Full Name: Keepa Fortheringham Country: New Zealand Handle: keepaf / madmaori Rig Name: Dark Angel
There is a Dark Angel in our midsts and she's about to shatter your idea of what you think is fast and beautiful. This month’s Rig of the Month winner built this screaming PC in loving memory of his late wife who actually chose the name of the rig before her passing. From the looks of beauty, a lot of love, sweat and tears went into this build. Here's what else Keepa had to say about his building his rig:
"I originally built it to house a 500w water chiller which took the temps for the CPU and GPU down to -20c.After I used the cooler I wanted to go lower so I got a good friend of mine to build me a SS unit which took the temps down to -50c on the CPU which is why I water-cooled the cards to keep them at a reasonable temp when overclocking them. Now the case is completed it is ready for my next upgrade which because of the high prices in New Zealand won’t be till late next year (fingers crossed)."
Congrats to Keepah for being this month’s Rig of the Month winner!!!!
THE SPECS:
Motherboard - XFX 790i ultra 3-Way SLi - vdroop and vmodded Graphis Cards - 3 x Gigabyte GTX280's GV-N28-1GH-B - vmodded - 602/1107/1296 default Case - Designed and Custom built by me PSU - 1 x Silverstone OP 850w - 1 x Silverstone Zeus 1200w - 1 x Generic 500w Ram - 2G OCZ 1600 DDR3 - 7-6-6-24-2T - 1.9v CPU - QX9770 - 45N - 3.2Ghz - 1.25v - stock Hard Drive's - 3 x WD 36g raptors - 2 in raid0 Cooling - CPU cooled by custom built SS PhaseChange unit -50c Cards cooled by custom Watercooling using Koolance Full Cover Waterblocks and D5 pump and a 360 radiator with 1/2 inch tubing and barbs. Motherboard and chipsets and ram cooled by 2 slot fans in the RH Side Cover Stock and overclocked setting's CPU - 3.2Ghz - 1.25v stock / 5.207.99Ghz - 1.75v overclocked Graphic Card's - 602/1107/1296 stock / 731/1300/1462 overclocked 15th in the hall of Fame for Vantage H-Preset The record for the highest overclock for a QX9770 using a SS cooling unit 3DMark 06 - 27456 Cpu-z - 5207.99Ghz
Have questions for our modder or would like to make a comment about this month's winner? Check out the forum thread here.
Have you created your own smoking-fast SLI system? Have you pimped it out with the latest mods? Is EVERYTHING in your machine UV-reactive? Do you have seventeen 120mm fans adorning your dual-GPU benchmark-shattering monster of a machine? Do you have what it takes to make the "SLI Rig of the Month?”
Find out – submit your machine for a chance to win glory (and get featured on NVIDIA’s web site!).
To submit your SLI rig for consideration, send an email to us with the information below. You MUST have the phrase "SLI Rig of the Month" in the subject line of your email. Emails without this will not be considered.
In your submission email, you must include the following information:
Full Name
Gaming Handle
Country
City and State or province
CPU brand and model (For example: Intel QX9650)
Motherboard brand and model (For example: EVGA 790 SLI)
Number of graphics cards, brand, and model (For example: 3x EVGA GTX 285’s)
Power Supply brand, model, and wattage. (For example: PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 1200W)
Hard drive brand, size, and raid configuration (if applicable) (For example: 2x Western Digital Raptor 150GB, RAID 0)
Case brand and model (For example: Cooler Master Cosmos S)
Lighting: Please describe any lighting that you have added to the case
Cooling: Please describe you cooling system whether its air, water, or etc.
Overclocking: Please list any overclocking you have done with the parts, clock speeds, and overclocked speeds.
Photos of your machine! Please provide photos of both the inside and outside of your machine. Keep in mind, the more photos you have the better look we get of your machine.
– PLEASE USE ONLY ".JPG" FILES, AND DO NOT SEND ".ZIP" FILES). Please limit your total photo attachments to 9 MB or less in your email.
Also, please answer the following questions:
What games are you currently playing and why?
What games are you looking forward to and why?
What was the biggest challenge you faced when building your machine and how did you over come it?
What advice would you give a first time system builder?
When do you plan on building you next system and what are you plans for that system?
You may also write a short description of your machine, and what you’ve done to it to make it stand above the rest but please keep it less than 150 words.
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