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The Macross - Super Dimensional Fortress Computer 1, SDFC-1 **UPGRADED**

I dot know how to put this. As either good or bad news. Well Anandtech has announced that HD 5850 supplies are very constrained and that it's maker (TMCS) is running low on a 40% yield per wafer. That means AMD is putting more chips into the 5870 line. That coupled with the current shortage means prices are going up and the the shortage might prolon itself.

Thaw bad news, good news is that. This leaves me waiting to see what nVidia can come up with in this time (GTX300 series).
 
I am adding Push-N-Pull fan solution for the Black Ice GT 360 Radiator. That means I am getting six 120mm fans [3 on top and 3 on the bottom]. However, you may wonder, what will happen to the motherboard? Will there be any problems?

Well, no. The Corsair case has 110mm top space (space between the top lid and the motherboard screw). So that means I can put the GT radiator I got my eyes on (it's 30mm thick, so that's 110-30 = 80mm left). After subtracting the 120mm fan thickness (25mm thickness of the Yate Loons), that leaves me with 80mm - 50mm = 30mm left over space.

This is good news as I can have serious cooling power in that radiator. However, a new problem has arisen. Since a motherboard (any) can have so many fan connections, I am bound to run out. So, to help that I am adding a 6-channel Fan controller. This new controller will control the 6 Radiator fans. I will rev them up when I know I am about to do heavy stuff and rev them down when I am done doing anything. This way I obtained constant and maximum level (I hope) cool down at the radiator.

The H50 fan, the 2 side HDD fans and intake fan are going to be connected directly to the motherboard.
 
jav6454 said:
I am adding Push-N-Pull fan solution for the Black Ice GT 360 Radiator. That means I am getting six 120mm fans [3 on top and 3 on the bottom]. However, you may wonder, what will happen to the motherboard? Will there be any problems?

Well, no. The Corsair case has 110mm top space (space between the top lid and the motherboard screw). So that means I can put the GT radiator I got my eyes on (it's 30mm thick, so that's 110-30 = 80mm left). After subtracting the 120mm fan thickness (25mm thickness of the Yate Loons), that leaves me with 80mm - 50mm = 30mm left over space.

This is good news as I can have serious cooling power in that radiator. However, a new problem has arisen. Since a motherboard (any) can have so many fan connections, I am bound to run out. So, to help that I am adding a 6-channel Fan controller. This new controller will control the 6 Radiator fans. I will rev them up when I know I am about to do heavy stuff and rev them down when I am done doing anything. This way I obtained constant and maximum level (I hope) cool down at the radiator.

The H50 fan, the 2 side HDD fans and intake fan are going to be connected directly to the motherboard.
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Make sure to get a decent one, the Kaze fan controller is a very good unit with a nice easy to read display.
 
Ok, some updates. I have decided the first 3 parts to be bought. The parts are the Corsair Case, H50 CPU Cooler (I'm going i7 LGA-1366 socket) and the radiator.

These parts are going to be bought by mid/end December. I am buying some X-Mas presents and thats the mini set back [besides the big one]. I expect to have these 3 parts by January. Why January? Well, I'm going home to Honduras, so I need a little spending $.

I may by a 4th part.
 
Change in Mother Board. EVGA doesn't play nice with ATI, and I don't want conflicts or problems in hardware from day 1, so, Hello ASUS P6T Deluxe v2.

Edit - If nVidia's GTX-300 series is out (by the time buying the GPUs come) and they beat in performance the ATI cards, I'll switch back to EVGA board. Otherwise, I need an universal solution.
 
Small update. The Corsair 1000W HX will be on sale on NewEgg later today. That's going to be my first buy.

First Macross piece is the PSU, funny, I thought it'd be the haul first.
 
Pictures from the Corsair 1000W are here. They were taken where I work.
 

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Asus updated some of their motherboards. Due to this, I am now updating to the newer and better spec'd Asus P6X58D Premium.

Some info on it. It's basically a P6T Deluxe V2, but it now has native DDR3-1600Mhz support, includes 2x USB 3.0 ports (these run at 4.8Gb/s or 600MB/s) and 2x SATA 3 ports (running at 6.0Gb/s or 750MB/s)...

Other than that, the PATA 100, Floppy ports are gone along with 1 Front USB header.
 
jav6454 said:
Asus updated some of their motherboards. Due to this, I am now updating to the newer and better spec'd Asus P6X58D Premium.

Some info on it. It's basically a P6T Deluxe V2, but it now has native DDR3-1600Mhz support, includes 2x USB 3.0 ports (these run at 4.8Gb/s or 600MB/s) and 2x SATA 3 ports (running at 4.8Gb/s or 600MB/s)...

Other than that, the PATA 100, Floppy ports are gone along with 1 Front USB header.
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Nice, I'm so glad that companies are starting to drop legacy ports from their enthusiast boards, it's about damn time. Any idea of a time frame now for the machine?
 
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Nice, I'm so glad that companies are starting to drop legacy ports from their enthusiast boards, it's about damn time. Any idea of a time frame now for the machine?
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I am going on vacation December... so thats a break.

Should have the mobo by mids of Jan. Hopefully by March, it'll be running on basic stuff only 1 video card no RAID array (everything from the SSD). Also, no overlocking, everything at stock. By May I should have the rest of the pieces together (RAID + extra vid card and possible sound card), still no overclocking. By June (if nothing sets me back) it should be on water and overclocked.

Seems like a long time, but it may well be worth it.
 
I'm back with more pictures!

More pictures you guys.

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Pics of the boxes more organized
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Here are the:

- 2x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850 Black Edition

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Here are shots of the actual 5850s:

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Shots in the case already:

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- Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.80 GHz

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- Asus P6X58D-E

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Actual motherboard shot:
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- Asus WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n

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- Corsair HX 1kW
- Corsair 800D

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Here is everything put together:

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Another angle:

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Small update people. I just got the Corsair H50 cooler for Macross.

I'll post pictures tomorrow when I get it in my hands. Also, as always the usual, already installed pictures as well.
 
Hello, I'm back with some Desktop pictures.

I'll have pictures about the other stuff later on.

Here is CPU-Z and GPU-Z screenshots.
 

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nice build so far, and as I mentioned in the other thread

haha we think alike, btw if you haven't found a chipset block for the Asus yet, I beleive this

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/ekwaekasx58a.html

will be compatible and you can get the mosfets also, I say sell the h50 and get EK Supreme HF and upgrade the rad to a ThermoChill PA120.4
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scratch the quad rad since you have the 800d and get this ThermoChill PA120.3 or the XSPC RX360, I had the 800D before also.

Later down the road if you decide to scrap the h50 and get a cpu block you can remove the bottom HDD cage on the 800d and use a dremel to cut out a an outline for a dual rad.
 
phas3 said:
nice build so far, and as I mentioned in the other thread



scratch the quad rad since you have the 800d and get this ThermoChill PA120.3 or the XSPC RX360, I had the 800D before also.

Later down the road if you decide to scrap the h50 and get a cpu block you can remove the bottom HDD cage on the 800d and use a dremel to cut out a an outline for a dual rad.
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The HDD cage has to stay obviously. Otherwise, where would the HDDs go? In any case, the H50 will go once I get the water loop components. I am making that space, a single 140mm radiator that will hook up to the top 360 radiator.

That should give me extra chill power and enough to include in the CPU into the loop.

Side note, I am going to get a sorta lavish reservoir, the FrozenQMod Helix Reservoir. It looks like the Resident Evil T-Virus hold canister. It will go perfectly since I am going to use a light blue or clear dye. The Helix interior will be blue going along with the theme.
 
jav6454 said:
The HDD cage has to stay obviously. Otherwise, where would the HDDs go? In any case, the H50 will go once I get the water loop components. I am making that space, a single 140mm radiator that will hook up to the top 360 radiator.

That should give me extra chill power and enough to include in the CPU into the loop.

Side note, I am going to get a sorta lavish reservoir, the FrozenQMod Helix Reservoir. It looks like the Resident Evil T-Virus hold canister. It will go perfectly since I am going to use a light blue or clear dye. The Helix interior will be blue going along with the theme.
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You don't necessarily need the HDD cage if you can find a clean spot to velcro the HD to something. as long as the cage is not one piece molded with the DVD drive cage.

I have found velcro quite useful for quite a few computer hardware needs lately, I dont have to unscrew the side of my G4's plexiglass case anymore thanks to that stuff, I use Velcro strips to mechanically mount my hard disks in my Ubuntu server case too I removed the HDD cage in that one to increase airflow and velcroed the HDs to one of the panels inside.
 
Ttownbeast said:
You don't necessarily need the HDD cage if you can find a clean spot to velcro the HD to something. as long as the cage is not one piece molded with the DVD drive cage.
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It is actually, it is soldered/screwed together. Also, I don't want to really mod the case that much. I want to keep it as close to the original case as possible.

That said, once the warranty expires, I might go and experiment on it. I forgot to mention, there is a low level overclock on the i7-930. Currently, the CPU is running at 3.8GHz, (200MHz Base clock * 19). However, the i7-930 I have allows for up to 23x multiplier (weird). So, I will see how well that multiplier goes on with the current Base Clock.
 
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