Guru3D Rig of the Month - June 2015

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#5110223
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Nice rig, compact and fairly powerful.
#5110234
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Indeed, getting such a powerhouse to work in such tight dimensions is awesome. I wonder how loud it is though.
#5110260
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Excellent! I like how small it is and how everything is packed in without wasting any space - loads of power in a very small form, good job!
#5110295
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looks like a nicely compressed load of gaming power, like its gonna explode somehow, kudos for his effort and designing skills, it truly looks flawless imo
#5110308
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I love what he did with this tiny case.
#5110315
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Seems too tight for air cooled SLI.. GPU temps must be very high. But as the poster said, he's working on a new case.. I hope he adds liquid cooling for GPU's.
Yeah, I'd like to know what his GPU gaming temperatures are. If they're too high then I wouldn't like this build, (but as I said in my previous post I do think this build is excellent based on what I can see).
#5110317
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Nice, small and powerful. Beastly looking, good job.
#5110394
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Moderator
Yeah, I'd like to know what his GPU gaming temperatures are. If they're too high then I wouldn't like this build, (but as I said in my previous post I do think this build is excellent based on what I can see).
The 780's pull cool air from below, that helps out a lot. 😀 This is an awesome mini rig!
#5110420
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Why do liquid cooling if the things that need them most, the GPUs, don't use it? You could have stuck with your crossfire setup if you changed the cooling for them. Intel CPUs these days hardly warrant liquid cooling. A hefty air cooler is usually more than enough.
#5110440
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Yes it looks great for a SFF case but are those 3GB or 6GB version of GTX 780's? Because there is a 6GB version. If he only has 3GB versions it is severely crippled for UHD or "4k" (he doesn't mention his monitor). And those cards are seriously close. I'll bet they are toasty. Decent looking rig though.
He mentions he has 3 monitors, though doesn't mention if all are used for gaming. Anyway, considering the money put into this, I doubt he went cheap and got the 3GB versions. But even if he did, DX12 and Vulkan are designed to take better advantage of the VRAM in multi-GPU setups, so it could still end up being at least 9GB total, depending on the game.
#5110589
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but are those 3GB or 6GB version of GTX 780's? Because there is a 6GB version. If he only has 3GB versions it is severely crippled for UHD or "4k" (he doesn't mention his monitor).
4K with 3gig is possible, and work fine, despite a lot of people write (4g of use are very very very rare...) but the real question is "does the 780 can handle descently the 4K" i would say it's a bit at the limit... but with 780 you can already do a lot few bellow. about watercool the GPUs heat goes up only and are pushed this way and the 780 doesn't heat a lot even in OC... exept for silence i don't think it is usefull. this rig is nice and mobile, everything is logical, i like it.
#5110598
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Administrator
People not notice how this rig can be laid on one side with a reservoir fitted or is it fitted ? No one notice the lack of a power plug so no power supply fitted. Unable to see the area that makes the most sense, ( pump,psu,reservoir ) Is that because its not actually fitted and this has been thrown out to claim the prise .... Funny build that's fooling everyone and no one is saying a word. Power supply, reservoir, pump pls and the power plug socket. Where are they, Showing us a bunch of assembled parts and filling a closed loop to pretend its water cooled don't deserve any prise. Allso doing a close up of the board reset button powered up shows deliberate intent to fool us because there is no power supply fitted. I would remove this as rig of the mth if I was you because it makes you a laughing stock because you can be fooled easy. Show us this rig running and I will eat my words, (someone I don't think that will happen)
Added a photo for mr. sourpuss here. Oh and here here and here to see the chassis evolve and running. And on the reservoir, not everybody uses one, define tubing, pre-fill and close the loop. Now eat them ... 🤓 http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=16723
#5110640
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And on the reservoir, not everybody uses one, define tubing, pre-fill and close the loop. http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=16723
yes most of the time the reservoir is used as decanter... it's as used in track car if you check your coolant level and a part remove presure (tap cap or valve) you can remove coolant reservoir. btw my computer "reservoir" is 15cm of 10/13 tube with fillport on top when it goes down i add few and it's ok... never have problem on my WC since many many years (on other hand pump and cooler unit are 5/6m away on other room... lot of fluid in tube already).
#5110999
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Are you a wizard? I don't know how you managed it otherwise 🙂
#5111085
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Why do liquid cooling if the things that need them most, the GPUs, don't use it? You could have stuck with your crossfire setup if you changed the cooling for them. Intel CPUs these days hardly warrant liquid cooling. A hefty air cooler is usually more than enough.
If your renderer supports CUDA/OpenCL you want to render on GPUs. A single high-end GPU generally trashes any CPU around. 3 of those is quite ridiculous. Not to mention multi-GPU scaling is pretty much perfect and you don't even need similar video cards like CFX/SLI. You can throw in any cards you want. LE: This was referring to the fact that he said he's using the desktop as a render slave aswell.
#5111820
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With the additional photos it looks a little nicer in those and he did some neat work. I'm coming around to liking this though his comments on AMD originally are pretty funny. Better than that other batman rig for sure by a clear mile. I still would not trust three high end cards in it and do not believe they would survive myself. But two yeah. It would be nice to see temps and stuff on these rigs and altogether their numbers for in game use. I don't think that is too much to ask unless they are not very well workable in real world use. Pretty solid case and a lot of hard work here even if the three card thing might not actually be workable. In the future I would say post those actual photos that show the work being put into the rig. Otherwise we have no idea if this case was just bought mostly as is.
Hilbert already posted what you're saying. Page 1.
Added a photo for mr. sourpuss here. Oh and here here and here to see the chassis evolve and running. And on the reservoir, not everybody uses one, define tubing, pre-fill and close the loop. Now eat them ... 🤓 http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=16723
#5113266
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Airflow is not good and there's air in the loop.

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