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Frank and I wish you all a very Happy Holiday as he was willing to be my test subject while testing my new Canon T2i Rebel DSLR I got early for xMas. I was excited to finally get a camera that could really show off the beauty of this rig IMO - thanks for checking him out. Building "Frank N. Stein" has been a labor of love this year and has many additional upgrades planned for next year as well, including dropping in three GTX 580's in place of his existing GTX 285's.
Frank got reconfigured (again) as well as the entire Workstation. Frank is more than just the PC, he is made up of multiple components aside from his impressive components, he is connected to equally impressive peripherals as well. This build started in Feb of this year and we have gone through many upgrades, changes, reconfigurations, and complete rerouting of tubing, cooling solutions, and so on.
In a nutshell, Frank is one powerful work/gaming machine that has served me well. This was my first extreme build and one I am very proud of. From his Core i7 975EE ocs to 4.6Ghz, to the FOUR GTX 285s in tri-SLI and dedicated Physx, Frank boasts a superior cooling system that keeps him chillin no matter the extent of the gaming, rendering, or work times I put him through. The Koolance ERM-2K3UCU in the rack dissipates 2000W of heat very effectively. The Yamaha A/V Receiver takes an optical feed from the XFi Titanium card and pushes a 5.1 Klipsch surround speaker system - very nicely I may add. Rounding out the Experience are the three Asus monitors on a three monitor stand hovering over my desk and sitting on top of the dedicated UPS for just the monitors.
Frank has a dedicated Rack Mounted UPS which provides clean power to the Silverstone 1500W PSU pushing Franks components through custom sleeved power cables feeding the system in every power input connection. The rack contains another UPS that is provided to protect and provide clean power to the rest of the components in the rack, including the two 4-bay SATA HDD bays, allowing Frank to run a total of 14 Hard Drives with over 14TB of storage space. Two of those drives are set in a RAID 0 and are used for Boot only because they are Mushkin 64GB SSDs, while the two WD 300GB VelociRaptors in RAID 0 run all programs, games, and additional storage.
So now you can understand why Frank has gone through multiple iterations this year as I have tried to find that perfect combination of beauty and functionality. This is one build I am very excited to show off to those who can appreciate the work, passion, and excitement something like this can bring.
Frank got reconfigured (again) as well as the entire Workstation. Frank is more than just the PC, he is made up of multiple components aside from his impressive components, he is connected to equally impressive peripherals as well. This build started in Feb of this year and we have gone through many upgrades, changes, reconfigurations, and complete rerouting of tubing, cooling solutions, and so on.
In a nutshell, Frank is one powerful work/gaming machine that has served me well. This was my first extreme build and one I am very proud of. From his Core i7 975EE ocs to 4.6Ghz, to the FOUR GTX 285s in tri-SLI and dedicated Physx, Frank boasts a superior cooling system that keeps him chillin no matter the extent of the gaming, rendering, or work times I put him through. The Koolance ERM-2K3UCU in the rack dissipates 2000W of heat very effectively. The Yamaha A/V Receiver takes an optical feed from the XFi Titanium card and pushes a 5.1 Klipsch surround speaker system - very nicely I may add. Rounding out the Experience are the three Asus monitors on a three monitor stand hovering over my desk and sitting on top of the dedicated UPS for just the monitors.
Frank has a dedicated Rack Mounted UPS which provides clean power to the Silverstone 1500W PSU pushing Franks components through custom sleeved power cables feeding the system in every power input connection. The rack contains another UPS that is provided to protect and provide clean power to the rest of the components in the rack, including the two 4-bay SATA HDD bays, allowing Frank to run a total of 14 Hard Drives with over 14TB of storage space. Two of those drives are set in a RAID 0 and are used for Boot only because they are Mushkin 64GB SSDs, while the two WD 300GB VelociRaptors in RAID 0 run all programs, games, and additional storage.
So now you can understand why Frank has gone through multiple iterations this year as I have tried to find that perfect combination of beauty and functionality. This is one build I am very excited to show off to those who can appreciate the work, passion, and excitement something like this can bring.
its the only thing that keeps him grounded - as in his current place (not electrically - lol).