Stuffed Pinnacle 24

**pwolfe** · 06-17-2010, 08:57 AM

Not really a worklog, but I wanted to post a few pictures of my -finally- completed setup.

The guts:

Intel Core i7 920 @ 4.0Ghz
2 evga gtx470 sc's
evga x58 le
6gb Corsair Dominator's
Intel g2 80gb ssd
Intel g2 40gb ssd
2tb WD Black
150gb WD v.raptor
300gb WD v.raptor
1000w Silverstone psu

Liquid Cooling:

3 TFC 360 radiators
12 Nexus silent fans running at around 12v
ek Supreme LT on the cpu
ek full cover on the motherboard
2x ek 470 blocks
2 mcp355 pumps
All one loop.

Never seen above 61 C under load on the cpu
Never seen above 42 C under load on the gpu's

Primary OS is Ubuntu x64 10.04, I do have Windows 7 installed for playing video games other than WoW which I play linux side. This machine is the primary computer at home, it acts as my desktop, main cruncher, and home server. Anyways, on to the pics, feedback welcomed!

**GJS1** · 06-17-2010, 09:28 AM

hey, three things - do you have any static probelms with the acrylic? what did you cut it with? and is it just bolted onto the frame?
thanks

**pwolfe** · 06-17-2010, 09:39 AM

no static issues, and the window was installed when I ordered the case from Mountain Mods.

**josk1** · 06-17-2010, 09:48 AM

looks great dude!
must have awesome temps!
... but hell you got so many BP fittings, this must have costed an arm?!

**Olly_K** · 06-17-2010, 10:11 AM

probably the best pinnacle build I've seen so far...nice choice of colour

**0xdeadbeef** · 06-17-2010, 11:08 AM

I agree, the best Pinnacle I've seen. Very good job!

**pwolfe** · 06-17-2010, 03:25 PM

Thanks guys. It was a fun case to work with. I almost didnt get it all to fit. The bottom 470 actually rests on the fan of the bottom radiator. there was only enough room to put 2 thin rubber washers between them. I'd like to go back sometime and work the cable management to make that look a little cleaner, but there isn't a lot of options for hiding them further.

**erikmorgan** · 06-17-2010, 03:55 PM

Excellent!

**stangracin3** · 06-17-2010, 07:04 PM

very nice

you PACKED a

load of rad's in there.

**van_arnam** · 06-17-2010, 09:40 PM

that is superb. love black and white cases so i'm easy to please, but that's fine fine work.

**soda480** · 06-18-2010, 08:48 PM

where did you get the SSD mounts? .... i could look at these pics for hours ....

**van_arnam** · 06-18-2010, 11:19 PM

SSD mount (along w/ the pump mounts) look like (UN)designs
http://www.undesignsbrackets.com/
they have some ssd stuff mentioned.

**van_arnam** · 06-18-2010, 11:23 PM

pwolfe-in the first picture there's something that looks like an optical drive-is that attached to the rig pictured above?

I always wanted to make a two part box-one part that housed all the components, and then have a single cord running to a box underneath the monitors that had the storage drives/CD drives/USB/audio stuff. perhaps i'm just projecting

**Kibbler** · 06-19-2010, 12:26 AM

Whoa, that's a lot of fittings!

**ib2ez2** · 06-19-2010, 01:01 AM

Fantastic build! No optical drive right?

**pwolfe** · 06-19-2010, 06:29 AM

my optical drive is external, I already owned an external dvd burner, and since I use an optical drive maybe once every 2 months, I didn't see the point.

**malkiewicz** · 06-19-2010, 07:23 AM

Very nice... I love the way you mounted the SSD's....

**van_arnam** · 06-19-2010, 03:07 PM

what's the fan housing in the optical drive bay? scythe something or other?

i always wish mountain mods had a no optical option for their cases (4 fans for a pinnacle, 12 for an ascension etc). liu kang got a custom case like that...

**van_arnam** · 06-19-2010, 03:08 PM

oh-and is that a mountain mods finish or did you paint it?

**pwolfe** · 06-19-2010, 06:05 PM

You're correct, thats a scythe 120 mounting and it needs to be re-hot-glued in place, it fell while I was moving the ssd'd to thier new home on the rack.

The case was painted when I first got it by a buddy of mine who owns a paint and body shop for a 12 pack of Fat Tire beer.

**DarthBeavis** · 06-19-2010, 06:29 PM

sweet build! great job.

**van_arnam** · 06-20-2010, 02:30 AM

that's a hell of a friend!!

**shazza** · 06-20-2010, 05:39 AM

Nice job! How do you like that motherboard?

**pwolfe** · 06-20-2010, 10:26 AM

Couldn't be happier with the board. 4.0Ghz stable was almost as easy as throwing an on switch. I've still never really pressed this thing to max overclock, was happy with the speed and stability and have never really asked it for more.