Some Pic's and Ideas Welcome On New i7 Build...

AGirlsBuild

New to the forums here. Just thought i would post some pic's of my current project. Ideas always welcome. So hi everyone and enjoy some modding.

furball zen

Guess you arent planning on water cooling eh?

Peterson

good luck putting those last two cards in series...

AGirlsBuild

No way i'm aircooling this baby!! LOL. Fun, Fun But i've already connected them if you look closely and just finished installing to thin Bitspower plugs to cap off the other inlet/outlets. Uesd a koolance ram slider to connect them. This is the third system build i've done this way. Thanks guys for the post. I look foward to being apart of this forum.

Peterson

3rd one eh? what do you need our ideas for then

AGirlsBuild

Didn't say i needed your ideas, i said i'm open to ideas. I'm always open to new ways of doing things. You never know all the tricks when it comes to modding. By the way you always make it this hard on the new girls. So thanks for the welcome to the forums. I'll make sure to keep you up to date. Oh, and what idea did you give. i didn't see that post. Thanks again.

Peterson

my penchant for sarcasm is asexual.

AGirlsBuild

LOL, As for mine also.

Joe_B_Me

The thought of 4 4890's makes my PSU want to explode into flames.

On an unrelated note, the lack of proper quotes is scaring me! (fixed)

UNLIKELY1

Very cool A girl!! What case are you going to use on this one? Give us a few more build specifics then we can offer some ideas fo your concideration.

C.Hill

Color me jealous. That's the exact board I was gonna use for my next build... well, until I saw that new EVGA Classified. It's still up in the air though, I'm sure the Classified is ridiculously expensive right now.

Oh, and welcome!

Grez

Yeah, welcome to the forums! And, I'll add my ditto on the "holy crap, that's a whole lot of video card love going on in there" commentary.

AGirlsBuild

Thanks for the greetings. As for the system spec's here is how it stands of right now. ENERMAX REVOLUTION85+ ERV1050EWT 1050W, EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED "Overclocker's Pick" 3-Way SLI + PhysX 1366 , 2x CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866, 2x Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB, Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition, LITE-ON Blue-ray Burner and LITE-ON DVD Burner, 4x XFX HD-489A-ZDDC Radeon HD 4890 XXX Edition 1GB, Custom COOLER MASTER ATCS 840, EK-FB KIT EVGA X58 CLASSIFIED Full Board North/Southbridge Water Block, EK-CoolStream RAD XT (360), EK-CoolStream RAD XT (480), 2x Primochill Typhoon III Reservoir System w/ Pump Mount, 2x Swiftech MCP655, Fans Noiseblocker NB-Multiframe M12-S3HS, EK Supreme HF CPU Block, 4x EK Radeon HD4890 VGA Liquid Cooling Block. Still looking different SSD's for boot drive. And yes that new Classified MB is nice...

C.Hill

Nice specs. I still havent decided on if I want to use the dual-socket Classified simply because I'm sure the board alone will be over $400, plus add in the cost of another CPU... I'd be very interested to see some benchmarks when you get this baby running! Also, for an SSD boot drive, do you have an available PCI-e lane? Y'know, one thats NOT being eaten up by your massive GPU/PhysX array...

Peterson

shitty CPU block. the system you got deserves the best. swap that EK block for the Swiftech Apogee XT. Best on the market.

vsop

Actually I like the HeatKiller block better then the Apogee

Zenshi

Wow. wowowowowow

I love everything about this build. Great PSU. Great case. Great everything. As Joe_B_Me said, I just exploded.

Thanks for posting.

AGirlsBuild

NortHWizarD, As you said the looks of this build is a big deal along with performance. I think the EK block will perform well in this setup. I hope...


vsop, I agree i also like the Heatkiller block. They seem to perform well. I could not locate all the parts needed for this build from the other manufacture so EK it was. Although I'm not a fan of the mounting brackets/Style of mounting they use. I used a koolance back plate i had to mount it. This way i could get the block a little tighter without flexing the board.


Zenshi, Thanks, I hope it all turns out the way i had imagined it would.

I will be working some more on it today and i will post some more pic's later.

Thanks

AGirlsBuild

I have no more PCI-e lanes open except the PCI-e x1 lane at the top of the board and with the oem N/B cooler gone i can use just about any size item in it. I would like to have about 256GB of space on the boot drive. That dual socket Classified M/B is sure to be on my wish list. When all done i will post some scores. Thanks

vsop

I went with 4 128gb SSD's in raid 0 for my boot drive, so 500GB and crazy speed.

If you want 256GB I suggest going with 2 120GB drives in raid 0 to get the extra speed and increased storage. 256GB drives are a bit overpriced.