I have my cpu block hard mounted with button heads, but am concerned about even mounting pressure. How do you plan on addressing that?
I have my cpu block hard mounted with button heads, but am concerned about even mounting pressure. How do you plan on addressing that?
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the screws i use are 30mm in length
when you screw the button heads into the block there is a lot of thread that sticks out form the rear of the board.
i will be measuring the amount of thread sticking out of the back and being careful to apply even pressure.
i have done this a few times now so it shouldnt be a problem.
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finally, after months of planning and setbacks I have finally manged to get the new hardware and parts fitted to my system.
10am this morning and I finished at 7pm.
really pleased with the outcome this time and I think that I will be drawing the line under this project now.
I will let the pics do most of the talking but will cherp in with explinations if need be.
also please check the video at the end, its not great quality as it was a last minute idea and was shot with an iPhone. but it should give you all an understanding of just how quiet the system is now.
Seriously, I cant even tell its on!
Ripped everything apart and started again...
Riveted the custom rear panel in place
looking sleek
hello old friend...
midplate cut, filed, de-burred and bulkhead in place
straight down into the D5
and into the Quad, Tygon Goodness
the tubing route i had planned in my head for months worked brilliantly
facepalm
PA 240 mounted in the drive bays
things are going to be tight. i moved it back so that it had a bit of space to suck air and wasnt right next to the mesh
had to get creative with fittings to make this work
Gigabyte with their 'not so' stealth backplate
ssds on velcro :p
very tight squeeze
Xigmatek blueline XLF fans looking pretty sweet
starting work on the board...
The Dominator GT will have new heatsinks soon, i plan on getting some of the extended fins but more of that later
got some matching screws for my CPU Block
wanted this to be the primary focus of the build
Start of the tubing routes
tubing finished
really pleased with how this turned out. really neat.
fitted the last fan and ran out of black screws . will pick some up at work on Monday. also had to use three of the fan extention cables from the fan controller. of course they werent braided so an emergency braiding job was required and completed on all three cables in 20 minutes.
speed braiding is my new speciality
the coolant I used is very good. Mayhem Pre-Mix X1 UV Blue, supplied by the brilliant Mayhems Dye. it looks incredible in the system, the pictures really dont do it any justice at all.
Hello Pretty
fitting the front bezels
totally transforms the look of the case, i prefer this to the stock bezels.
shoddy SSD mounting at the moment. i plan on sorting this out soon :o
then i installed the final component.
after all the faffing with MurderMod I gave up any hope of ever seeing a luminous panel.
instead i chose a lian li LED strip. took 5 seconds to fit. good times.
Lights off...
makes the tinted windows look incredible
heres the system at half fan speed folding away happily at 100% load on the cpu and gpu
thats it for now.
thanks for checking it out
rjk
Last edited by rjkoneill; 10-09-2010 at 02:10 PM.
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gotta do something about the RAM red fins ...
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thanks for the comments guys
yeah, as mentioned i will be getting some of the extended dominator fins soon.
the problem is that i will need to send them away to be nickel plated so it could take a while.
it should look fairly sleek once they are on.
ah well C7 dominator GT and a westmere cpu makes up for it i guess
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Nickel-plated Dominator fins? *faints*
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Last edited by rjkoneill; 10-12-2010 at 05:18 AM.
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sweet... gonna look great!
(my red ones are on their way )
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EVGA P55 FTW | i5 650 @ 4GHz | 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 XMS3 | XFX 4870 1Gb | Corsair X32 | Samsung SpinPoint F1 - 320Go | Fractal Design Newton R2 650W | Samsung P2450H | Microsoft Laser Desktop 7000 | JBL Spyro Black
AirCooling: Prolimatech Mega Shadow | Xigmatek Bifrost | Fractal Design SATA Cluster Box | Fractal Design 2x120mm, 2x140mm and 1x92mm
Cosmos-S
Foxconn BloodRage Rev1.1 Bios P07 | i7 920 D0 @ 4,629GHz max & 4,3GHz stable | 6Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 | XFX 5870 | Sonar X-Fi | Intel X25-M 80 Go PostVille | Samsung SpinPoint F1 - 1To | Corsair HX620W | CoolerMaster Cosmos S | Samsung T240 | Logitech MX-5500 & Z-2300
Watercooling: Laing DDC + plexi top and tank | CPU - HK 1366 rev 3.0 LT | GPU - EK Water Blocks EK FC5870 V2 - Acétal Nickel | MB - Foxconn's original | HDD - HK SilentStar HD-Single rev 2.0 | radiator - 3x120mm | tubing - High Flex 10/16mm | red PrimoChill ICE coolant
looks very nice
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Great build RJ
Good to see the Ocuk Gang holding there own here !!!!
loving the new heatsinks, red is ugly as hell hehe
Another thing I find funny is AMD/Intel would snipe any of our Moms on a grocery run if it meant good quarterly results, and you are forever whining about what feser did?
Looks good...
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here you see i removed the tube which eventually kinked. i figured that two 90s are less restrictive than a kink and look better too.
through the tinted windows
through the tinted top windows.
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Does anyone else think those chromed DIMMS would look amazing on an MSI Big Bang X-Power
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I love the chorme fins, awesome build! You should have kept the cpu --> mosfet tubing arch though, the 90s just dont give it the same look.
I can still see red stickers on those ram modules
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have you tried to use 45 degree fitting instead of barbed fitting for you cpu block? I just wonder if it makes better in looks and easy for the tube.
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