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[Soong]

last picture for the night and the wiring is pretty much done.....Cell phone picture so it's a bit blurry...I'll take a final set of pictures with the good camera in the coming days when everything is totally finished.


[IMG]http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/Superfly101_02/IMG00030-20110331-2233.jpg[IMG]



Waiting only for the final component to make the build complete(it's in UPS's hands now):

http://www.lamptron.com/products/view/Fan_Controller_Touch

Fan controler with a touch sensitive LCD display...

Nice. When I built my system, this was all that was available anywhere near 30 watts per channel. My fans are rated at 32 but I never run them at full speed so this works pretty well. I swear they've got like two, 1watt LEDs behind each nob. I have a piece of cardboard fashioned to fit over that single drive bay because the lights are so hideously bright. This may be a suitable replacement when I rebuild.

[shadow001]

Nice. When I built my system, this was all that was available anywhere near 30 watts per channel. My fans are rated at 32 but I never run them at full speed so this works pretty well. I swear they've got like two, 1watt LEDs behind each nob. I have a piece of cardboard fashioned to fit over that single drive bay because the lights are so hideously bright. This may be a suitable replacement when I rebuild.

I was initially thinking about an 8 channel version that's controled with regular knobs, but given the high class case this is going in, might as well add some bling with the LCD feature...


This one at first, but 8 channels at 30 watts is insane as it's possible to connect 2~3 fans per channel, and i'm not running even close to using that many fans in total....Heck even the LCD version is overkill with 6 channels...

http://www.lamptron.com/products/view/Fan_Controller_FC8

[Soong]

I was initially thinking about an 8 channel version that's controled with regular knobs, but given the high class case this is going in, might as well add some bling with the LCD feature...


This one at first, but 8 channels at 30 watts is insane as it's possible to connect 2~3 fans per channel, and i'm not running even close to using that many fans in total....Heck even the LCD version is overkill with 6 channels...

http://www.lamptron.com/products/vie...Controller_FC8

2-3 fans per 30 watt channel? I thought you were doing this right. You need to UPGRADDE.That's two D's for a double dose of pimpin' love.

[shadow001]

2-3 fans per 30 watt channel? I thought you were doing this right. You need to UPGRADDE.That's two D's for a double dose of pimpin' love.

That's why it's water cooled in the first place.....I'm fully aware of what a 6000 RPM delta fan sounds like and i like to preserve my hearing....

[charlikl]

Nice share. Everyone has seen nice images of their PC. I love my PC but i have seen some of the CPU here which i have never seen earlier and i wish to modify it in my PC also. I will post images of my PC soon. Keep sharing some more images here.

[Progression]

last picture for the night and the wiring is pretty much done.....Cell phone picture so it's a bit blurry...I'll take a final set of pictures with the good camera in the coming days when everything is totally finished.






Waiting only for the final component to make the build complete(it's in UPS's hands now):

http://www.lamptron.com/products/view/Fan_Controller_Touch

Fan controler with a touch sensitive LCD display...

Haha I guess if you are going with such a rig you might as well go the whole way. Good show man, good show.

[Mangler]

I was initially thinking about an 8 channel version that's controled with regular knobs, but given the high class case this is going in, might as well add some bling with the LCD feature...


This one at first, but 8 channels at 30 watts is insane as it's possible to connect 2~3 fans per channel, and i'm not running even close to using that many fans in total....Heck even the LCD version is overkill with 6 channels...

http://www.lamptron.com/products/vie...Controller_FC8

If you but gentle typhoon fans, you can run way more than 2-3 fans per channel with a controller that has 30w per channel.

[shadow001]

If you but gentle typhoon fans, you can run way more than 2-3 fans per channel with a controller that has 30w per channel.

The 3 case fans only use 4 watts a piece...Gotta check what the 3 fans for the radiator itself uses...


Basically any 30 watt per channel controler is overkill, regardless if it's 4~6~8 channel units..

[Mangler]

The 3 case fans only use 4 watts a piece...Gotta check what the 3 fans for the radiator itself uses...


Basically any 30 watt per channel controler is overkill, regardless if it's 4~6~8 channel units..

Unless you are using delta fans, but honestly, who wants to use them, they're too load at 100%, and are usually louder than the best 25mm fans when you undervolt them.

And undervolted they don't exactly outperform the best 25mm fans either.

I guess you could use it to undervolt the pump though, so they are not entirely useless for a normal user.

[shadow001]

Unless you are using delta fans, but honestly, who wants to use them, they're too load at 100%, and are usually louder than the best 25mm fans when you undervolt them.

And undervolted they don't exactly outperform the best 25mm fans either.

I guess you could use it to undervolt the pump though, so they are not entirely useless for a normal user.

The pump has it's own PWM connector that i simply plug it into the CPU fan header, and it automatically adjusts the speed of the pump based on the temperature being reported from the temperature sensor within the CPU....It's pretty much hands off basically.

[Soong]

The pump has it's own PWM connector that i simply plug it into the CPU fan header, and it automatically adjusts the speed of the pump based on the temperature being reported from the temperature sensor within the CPU....It's pretty much hands off basically.

I would not believe for an instant that the CPU fan header on your motherboard can provide enough amperage for a pump. You're going to burn out the board.

[aviphysics]

I would not believe for an instant that the CPU fan header on your motherboard can provide enough amperage for a pump. You're going to burn out the board.

I believe he means it is just the control wire that goes to the MB and maybe the sense wire too. Not the voltage.
CPU fan pinout

[Mangler]

I believe he means it is just the control wire that goes to the MB and maybe the sense wire too. Not the voltage.
CPU fan pinout

That is what he meant, the pump is pwm controlled, but it draws the power from a normal 4-pin molex.

http://www.swiftech.com/mcp35x12vdcpump.aspx

[shadow001]

That is what he meant, the pump is pwm controlled, but it draws the power from a normal 4-pin molex.

http://www.swiftech.com/mcp35x12vdcpump.aspx

Bingo....There's a 4 pin molex for power.


Mind you,not that he pump makes a lot of noise even when running at full speed, as it's a very low volume humming sound with the side panel on the case removed and your ear just a couple of inches from it, it makes the pump not have to work faster than it needs too...



Anyhow, the full build is complete with all the wire management done....Final pictures to come soon once the battery for the camera is charged up...

[shadow001]

[Progression]

That's hot.

Which Lian-Li is it?

[shadow001]

That's hot.

Which Lian-Li is it?

Biggest one they make, wich the all black edition like mine is the V2120x, but there's one version that's black only on the outside of the case, and a brushed aluminum version too....

[Jokerzwild]

Yeesh.... how do I follow an act like shadow001 . That's one helluva setup there man.

Well, meager as it is, here's my new stuffs. Just a couple quick snaps, I might post more later once I get everything tweaked. It's running but I've still got wire-work to do in my spare time to clean up the loose ends and hide more cables.

Specs:
Xigmatek Utgard Pure Black Edition mid-tower
Intel i7 2600k
Asus p67 Sabertooth
Asus HD6870
8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3
Corsair TX750 PSU
Corsair H50 (I LIKE the logo upside down . I've heard it circulates better that way)
Intel X25-M 80gb SSD
Seagate Barracuda 500gb 7200.12









And the whole setup:



46 inches of lovin'

[caveman-jim]

bitchin'

[nycdarkness]

Yeesh.... how do I follow an act like shadow001 . That's one helluva setup there man.

Well, meager as it is, here's my new stuffs. Just a couple quick snaps, I might post more later once I get everything tweaked. It's running but I've still got wire-work to do in my spare time to clean up the loose ends and hide more cables.

Specs:
Xigmatek Utgard Pure Black Edition mid-tower
Intel i7 2600k
Asus p67 Sabertooth
Asus HD6870
8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3
Corsair TX750 PSU
Corsair H50 (I LIKE the logo upside down . I've heard it circulates better that way)
Intel X25-M 80gb SSD
Seagate Barracuda 500gb 7200.12

A very big fan of how that motherboard looks. Sadly it won't support more then 2 pcie 16x cards.

[MangaSpawn64]

Yeesh.... how do I follow an act like shadow001 . That's one helluva setup there man.

Well, meager as it is, here's my new stuffs. Just a couple quick snaps, I might post more later once I get everything tweaked. It's running but I've still got wire-work to do in my spare time to clean up the loose ends and hide more cables.

Specs:
Xigmatek Utgard Pure Black Edition mid-tower
Intel i7 2600k
Asus p67 Sabertooth
Asus HD6870
8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3
Corsair TX750 PSU
Corsair H50 (I LIKE the logo upside down . I've heard it circulates better that way)
Intel X25-M 80gb SSD
Seagate Barracuda 500gb 7200.12



[IMG]http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9638/dsc02131k.jpg





And the whole setup:

[IMG]http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1006/dsc02134li.jpg

46 inches of lovin'

Can't wait to see the final, tie-wrapped product Looks damn sexy... If I had to buy stuff right now, I'd go with something very similar to your setup (but I'm waiting for the 2011 socket)...

[Debello]

Biggest one they make, wich the all black edition like mine is the V2120x, but there's one version that's black only on the outside of the case, and a brushed aluminum version too....

What monitotrs are you going to use to take advantage of all that power?

[shadow001]

What monitotrs are you going to use to take advantage of all that power?

Triple 30" LCD's....

[shadow001]

The beast is alive....Spent a good chunk of the day installing software and taking care of some problems, but nothing too serious that doing it manually didn't take care of it(windows wouldn't detect some stuff automatically).


Now the last issue to resolve is why one of the GTX580's isn't being detected, and i've gone thru the basics(card seating,power connectors,PCI-e slot enabled in the jumpers), and the strange thing is that the fan on that card that isn't detected is turning and i can feel the heat coming out of it too...It's the bottom card of the 3...


Could the SLI bridge connecting all 3 cards be defective and that cause one of them not to show up in device manager?


Anyhow i'm done for the night and will try to figure it out tomorrow...

[Debello]

Triple 30" LCD's....

Why not triple 27" 3D monitors.

[shadow001]

Why not triple 27" 3D monitors.

Do they exist?.....Last i heard, the largest ones were 24" screens.


Besides, i like the native resolution of 30" screens(2560*1600 each)...

[demo]

Wow guys some really nice systems posted


As for 3 x 27", thats exactly what I would go for once 120hz 3D models are released, which isnt far away afaik. 3 x 120hz 3D 27" 1080p would do me fine.

[shadow001]

Still trouble shooting that third GTX580 card and it looks like a bad PCI-e slot, since i swapped the card that wasn't working into another PCI slot and it works, and the one that was working went into the 3rd PCI slot and stopped working...


Switched the PSU's PCI-e power connectors between those 2 cards to rule out something wrong with a specific PSU rail...no difference.


Tried out a different SLI bridge and still no difference...Also doubled checked all bios settings and jumpers relating to PCI-e slots and everything is where it should be...


Since the motherboard has 4 PCI-e X16 slots, i could move all 3 cards one slot down and see what happens next...Basically if a working card goes into that 3rd slot and stops working, then there's a defect with that specific slot....

[shadow001]

Moved all 3 cards down to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th X16 PCI slot and the system only sees one card now, so it's definitely related to the motherboard and nothing to do with power or the cards themselves....


Maybe the board needs a bios update?

[Soong]

Next time, test with air before installing water

[nycdarkness]

Moved all 3 cards down to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th X16 PCI slot and the system only sees one card now, so it's definitely related to the motherboard and nothing to do with power or the cards themselves....


Maybe the board needs a bios update?

Rmaing that thing is gonna suck after all that Assembly.

[shadow001]

Rmaing that thing is gonna suck after all that Assembly.

Flashed the board to the latest Bios, but there's still no difference....The most i can get is 2 functional GTX580's, but i left a message at EVGA support with all the steps i've taken so far, so we'll see if there's a specific bios setting that i can try...

[shadow001]

Next time, test with air before installing water

Would have to build the system twice, and there's still the chance that the water blocks clould still short the motherboard anyhow even if it works fine air cooled...Luck plays a part in this, as there's only so many checks one can realistically do.


Besides,i'd still need air coolers for the CPU's that would get trashed afterwards...Xeons don't come with air coolers.

[nycdarkness]

I've had the same problem your having on a evga 790i board once. Turned out to be a bad slot, which resulted in rma. Why not just call them they have like 24/7 tech support don't they?

[caveman-jim]

Make a thread for tech support, this is for !

[shadow001]

I've had the same problem your having on a evga 790i board once. Turned out to be a bad slot, which resulted in rma. Why not just call them they have like 24/7 tech support don't they?

Actually, while reading the manual really carefully regarding PCI-e slot management, all 7 PCI slots are enabled by default with the use of 7 seperate jumpers on the board, with the main reason for those jumpers existing is to either troubleshoot a specific slot, or disable PCI-e video cards without having to physically remove them from the slot, so that overclocking can be tested on each card seperately.


So what i'll do is disable PCI-e slot 2/4/6 thru those jumpers and see if the 3rd card starts up that way....

[demo]

Feel free to laugh at my cable management and ghetto looking system but I swear there just isnt enough room to run all those cables in the hidden cavity and/or make them reach. Do not like this case at all and next build will put some more thought into case and cable management, however at least this one is functional and fairly cool which is the main thing, aesthetics come 2nd for me.

[shadow001]

Muhahahahahaha....All 3 cards are now operational, system is back to full power....


Too many people pull the trigger on RMA's as soon as something doesn't work properly...

[Jokerzwild]

Muhahahahahaha....All 3 cards are now operational, system is back to full power....


Too many people pull the trigger on RMA's as soon as something doesn't work properly...

Well don't keep us in suspense! What was the problem?

[Progression]

Feel free to laugh at my cable management and ghetto looking system but I swear there just isnt enough room to run all those cables in the hidden cavity and/or make them reach. Do not like this case at all and next build will put some more thought into case and cable management, however at least this one is functional and fairly cool which is the main thing, aesthetics come 2nd for me.

That's one nasty OC on your 930.