Monday, January 10, 2011

Solar Panel Project

The panels are completely installed. 39 Panels at 235watts each, here are the pictures.






Now we have to wait for the State Inspectors to come round and give their blessing, and for the Power Company to replace our meter with a new Netmeter so we can sell power back to them

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The Specs

Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 980X 3.33GHz (Six-Core) (Extreme Performance)
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage III Extreme (Intel X58 Chipset)
System Memory: 12GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Dominator GT with DHX (3x4GB Sticks)
Power Supply: 1200W Corsair Pro Gold Series (CMPSU-1200AX)
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (160GB Solid State (By: Intel)
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (600GB Western Digital VelociRaptor
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: 2x (2TB Western Digital )
Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Video Card(s): 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB)
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)
CPU Boost: Stage 3: Overclock the processor between 4.2GHz to 4.6GHz
Memory Boost: Memory Fan Kit Only (Does not include memory overclocking service)
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-Bit Edition)

Highest temp under load was 45 degrees.....

The Beast

Custom built with custom cooling using TEC's or thermoelectric cooling to chill liquid to below 0 degree C.

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