RE: My super machine. Pics included.

JooJar

JooJar

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I went down to OcUK Friday and managed to collect everything I needed. Here are the pics. I am building it today. I've missed the Dell U2711 from the photoset because the camera didn't save the image properly and couldn't be bothered to re-take. But I have 3 of them.

I am using air cooling at the moment to see how it runs. If temps go too high I will consider water cooling, the only reason I didn't use water is because if anything was to go wrong at some point in the future it could be a waste of money. We have air con. in the room the computer will be in, it's always likea fridge in the room.

Basket total was near £5,500.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62689232@N08/

Btw. I won't be overclocking the CPU at this stage.
 
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It is clear what most of your parts are..

Regardless of how chilly your room is I believe it was a mistake for you to buy a Venom when you could have gone for a Thermalright SilverArrow.

Anyways, post up the spec and maybe take some group shots.

Sexy pics bro
 
JooJar said:
yep, theres 4. There is even a gap between the 3rd and 4th I assume this is for air flow to stop the soundcard blocking the fans.
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If you install 3 double slot graphics cards each one occupies a slot and blocks the one next to it.

You end up with something like this and no slots free:

tri-sli-rig.jpg
 
wWhat version sound card did you get?

As the box only has D2 and not D2X.
 
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RJC said:
wWhat version sound card did you get?

As the box only has D2 and not D2X.
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That's the PCI version, the board doesn't any PCI slots on it. With the 3-way SLI going on there's only 1xPCI-E slot available, but any card will clash with the chipset heatsink behind the slot.

Edit: Actually looking at the board photo, there might be a slot in the heatsink to allow full length cards over the top of the chipset.
 
Surveyor said:
If you install 3 double slot graphics cards each one occupies a slot and blocks the one next to it.

You end up with something like this and no slots free:

tri-sli-rig.jpg
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The board I am using is made for 3 way SLI. Look up an image on Google. There is a large gap so that the sound card (or any other device) can be attatched.
 
JooJar said:
The board I am using is made for 3 way SLI. Look up an image on Google. There is a large gap so that the sound card (or any other device) can be attatched.
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I'm not trying to be awkward but:

a) You've bought a PCI soundcard and a motherboard that doesn't have any PCI slots

b) Yes it's made for 3 way SLI and 3 way SLI uses or blocks all the slots on the motherboard

c) You don't even have room for a PCI-E soundcard even if you bought one
 
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Maximus-Extreme.png

Yeah with the 3 cards installed you've only got a single 1x PCI-E slot that's partially blocked by the chipset heatsink.

Edit: In fact that's not even a PCI-E slot :o , I need to get glasses!
 
RJC said:
Looking at the board in the link below both PCI-E slots will be blocked by the GPU'S as each gpu takes up 2 slots.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...extreme-p67-motherboard-review-the-board.html
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thats the ROG maximus 4 extreme, not the standard, which it looks like he has (either that, or im going blind)

if he has the standard one, he should be able to fit a PCIe sound card in the top slot:
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_...rboard-preview/asus-maximus-4-extreme-2-b.jpg

*edit*
on closer inspection, this board also says RoG on one of the heatsinks, yet there is a PCIe slot on it where the power slot is on that other board.

me = confused
 
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