Hey everyone!
  Sorry for another "me-too" thread but my SR-2 finally came in along with most of the other parts I ordered for this crazy build!
 
  While I can't throw it all together just yet, at the same time I want to wait a little bit as my 5DII is out for cleaning and I'm stuck having to take crappy pictures with my phone and 10D (not that that's a bad camera to be honest).
 
 
  But anyway, here's what I have so far.  Comments welcome.
 
  Parts I have so far are:
 
  Lian-Li PC-P80 Super-Tower Armorsuit (HOLY CRAP IT'S HUGE - yes I can sit crouched on the floor in front of it and it'd easily swallow me)
  EVGA SR-2 HPTX Motherboard (HOLY CRAP IT'S HUGE SRSLY)  USB 3 / SATA 6 included
  Dual Intel Xeon Westmere E5620s @ 2.4 ghz (will probably OC them if UPS power TDP threshold allows)
  Dual Prolimatech Megahalems Rev. B.'s
  Dual EVGA GTX 580 SC 1.5 GB graphic cards (Re: HOLY CRAP IT's HUGE)... the other one should come tomorrow and isn't pictured.
  12 GB of Mushkin 1,600mhz Redline RAM
  EVGA SR-2 1,200 watt PSU (Box is bigger than I thought it would be!)
  2x ASUS OEM DVD Burners
  LG Blu-Ray Burner
  Rosewill 40-in-1 Card Reader
  Basic Dell replacement keyboard (this one's getting quite worn)
  (Not Pictured: Cyberpower 1,000w / 1,500 VA UPS backup)
 
  Now to search that compatable chasis thread and make sure the 10 standoffs I'm lining up in the Lian-Li PC-P80 are going to be enough.  I *think* I have the mounting figured out but it's kinda making me nervous.
 
 

Gotta love a new build every time we hear about it.  I'm wondering about that vertical cross brace in the case and how that is going to play with the Megahalems.  Looks like it will be in the way from the photos I've seen of the case.  The Megahalems are excellent air-coolers and they are tall.  That vertical brace looks like it indents toward the mobo, so I'm guessing it will need to come out for the HS's to clear.
 
Once you get that rig built, you may want to consider joining the EVGA Folding Team and make that beast earn it's keep. 
 
Rick

  Thanks for the comments and tips guys!  My main camera came back in today so I'll probably just re-shoot everything I already took crappy photos of anyway.
 
  I've already had a few people ask me to be on their folding team but also jumping on EVGA is tempting for just the bucks alone...  Choices, choices! 
 
  Yeah I'll probably remove the cross-bar but will have to see how it all fits.  Don't want to put it together without fans in place yet though.  Still waiting on those.

Updated with pics!
Sampling here:  http://www.overclock.net/intel-build-logs/864314-melchior-project-sr-2-build.html#post11336746
 
Little photoshoot here:  http://thereallink.livejournal.com/445044.html#cutid1
 
Hope to actually build the darned thing this week ;)

It looks like after more closely following EVGA's case threads, the top two right holes simply do not line up. Time to have it drilled / tapped.

LINK what the heck man i want UPDATES!!! haha

Making more progress but nothing ready to show just yet.
In the meantime, I took a lot of photos, though have tended to only post them on Overclock.net's forums and my Livejournal.
 
Part 2 of the photos though may be found here:
http://thereallink.livejournal.com/446098.html#cutid1
Edit - Part 2 of the video tutorial is up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szAeVGrI2hk

Hey everyone!
  Finally got it all up and running solid at stock for now.  Unfortunately my wireless card was DOA and the second GTX 580 is also in RMA-land so not quite done with the hardware yet.  The direct post and lots of photos are here:
http://www.overclock.net/intel-build-logs/864314-melchior-project-sr-2-build-5.html#post11743388
 
Tutorial Part 4 is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYC3CgHoAVQ
 
  Should have one more batch to go and we'll be on our way with this working through all kinds of things.

Ok everyone, benches are finally up via Overclock.net.  Yes, enough #s to choke a chocobo.  No pretty graphs but I'll simply sum it up and say I am VERY happy with my SR-2 even as-is.  Hopefully 2nd GPU will come back from EVGA tomorrow ;)
 
http://www.overclock.net/intel-build-logs/864314-melchior-project-sr-2-build-6.html#post11824893

thanks for doing all that work,
I take it will be ok to photoshop on now :-)
 
Henrik
 

Thanks very much Alanw.  Have a few more tests to do aside from OC'ing and waiting for my 580 to come back (2nd one had stability issues unfortunately so it also went back for RMA).  Otherwise, putting the system to good use to say the least.

hey i saw on your rosetta@home video how do you have rosetta running like that ? showing the protein and all ?