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Guru3D Rig of the Month - September 2017
Posted by: on: 09/27/2017 09:15 AM [
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Meet the September edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2017, right here.
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vonSternberg
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Posted on: 09/27/2017 01:58 PM
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Singleton99
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Posted on: 09/27/2017 02:11 PM
Well done , it a very clean and stealthy looking build with the matt black finish , i like it a lot .
Well done , it a very clean and stealthy looking build with the matt black finish , i like it a lot .
D3M1G0D
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Posted on: 09/27/2017 02:28 PM
It's an interesting build, clean, minimal, with a nice finish.
Those tubes look kind of tortured though. Some angled fitting would help.
It's an interesting build, clean, minimal, with a nice finish.
Those tubes look kind of tortured though. Some angled fitting would help.
Robbo9999
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Posted on: 09/27/2017 07:58 PM
So clean & compartmentalised like a dentists tray - you could almost keep your teeth pullers & anaesthetic needles in there! But, for the love of God at least overclock the CPU more than a paltry 4.4Ghz & increase the power target on the GTX 1080 to the max - you're watercooling them after all, a bit of a waste if you're not gonna max it out! I like how you've put the radiator on the outside of the case - so that it sucks in cool air from outside & also exhausts it's hot air to the outside too - I don't know why people don't do that more, it makes perfect sense to me.
EDIT: oh yeah, I didn't read the bit you wrote where you said you were wanting to increase the life span of your components by not using more than stock voltage on the CPU - I don't think you need to worry about that, if you're water cooling (and even if you had a good air cooler - like me (NH-D14)) and you can keep the CPU really cool then you can certainly use extra voltage & I'm confident it wouldn't reduce the lifespan of your components. I mean how long do you want to keep it - more than 10 yrs or something?! Does feel like a waste of the water cooling - sure it's super quiet, but I reckon it would still be quiet with an overvolt & further overclock on the CPU too. I'm running my 6700K @1.4V and 4.7Ghz, and using NH-D14 cooler I have the fans at lowest possible fan speed using the ULV adapter (pretty much inaudible) and temperatures are in the region of 60 degC during Prime95 - it is delidded though. Your watercooling can handle it! ;-)
So clean & compartmentalised like a dentists tray - you could almost keep your teeth pullers & anaesthetic needles in there! But, for the love of God at least overclock the CPU more than a paltry 4.4Ghz & increase the power target on the GTX 1080 to the max - you're watercooling them after all, a bit of a waste if you're not gonna max it out! I like how you've put the radiator on the outside of the case - so that it sucks in cool air from outside & also exhausts it's hot air to the outside too - I don't know why people don't do that more, it makes perfect sense to me.
EDIT: oh yeah, I didn't read the bit you wrote where you said you were wanting to increase the life span of your components by not using more than stock voltage on the CPU - I don't think you need to worry about that, if you're water cooling (and even if you had a good air cooler - like me (NH-D14)) and you can keep the CPU really cool then you can certainly use extra voltage & I'm confident it wouldn't reduce the lifespan of your components. I mean how long do you want to keep it - more than 10 yrs or something?! Does feel like a waste of the water cooling - sure it's super quiet, but I reckon it would still be quiet with an overvolt & further overclock on the CPU too. I'm running my 6700K @1.4V and 4.7Ghz, and using NH-D14 cooler I have the fans at lowest possible fan speed using the ULV adapter (pretty much inaudible) and temperatures are in the region of 60 degC during Prime95 - it is delidded though. Your watercooling can handle it! ;-)
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Great looking stylish rig, without all the kiddie bling bling RGB's.
Very nice taste!