Ultimate COD RIG MK II - Major Upgrade Underway - Quad GTX580, 990X, 1500W PSU

[AdamB]

I was wondering, is there anyway in which you can build a computer with two CPU's on two seperate mobo's and then have 4 GTX 590's (2 on each mobo)

e.g.

2x Intel i7 990X (24 threads)
2x X58 mobo's
2x 24GB DDR3 RAM
2x 2 GTX 590 3GB
500GB SSD
2x 3TB Hard Drive 6Gb/s

I would love to see this done, i think Arma 3 could run pretty well on this. And Cliffs of Dover would run maxed out

[FS~Phat]

ProRaid box showing 4 x 3TB Western Digital WD30EZRX drives.

8.18TB Usable RAID 5.
Great performance! 176Mb/s read 110Mb/s write over USB3 and 55Mb/s read and write over USB 2.













The PCI slot SSD carriers.


The 3 1/2" Bay SSD drive carriers which Im leaning towards using by mounting it on the MB support upright rather than the PCI mount.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Thought this looked like an OCN style build log, lol. I have a couple of questions. What is the I/D of the tubing? What pump(s) are you using? Also, is there any particular reason you're water cooling the RAM?

[achtungspitfire]

Originally Posted by AdamB

I was wondering, is there anyway in which you can build a computer with two CPU's on two seperate mobo's and then have 4 GTX 590's (2 on each mobo)

e.g.

2x Intel i7 990X (24 threads)
2x X58 mobo's
2x 24GB DDR3 RAM
2x 2 GTX 590 3GB
500GB SSD
2x 3TB Hard Drive 6Gb/s

I would love to see this done, i think Arma 3 could run pretty well on this. And Cliffs of Dover would run maxed out

Nope, sadly.

If you wanted to run a pair of CPUs you would need to go for Xeon 5500/5600 or Opteron 4100/6100 series processors on a single server or workstation motherboard. If you can find a board with the right number of PCI express slots, the rest is definitely possible.

Unfortunately 99% of software these days is barely written to take advantage of multiple cores let alone multiple processors, so a build like this would be almost a total waste for gaming

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Urufu_Shinjiro

Thought this looked like an OCN style build log, lol. I have a couple of questions. What is the I/D of the tubing? What pump(s) are you using? Also, is there any particular reason you're water cooling the RAM?

It's 3/8" tubing which is easier to work with.
2 x D5 pumps in each loop (CPU loop and then everything else in the 2nd loop)
Water cooling ram helps with OC and keeps fan noise to a minimum. Ram fans are quite noisy beasts spinning at 6000RPM. I've pushed the ram to 2300Mhz with 1.8v which no amount of air cooling could cope with.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Ah, I didn't realize they were making high voltage friendly RAM again. Been a little out of the loop recently, last I was aware all you needed was good airflow after they stopped with the old BH5 ICs, lol.

[FS~Phat]

Small update... still waiting on a whole bunch of things but I have started on the sleeving.... Massive job.
This is the main piece of work though here!
Man what a head spin!!
At least the worst part of tracing them is done!






And another side project to keep me gaming with decent FPS while I finish the main system build.


http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/PE4H.html

Dont know if any of you have seen these before.
I've been researching this before and its now become a much simpler process.

Its an external express card to PCIE adapter.

Designed for engineer testing of PCIE devices.
Im going to use it for gaming on my VAIO Z128 laptop with an external GTX580! How cool is that!
The integrated GT330M just isnt cutting it for some of the stuff I want to play, and when I go away for the weekend to our family holiday house I can just pack the Lappy, adaptor, Powersuppply and I can play all my games at 60FPS+

Here's an example pretty much of the setup as i will have it too. He has the exact same lappy as me known as a Z117 in other countries.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/7718053-post4504.html

With the Nvidia Optimus driver you get compression and upto 70% of the performance of a full 16x PCIE slot.

Nvidia are currently developing (and probably ATI too, though not confirmed) external GPU for thunderbolt port which is electrically equivalent of a PCIE 2.0 x4. These will come out on next gen PC's and laptops. Sony have already released their version for their laptops.

[FS~Phat]

I've made some progress and now completed this beast of a cable..

It has the runs sleeved for the other PSU power-on and the Aquaero 5 XT relay. (the long curled up cables)

There were lots of 2-way, 3-way and even 4-way cables.. What a headache!!!!

At least it's all down hill from here, the PCIE's will be a piece of cake after this beastly cable!

[addman]

I felt a little guilty for ordering a 79€ Samsung SSD today considering we will have a little one joining us very soon but after seeing your new rig I feel much better about it. Thanks Phat!