Yea..call me a geek...anyway check out my new computer!








Liquid Cooled, massively overclocked, and Raid 0...yummy. Anyone else have some cool looking "boxes"?

 

well, i don't have anything like that, but that is tite

did you build the whole system yourself?

 

you can find it here:


http://alternatecases.angryfruitsala...php3?case_id=4

My future son in law IS a computer

 

hehe thanks. Yea I built the system, but I didn't make the case or the radiator and water block for the water cooling. I've actually changed it a bit since I took that picture. In the picture above my hoses are going every which way, but I have organized it a bit and run the hoses out of the way.

 

What are the specs on that machine?

I've been thinking about getting a new desktop sometime soon, but i bet something like that is't cheap.

 

Blake, what are you using as a water supply?
thats a cool system........

 

That is an awesome looking computer. I will have to get me one now.

 

Here's the specs:

Watercooled Athlon XP 1900 1.6GHZ @ 1780MHZ
Abit KR7A Raid Motherboard
Sony 3.5' Disk Drive
Dual Maxtor 60GIG 7200RPM UDMA 133 Raid 0
Maxtor 40 GIG 7200 RPM HDD UDMA 100
1 GIG Kingmax PC333 2700 DDR
VisionTEK GeFORCE 3 (245 Core/558 Memory)
Soundblaster Live Audigy
Lite-On 24X10x40 CDRW
Pioneer 16X DVD ROM
Linksys 10/100 Network Card
3COM/US Robotics 56k Modem
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Microsoft Internet Keyboard
Dual Blue Cold Cathode Lights
Rheobus 4 Fan Controller
Rounded IDE/Floppy Cables
430 Watt Enermax Powersupply
Aquastealth II w/AquaCoil Water Kit
Brother 1240 Laser Printer


The water kit is completely enclosed. I have filter water and antifreeze running through it. I use antifreeze because it's helps fight corrosion....heh..just like a card eh?

 

That is very cool. You should send some pics to Maximum PC as they have a monthly feature called Rig of the Month and yours is one awesome rig.

 

yeah, cool looking box, sure it's a screamer, too.

But, remember, beauty is only skin deep. If it's running windows, it's still less than second best. and prone to crashing!

--karl

 

Hehe true..what operating system is stable? Actually I've used many differnts os'...dos, win3, win95, win98, win98se, winme, 2000, XP Pro, Mac OS9, Mac OSX and Windows XP has been the most stable of them all. I still enjoy MacOSX though!

 

Certainly none from MS... which seems to be the majority of what you have tried.... :-)

 

Well I have tried other ones such as various flavors of Linux...but it's not all what it's cracked up to be. The closest "variation" of *nix that I was blown away with is Mac OSX. I forget which version is based on, but it's powerful, stable, and looks fantasic!

 

Ya'll have limited experiences. I do computer lab maintenance for over 1000 computers here at the University of Colorado. The win systems are by far the best. Windows 2000 works great on our new systems because it usually fixes itself.

 

I have been using WinXP for about 2 months now. It is by far the best OS I have used. According to windows, my current uptime is 3 weeks and a couple hours. Much better than when I used win98....my best with that OS was about 4 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!