Project: Part Crysis

[The boy 4rm oz]

To be honest you don't really notice the glow to much, that looks much brighter cos the UV CCFL is right next to the UV parts.

[psychowit]

Crysis is very close!!! Hurry up!

[dexaroni]

LAWL. This PC is going to cost me about 3000 when I am all finished with it, so it won't be done for Crysis release. I am aiming for February for the PDXLAN 11 mod competition.

My current PC has an e4300 @ 3.4 on water with an 8800GTS 320, so I can still run Crysis on Medium with good FPS... I just want to build a rig that can run it at high settings on a 22 incher.

[Ap1thy]

shouldve gotten a x38 board... the hd3780 (or 3870 whatever the name is lol, cant be bothered to look it up) is shaping up to be a better card than the 8800GT (and possibly the 8800GTS 512) cool looking mod though

[Scotty]

Just a 120mm radiator to cool a Q6600 and 2 Video cards? Id suggest a minimum of 360 or a 120 and 240, like me but i ahve a dual-pass 120 so effectively a 240 with 1 fan. And my temps get quiet high on my Q6600 and GTX albeit the Q6600 is at 3.3GHz

If you haven't already bought that TDX block i'd suggest a D-Tek FuZion for the CPU, it's the best waterblock for quads.

[dexaroni]

For ASC, I am an Nvidia fanboy. I have owned 3 ATI cards and 3 Nvidia cards, and all the ATI cards were total crap for me, including the X1900XT that I had. Since then, I have used Nvidia and won't be going back.

And Scotty, I think you misunderstood my post. I already have a Dual Pass Black Ice GTXtreme 240 MM radiator, it's the best 240 that Hardware Labs makes. I am using that to cool off the CPU and chipset, and using ANOTHER 120 MM dual pass to cool off my Video cards.

As for the waterblock, I am friends with the guys from Dangerden, so I have loyalty to them, even if they don't perform as well.

[dexaroni]

Wewt! Got the motherboard today, and some pics!

Here is everything that was in the box. I won't be using the accessories or the heatsink, but they are nice to have.

All the accessories:

Now THIS is a motherboard!

And the Intel 975x chipset block. The Danger Den 680i chipset block won't fit because DFI uses an ass backwards mounting system for their chipset, but the 975x block works a treat!

[The boy 4rm oz]

I'm going to cool a Q6600 and an 8800GTX with a 120mm Black Ice Xtreme and a 80mm Black Ice Micro, should be fine but for 2 GPU's I recommend at least a 240mm or a 360mm radiator.

EDIT: couldn't see the pics at school (damn server), i didn't realize you were water cooling the north bridge. I have a Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II on my northbridge, works great and will also keep some heat out of my water cooling loop.

[Spawn-Inc]

I'm going to cool a Q6600 and an 8800GTX with a 120mm Black Ice Xtreme and a 80mm Black Ice Micro, should be fine but for 2 GPU's I reccomend at least a 240mm or a 360mm radiator.

likewise, i plan on going with a 360 just for the room.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Oh forgot to say earlier. That southbridge fan can get quite annoying. a high pitch whine, quite annoying.