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Old 01-04-2008, 01:22 AM   #1041 (permalink)
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hehe....another hard night of modding. pics to tomarrow, and be prepared for what i have :)
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Old 01-04-2008, 08:37 AM   #1042 (permalink)
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Operation clean-up.



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Case Before


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Not the best, but its certanly alot better than it was before, Next plan is to get the Zalman 9500 cpu cooler with the 5000+ Black Edition.
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Old 01-04-2008, 02:05 PM   #1043 (permalink)
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get a zalman 9700. its the more recent version with more copper fins and better performance
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Old 01-04-2008, 03:18 PM   #1044 (permalink)
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My most recent build...









The 3way is cool, but I'm still waiting on a driver update. Nvidia's still using a beta for this particular setup and it doesn't run all that well just yet.
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Old 01-04-2008, 03:28 PM   #1045 (permalink)
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Static thats an amazing build great job
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Old 01-04-2008, 03:37 PM   #1046 (permalink)
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wow that is rediculous. very well done. id try for a bit more cable management though for improved airflow. ive got to believe the 3 8800GTXscreate quite a bit of heat
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Old 01-04-2008, 03:50 PM   #1047 (permalink)
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Wow, Dunno if i would like the 3way SLI, Looks like there is no air at all for the cards


Very nice build though!
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Old 01-04-2008, 04:02 PM   #1048 (permalink)
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Yeah, that picture was taken right after I finished it. I had it goin just to make sure it was running all right. The cables are all tucked away nicely now. As you can see by my desk, I'm a bit of a neat freak lol.
It does heat up, thats definitely for sure. They're factory overclocked GTXs, nonetheless. I don't know what I would do without those side fans. I'm considering new heatsinks for the video cards, since the stock configuration doesn't do as well as I like.
It was very, very expensive though, and extremely CPU bound. That's currently my bottleneck, even at 3.2GHz. Every time I overclocked the processor, my benchmark scores shot way up. When Intel releases the Penryn, I'll be grabbing one of those. They run cooler and the new architecture is a lot more efficient than the current Kentsfield and Yorkfield processors.
BTW this thread is starting to look like an advertisement for Thermaltake. Right on, HawMan.

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Old 01-04-2008, 04:39 PM   #1049 (permalink)
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Phenomenal looking system Static. Give it to me?
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Old 01-04-2008, 06:16 PM   #1050 (permalink)
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its a bit blurry, but a good overall shot

LCD temp read. recognize it anyone?

fan controller. again, anyone recognize it?

one of my 4 LEDs i put in. this one will be harder to recognize, but nonetheless many of you have seen it.

a look at the graphics card with the LED shining on it.

this seems like a random pic, but the blue shiny part is what my keyboard looks like at night. instead of back light keyboard, LEDs from case work pretty well (its the two front ones)
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Old 01-04-2008, 08:02 PM   #1051 (permalink)
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My thought too.

FYI, i do have a temp report on my system with the 7800GT. Idles between 39 and 42 C with the side fan on low. With all the fans on high and no load, gfx is 38C, FSB is 31C, HDD's are 18, 24, and 24C, and the cores are around 28C on stock intel cooling and overclock to 3.0 from 2.66.

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looks pretty good....ew, stock cooling, but thats just me
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hehe, stock cooling lets me idle @ 26 Celcius, and maxes out at 40 celcius at load; not too bad for me. I would have overclocked but my ram isn't really OC friendly atm, and I don't really have a need (everything runs fine!).


Maybe for my next CPU (hopefully an E6750 or higher) I'll pick up the Zalman I've been eying ;)
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hehe, stock cooling lets me idle @ 26 Celcius, and maxes out at 40 celcius at load; not too bad for me. I would have overclocked but my ram isn't really OC friendly atm, and I don't really have a need (everything runs fine!).


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this is all fans at full bore (except the one for both HD1's)-

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and with all fans off....

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Pretty nice sytem, I envy your RAM and CPU ^-^
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