Getting Started on my grouper. Lots of pics.

[Revv23]

Had this thing running for about a month in my dorms. I'm on spring break and it's time to really break it in!!! So much for those going to nice places lol.



Getting all set up, yup, thats my foozball table.



Theres my naked X2 3800+ (CCBWE, i was unable to find the spreader to get the week..., last time i maxed it out it did 2.75)





some spart parts and my workbench (way to crowded to actually work on lol)



A nice cold beer on the ready, nice to keep it below the work area so i dont spill it on anything


More to come...

[Revv23]

Ok so youll find after reading my posts that im really ghetto with my stuff and im very impatient. I do what works and what works fast.



After blowdrying this thing for about 5 minutes, i wrested my butt off with the board trying to get the crappy epoxied chispset cooler off. I quickly grew impatient







Thats, right, burned her right off, after about 30 seconds of that I was free of that crappy chipset cooler!! I ended up having to take the mosfet cooler off as it was helping cool off the board, and i went at it with a wrench. Sapphire didnt kid around when they glued this thing on.







You can see here i got her all sanded down and ready to go (sure its not mirror but im not a believer in hardcore lapping anyways.)

More on the way.

[Absolute_0]

Whoa, melted the chipset heatsink? Is it OK for the chipset to get that hot? Well hope it's still alright.

[Revv23]

Ok now for the new chipset cooler, its a thermalright NB-1, great for IC-7 G and my NF2's....



Really bad finish on the base, so i gave it a quick lap with 600grit.



Dont have a picture of the finished lapping sorry.



ok so i forgot one major thing, this cooler wont fit on this board!!!



Its funny, after putting all of that work into getting the expoxied hsf off im turning around and putting another one right back on, lol.



I used this setup to make sure i got good contact...

More to come...

[Revv23]

Whoa, melted the chipset heatsink? Is it OK for the chipset to get that hot? Well hope it's still alright.

well you need to remember this stuff goes into an oven to get soldered on...

[Absolute_0]

Good point, i honestly didn't know about the oven!

[masterofpuppets]

Looking good. Hurry up and get that biatch running

[Revv23]

Ok so back to it...

Now that the nb cooler is back on i was getting ready to fix up the mosfet cooler when i saw this:



I was pretty horrified at first, but then i remebered i had these:







The one i broke is a 6.3v 2200uf nichlon, and the one im replacing it with is a 6.3v 3300 rubycon...


not a bad trade if you ask me. I once got an abit board for nothing and made it into my parts bin



Done, and looking good i might add.

OK, well the rest of my posts will have to wait until monday, xtreme is being really slow right now and im out of town all weekend. For anyone that is curious, yes the board is up and benching better then ever right now.

So yeah, more to come on monday.

[biohead]

whoa u got some guts I already heard from chew* that this board can take a fair beating, but you definitely confirm it Xtreme dude

[Revv23]

ok so i decided to post one more, downloading drivers on it right now so im bored heh.

Ok so bad picture im sorry, but if you look you can see the contact patch for the mosfets, not very good.



Ok another bad picture but moral of the story i lapped the sink:



again bad picture but its an old 9800pro hsf



Hot glued it on and it worked pretty well.



i found that for some reason there is a video card plug right next to the fets, so here is what i came up with.



I really like the way the ati fan looks on the ati board, hehe. more coming

[Revv23]

whoa u got some guts I already heard from chew* that this board can take a fair beating, but you definitely confirm it Xtreme dude

yeah its a monster... im usually pretty careful with my stuff, but i am just whaleing on this thing

i love how stable it is, its a really nice feeling. Most stable board ive ever had by a longshot.

[Revv23]

ok im ready for benching

Close up of my 16 pipe C3d x800GTO (r423)



Did some work on my BT, crazy ghetto mod but it works well.



All the old school BH-5 a man could ask for (except my 2x256 mushkin Lv.II they are in a friends computer, doh! )



and some shots of my bench:






vmods going on my x800 on monday or tuesday, plus some better ramsinks and a tornado, ive got it next to a windows near some -c air, and ill be benching away all next week. yeehaawww lol

[biohead]

yeah its a monster... im usually pretty careful with my stuff, but i am just whaleing on this thing

i love how stable it is, its a really nice feeling. Most stable board ive ever had by a longshot.

lets hope sapphire doesnt take too long with the RD580 board.. hell, even ASUS (which I principly dislike) made me horny

[biohead]

saw the new pics now.. is that an SP97 or an XP90C on the card? it looks neat.. what did you do to make it fit? I adore you

[Revv23]

yeah im first onboard with R580... i want the manta reference board though.


It's an SP-97, i drilled some holes in it and bolted it on... ive got a couple custom hsf's like that... Im glad you like it, thanks!

[Absolute_0]

Yeah what kinda temps you get on the card?

Anyway, you are really the super handy man lol, i love all the custom stuff. Look forward to seeing the benches.

[Jodiuh]

LMFAO! The amount of hilarity in this post has made my evening...thanks.

[4Qman]

Yeah Some class photo's mate. Actually make viewing it much more of a Joy.

Especially the Weight (Dumb Bell) on the Chipset HS.lol

Nice work and great read

[Revv23]

Yeah what kinda temps you get on the card?

Anyway, you are really the super handy man lol, i love all the custom stuff. Look forward to seeing the benches.

temps went from 70c stock to 55c zalmann to 35c sp-97.

Thanks again, i'm glad you guys like my work, i thought people would be making fun of me for my ghettoness lol. I dont dont have a ton of money to spend on this stuff so i look for ways to make things work without going to the store hehe

[Absolute_0]

This is XS, we praise ingenuity

[MaxxxRacer]

Kohan and I used taht exact same torch on a pentium Pro... We blasted the BARE cpu for about 2 minutes before the system crashed.

[Frodin]

I love the "ghettoness" of your mods, and that Sapphire- board seems to take a lot of beating. Shame it's fairly expensive though.

Kohan and I used taht exact same torch on a pentium Pro... We blasted the BARE cpu for about 2 minutes before the system crashed.

No why would you do that... Hope you weren't trying to fix it!

[Revv23]

Kohan and I used taht exact same torch on a pentium Pro... We blasted the BARE cpu for about 2 minutes before the system crashed.

haha why?

just trying to kill something?

[Revv23]

just FYI things are running better with the new chipset cooler... passed 1200ht on accident without drop the ldt multi, and i did just fine.

[mindwreck]

quite the display of ingenuity and ghettoness. to the point where is actually comica,lol.

butane torch. I love it, I would have done the same thing with my torch haha.