Zombie mods - X8 (times eight) Feat White Lightning

[AlienALX]

X8 (times eight) Featuring White Lightning

Rig – X8 (times eight) featuring White Lightning
Built by – Zombie Mods (aka me)

Specs.

CPU – Intel Xeon, Ivybridge. 8 core 16 thread @ 2.1ghz on all 8 cores.
Motherboard – Gigabyte X79 UD3 rev 1.0
Memory – Team Group Vulcan orange. 8gb @ 2133mhz
Graphics card – MSI GTX 480 Lightning
Cooling – 2 x 180mm Air Penetrators in bottom.
Corsair H55 on CPU and GPU, Noiseblocker Bionic 120mm fans @ 600 RPM.
Storage – 64gb SSD primary. 1tb WD storage. 160gb storage. 16gb cache SSD.
PSU – XFX pro series 750w non modular.
Case – Silverstone Raven RV05 (the new small one)
OS – OSX Yosemite. Booted from Unibeast hacked into place by Rampage Dev. Partial Multibeast as it hates my CPU.

Keyboard – Razer Blackwidow BF4
Mouse – Apple Magic Mouse
Monitor – Hannspree HF237 full HD

Mods. Intake mod, exhaust mod. CPU and GPU both water cooled by H55 using a heavily modded Kraken G10. PSU full braid black and white. Firewire 400 4 port card. Pumps moddded custom skulls and brackets. White LED mod.

Photos.

 

[Pogal_31]

Nice rig, love the Raven case and all the touches you added, great job and welcome back to the forums

 

[AlienALX]

Thanks.

Just a warning, if you value your sanity avoid this case. There is literally not a mm to spare anywhere and cable management is a nightmare. They're OK once built but a nightmare to get them there.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Nice rig dude - is that really an MSI Lightning under the Corsair AIO bracket?

 

[Wraith]

Excellent job there fella, don't see many after market AIO cooled GPUs on here, I simply can't quite get my head around how you managed to shoehorn all that hardware into the RV05, but kudos for pulling it off and sharing with us.

 

[AlienALX]

Nice rig dude - is that really an MSI Lightning under the Corsair AIO bracket?

Yeah man. Bindi gave it to me (the dude in Taiwan who works for Asus).

Honestly? the day I got it I blew my load. Always wanted one from day one was one of the last true Lightnings IMO. The rest are all mass produced and the cherry picking went out the window.

Shame

I ran Valley and a mix of Heaven for over an hour earlier on repeat and the GPU topped out at 48c. Thankfully they have benchmarks for MACs, sadly no overclocking tools

BOOO !!

Last time I slapped a boggy standard 480 under an AIO I got 960mhz. I did try installing Windows yesterday but Clover has modified the motherboard's bios and for some reason I can not create an active install partition even using DOS.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Does the corsair standard bracket fit it?

 

[AlienALX]

Excellent job there fella, don't see many after market AIO cooled GPUs on here, I simply can't quite get my head around how you managed to shoehorn all that hardware into the RV05, but kudos for pulling it off and sharing with us.

Trust me when I say it wasn't easy. This is a non modular fully fledged PSU too, so it took me over two days and more than 16 man hours to get it all in and the sides back on

Something got lost in transition when they designed it. I think some dude at SS said make it small and they did, without thinking about what it would do to the rest.

Nightmare. Pig, never again. But hey, it is compact and it's literally silent. I have the 180s on low and the Bionics at 600 RPM. You can actually hear the laptop hard drive in there chugging away lmao, that's how quiet it is. Almost weird when I fire up the orange rig and the skin on my face starts gravitating toward its suction

 

[Feronix]

Does the corsair standard bracket fit it?

Pretty sure that's a Kraken G10 though?

 

[AlienALX]

Does the corsair standard bracket fit it?

I used a Kraken G10. I originally bought two for my Titans then found out the hoses on the H55 were woefully short so I still have another if you fancy a play.

You can have it for postage, that's my gesture. I've also got a Siouette plotter if you want it custom

 

[tinytomlogan]

I used a Kraken G10. I originally bought two for my Titans then found out the hoses on the H55 were woefully short so I still have another if you fancy a play.

You can have it for postage, that's my gesture. I've also got a Siouette plotter if you want it custom

Ohhhhhhh I thought it was the corsair one! I get it now my bad. I did think there was only a ref one available (no need for the fan either)

 

[AlienALX]

Ohhhhhhh I thought it was the corsair one! I get it now my bad. I did think there was only a ref one available (no need for the fan either)

Corsair is only AMD atm dude. I waited and waited for the N780 version for my Titans but when the end of last month came and went I kinda thought it wasn't gonna happen.

I was uber cautious about slapping them on my Titans 'cause no VRM cooling but as you know the Lightning has an enormous mid plate that takes care of all of that.

As for the Titans? they're getting full water. My third arrives next week sometime so then I can start planning. I have a few bits some one sent to me and have posted in the LC area.

Tell you what, next time you step on mainland you may actually be able to help me fit it. I'm so paranoid about real water cooling and because of that I've never bothered. Must get over the phobia, it really isn't good.

 

[tinytomlogan]

780's are weeks away iirc

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah end of March now. Bit late for a card made almost two years ago but ho hum. I'm going full water on the Titans. AIOs would just make a right mess given I would need three lol.