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My Crazy 3 way SLI GPU/CPU Water Cooled Gaming PC Build - 3 GTX 780 (FINISHED page 4,5) (more Benchmarks pg 10)


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It's been about 2 1/2 years since i have built myself a gaming rig. Recently i upgraded mine with new video cards, and its GREAT....but i want more. It's going to take me about a week to build it as i wait on products to show up. I purchased a lot locally, i ordered some stuff, and some of my recent upgrades are so new, they will be brought over to the new tower.

Basically, i already have 2 Asus GTX 780 Direct Cu2 cards in SLI. I bought them a month or 2 ago and within about a months time, they were already passed up by the new 780ti. Long story short, my $650 (each) cards came down in price to about $530. It SUCKS my card isn't the newest anymore but at least my 3rd is now more affordable. I always wanted to run 3 cards in SLI, even 4. At this time, 3 is the best i can do but it will be awesome!

I am watercooling all 3 GPU's and the CPU. I got water blocks on the way for the cards and TONS of shit to make this happen. Believe me this is seriouis, i have 2 pumps, 2 huge radiators, and a huge reservoir to support cooling 3 gpu's. It is overkill but future proof.

This new PC will consist of:

Corsair 900D Case (Supertower)
Corsair AX1200 Power Supply
Asus Rampage IV Extreme x79 (socket 2011)
Intel Core I7 4820k Processor (watercooled) <<<< (UPDATE: SWAPPED THIS FOR A I7 4930k (pg. 10))
32GB Patriot Viper DDR3 2400 Ram
Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD
Seagate 3TB HD (storage)
Seagate 2TB HD (storage)
ASUS DVD Drive
3 ASUS GTX 780 Direct Cu2 Video Cards (Watercooled)
2 SMD OM-1 (Left, Right LED output indicator)
1 SMD VM-1 (12v Rail Monitor)
1 SMD TM-1 (Temp Sensor/Fan Controller)
3 EK Waterblocks (GPU)
1 EK CPU Waterblock
2 Koolance High Flow pumps
2 EK CoolStream RAD XTX 480 Radiators (8 120mm fans)
1 Bitspower water tank
EK Triple Parallel adapter block (for 3 GPU)
Misc Bitspower fittings, brackets and adapters.
Windows 8.1 Pro (OEM) <<< Stardock added to get windows start menu back - 8 doesn't suck now! :)

and now with the pics. I will post more next week when i REALLY start building!



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Meade gonna need 55 gallon fish tank for his water loop reservoir.

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YES I KNOW THE EDGES ON THE ACRYLIC ARE ROUGH, I PLAN ON FLAME POLISHING THAT BEFORE THIS IS DONE. THANKS!



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That 1TB 840 EVO should be amazing!

Got the 120GB version and wish I could have gone for the bigger faster ones.

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Krakin's Home Dipole Project

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Krakin, are you some sort of mad scientist?

I would have replied earlier, but I was measuring the output of my amp with a yardstick . . .

What you hear is not the air pressure variation in itself

but what has drawn your attention

in the two streams of superimposed air pressure variations at your eardrums

An acoustic event has dimensions of Time, Tone, Loudness and Space

Everyone learns to render the 3-dimensional localization of sound based on the individual shape of their ears,

thus no formula can achieve a definite effect for every listener.

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The rough edge on the acrylic cover will be cleaned up and flame polished. It WONT look rough when i am done.



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Looks sweet Steve!

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i WAS going to do 64gb of ram but i didn't want to spend $900 on DDR3 2400.....so i got 32gb (8 4gb sticks). 32 should be MORE then plenty.



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