Tedious or Fun?

[affiliate13]

Well guys i7 is on the way and before it hits us i thought it might be interesting (or not) to take a moment to design your ultimate skt775 rig.

There are no rules to what you can come up with just that the system is based on the trusty Skt775.

Imagine you have won that 100m lottery fund from last month and strangley got bored of G5s', yachts, monaco, bugatti veyrons, bikini clad gold diggers and russian oligarchs parties and returned to building high performance PCs.

[godsdog]

requires some thought

[Clunk]

It's hard for me to get excited about 775 boards nowadays unless they offer something different.

I think the best combo I've used in the last 12 months has to be the JR and the E8600, I haven't seen anything perform better than that for day to day stuff

[Kelainefes]

First things first: why on earth would the gold diggers be clad in anything?

As for the rig:

-Hardware

• 2xKoolance 1700W Liquid-Cooled Power Supply
• DimasTech Easy Bench V2 Table
• LANPARTY UT X48-T3RS
• Intel QX9770
• 2x ATI HD4870X2
• ASUS HDAV 1.3 Deluxe
• Corsair TW3X4G2000C9DF DDR3-2000 2x2GB kit
• 6xIntel X25-E 64 GB SSDs, RAID0 in pairs
• 2xSeagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB RAID0
• Plextor PX-B920UF Firewire BluRay writer
• vast selection of keyboards, mice and various gaming devices to pick from depending on the mood

-Cooling Loop 1

• XSPC Delta V3 CPU Block
• Laing DDC Ultra 18W Pump
• TFC XChanger 480ER Radiator
• 4xScythe Ultra Kaze DFS123812-3000
• 4xTFC Shrouds
• 2xCoolit Boreas Chiller
• 1/2" tubing
• XSPC 500mm Passive Aluminium Reservoir
• Feser One Coolant

-Cooling Loop 2

• 2xXSPC Razor 4870 X2 Full Cover Blocks
• Laing DDC Ultra 18W Pump
• 2xTFC XChanger 480ER Radiator
• 8xScythe Ultra Kaze DFS123812-3000
• 8xTFC Shrouds
• 2xCoolit Boreas Chiller
• 1/2" tubing
• XSPC 500mm Passive Aluminium Reservoir
• Feser One Coolant

-Cooling loop 3 (includes the PSUs too)

• 2xXSPC X2O Delta Chipset Blocks
• Laing DDC Ultra 18W Pump
• 2xTFC XChanger 480ER Radiator
• 8xScythe Ultra Kaze DFS123812-3000
• 8xTFC Shrouds
• 2xCoolit Boreas Chiller
• 1/2" tubing
• XSPC 500mm Passive Aluminium Reservoir
• Feser One Coolant

-Submersion cooling

Everything but the Plextor, the Seagate HDs, the radiators and the Boreas Chillers, will be dipped in a mineral oil filled huge tank.
The oil will be cooled by:

• Innovatek HPPS i Pump
• 2xTFC XChanger 480ER Radiator
• 4xCoolit Boreas Chiller

Obviously all of the Boreas chillers and the radiators will be in a separate, air conditioned and sound-proofed room, tubing and power cables will be passed through a wall.

Overkill enough?

[kinnsy]

"ultimate skt775 rig"

One that isn't obsolete within six months.

[Kelainefes]

It all depends what you mean with obsolete.
If you mean that a new system that can deliver twice the firepower will be out by that time, ok, it's true, but if you mean not up to the task, "not cutting it anymore", and stuff like that, i think that any Intel quad at 3.4-3.6 with 4GB of memory, a HD4870/GTX260/GTX280 will be more than enough for another year.

[affiliate13]

Originally Posted by godsdog

requires some thought

Exactly, im looking for the one you've built in your head a hundred times or in shopping carts on petras and the egg.

Originally Posted by Clunk

It's hard for me to get excited about 775 boards nowadays unless they offer something different.

I think the best combo I've used in the last 12 months has to be the JR and the E8600, I haven't seen anything perform better than that for day to day stuff

I understand, you have prolly exhausted everything inspiring 775 could deliver, its simply that we have reached the top end of what this particular incarnation could deliver and i wondered what would be the best assembly that could be be done before it goes would look like.

[affiliate13]

Originally Posted by Kelainefes

First things first: why on earth would the gold diggers be clad in anything?

As for the rig:

-Hardware

• 2xKoolance 1700W Liquid-Cooled Power Supply
• DimasTech Easy Bench V2 Table
• LANPARTY UT X48-T3RS
• Intel QX9770
• 2x ATI HD4870X2
• ASUS HDAV 1.3 Deluxe
• Corsair TW3X4G2000C9DF DDR3-2000 2x2GB kit
• 6xIntel X25-E 64 GB SSDs, RAID0 in pairs
• 2xSeagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB RAID0
• Plextor PX-B920UF Firewire BluRay writer
• vast selection of keyboards, mice and various gaming devices to pick from depending on the mood

-Cooling Loop 1

• XSPC Delta V3 CPU Block
• Laing DDC Ultra 18W Pump
• TFC XChanger 480ER Radiator
• 4xScythe Ultra Kaze DFS123812-3000
• 4xTFC Shrouds
• 2xCoolit Boreas Chiller
• 1/2" tubing
• XSPC 500mm Passive Aluminium Reservoir
• Feser One Coolant

-Cooling Loop 2

• 2xXSPC Razor 4870 X2 Full Cover Blocks
• Laing DDC Ultra 18W Pump
• 2xTFC XChanger 480ER Radiator
• 8xScythe Ultra Kaze DFS123812-3000
• 8xTFC Shrouds
• 2xCoolit Boreas Chiller
• 1/2" tubing
• XSPC 500mm Passive Aluminium Reservoir
• Feser One Coolant

-Cooling loop 3 (includes the PSUs too)

• 2xXSPC X2O Delta Chipset Blocks
• Laing DDC Ultra 18W Pump
• 2xTFC XChanger 480ER Radiator
• 8xScythe Ultra Kaze DFS123812-3000
• 8xTFC Shrouds
• 2xCoolit Boreas Chiller
• 1/2" tubing
• XSPC 500mm Passive Aluminium Reservoir
• Feser One Coolant

-Submersion cooling

Everything but the Plextor, the Seagate HDs, the radiators and the Boreas Chillers, will be dipped in a mineral oil filled huge tank.
The oil will be cooled by:

• Innovatek HPPS i Pump
• 2xTFC XChanger 480ER Radiator
• 4xCoolit Boreas Chiller

Obviously all of the Boreas chillers and the radiators will be in a separate, air conditioned and sound-proofed room, tubing and power cables will be passed through a wall.

Overkill enough?

Yep thats the one.

Not sure they would be clothed all the time; i like a little cheese on my steak - it cant be all about the meat.

Originally Posted by kinnsy

"ultimate skt775 rig"

One that isn't obsolete within six months.

Precisely, i wanted to see the pinacle of what this platform would be if money were no object, a bit of sober rememberence for a skt which started with the shocking netbursts and by the end of its life houses the most overclockable chips in recent memory.

i7 looms like the promise of every brilliant christmas you had until you were 9 and started getting £3 book tokens and weird coats you were never likely to wear by choice at it made you look like a disadvantaged foreign exchange student with a hump-like spinal deformity . So this was only looking to see what interesting specs would be delivered considering we may not see its like again.

I have high hopes for i7, i just hope it delivers like a E8600 and X48.

Pretty much what Kelainefes put up tbh.

[godsdog]

K, thought enough and arrived at the conclusion that 775 doesn't make me moist enough. I'd go LGA771 over a certain price point and be quite happy.

[Kelainefes]

Skulltrail?