CTZ's Zombie Pwnage rig

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

A bit adventurous with the title

Case: NZXT Lexa (Aluminium)

Case cooling: 2x 120mm in & 1x 120mm + 80mm out

PSU: Hiper Type-r 580w

Motherboard: ABIT AV8-3rd Eye

CPU: AMD 3700+ San Diego @ stock speed

Heatsink compound: OCZ Ultra5+

Heatsink & Fan: Thermaltake Big Typhoon -Air (bolted on!)

Memory: 2GB Corsair XMS Pro 3200 @ 3500 (4x 512) 2-3-3-8

Graphics: MSI FX5900Ultra 256MB AGP @ stock speed

Hard Drives: Basic Maxtor/WD 7200rpm IDE drives

Sound: Creative Audigy



CPU Idle temp: 38c (room temp 28c)

CPU load temp: 45-47 (room temp 28c)

Future upgrades - Just so I can enjoy CSS at it's best:worship:

New motherboard (939 Asus/Abit?)

1900XTX or 7900GTX

Front Shot

Side shot

With cover

 

[Ham]

Nice! Hiper ftw

 

[glocktodahead]

Thats a slick case, I see it all the time advertised in my computer magazine!

 

[ßūŁŁēŦĐōĜ]

Custom Pc?

lol you must read custom pc if you see it all the time that mag is a gd read always great for a train jorney just wish it was weekly

ALl hail custom pc mag :worship: OC3D should bring out a mag then that woud be the ownage.....

 

[glocktodahead]

Well I don't think i've even seen custom PC mag being sold here but I do read CPU (computer power user), maximum PC, and pc gamer

I'll hafta look around to see if I can find the one you're talking about.

 

[WC Annihilus]

Stock speed? What a waste of a perfectly good BT... haha jk man Nice looking rig

 

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

Just a quick update guys! (few pics below too)

Key:

Black = Spec since first post

Green = recently upgraded

Orange = upgraded more than 6 months ago

Case: NZXT Lexa (Aluminium)

Case cooling: 2x 120mm in & 1x 120mm + 80mm out

PSU: Coolermaster iGreen 600w

Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E WiFi

CPU: Intel QX6850 Quad @ stock

Heatsink compound: OCZ Ultra5+

Heatsink & Fan (CPU): Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme + 120mm fan

Memory: GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Low Latency DDR2

Graphics: Sapphire 2900XT 512MB @ stock

Heatsink & Fan (GPU): Thermalright HR-03/R600 + 120mm fan (Idles at 44c, compared to 63c stock!!)

Hard Drives: WD Raptor 150











Unfortunately I have to put up with Onboard audio as theres no space for additional cards . Is the new heatsink on the ATI worth the sacrifice? Hell yes! It's far more cooler and quitier(sp?) too

Oh I never took a pic of the cpu heatsink with a fan, It basically has the 120mm fan from my Big-Typhoon

 

[Pat123]

lol.. looks really slick dude..

Poor mobo carrying all that weight

 

[xJonny]

Wow, very nice!

 

[Hatman]

You could always mount the cooler the other way around?? Around the card no?

Still looks sweet though

 

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

thanks for your comments guys! I'm really happy with my system, i mainly upgraded to decrease my 3d render times and it has! sweet

You could always mount the cooler the other way around?? Around the card no?

Still looks sweet though

I tried it but the fan hits the mobo north-bridge but also there would be two 120mm fans opposite each other (1cm ish gap) fighting for the same air not sure if that'll be the case in a real world example...

also i thought of leaving the fan off the cpu cooler, flipping the ati cooler as you said and have it draw air fro the heat-sink pushing air towards the cpu heat-sink... it would be hot air though, not completely sure how that would impact the cpus cooling.

PSU with extractor <--cpu heat-sink <---Fan<--gpu heat-sink

or maybe

PSU with extractor <--cpu heat-sink<--Fan <---Fan<--gpu heat-sink

 

[ali_james]

Looks very nice

What kind of temps you get on the cpu with that bad boy of a cooler ?

 

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

It seems to be running a bit hot, I think?? well compared to my amd!

This is full load, Rendering an intense 3d scene + Winamp + superpi 32mb for 10mins:

 

[ali_james]

Yeah those temps looks fine and I'm guessing thats quite an improvement on the graphics cards old temps. Just googled that hardware monitor in your screeny, never seen it before, will credit it as your find

 

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

Updated 10 April 2008

PREVIOUSLY

Memory: GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz 4-4-4-12 | 1T DDR2

NOW

Memory: GeIL 8GB (4x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz 5-5-5-12 | 2T DDR2

 

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

A sad day System downgraded to an E8400 :eyes:

Updated 02 Mayl 2008

PREVIOUSLY

CPU: Intel QX6850 3.0GHz

NOW

CPU: Intel E8400 3.0GHz

 

[rick_man_allen]

how much cooler is your gfx card with that cooler on i was thinking of useing a custom cooler any one got any ideas for a 8800gtx thanks

 

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

how much cooler is your gfx card with that cooler on i was thinking of useing a custom cooler any one got any ideas for a 8800gtx thanks

-10c from that thermalright heatsink which is astounding, ask anyone

 

[rrjwilson]

Whoa?! WTF?! You went back in CPU power?! Why? Temperature worries?

That Thermalright 120 NEEDS a fan to be effective otherwise its just pants and even when a fan is attached it needs the right fan. In a review of over 40 different coolers it won by 1C over the AC Freezer Pro but only because they had matched the fan for maximum benefit (fast enough to be good but not loud and provide best temperature - it was a Zalman something). The HSF also needs to face the back of the case (and the rear extraction fan) otherwise the heat from it just fills the case.

Please tell me you just put it to one side until you can sort it

 

[Orion]

about his step down in processing power...

now, i approach these things from mostly a gamers point of view, so the other things that it effects are lesser concerns for me. i just recently read an interesting article. let me know what you guys think.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/cpu-scaling-in-games-with-quad-core-processors/