Contest rigs

Aquinus · Dec 1, 2012, 08:03 AM

Hello everyone,

Yesterday while I was at work I got a text from my wife; "you're computers are here." So I will be doing some unboxing pictures and what not. Here is a teaser until I wake up a bit more and start unpacking these puppies.

Thanks again to Team TPU, Norton, and ThE_MaD_ShOt (plus some others, please let me know if you contributed to the charity rig and I will throw you name here.)

P.S. They arrived at the same time despite coming from two different places being shipped out on two different days. Great timing.

Update: Here are the rest of the pictures. I'll be powering up the machine from Norton once I have a moment to clean up and make room for it somewhere. I suspect since I have little room in my office that it will run in my living room (where the pictures were taken,) hooked up to the Plasma since I don't have an extra display. On to the pictures!

Rig #1 -- In particular, I really like this case. Thank you, Norton.

Also Norton, was this just an extra case fan? It was floating in the case not hooked up to anything.

Rig #2 - Charity Rig

Jetster · Dec 1, 2012, 08:52 AM

Nice

Aquinus · Dec 1, 2012, 09:56 AM

Updated with pictures.

Chevalr1c · Dec 1, 2012, 10:20 AM

In the background there is a clue about you being a father.

Norton · Dec 1, 2012, 10:47 AM

Great timing on getting them both at once!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquinus

Also Norton, was this just an extra case fan? It was floating in the case not hooked up to anything.

I had that fan zip tied neatly into the case to draw air in from the side panel to cool the NB and VRM's (used a mobo header for power). Here's a pic so you can see where I used it:

*Disconnected it so it wouldn't get damaged during shipping.

Bow · Dec 1, 2012, 02:25 PM

[Ion] · Dec 1, 2012, 02:32 PM

That's awesome! Have you decided on a recipient for the charity rig?

Aquinus · Dec 1, 2012, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [Ion]

That's awesome! Have you decided on a recipient for the charity rig?

I have but I just tried to start up the charity rig and it isn't posting. Motherboard 7-segment display is saying "FF". Running just one stick hasn't done anything. I'm about to reseat the processor.

Edit: So I take the cooler off and the CPU isn't completely in the socket. I've cleaned it off, put it back in and I'm about to re-mount the cooler.

Edit 2: Put the cooler back on, booted it up and presto, we're in business.

Norton · Dec 1, 2012, 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquinus

I have but I just tried to start up the charity rig and it isn't posting. Motherboard 7-segment display is saying "FF". Running just one stick hasn't done anything. I'm about to reseat the processor.

Edit: So I take the cooler off and the CPU isn't completely in the socket. I've cleaned it off, put it back in and I'm about to re-mount the cooler.

USPS must have bounced that box around a bit too much

You should be able to check this on the Black rig by making sure the cooler is still tight, the cpu would have to rip out through the pcb to come out of the socket with the mounting system that Xig uses.

[Ion] · Dec 1, 2012, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquinus

I have but I just tried to start up the charity rig and it isn't posting. Motherboard 7-segment display is saying "FF". Running just one stick hasn't done anything. I'm about to reseat the processor.

Edit: So I take the cooler off and the CPU isn't completely in the socket. I've cleaned it off, put it back in and I'm about to re-mount the cooler.

Edit 2: Put the cooler back on, booted it up and presto, we're in business.

Glad that fixing it was so easy

I assume that you're going to crunch on the other rig?

Aquinus · Dec 1, 2012, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [Ion]

Glad that fixing it was so easy

I assume that you're going to crunch on the other rig?

Absolutely. I'm going to install (already have in fact,) installed Ubuntu with XBMC. BOINC is installed, I just have to set it up.

[Ion] · Dec 1, 2012, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquinus

Absolutely. I'm going to install (already have in fact,) installed Ubuntu with XBMC. BOINC is installed, I just have to set it up.

Sweet! Ubuntu works very well for dedicated crunchers. My C2D running Ubuntu x64 is doing ~50-75% higher PPD than the one running Windows x64 (they're both nearly identically-clocked C2Ds with 6MB L2). I'm really very impressed with it

Aquinus · Dec 1, 2012, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [Ion]

Sweet! Ubuntu works very well for dedicated crunchers. My C2D running Ubuntu x64 is doing ~50-75% higher PPD than the one running Windows x64 (they're both nearly identically-clocked C2Ds with 6MB L2). I'm really very impressed with it

Yeah, I figured that it could double as a HTPC. Using the right CPU scheduler should make BOINC almost invisible on *nix. Also I tend to run BOINC as a service on *nix so it's very transparent.

That is what I'm doing on my 940 right now and that is at work.

Also, I do know who the charity rig is going to. A co-worker's tower broke a month ago, he is a student and doesn't have the money to invest in a new rig and is using a single core AMD laptop from 6 years ago as well as a dell with a skt775 Pentium 4. It's perfect for him because he already has a 6750 to slap in it (I already broke the news to him, he is very excited.)

cdawall · Dec 1, 2012, 06:25 PM

I like that Cougar case. Can't wait to see how these go.

Aquinus · Dec 1, 2012, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdawall

I like that Cougar case. Can't wait to see how these go.

It's the thing I like the most about all of it. It's a very nice chassis. It's as solid as it looks as good, it's not just looks. I should ask Norton for case recommendations from now on.

Norton · Dec 1, 2012, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquinus

It's the thing I like the most about all of it. It's a very nice chassis. It's as solid as it looks as good, it's not just looks. I should ask Norton for case recommendations from now on.

Actually, after using the NZXT Source 210's I was a little disappointed with this one as far as building in it. However:

- It does look nice
- It's a little shorter than the 210
- I got it real cheap as a NewEgg special w/free shipping

cdawall · Dec 1, 2012, 09:48 PM

How noisy are the fans in it?

Norton · Dec 1, 2012, 09:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdawall

How noisy are the fans in it?

I'm guessing not too bad, it was OK for me.

The case only came with an orange Cougar fan in the back- there's 2x120mm 1200 rpm CM or Rosewill fans on top and a 140mm Xigmatek in the front

cdawall · Dec 1, 2012, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norton

I'm guessing not too bad, it was OK for me.

The case only came with an orange Cougar fan in the back- there's 2x1200 rpm CM or Rosewill fans on top and a 140mm Xigmatek in the front

2x120mm rad fit in the top?

Norton · Dec 1, 2012, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdawall

2x120mm rad fit in the top?

I don't think it's possible... I barely got the board in the case with the cooler installed and needed to take out the rear fan to get the cpu power connector plugged in.

This pic shows how tight it is up there:

pic

cdawall · Dec 1, 2012, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norton

I don't think it's possible... I barely got the board in the case with the cooler installed and needed to take out the rear fan to get the cpu power connector plugged in.

This pic shows how tight it is up there:

pic

Wont clear my memory thanks.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Dec 1, 2012, 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquinus

I have but I just tried to start up the charity rig and it isn't posting. Motherboard 7-segment display is saying "FF". Running just one stick hasn't done anything. I'm about to reseat the processor.

Edit: So I take the cooler off and the CPU isn't completely in the socket. I've cleaned it off, put it back in and I'm about to re-mount the cooler.

Edit 2: Put the cooler back on, booted it up and presto, we're in business.

Hmm thing must have taken a hell of a bounce. The extra cables where tucked up in the front really neatly when I got done with him. I though that cooler was pretty snug and not heavy at all. Well atleast all is good with it. Glad you got them man.

Keep us posted on them and the dealings with the charity rig.

System Name:	Kratos
Processor:	Intel Core i7 3820 @ 4.37Ghz (128.6x34) 1.384-1.395v (LLC)
Motherboard:	ASUS P9X79 Deluxe
Cooling:	Zalman CPNS9900MAX 130mm
Memory:	G.Skill DDR3-2400, 16gb (4x4gb) @ 10-12-11-30-108-1T 1.65v
Video Card:	2x AMD (MSI branded) Radeon HD 6870 (Crossfire)
Hard Disk:	2x120Gb SATA3 Corsair Force GT Raid-0, 3x1Tb SATA2 RAID-5
Optical Drive:	Asus DVD Burner on Marval SATA3 Controller
CRT/LCD Model:	28" Hanspree, 22" MAG Innovision. Both DVI
Case:	Antec 1200
Sound Card:	Realtek® ALC898 8-Channel High Definition Audio
PSU:	Seasonic 1000-watt 80 PLUS Platinum
Software:	Windows 7 x64 Professional

System Name:	Delta // HTPC
Processor:	Intel i7 3770K // Intel i3 550 3.2Ghz
Motherboard:	ASRock Z77 Extreme6 // Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Socket 1156
Cooling:	Corsair H100 // SILVERSTONE NT07-1156 90mm
Memory:	Corsair Vengeance 1866 16gb //Corsair DDR3 1600 4 Gb
Video Card:	HIS 7950 3 Gb //Sapphire 6670 1 Gb
Hard Disk:	Samsung 840 250 SSD, WD Caviar Blue 500// Corsair M4 64 Gb Solid State, SAMSUNG F4 2 Tb, WD 1 Tb
Optical Drive:	LG DVDR 24X // Lite on DVDR 24X
CRT/LCD Model:	HP 23xi IPS 1080p" // 50" Samsung Plasma 720p
Case:	Corsair Obsidian Series 550D // Silverstone Granada GD05
Sound Card:	ASUS Xonar DS // HDMI Bit Stream to Yamaha RX V571
PSU:	Seagate M12II 750 // Corsair CX 430
Software:	Windows 7 64bit // Windows 7 64bit with XBMC Eden
Benchmarks:	I scored P9327 in 3DMark 11

Dec 1, 2012, 09:56 AM	#3
Aquinus Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Dover, New Hampshire, USA Posts: 4,249 (8.85/day) Thanks: 1,269 Thanked 1,325 Times in 983 Posts System Specs	Updated with pictures. __________________ MyHeat

System Name:	Kratos
Processor:	Intel Core i7 3820 @ 4.37Ghz (128.6x34) 1.384-1.395v (LLC)
Motherboard:	ASUS P9X79 Deluxe
Cooling:	Zalman CPNS9900MAX 130mm
Memory:	G.Skill DDR3-2400, 16gb (4x4gb) @ 10-12-11-30-108-1T 1.65v
Video Card:	2x AMD (MSI branded) Radeon HD 6870 (Crossfire)
Hard Disk:	2x120Gb SATA3 Corsair Force GT Raid-0, 3x1Tb SATA2 RAID-5
Optical Drive:	Asus DVD Burner on Marval SATA3 Controller
CRT/LCD Model:	28" Hanspree, 22" MAG Innovision. Both DVI
Case:	Antec 1200
Sound Card:	Realtek® ALC898 8-Channel High Definition Audio
PSU:	Seasonic 1000-watt 80 PLUS Platinum
Software:	Windows 7 x64 Professional

Dec 1, 2012, 10:20 AM	#4
Chevalr1c Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Tilburg, Netherlands Posts: 2,058 (2.07/day) Thanks: 4,951 Thanked 785 Times in 531 Posts System Specs	In the background there is a clue about you being a father. __________________ My FS/FT thread (EU only) \| DynMap of the TPU Minecraft server \| Quick monitor calibration guide \| Boot Failure Troubleshooting Chart \| Solar Team Eindhoven Family Car Project Using BOINC I crunch numbers for World Community Grid, Climateprediction, Free Rainbow Tables and POEM@home; hence assisting research.

Dec 1, 2012, 08:03 AM	#1
Aquinus Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Dover, New Hampshire, USA Posts: 4,249 (8.85/day) Thanks: 1,269 Thanked 1,325 Times in 983 Posts System Specs	Contest rigs Hello everyone, Yesterday while I was at work I got a text from my wife; "you're computers are here." So I will be doing some unboxing pictures and what not. Here is a teaser until I wake up a bit more and start unpacking these puppies. Thanks again to Team TPU, Norton, and ThE_MaD_ShOt (plus some others, please let me know if you contributed to the charity rig and I will throw you name here.) P.S. They arrived at the same time despite coming from two different places being shipped out on two different days. Great timing. Update: Here are the rest of the pictures. I'll be powering up the machine from Norton once I have a moment to clean up and make room for it somewhere. I suspect since I have little room in my office that it will run in my living room (where the pictures were taken,) hooked up to the Plasma since I don't have an extra display. On to the pictures! Rig #1 -- In particular, I really like this case. Thank you, Norton. Also Norton, was this just an extra case fan? It was floating in the case not hooked up to anything. Rig #2 - Charity Rig Attached Thumbnails __________________ MyHeat Last edited by Aquinus; Dec 1, 2012 at 09:56 AM.

Dec 1, 2012, 08:52 AM	#2
Jetster Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,875 (2.35/day) Thanks: 935 Thanked 865 Times in 633 Posts System Specs	Nice

System Name:	Intel-desk / Asgard-AMD
Processor:	Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / AMD Athlon II X2 250
Motherboard:	ASRock P45XE/MSI 785GTM-E45
Cooling:	Asus Triton 75 with 120mm Nexus fan / Scythe Shuriken
Memory:	OCZ Platinum 1066MHz (effective), 4 GB / Crucial Ballistix 1066MHz (effective), 2 GB
Video Card:	Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 / Onboard graphics (i.e. Radeon 4200)
Hard Disk:	Kingston SSDNow V300 (120GB) + Seagate Baracuda 7200.12 (500 GB) / two laptop drives of WD in RAID0
Optical Drive:	Asus DRW-2014S1T / (none)
CRT/LCD Model:	Acer AL1714 / Acer AL1916
Case:	Cooler Maste Centurion 5 / Xigmatek Asgard
Sound Card:	integrated chip, i.e. Realtek ALC888 / (same)
PSU:	OCZ ModXstream Pro 600w / OCZ ModXStream Pro 400w
Software:	Windows 7 64-bit; Various (and variating) Linux installs
Benchmarks:	Other: Sharkoon USB 3.0 controller card (2x USB 3.0, PCI-e x1 on my second PCI-e x16 slot), fan cont

System Name:	My Fortress/Trish (WCG #1)/Julia (WCG #2)/Junior (WCG #3)/Norton3 (WCG #4)/My Niece (WCG #5)/TBA
Processor:	FX-8350/PII 1045T/1045T/FX-6200/FX-8150/Xeon (6c/12t)/i7 920
Motherboard:	ASUS M5A99X Evo/ ASUS M4A79XTD Evo/Biostar A880GZ/Biostar A880GZ/ASUS M5A97 EVO/EVGA X58 SLI 3- x2
Cooling:	Xig Night Hawk/ AMD stock hp/Xig Gaia/Xig Night Hawk/Xig Night Hawk/H70/Phantek
Memory:	2x4GB G.Skill Ares DDR31866/2x4GB DDR3 1600/2x2GB DDR31600/2x2GB DDR31600/2x4GB DDR31600/2x3GB/2x3GB
Video Card:	HD 7870/8400GS/IGP/7770/HD 7870/3x HD 7770's
Hard Disk:	2xWD 640(Blue)/WD 80/WD 160/WD 320 (2.5")/WD 160(2.5")/WD VR 150GB/WD 320
Optical Drive:	DVD/RW (if used)
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell 2208WPF, 2409W / Dell 1907FP (shared)
Case:	Silverstone Fortress FT01B/Source 210/Source 210/Fractal Define Mini/Fractal R4/HAF 932/TBA
Sound Card:	on board (All)
PSU:	Corsair HX850/700w (Rosewill)/Antec HCG-620/CX500 v2/TX850/AX1200/TX550M
Software:	Windows 7 HP 64/Win7 Pro 64/ Vista 64bit/Win7 Pro 64/Win7 Pro 64/Win7 Pro 64/Win7 Pro 64
Benchmarks:	Why sit on the Bench when you can get in the game and Crunch!!!

Dec 1, 2012, 02:25 PM	#6
Bow Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Colton, New York Posts: 1,649 (0.94/day) Thanks: 754 Thanked 653 Times in 399 Posts System Specs	__________________ "I didn't want my Mom to know I was drag racing for 20 years so I told her I was in prison."

System Name:	SLO-MO-SHUN
Processor:	AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 3.97ghz
Motherboard:	MSI 990FXA-GD80 AM3+ AMD 990FX
Cooling:	CORSAIR CWCH50-1 High Performance Water Cooler
Memory:	G.Skill Ripjaws 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3 1600
Video Card:	SAPPHIRE HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 Twin Fan
Hard Disk:	SEAGATE Barracuda 7200 RPM 1TB, OCZ Vertex2 60GB SSD
Optical Drive:	ASUS DRW 24B1ST SATA 24X DVD Burner
CRT/LCD Model:	ASUS VH238H 24" 1080P 2MS HDMI LCD
Case:	AZZA Hurrican 2000
Sound Card:	MSI Onboard/Realtek
PSU:	XFX Black Edition XPS-850W 80 Plus Silver
Software:	MICROSOFT Windows 7, 64 Bit

Dec 1, 2012, 02:32 PM	#7
[Ion] WCG Team Assistant Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: North Carolina, US Posts: 10,662 (7.93/day) Thanks: 8,247 Thanked 9,325 Times in 4,260 Posts System Specs	That's awesome! Have you decided on a recipient for the charity rig? __________________ Ion's WCG Essentials Thread Crunching (64 Threads + 896 CUDA Cores + 6272 Shaders): i3-2100@ 3.1 + HD7850 -- Atom D510 @ 1.66 -- C2D-M T9600 @ 2.8 -- i7-3612QM @ 2.8 -- i7-860 @ 2.9 + HD7950 -- i7-2700k @ 4.4 + 2xGTX470 -- PentDC-M T4200 @ 2.0 -- i7-920 @ 3.83 + 3xHD7770 -- DP Xeon E5420 @ 2.5 + HD7930 -- E1600 @ 2.4

System Name:	Peenemunde/Salzburg/Osnabruck/Rostock/
Processor:	i7-860 @ 2.9GHz / i7-2700k @ 4.4GHz / i7-920 @ 3.83GHz / Core i3-2100
Motherboard:	Asus Maximus III Gene / Asus Maximus IV Gene / EVGA X58 SLI / Asus P8H77-I
Cooling:	Xigmatek Gaia / Xigmatek Gaia / Antec H2O-620 / Stock
Memory:	4x2GB G.SKILL / 2x4GB Crucial / 1x2GB Corsair / 2x4GB G.SKILL
Video Card:	Powercolor HD7930 / PNY GTX470 + nV GTX470 SLI / 3x MSI Radeon HD7770 GHz Edition / Sapphire HD7950
Hard Disk:	Western Digital 320GB / Western Digital 320GB / Western Digital 250GB / 320GB
Optical Drive:	None
CRT/LCD Model:	Asus VH242H (23.6")
Case:	None / NZXT Source 210 / NZXT Source 210 / Cooler Master Elite 120
Sound Card:	Onboard
PSU:	Antec TruePower New 650w / Antec TPN 650w / Antec Earthwatts 650w / Antec 430w
Software:	Windows 7 Professional x64

Dec 1, 2012, 06:25 PM	#14
cdawall where the hell are my stars Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: some AF base Posts: 16,021 (6.42/day) Thanks: 457 Thanked 2,753 Times in 2,222 Posts System Specs	I like that Cougar case. Can't wait to see how these go. __________________

System Name:	Deployment build
Processor:	Phenom II B97@4080mhz 1.6v (24/7 4800mhz max clock)
Motherboard:	Asus Crosshair V Formula
Cooling:	Coolermaster V10 modded to 96w TEC, Scientific Rulian fans
Memory:	4x4GB Wintec ONE@1800 9-10-9 1.62v (24/7)
Video Card:	Sapphire 7950 3GB@1150/1400 1.27v
Hard Disk:	2x32GB STT SSD's raid 0, 1TB Samsung F3's, 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11
CRT/LCD Model:	STi 22"
Case:	Thermaltake Commandar MS-I Epic Edition
Sound Card:	E07K USB DAC->Fischer FA-002W High edition
PSU:	Antec TPQ-850 (Antec TPQ-1200 waiting for it at home)
Software:	windows 7 ultimate x64

Dec 1, 2012, 09:48 PM	#17
cdawall where the hell are my stars Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: some AF base Posts: 16,021 (6.42/day) Thanks: 457 Thanked 2,753 Times in 2,222 Posts System Specs	How noisy are the fans in it? __________________

System Name:	Selene / Yoda / Xp Gaming rig
Processor:	Phenom II x6 1090t @ 3.6 / Phenom II x6 1055t @ 3.2 / Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Motherboard:	Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 /Gigabyte 890XA-UD3 / Asus A8n Sli Premium
Cooling:	CM Hyper 212+ / CM Hyper 212+ / Koolance W/C'd
Memory:	4x 4gb G.Skill Ripjaws / 4x 4gb G.Skill Ares / 2x 1gb & 2x 512mb Crucial Pc3200
Video Card:	2x Visiontek Hd7850's C'fired / Visiontek and Xfx HD6850's C'fired / 2x Evga 8800gtx's Sli'd
Hard Disk:	2x 1tb / 2x 1tb / 250 gb
Optical Drive:	Samsung Sata dvd burner / Sony dvd burner / Sony dvd burner
CRT/LCD Model:	Hp W2207H 22" LCD / Acer 20" Led/ Viewsonic 19" Lcd
Case:	Chieftec Dragon Blue / Chieftec Dragon Blue / Koolance PC3-720BK
Sound Card:	Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio / Creative Sb Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
PSU:	Corsair TX 750 watt / Corsair TX 650 watt / Apevia 700 watt
Software:	Win 7 pro 64 bit / Win Vista Home prem. 64 bit / Win xp Pro Sp3

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