Guru3D Rig of the Month - April 2011

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 Guru3D Rig of the Month April 2011

11. Did you modify anything ?  cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.

I put the whole thing together myself. It was even my idea to use the U bolts to hold the cube radiator down on the top of the case. I custom fit and filled the whole system with a spare power supply I had. Just trip the Power OK and a ground wire to turn it on hee hee. All case holes were drilled out with a cordless drill and then the use of tin snips. Yes it was hard. For the video card, I cut a small notch out of the stock plastic shroud to get the water tubing / block to fit. It was only a 30 dollar water block but it works extremely well. The GPU never goes past 55 degrees C under Furmark. I would get close to 85 degrees C with the stock cooler. It also drops my room temp in the summer time by a few degrees. I went with the water cooling to get the huge amounts of heat out of the case when it is warmer outside.

Guru3D Rig of the Month April 2011

12. Your 3DMark06 / 3DMark Vantage score (P+GPU)

Ill have to get back to you guys on that.

13. Do you have any Future updates planned ?

I cant wait to start seeing the 8 core AMD AM3+ chips in stores. I hear that chip has about 50 percent over what my X6 can do. Its either that or Im getting a new case. I really like the Corsair 800D


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