So my liquid cooled rig, which I wanted to show off at the BYOC event, had motherboard problems.
Utterly depressed, major bummer and all.
I am giving away my slot to the right person.
But first, some context.
My rigs name is LilithZ, she has 1/4" coolant tubes that glow in a red UV haze. She has a 920 CoreI7, 12GB of RAM and 10TB of disk space. She has waterblocks in her CPU, north and south bridge, as well as a reservoir that looks like HAL 9000 'headpiece', except with a liquid surface that glows in UV. She also has one of those rare GTX295 evga cards that are no longer on sale (funny how this video card actually gained value over time). She rides in red, black and silver, on a HAF mid tower case. Half of her parts are German.
She ain't just a pretty face, she's also very eloquent. As a programmer, I have strained her L2 cache in numerous optimization experiments. She's also dabbled in CUDA processing. She loves Multicore programming, in POSIX and IntelTBB (although she excludes Java threads. ugh.) She has compiled most of my undergraduate career projects, in Linux, iOS, CellOS and Win32/64/7. She never takes more than 15 seconds to compile, even with the biggest source trunks.
She likes StarCraft2, and makes Crysis scream like a squee-ful school girl. Bloom/HDR/AmbientOcclusion are mere playthings for her, as she can run maxed out specs at 60FPS, without even breaking 55Celsius.
She didn't start off all this pretty, far from it. She's a working girl of course. Collecting all these components took me about a year, and a lot of extra hours on the grind.
She really wanted to impress everyone, unfortunately her mobo will not post past FF.
She is spending time in EVGAs RMA repair center, while I enjoy PAX. She will not forgive me.
I expect her to crash Visual Studio, feverishly, once I get back to work next week. She's that kind of rig; vengeful and pretty. She is very hard to please.
So, now you can understand my predicament. I have a BYOC slot that used to belong to my beautiful rig.
I can't be a d-bag and just let this slot go away. This should go to another rig who wants to be there.If you think you deserve this BYOC slot, FREE OF CHARGE, please tell me about your system, in one paragraph. Pictures would be nice. I will check back on this thread every half hour.
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Good luck with this, and hopefully someone who deserves the slot will get it.
I sure hope you find someone, but that someone is definately not me.
I have done byoc once before way back in 2007 and it was amazing!
this is the PC i took last time
she's about 5 years old now but still running good, she managed to run SC just fine but tends to have some issues with some of the higher end graphic games like singularity and prototype...
She is still my main PC but i was hoping to bring my brother's laptop instead this year. its a brand new asus laptop with 4 gigs of ram and does alright for games too!
I often sneak out of the house with her to steal internet from ppl arund my house >.>
PS: I REALLY want it! ~_^
I want the byoc pass. I've been in BYOC since '06, even at east, but I completely forgot to sign up for this year's and didn't remember till after registration for it had closed. I love getting the chance to sit down, and I REALLY love the chance to annoy Red.
This is the first year that I'll actually have a laptop that can handle the more recent games. Prior to this, my laptop has been... trashy. I'm excited for the opportunity.
Also that rig sounds hella sweet, did you have some photos?
Also liked the HAL reference. I had that windows gadget that was the HAL eye and when you clicked it it would play audio clips from the movie!
You’re one loud mofo with 4 case fans that could probably power a windmill….or at least a pinwheel. You failed to OC for me. Even after I begged and bought you a shiny new cooler for your cpu. The holes in your case are horribly placed, so I had to take a drill to your body. Even then, some of your case wires were too short and so I sliced them open and resoldered them to longer wires.
Then your heart failed. I should’ve been able to read the signs. Blue screens of death, video card driver failure, and random black screens but no, I ignored your cries until your heart burst. Now I’ve found you a replacement. It’s not as powerful and can’t pump as much juice. And I admit, I was sloppy with the wiring so you don’t get to enjoy the same old breeze.
I don’t hate you but you are really high maintenance. And the only reason I love you more than your older sibling is because you’re still alive.
(Q6600, 4GB RAM, ATi RADeon HD4850, Audigy 2 ZS)
This was her before the liquid cooling modules.
She rides in this case.
Unfortunately, I have a strict rule not to photograph builds that don't post past boot. I just added the liquid cooling tubes recently, and scrapped back when I had to RMA <_<;
Person who gets my slot will receive a PM + contact info.
Maybe i have some sorta dragon or leprechaun blood in me cause i am for some reason very attracted to the gold feet on that case... >.>
too bad you didn't get some install photos with the cooling tubes, that woulda been cool.
Kinda surprised you didnt get more posts here, but then again BYOC registration didn't even sell out this year so i guess you were pandering to the poor and forgetful >.>
Anywho looking forward to your announcement!
I'm sorry your comp is being PMSie.. Happens to the coolest of things always at the worst of times.