BlaakHaart
 

My latest attempt at building the ultimate gamer :D

Still in the prelimenary stages, with final wiring and coolant infusion remaining. By FAR the most complex iteration of the Battlestar mentality yet :thumbsup:

Specifications:

Body: Corsair 800D
Mobo: ASUS Rampage III Extreme Black Edition
CPU: Intel i7 980X
RAM: Corsair Dominator GT 2000Mhz C8 - 6GB (maybe more)
Videa: ATI HD 5870 X 2 in Crossfire
LSI Raid 9650 controller card
OCZ Vertex2 x 4 in RAID0 (in hot swap drives)
WD Black Caviar 1.5 TB data drive
PSU: Corsair 1200AX
THUNDERBOLT Audio and Killer Nic card :D
3 LOOPS, 3 LAING D5 Pumps
CPU WB: Swiftech HD - Black
GPU WBs: 1 x EK on Asus 5870v2
1 x Bitspower on OEM HD 5870
Chipset WB: EK full board block
Resv: 1 x Koolance dual D5 resv v2
1 x Danger Den round fillport resv.
Koolance 2x 12 to 24 volt pump controller
LG BD recorder/player
Rads: 1 x Thermochill 1 x 120 (chipset)
1 x Feser Monsta Lite ( Video Cards)
1 x Feser Quad (CPU)
Feser RADS will be mounted 3ft away next to window (cold :D)
Too many bitspower fittings to count :eek:
Koolance Extreme Flow no drip Quick Disconnects x 6
Xigmatic amber fans w/ white LEDs x 6
Individuall sleeved cable extensions

Now, if it will run :D Couple more days and we'll know ;)

Good thing I took the pics, I was missing a clamp :eek:

almost forgot

DangerDen tubing and clamps
DangerDen SLI connector (on lower rad)

Damn, almost forgot :rofl:
Case front panel wiring updated to USB3

Some "drill down" shots :D

The VGA loop difficult to follow in pics, had to do this cause of the varying water blocks.
Setup in parallel.. phwew

DAm bro thats alot of tubing. I remeber doing something similar a while back. CPU, chipset and 3 Video cards in sli. It was scary shit firing it up the first time. I've leaked out on a few setups and its not fun. Then i learned to test the cooling loops before i turned on the pc. WTF dumb ass. lol Anyway, it looks good. The real thing i don't like about full Water Cooling setpups is trouble shooting when something goes wrong. Its a bitch to exchange parts.

Amen to that brother :thumbsup: some of that is lessened by the PCIe switches that let you turn off individual lanes. The way it's setup I can pull the CPU WB (and therefore the CPU too), and, both of the video cards :thumbsup: Just in case something comes up, or, I get bored :rofl:

Last water build I did with a lot of fittings I was a cocky ass and put it all together and did a loop test using an outside PSU. Praise be to god that I did that :eek: Leaks everywhere :thumbdown: This time, I've used two vice grips to make sure everything is nice and snug, really don't expect any leaks ... expect being the key word.

Going to use this as my work rig too, cause I don't want too much accummulateing on my laptop. toggle from games to work :laughing:



Wiring on the back, and loop filling is all that's left, then......

Once this is running smooth, I can turn my attention back to my P67 and X79 and get some benching done :thumbsup:

really nice stuff

Looks good bro .............. :thumbsup:

Wow fit all that hardware in a case? Very impressive, it would be spread out across a desk if I was building it! LOL

Getta fraggin!

nice loop dude!

Which one :P

nice loops!

wow!!!!!!!!thats some work you put there.......Water always make me feel overwhelmed and have never been able to complete a build with water, :D

It's no more difficult than rebuilding a BMW engine :D Jeeesh :rofl:

2 loops are bled with one more to go. Have to work tomorrow again for awhile but hoping to get to loading Catalyst by this time tomorrow night :thumbsup:

Not a SINGLE leak......... yet :D

;)

you don't need to sleep you can finish it tonight :P

DRY DOCK
 

BlaakHaart powered up under internal power but was recalled to dry dock due to malfunctioning RAID array and a dead fan on the 3rd loops rad.

RAID card was in the same slot of the same motherboard with the same disks in the same order.... I'm confused :ohcrap:

Rads mounted on window sill ...and it's getting colder.... :D

Maintenance bay tomorrow

IT'S ALIVE
 

A little wiring maintenance, reseating the RAID card and one of the SSDs, and BlaakHaart booted up at 4928 ghz and ran cool as can be :thumbsup: Rad fans are about 3/4in from the window pane and it's lower 30s, upper 20s outside.

Tomorrow, hook up the internet connection, load some more software, and post some pics of the rig in action :clapping: Damn beautiful piece of engineering if I say so myself :D

Just a test run with Vantage..

Sorry the pics suck so bad... dual screens and I'm thinking the res has something to do with it :thumbdown:

Vantage was 36K and change w/ the cpu at 4928 (HT on) and the 2 cards at stock @ 850Mhz. Temps from mid 30s to low 40s. GPU temp low 30s :D

Yeah, the screenies suck :rofl:

pic are to small to read lol

Pics :D

Note: no UV lites to keep the design elegant and not ostentatious = white LEDs on the Xigmatech fans illuminate the interior nicely

1st pic, top view plus front and 1 monitor - shows the 3 top white led fans
2nd pic, the full monty :D Look below the monitor under the flash reflection and you can see the Feser 3x140 Monsta Lite rad. The quad is directly below it but not very visible due to unlighted fans.
3rd pic - stately front and side view :)
4th pic was last night, while the beast was sleeping but it's beating haart was alive :thumbsup:

Rig is complimented with 2 x ASUS 26.6 in 2ms monitors, Razor Black Widow keyboard, and Razer Mamba gaming mouse. Razer mouse pad not shown :D

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Very nice setup Mang :good:

Nice set up bro, beats the hell out of that lappy I bet .............. :thumbsup:

How does two monitors work for gaming??? Isn't your cross hairs right on the bezel's ???

Looking clean though for sho :)

I had three originally, and that was overwhelming. Problem is I don't have the space for the third monitor here, and I'm afraid you're right about the bazel. I'm either going to have to go down to one, or figure out to fit the three :Dizzy:

clean looking set up dude

If you could move your tower you can do this http://www.overclock.net/t/494272/pr...e-screen-mount
Not much money wasted if u didnt like it. An I really wouldnt trust mdf board Id use somthin else.

here is one that is pre made but looks kinda crappy

http://www.provantage.com/siig-ce-mt...1~7SII20UX.htm

or sell those bastards off and go big or stay at home .................. :thumbsup:

http://www.buy.com/prod/samsung-md23...215379741.html

or take the conservative aproach .......... :laughing:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824001428

that's really cool!
the one gutter got up there is pretty cool..

i have like a 18in 19in as my main and my 40in as my 3rd so can't really use that lol

That computer is Boss so you might have to go big lol. I would like to go triple one day, atm I use a 40inch lcd 1080p tv. I sit just over arms length away an the pixels bug me blue text is the worst.

I was at burger king the other day an they had some pretty sweet digital displays for the menus. The bezels were 1/4 inch thick an the had 4 of them up in a row. Bottoms said NCS or NSC I googled to try an find them but no luck.

yea there are some sick lcds out there but it always seems like the real sweet one lack the responce time to be any good at gaming.

Nice try DOM but bigger makes it better its the normal fonts in Blue :(.

Think I may need to settle for this :D

Only problem is, I won't be able to admire my FLAWLESS, BEAUTIFUL, XFIRE WC LOOP while I play :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

:offhead:That would only serve to get you smoked ................ :gun1:

wow MD that's a killer looking setup already!

my rig should be up and running again tomorrow so i'll update some pix too
i went out pick up some chicken wings and missed the damn usps guy......

Bummer, Kiki,

Don't you know they wait around the corner for you to leave the house just to piss you off ? :rofl:

BTW.. the monitors are 2ms :D

Hurry up and load some games already quit playing woth yourself :rofl

You can take him MD go get him ;)

http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2238...70_42983_marks

Bastards!
oh well i monna sit out side and just wait tomorrow >.<
cuz i need that rig up and running asap i am about to die using my laptop everyday

Thanks for that headsup Dom... thinking I should be able to kick his butt :laughing: I know my CPU can beat that frequecy, it'll be the cards that make the diff - but he's only on stock cooling (sure he is lol)

Difference may be in he's in a different legue, so they may not compare...oh well :laughing:

Use the same drivers, open the window & put the volts to dem ................... :thumbsup: you can get to 1000 w/1.275 .......... maybee



:clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping: :clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping: :clapping:

You can take the Daawg out of the fight but you can't take the fight out of the Daawg

damn, now that I have a cheering section I've gotta go for it huh :laughing:

Have to see if the Afterburner I got from Splave will let me play with the voltage, then open the windoes to the fresh mid 20 degree weather.... and go for it :D


thanks for the pep talk WD :thumbsup:

Different format too, so don't know how the points will stack up. Have to get my X79 setup if I wasn't so damned busy now - going to NY next week for three days :thumbdown:

Let em know, if not I have AB 1.5 that works with 5K series and goes up to 1.3v

I can e-mail it, let em know :thumbsup:

did not notice the driver but 10.3 and 10.5 are the best I have used, with my settings 10.3 grabs a couple hundred extra but results vary as miost sweat by 10.5

9.12 seems to be good for 06, AM and 01

don't think there is a good driver for for 05 and 03 .............. LOL