My "murder" project.

[charles_h]

Thanks for the comments Guys.

Ps : I'm first for the murderMod TJ07 005 top grill ^^

Absolutely. Right after Fried Chicklettes and Steffen.

I am still looking for a I/O shield.. I am trying to steal one from my brother-in-law.. but he is resisting!

You must tell him RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. Or just take it while he sleeps.

For the IO Shield. Why don´t you ask directly at EVGA? Lost mine too and had 2 days later a new one

Cheers Steffen, I sent them an email.

try contacting evga, foxconn or bfg cause they're all the same 680i boards. foxconn makes them and evga and bfg rebadge their names on em. i think xfx may use the same board to but i dont remember, haven't looked at that series since last summer when i built a pc for a friend and used one.

i was up at Lowes yesterday and stopped by the electronics section and found those cable clamps, they were made by a different company but i got them and they work great. great idea Charles

Done and glad to hear you found those clamps.

Hey, I don't know if it's any help, but I have an extra I/O shield for my XFX 680i LT that I'm not using. It's leftover from my RMA, I forgot to send it back, lol. If it'll work, you can have it for free. Call it for the good of the cause.... the murderMod cause!!!

Cheers hiyah, very kind of you. The varmint I need has two Ethernet ports - I don't recall if the LT version has one or two...

10 please

Sweet! I'm pleased to announce that bulk orders of 10 or more come with a handsome set of Acrylic steak knives.

lyl he does have a problem bleeding that loop fully, with his scenario of tipping the case on the front, air will get trapped in his fuzion block...

anyway this is still not quite finished, so he can still invert the cpu block to the proper orientation...

hmmm... It only takes about 10 mins to fill and fully bleed all the air. How much faster would it be to invert the block do you think? I always thought the in and out designations on the block were more for flow design than trapped air.

i do have to say that it looks painfully restrictive to airflow though

It's actually pretty good. There's a considerable amount of airflow. Obviously without a fan, this wouldn't be adequate for an air cooled config.



Project Update: I figured I'd mount the EK blocks to the cards in hopes that that would help summon an IO shield of build finishing. This is my 1st experience with EK products so I followed the instructions carefully. After joining the card to the block, I noticed there was a gap as a result of the power regulator block not being flush with the water block. I tried reseating it a few times with no luck. I then switched to an other ALU power reg block and it had the same problem. It appears the Nickel block is the culprit. The other Nickel block is fine. Shame the problem isn't the ALU block as I have two of those from the original copper blocks.





Golly! Almost no ram contact.





There's the problem - the ALU block is on an angle - yikes!


Bottomline: the IO Shield is no longer holding up the build...