JackyBoy's 1xCr Build

Personally I hate the new EK blocks style but love the short PCB haha.

Yeah I'm hoping once everything is in there that the CF doesn't just smack you I. The face as there will be tubing and wires in there to distract you, but we shall see!

Thanks for the comments :D

I'm starting to think i am the only one who likes the circle design!
 
I'm starting to think i am the only one who likes the circle design!

your not the only one, I'm just so happy that EK makes WB's for the chipset on my sabertooth x79, cause that would make it RELLY hard to deside to go with the EK blooks or the koolance bloks.

but those EK bloks looks just awsome :P
 
Mmmmm those water blocks. Can't decide if I like them or not. Definately diferent though.

Love the carbon wrapped mobo sheild. Although I think maybe the clear water blocks stick out a bit as they don't match the other gear.

Cheers for the comments guys.

Yeah not a fan of the new EK design, but I am glad they are the only ones that point down! :p I did plan to get acrylic topped ones too, but scan were taking so bloody long with them I was fed up waiting.

Can't wait to finally get this built!

Plus the Steam Sale wasn't too kind to me :p have a few games to play! mmm 5760x1200 :D
 
Cheers for the comments guys.

Yeah not a fan of the new EK design, but I am glad they are the only ones that point down! :p I did plan to get acrylic topped ones too, but scan were taking so bloody long with them I was fed up waiting.

Can't wait to finally get this built!

Plus the Steam Sale wasn't too kind to me :p have a few games to play! mmm 5760x1200 :D

Why did you buy them if you don't like them?
 
I wanted all EK blocks (plus they have the nice link on the gfx cards). Wanted the acrylic ones too but like I said, I was fed up waiting. 3 months without a PC is too long!

That's like going to McD just because you want to, knowing you'll throw up afterwards... :mellow:
 
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I like what you've done with the Motherboard cover :). Do not like those blocks at all, but it's good that the design is not in direct view.
 
Hey guys

Will update with pics soon! I was too excited to get it up and running than to stop and take pics!

But it hasn't been easy, I have had some problems with my graphics cards. When I used all 3 in surround mode in games the mouse lagged a lot and it was like it was disconnecting and reconnecting, the sound was also really bad. Updated drivers, updated bioses, updated drivers, downgraded drivers, updated drivers. Still happening.
So I remembered my RIVE has switches to turn off individual pci lanes and it turned out with the top card off everything ran fine, even in surround mode. During my adventures though I saw one of my graphics cards was running at 967mhz while the others at 915. After a little googling it looks as though one of my cards is a Super Clocked card! Bought it as a normal 670, serial number says it should be a 670, but I even needed to download the Super Clocked bios updated to update it! Very strange!

So today I had to drain part of my system, and swap the 2 vanilla cards to make sure it was a card messing up and not a pci lane. Very scary, part plumbed in, liquid still in tubes and removing waterblocks from the bridge! Not fun. But got it swapped over, filled again and it is definitely the card messing up and not the pci lane which I was very happy about. Will update you with EVGA's response when they get back to me!
 
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