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Guru3D Rig of the Month - September 2017
Meet the September edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2017. The turn goes to Thomas aka Tutanchamun who built something pretty cool. He shows his great looking build with only minor mods / tweaks.
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Guru3D Rig of the Month - August 2017 - 08/30/2017 07:54 AM
The August edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2017 is here. The turn goes to Shahrukh, who built what he calls, Experience. Named after his fist modding experience. This time it's not even a PC, ...
Guru3D Rig of the Month - July 2017 - 07/26/2017 09:22 AM
The July edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month 2017 is here. The turn goes to Guru3D Daniel, who built something what seems to look like a bit more common PC. Don't let the looks fool you though as ...
Guru3D Rig of the Month - June 2017 - 07/03/2017 07:32 AM
The June edition of the Guru3D Rig of the month is here. The turn goes to Guru3D old-timer Douglas Alves who built his own customized PC. The man does like his modding alright, check it out his r...
Guru3D Rig of the Month - May 2017 - 05/29/2017 04:56 AM
The May edition of the Guru3D Rig of the April 2017 is here. The turn goes to Mike Norbert who built his own customized PC. The end-result is a nice looking rig of the month April 2017 You can read t...
Guru3D Rig of the Month - April 2017 - 04/27/2017 09:17 AM
The March edition of the Guru3D Rig of the April 2017 is here. The turn goes to Mike Norbert who built his own customized PC. The end-result is a nice looking rig of the month April 2017 Check out Mik...
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#5476141 Posted on: 09/27/2017 12:58 PM
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
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#5476146 Posted on: 09/27/2017 01:11 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 .
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#5476158 Posted on: 09/27/2017 01:28 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.
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#5476320 Posted on: 09/27/2017 06:58 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!