Ricky's Rig's

[rickyjb]

My Rigs

As promised in my introduction thread here are Ricky's Rigs.

So i finally got round to taking some pics of my setup , i recently moved my old gtx 680's to my folding rig and added the gtx 780's to my main rig.


my main rig
THE 900D
Case: corsair 900D
Power supply: corsair AX1200w
Motherboard: asus rampage III black edition (long live X58)
Processor: intel core i7 980 @ 3.92ghz
Ram: Corsair dominator 24GB
Ssd's : 2x 240gb ocz agility III
Gpu's : 2x palit gtx 780 super jetstream boost clock 1188mhz
Cpu cooling: corsair h110 push/pull exhaust
Gpu cooling : coming soon artic accelero hybrid

Pictures
with the watercooled gtx 680's

That's how it will look again when i water cool the 780's (waiting on new coolers to arrive).

with new new gtx 780's

the full gallery of my old 800d with h110 mod and the 900d can be found here


THE FOLDER

My folding@home rig

Case: DimasTech Bench Table V2.5
Power supply: corsair hx1000w
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X PRO R2.0 AMD 990X
Processor: AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4100 Black Edition @ 4.12ghz
Ram: Corsair XMS3 4GB
Ssd : corsair F40 40gb
Gpu's : 2x palit gtx 680 jetstream boost clock 1146 mhz
Cpu cooling: corsair h100
Gpu cooling : artic accelero hybrid

Pictures

and my folding rig album can be found here

thanks for looking

 

[iiBetrayforAR]

What is your reasoning behind not just going custom loop? I'm curious.

 

[rickyjb]

main reason is upgrades i change components frequently and closed loops are cheap compared to a full water cooling setup.
closed loops are just simple and gets good results, the gtx 680's fully loaded are hitting 43 degrees.

 

[jamesriley94]

main reason is upgrades i change components frequently and closed loops are cheap compared to a full water cooling setup.
closed loops are just simple and gets good results, the gtx 680's fully loaded are hitting 43 degrees.

Fancy coming and folding for us instead?

The rigs look...interesting - they're a lot tidier than I'd imagine if someone told me you were running 3 AIOs in the same case...

The RAM cooler needs to go though.

 

[AverageNinja]

Quick! Ditch the RAM cooler before TTL sees!!
Looks nice though! Agree with James, looks neat for having 3 AIOs in one case.

 

[WYP]

Very nice

What kind of temps did you get with your AIO collers on you 680s?

 

[rickyjb]

What kind of temps did you get with your AIO callers on you 680s?

With room temps of around 20-23 degrees, load 40-43 idle 29-33
That was inside the 900D.
now there on the folding rig it's a couple of degrees cooler.

I'm sure I could spare a day or two folding for oc3d, what's the team number?

Seriously what's wrong with the ram cooler, i like the look of it and it was free with the ram.

 

[jamesriley94]

98860! Cheers

They just create unnecessary noise, and RAM doesn't need a cooler on it - it never gets hot enough to justify a dedicated fan anyway.

 

[WYP]

Those are some nice temps.

There is nothing wrong with the ram cooler its just they serve no real purpose.
ram just doesn't get that hot anymore.

 

[rickyjb]

Honestly I can't hear it that much... , and there's me thinking it was actually making a difference.

I'll put the 900D to work later today on team 98860
(doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well as team 10 though)

 

[Mgutierrez33]

I have to agree on losing the RAM cooler, but more from an aesthetics perspective than anything else. It makes the entire rig look busier than it needs to with little practical difference being made.

Otherwise I guess I would have to ask why you would go with a 900D for hardware like that. You could probably have gotten all of that into a more sensible case OR gone with a custom loop that would have looked WAY better. I get the whole changing hardware a lot thing (sort of... X58 doesn't seem like EVERYTHING gets changed out frequently x-p), but there is almost none of the potential of this case being used. Just seems like excess purely for the sake of excess. Don't get me wrong though, apart from the RAM cooler it LOOKS pretty good actually, and those temps are lovely on your hardware as well.

 

[rickyjb]

I have to agree on losing the RAM cooler, but more from an aesthetics perspective than anything else. It makes the entire rig look busier than it needs to with little practical difference being made.

Otherwise I guess I would have to ask why you would go with a 900D for hardware like that. You could probably have gotten all of that into a more sensible case OR gone with a custom loop that would have looked WAY better. I get the whole changing hardware a lot thing (sort of... X58 doesn't seem like EVERYTHING gets changed out frequently x-p), but there is almost none of the potential of this case being used. Just seems like excess purely for the sake of excess. Don't get me wrong though, apart from the RAM cooler it LOOKS pretty good actually, and those temps are lovely on your hardware as well.

the ram cooler is no more , all though i do like the blue accent on top of the ram.

i use to have the 800d and things got a little cramped plus my brother wanted a new case so i gave him that.

so i thought id upgrade the case and then do my own water cooling loop , that didn't pan out but the case did get a upgrade.

as for the x58 its still my favourite board, iv had 2 or 3 other systems in this case since i got it and a few different graphics cards (gtx465's, 5870's 680's 780's) . so for me the full loop just didn't make sense

folding is live for team 98860 hitting around 220k-330k ppd

 

[iiBetrayforAR]

main reason is upgrades i change components frequently and closed loops are cheap compared to a full water cooling setup.
closed loops are just simple and gets good results, the gtx 680's fully loaded are hitting 43 degrees.

Understandable, but if you like liquid cooling I personally would think it would be easier to have a nice loop and just get different water blocks when you change parts.