[Build Log] Narada - 800D - Page 15

9/11/12 - Minor Update

today i finally got something done that has been bothering me for years! if any of you guys has ever owned an older gen sound blaster card, you would know that the included ribbon cable that you need to connect the front 5.25" bay to the sound card is ugly, a little short and just a pain to deal with. unfortunately you cant use a basic IDE cable as the wires are setup slightly different, and those who have tried have broken their sound cards. so the only way i thought to deal with it was to someday make it look as good as i can...making a RIBBON CABLE look good

but i actually think i was successful in doing so!
originally what i did a year or two back was fold the ribbon in half and then wrap it in black electrical tape. this eliminated the ribbon look to it but then it just looked like a crappy taped up cable. i didnt know much else to do as i never found any sort of sleeving that could accommodate the wide IDE connectors. well today i was at fry's and found exactly what i was looking for. simply put its just the exact sleeving that are on PSU's that cover all of the wires at once rather than the new gen individual sleeving. i was able to fit the IDE connectors in and cut it to length!




looks a million times better! and will match the black individual sleeving that is already inside the narada!

and as you can see in the above photo, i also decided to go with silver thumb screws instead of the annodized red ones, the red anno was slightly off and didnt match the actual red of the motherboard, no biggie i actually like the silver ones better!




couldnt find the camera so i snapped these with my s3.
but anyway, thats it! thanks for looking

thanks!

but yeah, the Narada is pretty much complete. other than another 7970 as well as piledriver/steamroller when it comes out (pending its the same socket type)
i'll get the second 7970 with the new processor, and if its decided AMD wont stick with AM3+ then when i find that out, i'll just get another 7970 and the Narada will be officially complete.

but to answer your question about whats next...
i have an amazing new build plan, that'll be built up from scratch.

the only teaser photo i can give OCN is this:

will be finally upgrading this beast in a day or two.

8350 piledriver.

really thinking about grabbing another 7970, but i may just buy the waterblock first and another 7970 in a couple weeks.

yeah i have passed that now

i like it, its definitely a step up from the 8150, and since you already have an am3+ motherboard, then the upgrade would suit you. it definitely isnt the cpu that'll be a good switch over from intel though. it's just a refreshed, faster bulldozer but at stock. so overclocking it greatly helps. a 7950 and 4300 would go well, just make sure to overclock

i am also looking at amd's deals right now with graphics cards.
i may pick up another 7970 but we'll see lol

took the beast outside yesterday to dust her off - it had been a while! dropped 4 degrees Celsius afterwards
and i also installed a new kingston hyperx 120gb ssd i had got on black friday. took long enough haha

also took some pics!





if i wasn't building another rig, i'd probably have 1 or 2 more 7970's inside this one lol

still beasting through everything i've thrown at it.