Uncle sam needs your 8 or 9 series nvidia card folding !!!!!

[nightelf84]

too much mesh.. noise will b major issue with that one

[redbeardeddevil]

Here is the case I am using. You can put as many fans as you want. If you put more than 3 you should get a fan controller if you hate the noise. There are 7x 120mm fan placements and a fan slot to place on the backside of your CPU(rear of motherboard). I have had a lot of cases and have had to mod nearly all to get the right thermals, but this one is almost perfect. The only thing I would change is to include a fan controller. Plus you can easily use a watercooling setup with this one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productco ... 6811119137

[caz223]

Antec 1200.
It's filtered unlike the 900, and has built in fan controllers, and super quiet fans.
Also, it has spaces for 9 hard drives, and 3 DVD drives.
Did I mention the extreme cooling?
I paid $200 for both of mine, newegg had them on sale a bit ago for $160 or so.
It includes all the fans you need, including 5 120 tricool cans, and a huge fan, like a 200 or something. On low they really are quiet.
I recommend chaining it down if you want to run all the fans on high.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... %20hundred
I have an antec 900 as well, and I actually transplanted a system out of it into a 1200 because it was too hot in there.
Yeah, it's big and expensive, but cases are the biggest cooling improvement you can make that affects an entire system.

[powerarmour]

Just to note, I'm still running fine with a mATX case and it always manages to keep things pretty cool.




It needs a bit of a tidy up, which I'll do when I upgrade the PSU later in the week, but even still an Antec Earthwatt 380W is happily supplying the juice for a Q6600, a 9800GTX+ and a 9500GT in the same box, and a single 120mm case fan deals with the heat.

[nightelf84]

You've undervolted that quad haven't you PA?

I've decided on the antec twelve hundred. Gives me the necessary room for a dual gpu setup in the future.. Should be picking it up tomoro.. I'll put up some pics

[powerarmour]

You've undervolted that quad haven't you PA?

Nope, it's just a nice G0 that runs at 1.1v default

[powerarmour]

Just swapped the 9500GT for my old 9600GT, and ~11k PPD for one mATX box seems pretty good so far :-

[redbeardeddevil]

Weelll, I guess it's OK. That's pretty cool man. I am having issues here at the apartment with our a/c. We are waiting for them to replace it. I have had my PCs shut down due to thermals several times. I even have to turn them off during the day because of heat. That's with the OCing turned way down or off. It's killing my ppd. I am throwing a pity party and everyone's invited! JK.

[caz223]

I can't wait until it gets a bit colder, I prolly won't even need a furnace unless it really gets coooold.

[nightelf84]

Hey guys, if I were to build a dedicated multi-GPU folding rig , which components would be most cost effective?

CPU = ?
Mobo = ?
GPU = 2 X 9600GT?
RAM = 512MB? Planning on installing XP Home