The 2012 Post Pics Of Your Rig Thread!

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Maybe some kind of smoked plexi at the bottom to cover the power supply and its cables. Otherwise, that is a nice build.
 
CallMeCooper said:
Maybe some kind of smoked plexi at the bottom to cover the power supply and its cables. Otherwise, that is a nice build.
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^^ great idea! i'll have to google where and how to do it, and if i have the skills to =/
 
menards has random acrylic panels sitting near the window section, dont recall if they had smoked though
 
Whach said:
^^ great idea! i'll have to google where and how to do it, and if i have the skills to =/
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Actually maybe go with a piece of orange plexi. As far as skills. You need plexiglass glue ( to glue two pieces at an angle.) and a power saw of your choice to cut it. as far as mounting it in the case, take velcro strips and cut them down to width. Done.

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Next step
1)Rear fan
2)Hide the 4 pin cable
4)Shorter sata cables
3)Get ssd :p

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Would you like some motherboard with that HS?
 
CallMeCooper said:
Actually maybe go with a piece of orange plexi. As far as skills. You need plexiglass glue ( to glue two pieces at an angle.) and a power saw of your choice to cut it. as far as mounting it in the case, take velcro strips and cut them down to width. Done.
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Or a heat source. I've had to bend plexi using a heater (built for the plexi - long heat element) then bend slowly to the desired angle. Looked a lot better than a sharp 90* angle. It did require a lot of buffing, though, to look excellent.
 
How funny, i was just thinking of ways to cover my ghetto ocz sticker on my zt series power. yellow doesn't go with my red/black build. Maybe i'll just be cheap and put a black sticker over it, lot easier.
 
Got one. Upside down, but still at least its black. Lucked out I guess. The one sent to me was the exact length of the Asus bridge = )
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I just finished my new system. My last one lasted me over 5 years and I'm hoping to get that kind of longevity out of this one (with random updates, of course).

The parts list:

Case - Coolmaster HAF XM. This case gives me plenty of room to expand down the road.
CPU - Intel i5-3750k. running very cool with my huge cooler hooked up to it.
CPU Cooler - Coolmaster TPC 812. keeping that i5 very cool but has some clearance issues with the memory.
Video - MSI GTX 670. Much nicer than the 460 I have in my old case.
Memory - Patriot Intel Extreme Master, Limited Edition 16GB (2 x 8GB). (might go back for another set (why? because I can :) )
Motherboard - Gigabyte Z77-D3H. Has all I wanted in a motherboard.
An LG BH14 blu-ray burner takes care of my cd/dvd/blu-ray needs.
Two 2tb hd's are in the case so far (one from my old system and one new).

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Here is a pic of the CPU cooler and memory clearance issue I've got. I think I'll switch to liquid cooling in the near future.
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Matthew Kane said:
Man the position of the PCI-Express power on that MSI card is absolutely horrible, wtf was MSI thinking?

Nonetheless nice build.
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all reference gtx 670's are like that. the card is only half length, and the rest of it is cooler.
 
Bbq said:
all reference gtx 670's are like that. the card is only half length, and the rest of it is cooler.
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Serious? I didn't know that nor have I played with a 670 "yet". Pretty bad designing by nvidia, the position of the power would spoil any really tidy cable managed rigs.
 
Matthew Kane said:
Serious? I didn't know that nor have I played with a 670 "yet". Pretty bad designing by nvidia, the position of the power would spoil any really tidy cable managed rigs.
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Reference 670 cards are.

The cards are super short:
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And the rest of the space is cooler:
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Many 670's are sold with a full length (680 or custom) pcb now, though:
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(MSI Power edition)
 
Matthew Kane said:
Serious? I didn't know that nor have I played with a 670 "yet". Pretty bad designing by nvidia, the position of the power would spoil any really tidy cable managed rigs.
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Since like the 9000 series cards, nvidia has made the worst cooler designs ever. I just dont see why people by reference cards. I mean, unless you just HAVE to be an early adopter, what is the point? worse cooling, less overclocking, definitely no over volting, and last UGLY! I would def prefer 1) longer/thicker pcb, 2) no green letters, 3) power connections at end of card by cable gromet.
 
CallMeCooper said:
Since like the 9000 series cards, nvidia has made the worst cooler designs ever. I just dont see why people by reference cards. I mean, unless you just HAVE to be an early adopter, what is the point? worse cooling, less overclocking, definitely no over volting, and last UGLY! I would def prefer 1) longer/thicker pcb, 2) no green letters, 3) power connections at end of card by cable gromet.
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waterblocks are cheaper and easier to find for reference cards
 
CallMeCooper said:
Since like the 9000 series cards, nvidia has made the worst cooler designs ever. I just dont see why people by reference cards. I mean, unless you just HAVE to be an early adopter, what is the point? worse cooling, less overclocking, definitely no over volting, and last UGLY! I would def prefer 1) longer/thicker pcb, 2) no green letters, 3) power connections at end of card by cable gromet.
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while i agree that their coolers are usually not the best, in this case i dont blame them. they shortened one of their highest performing cards to less than 7". this card BEGS to be watercooled in a sff rig, if youre not doing that then get a non-ref card.
 
Here's my wife's rig that she did the cable management on:

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I'll edit the post a little later with mine.
 
Had to throw in my older X58 build with the HAF932 before the inside was painted. So I did it myself. Pictures show a couple of updates.

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got my sleeved pci-e cables (they are slightly dirty, due to faulty grommets in the 810), and my second single-slot FC7970 i/o bracket. interesting tidbit: i installed it without taking the loop apart. that was....epic haha

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My Newest Build :cool:




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Intel i5 3570K @4.6
Asus maximus Gene V z77
16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
OCZ Vertex and Agility SSD Raid 0
Samasung 23` LED 3d Moitor
;)
 
I've played those LED stripes at my previous work before and I can tell you that they are blindingly bright as fuck. Thank god your side panel isn't one huge piece of clear perspex.:eek:
 
It is all about the power source you are using .. the less the amp the dimmer it will get + i divided the stripes in to smaller chunks and every chunk is controllable through a remote control relay unit + the side panel is smoked acrylic so it requires some intensity :D

and actually it does look that intense in real world ... my camera is just very bad with color balancing ;)
 
don`t worry pal ... although i don`t like them but Madrid really got a lot of top notch players and a very clever coach ... their "under performance" wont last for long ;)
 
as a barca fan you simply cannot like Real :)

just like I cannot like Barca......or something like that
 
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