[Sponsored] Aldri Fornøyd STH10, 7990s, EVGA SR-2 & SR-X, Lots o' loops

A thanks to my sponsors:

Review can be found here


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Follow my blog for a more organized build log; from now on this one will have more of an actual ToC starting with Phase 2.

Information:

The case:

The final decision for a case is a CaseLabs STH10.

Specs:

• (2) Intel Xeon E5-2600
• EVGA SR-X
  
• Corsair Dominators 1866Mhz [8x4GB]
• (2) MSI 7990s
• CaseLabs STH10
  
• Dual water cooling loops
• (2) Corsair AX1200s
• LG HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Drive
  
• (2) Corsair Performance Pro SSD
  
• OCZ Vertex 250GB SSD
  
• (2) WD 1TB Black
  

Watercooling Equipment:

Loop 1:

• (2) Bitspower EF CPU Blocks
• Chipset Block TBD
• (4) Bitspower RAM Blocks
• XSPC EX480
  
• MCP655 Pump
  
• XSPC EX120 - tentative
• (10) COUGAR CF-V12H Silent Cooling Fan
  

Loop 2:

• (2) TBD 7990s Blocks
• (2) EX480s
• MCP655 Pump
• (16) COUGAR CF-V12H Silent Cooling Fan
  

Misc WC'ing

• FrozenQ Liquid Fusion - 400mm
• Lamptron FC10
  
• Koolance Dual 24V Pump Controller
• Koolance RP-452X2 Dual 5.25in Reservoir
• Tubing & Fittings are TBD

Side Projects:

• EVGA SR-2
  
• (2) Intel Xeon X5679
  
• Samsung 30nm RAM [6x4GB]
  
• Silverstone ST1500
  
• GPUs TBD
• (2) MIPS CPU Blocks
  
• (2) MIPS Dom RAM Blocks
  
• MIPS SR-2 Chipset Block
  
• EX480
  
• Bitspower 80 mL Res
  
• MCP655 Pump w/ EK Top
  

• Asus Z9PE-D8
  
• (2) Intel Xeon E5-2600
• Samsung 30nm RAM [8x4GB]
• CoolerMaster 1200W Gold
  
• GPU TBD
• (2) XSPC RayStorms
• EX480
• Bitspower 80 mL Res
• MCP655 Pump w/ EK Top

Peripherals:

• Ducky Shine
• Cybord MMO 7 Gaming Mouse
• Asus Xonar Essence One
  
• (2) Mackie MR5mk2
  
• Sennheiser HD280
  
• Monitors are now TBD
• White LED Lighting

Table Of Contents:

1. First few updates can be seen in the following few posts.

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Again, a huge thanks to Spotswood!

And the new view from my front door



Alrightyyy got new toys

First off... some nice folding ram.







Next up... the main attraction. Rather tattered from shipping...

























Then a comparison... HPTX is bigger than I had thought.







Here's some size comparisons, the UD7 is slightly larger than your normal ATX.









Then the comparison of the SR-X & Asus Z9PE-D8 from the last shoot

A new sponsor appears!



A huge thanks to Michael @MIPS for the sponsor!

Sneak Peek:





Can't wait!





Huge thanks to Robert!

Wow, this rig is gonna be sick

Thats some serious stuff you go there. Can't wait to see how this turns out. Thats alot of fans in that box lol. Love the view out there. You should get a few more shots of it. Looks real nice and quiet there.

It's absolutely beautiful. Just moved here [Northern AZ] from Seattle for a new job and so far am not regretting it! I'll make sure to throw some more shots up sometime.

Goatsongoats said:

It's absolutely beautiful. Just moved here [Northern AZ] from Seattle for a new job and so far am not regretting it! I'll make sure to throw some more shots up sometime.

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i moved from seattle to oahu, HI over a year ago. dont regret it either. i think seattle is beautiful too, but man i missed the sun. had to get out. anyway, amazing stuff you got there. i think my whole gaming rig costs about as much as any one of those motherboards. can you give us a little background on all this? are you making a bunch of builds, just giving us some awesome pics and hardware comparisons, or what? i cant wait to see what else youve got up your sleeve. and will there be modding or just building? love that ram, got 2 sticks of 4GB in my amazon cart for about 2 weeks now, just itching to pull the trigger on it.

Exactly, the rain was getting old.

The build originally started with the plans for just an SR-X & an STH10. However, I got some good deals on the other motherboards and decided to make this more of a "project" than a solo build. They're all crunchers though so it won't be wasted.

I do plan on doing a comparison between the 3 and I think people trying to decide between 2P 1366 or 2P 2011 will appreciate that.

In terms of modding/building; I'm still having to make some final decisions on what will be done with the other two boards in terms of casing

I have to say, that Samsung RAM is some of the best I've owned. OC's like nobodies business! Pull the trigger!

Oh man I didn't know Lamptron sells a nixie tube fan controller. Thats awesome

Agenesis said:

Oh man I didn't know Lamptron sells a nixie tube fan controller. Thats awesome

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Agreed...

http://lamptron.com/products/view/Fan_Controller_FC10

Holy carp that's a lot of expensive gear.

The FC10 is a piece of art, can't wait for it to arrive!

Great choice on the case. Caselabs makes insanely nice cases. I've seen a few of the STH10's in person and they're rock solid. Apparently they are coming out with a MATX that was supposed to be seen last month. But maybe this month! Great looking build can't wait to see it come together.

While waiting for thing to show up I did some OC'ing on the Xeons/SR-2

Validation

Note derickwm is my username over @OCN

Best news: No dead pixels

Well here they are

I was taking pictures of the build process... but it seemed unnecessary and was slowing me down hehe so here are a few progress/unboxing pics along with some final pics. I'll be taking a lot more tomorrow with hardware in it in the beautiful AZ sun!








Finals Shots:








^lul wrong focus point

A HUGE THANKS TO JIM @ CASELABS! This case is a work of art, just breathe taking. The instructions were easy and straightforward, everything was labeled well, and all the material is amazing quality.

Got bored waiting for UPS






























CABLE MANAGEMENT COME AT ME!

Good news & Bad news concerning the build.

Good news: I was able to purchase some serious folding hardware

Bad news: The money I had set aside to buy 7990s on launch date is now gone

Here some first pictures of the Koolance box!

I have to pick up an allen wrench set as I don't have the right size to finish the installation but I'll be doing that later

























A HUGE thanks to Tim@Koolance!

Beautiful build man, can't wait to see the complete pics.

Huge thanks to Gene for the tubing! This is easily the best quality tubing I've used, I'll put up some comparison shots later. I love dual 24v pumps
















Part of the blame for the delay in this build...

Dual Strongs? JFC...

Show me the Money Cool stuff !

Nice stuff. What asus MARS card are you using?

mashie said:

Nice case assembly, where is the actual modding happening?

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When I move back to Seattle. Don't really have the room/tools down here.

mundivalur said:

Show me the Money Cool stuff !

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Robertmarcus said:

Nice stuff. What asus MARS card are you using?

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The original Mars. 2x285.

Wooo Seattle!

Sub'd, looks to be an interesting build.

Quad socket w/ noctuas! Which board is that?

confusis said:

Quad socket w/ noctuas! Which board is that?

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It looks to be one of the Quad G34 boards from Supermicro. Looks like it could be the H8QGi-F maybe?


Looking pretty good so far OP. I love SR-2 mods, so I will probably love this SR-X one!

how do you like your crossover monitor i am almost about to pull the trigger on a pair of those.

Apologies everyone, I've been neglecting updates on other forums.












Skulltrail:

Ghettooooooooooing it like a boss

Some minor changes:



































































































Got these for a nice price. I'm sure a lot of you are wondering why I went with such an old card. One because it's me, two because I don't game that often and 5870 quad fire is more than plenty for myself. Lastly, the 2GB of vram over the 1GB ref will very nice for 1440P and over. Paint is a little chipped but I plan on repainting the red accent orange anyway.

I do plan to watercool these.

FC10 courtesy of Lamptron!

















No G-Vans product here folks! This is heavy duty, high quality FC. I wasn't even aware the FC10 had a temperature controller on it and was pleasantly surprised to see it! It also included a 2012 calendar, which I was happy and kind of bummed to see as it's almost 2013...however I flipped it over and saw that it was a 2013 calendar as well

Huge kudos to Spawn32 on OCN & Lamptron for sponsoring this! More to come

Stock


Or is it





Stock & Raystorm


Stock Screws


Raystorm Screws, did I mention it was perfect?


The problem...


This block looks meant for this card


Stock off - has no problem with clearance on the other side.


Mmm nice and dirty. Just the way I like it.


More of the problem:


Top back on, love this


Another pic.


Probably be ordering the other Raystorms shortly.

My rad looked like this... see that dust? Yeah imagine that on the entire rad. It's nice and clean now


A little frontal rearrangement


Dem Ares


R.I.P.


Yummy


Did some rearranging, added back the plate separating the main chamber from the bottom chamber. I think this looks a LOT cleaner.


FC10 back


FC10 Front


Pump stuff


Final shot for today:


So basically to update everyone on the other forums.

My SR-2 died, so had to order a replacement which put a huge delay in the build as well as only allowing me to build one of my 2P 2011 setups

On a positive side, my new SR-2 will be here next week, as well as chips for my Z9PE-D8 WS.

I have a couple random things coming in from the DD fire sale, and a second PSU for the STH10 portion.