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Neuromancer 12-15-2009 08:02 AM

300GB Vrap arrived. Its soo cute lol

Kal-EL 12-15-2009 08:12 AM

AInt it? lol. Quick lil sucker too.

Neuromancer 12-15-2009 08:18 AM

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...an/case001.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...an/case002.jpg

Small update

Kal-EL 12-15-2009 08:19 AM

Hey that looks pretty slick bro :good:

Neuromancer 12-15-2009 10:46 AM

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...an/case003.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...an/case004.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...an/case005.jpg

Thank god. Finished up enough to get her up and running tonight :) Going to install WinFLP and Vista32 instead of a quad boot I think :)

Kal-EL 12-15-2009 12:10 PM

Hey Mancer, I think newegg has a sale on 4890's btw.

Nice build brudder, nice :D

Neuromancer 12-15-2009 12:20 PM

I am not buying anything. Screwed up and picked up a laptop for my Daughter which my Ex was supposed to give me money for last week. Well its defective and is going back. I just listed everything I own on OCF classifieds so I can get some bread or milk to make it till Friday.

Actually thinking of selling my entire i7 rig on eBay to help fund a new apartment or my Driver's License LOL

On a positive note, I have learned my lesson and never again will help my ex-wife out with anything that involves lending her money.

Witchdoctor 12-15-2009 02:21 PM

Dude sick build !!!

Sorry to hear you are having a tough go of it. Heads up man hardware comes and goes but you have to live life everyday ....

Keep your eye on what's important ... your kids and food in the fridge

just curious how is the air flow through those screens they look very tight

Kal-EL 12-15-2009 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neuromancer (Post 19494)
I am not buying anything. Screwed up and picked up a laptop for my Daughter which my Ex was supposed to give me money for last week. Well its defective and is going back. I just listed everything I own on OCF classifieds so I can get some bread or milk to make it till Friday.

Actually thinking of selling my entire i7 rig on eBay to help fund a new apartment or my Driver's License LOL

On a positive note, I have learned my lesson and never again will help my ex-wife out with anything that involves lending her money.

Been there done that with the ex-wife action. They are very good at generating very ill feelings for a human being. Hang in there mi amigo.

Neuromancer 12-15-2009 03:07 PM

Yah, I shuold have known better LOL.



Thanks, I am not thrilled with it, especially after perusing sites like million dollar PC, but I am a redneck and dropping a few hundred bucks to build my own case, just not my style.


Not really sure how good the filters are, I got 6 of them for 10 bucks from Thideras on OCF. I do not like them at all TBH, but with the heat kicking on now the house is just too dusty not to use them.

Will find out how restrictive they are sometime later tonight when it gets powered up for the first time :) (Gotta clean this pigsty up first)

Kal-EL 12-16-2009 04:40 AM

Pshshh on MDPC. Getto-Mods is where its at :D
ANd if you're broke? Geiko Mods are fine too :D

Neuromancer 12-28-2009 10:26 AM

Well I started gaming agian and lets just say that a shuriken heatinsk is not enough to keep an OCed 920 X4 chip cool enough for my tastes.

So I ordered an AMD bracket for the Apogee GTZ and should be installing it later tonight, along with the 300GB Vrap :)

Probably just going to image my current v64 install over to it, rather than go through all mess of relearning an OS like 7.

Neuromancer 12-29-2009 07:36 AM

WOW MAn I changed my mind everyone should water cool :)

Ran some stress testing for a couple hours last night and managed to hit a whooping 32C load temps at 3200 MHz. Decided it was cool enough to turn all the fans off and whatch a hidef movie (yah not a lot of stress but not 0% CPU load either) and was running at 21-23C.

Although I dont think I will be running it fan less very often, since temps shot up to 40C at some point during the night. Also I never realized how loud this PSU is...

Gutterz 01-15-2010 04:44 PM

No what I ment was make this in to a bench station. Mount the mobo on top router holes for cables. Place PSU hdd ect in the case spots. Even cut the side for a triple rad.


http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sel.../K03L011-1.jpg

http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sel.../K03L011-5.jpg

Neuromancer 01-15-2010 05:04 PM

Oh I know what you are talking about now. Nah... too much of a pita to get the mobo in and out I would think.

Heh.. never even finished that case and here I am taking all the parts and moving on to something new.

Geez. Sometimes I wish I could be happy with what I got.


New bench station on the way. Bigger and better than ever. With a design that lets me mount the 4x120mm fan to it for portability but leaves enough tubing length that I can undo a couple of screws and drop the rad out the window should I need to :)

Picked up a new rototools some noew aluminum angle iron and hacked the KB tray from my desk in half to do this :)

Should be interesting....

HOPEFULLY will get to home depot today since it stopped raining or snowing.

Got some stuff to do around the house today and then should be able to get to the store and get some more wood to finish up this project. Little sore that I could not get any benching done this week... guess them is the breaks. If I had been smart enough to pack a heatsink I could have at east rolled up some air cooled practice *sigh

Should be home tomorrow evening though. Hoping to bang out a couple of boints by monday :)

No camera here... so no pic updates... looking good so far though.

Got the loop drained and ready to see if I have enough tubing to make the "detachable rad" idea work.. I f not it will be perma mounted...

Also got the legs for the PCI expansion bracket all sorted.. Will probably wait till summer to refinish it. But the two shelves are stained a nice mahogny color.. just the legs and two feet are white pine lol

Taking a beer break... and getting back to it :)

Kal-EL 02-11-2010 08:28 PM

I'll just use my imagination for now ;)

Neuromancer 02-11-2010 09:37 PM

Yeah for the minute :)

Went out for a spell tonight so sitting half done.. but got some fresh ideas to finish it up on hte morrow. (staining will wait till warmer weather)

If I could find my damn POS camera I would have a project log... but NOOOO moved back to my sister's for a bit and now everything is missing :hate: Whatever, things are starting to look up for me, so im not annoyed.

MDF is easy (and not so easy) to work with. but it should be useful at least for a bit, and by Saturday I will UL some pics :)

Wanted to mount hte pump underneath... I have room.. but its not happening :( hanging off the side AGAIN argh. Res.. of course has to be high... will figure it out tomorrow..

But everything is pointing one way this time.. no flipping it around to do this or that.. all connections... ODD everything is on the same side :) Like a bench station should be :)

Neuromancer 02-13-2010 11:50 AM

WEll... still need to cut and mount the PCI expansion bracket... (have it laying on top there.. it goes about 2-3" lower than that)

Also going to cut another and mount it up there like that for fan mounting.

Need to get some longer tubing so I can run the hoses UNDER the benc station... dont want to have the rig down any longer than necessary anymore so at least getting it up and running evn if its ugly.

My res mount snapped, and I cant locate my nylon pipe strap.. Will have a better design setup soon. Thinking I might just get a 5.25" res and a 355 pump so i can have everything mounted inside as well.

Man feature though. ALL connections are on one side of the becnh station so there is no poking around the back. Everything is right up front. IO panel PCI cables, power, and optical drive.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...chstation1.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...chstation2.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...chstation3.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...chstation4.jpg


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