Ever Have Those Days...

When you just don't want to go home from work because your workstation is so awesome?


We built new workstations:


Core i7-5960x
32GB DDR4
EVGA FTW X99 mobo
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD
EVGA 740GT SC
Corsair 650W PSU

 

I have never had the privilege to have that nice of a workstation.

I can say I have had days when I could not get away from my work to go home at a decent hour.

 

You might want one of these: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=292831
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It runs very cool; 30-32c at idle and low 40s under full load. It is also very, very fast and honestly I've not been able to make it skip the beat even with heavy projects. Its weak on video power though, because we do not need it. The CPU alone is over 1000USD, you are probably better off selling them on an i7-5820k, which is a hexa core beast for a lot less.

 

Custom air cooling. The extremes do not ship with any type of cooling. We are using these beasties at 50% speed:

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/db/products/cooler/NiC_C5/main.jpg

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/db/products/cooler/NiC_C5/pic3.jpg

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/db/products/cooler/NiC_C5/pic4.jpg

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Cooler/Air_Cooler_/NiC/C_00002029/NiC_C5/design.htm

 

Silent at 50% speed. At full speed they get rather loud.

 

Exactly. I ran prime95 yesterday to show one of the guys in the next room (infrastructure engineers), and it bumped to 51, then 61 and stayed there.

Taking it off, it instantly dropped to 41, and after a minute, 32c. With the air conditioning on, it idles at 30c.

The motherboard has a temperature reader on it that I can see through the side window.

 

I prefer liquid cooling as I do on my home desktop comps - then they're silent at any workload. Of course, in a laptop that would be rather difficult,.... Gave up what I call the 'skyscraper' heatsinks a good few years ago. The coolant - I just use my Tectalloy car radiator coolant, lol.
Case fans:- I have a 20cm side and some 15cm or so rear. They just came with the case, but yeah very nice setup there J-man!:major. We get the hot summers like in Az over here,too - even though it's late Fall, now.
I am always home when at my workstation, heh!. heh!, because it is at home...0_o

I have a Track-ball, but only really use it for some CAD apps.

 

The problem is if the liquid cooling springs a leak.

 

Yes, that would really ruin your day. That said, the clip-on connectors make it easier than past years. My reservoir is installed in two 5 1/4" bays, (Thermaltake's Big-water, as in the link below). Case is similar, Armor+, also. The only leak I had was years ago, when someone dropped a full tower and cracked the plastic reservoir on an old setup, (my first H20)....0_o. I was not happy!.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4408769

Just for interest's sake.

 

Well, I've had this set-up for about four years and it's been fine. But yeah, H2O can leak if your careless or do a half-arsed build quality. But, then, I've seen big 'towering inferno', style heat sinks fall off if knocked or moved about. Even seen them fall off under their own weight.....0^o. One reason I have my mainboard mounted vertically and not horizontally - any drip falls away from the live areas, not that it's ever dripped.
Only real down-side I've noticed with a well built H20 system is the need to top up the coolant once or twice per summer. But that's not a 'biggie' when mounted in the 51/4" bays and the reservoir just pulls out, (with a little effort, lol!). I don't bother liquid cooling the vid. card, though.

Yeah, sounds awesome, David!:cool

 

Yes, it did happened to me also. I was about to log out at a certain time and suddenly I was motivated too much of a good running computer and a nice workstation