cinOxen
09-19-2005, 11:25 AM
Hey all,
I've been a lurker here for the last couple months finding the info I've needed to build my rig. Here are some pics and a mini work-log.
But first the specs:
Athlon64 4400 X2
DFI nf4 SLI DR
XFX 7800
Silverstone Zeus 650 Watt
Cooling:
Mach II
Thermochill 120.3 with 6Xpanaflo
Swiftech MCP655
Acetal MAZE4GPU with 172 Watt peltier
Powered by Meanwell sp-480-15 at ~16.5V
Koolance CHC-A05 on NB
Bling/extras
Fan-o-matic Pro fan controller with 3X Micros
Crystalfontz CFA-634 4X20 LCD
The PC70 naked:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/1.jpg
The plan was to place the thermochill 120.3 on it's side. I wanted a push-pull config with a decent amount of space on either side of the rad. This didn't seem possible to do with the space between the power supply and the top of the case. To place the 120.3 on its side I had to cut away the power supply cage and main support beam.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/2.jpg
The mobo tray was pretty weak after this so I added a piece of angle bar to strengthen it. The PS also rests on it taking off stress from the back of the case.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/3.jpg
Added a piece of sheet metal mainly for looks.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/4.jpg
I had a piece of sheet cut and broke at a local shop. This is the rad shroud basically. Also cut part of the drive bay cage as it wouldn't fit anything large in it anyway.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/5.jpg
Work in progress - cutting out the fan holes
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/6.jpg
Holes cut
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/7.jpg
Covers cut
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/8.jpg
Added a couple output fans on the bottom
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/9.jpg
Preparing for motherboard - cut out holes for cables
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/10.jpg
Took a long break from taking pictures. The rig is basically done. Back wiring:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/11.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/12.jpg
Rad box
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/13.jpg
Wiring. Sleeving is UV reactive and there are a bunch of UV LEDS up here making it glow at night.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/14.jpg
Inside:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/16.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/17.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/18.jpg
Leds are from a combination of sources. First 4 are the diagnostic LEDs from the DFI, second 4 from the Mach II. The rest are controlled by the fan-o-matic
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/19.jpg
Power supply was re-sleeved with metal and ferrites were added.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/20.jpg
GPU:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/21.jpg
6 Hard drives. All yellow sleeving represents sensors. These go to the 3.5" bay sensors.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/22.jpg
Mach II was also sleeved with the same colour-codes and windowed with the UV reactive molding
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/23.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/24.jpg
A few night shots:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/25.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/26.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/27.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/28.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/29.jpg
Issues:
Hardlocking. At first I was getting the occasional hardlock. Then, last thursday, I decided to post these pics here. As I was writing a post I got a hardlock. Unfortunately a simple reset didn't work - the computer wouldn't boot and all 4 DFI diagnostic LEDs were on indicating the CPU. I went away for the weekend and now it seems to be working. I suppose I might have a bit of moisture around the CPU. I was ready to rip it all apart today but might let it run to see if it happens again first.
Overclocking.
Due to hardlocks I haven't spent a lot of time overclocking yet. The freeze-ups seemed to occur more often when the cpu was overclocked. I thought that the cause was a bad bios flash. I had flashed it 3 times without going through the long procedure of clearing the CMOS. After doing that and re-flashing to 704-BT things seemed very stable - it didn't freeze in a couple weeks. I was just about to overclock again before the CPU decided to take a couple days rest.
Previous results were 3150 at 1.7 volts which seemed stable other than occasional freeze-ups.
The 7800GTX has been disappointing. The core runs at -12 C idle but the highest I've gotten it without reboots/corruption is 530 so I run it at 527. I'm using the modded bios by Victorshen. There seems to be an issue where the card is throttling or something. Performance sometimes goes to about 50% until I reboot.
If you got this far thanks for reading and good luck overclocking.
I've been a lurker here for the last couple months finding the info I've needed to build my rig. Here are some pics and a mini work-log.
But first the specs:
Athlon64 4400 X2
DFI nf4 SLI DR
XFX 7800
Silverstone Zeus 650 Watt
Cooling:
Mach II
Thermochill 120.3 with 6Xpanaflo
Swiftech MCP655
Acetal MAZE4GPU with 172 Watt peltier
Powered by Meanwell sp-480-15 at ~16.5V
Koolance CHC-A05 on NB
Bling/extras
Fan-o-matic Pro fan controller with 3X Micros
Crystalfontz CFA-634 4X20 LCD
The PC70 naked:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/1.jpg
The plan was to place the thermochill 120.3 on it's side. I wanted a push-pull config with a decent amount of space on either side of the rad. This didn't seem possible to do with the space between the power supply and the top of the case. To place the 120.3 on its side I had to cut away the power supply cage and main support beam.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/2.jpg
The mobo tray was pretty weak after this so I added a piece of angle bar to strengthen it. The PS also rests on it taking off stress from the back of the case.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/3.jpg
Added a piece of sheet metal mainly for looks.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/4.jpg
I had a piece of sheet cut and broke at a local shop. This is the rad shroud basically. Also cut part of the drive bay cage as it wouldn't fit anything large in it anyway.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/5.jpg
Work in progress - cutting out the fan holes
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/6.jpg
Holes cut
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/7.jpg
Covers cut
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/8.jpg
Added a couple output fans on the bottom
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/9.jpg
Preparing for motherboard - cut out holes for cables
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/10.jpg
Took a long break from taking pictures. The rig is basically done. Back wiring:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/11.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/12.jpg
Rad box
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/13.jpg
Wiring. Sleeving is UV reactive and there are a bunch of UV LEDS up here making it glow at night.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/14.jpg
Inside:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/16.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/17.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/18.jpg
Leds are from a combination of sources. First 4 are the diagnostic LEDs from the DFI, second 4 from the Mach II. The rest are controlled by the fan-o-matic
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/19.jpg
Power supply was re-sleeved with metal and ferrites were added.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/20.jpg
GPU:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/21.jpg
6 Hard drives. All yellow sleeving represents sensors. These go to the 3.5" bay sensors.
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/22.jpg
Mach II was also sleeved with the same colour-codes and windowed with the UV reactive molding
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/23.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/24.jpg
A few night shots:
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/25.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/26.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/27.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/28.jpg
http://www.hypernexussolutions.com/cinoxen/pc/29.jpg
Issues:
Hardlocking. At first I was getting the occasional hardlock. Then, last thursday, I decided to post these pics here. As I was writing a post I got a hardlock. Unfortunately a simple reset didn't work - the computer wouldn't boot and all 4 DFI diagnostic LEDs were on indicating the CPU. I went away for the weekend and now it seems to be working. I suppose I might have a bit of moisture around the CPU. I was ready to rip it all apart today but might let it run to see if it happens again first.
Overclocking.
Due to hardlocks I haven't spent a lot of time overclocking yet. The freeze-ups seemed to occur more often when the cpu was overclocked. I thought that the cause was a bad bios flash. I had flashed it 3 times without going through the long procedure of clearing the CMOS. After doing that and re-flashing to 704-BT things seemed very stable - it didn't freeze in a couple weeks. I was just about to overclock again before the CPU decided to take a couple days rest.
Previous results were 3150 at 1.7 volts which seemed stable other than occasional freeze-ups.
The 7800GTX has been disappointing. The core runs at -12 C idle but the highest I've gotten it without reboots/corruption is 530 so I run it at 527. I'm using the modded bios by Victorshen. There seems to be an issue where the card is throttling or something. Performance sometimes goes to about 50% until I reboot.
If you got this far thanks for reading and good luck overclocking.