The Cosmos SR-X- Factor

[coolmiester]

I've got to totally strip the case and get it ready for the painter on Monday but couldn't resist seeing what the bezel and res looked like in place.

I've also made some Aurora Red dye to match the logo which looks pretty cool and can be seen better in the Youtube video at the bottom.

Intel Xeon E5-2687W s2011 CPU's should be here Monday and hoping to go quad Sli on the Hydro Copper 680's but not sure on that just yet but with a bit of luck i might be able to get it fired up on the bench at some point next week but at least i'm well happy with the way the front end is looking.

 

[dipzy]

looks fantastic

 

[The Orange One]

Amazing

 

[yassarikhan786]

Simply stunning.

 

[Solidarity]

It looks pretty damn awesome.

 

[The Orange One]

It looks pretty damn awesome.

Agree

 

[coolmiester]

Cheers guys, sorry i haven't got anything better to offer you

My apologies to all hoping to see a bit of a mod update but i’ve had a few teething problems with the SR-X board – nothing major but as there is very little info out there at this point it was a little trial and error which is very quite time consuming but got their in the end and just want to update the thread as it may help others in the future.

Here’s the shortened version - the week started off great with a nice package from Intel landing early Monday in the shape of a couple of retail Xeon E5 2687W CPU’s so i set about getting the system up and running on the bench, air cooled so installed a GTX295 dual PCB graphics card and managed to get a fresh install of W7 but immediately ran into problems with BSOD.

Tried as i might to get it to run stable that night, it wasn’t to be so was well happy when i woke the next morning to find a new BIOS had been released for the board but the happiness didn’t last long as once the new BIOS was flashed i wasn’t able to get a signal to the monitor.

The SR-X comes with a three way switch to load separate BIOS’s so decided to risk another and flashed the second with the new BIOS which led to the same problem.

Looking back now I’m wondering to myself why i didn’t swap the graphics card out but it really didn’t cross my mind at the time and it was only when another guy posted similar problems with a GTX690 on the EVGA forum that the penny sort of dropped.

Both of us were using dual CPU graphics cards so swapped my 295 out and replaced it with a GTX7800 (stop laughing) and BINGO, working fine and BSOD had been fixed with the new BIOS so all working champion and i can now get on to running a few benchmarks but more to the point, get on with making the case look pretty.

Sorry for the long winded post which probably doesn’t mean a lot to most but you never know who’s searching Google – full original thread here - EVGA SR-X - BIOS 013 Released

Oh the other good news was that a second EVGA GTX680 Hydro Copper arrived so couldn’t resist getting a few photo’s of that fitted to the board

Anyway, a few pictures.....

stop laughing at my GTX7800 hehehehehehe

 

[SieB]

One word... "want"

 

[The Orange One]

However, the other two words that you need to remind yourself are "don't need." Unless you wanna end up homeless

OR For a very Lucky Few, 'Need' or 'Already Have'

 

[The Scientific Moustache]

25.44 is massive..... and that is at stock...

 

[Solidarity]

Hydro coppers look better than I was expecting.

 

[coolmiester]

Started to hose route the build last night but had a change of heart on the way to route the Hydro Copper blocks - i went for the curved look at first but decided swapping overnight and going for the straighter route which left a shorter run back to the bay-res which looks better IMO and keeps things even more minimal which is definitely the look i was after though pretty tricky considering the size of the motherboard i had to squeeze in but at least it fills the Cosmos II up.

Just need to add some fluids and do a bit of cable management and i can get this beast fired up

 

[wassupdoc]

I thought you were having the case painted, looks amazing by the way

 

[coolmiester]

I thought you were having the case painted, looks amazing by the way

Forgot to mention that......i couldn't get it done in time for the bank holiday so decided to wait until after and there is no way i could wait that long to get it up and running

 

[yassarikhan786]

Absolutely love the loop layout

 

[PEXON]

I never normally like drive bay res's, I think they cause too much un-needed, un-sightly tubing, but you've done it nicely. Can't wait to see it filled.

 

[SieB]

Good work CM, those Hydro Coppers really do look the dogs.

 

[The Orange One]

I Love Hydro Coppers - the only thing is it would work out cheaper to buy a standard 680 and add your own waterblock on.

 

[Bullmecha]

That is flippin awesome!!!

 

[AverageNinja]

Gotta love it! What a beast!