mlprrj

I just wanted to create a worklog and show everyone from start to finish my classified project. This is my first go at watercooling, yes this will eventually be watercooled. so here i go.

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ModMinded

lol, it's so classified, I can't see it!

ninjaedit - I can see, there were just no pics in the first post!

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My First Mod (Ongoing) - NZXT Lexa - Experimental Modyssey

Mod 2 (Ongoing) Peavey Bandit Amp

Make It Work Water Cooling

mlprrj

First thing i did was order my haf 932. After seeing this case it immediately became my choice for this build. Although after getting into this build i did see some custom cases built for mounting quad radiators and triples and all that. But thats ok.

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mlprrj

first thing i needed to do was give this case a paint job.

so i started stripping this case down. taking off fans, covers, anything i didnt want to paint, and putting tape down in certain area's. I also picked up a rivet gun and some rivets. I drilled out the rivets holding my drive and hd drive cages in, using my handy cordless drill.

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mlprrj

I decided to go with a red and black theme. so off to the local acehardware store for supplies. i picked up 2 cans of primer , 1 can of red cherry gloss, and 2 cans of satin black. All this was quite fun, and here's how it all turn out.

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mlprrj

so the two things i started out with, is one ....the haf 932...and two, the 1000 watt ultra modular power supply. (which has a little red black going on...lol.
you can see in the above pic's the power supply installed. here's a couple more pic's of the ultra sitting in the haf before the paint job.

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mlprrj

The next thing i got to order was My Evga Classified X58 Board! It was love at first sight when i laid my eyes on her.

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mlprrj

next thing i ordered was I7 cpu. I decided to go with the 920 version. At this point i have been doing alot of reading and research on watercooling and all the options that go along with liquid cooling. So instead of forking over the dollars like i did last build when i bought core 2 extreme quad core yorksfield 3.0 for $1100, i opted out of getting I7 965 and got 920. This time exploring O.C. well here it is. No it's not a DO stepping, i ended up with CO. That's okay with me, as i dont plan on doing extreme O.C. this time around.

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mlprrj

Now things are looking pretty good over. I'm starting to get an idea on how she's going to turn out. I've been waiting patiently for my friend to make his payments to me (he bought my last build from me) so that i can get some more stuff. Looking around the internet in the market for some ram i found them! Corsair dominator gt's. They happened to be RED! Woot, Woot! I also went ahead and picked up a WD VelociRaptor 300 GB Internal hard drive. Im pretty sure i'll end up getting one more and setting up raid. I'm really eyeing those SSD's. Alittle pricey to say the least, but well worth it. I may just sell this raptor and try for a couple of these, something big enough for OS and games.
I still intend on getting 2 more hard drives at least 1 TB each for storage. Samsung one's lood good. N E wayz, here's the pic's on the ram and hard drive that i got.

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jeffries7

You should send thay C0 back for a D0, it's not just about extreme overclocks. The D0 runs alot cooler than the C0.

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