-Firestorm- My new air cooled rig

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Firelord

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My Mach II GT and watercooling had to go for financial reasons (I have to use the profits to put down deposit on a new car) so I have gone back to a standard air cooled box.

Specs are as follows: -

  • AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester
  • DFI NF4 Ultra-D
  • OCZ Modstream 520w PSU
  • Thermalright XP120
  • Akasa Eclipse 62
  • Connect3D Radeon X850XT PCI-e
  • PQI Ultra Memory 1GB (had it up to 325MHz in my LanParty UT)
  • NEC 3520 DVDRW
  • Asus 16x DVDROM
  • 2 * 36GB Raptors in RAID0
  • Maxtor Maxline 10 250GB HDD 16MB Cache
Think thats everything :)

I am in the process of building it and will get pics asap :)
 
Akasa Eclipse 62 - 120mm fans and lots of space :)

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Pics from xtremecomputing.co.uk

Lovely case to work on :)
 
CustomPC just did a round up of coolers and the AKASA cooler came up trumps for the A64, although the artic freezer and vapochill mini were not included in the test.

Look forward to seeing the finished product.

Mav
 
as firelord knows ive got myself one of these cases and they are HUGE and i mean HUGE but they dont look it from the outside :confused: ide consider getting them in phil
 
Its prob 1 and half the width of a lian li and has lots of space in the top panel :) you wouldn't have a problem with a 120.2 rad, 1250 pump, res and CPU and GPU blocks
 
Right construction is: -

  • Outer panels - alu
  • frame - alu
  • front panel - plastic
  • Mobo tray - shiney shiney alu :D
Will get some piccies up once new mobo etc arrives

Have got in there at the mo: -

  • LanParty UT 250GB
  • 3400+ CG Clawhammer
  • PQI 1GB Ultra memory
  • X800 Pro
  • 2 * Raptors
  • 1 * 250GB SATA
  • 2 opticals
  • 4 cathodes
  • PCP+C PSU
  • Thermalright XP120
  • 3 * Antec 120mm bl00 LED fans
Running 240*10 stock volts 40c under load :D, Sys is 46c, HDDs are 29-32c :)

Love this case :)
 
I'm not missing it as much as I thought I would. I mean the new rig is far far quieter and more practical.

I really need a 24/7 machine thats reliable and can be got working in seconds because I run my own desktop support company and use remote admin so I need quick and easy system. The mach was fun but not practical enough becuase I had to wait for it drop down to temp etc etc and if it was in bits then well it would take to long to reassemble.

I don't have the funds for a second rig just for that purpose so I decided to reduce the cooling.

The thing I miss is the 1MB cache but that will be sorted when the 3700+ S'Diegos come out :)

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