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

[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!

[FS~Phat]

Hi Guys!

Back from holidays today and my performance pcs shipment has finally miraculously appeared and my replacement motherboard is back.

Cant wait to ditch the bosch staples for the sunbeam PSU mod tool kit!
Aquacomputer also confirmed my blocks are finally on the way!

I might get a RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB SSD next week depending on when my Vertex2 SSD RMA's get back. OCZ have confirmed they are replacing them! :thumbup:


Tools of the sleeving trade!




The new sunbeam PSU modding tools above in the tool kit makes life sooo much easier compared to the bosch type 53 11.4mm staples!!

The long lost Performance PCs shipment!

A lifetime supply of MX4, thermal pads, 14 indigo extreme applications and 4 radiator shrouds.

[FS~Phat]

The troublesome 3 to 5 wire 8pin GPU ground cable under construction...





1 finished and assembled GPU cable for 6pin and 8 pin.
I only have 1 more of these to go.




Cables roughly installed.












Still a hell of a lot of work to do!!!!!