Guru3D Rig of the Month - June 2015

rl66

2015-06-29 19:42

And on the reservoir, not everybody uses one, define tubing, pre-fill and close the loop. http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=16723

yes most of the time the reservoir is used as decanter... it's as used in track car if you check your coolant level and a part remove presure (tap cap or valve) you can remove coolant reservoir. btw my computer "reservoir" is 15cm of 10/13 tube with fillport on top when it goes down i add few and it's ok... never have problem on my WC since many many years (on other hand pump and cooler unit are 5/6m away on other room... lot of fluid in tube already).

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cleverman

2015-06-29 20:30

the reservoir ? show us the reservoir.. oh and your first pictures failed bad because what I wrote could well of been true from those images. Ok I eat, good job there I take it all back. but you should of just posted them images because from the images provided I could of been right. Nice job indeed, I all ways say anything off the shelf don't belong on rig of the mth and yours isn't like that, good job.

#5110689

Hughesy

2015-06-29 20:58

the reservoir ? show us the reservoir.. oh and your first pictures failed bad because what I wrote could well of been true from those images. Ok I eat, good job there I take it all back. but you should of just posted them images because from the images provided I could of been right. Nice job indeed, I all ways say anything off the shelf don't belong on rig of the mth and yours isn't like that, good job.

You don't need a reservoir for watercooling, hence those AIO coolers don't use them. Not sure why you thought he would post a rig of the month that isn't a real build, think next time, he knows what he's doing. Not looking so clever, cleverman 🤓....:stewpid: Take that last part as tongue in cheek.

#5110783

eclap

2015-06-29 23:30

Very neat, like it.

#5110909

Rage

2015-06-30 03:20

Very neat, like it.

I was thinking the exact opposite. I only checked out all 4 pages waiting to see what it looked like with the front and rear shrouds on, only to find out that there weren't any. (Or did I miss them?) It just looks like a small rig, with three GPU's that is almost finished. Not sure why ROTM, but congrats to him.

Another build that looks like all pictures. I'd actually like a couple rigs of the month to be a little more pragmatic in their use. As others have said this looks a little weird but decent I guess. I'd never use it or trust any high-end card in it though. I see way too many of these rigs of the month dressed up for photo shoots and that isn't anything how they really look. I'd love to see the temps on these cards too.

+1

#5110999

bigfutus

2015-06-30 08:19

Are you a wizard? I don't know how you managed it otherwise 🙂

#5111085

xIcarus

2015-06-30 10:48

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.

If your renderer supports CUDA/OpenCL you want to render on GPUs. A single high-end GPU generally trashes any CPU around. 3 of those is quite ridiculous. Not to mention multi-GPU scaling is pretty much perfect and you don't even need similar video cards like CFX/SLI. You can throw in any cards you want. LE: This was referring to the fact that he said he's using the desktop as a render slave aswell.

#5111820

xIcarus

2015-07-01 10:22

With the additional photos it looks a little nicer in those and he did some neat work. I'm coming around to liking this though his comments on AMD originally are pretty funny. Better than that other batman rig for sure by a clear mile. I still would not trust three high end cards in it and do not believe they would survive myself. But two yeah. It would be nice to see temps and stuff on these rigs and altogether their numbers for in game use. I don't think that is too much to ask unless they are not very well workable in real world use. Pretty solid case and a lot of hard work here even if the three card thing might not actually be workable. In the future I would say post those actual photos that show the work being put into the rig. Otherwise we have no idea if this case was just bought mostly as is.

Hilbert already posted what you're saying. Page 1.

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

#5113266

Dr.Puschkin

2015-07-03 01:23

Airflow is not good and there's air in the loop.

#5125176

L3p

2015-07-19 20:16

Nice job Ottetal:thumbup: