I've just started putting my new workstation machine together and thought i might as well post a build log here to see what you guys think! (and i would appreciate any help i can get )
I know its a bit of an odd mix having dual Xeon's and then dual GTX690 since xeons cant be clocked now and games mostly only see 4-6 threads but I do a tone of design work and when i'm not doing that love gaming. i also have 6 screens so i need 2 cards just for that when i'm running my design apps and then i can flip to sli for gaming and just run 1-3 screens depending on the game. and yes i know quadro's are way better for a workstation, but i'm not made of money and gtx690 are still amazing cards i will more than do for my needs (plus they will blitz any game i want to play)
Here's the full list of parts going into the build:
Motherboard Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Workstation Motherboard
RAM 32GB Corsair DDR3 Dominator
Graphics Cards x2 EVGA GeForce GTX 690 Signature
Power Suply Enermax EPM1500EGT Platimax 1500w PSU
Network Card Bigfoot KILLER 2100 Gigabit
Case XSPC-H1-CUBE+
5.25 Card Reader AKA-HC-05BK
5.25 Fan Controller NZXT Sentry LX Fan Controller
Optical Drive Pioneer BDR-207EBK Blu-ray Writer
SSD x2 (System Drive,Raid 0) 256GB OCZ Agility 4, 2.5" SSD
HDD X 4 (Storage Drive, Raid 0) 2TB Hitachi 0F12115 Deskstar 7K3000
Motherboard Waterblock Koolance MVR-40 VRM Waterblock
Chipset Waterblock Heatkiller Universal SouthBridge Waterblock
Gpu Waterblocks x2 Razor GTX690 Waterblock
CPU Waterblocks x2 iEK-Supremacy - CPU Waterblock - Nickel Plex
Rams Waterblocks x4 EK Water Blocks EK-RAM Dominator X2 CSQ - Nickel
HDD Waterblocks x2 Aquacomputer Aquadrive Micro
Coolant EK-EKoolants UV Green
Fittings x44 EK-PSC Fitting 13mm
Tubing Primochill PrimoFlex Pro LRT 1/2
Reservior x 2 Koolance RP-452X2 Dual 5.25
Pumps x 4 Alphacool VPP655
Radiator 360 x 3 EK CoolStream Radiator XT 360
Radiator 240 x 2 EK CoolStream Radiator XT 240
Radiator 120 EK CoolStream Radiator XT 120
Fans x 14 Noiseblocker BlackSilent Pro Fan PL2 Fan - 120mm
Led Fans x 4 Enermax 120mm Apollish Vegas Case Fan
I Know everything is total overkill but that's the fun in building your own pc you get it the way you like. also with 4 pumps in serial there's a fair bit of redundancy there, i know the killer network card is total waste in a system like this since taking a small amount of load off of a cpu in a system with 32 threads is like taking a cup of water from a lake but I've had 2 on board cards fail on me in the past (one total failed always showed disconnected and other randomly disappearing until the machine was rebooted lol ) anyways i've lost my faith in on board nics
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i've planed it out so each pair of pumps has its own reservoir fist 2 pumps will push the liquid though all of the water blocks then the second pair will push it past all the 6 radiators, im going to be linking the 2 reservoir's so the water level is the same in both other wise im guessing if 1 sets of pumps runs slightly faster than the other set one of the reservoirs would get filled to he brim and the other could run empty this way the water level will just even out as it goes, even if 1 set of pumps stops. I'm having 2 reservoirs really to look cool i know i could run them all straight from 1 but i thought i would do something a bit special.
I'm going for a black and green theme so i'm going to be custom braiding every single individual cable with 3mm green uv braid. (its taking some time to do lol spend 3 hours on it today and only done half of the 24pin block)
I've ordered everything and am just waiting for few more bits to arrive:
i know there's a gtx680 in this picture but ill explain about that later
Edited by runningtroll - 7/11/12 at 8:23am
I know its a bit of an odd mix having dual Xeon's and then dual GTX690 since xeons cant be clocked now and games mostly only see 4-6 threads but I do a tone of design work and when i'm not doing that love gaming. i also have 6 screens so i need 2 cards just for that when i'm running my design apps and then i can flip to sli for gaming and just run 1-3 screens depending on the game. and yes i know quadro's are way better for a workstation, but i'm not made of money and gtx690 are still amazing cards i will more than do for my needs (plus they will blitz any game i want to play)
Here's the full list of parts going into the build:
Motherboard Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Workstation Motherboard
RAM 32GB Corsair DDR3 Dominator
Graphics Cards x2 EVGA GeForce GTX 690 Signature
Power Suply Enermax EPM1500EGT Platimax 1500w PSU
Network Card Bigfoot KILLER 2100 Gigabit
Case XSPC-H1-CUBE+
5.25 Card Reader AKA-HC-05BK
5.25 Fan Controller NZXT Sentry LX Fan Controller
Optical Drive Pioneer BDR-207EBK Blu-ray Writer
SSD x2 (System Drive,Raid 0) 256GB OCZ Agility 4, 2.5" SSD
HDD X 4 (Storage Drive, Raid 0) 2TB Hitachi 0F12115 Deskstar 7K3000
Motherboard Waterblock Koolance MVR-40 VRM Waterblock
Chipset Waterblock Heatkiller Universal SouthBridge Waterblock
Gpu Waterblocks x2 Razor GTX690 Waterblock
CPU Waterblocks x2 iEK-Supremacy - CPU Waterblock - Nickel Plex
Rams Waterblocks x4 EK Water Blocks EK-RAM Dominator X2 CSQ - Nickel
HDD Waterblocks x2 Aquacomputer Aquadrive Micro
Coolant EK-EKoolants UV Green
Fittings x44 EK-PSC Fitting 13mm
Tubing Primochill PrimoFlex Pro LRT 1/2
Reservior x 2 Koolance RP-452X2 Dual 5.25
Pumps x 4 Alphacool VPP655
Radiator 360 x 3 EK CoolStream Radiator XT 360
Radiator 240 x 2 EK CoolStream Radiator XT 240
Radiator 120 EK CoolStream Radiator XT 120
Fans x 14 Noiseblocker BlackSilent Pro Fan PL2 Fan - 120mm
Led Fans x 4 Enermax 120mm Apollish Vegas Case Fan
I Know everything is total overkill but that's the fun in building your own pc you get it the way you like. also with 4 pumps in serial there's a fair bit of redundancy there, i know the killer network card is total waste in a system like this since taking a small amount of load off of a cpu in a system with 32 threads is like taking a cup of water from a lake but I've had 2 on board cards fail on me in the past (one total failed always showed disconnected and other randomly disappearing until the machine was rebooted lol ) anyways i've lost my faith in on board nics
.i've planed it out so each pair of pumps has its own reservoir fist 2 pumps will push the liquid though all of the water blocks then the second pair will push it past all the 6 radiators, im going to be linking the 2 reservoir's so the water level is the same in both other wise im guessing if 1 sets of pumps runs slightly faster than the other set one of the reservoirs would get filled to he brim and the other could run empty this way the water level will just even out as it goes, even if 1 set of pumps stops. I'm having 2 reservoirs really to look cool i know i could run them all straight from 1 but i thought i would do something a bit special.
I'm going for a black and green theme so i'm going to be custom braiding every single individual cable with 3mm green uv braid. (its taking some time to do lol spend 3 hours on it today and only done half of the 24pin block)
I've ordered everything and am just waiting for few more bits to arrive:
i know there's a gtx680 in this picture but ill explain about that later
Edited by runningtroll - 7/11/12 at 8:23am
i done a lot of reading and seems a few other people are having some problems with this board (asus z9-pe-d8 ws) and dose not detect some makes of cards. i tried a bunch of stuff (update firmware on the card and the motherboard bios change every setting in the world to do with pci express in the bios, even if you boot into windows with the gtx680 and the gt8800 plugged in windows dose not even detect the gtx680. so either both my 680's was faulty or gainward is just one of the makes this board dose work with. anyways today I RMA'ed them back to scan and bit the bullet for 2 evga 690's (im just crossing my figures that they will work)
subbed for sure!
