Read this, I spent hours on this stupid post. Literally.
Here's the tour, first off, it starts with this case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112169Read the specs. 8 places for hard drives, 7 places for cd rom drives, etc.
Take a look at the internals:
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=208&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=61&g=fhttp://lian-li.com/v2/tw/product/upload/image/V2010/V2010s1.jpgor check out:
It has room for two power supplies, and the hard drives are stored in their own special place at the bottom. Seriously, look at the thermal benefits of this.
This is the motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131274Given the structure of the motherboard, I can fit two 9800 GX2's onto it, as well as the included pci-e soundcard, a pci video card, and, since the motherboard lacks RAID support, a 16x pci-e sata raid controller card. The motherboard also supports up to 8 GB of DDR3 RAM @ 2000 megahertz.
Ok, so let's load 'er up with two vidya cards:
2x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130355These will be in SLI, and since I plan on using two monitors, I'll need a second video card to display the second monitor and tv output, since an SLI setup is for one monitor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143110Anyway, I'll also need 8 GB of DDR3 memory, found here:
2x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145185Quadcore 3.2Ghz processor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115051Power supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341014Great thing about that power supply is that it can deliver all 1000 watts on a single rail. Why would that be important? Well, power supplies don't put all their wattage on each rail, it's so much wattage per rail. If you have a high-powered system, it's a serious problem should one rail be overloaded. This single-rail system allows for ALL wattage to be used when needed, which is incredibly crucial when trying to feed two monstrous video cards in SLI.
This is a video of it:
Anyway, I'll have two of these, and this will have several benefits: 1) It will be able to power the entire rig 2) it will improve the airflow on the bottom half of the case.
Continuing on to storage...
For the C:\ drive, it would be a RAID array in RAID 10 (1 + 0) of four 300GB disks at 10,000 RPM. What this means is 600 GB in a theoretical 12 GB/s read speed, 6 GB/s write speed. (Think about it, four ungodly fast 10k rpm drives reading information at once) Also included is redundancy, so should one drive ever fail, it may be easily swapped out with a new one with no data lost.
This is the RAID card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103086And this is the hard drive:
4x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136260For the X:\ drive, it would also be in a RAID array of RAID 10, but this time with four disks of 1 TB each. Again, 2 TB at a theoretical 12 GB/s read, 6 GB/s write.
4x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148278Next, two blu-ray burners attached via SATA on the motherboard:
2x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827131055As well as two lightscribe DVD burners, (SATA, mobo):
2x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135156Both setups should allow for sufficient bluray/dvd/cd copying. (make 3 copies from a dvd at once, even)
Next, the computer will be displayed by two 24" LCDs:
2x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009125Obviously, the left one will be in SLI, while the right will be powered by the GeForce 6200.
The keyboard will be able to have a special LCD screen on each key (fucking epic, no doubt [for an epic computer]):
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=23205As well as the mouse, that apparently does special shit when you wave it around like a wiimote or something:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104089Of course, we can't forget our good old friend Arctic Silver 5 for greasing our heatsink:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007Ok, ok.. Heatsink? Well, what heatsink? Would I really settle for the heatsink/fan that came with the processor? Of course not!
We'll be watercooling this one.
First, the pump. It's a big, beefy one, as it should be: it has lots of water to push:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=142&cat=26&page=1#tabsShortly after being pumped, our water needs to be cooled down first. Let's cool them down with
7 120mm radiators. Two of these:
2x
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=260&cat=90&page=1and one of these to mount to the 120mm fan in the rear:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=255&cat=90&page=1To cool down the radiators, we will add six 120mm fans to the radiators, and switch out the stock rear fan for a new one of these:
7x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185054Since these are extremely high-performance fans, let's add a fan controller to tone the radiator fans down a bit when we don't want things to get so loud:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999172Since we don't really like noise, let's go ahead and get some attenuators to polish the line connection:
7x
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=127&products_id=4612So, now the water is nice and chilly, ready to go to our CPU through our water block:
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=199&products_id=23665And then to the northbridge on the motherboard, which was handily already included with a waterblock. From there, it will pass through one of our two 9800 GX2's through these:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=336&cat=48&page=1Then to this to cool down that 6200:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=150&cat=48&page=1And then back to the other 9800 GX2, back to the pump.
Along the way of the whole loop, we'll need 8 feet of tygon tubing (a little extra never hurt):
8x
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=172&cat=33&page=1Twenty-Four clamps to secure the tubing to the barbs (4 for spares):
24x
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=62A fillport for our tubed-style reservoir/T line:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=56&cat=95&page=1And lastly, a T-line tree fitting:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=239&cat=95&page=1Wait, don't forget the
water non-conductive formula:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/product.php?productid=311&cat=63&page=1Here's the Specs:
3.2 Ghz Quadcore
8 GB DDR3 1600 RAM
2.6 TB Total storage, split via:
600 GB RAID 1 + 0, 4x 300 GB 10k RPM
2 TB RAID 1 + 0, 4x 1 TB
SLI'd 9800 GX2's. (Dual-SLI)
2,000 Watts power potential (damn near)
2 bluray burners
2 DVD burners
8 120mm fans, 140mm fan, (6 120mm's in a fan controller)
GeForce 6200 PCI
Two 24" LCD monitors
Extensive watercooling, including 6 120mm radiators for 3 video cards, north bridge, CPU.
And that's about it, I think. Thanks for reading.
Is it sex, or is it love? Either way, I might actually kill someone for this setup.