zaeric19

Mini-update before i take apart what little my computer has together at the moment. I already spent an hour looking for my short M4 bolts for attaching the rad to the front of the case followed by a trip to the hardware store, so I am a bit behind where I wanted to be by now, hopefully I can still finish tonight.





As you can see I put a little ding in the paint on my GTX360 With how much I cut out of the case it is very hard to get the radiator in, I have to rotate it 45 degrees and then tilt it about 30 degrees towards the case and it can slide in with less than half an inch of clearance.

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zaeric19

Well I have the w/c loop set up and bleeding as I type, I have the mobo, cpu, ram, and the two D12SL-12 exhaust fans on the back and and top. All is going well. The bleeding seems to be taking a bit longer than last time, not being able to shake my rad to get the air out of it quicker doesn't help, I also remembered to add the drop of dawn to the coolant, though I don't think it makes a big difference. I would put some more pictures up but it took me long enough to change the resolution on my parents computer and open firefox that I offered to reformat it before I go back to school on the 30th. Hopefully I can get it up an running in the next few hours yet, I'll put up pictures of what I have, if not, tomorrow.

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YOSHIBA

i wna see it

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XBOX 360 mod

zaeric19

Quick update before I head out to work, doing this on my parents computer which is unbearably slow. The loop is fully bled now, has been running all night and no leaks, I cut a bit out of the front piece the door is attached to and put it on along with the top piece and the grate over the top exhaust fan. I had to turn the pump a bit because the video card was pushing against it if I didn't, now it pushes against the inside of the side panel, just barely. That will be fixed as I was planning on mounting the window on the outside of the side panel, so it will give it the little bit of room that it needs. Anyway, here are the pics, I have to get to work now.

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YOSHIBA

Very nice looking

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Riki-Tiki-Rocketfish Log

XBOX 360 mod

dr0matik

Have enough USB ports?!?!

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zaeric19

Yes I do, I love how Gigabyte tossed out the old parallel port in favor of more USB ports.

Edit: From looking at the pic it may seem like there are more than the mobo actually has, it has 8 USB on the back, and 1 NIC, not two like it looks like, I think the backplate is the same for the DQ6 which has a 2nd ethernet port.

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zaeric19

I just finished getting it all together and booted up. The BIOS settings got reset so I get to do my overclock from the beginning, got it at 3.6GHz with 1.275v in BIOS (one or two steps down from what I had it running 4GHz at). I spent a lot of time in my wire management before I put it all together and i think so far it is really good, but a little cramped between the res, pump and video card. I still need to get the other side panel cut for the window, since I can't put it on as is due to the pump having to be turned slightly. I'll post some temps and stuff once I do a little bit of stressing, wanted to get some pictures up first, here goes.









Just realized I forgot to put one of the rubber things that covers the tubing holes back on fixed now



Still need a name, I was trying to find some ideas, tried looking up some Latin words and stuff, had a couple ideas. I'll go name hunting/stressing and post back in a bit.

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zaeric19

Well I just did about 20 minutes of OCCT and I am getting about 48c idle and 56c load (using Core temp and everest). I tried, under load, with the Panaflos at 7v and 12v with the door closed and open and no matter what, it sat at 56C give or take 1c, same goes for idle temps. Considering that with my mobo on my desk, out of case, my Noctua was getting about 54 idles I think this is pretty good. I also noticed that my hard drive temps are lower, I am sure the Pana blowing air on them helps a lot, versus the tricool on low that was in the bottom chamber before. All I really have left to do is get the door cut, I still haven't decided if I should do it myself with a jigsaw, when I cut the window it took a good amount of filing to fix it and the side panel (I would think) would be much harder to correct non-straight cuts. I'm gonna finish enjoying this brew and get back to overclocking.

Edit: The temps are on each core (TJunction).

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SmasherBasher

Is that a hard drive window mod or did you just paint it black?

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