Guru3D Rig of the Month - December 2013
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CronoGraal
nice
War child
Nice design. Very unique.
Does it provide coffee too?
Ghosty
Never seen anything done like this before, very unique indeed. Almost looks like it belongs in a Modern Art Gallery.
BLEH!
That's epically awesome.
Robbo9999
I kind of like this, it does look unusual. Reminds me of some kind of weirdly elaborate Chemistry Lab Experiment!
geogan
Nice design. Like the solid watercooling tubing.
Definitely need to upgrade those graphic cards though. Having all that fancy liquid cooling on old cards like those is completly pointless considering a bog standard new card without watercooling would out perform it.
Also never saw the non-full cover graphic card waterblocks before with the little heatsinks on every individual VRM! Wouldn't have though they would work without massive air cooling on them.
airbud7
Wow...just wow, Great work of art Timmy....
TheSarge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXA338ro1mo
Looks awesome. Very creative. I assume it can be used to make espresso too, yes? :infinity:
But seriously: You did all that work, spent all that money, and then you put and Core i5 in there, not a Core i7? Really? Why? Did you run out of money? Do you think Core i7 is overkill? I really want to know.
Undying
Something different indeed. Good job man. :P
T1mmy
Thank you all for the nice comments ! π
Last week I upgraded to two R9 290's so the graphic cards are finally up to date π. The reason why I've chosen for a universal gpu block and not a full cover block, is because on the long term the universal block is much cheaper.
And performance wise there is also no reason to pick a full cover block above a universal block. I don't know if it's because of the copper piping, the gpu block or the combination of both, but currently my GPU's (R9 290) are running at 30 degree on idle and around 42 while gaming.
The heatsinks on the Memory modules are being cooled by the fans on the radiator.
For benchmarking or other CPU intensive programs the I7 will beat the I5 whit his hand in his pockets.
But for gaming at 1080p a I7 is overkill a I5 @ 4.4Ghz will give you almost if not the same fps as a I7 extreme edition that cost more then 3 times as much as the I5.
Sadly enough one of my MCP 355 pumps died two days ago π. And i'm currently looking for a way to fix it, the PCB doesn't look damaged and it makes a clicking sound when i plug it in. Is there maybe anyone here that has any experience with this ?
geogan
StewieTech
ItΒ΄s different, it deserves the win, but it doesnΒ΄t really shake my giggity o meter.
Stromgold
That is a fantastic design! Great job π
SLI-756
Totally love it.
T1mmy
Thanks for the comments guys.
I will just to keep using the GPU block and put some extra heatsinks on the voltage regulators. After four days non stop mining they where 98 degrees Celsius without heatsinks. Since they can reach a max temp of 125 degrees they should be fine π.
For the pump, I found a new PCB for only 20 Dollar and also ordered a new pump just to make sure I have a working pump if the PCB fix does not work.