lowfat's Big Lian Li

[lowfat]

What do you use all this equipment for lowfat? Is this home stuff or work stuff? Was really surprised to see some 40gb cables..

BTW your cabling is ing beautiful and pretty much made me decide to redo mine. And you can find any screw you need at fastenal. I love that place.

Nothing important. It is my home gaming computer.

I don't have any real room for storage in this build so the plan is to have it all on the server. 10GBASE-T is too expensive so I went w/ Infiniband. Can be had for about $250 for two older adapters and cables.

[lowfat]

UPDATE OVERLOAD! Did a lot over the past few days and since my computer was down the entire time I couldn't make any updates. Expect a extreme amount of pics.

First I went and re did all of my blocks. I learned better polishing techniques and used better polishing products so I wanted to do them as best as I could. First was the LTX.








Then I did some plasti-dipping. IO ports, water block parts, pcie slot covers, etc.



And the outcome.









Just some random shot



Dood I am not even half way done yet. :biggrin:



Here is the outcome of the repolish of the first GPU block.




The reflection off the top of the block.






A pic comparing the new polished block to the first time I did it.



Testing fitment


and the SLI bridge


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The original holes Lian Li had for tubing were too large for buckhead fittings so I'll have to do something my self.



and then by the time I finished the tube light was failing so I only got this one pic.

[lowfat]

I took a bunch more pics w/ some better lighting.





The QDC bulkheads for the SR1 560 hanging behind my desk.








Damn tube is in the way of my photograph. :angry2:






I said I'd get a brighter pic of the SR1 up top.

[theseeker]

Looking great and so do the pics.

[Jokester_wild]

Great photos and build as usual. Always a pleasure to browse through your worklogs.

[lowfat]

I didn't like the green of my Infiniband card. At least not in this system. Texture turned out rather good. Although you can't see the card in the system at all, the card is just too dark.



Added a bit more colour to the coolant to see what the pastel would look like.

[lowfat]

Trying out a few different shades of coolant.

[lowfat]

Changing things up again. New hardware.

[tistou77]

Great work

You put a HW Labs SR1 in the top of the A77F, then?

And how did you do to polish the waterblock?
I'd like to polish the top Ek waterblock, of the Laing pump

Thanks

[lowfat]

Yes that is a HWLabs SR1 280mm.

Here is a good vid on how to polish. I spent a lot more time on mine to get them to glass like clarity. I also hand polished all the nickel with Autosol polish.

[tistou77]

Ok thanks so much

[lowfat]

Finally got the board.

[lowfat]

Delidded the CPU today w/ the hammer vice method. Worked like a charm. Although the liquid pro was rather difficult to apply.

After being unimpressed w/ the Classified I went back to one of my reference cards. IMO the gains of the Classified aren't worth spending another near $200 on a block and backplate. I also ProGriped a bunch of stuff as the pics show. Also shown is my Yate Loon modded PSU. Had to drill out new holes for the fan since the new fan is slightly larger than the stock one. Also had to remove the soundcard. With it installed my Infiniband card wouldn't work. Guess there isn't enough bandwidth on Z87.

Was raining all day so some of the pics could have used more light.

[lowfat]

Spent the entire day working on the rig again today. Started off regarding the PCIe devices to make it look a bit better. Then spent the next 8 hours working on the tubing. Honestly didn't have to waste a single piece of tubing this time. Even checked my lines w/ my level app.

[lowfat]

I darkened up the coolant a bit today and worked on the GPU cables. O man do I hate GPU cables. They always look awkward to me no matter what. The last two pics were taking long after dark so they look rather bad.

[k0ST]

Bloody hell, this will be a beauty! I find that braided GPU cables only look excellent if you do sort of a U-loop (bending them underneath the card). btw, I'm great fan of your builds, keep up the good work!

[lowfat]

Bloody hell, this will be a beauty! I find that braided GPU cables only look excellent if you do sort of a U-loop (bending them underneath the card). btw, I'm great fan of your builds, keep up the good work!

Hmm. I think you may be right. Have the cables a couple inches longer. Have them go straight down for a bit then swing off to the right. I'll make a new set of cables today and see if I can manage this.

[zalbard]

This purple looks fantastic! Nice build!

[lowfat]

This purple looks fantastic! Nice build!

You can see the coolant in use in my other build log.

[lowfat]

So I went and remade one the cables w/ some extra length. I also put more tension on the cables by shorting the retention bars. And I can finally say I am happy w/ my GPU cables.

[Buckeye]

Hmm. I think you may be right. Have the cables a couple inches longer. Have them go straight down for a bit then swing off to the right. I'll make a new set of cables today and see if I can manage this.





PS If a mod ever reads this I would really like the (16 core SB-E & GTX680 SLI) removed from the title.

Thread title changed per Lowfat's request

[CarbboN]

Very good work, Congratulations

[felix_w]

I didn't like the green of my Infiniband card. At least not in this system. Texture turned out rather good. Although you can't see the card in the system at all, the card is just too dark.

Is it just paint that you used or some kind of substance like plasti-dip ?

[lowfat]

Is it just paint that you used or some kind of substance like plasti-dip ?

Yes it is similar to Plasti-Dip.

[lowfat]

Thread title changed per Lowfat's request

Thank you kind sir.


Darkened the coolant again. This first pic is how the coolant actually looks. It is hard to get detailed pics of the rest of the system unfortunately unless I overexpose. I haven't done any actual new work on it.