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[_TiTaNiuM]

Indeed, I have played extensively on a triple monitor setup(3x23 120hz) and I couldnt get over the bezels. For competitive gaming or any FPS game you are trying to kill things its a bit too much. For a game like batman where you dont have to worry about the sides it works out nicely. The 2 side monitors are like extra fluff.

The 29 inch 21:9 is nice buts its physical dimensions are too far for me. I think the best compromise is going to be that 34 inch 21:9 monitor thats rumored to be coming out soon will be nice.

Sometimes it can be a little distracting for competitive gaming, but it does give me an edge over someone with a single monitor FOV. You catch things in the corner of your eye.
I think there's a common misconception about playing on triple-wide where you'd think you're using all three displays simultaneously like some sort of VR environment, looking left and right as you move about. That's really not the case. You are almost entirely focusing on the center screen like any other game, you just have additional visual information in that traditional deadspace which would be "outside the box"

I don't find myself looking left or right often at all, but it adds tons to immersion, increases my peripherals by large amounts, and even when not gaming, 3 monitors are naicceeee.
Afte using multi displays (two) for years, I don't think I could have a PC without at least a second display. It just gives you so much more extra functionality you wouldn't normally expect until you actually try it. Windows always tried to bake that stuff in from day one with tabs and the taskbar and ****, but it's so nice to have a giant desktop and being able to have all these different things open at once and merely need glance at them instead of tabbing around.

[logical]

That's really not the case. You are almost entirely focusing on the center screen like any other game, you just have additional visual information in that traditional deadspace which would be "outside the box"

I don't find myself looking left or right often at all, but it adds tons to immersion, increases my peripherals by large amounts, and even when not gaming, 3 monitors are naicceeee.

Afte using multi displays (two) for years, I don't think I could have a PC without at least a second display. It just gives you so much more extra functionality you wouldn't normally expect until you actually try it. Windows always tried to bake that stuff in from day one with tabs and the taskbar and ****, but it's so nice to have a giant desktop and being able to have all these different things open at once and merely need glance at them instead of tabbing around.

Thats exactly how I felt playing with a triple monitor setup. Main focus is always on the main screen and because of this the 2 other screens are fluff. In a single player game like Batman the fluff is cool. But in a game like battlefield its way too distracting IMO.

I have been using multi monitor (desktop) for a long time as well and Id never go back either. One monitor is way too restricting especially if you are doing work that requires you to look back and forth between things.

[andino]

Sometimes it can be a little distracting for competitive gaming, but it does give me an edge over someone with a single monitor FOV. You catch things in the corner of your eye.
I think there's a common misconception about playing on triple-wide where you'd think you're using all three displays simultaneously like some sort of VR environment, looking left and right as you move about. That's really not the case. You are almost entirely focusing on the center screen like any other game, you just have additional visual information in that traditional deadspace which would be "outside the box"

I don't find myself looking left or right often at all, but it adds tons to immersion, increases my peripherals by large amounts, and even when not gaming, 3 monitors are naicceeee.
Afte using multi displays (two) for years, I don't think I could have a PC without at least a second display. It just gives you so much more extra functionality you wouldn't normally expect until you actually try it. Windows always tried to bake that stuff in from day one with tabs and the taskbar and ****, but it's so nice to have a giant desktop and being able to have all these different things open at once and merely need glance at them instead of tabbing around.

Triple monitors with TrackIR.... FTW

[WyreTheWolf]

[CurrentlyPissed]

Added a 280x to the 3rd PC to mine while it sits there.





Without the card



Sys specs

AMD 6800K @ 4.4Ghz
MSI ITX Board, forget which model
2x4GB Corsair GT 2000Mhz Ram
128GB Samsung Pro
1TB Seagate Barracuda
Corsair H80
XFX 280X DD @ 1150c/1800m
Bitfenix Prodigy Case

[KAC]

Looks tight.

[Payne3d]

Is this the fancy Silverstone case? FT something or other?

[dreamwalker]

So the last time I built a PC was maybe half a decade ago as I've been massively out of the loop - but there are some games I'd like to try this year so I thought I'd upgrade a couple of components. Kept the same Phenom II CPU for now and case.

Before and after

[WyreTheWolf]

Is this the fancy Silverstone case? FT something or other?

Indeed it is the Silverstone Fortress FT03B

[Meteor_of_War]

Nice work, dreamwalker.

You've done about as good as job as possible with cable management in the Antec 900 case.

[dreamwalker]

Thanks guy. It was fun

Just need to stay away from the classifieds in case I'm tempted to SLI

[Ristogod]

So the last time I built a PC was maybe half a decade ago as I've been massively out of the loop - but there are some games I'd like to try this year so I thought I'd upgrade a couple of components. Kept the same Phenom II CPU for now and case.

Before and after

Pretty good job for a very unaccommodating case.

[KAC]

dreamwalker. Change dat CPU fan ffs.

[Meteor_of_War]

dreamwalker. Change dat CPU fan ffs.

Does the job just fine if he's running stock speed.

[Dungeoncrawler]

Does the job just fine if he's running stock speed.

No self-respecting gtx titan would be caught dead with a stock heatsink.

[dreamwalker]

No self-respecting gtx titan would be caught dead with a stock heatsink.

Good thing that's not a Titan

With regards to the heatsink, I was considering it, but some of the ones I was looking at were a pain in the ass to install.

Besides, I'm waiting for something to come on sale as this is really not necessary -- will be overclocking eventually, but its not the best overclocker from what I've read anyway.

[Meteor_of_War]

dreamwalker, you should list your system specs in your profile.

[GanjaStar]

after rading page 168, im never opening this thread again

quad titans + 8 ssds... give me a 4th of it and i'd be set till 2020.

[dreamwalker]

dreamwalker, you should list your system specs in your profile.

Good point, done.

[Meteor_of_War]

Good point, done.

Cool, same video card as me.

[shadow001]

Top floor has the motherboard done and all the fittings sorted out:











For old times sake i put the old board and video cards ( left side) right beside the new board on the right side....It's actually quite a bit smaller overall, but i had to drill a new hole on the motherboard tray and add a standoff to be able to handle an ECC workstation board...It's the only difference compared to E-ATX:

[Seyiji]

Top floor has the motherboard done and all the fittings sorted out:


[IMG]http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/Superfly101_02/20140207_125057_zpsdb8182bc.jpg[/IMGg]


[IMG]http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/Superfly101_02/20140207_125039_zpsc0a61058.jpg[/IMGg]


[IMG]http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/Superfly101_02/20140207_125021_zps9c857f8b.jpg[/IMGg]


For old times sake i put the old board and video cards ( left side) right beside the new board on the right side....It's actually quite a bit smaller overall, but i had to drill a new hole on the motherboard tray and add a standoff to be able to handle an ECC workstation board...It's the only difference compared to E-ATX:


[IMG]http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/Superfly101_02/20140207_113728_zps3089ce67.jpg[/IMGg]

Specs?

[shadow001]

Specs?

For the new system:
Dual Xeon 10 core E5 2680 v2 CPU's, so 20 cores and 40 threads with hyperthreading.
4 AMD r9 290's.
Asus dual socket motherboard, and a ton of water cooling...

[demo]

Looks nice shadow, I really dig those fittings.

[Meteor_of_War]

For the new system:
Dual Xeon 10 core E5 2680 v2 CPU's, so 20 cores and 40 threads with hyperthreading.
4 AMD r9 290's.
Asus dual socket motherboard, and a ton of water cooling...

That's a small fortune for the CPUs alone.

What else besides gaming and benchmarking do you plan to use it for?

[t0adp1p3]

For the new system:
Dual Xeon 10 core E5 2680 v2 CPU's, so 20 cores and 40 threads with hyperthreading.
4 AMD r9 290's.
Asus dual socket motherboard, and a ton of water cooling...

Thanks for the update dude, now get back to finishing it!

Nice work btw.

[shadow001]

Looks nice shadow, I really dig those fittings.

Thanks.....

That's a small fortune for the CPUs alone.

What else besides gaming and benchmarking do you plan to use it for?

Yup, about 4000$ alone for the cpu's and I do some 3d rendering, encoding and decoding videos, both of wich love lots of cpu cores to speed things up.

Thanks for the update dude, now get back to finishing it!

Nice work btw.

I'm working on the flow path within the case, and modifying the cooling since the R9 290's use more power, so the top most radiator( among other modifications) is a 6 fan 360mm double thick radiator in push/pull rather than a 240mm unit with 4 fans, so things are getting beefed up for the GPU's.

[Progression]

Thanks.....



Yup, about 4000$ alone for the cpu's and I do some 3d rendering, encoding and decoding videos, both of wich love lots of cpu cores to speed things up.



I'm working on the flow path within the case, and modifying the cooling since the R9 290's use more power, so the top most radiator( among other modifications) is a 6 fan 360mm double thick radiator in push/pull rather than a 240mm unit with 4 fans, so things are getting beefed up for the GPU's.

You should send me your previous PC, I do a bunch of 3D work but I certainly lack the punch you've got there. Nice rig.

[shadow001]

You should send me your previous PC, I do a bunch of 3D work but I certainly lack the punch you've got there. Nice rig.

The funny part is that I checked the prices on those old xeon's I bought 3 years ago and they still sell for about 1000$ each, and that old board is still on sale at evga after all this time, while still packing 24 GB of corsair dominator GT memory, and the HD7970's are the prices they are because of all the bitcoin mining craze going on, never mind the water blocks they have.

I might have enough parts left over to get the old system running again and maybe join the mining craze....LOL.

[shadow001]

This is the bottom portion:





We can see the 2 power supplies since 1 simply can't handle the load( I learned it the hard way), we also see the small 120 mm radiator in between the PSU's in a push/pull fan arrangement with a small hose that's connected to a pair of pumps( not visible), as well as the larger front radiator( we see mainly the fittings really), and in front of the radiator are 2 cages for hard drives that as of right now contain 6 SSD's( 240 GB each) and three 2 terabyte hard drives....Basically the cages are packed as there's only 1 more opening left.


Leave it to me to pack such a large case to the gills hardware wise....

[Roadhog]

So... Ordered a Corsair 900D. Think i'm going to do copper tubing with push to connect fittings.

Like these, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009PT3BR6

[Ristogod]

Latest with the new motherboard.

[aviphysics]

New fanless Thin-Mini-ITX HTPC.

[MangaSpawn64]

New fanless Thin-Mini-ITX HTPC.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/KGTmVKR.jpg
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/uVEIS1r.jpg
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/rgrrEJd.jpg

Specs ? That looks sweet

[shadow001]

So... Ordered a Corsair 900D. Think i'm going to do copper tubing with push to connect fittings.

Like these, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009PT3BR6

I've seen some of those setups and while they do look amazing, but must also be an extreme pain in the ass to get the turns exactly right to line up the pipes.....Are you just going to use a regular metal pipe bender to make the turns?


Buy a lot of extra copper tubing....

[shadow001]

Here's an initial pre-fitting with the top radiator installed and I kind you not when there's less than half an inch between the video card water blocks and the top radiator...Same goes for the hoses and fittings on the CPU loop and between the brown fan on the back and the radiator....I'm squeezing every last millimeter of space available in every direction...




Still have one more radiator on the other side to install( at the bottom level), and a truck load of wire management to do but i'm taking my time and getting it done right....

[shadow001]

Cleaned up the wiring considerably since the new motherboard has 3 less 6 pin power connectors compared to the SR-2 motherboard and also added a few more fittings and a tubing....It's easy to visualise the routing on the 2 loops, the tubes are far shorter and 5 hoses will pass under the motherboard tray or below the 5 1/4 drive bays and can't be seen unless one disassembles half the case...Makes the system look much cleaner overall, but uses a ton of fittings....


Onto the led lighting and where to position them is next.

[Progression]

The funny part is that I checked the prices on those old xeon's I bought 3 years ago and they still sell for about 1000$ each, and that old board is still on sale at evga after all this time, while still packing 24 GB of corsair dominator GT memory, and the HD7970's are the prices they are because of all the bitcoin mining craze going on, never mind the water blocks they have.

I might have enough parts left over to get the old system running again and maybe join the mining craze....LOL.

You mean the SR2 board? I can't find it anywhere anymore. But yeah those older xeons are still valued quite high.

[aviphysics]

Specs ? That looks sweet

Case: Akasa Euler
MB: ECS H87H3-TI (came with a mini-pcie wifi card)
CPU: Intel i3-4330
RAM: 8GB DDR3
HD: 256 GB 5200 RPM (had it laying around and will replace when SSD get cheaper)
KB/M: Logitech K400
PSU: 19.5V 4.62A power brick from old Dell laptop. (A lot of the Dell power bricks use the same connector and specs)

Oddly, the MB came with a mini-pcie wifi card that was totally unadvertised. The case also happened to have holes for antenna pigtails that were not advertised. Some people have reported that the case handles an i5 just fine. The standard i7 is too much for it. I can overheat the i3 by running prime95 for several hours, but that isn't very representative of normal use.

Because the Thin-Mini-ITX standard is very specific about the CPU location, they were able to just have a solid aluminum block between the CPU and case. Would be sweet if AMD could make an APU/MB combo that would work with cases like this.

[shadow001]

You mean the SR2 board? I can't find it anywhere anymore. But yeah those older xeons are still valued quite high.

They're still sold by EVGA directly on their online store.


Anyhow, after another 4 hours of work, the build is advancing nicely, with all the hoses now installed, all the connections to the motherboard done, as well as the top radiator fitted and except for the need to buy a lot of tie wraps, and installing the last radiator on the bottom right side for the CPU loop as well as bleeding, there isn't much left except installing touch screen fan controllers.




All the tubing is passed thru and thanks to the use of so many fittings, there isn't tubing going all over the place in a build this complex.




Top radiator says it all in terms of using all the available space between the video cards and the top case panel and also shows the LED's installed on the case frame on either side of the radiator using just double sided tape should I need to move them, but overall there's only a few millimeters left over...





But I kept the tubing as short as possible as one can see in the pictures where the video cards connect to that top radiator( there's 2 more radiators in that loop)....My fingers hurt like hell after tightening so many fittings....





General cleanup having so many SATA cables and power cables to tidy up that it isn't even funny anymore, hence the need for tie wraps and a lot of them, but It also shows the 90* elbow I added along with a drain plug to make it easier to empty the system( CPU loop has one too).