Frank - A Beast of a Water cooled rig
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So, when do you leave this thing unguarded?
The1stCAVVET
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lol, unguarded? NEVER haha (evil laugh) - I work from hom and live here, so really it is rare I leave
thank you all for the feedback - it is much appreciated. "Smell of m,elted credit cards" haha, roflmao - Yeah I feel that one w/Frank..........
Jackyboy - take all the ideas you need. I also did a series of videos on youtube that shows how to sew cables as well if you want to get into that detail.
thank you all for the feedback - it is much appreciated. "Smell of m,elted credit cards" haha, roflmao - Yeah I feel that one w/Frank..........
Jackyboy - take all the ideas you need. I also did a series of videos on youtube that shows how to sew cables as well if you want to get into that detail.
The1stCAVVET
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That's a beautiful rig!!!
Really wish I'd done more research before buying my 2 580s. It sounds stupid now but I thought 1.5GB across 2 cards is 3GB and that 3GB would be more then enough to play any game at 5760x1080.
Nope! most games I have to lower the AA settings because 1.5GB just isn't enough. Thought about selling and getting 2x 3GB cards but with the potential losses involved I might as well wait until the 680 is out.
BF3 though I can play on max setting (so it can't use a massive amount of GPU memory) but only get around 30FPS.
I also recently got into photography and just bought a Canon 550D! I feel your financial pain
BF3 uses 2577MB almost consistently for me. I made the same mistake - then I took that hit, well sort of. I originally purchased 3 GTX 580 1.5GB cards thinking the same. Then I researched and found out that for larger resolution screens (5980x1080) that extra VRAM was critical to better FPS and performance. So I sold one GTX 580, but kept the other two to put into my HTPC build on my old Classified (E760) board with Frank's old 975X chip b4 putting the 990X in him. So it wasn't a total loss, I did take about a $100 hit on that GTX 580 I sold though. I thne purchased the three GTX 580 3072MB cards and found a world of difference in performance.
One thing I found was when the GPU's were not being maxed, using less VRAM, I had to juice the CPU to give the cards more to do. The problem with these GPU's are they can be fed a ton of data, without a CPU to feed them, they are wasted power. I had to find a balance between a stable OC on the CPU and the GPU's. I would OC one then the other until I found max on both that equalled each other. I found at 877Mhz COre Clock speed on the GPU it made no difference if I went to 920Mhz if I could not push the CPU past 4.66GHz without being stable. So I finally settled at a 4.66GHz CPU clock with 877MHz GPU clocks. This seems to net me about 45-60FPS at 5980x1080 with everything maxed out in custom settings in BF3. When I drop to 1920x1080, I get 200+ FPS. Same goes with Crysis 2, actually I fair better from 55-70FPS with everything maxed out totally at 5980x1080.
I think with these three GTX 580's I should be fine until the 700 series comes out - lol. We shall see how it goes.
5980 x 1080? What res are those monitors then dude?
SparkleDJackson
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LOL i didnt catch that
yassarikhan786
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WizrdSleevz
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Awesome build
GhostDog99
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great rig mate looks really nice and clean love it
love the black and red theme good job
love the black and red theme good job
yassarikhan786
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great rig mate looks really nice and clean love it
love the black and red theme good job
Your rig and this are probably the best looking one's I've seen on OC3D (excluding TTL's work which is awesome)
The1stCAVVET
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I use three Asus 24" 1920x1080 monitors, with Nvidia Surround this comes out to 5760x1080, then add in bezel management of 110 pixels between each and this comes out to 5960x1080 - so yeah Frank is pushing a 5960x1080 resolution.
Thanks all for the view and comments - I also posted a new video on YouTube last weekend if interested.
http://www.youtube.com/user/FrankNSteinPC?feature=mhee
The1stCAVVET
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External Cooling = Koolance ERM-2K3UCU cooling system, internal is a BlackIce Xtreme Performance 360 Rad w/6-120mm Push/pull set up.
The external cooling is better seen here in this series of photos I just took.
The external cooling is better seen here in this series of photos I just took.
