angliaboy's Rig

[angliaboy]

Here is my Rig

i7 980x

Asus Rampage 3 Extreme

Kingston 128GB SSD

WD 1TB HDD

Dual SLI GTX 480

Coolit Eco ALC c240 with 4 fans in push/pull

12GB Corsair 2000mhz Dominator RAM

Sentry Fan Controller

Blu Ray RW

Sony DVD RW

Coolermaster HAF-x case

more pics here (cannot upload anymore on my quota)









Thanks

 

[killablade]

Nice system! Amazing specs, but the wire management could be a bit cleaner me thinks

 

[angliaboy]

I was thinking the same, Arbico made it for me and if I take the side of then it voids the warranty! so bummer, but its on my to do list when it gets past 1 yr old

 

[alienware]

Not exactly great advertising to do a bad job of wiring on a PC with a side window.

Worsened by the fact that if you remove the side it voids your warranty.

Hint - it doesn't. All of those parts by law are covered by warranty. Companies can not just go around making up laws and rules unto themselves.

If any company told me that I could not maintain my PC (how the hell are you supposed to clean the components? or do they want fans to jam under a blanket of dust causing component failure) can take a hike. I mean gawd, even Alienware give you full instructions on taking your PC apart. Dell also offer the same full tutorials in their manuals on stripping a laptop down to the shell. Which makes sense. Why would you deliberately stop some one from cleaning out their fans to stop overheating and inevitable failure?

Just begs belief really.

 

[lasher]

Said it all there alien.

Surely they can enforce this under any court of law!

Cant upgrade or clean your PC for a year unless they do it?? Nah not buying into that dude.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Said it all there alien.

Surely they can enforce this under any court of law!

Cant upgrade or clean your PC for a year unless they do it?? Nah not buying into that dude.

Naaa a lot of places do that now tbh, because of people opening up PC's breaking it (n00bs) and then trying to claim it wasnt them.

Its just them covering their arse. Tbh fella if I was you crack it open anyways, and next time you know to come to OC3D and we will help you spec and build it yourself.

 

[yggdrasil]

Yeah open it up and then use a cleaning product to remove the sticker completly with no trace, so if worse comes to worse you can just say it has never had one

And thats one kick ass computer.

 

[angliaboy]

Thanks for the replies, I didn't build myself due to the urgency of needing a computer and needing it working straight away, I am a bit of a stickler for tidy wires but I wouldn't know where to start when i open the case, I mean there are so many cable ties its unbelievable.

Next time I may build myself but knowing me I will probably upgrade a few things down the line anyhow. BTW is there any specific place to post benchmarks here?

 

[alienware]

Naaa a lot of places do that now tbh, because of people opening up PC's breaking it (n00bs) and then trying to claim it wasnt them.

Its just them covering their arse. Tbh fella if I was you crack it open anyways, and next time you know to come to OC3D and we will help you spec and build it yourself.

Doesn't stop you overclocking it though does it? which would be the biggest cause of death I reakon.

I do agree with your philosophy on noobs.. Totally.. But what noob built a PC like that? fan wires right accross the middle of the window !

Disgraceful. Arbico never fare too well in reviews (CPC and TotalPCgaming) and now I know why. Shoddy.

 

[angliaboy]

Hi guys, emailed Arbico because the wiring was a joke, one of the wires was touching the heat pipes round the side of the nvidia card. In concern that it may melt I emailed them and they said its fine to take the side off and move that wire, can't believe they even let it go out the doors like this.

So I opened the case up spent a couple of hours and did the best I could with only 4 cable ties, its not perfect, but better than it was.

Ive put a before pic in as well

Before:



After:











I still have to do something with the wires at the very bottom of the case but I have had enough for tonight, plus they're the lesser seen ones anyhow, will leave them for another night

 

[stevej696]

First of all nice rig

Second what sort of scores u geeting with 3d mark? Any good?

Been tempted to get a 480 for the last couple of weeks but waiting for them to drop a bit lower in price.

Should be good with cable managment when u can

 

[SnW]

O my, why do people keep doing this

here in Holland we have stores that also build pre but then you can add(include) the hardware yourself and you know what you pay for the building,

and its def not as much as those companies ask...

May i ask what you payed for this pre-build rig ?

Its a nice rig and all don't get me wrong ..

 

[AMDFTW]

why that cpu cooler?

your gna struggle fella with that

i would get a refund IMO

 

[angliaboy]

I paid more than over the odds for this I know that, but thats what you get for needing a machine quickly and working isn't it. Its through necessity and not want believe me.

I paid over 3k for this rig, crazy I know, but its sure as anything quick and thats what i need

Why the CPU cooler, well I read several good reveiws, looked at the Noctua NH-D14 but didn't fancy something so flippin large and bulky in my case, the water cooler has a 240mm rad with 4 fans attatched and temps are pretty good, plus its quiet and looks pretty neat IMO, hovers around 25-30 idle and I haven't done a stress test yet to properly measure load temps

 

[angliaboy]

3d vantage wasn't as good as I expected but hey ho everyones is different, it sure plays all my games brilliantly

on performance setting I got:

39,577

on High I got:

29,336

 

[TMaksimov]

Temps after prime/vantage?

 

[AMDFTW]

I paid more than over the odds for this I know that, but thats what you get for needing a machine quickly and working isn't it. Its through necessity and not want believe me.

I paid over 3k for this rig, crazy I know, but its sure as anything quick and thats what i need

Why the CPU cooler, well I read several good reveiws, looked at the Noctua NH-D14 but didn't fancy something so flippin large and bulky in my case, the water cooler has a 240mm rad with 4 fans attatched and temps are pretty good, plus its quiet and looks pretty neat IMO, hovers around 25-30 idle and I haven't done a stress test yet to properly measure load temps

well that eco cooler is crap mate and its not water coolin just fancy air coolin and even then it does not do better that the DH14

even the megahalms would beat it IMO

 

[angliaboy]

well that eco cooler is crap mate and its not water coolin just fancy air coolin and even then it does not do better that the DH14

even the megahalms would beat it IMO

Bit late in replying to this but oh well.

Fancy air cooling? seriously get a grip, it is water cooling but not custom watercooled, its just an all in one kit.

I chose this over the big air coolers because of weight and size issues.

If I change, I will be upgrading to custom watercooling but this will suffice more than enough at the moment as it has already prooved to me, even the most intensive stuff it seems to cope just fine, overcklocking is a no no though thats all. The price difference between this and custom watercooling is quite a bit and is something that I can upgrade later if I need to when I plan to overclock, and lets face it, the 980x isn't a slow chip that needs to be overclocked now is it. Standard clock speeds are just fine at the moment for what I require so enough of the digs at my cooler thank you.

 

[lappy74]

That is a nice rig you have there

Congrats, have fun with that beast!

Also nice scores you got.

But the coolit alc c240 is around the same amount it cost me to do my custom watercooling loop. Well the price on ebuyer was around 120 my custom watercooling kit 140. Not a large price difference

 

[AMDFTW]

Bit late in replying to this but oh well.

Fancy air cooling? seriously get a grip, it is water cooling but not custom watercooled, its just an all in one kit.

I chose this over the big air coolers because of weight and size issues.

If I change, I will be upgrading to custom watercooling but this will suffice more than enough at the moment as it has already prooved to me, even the most intensive stuff it seems to cope just fine, overcklocking is a no no though thats all. The price difference between this and custom watercooling is quite a bit and is something that I can upgrade later if I need to when I plan to overclock, and lets face it, the 980x isn't a slow chip that needs to be overclocked now is it. Standard clock speeds are just fine at the moment for what I require so enough of the digs at my cooler thank you.

ither way its still a fancy air cooler,not even that fancy if you cant OC a 32nm chip