Overview:
Since I really wanted to have a useful backup rig that I could use at lan parties, I decided to start building a new comp. I knew it was going to be based around an i5 2500k and two 6950s, but I didn't really know what else I'd include. Colour wise I was very distraught, as I wanted to make this look pretty enough to take pictures of as well as for it to perform well. After months of deciding, and by "months" I mean two, I finally decided what I was going to do with it. At first I thought I should make a cool form factor rig, but I chose not to do that, as the video cards and mods I was going to do to them required that I have an E-ATX motherboard. So, although it's not very small, and although that defeats the idea of a LAN rig, I'm still calling it one because it will be what I use it for. I will also, in the near future, be putting it under water, with mostly EK parts.
This ended up being so much more than I bargained for, it blew up into my first real build, and a real art project. I can't believe how well it turned out, and I will treasure the experience forever.
System Name: It was going to be White Phoenix, but when I asked a clanmate he said something involving cherries, so I came up with Vanilla Cherries.
Build Details:
Main Components:
Old Parts:
- i5 2500k - attained
- ASUS Maximus IV Extreme P67 - attained
- 12GB (2 x 4GB & 2 x 2GB) Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz - attained
- WD 500GB Caviar Black - attained
- Crucial M4 80GB - unattained
- MSI 6950 Frozr II x2 - attained -OLD
- Sapphire 7970 - attained
- Corsair HX850 - attained
- NZXT Phantom (white w/ red trim) - attained
- NZXT Hale90-1000-M
- Sapphire 7970
- 16GB Corsair Dominators @ 2133MHz
- Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo II x2(will be painting white parts red) - unattained
- Corsair H70 - attained
- 4x CoolerMaster CycleFlow 120mms (red) - attained
- Noctua NT-H1 - attained
- NZXT Cold Cathodes in red x2 - attained
- ASUS 22" Monitor - attained
Loop One:
- Bitspower Water Tank Z-Multi 150
- Swiftech MCP355™ 12 VDC Pump - unattained
- XSPC RS 240mm rad (up top, for CPU - could I fit a 360 in there if I didn't have a drive up top?) - unattained
- EK Supreme HF- unattained
- EK G1/4" Black Nickel (as many as I need)- unattained
- Feser UV Red and Feser UV White 3/8" - unattained
- Cooler Master Sickle Flows (red)x2 - attained
- XSPC X20 750 res/pump - unattained
- XSPC RS 360mm rad (external) - unattained
- EK FC6870 - Acetal + NIckel)x2 - unattained
- EK G1/4" Black Nickel (as many as I need)- unattained
- Feser UV Red and Feser UV White 3/8" - unattained
- Lamptron Fan-Atic Controller- unattained
- Cooler Master Sickle Flows (red)x3 - attained
- EK Supreme HF (copper/acetal)
- EK FC7970 copper/acetal (w/ backplate)
- XSPC EX240 x2
- XSPC EX120
- Yate Loon 120mm low speeds
- Monsoon Compression Fittings (matte black) x12
- Primochill LRT UV White 3/8"x5/8"
- Primochill LRT UV Red 3/8"x5/8"
- XSPC Dual bay res for DDCs
- Koolance PMP400 (Laing DDC)
- Distilled water + kill coil + PT Nuke
Now that it's done I'm still looking for more stuff to do, and sometime soon I think I can manage asking for a sponsorship by some companies. Thanks for everyone who looked, I now it wasn't very interesting for a big part of it, but I didn't expect it to become what it was. Thanks all!