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As I mentioned before, I created a base out of one of the old HDD rack stands that slots nicely over the front I/O port tray. The pumps sit perfectly in this location. You may also be wondering where I put the HDDs. I bought some nexus 5 1/4 HDD adapters and one is sat above the pumps (as u can see in the pic) and the other I located in the roof of the case above the matrix orbital display. One limitation is that I only have room for 2 HDDs, which is a problem as even with 1TB of drives Im actually running out of space!

Finally, another look at the fill ports! The Matrix Orbital you see in that picture has now been switched with the new GX display... can be seen on the Current build pics below.

Current Build:

As I mentioned, my hardware changes a fair bit, but the following pics are exactly as my PC is in its current state:

12. Your 3DMark06 / 3DMark Vantage score (P+GPU)

3dmark06: 24750 which I'm quite pleased with... although I think I can go higher. This is the highest single card 3dm06 score currently on the Guru hwbot ranking, so I'm quite pleased with that.

Vantage: I havent really got into vantage as much as I did with 3dm06, however my current score is 15,457 which is pretty good, although when I get a bit of time Im going to push for higher. Recon my rig may have 16k+ in it!

Do you have any Future updates planned?

Of course! I will be going Core I7 shortly, just got to get some cash together, but hopefully not too long after Christmas!

Alrighty, that's it. Thanks Mike for your lovely project. If you like to learn more about this build, Mike has a dedicated forum thread on it which can be found right here.

More (other) Rig of the Month entries can be found here. There you can also learn how to submit your PC and perhaps be the December edition of Rig of the month.