Project: NoVaKan3 [Pic Heavy - Warning]

Okay guys so here is my buildlog for my system that never seems to end, I cant stop working on it

UPDATES -

2/14/12 – Cooler update and thread revival with upgrade plans
6/18/12 – Nvidia GPU cooler mod

ORIGINAL BUILD/UPGRADE


What I was starting with


Fan controller Arrived first so I threw that in first

After buying it I realized what it would do to my cable management...more wires!!!!!! AHHHH




I thoroughly love the way it looks in the NZXT case with piano black front


Then the box of sheer joy came in from the egg!


I always have the loved the Asus blue on their mobos


Then my birthday present from my best friend came in!


This is the biggest cooler I have ever had and was in complete shock at the size and knew this would be good for some serious OCing I had planned


Preping for the massive rebuild by uninstalling all the old Mobo drivers and thing to reinstall with the new ones...including my 5770 driver because it needed to be updated which i hadn't done in awhile...seemed like good timing to do so


Strangely satisfying to install the quad core that will replace my dual core


CPU cooler with the CM Sickleflows on....Beast ofa' thing!


Motherboard isolated and everything is disconnected from it


BEFORE


AFTER


Everything isnt really clean but its all buttoned up together and ready to run


Had to install that Phenom II sticker of course...I always was missing a processor sticker


Booted up and running like a champ...Ready for OCing after the thermal paste cured

That my build and I ended up getting to 4.32Ghz which it is currently running at and folding at with SMP and GPU client for my 5770

I love Project noVaKan3 and future plans to it include

Another 4GB of RAM
Another 5770 into Crossfire
Better PSU - probably a Corsair of some sort around 800+ watts
OCZ SSD with sandforce chipset or better depending on when I get it
and more HDDs in RAID
and MMMAAYYBBEE watercooling loop but I doubt it...I am doing allright on air for now


Oh yeah...bigger monitors...and bigger desk...
Edited by txtrkandy - 6/18/12 at 8:43am

PMed you with details tweeky....bout to get some temps for you...

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a shot. Eventually I want to put my H50 on this build to see if my air setup or that H50 performs better on my 955

Okay Guys, I have added crossfire to my rig, and I took some pictures after some cable management work.

Now I have 5770+5750 in crossfire and I underestimated the power boost!

Here are some pictures with everything off





Worked on cable management as much as possible, its incredibly hard with 2 power supplies but I got it to work



MSI and XFX 57** GPUs (5750 with Zalman cooler on bottom)







I also mounted the SSD on the side of my case to be seen





Next addition to the rig will be a modded Corsair H50, I plan to install a res on it and go water cooling.

Actually, I got the 5750 (on bottom) from a friend and I haven't changed the cooler at all on my 5770 (on top)

He switched out the cooler on that card, and used some of those little heatsinks on it, and yes, I wish I had some more, they help ALOT!!