Guru3D Rig of the Month - June 2015
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BLEH!
Nice rig, compact and fairly powerful.
LesserHellspawn
Indeed, getting such a powerhouse to work in such tight dimensions is awesome. I wonder how loud it is though.
Batboy
Monster rig that would break my power bill! 🙂
Robbo9999
Excellent! I like how small it is and how everything is packed in without wasting any space - loads of power in a very small form, good job!
Anvi
Seems too tight for air cooled SLI.. GPU temps must be very high.
But as the poster said, he's working on a new case.. I hope he adds liquid cooling for GPU's.
EspHack
looks like a nicely compressed load of gaming power, like its gonna explode somehow, kudos for his effort and designing skills, it truly looks flawless imo
icedman
I love what he did with this tiny case.
Robbo9999
Yeah, I'd like to know what his GPU gaming temperatures are. If they're too high then I wouldn't like this build, (but as I said in my previous post I do think this build is excellent based on what I can see).
Undying
Nice, small and powerful. Beastly looking, good job.
StewieTech
There´s nothing quite like having several GPUs sitting on top of each other. 😀
Megabiv
Guess I'm the only one who spotted the air pocket in the cpu block which won't be helping with temps. Overall though very nice rig and impressive it's in such a tiny case. He'll when I was at school there would have been no chance of having 3 gpu's and water cooling on my paper round wage 😉
vbetts
Moderator
The 780's pull cool air from below, that helps out a lot. 😀
This is an awesome mini rig!
schmidtbag
Why do liquid cooling if the things that need them most, the GPUs, don't use it? You could have stuck with your crossfire setup if you changed the cooling for them. Intel CPUs these days hardly warrant liquid cooling. A hefty air cooler is usually more than enough.
hapkiman
Yes it looks great for a SFF case but are those 3GB or 6GB version of GTX 780's? Because there is a 6GB version. If he only has 3GB versions it is severely crippled for UHD or "4k" (he doesn't mention his monitor).
And those cards are seriously close. I'll bet they are toasty.
Decent looking rig though.
schmidtbag
He mentions he has 3 monitors, though doesn't mention if all are used for gaming. Anyway, considering the money put into this, I doubt he went cheap and got the 3GB versions. But even if he did, DX12 and Vulkan are designed to take better advantage of the VRAM in multi-GPU setups, so it could still end up being at least 9GB total, depending on the game.
NAMEk
This is pricey rig, so i'm also interested in why not LCS all the way?
EKRboi
It is definitely an awesome rig, but speaking from experience those cards stacked like that will hit 80c+ in no time flat and start to throttle if left to manage their own fans.
If you manually crank the fans to 70%+ you can keep em from throttling, but it will be loud as hell. My experience is from my 970's and I had a 140mm fan blowing outdside air about 2-3 inches from the back of them blowing straight at the inlet..
those 780's may be worse due to higher power and less direct airflow. They are open in the "back" and can pull in "cool" air but with them as tight as they are everything just suffers from heat soak. Glad all of my stuff is water cooled now. The jet engines were annoying.
cleverman
People not notice how this rig can be laid on one side with a reservoir fitted or is it fitted ?
No one notice the lack of a power plug so no power supply fitted.
Unable to see the area that makes the most sense, ( pump,psu,reservoir )
Is that because its not actually fitted and this has been thrown out to claim the prise ....
Funny build that's fooling everyone and no one is saying a word.
Power supply, reservoir, pump pls and the power plug socket.
Where are they, Showing us a bunch of assembled parts and filling a closed loop to pretend its water cooled don't deserve any prise.
Allso doing a close up of the board reset button powered up shows deliberate intent to fool us because there is no power supply fitted.
I would remove this as rig of the mth if I was you because it makes you a laughing stock because you can be fooled easy.
Show us this rig running and I will eat my words,
(someone I don't think that will happen)
rl66
4K with 3gig is possible, and work fine, despite a lot of people write (4g of use are very very very rare...) but the real question is "does the 780 can handle descently the 4K"
i would say it's a bit at the limit... but with 780 you can already do a lot few bellow.
about watercool the GPUs heat goes up only and are pushed this way and the 780 doesn't heat a lot even in OC... exept for silence i don't think it is usefull.
this rig is nice and mobile, everything is logical, i like it.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Added a photo for mr. sourpuss here. Oh and here here and here to see the chassis evolve and running. And on the reservoir, not everybody uses one, define tubing, pre-fill and close the loop.
Now eat them ... 🤓
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=16723
