6950 temps earlier I was going to ask you about your build as I knew you had been working on one. Always like to see a 6950CF build! And its a great looking case

Did you do a 6970CF build also?



I thought you might know since he is from your part of the country! It was actaully his 600T build that made me really want to get this case.

Yea i built an almost identical rig for NTMK but with 6970's, H80 and a crucial m4. the PSU is being RMA'd though cause it couldnt handle the 6970's under load..:o

cherryghost wrote: »

Excellent build, looks great, nice hiding of the mess behind the case You should defo get some cable ties/sleeves and pretify the back!

thats already got **** loads of cable ties. there really isnt anything more i can tie, but yea the sleeves would be nice and hid the rainbow ugly ends of the PSU cables.

NTMK wrote: »

That rig will be put up once the psu is returned. so hopefully in a week or two i will put up pictures of it.

ive got some pics of it alongside mine but i thought id let you do the honours when its up and running.

NTMK

Tea_Bag wrote: »

Yea i built an almost identical rig for NTMK but with 6970's, H80 and a crucial m4. the PSU is being RMA'd though cause it couldnt handle the 6970's under load..:o



thats already got **** loads of cable ties. there really isnt anything more i can tie, but yea the sleeves would be nice and hid the rainbow ugly ends of the PSU cables.



ive got some pics of it alongside mine but i thought id let you do the honours when its up and running.

ill do it when the psu comes back
Do you want to go halves on sleeving eventually:P

Tea_Bag

NTMK wrote: »

ill do it when the psu comes back
Do you want to go halves on sleeving eventually:P

And sleeve half our PSU?

deejer

NTMK wrote: »

That rig will be put up once the psu is returned. so hopefully in a week or two i will put up pictures of it.

There is a nice PSU for sale on adverts now if you havent replaced it already.

http://www.adverts.ie/hardware/enermax-revolution-1250w-atx-modular-power-supply-psu/826038

Tea_Bag

deejer wrote: »

There is a nice PSU for sale on adverts now if you havent replaced it already.

http://www.adverts.ie/hardware/enermax-revolution-1250w-atx-modular-power-supply-psu/826038

Its being replaced with a corsair tx850

af_thefragile

Check this out!!

Just arrived today!! :D

af_thefragile

6 hours of hard work and I finally got to a stage where I can run the PC!

Still gotta install the big Antec cooler which is going to be a pain with moving stuff around and more cable management. Will do that tomorrow as I've had enough for a day!!

And yes, that is a THREE slot GPU!!!

titan18

Got mine today as well, not able to build til the weekend cos of work, but will have pics up when I get it done

Asmodean

Whoops it's been a few weeks since I've gotten it but I thought I better put a pic of my build up, especially after all the fantastic help I got on here along the way

Monotype

You're supposed to show us the guts as well!

Asmodean

Lol I still don't trust myself to show the guts yet

Ryan451

Just remembered that I never posted a pic of my rig. Here You Go.

ED E

Ewwww, dust

If you front grilles are that colour due to dust, you need to break out the compressed air and a brush.

Ryan451

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

Ewwww, dust

If you front grilles are that colour due to dust, you need to break out the compressed air and a brush.

I di just after taking the pic. Funny too because I also did it just 3 weeks ago, surprised it builds up that fast :P

ED E

Its an unending war between nerd and nature.

VenomIreland

Ryan451 wrote: »

Just remembered that I never posted a pic of my rig. Here You Go.

Are those Altec Lansing speakers?

Ryan451

VenomIreland wrote: »

Are those Altec Lansing speakers?

Yessir

They are awesome, I really like them!

af_thefragile

Few more pics of my rig...




I realised I fit the front fan backwards that its sucking air from inside and blowing it out. Not much of a problem in this case but I'll have to fix it back so its blowing cold air in sometime. Its somehow louder this way...

VenomIreland

Ryan451 wrote: »

Yessir

They are awesome, I really like them!

Think I have the same ones, VS2621? If so, they are indeed awesome!

IrishMetalhead

af_thefragile wrote: »

Few more pics of my rig...




I realised I fit the front fan backwards that its sucking air from inside and blowing it out. Not much of a problem in this case but I'll have to fix it back so its blowing cold air in sometime. Its somehow louder this way...

I used to think that case looked ugly as hell but I have to admit it looks pretty damn sweet once you get a build in there, all you need is a aftermarket cpu cooler and your sorted

af_thefragile

^It is a really sweet case! It looks brilliant with all the components inside and the big side mesh which gives amazing cooling and also you can see all the components inside.
Only problem is its really a pain to manage all the cables in such a tight space. I really wish I got a bigger case...

I really won't bother fitting the Antec 920 in there, its too much hassle. I'll look into something like a Noctua U9 or similar...

af_thefragile

Finally finished my build!!
Somehow muscled the big Antec cooler in my case and everything fits...just!! Its been one heck of a job to fit everything in such a small space but after many many hours of hard work, I've finally done it!!

deejer

Finally putting up a few pictures of my build. Tried to get a better camera but no luck.











Spec:
Silverstone Fortress FT02 (love this case)
Asus Crosshair IV
Phenom IIX4 965 with Prolimatech Megahalem cooler
Enermax Evolution 85+ 850W
GTX 480 with Accelero Extreme Plus cooler
4G G-Skill DDR3 PC3 12800
Skythe Kaze Server controller
Samsung DVD Drive

2x1TB Samsung F3
2X320GB Samsung F4 in RAID 0
Kingston V-Series G2 64GB SSD

Brian

Got a new heatsink. Here it is, the Scythe Mugen 3, next to the stock X4 955 HSF.



Mounted to the motherboard. It came with its own reinforcing backplate because it is so heavy - over 800 grams.



Powered on, along-side my new Nexus 120mm casefan.



And all reassembled.



please don't tell me the cable management is bad, it's not a good case for it

My CPU now idles at less than 25 °C, and stays under 40 °C under load. It appears that the noisest part of my PC is now the WD Caviar Blue HDD.

af_thefragile

^That's one monster of a heatsink!!

prospect

This is my build, it is for a home office PC, so it is not particularly special, but should be nice and quiet.

I had some parts from other builds I did, so I already had the RAM, CPU Cooler and Media Card Reader.

I know it is probably an over-kill cooler, but it should be quieter than the stock one, and allow me some future proofing if I decide to lash in a dedicated graphics card and attempt to experiment with an overclock.

Case is a Fractal Design Define R3 (the fan controller came with it so I figured I should fit it and try and run them at the lowest speed I can to keep the noise down).

The Case


Sound absorbing material


What is going into it


The internals before anything goes in


The internals after fitting everything (except optical drive which I need to get today)


Rear view


Front view, door open - note, sound absorbing material inside door

deejer

+1 on the cable management. Looks very tidy.

Another Eur150 and you will have yourself a top gaming PC

Brian

Slight problem. The two Dell monitors are VGA. So I got VGA to DVI converters for them. Turns out only the DVI-D port on my GPU can do VGA to DVI and not the second, DVI-I. My main monitor is on a DVI to Displayport adaptor.

I guess I'll try putting the LG on the DVI-I, and one of the VGAs through DVI to DP. Not sure if it will work though.

Edit: nope, neither of my DVI adaptors fit into the DP adaptor... the difference being one is DVI-I and one is DVI-D I suppose.