[Case Gallery] 680i Quad Gaming Rig **1st Build** v2.0

[Ravenas]

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Specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 @ 2.86 GHz
Gigabyte LGA 775 nvidia nforce 680i SLI ATX Intel
Gigabyte 3d Galaxy Water Cooling 2
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM 800 PC2 6400 @ 905 Freq 4-4-4-10 1T
XFX 8800Ultra 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 XXX Edition
Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM SATA
LITE ON 20x DVD+-R with lightscribe SATA
Antec 900
Antec 850w Quatro
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

3DMark06 Benchmark: 13127

5.9 rating on Vista Rating.

Revised a little here and there. Did some drimmel work, did alot of wire management.

Any input would be favorable, still trying to organize this system! Tell me how to get a 10!

 

[Ravenas]

Also, thanks to the wire management my system dropped 3 degrees in temperature!

 

[DrunkenMafia]

nice rig man, I must say I don't like that water cooler myself..


What sort of temps do you get on there..


Good job

 

[Ravenas]

No more than 25 degrees celcius idle. Doesn't go over 38 degrees celcius at max load.

 

[Ravenas]

Added some more pictures for more detail and to see what drimmeling I did.

 

[demonbrawn]

That is NICE! Nice hardware in there man and good cable management.

 

[nflesher87]

10

one word: jealous

 

[Ravenas]

Awesome, thanks guys!

 

[luix]

nice watercooling very nice and your radiator is blue cool stay cool

go see my lamborstyle and koment and voted if you want beacuase a give you a 7

 

[pentastar111]

Nicely done! 8/10 from me.

 

[technicks]

Very nice. Like the watercooling kit.
8 from me.

 

[KennyT772]

You still need to remove the two valves from the loop, they are rather restricive and if you add a gpu block to them you will have serious flow issues. Not to mention you wouldn't have to use as much tubing and it would give less clutter.

I would also change the loop around as the most restrictive part is your rad. Pump>Rad>Block>Res>Pump should improve things a bit and it will improve clutter and lessen the amount of tubing.

All of this depends on how much tubing you have left though.

Ziptie your fan switches out of the way too, they are unsightly and I doubt you change those much.

Vote pending responce.

 

[Ravenas]

Just wondering, what can I do to get a 10 (from those of you who voted 9 or less)?

 

[sneekypeet]

Much better this time around, I gave you an 8/10. Much cleaner wire management, could use a coat of paint on the interior,only my opinion tho. Very nice recovery from V1.0

 

[Chewy]

NIce man good work but a 10 requires more modding eg. running the cables like a crazyman and cuttin up your case lol.. in otherwords a perfect 10 (from me atleast) has to be modded to the tits! I do give you a 9/10 now but I would like to see that cpu have a higher overclock, I dont understand why it wont go HIGHER! Looks like the water cooling is doing its job well, if you could get to 3.4ghz I think your temps will still be under 55c or so and 50 gaming. which is perfect.

 

[Ravenas]

Yeah...Today I tried a little OCing, for some reason I had this result...

With a 360 fsb with a 9x multiplier and 893 4-4-4-12 @ 1T it would but past the Vista login screen, but when loading up explorer.exe, it crashed.

 

[Chewy]

I personally dont know why it does that humm

I figured a 680i board would be able to handle a higher fsb than that.. you have a newer bios on it ? Ive been told to use a 1/2 ratio fsb/ram.. so I use like 450fsb and 900mhz ram x7 witch gives me 3.15ghz on my c2d. you could trya 1/2 ratio (or however exactly they put it) but try like 400fsb with 800mhz ram.. well you get the drift oh and do that with a x7 multi.. do you have a x7 multi? that will give you 2.8ghz.. see if it works than up it little by little. hope that works out for you.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

I voted 4/10 because:

I don't like the case but clean look.

 

[Ravenas]

4/10 for the case? Awesome.

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by p_o_s_pc (July 27th - 5:55 AM) - Reply
I like it wish i would have done different when i was getting stuff to build my rig.
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Above is your post on sneeky peet's Antec 900, please give more information.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

sorry i would have gave higher but the case i am not a big fan of. You did vary good on the WM and water cooling.

 

[TXcharger]

shoot i dont prefer that case, i love the design on the stacker...

but i still gave him a 10, thats an amazing computer bro

 

[Ravenas]

Thanks man, I appreciate that!

 

[tbuzz2]

Water Cooling

9/10 That water cooling set up is bad ass GOOD JOB Cable management is also great and the case is ok

 

[p_o_s_pc]

hell man i had to give you higher so i gave you 7

 

[Ravenas]

hell man i had to give you higher so i gave you 7

I no longer trust your grading scale.