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Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Readers Drives - Stellar Material

Posted at: Wednesday 23rd July 2008 by Marcus Dandy

System builder Marcus Dandy takes us into orbit with Supernova, a water-cooled triple SLI monster PC.

The original GeForce 8800 Ultras will shortly find their way into a new home, Ultranova, which will be updated on WaterCooling UK's forums (www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/forums) and is set to be something special.

System specifications

Case: Lian Li V2000 (modded)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650 4.5GHz
CPU Cooling: Water cooling (EK Supreme)
Motherboard: eVGA Nforce 790i Ultra SLI
Memory: 4GB CorsairTwinX XMS3, DDR3 PC3-12800
Graphics: 3x eVGA Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra
Hard disks: 2x 150GB Western Digital Raptor
Audio: Creative X-Fi
DVD: LG GGW-H20L Blu-ray/HD-DVD drive
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W



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hmm

I don't think it's that great. The cable management, and the tidyness of the cooling loop are a little dodgy. They should have used less wide radiators, then they could have installed both rads in the bottom on one side like Vadim used to, leaving the airflow down there less confused. The PSU could've been installed on its side in the other half of the compartment, also solving the problem whereby the PSU is angled slightly downwards due to its weight not being supported by the PSU bracket they removed. Looks ok though, and I like the name.

Comment by RedHotsRule549 at 7:17pm 23rd August 2008

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