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Hardware update here:
I won a AMD Phenom II 955 BE over at TechREACTION.net in a contest to promote the forum so I ordered the super sexy MSI 790fx-GD70 AM3 board to match it with :D
http://www.twcarpc.com/photo/wwm/2009/MGD70/MGD7003.jpg
its gonna fit so perfectly with the color scheme its not even funny
Oh baby:p: That DOES fit the color scheme:D I thought you were going to use the i7, but AMD is a good choice also:)
I wanted to go i7 but all things considered I didn't want to do multiple loops in this build and I most certainly did not want to have to deal with LCing mosfets and the chipset again.
I also was well into the running for winning the CPU so I kinda planned around it :up:
no waterjet cuts yet? btw all college schedules are about the same amiright?
Well, AMD is making excellent CPUs currently. I think I might as well go into phenomII for my next build:rolleyes:
yeah, I am currently talking to pierce ALU close to boston about getting the cuts done there, I should be getting a quote from them tomorrow... thing is these cuts are much more complex than permafrost's side panel so I hesitate to think that I could actually successfully execute them on the school waterjet even if it was working.... I think a professional solution is better to say the least.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlazinTiger
Great looking board. I should give AMD a try and play around with it for a while, but I've been loving the i7 platform so much. I don't think water cooling the chipset and mosfets is necessary but I see where you're coming from.
Be careful when shopping for a water jet cutter. I went to a few different places and knew I couldn't trust at least 2 of them. Most shops do large volume and their quality is rough to say the least. The tricky part is, you have to find somebody who cares.
SNiiPE, once again, i envy your build. I am crossing my fingers that a PII will show up on my doorstep some day!
Tomorrow I will be taking Pictures of:
-EK Waterblocks Shipment (arrived at my house today, shipped out from slovenia on monday :D)
-MSI 790FX-GD70
-AMD Phenom II 955 BE from TechReaction.net
As promised A picture update.
more coming as I rebuild the photo set to work better on a day to day basis - the banks I were using were too small to shoot anthing glossy properly ;)
First the motherboard and CPU:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3179/flow0663.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6089/flow0665.jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/6335/flow0666.jpg
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6354/flow0667.jpg
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/340/flow0671.jpg
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6882/flow0673.jpg
EK Waterblocks:
http://ekwaterblocks.com/shop/images...GO%20small.jpg
FC 4890
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/8135/flow0683.jpg
EK DDC pump top v2 installed - Immaculate machining quality on this part, I was very impressed.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9708/flow0684.jpg
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2130/flow0685.jpg
EK Supreme
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6000/flow0691.jpg
Disassembled
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1122/flow0696.jpg
Back together with the AM3 mount plate :up: I left the accelerator plate out of the block to reduce restriction
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7568/flow0697.jpg
cheers,
-Ian
Very nice pictures Ian :clap:
I cant wait for the assembling stage :yepp:
Well I have some more good news - After I get back from my trip to france (may12-20) I will beginning work at my girlfriend's father's company as a CAD designer and a semi IT guy. I talked to him today and he told me that I have access to a 12hp CNC router at the factory and I can use it whenever I like free of charge. I will be cutting all my panels on this router So now the 600 dollars I had set aside for waterjet cutting is free up for other uses :D
Good deal!!!!
I need to buddy up with someone that has a CNC.:kissbutt:
Thats great news!
Have a fantastic holiday! :)
Looking interesting, SNiiPE.
Am debating using the EK Supreme on my AMD build - didn't think about taking the accelerator plate out - thanks for that idea.
Thanks guys and gals, and yeah shazza I think it should perform more like the LT with a better flow rate which is what I'm gonna need with the 2 GPU blocks in the loop.
I'll be doing lots of work on actually modding when I get back from Paris - and pictures from the trip will go up in this thread as well!
cheers,
-Ian
Had some fun on the new photo set last night - set up a proper strobe system and a bigger light bank. Gave you guys some large Jpegs as well becuase these came out too nice to be size 1280x1024 :D
Also - Meet my new "photo feature" more of a build helper really :D he will be featured in all of the build photos from here on out :up:
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/399/flow1.jpg
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5403/flow2b.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2654/flow3.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/371/flow4.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9636/flow5.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9093/flow6.jpg
Damn nice photos Ian. I love how big they are and how they fill up my screen. I never noticed that there was a metal plate on top of the delrin on this special edition.
Thanks Kirk, you take some damn fine photographs yourself :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BlueAqua
and about that steel plate over the delrin - It kinda bugs me, I think I'm gonna get it nickel plated. :up:
Is that what she said?!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueAqua
Very nice photos there Ian, can't wait to see how you go with everything installed (guess I am getting impatient with mine seeing as I'm no where near completion yet hehe).
Thanks Dreamaxx :up:
so here's a photo I took while I decided to shoot a gray card for the photo set tonight - thought it was neat so I will share it :up:. The hedgehog was looking a bit dusty in the last photos so I gave him a good cleaning for this shot. He really refracts a lot of light, I had to surround the set in with foam core in order to get him to be perfectly clear like that.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1496/flow0753.jpg
Edit: PS - So long all, for a week, Demain je vais allé sur l'avion au L'aeroport Charles de'gaulle! (may not be my best french but I am fluent once I've been there for a few days :D)
Have a nice trip Ian.
what kinda dslr you got?
The 2 recent posts we shot with a Canon 5D mkII, the former with a 35mm lens @ available light + Elichrom banks overhead used for the set. The latter was shot with a 50mm lens and a single 4 foot dome Elinchrom bank on a 1000watt/sec pack set to flash on setting 150. Later on I will be shooting with a Panasonic Lumix DMC LX3 for overall case shots as I complete the modding parts. To have a photo set in the studio large enough to shoot the case with lighting would take up nearly all the free space I have so I will only be taking full strobe lit shots of the case once I have it completed (that may change )