The1stCAVVET
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Meet Frank - one beast of a PC. This is a personal build of mine that I have done over the last 9+ months through multiple iterations and hardware change outs, custom cabling, and other mods, Frank finally came down to this final configuration and look. I then took up photography as well during this process and its quite an eye opener when you start getting addicted to two very expensive hobbies - lol. Lens or GPU - dang, decisions, decisions, decisions...........
Frank not only looks "cool" but he can back it up. The water cooling system keep Frank chilling while the beefy hardware lets Frank tear up BF3 @ 1920x1080 with everything as maxed as possible over 200FPS, but in 5980x1080 resolution he is somewhat humbled with everything maxed he runs around 45-50FPS, but so nicely I must say. Crysis 2 we get 78FPS+ at 5980x1080 with everything maxed out, but at 1920x1080, Frank rips it apart over 200FPS.
The Core i7 990X @ 4.6Ghz certainly helps feed the THREE EVGA GTX 580 3072MB GPU's in 3-WAY SLI while using 12GB of Corsair Dominator GT DDR 3 at 2006MHz and 9-10-10-27 timings. With this much power and speed - the last thing I wanted to do was have them held up waiting on the hard drives - so Frank was built with dual RAID 0 configurations. The first is a set of 60GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD's that are for the OS/BOOT. The second RAID 0 set is another set of OCZ Vertex 2 SSD's that perform Programs duty - all programs and games are loaded on these dual 60GB SSD's. For data storage I also dropped in a 2TB and a 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Black set of drives.
For the cooling, Frank uses two solutions. First the Koolance ERM-2K3uCU external system in the rack does the heavy lifting by cooling down the liquid after going through three GTX 580 3072MB cards overclocked to 877MHz as well as the motherboard. Once it is done bringing the water back to ambient, it feeds the GPU directly, which then pushes the water into the top internal BlackIce Xtreme Performance 360 Radiator that is sandwiched between 2 rows of 120mm fans in a push/pull config. The water is then pulled through with the MCP 655 pump inside Frank which acts as the primary pump (the ERM just works as a backup and to keep the flow consistent). The MCP 655 inside then pushes the cooled water through the GPU's, the motherboard and then back to the ERM unit. This enables Frank to stay cool under all conditions from benchmarking, working, and gaming.
Frank's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/FrankNSteinPC?feature=mhee
Frank not only looks "cool" but he can back it up. The water cooling system keep Frank chilling while the beefy hardware lets Frank tear up BF3 @ 1920x1080 with everything as maxed as possible over 200FPS, but in 5980x1080 resolution he is somewhat humbled with everything maxed he runs around 45-50FPS, but so nicely I must say. Crysis 2 we get 78FPS+ at 5980x1080 with everything maxed out, but at 1920x1080, Frank rips it apart over 200FPS.
The Core i7 990X @ 4.6Ghz certainly helps feed the THREE EVGA GTX 580 3072MB GPU's in 3-WAY SLI while using 12GB of Corsair Dominator GT DDR 3 at 2006MHz and 9-10-10-27 timings. With this much power and speed - the last thing I wanted to do was have them held up waiting on the hard drives - so Frank was built with dual RAID 0 configurations. The first is a set of 60GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD's that are for the OS/BOOT. The second RAID 0 set is another set of OCZ Vertex 2 SSD's that perform Programs duty - all programs and games are loaded on these dual 60GB SSD's. For data storage I also dropped in a 2TB and a 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Black set of drives.
For the cooling, Frank uses two solutions. First the Koolance ERM-2K3uCU external system in the rack does the heavy lifting by cooling down the liquid after going through three GTX 580 3072MB cards overclocked to 877MHz as well as the motherboard. Once it is done bringing the water back to ambient, it feeds the GPU directly, which then pushes the water into the top internal BlackIce Xtreme Performance 360 Radiator that is sandwiched between 2 rows of 120mm fans in a push/pull config. The water is then pulled through with the MCP 655 pump inside Frank which acts as the primary pump (the ERM just works as a backup and to keep the flow consistent). The MCP 655 inside then pushes the cooled water through the GPU's, the motherboard and then back to the ERM unit. This enables Frank to stay cool under all conditions from benchmarking, working, and gaming.
Frank's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/FrankNSteinPC?feature=mhee
