SketchUp MNPCTech Sketchup Case Design Competition 3

Riser card heaven
hopefully you'll find what you need there
It does look like you need extremely long risers though
Good luck !

You could always stack a few ... Would the extra length lead to any lower performance? What about voltage drop ?

 

Rep for that mate, even though they were already on my radar

In particular, THIS card is the one i'm going to use. Well, two in fact. On the site:

Why would they sell it if it doesn't work?

I'm using PCIe x8 because it'll look better, will be easier to route, and doesn't make a damn bit of difference, since i'm on s1156, and only have a total of 16 PCIe lanes, and even if i did have more, it wouldn't make a difference.

I hope the length of the PCIe extenders wont hurt stability or performance. If it does, i can resort to shorter ones and turning the cards around (not as good-looking obviously), or, in extreme cases, solder them to the back of the board. I've secured this schematic to help me do that, lord help me if i get stupid enough to actually try

 

and now.... something completely different



maybe if i'm motivated enough i'll be able to finish this washing machine look a like case untill the deadline

 

John's going to flip out on you.

 

Listen to The Cheaps! He knows things.

 

Thankyou very much for that link. Have some rep.

 

ok, i'm pretty much done with my design, doing some final retouching atm. I'm not going to spoil everything before the deadline, but heres a teaser shot:

 

Everyone's a tease this time...

 

yup. im starting my new one this weekend once i rebuild a pc for someone though

 

and off i start! new idea, still same colours though. man im predictable

 

You have a point...

plus, who am i kidding? It's not as if there'll be significant enough progress by the 30th for the worklogs to benefit from the secrecy.
I wont post it in the logs, if people wanna see, they can either find their way here or wait

Anyway, here's the finished(ish) screenshots of my little big project...











FULL parts list:

Hardware:
Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Gene
Processor: Intel Core I7-870
Memory: TBD
Graphics: (2x) ATI HD5870
Power Supply: Cooler Master M1000
HDD: (3x) Spinpoint F1 750GB
SSD: 1.8" Intel 80GB G1
Screen: Mimo 740 7" USB touchscreen

Cooling:
Pump: Aquacomputer AquaStream Ultra
Radiator: (2x) XSPC RX120
CPU block: Heatkiller rev3.0
GPU block: (2x) Swiftech MCW-60
Reservoir: FrozenQ's Liquid Fusion (custom)
Fan: (2x) San Ace 1211
Control: mCubed FanAMP
Fittings: around €150 of bitspower stuff
Fluid: Feser One Red

I know i didn't succeed in sticking to the assignment, which was to make all-out batshit insane setups that are completely unbuildable. I'm going to actually build this

 

fux i crashed sketchup again....

 

heres hoping the autosave was recent

 

...... EXPLETIVE........

sketchup crashed loading the autosave so all that work is gone. again.

 

how do you do that man? Sketchup hasn't crashed on me in ages, and it doesn't seem like my model is THAT much simpler then yours...

Sucks mate, you really have a cool style and great ideas

 

i have no idea. fresh install of 7.1 too! maybe my pc needs more ram :/

 

maybe third attempt at the design will be the lucky one. and i will remember to save this time

 

maybe? :S

I find Sketchup to be very heavy on disk I/O and CPU. Both are quite covered in my rig, but i still feel the need to make things work better.
i have an intel 80GB SSD sitting here, i hope that'll make things go more smoothly, too bad it's a DOA that's up for RMA

 

followers of the previous competitions may recognise a certain element

 

i thought it might be the watercooling models crashing SU