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FSF-Foxhound · 10-07-09

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Originally Posted by scutzi128

It will be interesting to see how it keeps up with the i7. Is this going to be a permanent setup or just a temporary setup to review it?

Yea, so far so good, I'm trying to get my naughty hard drive to work, i don't quite know what is stopping it from starting.. it takes ages on post.

Jason4i7 · 10-07-09

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Originally Posted by G|F.E.A.D|Killa

i just use bottled water and PTnuke

Bottled water? Like regular drinking water? I guess if you like to clean your loop and block often, why not.

OT: Do you have any pics? Would love to see how you have this set up.

tha d0ctor · 10-07-09

does it look like this thermaltake build of mine? (far from stock)

darkraid · 10-08-09

You could hardly say thats a thermaltake kit lol. looks very nice though with the red.

FSF-Foxhound · 10-08-09

lol looks nothing like a tt kit.

Pics soon, I'm trying to get windows XP installed, i think my 1TB HDD failed.

Results in a few, I'm going to see how she loads @ 1.5 Vcore with prime95. Not @ 4GHz, stock, but i wonder how she holds up

CM690 · 10-08-09

Do you have fans on that radiator? =] or is it blowing the hot air back into the case on the graphics cards? :[

CM690 · 10-08-09

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Bottled water? Like regular drinking water? I guess if you like to clean your loop and block often, why not.

OT: Do you have any pics? Would love to see how you have this set up.

I have added a picture of mine if you'd like to see it

but its far from the best setup around xD

optiCal3 · 10-08-09

Use distilled water and PT nuke. Don't use bottled water (it has minerals which will cause build up). I use Distilled Water, Water Wetter and PT nuke.

c5pilot · 10-08-09

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Originally Posted by FSF-Foxhound

Pics soon, I'm trying to get windows XP installed, i think my 1TB HDD failed.

Results in a few, I'm going to see how she loads @ 1.5 Vcore with prime95. Not @ 4GHz, stock, but i wonder how she holds up

It seems you have a lot going on at one time. My suggestion would be to concentrate on one job at a time. If you think your HD failed, solve that first. Then load XP. Then try to get your water cooling setup. There's nothing worse than having one problem compound another. It makes it difficult to troubleshoot etc. Otherwise you may need more than one head of hair.

Also, try to post a list of things you've done and then a list of things you plan to do next. It will make it easier for people to give you sound advice for the stage you're working on at the time. Someone may see problems down the road and warn you ahead of time.

Some drive help: If the drive is on it's last legs and you need to try to transfer files off of it but it won't post, you can try freezing it. Stick it in a freezer bag, seal it tightly, and stick it in the freezer for 10 minutes or so. This MAY allow it to post but it may also fail again right away so make sure you have a good drive installed with enough room for the data, you may only get 1 shot. I've done this a few times, it does work. I wouldn't do this for a drive that DOES post, it can render a drive useless just as easily.

If the problem is intermittent, you may be able to just gently tap the drive or slowly rotate it as it's posting. I used these methods many years ago when I was a computer tech and was known as a miracle worker. At that point I could sell the people the most expensive parts in the store because I just saved their precious data.

My absolute best advice for EVERYONE is ALWAYS buy 2 identical drives at the same time. Often it's the circuit board that fails, not the actual drive. If one fails, you simply remove the PCB from the good drive and put it on the bad one. If it works, transfer the data to another good drive. If you can find another identical drive keep in mind the PCB revision numbers may be different and might not work when mounted on the other drive. I'd say, if you had the drives a couple of years and one fails, just replace them both with another pair.

I hope all this helps someone.

tha d0ctor · 10-08-09

fans are under the rad acting as intake, theres also a 120mm feser rad in the fornt bay

bottom graphics card idles at around 39 degrees so heat with it isnt an issue

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