The PoseidonAS is my case. The AS stands for almost silent. You would think that having a 980X and two 5870s in the same loop on a 240mm rad would be trouble but actually the temps are not bad at all, even under load. At 4.2 on the CPU and 900/1300 on the GPUs, the temps while gaming in something like Crysis are about 54 C on the CPU and 48 C on the GPUs. And I have the fans set to spin at only 600 rpms roughly. Not dead silent, but not far off either. Not nearly as nice as some of the works of art in this gallery (kind of a throwback to the earlier days of watercooling) but here it is none the less. Components:
i7 980X @ 4.2 GHz, ASUS P6T Deluxe Version 2 (BIOS 1003), 12 GB Corsair Dominator @ 1866, 2 x 5870 (Crossfire), Ageia PhysX PPU card, X-FI Titanium Champion Fatalt1y, 2 x 2 Vertex 2 100 GB (RAID 0), 2 x 2 Vertex 120 GB (RAID 0), Seagate 1 TB, Samsung 1 TB, Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W modular, Lite-On iHAS424 24x DVD burner, Pioneer BDR-205 Blue Ray Burner, Swiftech Apogee XT, 2 (two) MCW-80 blocks on GPUs, Thermochill PA 120.2, MCP 655 Vario, Logitech G19, MX Revolution and G7 wireless, Creative Gigaworks 750, Sharp LC-46D85U, Track IR 5 and CH Products Fighterstick, Revised Franken Potato, and Pro Pedals
Case is a big ole Chenming 910 from circa 2003 and had to remove my PhysX card temporarily to make a few changes. After Nvidia treated folks badly by not fixing problems with the 680i, 780i chipsets, canceling support for the Ageia PhysX cards, trying to prevent SLI on X58 chipsets and generally lying about most things GTX 480/470 related, .... they have gradually gotten on my bad side. Each year they continue to fall lower and lower in my opinion, until I wont support their products anymore if there is a decent competitor.
Last edited by jayhall0315; 05-11-2010 at 03:07 PM.
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