ViperJPB said:
This is super encouraging to see! I work in Post Production...mainly Motion Graphics, 3D Modeling, & Color Grading. I was hoping to build a similar system on a SR-X board with dual E5-2687's this year. But I'm not fully ready to leave OS-X and go back to windows. Do keep us posted on your progress and if you can get the scores up and running in OS-X as in windows. Amazing build.
Hi Viper,
Looks like you're looking for an amazing Dual Processing POWERHOUSE. Well you still get that with an SR-2 setup, like this one AND use Mac OS X 10.7.3:
viewtopic.php?f=76&t=48807
Now my most recent GeekBench (GB) score is
34000+. Now it's not the 83,000+ one that this other person spent over $30,000 in parts for to not even be able to OC. In fact the score that I was able to achieve was done by Underclocking. You can read all the details on how to do it here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1333421
There
Tutor shows SRMac how to do it from start to finish. Plus I'm now using a EVGA GTX 580 & 48 GB Corsair XMS3 2000MHz of RAM. Soon, I'll be upgrading from the RP-402x2 Koolance Dual Bay Res & PMP-400 pumps to the RP-452x2 Dual Bay Res & PMP-450 pumps. Not that I really need them (since I'm Underclocking now), but I would just like better water flow to pump through there as I'm using quite a bit of tubing. CPU0 is at 23C & CPU1 is at 28C.
Side note: My theory of tubing was correct as I separated the tubing to have 480 Rad dedicated to CPU0 & the 360 Rad dedicated to CPU1. I've seen other SR-2 water cooled PC builds that directly link their tubing from CPU0 to CPU1 to make it look cleaner, but usually it increases the temps by 5C for the second CPU (making it a full 10C hotter for the other CPU), because it's receiving the warmer water from the initial CPU. But again, that's a side note.
If you want to PM me you can and we can communicate on the side. Hope this helps...
PS - You don't have to go the route that I did, in fact you can just get a Lian-Li PC-90 case, buy a used SR-2 Mobo ($450), Used X5680s (which by the way, I'm selling a
pair right now for
$2,000), Get 2 Corsair H80's (and it keeps the CPU's water cooling completely separate), 48GB (or 96GB if you want more RAM) and keep your costs $1,500 to $2,000 less than what you would get for the SR-X and those E5-2687's. And from what I'm hearing (and I could be incorrect) that you
can't OC on that Mobo (if that what you're desire is). So you'll STILL have a POWERHOUSE of a machine that will last you a few years before you would want to upgrade to something faster. Again, PM me if you're interested in the X5680's and any other input that I can give you as I too use this for Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Motion, etc.. Later...