GH0

Alright, well, while in an attempt to find my camera with the pictures that I took of the re-build, I am going to sorta post a non-detailed version of what had happened.

I havn't overclocked the GPU's yet, though I will be probably soon... considering I can now do full 16X SLI!

Right now, I am going to just show you the CPU-Z photo.

The Core is supposed to be at 1.35, CPUZ shows it at 1.136
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=412151

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Diligite Iustitiam Qui Iudicatis Terra | Love righteousness, ye that are judges of the earth! "We're not God. Not only are our powers limited, we sometimes are driven to become the devil himself." "Gather at the Archeron, prisoners of Charon."
"While the mother holds her child, watches them die, Hands to the sky crying, "Why, oh why?" Cause I need to watch things die...from a distance, Vicariously I live while the whole world dies, You all need it too, don't lie."
Please, help me out!

GH0

Alright, so here is the start of it...

I first got the case, and I didn't realize how big it was going to be, I thought it might have been maye roughly 2 feet tall. I was wrong, Try 2.6~ feet roughly.

So here is the case (sorry, I didn't take a pic of it before I put everything in)


At first I was amazed at how big this case actually was. In comparison to my old RaidMax case, it looks so much bigger. (Could be due to the fact, I never have had a Full Tower case before.)
The right case is the RaidMax Smilodon, completely gutted, the only thing left in it is dust.



Well, so I started making plans to drill out the ports near the ATX Connection, Sata Connections, and one for the GPU plugs.

As you can see, it turned out decent, I guess. I did the best job I could with sanding down all the sharp corners and points by hand, but I couldn't smooth them down all the way:


The metal shavings and the screwdriver I used to get the trash left over from the bit.


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I love my blue fan!



Well, after many frustations with AHCI and trying to get it to work, I finally had to use a good old Floppy Disk and Drive. Which led to me having to take the tray out. You can see the disk and floppy drive in the picture comparing the two cases.

Then, I went to work trying to do cable management, due to the fact I have so much stuff in my PC, that was really hard for me to put it all behind the motherboard tray, as the side panel bulges out, even with Zip Ties, the holders that the case comes with, and some twistie ties.

But the side panel is on.

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Diligite Iustitiam Qui Iudicatis Terra | Love righteousness, ye that are judges of the earth! "We're not God. Not only are our powers limited, we sometimes are driven to become the devil himself." "Gather at the Archeron, prisoners of Charon."
"While the mother holds her child, watches them die, Hands to the sky crying, "Why, oh why?" Cause I need to watch things die...from a distance, Vicariously I live while the whole world dies, You all need it too, don't lie."
Please, help me out!

GH0

If you note in one of the pictures, it has atleast 7 Hard Drives... this led me to a delima.
The motherboard I had only has 6 slots, 2 of which use AHCI mode. So I had to use a SATA Controller card.
This led to a nother dilema, I had a PCI-E controller card, that I could not use because of the way the chipset configures the PCI-E slots.

This ended up in me buying a 50 Dollar Promise Controller card that uses PCI.

Picture of my HDD setup, I still have more space by the way for some more. :


Well when I finally finished putting everything together, I turned it on and nothing happened. :|

It seemed that my Temp monitor that came with the Ultra Chilltec was shorting out when it hit the metal with the case. So, in my attempt to have the Ultra Chilltec not use the Temp Monitor, I tried changing the fan. Which resulted in a heavy paperweight, that did a crappy cooling job.

So, I took everything out of the case, didn't run any CPU/GPU intensive program and waited...



And waited...

And finally, my new Xigmatek cooler came!

So while I contemplated how to bolt mount the cooler, I used the normal retention clip, and just screwed them down really freaking tight. Obviously, no difference, just to make me feel like I did it.

Well, several days after attempting to OC the CPU, I noticed that the NB and SB were damaged because the CPU temp would rise to some accessive temps and shut off at normal temp load.

So that ended up in me getting a ASUS board, which I was trying to avoid. Right now, it has worked perfectly, and I hope it does so I don't have to go through ASUS RMA proceess (where my faith failed) again.

Then the final product came of this:

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Diligite Iustitiam Qui Iudicatis Terra | Love righteousness, ye that are judges of the earth! "We're not God. Not only are our powers limited, we sometimes are driven to become the devil himself." "Gather at the Archeron, prisoners of Charon."
"While the mother holds her child, watches them die, Hands to the sky crying, "Why, oh why?" Cause I need to watch things die...from a distance, Vicariously I live while the whole world dies, You all need it too, don't lie."
Please, help me out!

GH0

I will try to post some more pics.
Sorry for the rather crappy work log, but I didn't really think about making one until after I pieced it together.

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Diligite Iustitiam Qui Iudicatis Terra | Love righteousness, ye that are judges of the earth! "We're not God. Not only are our powers limited, we sometimes are driven to become the devil himself." "Gather at the Archeron, prisoners of Charon."
"While the mother holds her child, watches them die, Hands to the sky crying, "Why, oh why?" Cause I need to watch things die...from a distance, Vicariously I live while the whole world dies, You all need it too, don't lie."
Please, help me out!