Guru3D Rig of the Month - November 2011 - Page 5

11. Did you modify anything ?  cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.

Nothing has been overly modified. Mostly, just fans have been played with. I remounted the rear 140mm fan to the outside of the case so it wouldn't interfere with my tubing. I removed the side facing 140mm fan that comes standard on the 800D because it was sucking airflow from the main chamber and I didn't want that given a have a triple rad to feed.

In terms of the build itself, I did it all myself. This is probably my 5th or 6th rig over the years. I got some help with some general information for the water cooling loop from a friend.
 

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

• P6217

13. Do you have any Future updates planned ?

I'd like to change out the 920 sometime soon. It's probably the oldest component in my machine, and though it still works great and is a fantastic CPU, it's power consumption is still monstrous compared to newer designs like the 2500K which are even faster, and consume not more power than a light bulb sometimes. After reading X3970 review, though, it doesn't look that bad!

I will probably wait for AMD's B3 revision for Bulldozer, and then pull the trigger on something.
 

I also just put in an order for a Cherry brown mechanical DasKeyboard to replace my Razer BlackWidow Cherry blue. Blue's are too noisy! I'll also be looking into a new mouse sometime soon. I'm obsessed with my input devices and change them more than anything. Making sure the feel of how I interact with my machine is paramount especially because Starcraft 2 and Esports is a big hobby of mine, and it's something I'd like to get better at.
 

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