Stormtrooper 2.0

[Rambo]

Well, this is not a new build but I´ve upgraded my rig to Crossfire with another Asus Matrix HD 7970 Platinum. 

 

I´ve been looking at the GTX 780 a while but I love my Matrix Platinum,so when I found this used card on Tradera(Ebay) the other day I decided to go for Crossfire.

After some intence bidding I got the card without exceeding the max price I had decided. 

 

It was a bit of a thight fit but the soundcard is there! I was a bit worried about the psu but it´s fine with about 650 watts out of the socket on full load. Without OC that is. It´s 35´C in the room anyway!

 

The specs.

 

motherboard Asus Rampage IV Extreme

CPU              Intel i7 3930K

CPU cooler   Corsair H100i

RAM             16GB 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Quad 1600 CL8

GPU             2 Asus Matrix HD7970 Platinum

soundcard    Asus Xonar Xense

SSD             Samsung 840 PRO 256GB

HDD             3 WD Green 2TB

PSU             Corsair TX850W

case             Corsair 600T White

monitor         Asus VG248QE 144Hz

keyboard      Corsair K60

mouse          Logitech G500

headphones Sennheiser PC350

OS               Windows 8 pro

RAM cache Fancy Cache beta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Frix]

Love the sound card just sitting in between those beasts, would like to see a pic with the rig all fired up.

[OneGun]

Put white 3d carbon fiber over the Xfire bridge..

[Rambo]

Here are some nightshots.

 

[Rambo]

Put white 3d carbon fiber over the Xfire bridge..

This was nice!

 

[OneGun]

This was nice!

 

Sweet..I did mine in white to match my storm stryker..

[Rambo]

Sweet..I did mine in white to match my storm stryker..

White would be nice!

[nelodiavolo]

Awesome man! I have one 7970 Matrix Plat. I can only imagine how balls to the wall two would be.  B)

[Rambo]

Love the sound card just sitting in between those beasts, would like to see a pic with the rig all fired up.

 

I think that I should get an external sound card. It feels like the sound card is chokeing the gpu. But there´s only a 10´C difference between the cards at full load.

[HirgaLTTki]

I think that I should get an external sound card. It feels like the sound card is chokeing the gpu. But there´s only a 10´C difference between the cards at full load.

 

PCI-E extensions maybe? Wont help that much i suppose

http://dx.com/p/pci-e-16x-male-to-female-extension-cable-20cm-127599

[knight_40k]

I really like what you've done but that hideous old school Corsair label needs to go.

 

AX860/i or Antec's new 800 HCG-M PSU's would look awesome in there. Just saying. Otherwise, love it!

[Rambo]

I really like what you've done but that hideous old school Corsair label needs to go.

 

AX860/i or Antec's new 800 HCG-M PSU's would look awesome in there. Just saying. Otherwise, love it!

Yeah, I've been thinking about the AX860i and I want a modular psu. I am just gonna find out how much power my rig wants with cf when oc, now that I'm about to finish the build.

I want to have some other memory, because the low profiles was a trade of from when I had a h80 in the rig. I used to have 32GB

of those also, but 16GB is in my daughters new Haswell build.

[BenD]

how the hell did you squeeze a sound card in there? check my build log, there is just no room with those 3 slots gpus?

[TaiGeXGaming]

Those GPU's though... Whoah, they're huge man!  Surprised you got that sound card in there too!

[Rambo]

how the hell did you squeeze a sound card in there? check my build log, there is just no room with those 3 slots gpus?

If it wasn´t for the backplate of the 7970 the soundcard would short circuit the pcb!

It would look better though without the soundcard but I like the audio quality!