Dangal's MurderMod
"Gemin-Cide"
The above name is latin for Double-Murder - which seemed appropriate considering the context of the build. Thanks to BlueAqua for the idea!!
Now before I get into the meat of this log I would like to point out that the worklog concept is still fairly new to me so if I get a little ahead of myself feel free to ask me to clarify whatever it is you want to know
So without further ado I would like to thank the following sponsors of this build:
My Credit Card
My loving partner!
- No.....really.....as without these two none of this would have happened!
A Quick Background
So where to begin....ah yes the beginning usually is a good spot I suppose- Well I stumbled on XS in the later half of last year whilest doing some research on a replacement mb for my trusty old P5W DH deluxe that had decided to go to silicon heaven. What an eye opener this place was....never had I seen so many builds that surpassed anything I had ever imagined! Plus the great thing was there was just so much info for every aspect on building/maintaining one's pc...To say that I am addicted is probably an understatement.
Well with all this new found knowledge I decided that it was time for a change - I had just purchased the Maximus Formula which had the integrated NB waterblock and I decided to give it a go! Originally I was only going to cool the cpu and NB using the stock block but after spending lots of time in the MF watercooling thread and reading how by changing the stock block for an aftermarket one my temps would be considerably better and I thought well if I am going to do this - do it properly. So I built my first wc pc which consisted of a CPU, NB and SB block all running through a single PA120.3 rad in the bottom of a brand new TJ07! Before you ask why was there no GPU in that - well I had been using the 2900xt and knew that I wasnt really happy with it so I was going to wait for something else before adding that to the loop.
Here are some pics I took with my camera phone months ago when I put this together...
As previously mentioned alot of the hardware I already had on hand from when I built this machine originally however a few pieces had found their way into the Cosmos S build I did for my partner such as the Q6600 and the hdd's.
So I had to decide on some new toys....always love the shopping for new parts feeling! Basically I had to decide what I wanted more out of this machine and as it is primarily going to be used for gaming I decided (after reading a few threads and creating one of my own!) to get a dual core and oc a bit as most games still prefer a higher clock than more cores.
Enter this little thing (which coincidentally marks the introduction of my watermark for this build...not that you probably care
And this!! (which is not really little
This leads nicely into...
Hardware to be used for this build:
Case: Silverstone TJ07 Black
PSU: Silverstone ST85F
Processor: Intel E8600
Motherboard: Asus Maximus Formula
RAM: Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800Mhz 1GB x 4
Graphics: HIS HD4870x2
HDD: 1TB samsung HD103UJ
Optical: Pioneer SATA DVDRW
OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit
The watercooling hardware:
CPU Block: D-Tek FuZion V1
GPU Block: EK 4870x2 block
NB Block: EK-NB-SMAX
Rads: Thermochill PA120.3 and 120.2 Radiators
Pump: 2 x DDC3.2 + xspc Reservoir tops
Barbs: Bitspower Fatboy 1/2" barbs
Tubing: Tygon R3400 3/8 5/8 tubing
And some pics of the hardware:
Note that the SB is not going to be used in this build - but I had decided this after fitting the CPU and NB blocks to the MB with tubing so unfortunately I dont have any more pics
These will be required for the two rads in the bottom of the case - now of course Bitspower have released parts recently that do the same thing but I bought these months ago before there was any talk of new ones from BP
Ok that is probably enough for the first post as I do not want to overload you with info/pics so early in the buildBe sure to tune in next time where things will really start to get a move on
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