srmarkovic

A long time ago... It was in 1998 or 1996.... Empty, then new rack.... It was send to trash in 2012. 

November 2015.

Avgust 2015. Greece
2014.  with Japanese Ambassador

2013. 

Well I am software and net engineer in PE. There are a lot of mighty servers in firm I work for and I wanted something like this. I'll do benchmarks and YT when I finish my build.

45cmx70cm workspace


 
 
 
 
https://youtu.be/0OLQr0X32BU
 
 

Huh last year (more than a year ago) I bought 8x8GB for 89€ and I thought to buy rest kits of memory later. It is so expensive now.
 
Great build I like it! 

Hi everyone.
 
So, my friend decided he needs to go overkill for his Flight Simulator. We had build previously a PC with 7700k, 32gb ram, GTX 1080 in a Thermaltake P3 case. He sold that PC as he said he needs more cores for the sim. So off he went and bought an i9-7900x and as it wasn't enough he also bought an ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB ROG POSEIDON Watercooled and some 32gb of Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz of course alongside with a decent motherboard, Asus ROG OC X299 Rampage VI Apex. Everything will be housed in the Thermaltake The Tower 900.
 
It will be a watercooled build, black and white with some orange accents. This would be my first one so expensive and also my first watercooled one.
 
No hard tubing but soft one with 90 and 45 degree elbows in order to look neat.
 
Hopefully we will start this weekend but we'll see. Will post pictures with future components soon.
 
And some pictures (or else it didn't happened - don't mind my nerdy face):

Just sharing my build.
 
Case: Corsair C70 modded clear side panel 
Motherboard: Asus Pro Gamer Z97
CPU: i7 4790k@4.6ghz cooled by a NZXT X61
Ram: 32gb Corsair Vengeance at the time it was 50% off couldn’t help but buy two 16gb kits
GPU: EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW3
SSD: Kingston 250gb/ 4tbs of HDDs
PSU: EVGA G2 750 watt
 
Future upgrades I might do is get a bigger SSD or custom watercooling loop but for now I’m more then happy with it.
 
 

I haven't finish my build log, but now after more than a year I opened my comp to clean it from dust, so I made a few photos. I also made a list of parts I used. 
Parts I bought
Motherboard:
Intel® Server Board S2600COEIOC (new)                216€
Ram:
64GB (8x8GB) DDR3 1333MHz ECC REG (used)     98€
Processors:
2 x E5-2670 SROKX C2 (used)                                 120€
Case:
Phanteks Enthoo Pro with window case (new)          122€ 
PSU:
RAIDMAX RX-1000AE-B (new)                                 120€
CPU coolers:
2 x LC-CC-120 - CPU cooler (new)                             49€
GPU:
Asus DUAL-GTX1060-O6G GTX 1060 6GB (new)    305€
SSD:
Silicon Power S55 240GB SATA III (new)                    66€
Hard drives:
2 x HDD SATA3 2TB WD Purple WD20PURZ           150€
Sound card:
PCIEx1 7.1 sound card (new)                                      14€
USB 3.0:
PCIEx1  4 x USB3.0 addon card (new)                       13€
Aditional cables and racks:
2 x SAS 4i SFF-8087(sas to 4 satacable new)              3€
2 x Hot Swap Rack (new)                                            30€
______________________________________________________
                                                                                1306€
I also added my old parts
SSD
240GB Kingston 
Hard disks:
2 x 1TB WD Green
BlueRay writer
BH10LS30

 
 
I have to made custom holder for PCIe raid card and I used PCIe extension cable because Asus card is 2,5 slots wide.
 
 
Hot swap racks.

 
 
My 2500VA UPS.

 
 
I use LG 49UH610V 4K TV as a monitor.
 

I haven't finish my build log, but now after more than a year I opened my comp to clean it from dust, so I made a few photos. I also made a list of parts I used. 
Parts I bought
Motherboard:
Intel® Server Board S2600COEIOC (new)                216€
Ram:
64GB (8x8GB) DDR3 1333MHz ECC REG (used)     98€
Processors:
2 x E5-2670 SROKX C2 (used)                                 120€
Case:
Phanteks Enthoo Pro with window case (new)          122€ 
PSU:
RAIDMAX RX-1000AE-B (new)                                 120€
CPU coolers:
2 x LC-CC-120 - CPU cooler (new)                             49€
GPU:
Asus DUAL-GTX1060-O6G GTX 1060 6GB (new)    305€
SSD:
Silicon Power S55 240GB SATA III (new)                    66€
Hard drives:
2 x HDD SATA3 2TB WD Purple WD20PURZ           150€
Sound card:
PCIEx1 7.1 sound card (new)                                      14€
USB 3.0:
PCIEx1  4 x USB3.0 addon card (new)                       13€
Aditional cables and racks:
2 x SAS 4i SFF-8087(sas to 4 satacable new)              3€
2 x Hot Swap Rack (new)                                            30€
______________________________________________________
                                                                                1306€
I also added my old parts
SSD
240GB Kingston 
Hard disks:
2 x 1TB WD Green
BlueRay writer
BH10LS30

 
 
I have to made custom holder for PCIe raid card and I used PCIe extension cable because Asus card is 2,5 slots wide.
 
 
Hot swap racks.

 
 
My 2500VA UPS.

 
 
I use LG 49UH610V 4K TV as a monitor.
 

I understand it's not a criticism.  But my situation is not that different.  I suppose houses and gold are a good investment but...I dunno.  Saving for future generations?  Seems like cheating to me.  ;-)

Posted a couple of months back, still didn't have the 1080 and the cables. Now it's done, everything came in, cable management redone.
Planning to change monitor till next month (going for Acer Predator XB271HU).

Album: http://imgur.com/a/pYG2r

What do you think? What colour scheme should I go with the leds on PC/Desk? I like purple/violet and white more than red.
All comments  and opinions are welcome, if I could change something to Improve it.

Also have a headset but don't have a hanger underneath the desk yet so I unplugged it.

The Blue Sleeving color is a bit off in the picture. It's a darker Blue. Also got my lighting in today. I haven't decided if I'll use CCFL or LED yet.

Hello friends!
 
"Chrono Master" - project is finished!
 
HARDWARE:
CM Mastercase 5 PRO
Intel i7 5820k
ASRock X99 Taichi
Avexir Core DDR4 16Gb
Transcend 370s SSD
Asus GTX970 Strix
Cooler Master V750
Alphacool watercooling
 
BIG THANKS to sponsors:
COOLER MASTER, AQUATUNING, ALPHACOOL, ASROCK, TRANSCEND, AVEXIR
 

 
 
 
The rest of the photos you can see on page 6

It sounds interesting!

Motherboard is S2600COEIOC.
 

Showcase of my open air test bench. I know the spec isn't great, but it's something. I used this turorial: 
 
 
 
Here is my video:
 
 

My very first PC build, I got Motherboard aND Ram as a gift from my friend who decided ton go for DDR4 in last second,
  Specs: i5 4690k , GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB 2400hz Ram,MSI Z97 GAMING 5, 650 GS 80+ EVGA PSU,1TB WD Blue 7200RPM, 2x Corsair 120mm Fans, Evo Cpu cooler (Planning to get H100i as soon as I'll have some extra cash)
Case is NZXT S340 which I also got as a gift, but planning to get NZXT H440 in near future to match my color scheme 
 
 This is my first ever pc build, I was scared not to mess up anything but thanks God everything is working and hardest part was finding right place for each cable on motherboard. I am still waiting for GPU brace to level it horizontally and some cable holders to perfectly align my GPU and Mobo cables

Well Adobe does't use more than 10 cores so I found on net that someone run two instances of Adobe and select cores for each one to get real power of multiple cores. It is probably possible to render with 8 cores and record game with other 8 or render with more and record game with rest. There are 16 cores and 32 ht with 3.3GHz clock, plenty of ram, 84 PCI lanes and 4 ethernet ports so it is even possible to make 2,3,4 machines with unraid. Linus made it with one PC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJw8IKVYQ8
so it will be possible to do similar (but not so powerful, he probably had result about 28,000 ) with two e5-2670  CPUs which in my test  had
CPU Mark 19,468
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
 

Processors clocks are lower than 4.5GHz of my i7 (which has only 750 in Cinebench) and I bought 

for 303€, which is not the best gpu. I got gpu today, I am watching olimpic games (our team win gold in water-polo and I am waiting finale of female volleyball) so I just installed os and drivers and  haven't test this build in real world scenario, and I don't think that it  will be something special. I will know when I try it with GAMES!!!!! I will post results when I play a few games. But it doesn't matter if it performs or not, it looks so good!
 
I know that comments will be that it is build for other purpose. 
I used to work in 3ds and Adobe, I used to write a lot of software and I used VMs for testing,  but now I am lazy  so I just play games and watch movies. Well I was young........

Excuse the clickbait, So I just upgraded from an old i3 540 system (specs in signature) and I decided to do  a build log...
 
Specs:
 
i5 6500
z170-a PRO MSI
8Gb of Hyperx Ram
s340 Black
240gb Toshiba SSD
Apex 600w PSU (Wsed)
Gtx 660 oc Windforce (from old PC)
 
Please excuse the blurry Iphone 4s pictures
 
Parts! (was supposed ot be 24hour shipping but it took 5 days....
 

 
600w PSU and Gtx 660 Pulled out of the old system.
 

 
Installed the tx3i with the nasty intel mounting, (fell off 3 times inside the case)
 

 
Just a pic while testing the pc, all parts inside! (Had to remove the cpu cooler because I could not acces the 8 pin power connector.
 

 
Added some red Leds, looks bad on the picture but is amazing in real life!
 

 
Build is done, downloaded windows and oced the cpu to 4ghz while I was waiting, got 45c in bios.
 
I could not install windows 7 in any way because it asked for drivers bould could not recognise any usb drives to browse for the drivers, currently downloading windows 8 since it comes with more modern drivers.
 
Will add a costum loop in a couple days/weeks, follow for more!

Thanks man!
 
 
Bottom fans will pull air in, top fans will blow out. I already removed the sticker:D
 
 
Thanks man! I think you will enjoy the final pictures as well then:D
 
 
 
 
 
It really is the material price that is jacking up the MSRP. For example, the alu profiles is almost 4 kilo´s alone. Most other cases are sheetmetal of very thin metal, and then some injection molded plastic. 
 
Grab a snickers instead!
 
Final pictures almost ready! Small teaser!
 

AC waterblocks applied  - I wish they provide thermal pads like EK, or even attach thermal compound. If possible I use EK next time. Sorry AC but you should not save on it. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The specs are:
X99 Deluxe motherboard 
I7 6800K CPU water cooled
GTX 970 FTW with EK block (1080 soon)
Custom water cooling loop
Fractal Design Define R5 case
Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD 
Corsair HX750i PSU
Windows 10
G Skill Tritent Z 3200 MHz ram at 3600 32gb now
IC Diamond TIM
 
If any of you have comments, let me know.