my new beasty

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- ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce SPP 100 ATX AMD MoBo
- NZXT Lexa Black/ Silver Aluminum ATX Mid Tower
- NEC Silver IDE 8x DVD Burner Model ND-3550A
- x2 VANTEC ICEBERG DDR-A1C Copper RAM Heat Spreaders
- ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro CPU heatsink & fan array
- x2 Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JD 320GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 RAID,0 (one I already owned)
- CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel RAM chips
- SAMSUNG 204B-Silver Silver-Black 20.1" 5ms G-to-G LCD
- SILVERSTONE ZEUS SST-ST65ZF ATX12V 650W PSU Nvidia SLI-certified
- AMD Athlon 64 FX60 Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core CPU
- 2 BFG Tech Geforce 7800GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 in x2 x16 SLI mode
- WinXP Pro W/SP2
- Logitech X-530 70 Watts 5.1 Speaker
- keyboard & mouse already owned nothing special there yet I'm BROKE
I want to OMG WTF BBQ Oblivion, Titan Quest & Gothic III when they dare to approach the Beast

 

[Jakal]

Holy crap. That's awesome! You could've bought a decent used car for the cost of that pc. lol I hope that case has enough airflow. I personally would've went with water cooling. Awesome none the less.

 

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air-ccoled OK i think

Holy crap. That's awesome! You could've bought a decent used car for the cost of that pc. lol I hope that case has enough airflow. I personally would've went with water cooling. Awesome none the less.

It has 3 120mm fans front back & side glass door plus an 80mm fan in top blowing - in may have to move to bottom 80mm vent hole 'cause 6-POUND PSU so frikkin' HUGE plus a fan on each GPU and the Artic Cooler on CPU - may add Arctic Coolers to each GPU if needed - should work for air-flow - the front 120mm fan blows through the HDD cage, plus copper heat-sinks on each RAM stick may put a small fan next to them blowing in/out - with temp sensors on HDD CPU & system wish me luck haven't sent for parts yet waiting for tax refund still considering a micro atx desktop config would save about 600-700USD (at 4100USD now)
forgot PSU has a 120mm fan too
this case is very silent & CPU fan has rubber-band mounts is completely quiet

 

[sbrehm72255]

Nothing but the best in that system, but like Jakal said, water cooling would have really topped it off................... But then again, that's just what I would have done.

 

[spiffyp]

I don't think there's any room left in that case for the resevoir/radiator!

Of course, you can always go external, but it's no where near as elegant.

 

[sbrehm72255]

I like external water just as well as internal. I built a really nice external system almost 2 years ago, I even got it published ............

http://www.systemcooling.com/waterbox-01.html

 

[spiffyp]

That's very sweet!
But ya see, it's still basically the same as having a second case sitting there.
Not that I, personally, have a problem with that.

But I think, in general, it looks less "elegant", or "clean" than having an internal system.

 

[werty316]

Thats a sweet external system. I remember reading it on systemcooling a while back.

 

[sbrehm72255]

I've still got the case, but all the parts have been installed into a internal system now. With a normal mid-tower, I liked this external system much better as it left me a ton of room to work inside the computer case. But sometimes hauling a extra case around just for cooling can be a pain.........

 

[werty316]

Yeah that is understandable; its just one more thing to carry but I would most likey use/build and external closure box like yours.

 

[spiffyp]

I definatly would, as I don't travel w/ my computer.
In fact, been thinking about doing it for a while.
Just never got around to it!