Retell's Air Cooled Rig

Retell

Retell

NZXT R&D
In the last few months I have made some massive upgrades and here are the current specs:

  • NZXT Switch 810 White
  • Asus P6T Deluxe V2
  • Intel i7 920 D0 Stepping
  • NZXT Havik 140
  • Patriot Media Sector 7 1600mhz
  • 320gb Western Digital Blue
  • 500gb Western Digital Green
  • 2TB Samsung F4
  • MSI Radeon HD7970
  • OCZ 700MXSP
  • Lite-On DVD Drive
  • NZXT Sentry Mix
  • 8x NZXT FN140 Fans, 1x Noctua 140
  • Logitech MX Performance
  • Corsair K90 MMO
  • TCL 40in LED TV
  • Crazy old Cambridge Soundworks 5.1

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Surprisingly the 7970's massively over sized box fit in my backpack.

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...The K90 wasn't so lucky.

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Getting ready to make the move
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Nice and tidy Rob
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Can't believe you got all those fans set to full blast though, your rig must be deafening
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I have mine turned all the way down at 40% speed using the Sentry Mix and I can barely hear the case fans over my GPU, they are loud on full though.

I'm a silence freak though so whats loud to me probably isn't loud to others
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Thanks everyone!

SieB said:
Nice and tidy Rob
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Can't believe you got all those fans set to full blast though, your rig must be deafening
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I have mine turned all the way down at 40% speed using the Sentry Mix and I can barely hear the case fans over my GPU, they are loud on full though.

I'm a silence freak though so whats loud to me probably isn't loud to others
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I managed to wire my fan hub into my Sentry Mix, so the controller controls the hub too
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For general use I have all but the Noctua exhaust fan, even the Havik fans, on the lowest setting. This keeps the system near silent. I run at full speed when playing a game.
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Retell said:
Thanks everyone!

I managed to wire my fan hub into my Sentry Mix, so the controller controls the hub too
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For general use I have all but the Noctua exhaust fan, even the Havik fans, on the lowest setting. This keeps the system near silent. I run at full speed when playing a game.
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Lol, I thought you had them all turned up for 24/7 use.

I'm going to run my case fans off the fan hub connected to the Mix as well, i'm no good with wires though so instead of doing a bodge job on some molex to 3pin cables I have lying around I have ordered one off Ebay that will do the job.
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looks Great Rob think urs is the first one I've seen thats air cooled helps show the versatility of this Epic case
 
SPS said:
Nice rig. How much memory is that?!
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24Gb, it was like $85 after MIR at Frys, I was in the market for another 6GB, but it made more sense to get matching sticks and options for triple channel on sale were a bit slim. I can't really ever justify 24gb, but now it gives me a good excuse for a RAMDisk
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SieB said:
Lol, I thought you had them all turned up for 24/7 use.

I did before I got the controller, it wasn't terrible and I did sleep through it.
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But, the noise level of the fans on low is near silent which is much nicer at night.
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I'm going to run my case fans off the fan hub connected to the Mix as well, i'm no good with wires though so instead of doing a bodge job on some molex to 3pin cables I have lying around I have ordered one off Ebay that will do the job.
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That's actually how I did it! One of my fans had the 3pin + male/female molex. I connected the 3pin to the fan controller and the molex into the fan hub, which then allows for 8 fans to be controlled on the channel which the 50w per channel handles easily.
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XnaX said:
Would've loved to see some BitFenix Alchemys in there, otherwise it's looking pretty damned awesome
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Hello, I am Rob Teller
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NZXT Product Development.

I've thought about getting cable extensions, but it was sort of on the bottom of my list for upgrades. About a month ago I had no SSD, a GTX260, and had the H2 without a window.
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sheroo said:
H Hmmm don't you mean NZXT extension cables. (the guy does work for NZXT)
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To be fair, I really only made that clear in the Switch posts, but I had a similar thought.
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S_I_N said:
looks Great Rob think urs is the first one I've seen thats air cooled helps show the versatility of this Epic case
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Thanks
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I don't think I have seen an air cooled Switch... Other than SieB's incredible MATX build
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lol I dont think BieB was running that just put in to show it off (the case that is) and OMFG!!! you admit to using the H2
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lol I dont think BieB was running that just put in to show it off (the case that is) and OMFG!!! you admit to using the H2
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Haha might as well settle this now, the less said about the H2 on OC3D the better, I am sure. Yes I had an H2, it was a good case and it fit my needs at the time. I'm not getting ready to jump into watercooling, so it is the Switch for me
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oops was just poking fun at ya no offense intended IMHO all cases have there strong weak points and not all cases please everyone. As a computer builder for well over a decade I've seen my share of what some call bad cases and imho were pretty decent ones. I've never laid hands on an H2 so i cant comment completely on it nor should I of made that joke. Please accept my apologies
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