Monster Rig.

Antonik · Post by **Antonik** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:45 am

ATI or NVIDIA, i don't care, what i do care about though is the performance and price. x800 xl and the 6800gt preform about the same, but the gt card was about 50$+ more, so it was easy to decide. not to mention my x80 xl came with an artic cooler ^_^

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:56 pm

Gotta agree with audiophile about the Catalyst drivers...got it with my 9800 when I had my old rig going; I got nothing but crap frame rates and BSOD's later on, until I finally had to wipe my system, but that's ok, I put an Xtasy 5864 in its place back then (got it on clearance), and had nothing but good luck with that one. Very stable GPU and drivers...Since I'm a cheapo and can't afford the 7800GTX, gonna have to go with the 6800GT instead, no big deal though, Doom 3 and HL2 still look good on this card

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:05 pm

Awesome

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:10 pm

For those interested, the HD in my system are in a Evercool HD cooler located at the bottom 5.25 bay.............

InFuZiOn · Post by **InFuZiOn** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:41 pm

You should bring that to QuakeCon

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:51 pm

damn right you should Bio, that thing is huge! Did you OC that thing? Because I think it might be overkill for water like that on a stock 3000 Venice.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:56 pm

I OC a little, not as high as some, but it's more than fastest enough for me..............

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:00 pm

is CPU temp on heavy load? b/c that's one hell of a temp if it is:D

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:35 pm

That's just normal working, full load under Prime95 plus ATI Tool 36c CPU and 34c GPU The Vid card is OC'd to 450/550, up from 400/500.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:43 am

Just a small cooling update................

Replaced the PolarFlo TT water block with a Swiftech Storm, also replace the TT D4 pump with a new Swiftech MCP-655 pump to get rig of the pump noise. The combo dropped the load OC temp by another 2c. Looks like I'm getting it about as low as she'll go without going to something more extreme.

P.S. You all might be seeing it the Lan this weekend in St Louis if I can get the time free.

hainer36 · Post by **hainer36** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:01 pm

just found this as.....well i just joined, nice looking set-up

but why didnt you build that UFO yourself? :D

nice job on that, hopefully i can get my fake ufo to look nice...again

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:40 pm

I got a deal of a life time on the case, that's the only reason that I have it.......

normally way to rich for my budget.............

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:38 am

hey bio, is that front fan a 90 or 120mm, and what brand? I can see it's aluminum too, which is frickin cool, and I bet it would look awesome with some UV paint too. I know if I get a set of fans like that, I'll probably paint them.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:56 am

All 7 fans in the system are the new Evercool blue LED aluminum 120mm fans.

http://www.evercool.com.tw/products/al_led12025.htm

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:01 am

man, that's awesome; now, if you just paint the housing with blue UV reactive paint and get some CCFL's (that is, if you don't already have em), that would be awesome, it would go well with the blue LED's on the fan. I believe I'll have to look into those fans. thanks for the link btw

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:26 am

Holy crap man!!! I just started looking at the specs on this fan, and I think I am going to replace those stock Tt 120mm fans that come with the Tsunami Dream and replace them with 2 of the Evercool's you showed me bio. They flow almost 80 CFM, 80!!!! Now that is crazy to me, because the factory Tt's are like 36 CFM I think. Well worth the 11.95 a piece at Performance-PC's, plus they even replace the factory sleeving with that of your choice for no additional charge. I'm definitely sold, that's for sure

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:54 pm

You should know that they aren't anywhere near as quiet as the specs say. At full speed they are somewhat loud if that's a factor for you.

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:55 pm

Bio-Hazard wrote: Looks like I'm getting it about as low as she'll go without going to something more extreme.

I don't see how you could get "more" extreme.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:03 pm

Vapochill is more extreme.........

But I really don't care for that type of cooling. I'll just stick with water.........

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:37 am

you know bio, noise isn't a factor for me, because the rig will mainly be running while I'm up during the day, I don't plan on leaving it on overnight, with the exception for break-in and torture testing. I just like the fact it can flow that much air!! Need to keep the system cool somehow, and that sounds like an awesome solution, and for the price, oh yeah, I can appreciate that, not to mention that aluminum housing would look phat painted in blue UV reactive paint