My Tiny Contribution to Genetics

**skinnee** · 03-14-2009, 07:05 AM

Success!

**shazza** · 03-14-2009, 08:18 AM

Excellent ... definitely show us pics, please.

(I love your commentary on your wife's view of your endeavors)

**IanY** · 03-14-2009, 08:47 AM

OK. Computer building has taken on a 1/2 day delay. My 4 year old baby son is sick with diahrrea. Have to take him to the doctor first, and probably have to wait till he's asleep before proceeding. Pics will come. Patience. Good things will come to those who wait

**IanY** · 03-14-2009, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by shazza

Excellent ... definitely show us pics, please.

(I love your commentary on your wife's view of your endeavors)

I was a little hesistant about sharing this, but now I guess I'll make it public

This occurred on Wednesday evening.

Originally Posted by Me

So I was anxious to get home because my because my box with my new MCR Stackables was supposed to arrive.

FedEx said that they had delivered my box, and since there's no signature required, its supposed to be in my front foyer.

I get home and I can't find the box. Looked around the living room and no brown box. Scared to broach issue with wife because she's getting vexed with all the brown boxes everyday of "geek stuff."

So, finally I was stressed out. My FedEx box was stolen by some jerk !!!

"Did you see a box arrive today?" "Yeah.." {phew} "So.. where is it?" "In the fridge" {WTF.. she ordered some food or meat or something?} <open fridge.. nothing> <Open Freezer> {There sits two boxes that say "MCR220 Stack" In the FREEZER.

"Hey.. why are those boxes in the Freezer?" < WTF crack is she smoking while I'm at work? >

"Yeah.. the box gives instructions: Frozen CPU"

LOLOLOL

**shazza** · 03-14-2009, 09:13 AM

Hope your son recovers soon. You don't know how funny that story is! My husband did EXACTLY the same thing with an order from Frozen CPU

**IanY** · 03-14-2009, 02:00 PM

Doh!! Arrrgh

Of course, the 24 pin ATX connector cannot fit through a 1 inch hole

This Corsair has the 24 pin fixed.

Back to drilling one more hole

**IanY** · 03-15-2009, 03:29 PM

Gone Live. Pictures Up.

The Mrs. went "Good, you're finished." <"Not exactly, time to install the software and then get some games going!"> Bwahahahaha

Yeah. Got to get my 25 bux in. Movieman, please direct me.

The Action is in First Two Posts.

**zlojack** · 03-15-2009, 05:07 PM

Wow...nice work Ian!

Great cable management. That case is like a ninja. Unobtrusive and quiet, but packing a ton of power and deadly!

Congrats on a great no-nonsense build!

**Sparky** · 03-15-2009, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by IanY

I couldn't find a decent piece of wood, and I figured the wife wouldn't appreciate me using the kitchen cutting board lol

Nice work

**SiGfever** · 03-15-2009, 05:30 PM

Looking good Ian, very clean and classy.

**jpm804** · 03-15-2009, 05:35 PM

Nice work especially getting all the rads in there it looks like without doing any major cutting which you were hoping to avoid.

**Movieman** · 03-15-2009, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by IanY

Gone Live. Pictures Up.

The Mrs. went "Good, you're finished." <"Not exactly, time to install the software and then get some games going!"> Bwahahahaha

Yeah. Got to get my 25 bux in. Movieman, please direct me.

The Action is in First Two Posts.

Very nicely done.

Couple questions:
1) How is your res mounted?
Looks almost as if it's floating but I see the brackets.
Ant chance of a pic looking to the mount?
2) You lost me on the "25 bucks" comment..

**theseeker** · 03-15-2009, 05:55 PM

Bravo! Very well done.

**IanY** · 03-15-2009, 06:02 PM

Pardon mylousy photography.

Here is a close up that is sort of blurry but you can see the bracket style. Its called the Revision 2 reservoir. Costs $25.

The $25. I figured it out. Its the membership fee.

**NaeKuh** · 03-15-2009, 06:03 PM

ahhhh tri sli is the only thing i havent done yet. :T

**IanY** · 03-15-2009, 06:03 PM

Thank you for your compliments and salutations everybody.

**shazza** · 03-15-2009, 06:05 PM

Great Job!!! And in such a short time. You did a nice job cutting those holes, too.

**CyberDruid** · 03-15-2009, 06:06 PM

Hey that's a sexy beast Ian. You did a great job on all the various aspects. I am wanting to try out those stacked rads. Nice choice of tubing color.

**Movieman** · 03-15-2009, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by IanY

Pardon mylousy photography.

Here is a close up that is sort of blurry but you can see the bracket style. Its called the Revision 2 reservoir. Costs $25.

The $25. I figured it out. Its the membership fee. Designed to rub it into somebody.. never mind. Anyway, I'll sign up.

Now I see.. That's a different bracket than came wirth the orginal res that I have???
And on the subscription, I think I read between the lines and lets say that life is too short and too precious to do anything else with but enjoy the time we have..

Here's a link and should be one like this in your user CP:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/payments.php

**IanY** · 03-15-2009, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Movieman

Now I see.. That's a different bracket than came wirth the orginal res that I have???
And on the subscription, I think I read between the lines and lets say that life is too short and too precious to do anything else with but enjoy the time we have..

Here's a link and should be one like this in your user CP:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/payments.php

No Dave. The original didn't come with a bracket. I have one of the originals too. I chose to buy a new one really for the bracket. It makes mounting very convenient. Plus there's a drainport and the fillport twisty is metal and sturdy.

http://www.swiftnets.com/products/MCRES-micro-Rev2.asp

**Movieman** · 03-15-2009, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by IanY

No Dave. The original didn't come with a bracket. I have one of the originals too. I chose to buy a new one really for the bracket. It makes mounting very convenient. Plus there's a drainport and the fillport twisty is metal and sturdy.

There goes another $25.00..

Thanks for the info..

**IanY** · 03-15-2009, 06:23 PM

CyberDruid and Shaaza,

Thanks for the compliments. It means a tremendous lot to me coming from the Grand Master and Grand Mistress of case modification and system building.

**skinnee** · 03-15-2009, 08:36 PM

Well done IanY, well done!

Now about those gpus...

**IanY** · 03-16-2009, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by skinnee

Well done IanY, well done!

Now about those gpus...

Koolance EXOS 2.5 on top of the case? lol

Now... how am I going to shoehorn anything else into that case, although I see space for two sets of MCR120 Stacks!

I don't know if video card cooling is possible... maybe for three cards, but definitely not five.

Incidently, the cpu cooling works very well. I will post a pic of coretemp when I get home. Throw three video cards into that loop and the temps won't look so great anymore, though.

Welcome any and all ideas for video card cooling.

I'm not the "Blue" version of you-know who

**headala** · 03-16-2009, 08:13 PM

Beautiful, IanY! Don't know how to cool those cards though. Maybe something external?

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