I have finally finished a labor of love that has taken over 8 months of holidays, weekends, and many many nights of work. I was fortunate enough to have “Frank” to a finish point where I took him to Quakecon 2013 and entered this rig into the Case Mod contest which eventually took first place. Please check out “Frank” in the CPU Quakecon coverage in the October edition. For your viewing pleasure, I give you Frank N SteinPC Name: Frank N SteinPC (Epic Upgrade 2013) COMPONENTS: Chassis: Mountain Mods Extended U2-UFO (Modified) & Water Barrel 24 MB: Asus ROG RE4 CPU: Intel 3930K @ 4.6Ghz daily/OC @ 5.3Ghz - all 6 cores/12 Threads RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws Z 1866Mhz 8x4GB (32GB)/OC 2133Mhz Solid GPU: EVGA GTX 680 4GB x3 - 3-Way SLI S/C: Asus Phoebus Xonar 7.1 SSD1: 2x Corsair Force GT 120GB RAID 0 - Boot SSD2: 2x Patriot Pyro SE 120GB - Programs HDD1: Toshiba 2TB 7,200RPM 6GB SATA DVD/BR: Asus 12x Blu Ray DVD/R/RW PSU: LEPA G1600 1,600W PSU/1,700W PEAK - MOST SOLID/STABLE PSU EVER! COOLING Coolant: Primochill Performance Blood Red Coolant Tinting: Primochill Dye pack (Used Blood Red, UV red, and Black) Tubing: Primochill Advanced LRT Clear 3/4"OD x 1/2" ID Fittings: Bitspower Black Sparkle finish - tons of fittings Quick Disconnects: Bitspower Black Sparkle RAM Blocks: Bitspower Universal RAM Cooling Blocks - modded CPU Blocks: Watercool Heatkiller CPU v3 - modded GPU Blocks: Watercool Hole Edition Heatkiller w/Custom Backplates - then modified MIPS Block: EK RE4 Water Blocks Modified Pumps: Aquacomputer VPP655 x4 Pump Dual Mod Tops: Bitspower Pump Controller: Koolance Dual 24v Pump Controller (Front panel) Reservoir 1: 2x Bitspower 250mm Z-tube Clear Reservoir 2: Primochill 400mm CTR Clear w/Advanced top Fan Controller 1: Bitfenix Recon 10w per ch/5 ch Fan Controller 2: Bitfenix Recon 10w per ch/5 ch Fan Controller 3: NZXT 5ch @ 30w per ch Fans Front (Push): 9x 120x25mm SilenX Effizio EFX-12-15 15dBa 74CFM Fans Front (Pull): 9x 120x38mm SilenX iXtrema IXP-76-18 18dBa 90CFM Fans Rear (Push): 9x 120x25mm Bitfenix Spectre Pro Red LED 18.9dBa 56.2CFM Fans Rear (Pull): 9x 120x25mm Enermax Magma UCMA12 18dBa 69.5CFM Fans Top: 5x 120x25mm Xigmatech Crystal Series LED Red CLF-F1252 19dBa 61.3CFM Radiator 1: Swiftech Performance 360 Radiator 2: HW Labs Black Ice Xtreme 360 Radiator 3: Alphacool UT60 360 Radiator 4: Watercool MORA-3 1080 (9x120) Flow Indicator (Analog): 2x Bitspower Flow Indicator Flow Meter: Koolance FM17N + Koolance Flow Meter Readout (Front panel) Temp Displays: XSPC v2 Temp Readout Red (In/Out Temps - Front panel) CUSTOM CABLES Sleeving used was Lutro0 Customs Coreless Paracord (Imperial Red, charcoal, black). PERPHERALS 24" Monitor: 3x Asus VW246 1920x1080 @ 60hz 27" Monitor: 1x Asus VG278HE 1920x1080 @ 144Hz 3D Control: Nvidia 3D Vision 2 kit KB: Logitech G19 Mouse: Razer Naga Molten Edition GP: Razer Nostromos HP1: Razer Tiamat 7.1 HP2: Razer BlackShark Expert 2.0 Tactile: Buttkicker Gamer 2 Speakers: Klipsch HD500 5.1 Surround Receiver: Yamaha RX-V567 Please consider the following resources when looking to do your next upgrade or build. Primochill: http://www.primochill.com/ Lutro0 Customs: http://lutro0-customs.com/ LEPA/Enermax: http://www.lepatek.com/eng/ Bitspower: http://www.bitspower.com.tw/ Mod/Smart: http://www.frozencpu.com/brands/brand/b154/ModSmart.html Bitfenix: http://www.bitfenix.com/global/en/ PerformancePCs: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php
Hello monsterpcmods, good to see you here. It's a monster, definitely has the right name (Crackin photo's too)
With the risk of sounding like a dick I'll comment on this build: + Epic hardware, most of us would kill for such a setup, really nice + The lower compartment of the build looks nice, has an open and clean look to it - The wiring under the GPU's looks like a mess, personally I'd make some sort of cover to hide it. - Paintwork has major orange skin, was it painted with spraycans? - All the controllers don't blend in and look like they're just a bunch of gizmo's with buttons, there's no consistency in them. Again, personally I'd make a custom cover for this. - Overuse of carbon film. But all in all it's an epic build you should be very proud of
Got to say,the paint needs a hit with cutting compound for sure. Hypercritical but valid points,i pointed the same thing on pOpes build,controllers are always the weak point if they dont mesh together. The Dinoc needs a heatgun on it,there are some bad bubbles going on the backplate. Personally,its the mismatched fans all over that ruin it for me and the 3rd res......looks like using sponsored parts just for the sake of having then in there rather than enhancing the build. Lot of time and effort went it to this tho,unlike Monster PC who gets his wife to do his Dinoc,so i appreciate that its not my vision,its Franks.....and Frank is a nice guy. You should do some logs rather than just photo dumping Frank.
It's obvious that a lot of work went into this, must admit though that it's certainly not my cuppa tea. I'm just not a fan of big boxes, mountain mods, caselabs etc. they make big, plain boxes. I'll echo the above comments about some of the finishing details too, all the controllers really break the look you went for with this one in my opinion. Still, that's some really beefy cooling you've got in there!
OMG IT'S HUUUGE!!! KILL IT! KILL IT BEFORE IT EATS US ALL!!! But seriously: how did you braid those GPU and mobo cables together? Inquiring minds want to know!
