Black Mesa

System Owner: texinga
3DMark Fire Strike: 0
3DMark 11: 8,155
Community Score: 25
3DMark Vantage:
3DMark 06: 0
SuperPi 32M:

ELIGIBLE

System Details

Component Type Brand Product

Motherboard EVGA SR-2

CPU Intel 2x XEON E5620

Frequency: 3.8 GHz FSB / QPI: 200 MHz Multiplier: 19 x Stepping: 2
VCore: 1.25000 v VTT Voltage: 1.350 v PLL Voltage: 1.8 v

RAM Corsair 6x Dominator GT CMT6GX3M3A2000C8

Frequency: 800 MHz Timing: 2:8 Voltage: 1.60 v

Graphics Card EVGA 2x GTX470

GPU Frequency: 625 MHz Shader Frequency: 1250 MHz Memory Frequency: 1701 MHz SLI: Yes

Case

Mountain Mods

Extended Ascension

Power Supply

Corsair

AX1200

Heatsink

Prolimatech

Mega Shadow

Keyboard

Logitech

G510

Mouse

Logitech

Wireless Trackman Wheel

Hard Drive

Western Digital

VelociRaptor 600GB

Hard Drive

Western Digital

1TB WD1001FALS

Monitor

ZR30w

CD/DVD

dvd1270

Fan

Enermax

120cm TBSilence UCTB12

Fan

Enermax

120cm Apollish red-led (CPU heatsinks) UCAP12-R

Accessory

Lian Li

EX-H34B Hot Swap Hard Drive Rack

Accessory

Lian Li

BZ-U02B Multimedia I/O Bay

Accessory

Performance PCs

Steel Mesh 120mm Fan Filter Blk ST-Filter120-S-BK

Accessory

Gelid Solutions

GC Extreme thermal paste (CPUs)

Accessory

Zalman

MFC1 Plus Fan Controllers (2)

Notes

This is both the largest physical PC I’ve built and the largest motherboard. The Mountain Mods Extended Ascension is a large case no doubt and there are advantages that I appreciate. The first advantage is being able to mount the SR-2 mobo horizontally which no other retail case affords. The Megahalems heatsinks are heavy and with (2) of them, I don’t have to be concerned about the force they put upon the SR-2 if it was mounted vertically. Other advantages to this case is having lots of room to work, route cables and add copious amounts of fans, water cooling (future), etc. It is a big case, but offers big area to work and I think that helps too with heat. The heat has plenty of room to collect, dissipate and be exhausted. If you are into Folding, the SR-2 was "made" for that activity. It also affords so much flexibility in CPU choices with the Xeon 55xx and 56xx series of processors. My E5620 Xeons are overclocked to 3.8GHz which many feel is the "sweet spot" for these CPU’s especially if you are Folding. This is the motherboard I’ve dreamed of having for years and EVGA made that possible with the SR-2.

Comments

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Simba123
11/24/2013
01:06 PM

dang that is a nice beast! +1 beautiful work.

bcavnaugh
05/02/2013
05:52 PM

Really NICE, Thanks for the Tips on Folding, Bill

david12857
02/19/2013
11:12 AM

Very nice Tex! Love the case, color scheme, hardware and everything else about this rig.

scaccima
09/23/2012
06:26 PM

Damn nice!! +1 from me.

barnhartmd051977
09/16/2012
03:18 PM

Let me know when your ready to part with the SR-2 and Cpu's!!! +1

Alacran72
02/24/2012
08:33 AM

+1 Fo Sho! VERY CLEAN!

700_up
02/22/2012
03:46 PM

Very nice looking. I just wish you could add more than 6 pictures

slickric
07/15/2011
03:43 PM

Nice rig bro...

armydrifter
06/06/2011
01:43 PM

Very Nice setup I love the case sad thing is I dont have to room for it.

DaveW71
06/05/2011
06:19 PM

Awesome! Love this Rig!!!

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Black Mesa

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