New massive rig

[Prepared]

This will be arriving next week and the plan is this will replace 4 desktops and 1 laptop with this single system. Yes, it has 48gb of RAM! I'm planning to run 18 of the 40 accounts I log into World of Warcraft with this system.

CAS: * Corsair Obsidian Series 800D Full Tower Gaming Case
CD: LG 12X Internal Super Multi Blu-Ray Rewriter (Black Color)
COOLANT: Standard Coolant
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-990X Extreme Edition 3.46 GHz 12M Intel Smart Cache LGA1366
CS_FAN: Maximum Enermax 120MM Case Cooling Fans for selected case (Maximum Silent Operation) [+29] (500-1,200 RPM T.B. Silence Black Color with Red LED Twister Bearing 8-14 dBA [+0])
FAN: CyberPower Xtreme Hydro Liquid Cooling Kit 360MM w/ Triple Fan(CPU & GPU Liquid Cool Capable, Extreme Overclocking Performance + Extreme Silent at 18dBA)
FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (BLACK COLOR)
FREEBIE_VC1: FREE Just Cause 2 Game Coupon [+0]
GLASSES: None
HDD: 240GB Corsair Force GT Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 555MB/s Read & 525MB/s Write [+305] (Single Hard Drive)
HDD2: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive)
IUSB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
KEYBOARD: Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard w/ LCD Display [+107]
MEMORY: 48GB (8GBx6) DDR3/1333MHz Triple Channel Memory [+1002] (Corsair or Major Brand)
MONITOR: 27" Widescreen 1920x1080 Sceptre X270W-1080P LCD Display w/ Built-in Speaker, DVI, & HDMI-Input [+339]
MONITOR2: 27" Widescreen 1920x1080 Sceptre X270W-1080P LCD Display w/ Built-in Speaker, DVI, & HDMI-Input [+339]
MONITOR3: 27" Widescreen 1920x1080 Sceptre X270W-1080P LCD Display w/ Built-in Speaker, DVI, & HDMI-Input [+339]
MOTHERBOARD: * (3-Way SLI Support) GigaByte G1.Guerrilla Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Triple-Channel DDR3 E-ATX w/ 7.1 Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Audio, Bigfoot Killer E2100 GbLAN, eSATA, USB3, 2x SATA3 RAID, 3 Gen2 PCIe, 2 PCIe X1 & 1 PCI
MOUSE: XtremeGear Optical USB 3 Buttons Gaming Mouse [-57]
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
OS: Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional [+31] (64-bit Edition)
OVERCLOCK: Ultimate OC (Ultimate Overclock 30% or more)
POWERSUPPLY: 1,350 Watts - Thermaltake TP-1350M ToughPower Modular, 80 Plus Silver Certified, Quad SLI Ready, CrossFireX Ready & Eco-Friendly Power Supply [+115]
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: EVGA Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GTX Series PCIe Video [+189] (EVGA Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GTX 590 Classified Hydro Copper 3GB 16X GDDR5 VRAM)
VIDEO2: EVGA Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GTX Series PCIe Video [+189] (EVGA Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GTX 590 Classified Hydro Copper 3GB 16X GDDR5 VRAM)
VIDEO3: None
XWNC1: Asus USB-N13 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 300Mbps Wireless USB Adapter [+0]

[Drarkan]

Nice, whats the damage on that?

[Drarkan]

Oh and seriously with that power, 40 wow accounts will be more than sufficient

[xartin]

very nice and smart choice... nvidia hydro copper series cards. no doubts you'll be pleased with the results. my only concern would be what actually is the item "standard coolant"

usually running just distilled water in a water cooling setup is much safer and will not stain your hardware components if something leaks. distilled water is also non conductive due to all the heavy metals having been removed during purification.

also just found this when searching for the specifications on that water cooling kit.

Topic: Xtreme Hydro Liquid Cooling Kit quit working
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/forum/fo....asp?TID=15573
Topic: Water Cooling System failed 2nd time/60 days
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/forum/fo....asp?TID=14149

Interesting the last post in the second thread someone mentioned that "you can piece together a watercooling system at Fry's thats way more reliable lol. "

There appears to be several people reporting problems with cyberpower's water cooling kits in the above thread. this really concerns me since frying two hydro copper nvidia 590 classified cards and an i7-990X would be an extremely expensive blunder =[

At the first sign of trouble with your system temps turn it off, send the whole water cooling kit back for a refund. not every water cooling kit is created to meet the demands of your hardware nor would two different "kits" be equals.


*** Just in case here's your replacement parts list ***

Danger Den

Buy a Black Ice GTX 360 radiator just for the video cards as well as a Black Ice GTX140 just for your cpu with 1/2" OD compression fittings, around a dozen 1/2" OD bitspower 90 degree rotary barb fittings, around 10 feet of fester UV tubing. You may also want to pickup a Delrin Fillport for the top of your case. GTX140 radiator will mount in the rear of your case an the GTX 360 on top.


Koolance.com

Next you'll need an RP-452X2 (revision 2) reservoir from koolance.com with two matching pumps. The pumps are actually Liang Thermotech D5 pumps. either adjustable or non adjustable will do danger den sells non rebranded D5 pumps or you can get the pumps from koolance.

Lastly you'll need three 120MM high static pressure fans, one high static pressure 140MM fan. yate loon fans will do nicely for both as well as a 10 litre jug of distilled water.

The reservoir I mentioned mounts into two 5 1/4" drive bays and the pumps actually mount inside the reservoir housing and this setup can run a dual loop. this both saves a lot of space and you don't have to do any case modding to mount separate pumps.

considering your cpu and the video cards you may really badly want a dual loop since you could likely expect a 30 celcius temperature rise on one loop with two gpu's.

any more and thermal conductivity really suffers which can lead to pump failures or overheating and condensation inside your case.

Here's a review of the koolance reservoir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luvE8vcpcNc


I have the same corsair 800D case and this manages to keep my two GTX 480 video cards around 110 Fahrenheit with a 70 Fahrenheit ambient room temperature running only one D5 pumps currently and a larger danger den Black Ice GTX 480 radiator with three yate loon low speed fans.

If your tempted to just buy a corsair H50 or H70 as someone in that post recommended i wouldn't at all recommend it since it would never have the thermal conductive capacity to keep both that intel cpu and videocards cool.

[Unca]

Did you consider the Intel Core i7-3960X? It should launch pretty soon. It's a Sandy Bridge CPU with six cores instead of four. It's the replacement for the i7-990X and should cost the same (list price is slightly lower but depending on supply/demand the actual price could be higher).

[Tim]

I would get the i7-3960 instead of the i7 990x (I have an 980extreme myself).

Also, I can run 72 WoWs on my 1 system, which is close to what you mentioned, so you should be able to run 40 on here. I haven't done this since late WOTLK, but I think it should be near the same since GPU power wasn't an issue.

40 should work no prob Minus of course the occasional game drops/crashes that will probably feel like they are happening often due to the # of games.

[xartin]

aye... ye could of waited a week and bought the newest rig on the planet. and the base hex core costs around $600.00 less than a 990X

Intel Launches Sandy Bridge-E Series Processors - Slashdot

NCIX.com - Buy Intel Core i7 3930K 6 Core 12MB 3.2GHZ Hyperthreading Unlocked LGA2011 Processor - Intel - BX80619I73930K - in Canada

NCIX.com - Canada's Premier Computer Store - X79 Chipset LGA2011 Motherboards

[Prepared]

Originally Posted by xartin

aye... ye could of waited a week and bought the newest rig on the planet. and the base hex core costs around $600.00 less than a 990X

Intel Launches Sandy Bridge-E Series Processors - Slashdot

NCIX.com - Buy Intel Core i7 3930K 6 Core 12MB 3.2GHZ Hyperthreading Unlocked LGA2011 Processor - Intel - BX80619I73930K - in Canada

NCIX.com - Canada's Premier Computer Store - X79 Chipset LGA2011 Motherboards

Well crap, I didn't know there was a better CPU coming out this week. Too late now, my system is about to ship tomorrow as they are already putting it together now. But my system does have six cores.

The thing is, I wasn't planning to run all 40 on the one system. I was only planning to run 18 on there. The reason is because I have other computers that can run 9, 9 + 4. I was planning to split the load between the four computers. The other thing is, I don't have any screens swapped out. I like to see all of the characters on the screen so I run with 9 accounts in a 27 inch screen per computer except the one with 4 accounts. Now that I think about it, I might set up 27 accounts on this system and use the three 27 inch screens here. It would save on some elecricity costs by not using one of the other computers I was planning to use. :-)

The total price for the system was just over $8,000 with tax and shipping.