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Wankerfx · 10-01-06

How did you get the rad mounted in the front?

danm · 10-01-06

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Originally Posted by Wankerfx

How did you get the rad mounted in the front?

It comes built in, its the Armour LCS he has which has water cooling built into it. Just like the Kandalf LCS which has the triple rad in ther front door of it

gobygoby · 10-02-06

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Originally Posted by bluedevil

lookin good goby...

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by b3ar

You da man, goby. Good luck with your surgery.

Thanks, I am not looking forward to surgery. I dont know how I am going to breath with my nose and through out of commission!

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Originally Posted by SilentStryke

Nice work goby as always!, I love the detail in your pics! Also that rad that came with the case is in like a perfect spot, wish I woulda got the lcs now instead of the armor with side fan owell nice work!

Thanks. The rad was one of my main reasons for getting the LCS. any other off the shelf rad I would have had to rig the mouting and figure out some place to put it. This was one less thing I had to mess with. I didnt want to mount it on the top or the back and didnt want to mess with fabricating brackets or mouting stuff to put it inside.

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Originally Posted by drummer4lifex

Goby, I have but two critiques on your WC loop. 1) if at all possible, I would turn that rad upside down. You're bound to get air-bubbles in there (I can almost guarantee it) unless you try tipping your case (or at least the rad) upside down while leak testing. Another thing is there seems to be an extra long tube at the top coming from the CPU block. Basically the more tubing, the less the water will flow. I would try to eliminate as much vestigial tubing as possible. Otherwise it looks to spec! Good job!

re: rad
Yes I have been turing my rig upside down and other positions to get all the air out of the system. It would have been nice to for it to have to I/O at the top, but then I would lose the 2 x 3.5" bay slots on the rad tower.

re: long tubing.
Yes I agree that its about 6" to long. I think it will be ok though. when I was testing, water was gushing up in the res. So I think there is enough flow to keep things cool.

re: good job!
Thanks!

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Originally Posted by slydog64

Thats one sweet build dude, I like it.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by lightsource

Looking great!!

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by garfish

cant wait to see the finished product goby

Thanks! me too!

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Originally Posted by Muftobration

Wow, I just finished reading the thread from page one and I'm very impressed. this is a great mod job, really a work of computer art. I can't wait for the next update. I'll be doing a mod in the very near future, depending on how soon I hear back about a very specific painting method I'm interested in, and I'll try to make a work log as awesome as this one. You're a real inspiration for precision in documenting work goby!

Thanks very much! I am having fun documenting this project. I feel like the detailed work and documentation is good for someone who has never really built a computer. This is my first build, and I enjoyed looking at other people build logs for ideas, inspiration, and a "how-to" of sorts. Good luck with your mod.!

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Originally Posted by Wankerfx

How did you get the rad mounted in the front?

Danm is correct. I have the Armor LCS (Liquid Cooling System). It comes built in. Very nice feature!

I have been pretty busy that last few days actually working on the rig. I will have a big update and LOTS of new pics tonight, Stay Tuned!

JacKz5o · 10-02-06

Wow great job

Looks great so far, can't wait until its all completed

gobygoby · 10-03-06

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Originally Posted by JacKz5o

Wow great job

Looks great so far, can't wait until its all completed

Thanks! Your in for a treat with this update!

This is probably the biggest update to date on this project. My son went to my inlaws for a week and since my wife just had surgery, she has spent a lot of time resting, so that gave me LOTS of time to work on the rig. I have been burning the midnight oils and got pretty far in the last 4 days. Hope you enjoy!

So I last left off after I had finally put some fluid in the WC loop. I have since then removed ALL the bubbles....I still cant believe I got them all!! But I was turning my rig upside down and all directions to bleed any air out. Guess it worked.

I did buy a fillport from DD but decided not to use it because I simply dont have room for more tubing, and a place to mount the port!

So I let the system run for almost 3 days for leak testing and then decided it was "safe" to add the parts. So far no leaks and running smooth.

Now was the big moment. Start adding the main components.

First things first: The CPU!

For my CPU I chose the Pentium D 940 3.2 ghz. It was in my budget and a speedy proc.!

Top

Bottom

and for the thermal solution.........

and Now I have this big fat ugly thing. Trying to think of what I can make out of it.....flying saucer maybe?

On to installation! Socket Open!

Top View

CPU installed

Socket Closed!

Now its time for the re-installation of the mobo into the chassis.

Next is mouting for the DD Maze4 GPU block

Whooooo-hoooooo. Everything is in and installed!!!! Looks great!
That vga block was a PITA to get installed. Couldnt see under the card for the pin holes for the screws.also I had trouble with one of the pins on the SB block that was nearly impossible to get to right under the vid card. But dont panic, I got it!

gobygoby · 10-03-06

Now comes one of the biggest PITA's on the project. Wrapping the Swiftek smart coils around everything. It took me almost 3 hours to do. But I think its worth. The colors look amazing. Green tubeing with the blue coils!

And just for fun I decided to see what it all looked like with a bit of UV CCFL on it. I must say WOW. this looks fricken off the hizzy! I was shocked how well it turned out. I thought the coils might look a bit cheesy. But it looks really pimp. My wife said it looked like I was building a bomb!

If you missed it in the pictures I had to remove the bottom fan tube to fit in the NB block. In order to replace it. I had to make some modifications.

Took a little cut out here to fit around the NB mounting bracket

And here shows where I had to take some plastic out to fit around the I/O of the blck.

close ups

One project that has been on the back burners since almost the beginning was the PSU brackets. I flipped over the PSU on its other side so I could see the fan top and the blue LED's through the windowed door. That resulted in the stock mounting bracket not fitting so I had to make my own. If you rememeber a while back where I killed my washing machine to get some stock metal, I scrapped that idea and cut it up into little pieces for the mounts.

painted

And here they are installed

Other side where the PSU fan is

zoom out view

So now comes the big show! I was supposed to clean the house...........bnut instead used the last 4 hours to wire this bad boy up. And let me tell you, THERE IS A $%^#*@$ LOAD OF $%^#*#%^ WIRES! Its going to be real fun sleeving this mess and hiding wires....I havent even installed the lighting gear.....more wires!

All wires plugged in and Powered up! Yippeeeeee!

Front

CPU with LEDs on

Back side

and now for some night shots!

Now for teh all important stuff! I guess you could say " the business end"

So now, I have configured the bios and created the Raid 0+1 volume, and it checks fine, then flashes to another screen, and says somethign really quick about IDE 0 and IDE 1 not found then goes on to the next pahose of driver installs and saide IDE driver not found??

I will post more about that tomorrow....I still have to clean the house at 1am!!

Anyway, Hope you enjoyed this episode, lots to see this time. I still have lots to do! Sleeving, LCD Mod, Loginoki Mod, and a few other things.

see ya later!
Kyle

BrinNutz · 10-03-06

Sweet bro!! Looking Good!!!

K092084 · 10-03-06

Looks great there man, can't wait to see the finished thing. I think you are having to much fun with the Dual Bios sticker though. In 1 pic it is over the PCI slots, but alittle further down the pics it is over the RAM slots. Just my observation there.

gobygoby · 10-03-06

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Originally Posted by BrinNutz

Sweet bro!! Looking Good!!!

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by K092084

Looks great there man, can't wait to see the finished thing. I think you are having to much fun with the Dual Bios sticker though. In 1 pic it is over the PCI slots, but alittle further down the pics it is over the RAM slots. Just my observation there.

Ha! good observation.

it comes on the motherboard over the PCI slots. I kept moving it around because I wanted to save it.

K092084 · 10-03-06

haha. I notice the little odd things.

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