-Post pics of your computer-

[caveman-jim]

Those are pretty standard size bezels. As far as more useful... thats a lot of real estate. Mega tasking is simple - lots of documents and stuff open at once. Can watch decent quality/size Hulu and work on things at the same time. Windowed games can be done at the same time as other things, like running VM's, or writing (need lots of reference docs and browsers open, for example).

Gaming is

I don't want to spoil all the goodies for the upcoming article, though.

[Zero]

Cavey needs to get rid of the bezels and reroute the panel buttons, so it looks like one giant ass screen.

[Soong]

Cavey needs to get rid of the bezels and reroute the panel buttons, so it looks like one giant ass screen.

The bezels just cover metal frames that give the LCDs their structure.

[caveman-jim]

Yeah. I'd have to remove the panels themselves and remount them with the electronics etc. Something I'm not willing to do.

[Zero]

Yeah. I'd have to remove the panels themselves and remount them with the electronics etc. Something I'm not willing to do.

Wimp.

[Dungeoncrawler]

Nice setup Cavey; I'm seriously thinking about the 3 monitor setup myself. Lots of money burning a hole in my pocket . Speaking of...any concrete street-date(s) slated for that monster 4gb 5970 ?

[caveman-jim]

None that I have heard of, even if I were not under any NDA.

[GravY]

Off to the babe thread...[/center]

should have angled the outer ones in a bit..

[Ryan45]

My new FT02. Love this case.

[caveman-jim]

should have angled the outer ones in a bit..

The stands don't work that way. There are two stands, a 2x2 and a 2x1. As far as angling, that's a personal pref.

My new FT02. Love this case.

[img]http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1843/006vy.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/1985/008cab.jpg[/img]

Now thats a case

[Flyordie]

None that I have heard of, even if I were not under any NDA.

I am gonna have to ask the question- does he mean 2GBx2 or 4GBx2 if its 2GBx2, its already been announced... if its 4GBx2 idk if the PCB would allow that unless its made bigger?

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ALSO- My case will be delivered by FedEx todayz...

[Flyordie]

[Seek & Destroy]

I don't have eyefinity but my monitor does its job.

[caveman-jim]

sweet backdrop, care to share?

[Seek & Destroy]

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/258/predatorswallpaper.jpg

Resolution isn't very good but there should be some better ones available soon.

[ultimadrift]

I don't have eyefinity but my monitor does its job.

Don't wall mounted monitors make you look even more l33t

[Dungeoncrawler]

Don't wall mounted monitors make you look even more l33t

Looks like an expensive picture-frame .

[Archy2097]

Well, after ~7 years since my last big upgrade (my desktop had an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 processor) I was finally able to get a new rig together, here are the pics from building it last night (being up until 3am never felt better).

All the beautiful parts:


Shot of the motherboard:


The HAF ready to rock:


Motherboard, RAM and video card testing:


Everything in the case:


Officially powered up:


A sense of just how bright the HAF HDD and power LEDs are :


I'll post a desk shot once I get things organized and put back together (you can see the mess in the background of the last shot.

I haven't gotten to do much gaming yet but otherwise it feels so much quicker than my old setup.

The new rig has been dubbed Mustakrakish (props if you know where the name is from).

[jima13]

^^very nice

[SSXeon]

Yeah that case is nice, my friend just got one. Good upgrade, you should be very happy.

[caveman-jim]

Everything in the case:


The new rig has been dubbed Mustakrakish (props if you know where the name is from).

HSF is orientated wrong

that name is from that silly adult swim show, isnt it?

[Archy2097]

HSF is orientated wrong

that name is from that silly adult swim show, isnt it?

Oriented wrong, how?

I'll feel pretty dumb if it is but I was pretty sure that was right.

Metalocalypse, silly? I think not

[traitoR]

Oriented wrong, how?

I'll feel pretty dumb if it is but I was pretty sure that was right.

Metalocalypse, silly? I think not

There is no right or wrong, one way might provide a little better cooling because of the orientation of the die and how much surface area of the heatpipes sits directly over the die, that and heat rises making for a more direct flow of air. Whether any of this makes enough of a difference to you to delve into minutia for a degree or two is up to you and how much time and interest you have, if you didn't already lapp your heatsink and processor i doubt it though.

[traitoR]

Oriented wrong, how?

I'll feel pretty dumb if it is but I was pretty sure that was right.

Metalocalypse, silly? I think not

There is no right or wrong, one way might provide a little better cooling because of the orientation of the die and how much surface area of the heatpipes sits directly over the die, that and heat rises making for a more direct flow of air. Whether any of this makes enough of a difference to you to delve into minutia for a degree or two is up to you and how much time and interest you have, if you didn't already lapp your heatsink and processor i doubt it though.

Nice rig BTW.

[caveman-jim]

I was half kidding regard 'wrong' way, but I've found mounting with the heatpipes horizontal wrt the ground gives better cooling (maybe 2c lower load temps), especially in a High AirFlow case.

Additionally it helps cool the GPU and chipset. In your case, you case has nice airflow from front and side intakes, so you can use rear exhaust accross the hsf fins, and use the top exhaust to remove the rest acting a pull on the back of the hsf.

YMMV, if you don't feel like moving it then don't worry about it

[traitoR]

Thats weird, i edited my first post and it added a new one.

[caveman-jim]

delete the first one, that'll fix it

[Archy2097]

I was half kidding regard 'wrong' way, but I've found mounting with the heatpipes horizontal wrt the ground gives better cooling (maybe 2c lower load temps), especially in a High AirFlow case.

Additionally it helps cool the GPU and chipset. In your case, you case has nice airflow from front and side intakes, so you can use rear exhaust accross the hsf fins, and use the top exhaust to remove the rest acting a pull on the back of the hsf.

YMMV, if you don't feel like moving it then don't worry about it

Ahhh, I had no idea. I actually didn't give mounting it horizontally any thought because I figured doing so would interfere with the memory slots. I think I'll leave it as is for the moment because I don't have the time to play around with overclocking (seems to be cooling more than adequately for stock).

Here are some more shots:

Glorious picture of the cable management:



Shot of the desk:


Here's a look at everything. Yes, I know the cables underneath are a mess, but there are too many of them and no one is going to see them

[caveman-jim]

looks pretty sweet to me, dude. Get on and enjoy!

[Dungeoncrawler]

Nice rig; your case is the same as I chose when building my new rig. I have added a second 5870 since . One newb mistake I did make is placing my bluray burner in the top slot. It would pull one of my usb's out upon eject

[caveman-jim]

mine doesn't do that, but it will tangle a cable on closing sometimes.

[Dungeoncrawler]

mine doesn't do that, but it will tangle a cable on closing sometimes.

Well, I think it started out like that cm-j. It kept tangling and little-by-little pulling it to the point where one day it simply dropped out. It was to the damn keyboard, and because I didn't notice it thought my kb had tanked. Still have not moved the burner, but I'm a little more observant now when I use it .

[AMDme]

Its clean but you cant fit a proper gpu in that thing.

Okay, you win, slapped an MSI Hawk 5770 (after a bad experience with the CuCore 5770). Needed some more juice for DA...

[Flyordie]

Ima post some updated cable management pics in an hour or so...
Well, scratch that... my sisters kids nabbed my $800 Camera... I AM GOING TO HARM THEM IF THEY DID ANYTHING TO THAT CAMERA...

[Xion X2]

My rig (in progress)

[Soong]

Your "rig" has a lot of post processing.

[caveman-jim]

Your "rig" has a lot of post processing.

Well duh, thats what dual HD 5970's are for!

[Zero]

@reflexion: sweet looking build! Strange choice for CPU block though, why not a HK? And your sig says the motherboard is a Foxconn but the pics say EVGA.

[Trunks0]

Xion X2, amazing

Man I gotta get a bigger case than my Sonta2.

(quick n' touched up shot)


Looks worse than it is. However, the 8800GT just fits(its power cable touches the fan guard on that blue 120mm fan) and I didn't have room for the 2nd fan for the Noctua NH-U12P

[Xion X2]

@reflexion: sweet looking build! Strange choice for CPU block though, why not a HK? And your sig says the motherboard is a Foxconn but the pics say EVGA.

Thanks. Ah, need to update the sig. I swapped to this evga board because it fits my color scheme better.

As for the CPU block, I'm sponsored by Danger Den so it came free along with the 5970 blocks. The HKs are nice and do perform well, but I liked the look of the Danger Den blocks better for this particular build, and they've been very supportive of this project.

It's still in the build stage, but here are a few more shots. The case is a Cosmos S--












Never mind those scratches. That's just the bare aluminum before it goes off to sanding/paint.

For those who are interested, you can follow the project here:

http://www.overclock.net/sponsored-case-mods/615650-sponsored-r-e-f-l-e-30.html