The DSO Expedition

These are the Continuing logs of the MagiK expedition into the uncharted realms of the DSO TEC Liquid Chilled Computer Systems.

The uncharted regions being explored:
System Configuration:
Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Black OPS HailStorm Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled Edition
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 980X 3.33GHz (Six-Core) (Extreme Performance)
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage III Extreme (Intel X58 Chipset) (Features USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s)
System Memory: 12GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 1200W Corsair Pro Gold Series (CMPSU-1200AX) (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (160GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Model: X25-M MLC Edition) (Extreme Performance)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (600GB Western Digital VelociRaptor (10K RPM) (32MB Cache) (Model: WD6000HLHX)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: 2x (2TB Western Digital (7200 RPM) (64MB Cache) (Model: Black Edition WD2001FASS)
Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card(s): 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB (PhysX) (EVGA Black Ops 015-P3-1583-AR)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Creative Labs X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional (PCI-Express Slot Based)
Extreme Cooling: Sub-Zero CPU Liquid Chilled System & Chipset + Dual Video Cards Liquid Cooling
H20 Tube Color: Red Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting Reactive)
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (UV) (Creates Glowing Effect for H20 Tubes)
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
CPU Boost: Stage 3: Overclock the processor between 4.2GHz to 4.6GHz (Requires i7 980X Processor)
Graphics Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Memory Boost: Memory Fan Kit Only (Does not include memory overclocking service)
OS Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-Bit Edition)
Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Pre-Install Game: - No Thanks
Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: FREE: Digital Storm T-Shirt - Black (Xtra Large)
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: FREE PROMO: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 4 Year Limited Warranty


11/16  Day 1   Great news, the expedition is fully funded and paid for,

11/17  Day 2   The expedition mad eit through the first two stages and into the third today.  Everyone is excited.  All indications are that we might achieve our goal by the beginning of December.

11/23  Day 7  Spirits are high and excitement is still running through the camp though in the background a very minor whisper of delays are in effect....we are still in the early phases of Stage 3.

11/30  Day 14  The excitement has worn off, though the expedition is still in good spirits.  One expects some minor delays when venturing into the uncharted realms of super cooled liquid cooling systems.  No contact has been received from the Builders of the new system,  Expedition is still listed as being in the early phases of stage 3.

12/8  Day 22  The excitement and buzz is pretty much gone now, the crew is still looking forward to the expedition, but it has become routine now.  A few members murmer on the possibility of not making the Christmas Deadline but I the captain remain hopeful that DSO will deliver the goods before 12/24.  The expedition is still listed as being in the early phases of Stage 3.


Edited by MagiK - 09 Dec 2010 at 6:40pm

You do have to remember I ordered this before the price hike on the 580's  though it probably wouldnt have mattered to me.  Though the price was steep, I totally feel it was worth it for the amount of work it will do for me.


Edited by MagiK - 09 Dec 2010 at 6:43pm

@MagiK,

@Alex  the commentary in my logs are not indicative of my actual feelings, Im intending it as humor for the guys.  I think we ironed out the delay issue last night.

MagiK, can you like um... send your PC to me so I can thoroughly test it for a couple of years.. just to make sure it's running perfectly... when it is, Ill send it back to you :D

but srsly, it seems GREAT so far, can't wait to see some pix! XD

lol this is halarious

AAAAhahahahahaha!

Update to the configuration.

System Configuration:
Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Black OPS Syndicate Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled Edition
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 980X 3.33GHz (Six-Core) (Extreme Performance)
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage III Extreme (Intel X58 Chipset) (Features USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s)
System Memory: 12GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Dominator GT with DHX (3x4GB Sticks) (CMT12GX3M3A2000C9)
Power Supply: 1200W Corsair Pro Gold Series (CMPSU-1200AX) (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (160GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Model: X25-M MLC Edition) (Extreme Performance)
Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (600GB Western Digital VelociRaptor (10K RPM) (32MB Cache) (Model: WD6000HLHX)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: 2x (2TB Western Digital (7200 RPM) (64MB Cache) (Model: Black Edition WD2001FASS)
Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card(s): 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB (Includes PhysX Technology)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Creative Labs X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional (PCI-Express Slot Based)
Extreme Cooling: Sub-Zero CPU Liquid Chilled System & Chipset + Dual Video Cards Liquid Cooling
H20 Tube Color: Red Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting Reactive)
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (UV) (Creates Glowing Effect for H20 Tubes)
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
CPU Boost: Stage 3: Overclock the processor between 4.2GHz to 4.6GHz (Requires i7 980X Processor)
Graphics Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Memory Boost: Memory Fan Kit Only (Does not include memory overclocking service)
OS Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-Bit Edition)
Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Pre-Install Game: - No Thanks
Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: FREE: Digital Storm T-Shirt - Black (Xtra Large)
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: FREE PROMO: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 4 Year Limited Warranty

Oooh I gotcha, so it's the Sub-Zero TEC System with the Syndicate case. Cool beans.

Originally posted by Alex Yeap. With the horizontal motherboard setup as well.

Nice!

Nothing was wrong with the Hailstorm, this was offered to me and I accepted.

One issue is that the TEC's do have a separate power supply and with the Hailstorm it is an external power brick, in the Syndicate it is internal.  I also like the horizontal motherboard mounting too.


Edited by MagiK - 16 Dec 2010 at 4:27pm

it's 18"x18"x18"  it will fit right where I was going to put the Hailstorm.....behind my desk ...right behind where my monitor sits actually  It is open back there near the windows so that it has plenty of breathing space and The desk and monitor muffle any noise it makes.

These are the Continuing logs of the MagiK expedition into the uncharted realms of the DSO TEC Liquid Chilled Computer Systems.

<See the area being explored in the original post>


11/16  Day 1   Great news, the expedition is fully funded and paid for,

11/17  Day 2   The expedition mad eit through the first two stages and into the third today.  Everyone is excited.  All indications are that we might achieve our goal by the beginning of December.

11/23  Day 7  Spirits are high and excitement is still running through the camp though in the background a very minor whisper of delays are in effect....we are still in the early phases of Stage 3.

11/30  Day 14  The excitement has worn off, though the expedition is still in good spirits.  One expects some minor delays when venturing into the uncharted realms of super cooled liquid cooling systems.  No contact has been received from the Builders of the new system,  Expedition is still listed as being in the early phases of stage 3.

12/8  Day 22  The excitement and buzz is pretty much gone now, the crew is still looking forward to the expedition, but it has become routine now.  A few members murmer on the possibility of not making the Christmas Deadline but I the captain remain hopeful that DSO will deliver the goods before 12/24.  The expedition is still listed as being in the early phases of Stage 3.

12/15  Day 29  Oh my god, they killed Timmy!!!!!   The bastards!  In the middle of the night the camp was raided by Digital Stealth Ninja Penguins....the carnage was indescribable...they stormed in and went straight for poor Timmy, Timmys pet Collie came to me and told me Timmy had fallen down a well, but by the time I realized what was really going on the the DSNP had dragged Timmy out of camp to feed .  No biggie though no one really liked Timmy anyway not even his dog, which explains why the dog was telling me he had fallen down a well.....any way I digress.  Timmy's lack of popularity explains why the Penguins were not molested in any way in their forray into camp.  On other Expedition news fronts.  No reported movement on the Stage 3 front.....we are still officially stuck waiting for stage 4 to be implemented.   There were some changes to my configuration suggested to DSO that were made to prevent more delays and I received assurances that this expedition would see fruition by Christmas day.

12/17  Day 31  During a routine air drop of supplies, a pair of the Ditial Stealth Nija Attack Penguins launched a third penguin into the low flying planes engine intake...while the spry out the back of the engine was very pretty a nice shade of crimson sprayed agross the snow below, this caused the Digital Storm Supply plane to crash...on the up side we found a bit of paper stuck to the fusalage near the sewage port of the plane.....Apparnetly our Expedition has reached STAGE 4!

Originally posted by MagiK 12/17  Day 31  During a routine air drop of supplies, a pair of the Ditial Stealth Nija Attack Penguins launched a third penguin into the low flying planes engine intake...while the spry out the back of the engine was very pretty a nice shade of crimson sprayed agross the snow below, this caused the Digital Storm Supply plane to crash...on the up side we found a bit of paper stuck to the fusalage near the sewage port of the plane.....Apparnetly our Expedition has reached STAGE 4!

Probably the most creative way I have ever seen a "Made it to stage 4" post written

These are the Continuing logs of the MagiK expedition into the uncharted realms of the DSO TEC Liquid Chilled Computer Systems.

<See the area being explored in the original post>


11/16  Day 1   Great news, the expedition is fully funded and paid for,  Stage 1

11/17  Day 2   The expedition mad eit through the first two stages and into the third today.  Everyone is excited.  All indications are that we might achieve our goal by the beginning of December.  Stage 3

11/23  Day 7  Spirits are high and excitement is still running through the camp though in the background a very minor whisper of delays are in effect....we are still in the early phases of Stage 3.

11/30  Day 14  The excitement has worn off, though the expedition is still in good spirits.  One expects some minor delays when venturing into the uncharted realms of super cooled liquid cooling systems.  No contact has been received from the Builders of the new system,  Expedition is still listed as being in the early phases of stage 3.

12/8  Day 22  The excitement and buzz is pretty much gone now, the crew is still looking forward to the expedition, but it has become routine now.  A few members murmer on the possibility of not making the Christmas Deadline but I the captain remain hopeful that DSO will deliver the goods before 12/24.  The expedition is still listed as being in the early phases of Stage 3.

12/15  Day 29  Oh my god, they killed Timmy!!!!!   The bastards!  In the middle of the night the camp was raided by Digital Stealth Ninja Penguins....the carnage was indescribable...they stormed in and went straight for poor Timmy, Timmys pet Collie came to me and told me Timmy had fallen down a well, but by the time I realized what was really going on the the DSNP had dragged Timmy out of camp to feed .  No biggie though no one really liked Timmy anyway not even his dog, which explains why the dog was telling me he had fallen down a well.....any way I digress.  Timmy's lack of popularity explains why the Penguins were not molested in any way in their forray into camp.  On other Expedition news fronts.  No reported movement on the Stage 3 front.....we are still officially stuck waiting for stage 4 to be implemented.   There were some changes to my configuration suggested to DSO that were made to prevent more delays and I received assurances that this expedition would see fruition by Christmas day.

12/17  Day 31  During a routine air drop of supplies, a pair of the Ditial Stealth Nija Attack Penguins launched a third penguin into the low flying planes engine intake...while the spray out the back of the engine was very pretty a nice shade of crimson spread agross the snow below, this caused the Digital Storm Supply plane to crash...on the up side we found a bit of paper stuck to the fusalage near the sewage port of the plane.....Apparnetly our Expedition has reached STAGE 4!

12/20  Day 34  Snow and Ice, arctic temperatures and persistant raids by savage wild penguins has really bogged the crew down.  Our supply tent was stolen by a rare giant Antarctic Polar bear, we last
saw it being hauled away by two Killer whales that the Giant Polar Bear had harnesed and was using like
self powered water ski's.  There have been rumors that the Expeditions water supply may have been contaminated with hallucinogens but I find these highly unlikely.  This evenings sing alog was topped off
by a broadcast from the DSO home office.  The Expedition has reached Stage 5.

LOL this is all funny to me, if your build has not taken a year then you can't complain to me, lol mine took over a year worth the wait IMO

Edited by DST4ME - 21 Dec 2010 at 11:34am

me thinks mutiny will abound soon then