Project: My MM Work Log

[Utnorris]

It's Alive!!!!!

[Utnorris]

Thank you, not done yet. I have to work out some kinks, but at least I can take a break and play a few rounds of BF2142.

By the way, I won't it against you for being a Texas Tech fan,


GO BIG ORANGE!!!

Utnorris

[Utnorris]

LOL, not sure what that meant, but hopefully you know that I am a Tennessee fan, not a Texas fan.

Utnorris

[Utnorris]

Changing some things in my build. I should have some pics next week.
Thanks,

Utnorris

[skinnee]

What are you changing?

[cobra_kai]

Looking good. I like the all blue sleeving and SATA cables. Are those UV active or just blue?

[Utnorris]

Got a modular MM case so I could mount the MB horizontally. Placement of the rads and hard drives will change as will the pumps. The new case has a duality front, so I may place one of the pumps in each of the 5 1/4" bays separating them from each other. I also got a new QX9650, so I get to play with that this upcoming week. And finally, I may change my tubing out to Primochill blue tubing.

As far as the sleeving, it is UV, but I do not have any UV lights. I mainly used it because it went well with my color scheme.

Anyway, look for new pics next week.

Thank you for stopping by,
Utnorris

[CyberDruid]

Nice looking build. Good work

[Asgard_thor]

looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Utnorris]

So here are some updated pics, I will have some new ones later tonight once I have completed everything. The changes I made are as follows:

1 - Changed the case to a fully modular MM case. I love the fact I can take off the front of the case to work on it.
2 - Changed the video cards to HD4850's, so I had to go back to my old school MCW60's for cooling.
3 - MB is horizontal now.

Let me know what you think. Also, I know the pics are the best, but since I am limited by the 200kb upload setting they will have to do. I may check out Imageshack to see if and how much it costs to upload some high rez pics.

Thanks again,
Utnorris

[BlueAqua]

Looking good. The hard drive bracket looks nice, is that a part of the MM case?

Is the motherboard brace acrylic?

I use Photobucket for my image hosting service and I think it works quite well. All for free too. You can just add the image tags in each post, up to 1mb per picture if you want.

[Utnorris]

The MB brack is a piece of aluminum strip and it only bows because I mad it a little taller than needed to put pressure against the MB tray. I would have gone with the MM brace, but first they were down 4 days and then they wanted to charge $15-$18 to ship it. Wasn't going to do that. I can ship a 20lb item across the U.S. for that amount. If it had been around $8 like it should have been then I would have gotten it. Anyway, I will take a look at photobucket and see about posting some better pics. I need to swap out the MB again, I am putting my Blitz back in, tired of messing with the Maximus.

Thanks again for the comments and suggestions,
Utnorris

[Utnorris]

Finally done. I know, I need to wipe off the fingerprints, .

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[Utnorris]

More Pics:

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And some more.

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Final set.

[CyberDruid]

Looks great. You appear to have thought of everything. That's a beast.

[Utnorris]

Ok, so I got my pedestal in today and I have started my rebuild, but first a few shots of my old build. As you can see it was getting a little crowded and after doing several upgrades, including adding a third loop, the wire management had gotten thrown out the window.

[Utnorris]

I have a few goals for this rebuild:

1 - Wire management will be a priority.
2 - Get some room back by moving one of the radiators down to the pedestal and moving the hard drive cages down there also.
3 - Add quick disconnects for draining to alleviate that headache.


Here are some pics of the pedestal and a mock up of the frame with the pedestal:

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And some more:

[Dangals]

looking good - cant wait to see you start filling her up!

[Utnorris]

Ok, so I got it taken apart and drained. Now comes the fun part, putting it back together. The thing about the modular UF2O is that you can change the face plates around, which also means putting it together, looking, taking it back apart, shifting and putting it back together again. I am still trying to figure out a final configuration and I am waiting on a few more parts to come in, but I am hoping to have this done by Friday before I go back to work. Thanks for stopping by and look for more updates over the next few days.

[Utnorris]

looking good - cant wait to see you start filling her up!

Thank you, this is probably my favorite part of building a computer, but I don't want to be down for to long. Hopefully I will be able to meet all my goals with this and have a build that I am proud of.

[0xdeadbeef]

Very nice! How's the pedestal feeling when you are handling it?

[BlueAqua]

That really makes a standard UFO A LOT bigger. I like it. If I ever want to rebuild my UFO I just might try one of these pedestals.

Are you going to have to cut the bottom of your UFO?