Project: Excess

NathWraith · 29 Jun 2010 at 16:59

Right guys, today I have something a little special. "Excess" as the name suggest means over the top, extreme, ridiculous but of course amazing in pure computing power.

The components to be used are:

- EVGA Classified SR-2
- x2 Intel Xeon 5670 2.93GHz
- 12GB (6x2) Dominator 1600MHz C7 Memory
- BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 1200W Modular PSU
- x2 Intel X25-M 160GB SSD
- x3 Corsair 64GB SSD
- Lian Li ATI Edition Armorsuit
- Lots and lots of NZXT Cable Braid

This is a custom build for a customer, who is a very lucky guy indeed as the whole technical department were drooling over the hardware (not literally!) all afternoon! I must say the SR-2 fully loaded with RAM and coolers is damn heavy.

WARNING!: Pictures aren't the best, the camera we have is rather poor and I will be bringing in an SLR for some proper shots tommorow but now this will have to do.

Here are the mandatory "Look at all my amazing hardware" pictures.

The board with the CPUs and RAM installed, very nice, very shiney and so unbelivably huge!

Now for a little bit of storage. I had to lol when installing these with Lian Li's anti vibration mounts.

A little note of dissapointment from EVGA, at least they tell you though.

Now for a glancing shot of the titanic chassis I will be using!

And one more with the coolers installed.

All for now! Stay posted more build pics and benchamrks courtesy of either myself or rjk or a strange combination of both to come!

CLICK HERE FOR FINAL BUILD PICTURES

NathWraith · 29 Jun 2010 at 17:35

Admiral Huddy said:
What a position to be in to built one of these for customer.

I'm a little confussed over this though :

x2 Intel X25-M 160GB SSD
- x3 Corsair 64GB SSD

Just customer specifications!

NathWraith · 30 Jun 2010 at 08:32

Happy said:
Does the PSU have enough connectors for all four of the motherboard 8 pins?

Nope, however it does have enough for the motherboards 2 8pins and 3 6 pin connecters

NathWraith · 30 Jun 2010 at 09:29

ashlaqueen said:
Oh man I'm jealous. More pics!

No more pics today, my camera has taken a holiday. Maybe some benchmarks later.

NathWraith · 30 Jun 2010 at 10:34

Azra said:
will the power supply safely take 2x 480s under load?

Sure will, these 1200W Dark Powers are rated up to 1500W.

NathWraith · 30 Jun 2010 at 14:08

Dano said:
You should point the client here to show him how jealous he's making everybody

He's more than aware of the thread. Very impressive results, makes me want one badly. I think I speak for everyone here though.

NathWraith · 30 Jun 2010 at 17:16

Windows 7 Ultimate was used. Not Windows XP.

NathWraith · 1 Jul 2010 at 08:35

Aedus said:
Do you have the guys tracking number so I can go and intercept the delivery truck?

Its been picked up in the shop unfortuantly. I wouldnt trust any courier with a system like this!

NathWraith · 1 Jul 2010 at 14:31

Azra said:
Any reason your client didn't want to go down the watercooling route?

He wanted the case in one piece!

To be honest you would be pushin the limits of the case to fit a good watercooling loop inside aswell.

NathWraith · 1 Jul 2010 at 16:05

Azra said:
lol. Will OCUK be stocking the Koolance blocks? Would like to keep as much of my order in one place for simplicity.

Nope just EK for the time being.

NathWraith · 1 Jul 2010 at 16:15

MOAR PICS

Pictures of the "finished" build as promised. Its "finished" as the final choice of GPUs has not yet been made. But still, look at it! Its gorgeous!

Front

Front (no panel)

Side

Side (no panel)

rjk dynamic angle

wraith dynamic angle

Casual side shot

and one more

Enjoy!

NathWraith · 1 Jul 2010 at 16:18

Allnamestaken said:
I reckon hes goign to have issues wit hthose 480s on air ---

Why? 480's run fine on air. I'm sick of having this conversation with people!

NathWraith · 1 Jul 2010 at 16:36

Azra said:
Did you leave the stock case fans in or swap them out for something beefier?

Just standard case fans and the two Sharkoon Silent Eagles on the CPU coolers.

NathWraith · 1 Jul 2010 at 16:39

DisrupTor75 said:
Brilliant job BUT....the spider cut into the side panel looks a little tacky and jagged imho, but other than that very nice

We didn't cut the panel you know. However the spider is something of an aquired taste. I love the case, not much for the colour or spider but it is a beast. Do want.

NathWraith · 1 Jul 2010 at 16:50

bifday2k said:
6 cores 6 threads. So 2 cpu's = 12 real cores, and 12 threads, so if any app can make use off them all its basicly 24 lol.

I think you mean 6cores/12 threads and 12 cores/24 threads

The same thing you have explained but it has the potential to utilise 24 threads in a multi threaded program.

NathWraith · 2 Jul 2010 at 10:08

To be honest I would let a case branded by nvidia or ati put me off putting the opposing brands hardware in. Hardware is hardware.

NathWraith · 6 Jul 2010 at 22:32

Muel said:
Just spotted something, it has an IDE connector? Why?

I'm not being all nerdy, actually wondering if there are some legal guidelines that say modern boards have to come with them? I was amazed when I saw my latest 890GX board had one. (And a floppy one of all things).

Don't think there is anymore, Asus have dropped them from their high end X58 boards