Your Gaming Rig/Setup Pics

BloodRush136

BA-Phrostbyte

green cathode in between the motherboard mounting surface and the side panel.

keyoshi

that looks pretty cool bloodrush. I love multi color fans.

s1rrah

this is sort of a thread-hack, sorry ... but since there are so many Armor users posting, i thought i'd post an image of a real simple mod that will make your top exhaust fan more efficient.

when i first got the armor case, i couldn't believe the TOP exhaust fan had such a blocked window thru which to exhaust; ie > not many holes in the top for air flow, and besides that the stock fan was sort of weak; and so, using an electric drill and the drill bit that best matched the wholes that were already present in the top exhaust screen, i simply drilled out a much more adequate window:

here's a screen shot; look at your stock top-grill to judge the difference:

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also, i replaced the stock exhaust fan with a higher CFM antec fan ... lowered my case temps minimally, maybe 1 degree or so ... but it helped to increase the air flow.

az_sniper

Here is my current sniping machine as is.

I have a new Swiftech 220 Ultra + water cooling system on it's way and I am waiting for the new Cooler Master Stacker 832 to hit the stores.

I will post new pics when I get the water cooling system installed, enjoy.

illustrious

oh bro I love that case
and more than that I love your set up!

i roll3rb1ad3

thats a nice f***ing setup right there, and when u have the wc in there it will be even better

DJ-Nokey

that is a freaking sweet ass setup! wm could be better but hell! its still nice! cant wait to see it watercooled.

illustrious

here's one of mine

az_sniper

Thanks guys, I will get those wires in order once I drop the wc kit in there.
I don't know how much better it will look with 3 water blocks and a swiftech MPC665 in there; might be a little cramped.

I am almost want to build a custom external enclosure that sits on top the pc case and just clean up the internals, besides when the R600 DX10 ATI cards come I will need room in there.

DJ-Nokey

Dude i just got a great idea for that! thanks!!!! :)

keyoshi

Az that rig is awsome!! I wanna see it WC'd :D

az_sniper

You and me both my friend, it will be here Friday but I may not have time to get it set-up till next week.

keyoshi

No problem. If you hurry it won't turn out so well ;) My WC kit may be in a box for christmas :D

sharpkac

well i scanned through all the pages on this thread and there are a lot of nice set ups. I will post mine once i get a chance to take pictures :)

az_sniper

Recently I bought a Swiftech 220 Ultra + water-cooling Kit, initially I was going to hold off on using it until I got a bigger case but I went ahead and modified my beautiful Lexa case to incorporate it until I get the Mozart TX I want.

I decided to place the pump and reservoir on top to allow full access to the internals.






The supplied fans have no speed sensor so I could not utilize my mobo’s onboard fan controller; these things are 75 cfm, 120mm’s and at 12v they are very loud.
Used the supplied 5v connectors and it makes them almost silent but you take a drastic performance hit. At 12v they dropped my full load temps by around 10 deg C over my old Zalman 9500 on high.

Nevertheless the fans at only 5v the cpu temp while gaming is right around what my 9500 was on high. So I am ordering some new 50 cfm 120mm’s with speed sensors for the perfect mix.

However the gpu temps were cut in half from 80+ down to 40-45 deg C, even with an over-clock to 690/800MHz (ATI Overdrive’s max for my card). With the factory heat sink assembly and even an Artic Cooler on there the card would not over-clock at all with out artifacting all over the place.

sharpkac

i like how you modded that case for liquid cooling az_sniper you did a good job.

keyoshi

Looks nice :D I didn't get my WC kit yet though :'(

Nettwerk

My setup:

keyoshi

Wow! 1) that is a huge monitor. 2) I love the lian li 3) Love the game :P. I wish I could have a setup like that haha.