OcUK Custom 'Ultima Demolisher' [Build Progress and Worklog]

[rjk]

Christmas has in FACT come early for me this year.

With the wide availability of the EVGA SR-2 again, a lot of air cooled SR2 builds have been showing up on our ‘to do’ list.

this particular one caught my eye and with an outrageous 'NathWraith Special' being put down on paper, the initial design for this system had been put into place a while ago. The customer has opted for the best of everything which really required a lot of skill and expertise to set up.

Nath has done an outstanding job of putting together a formidable specification that not only presents superb value to the customer but means that he will in fact have one of the best personal computer systems in the country.

No expense has been spared and strict requirements have been highlighted to make this system fit the customer’s requirements perfectly.

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System Specification
- Case: Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P80B Super Tower
- Power Supply: Corsair Professional AX1200W
- CPU: x2 Intel Xeon X5650 2.66GHz @ 4.00GHz+
- Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-2 DDR3 Dual Socket Motherboard
- RAM: Corsair Dominator GT 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C8 (2000MHz) Tri-Channel
- Hard Drive: OCZ IBIS 240GB SSD
- Graphics Card: x2 EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 Configured in SLI
- Sound: Asus Xonar Xense Sound Card + Sennheiser PC 350 Xense Edition Headset
- Optical: Samsung SH-B083L/BSBP 8x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black
- Storage: Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB 10000RPM SATA 6Gb/s

Cooling
2X EK Supreme HF Copper CPU Waterblocks
2X EK FC-580 Waterblocks
120mm Black ice Stealth
360 Black Ice SR1
EK D5 TOP + D5 Vario Pump
EK v2 250 Advanced Reservoir
Thermochill Clear Fluid
EK/Bitspower Fittings
Masterkleer 7/16 Tubing

On with the build...

Our journey begins at Dominator GT mountain...

Onwards to block installation

The case

Removing the bezels and HDD cages to make way for the meaty SR1 radiator

Monolithic computing...

The blisteringly fast OCZ IBIS, words cannot describe how rapid these things are. DO WANT

Reservoir placement

Starting to plumb it all together

More progress

The HDSL cable for the IBIS drive

The D5

More IBIS goodness

VRaptor 600GB as a storage drive

Bringing it all together

EVGA 580 graphics cards. Naked and then with the gorgeous EK blocks on.

Before filling the loop, I realised that I got the inlet and outlet on the pump the wrong way round.
Facepalm situation, but easily rectified.

Bit of cable management later...

Final Pics

Just installing Windows and Configuring the system at the moment. Will update this post with some benchmarks and stats from the system once it is clocked and ready to go
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask
rjk

 

[rjk]

no windowed panel because the customer didnt want one

no coloured fluid because the customer wanted clear

no cable ties on the tubing because i have never needed to use it on 1/2 barbs with 7/16 tubing.

ever

ever...

 

[rjk]

yea ok.

You may not have, But what if the said "customer" decided to have a small tug? or a child has a tug when the case side is off when he is installing a new hdd?

Dont think ahead do you?

i would estimate to have built over 500 watercooled builds and 20+ extreme builds like this.

i cant recall anyone calling the support line to tell me that they foolishly let their 5 year old loose near their £6k system with the panels off and coolant spilt everywhere.

people who buy systems tend to leave them alone.
I will be sure to post here and let you know if our tried and tested method suddenly fails

 

[rjk]

terrible news.

today one of the tubes came off the fittings and coolant has leaked everywhere.

we are currently cleaning it up...

 

[rjk]

yes
there is in fact a squadron of 5 year old children running round ocuk tech, hell bent on removing 7/16 tubing from 1/2 barbs.

its either that or the immense pressure caused by the d5 causing the hoses to literally explode off the fittings.

oh wait...

 

[rjk]

i dont know
i just did it really
dont stuff cables behind the board
they dont fit
i just put mine down the side of the drive bays as there is more space there
not the best case for cable management.
modular supply helps a lot

 

[rjk]

You could patent this idea as an industry standard for durability.

I think it should be called the "5 year old tug test".

I've put a lot of thought into the name and can't see any problems with it.

i just spotted this post.

it has made me chuckle.

Lol who cares? Looks great and i would love to afford that!

Shows that there are people out there who demand the best!

i have to agree, personally one xeon is massive overkill for my uses

but if i had the money then i would definately wade in on something like this.

in fairness though, my dream pc would be outrageous anyway...

 

[rjk]

of course

supreme HF comes with a backplate

i didnt use mine on my system, i used a xeon backplate with some button head m3 bolts for a cleaner look

this sr2 build had the xeon backplates removed and the stock 1366 backplates attached to make fitting the waterblocks possible

 

[rjk]

I did ask RJ to build a similar system but wit 2 x5680 & 2 580 hydro coppers etc but got no reply,

i would have replied

you sure you emailed me at work?

 

[rjk]

yeah you need fast fans for it.

it was specced as it fit the 120 fan mount on the back of the case easily.

the system was specced by NathWraith.

 

[rjk]

we did a few benches
SSDs kicked out around 530mbps read speed
Wprime 32m in 2sec 312ms
Wprime 1024m in 1min 0sec 248ms

3dmark 11 was unuseable as it doesnt support sli properly [or didnt at the time]
vantage netted around 45k

the system got around 150+ fps in heaven at 1900X1200

 

[rjk]

Thanks for the benchmarks - something to shoot for without spending £6k

Sorry to ask again, but what type and speed fans did you put on the RAD and were they noisy?

the fans we ended up using in the end were the enermax black ones. linked up to the fan controller built into the case
the rear fans were the 2000rpm sharkoons on the rear 120mm rad. this was controlled by the motherboard and worked pretty well.

How much was this machine ?

around the £6K mark