[vonalka]

As part of a team building exercise, the team's goal was to build a system from available parts with the following goals in mind:
- Team work: everyone on the team must contribute to the build
- Build design: component selection & overall cleanliness of the build
- Speed of build: 4 hrs 30 mins was the maximum time allowed to complete the build
- Speed of system
- Cable management

The team was competing against team" Revenge of the Nerds" whose build log is here:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1258549/team-revenge-of-the-nerds-project-r2d2k

Here is a shot of the parts that were available to the team:

 

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Here are some of the components that the team selected for this build:

 

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The CPU selected for this build was an Intel i7-2700 and ram was 16GB of Kingston Hyper-X

 

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Here are a few unboxing shots:

 

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Starting to get it put together:

 

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Got both GTX550's installed, PSU installed, Corsair H-80 installed, and Ram & CPU installed.

Working on getting everything connected:

 

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Everything is connected - time to install the OS

 

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Working on cable management while the OS is being installed:

 

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duplicate post

 

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Working on cable management while the OS is being installed:

 

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Cable management finished, time to put the sides back on:

 

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Time for a team picture (or two):



Let me know what you think of this build

 

[gelatin_factory]

Looking good, I wish I worked at a place that had team building exercises like this!

 

[ggoodd]

the picks look great, but man do those video cards kill cable management

 

[vonalka]

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Originally Posted by gelatin_factory

Looking good, I wish I worked at a place that had team building exercises like this!

Thanks - it was a lot of fun and I would highly recommend it.

 

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ggoodd

the picks look great, but man do those video cards kill cable management

Thanks - it would be ideal to take more time and do some customer sleeving.

The team is going to get another week to do some additional tuning, overclocking, & cable management - not sure if they will decide to tackle sleeving during this time as well

 

[Mooks78]

That was really good times. I'm going to run a few tests on Normungus this weekend and see how she runs.

 

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooks78

That was really good times. I'm going to run a few tests on Normungus this weekend and see how she runs.

I didn't know Normungous was a she...