Molly i7 (Large pictures)

Binge · Dec 2, 2008

Alright so I have a ton of pictures of the evolution of my PC since it was conceived around the release of the 4870. Her name is molly and she's done a lot with my Gigabyte X48T-DQ6!

Some little bit ago I caught ahold of the i7 sail and got swept up, so she's going through a life change as her LGA775 parts are worked out of the picture.

Here's a bit of history:

E8400 on a CPU340 Koolance cooler & Sapphire 3870 (thnx to my friend Jessie for letting me borrow)

E8600 on the CPU340 & HD4870 on the VID470 cooling block!

Surely this is madness! Another water cooled HD4870??!?!? :roll:

I wanted to remodel (special thanks to nflesher for the case)... Transitioned to air cooling, a q9550, 1600MHz ram, and a 4870x2~

The plan:

is to go Hybrid. i7 920 processor on water much like Fitseries with the Swiftech Apogee GTZ on a small loop using my res/pump combo, and a PA 120.3 which I'm going to somehow squeeze into the Lian Li V1000 Plus II. The motherboard will be an x58 ASUS Rampage II Extreme, attempting for 6gb of DDR3 3x2gb @ 1600MHz, a 640gb WD HDD (nothing special there), and a Gigabyte GTX280 for gaming/folding.

If anyone would like screens of benchmarks that I've done with my E8400, E8600 or Q9550 and various gfx cards/ram speeds LET ME KNOW! I'll have this computer up and running for another... 2-3 hours

The Problem!

How do I get a PA 120.3 into a Lian Li V1000 Plus II??? I have a couple ideas which include renovating the bottom of the chassis or mouting it to the rear of the system with the middle of the radiator sharing the exhaust port of the case.

InnocentCriminal · Dec 2, 2008

Morgoth sent me that picture of the nekid 4870X2 saying that's the geezer he bought the card from. I'm going to presume he was using that picture as an example of nekid X2 otherwise I'm going to get confused.

I'll look forward to your update dude, good work log so far.

Binge · Dec 2, 2008

Various Benchmarks

I like vantage because sometimes the score doesn't matter as much as how the picture looks and how the scene flows. By far my favorite card has been the GTX280 when running this benchmark. For Cinebench the HD48xx series would do better than the GTX models but what I really like is how it is a practical multi-core test more than anything

Lightsmark is just cool and has catchy music! I was disappointed when my HD48xx would perform so poorly at this test

Bluefox1115 · Dec 2, 2008

that's some mighty power usage. lol not bad.

InnocentCriminal · Dec 2, 2008

I noticed your GTX 280 is running on older drivers, 180.60 opposed to the .70's on your 260. Would that explain the higher score on the 260 y'reckon?

Binge · Dec 2, 2008

Good scores on the GTX260 is because they are using the same chip but less shader cores are activated, less rops, less memory... but still it's the same architecture. I went to 180.60 because the 180.70 are really no different and the .70 are in beta.

As for the vantage shot I posted with the higher scored 260... that is because I had PhysX turned on for that run with the 260. I would have easily gotten 14k with physX & the 280. Just take a look at the CPU scores

Binge · Dec 3, 2008

The Problem Continued...

So I've been stretching what little brain I have to come up with a way to fit the PA120.3 into my V1000 Plus II. I've thought about vertical mounts, internal, and external. I'd rather not do this externally, but the case does not leave me enough room for this monster. If anyone has anything to suggest about where I could squeeze that piece without moving my PSU I would give you thanks!

erocker · Dec 3, 2008

I would think the entire front needs to be gutted and a slimline DVD burner would have to be used. You could get a 2*120 in the lower portion horizontally, but deffinitely not a 3*120 with the PSU in there the way it is.

Binge · Dec 3, 2008

:shadedshu I've been asking a few people what might be a solution and frankly all of these solutions suck :laugh:

Right now I'm seeing if I can get a trade going for a 120.2~ That seems like the best solution I'm going to get to keep everything internal.

Speaking of water cooling:

The i7 mount and block are in today

I'm going to have pics of a finished solution for my radiator by the end of tonight. Tomorrow I'm going to be working on the concept art for the case.

Thrackan · Dec 3, 2008

Ooh, I lurve concept art! Subscribed

Fitseries3 · Dec 3, 2008

sell the v1000 and get either a v1200 or a v2000.... or a totally different case lol!

Binge · Dec 3, 2008

fitseries3 said:
sell the v1000 and get either a v1200 or a v2000.... or a totally different case lol!

That's depressing... I know I sell a lot of things but I try and keep what is nice. The V1000 is a suprisingly nice case! I'd take offers but geeze... I would end up spending more to sell it at a decent price & buy a bigger case.

Fitseries3 · Dec 3, 2008

i tell you... i LOVED my TJ07 but when it stopped being a functional part of my setup i knew it was time to let it go. the day i shipped it out i almost cried but im over it now. i musta sank $800 into that case but the return was pretty good overall. i had MANY days and nights of modding that were quite fun.

Binge · Dec 4, 2008

The Problem... potentially fixed!

I have one idea that involves removing the bottom part (a bit over 5") of the 5 1/4" drive bay tray up to the height of the 120.3 on it's side (which is 5") and then cutting a window hole in the side pannel and covering that with modder's mesh for airflow. The nozzles would be toward the front of the case.

The idea seems a little scary for me since I haven't done too much modding in my time, but I would like to try if it doesn't sound too terrible.

Right now the system is looking like this...

Binge · Dec 4, 2008

Concept Art: Molly's growing up!

Decided to start tonight with some ideas

Thrackan · Dec 4, 2008

Nice drawing skills! Not my style, but it's nicely done.

InnocentCriminal · Dec 4, 2008

HEH HEH HEH! Molly's lookin' fine! Maybe you could make her into a bit of naughty devil.

Binge · Dec 4, 2008

The Mailman Must Love Me

More concept art to come...

Fitseries3 · Dec 4, 2008

looks familiar. hmmm.... doesnt someone else have that same setup?

Binge · Dec 4, 2008

fitseries3 said:
looks familiar. hmmm.... doesnt someone else have that same setup?

[FT] x58 ASUS Rampage II Extreme 4 something fit didn't perform the nasty with... :shadedshu

Fitseries3 · Dec 4, 2008

hey... im selling mine to get the P6T6 Revolution.

Katanai · Dec 4, 2008

fitseries3 said:
hey... im selling mine to get the P6T6 Revolution.

Now that's a manly board!

Deleted member 24505 · Dec 4, 2008

Like this you mean binge?

I also have a 120.1 on the reae of the case now too.

nflesher87 · Dec 4, 2008

thanks for the shoutout on the case

I have an unorthodox suggestion for ya, one of my friends actually just told me how he found some type of air purifier that wasn't working anymore sitting my a garbage dumpster (so technically it was dumpster diving lol) and when he opened it up, it's going to work perfect for his PA 120.3 and already has three 120x25mm fans in it

just a thought

Binge · Dec 4, 2008

tigger said:
Like this you mean binge?

Nope. Much the same but the pa120.3 would be horizontal and I'd put a small platform near the rear 120mm fan to keep the ass end of the rad up.

nflesher87 said:
thanks for the shoutout on the case

I have an unorthodox suggestion for ya, one of my friends actually just told me how he found some type of air purifier that wasn't working anymore sitting my a garbage dumpster (so technically it was dumpster diving lol) and when he opened it up, it's going to work perfect for his PA 120.3 and already has three 120x25mm fans in it
just a thought

You mean some housing that looks like an ionic breeze?? :laugh:

System Name	Molly
Processor	i5 3570K
Motherboard	Z77 ASRock
Cooling	CooliT Eco
Memory	2x4GB Mushkin Redline Ridgebacks
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX 680
Case	Coolermaster CM690 II Advanced
Power Supply	Corsair HX-1000

System Name	BeeR 6
Processor	Intel Core i7 3770K*
Motherboard	ASUS Maximus V Gene (1155/Z77)
Cooling	Corsair H100i
Memory	16GB Samsung Green 1600MHz DDR3**
Video Card(s)	4GB MSI Gaming X RX480
Storage	256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Display(s)	27" Samsung C27F591FDU
Case	Fractal Design Arc Mini
Power Supply	Corsair HX750W
Software	64bit Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	@ 4.6GHz *@ 2133MHz

System Name	Molly
Processor	i5 3570K
Motherboard	Z77 ASRock
Cooling	CooliT Eco
Memory	2x4GB Mushkin Redline Ridgebacks
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX 680
Case	Coolermaster CM690 II Advanced
Power Supply	Corsair HX-1000

Processor	FX 8150 4.41Ghz
Motherboard	Asus Crosshair V Formula
Cooling	Custom Water
Memory	16GB GSkill Ripjaws X 1600
Video Card(s)	Diamond Multimedia HD7970 3GB
Storage	2x WD Black 640GB, WD Black 2TB, Samsung 830 256GB SSD
Display(s)	Samsung 32" LED
Case	Cooler Master Cosmos (new version)
Audio Device(s)	Platronics 777
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition x64
Benchmark Scores	Geekbench: 10,136 3DMark 11: P7792

System Name	BeeR 6
Processor	Intel Core i7 3770K*
Motherboard	ASUS Maximus V Gene (1155/Z77)
Cooling	Corsair H100i
Memory	16GB Samsung Green 1600MHz DDR3**
Video Card(s)	4GB MSI Gaming X RX480
Storage	256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Display(s)	27" Samsung C27F591FDU
Case	Fractal Design Arc Mini
Power Supply	Corsair HX750W
Software	64bit Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	@ 4.6GHz *@ 2133MHz

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS TUF x670e
Cooling	EK AIO 360. Phantek T30 fans.
Memory	32GB G.Skill 6000Mhz
Video Card(s)	Asus RTX 4090
Storage	WD m.2
Display(s)	LG C2 Evo OLED 42"
Case	Lian Li PC 011 Dynamic Evo
Audio Device(s)	Topping E70 DAC, SMSL SP200 Headphone Amp.
Power Supply	FSP Hydro Ti PRO 1000W
Mouse	Razer Basilisk V3 Pro
Keyboard	Tester84
Software	Windows 11

System Name	Acer Aspire V3-771G-53218G75Maii
Processor	Core i5 3210M (2,5-3,1Ghz)
Memory	8GB DDR3 SODIMM
Video Card(s)	Geforce GT650M
Storage	Samsung 830 256GB - 750GB Toshiba drive
Software	Windows 7 x64 Home Premium (non-acer-bloatware)

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