tha d0ctor

I went on a craigslist spending spree an got what I think was a pretty good deal on the following stuff all for 180$:

Swiftech 320mm QP Rad
EK 8800gt Fullcover Waterblock (BNIB)
Swiftech Laing D5 Variable Pump
Some Cylindrical Res
Danger Den Fillport
360mm radgrill
6x yate loon fans
and a PNY 8800gt

During the 6 hours process I decided to take the oppurtunity to switch my system over to 1/2 inch tubing , except for the 1/2 to 3/8 downgrade at the final 120mm rad that goes through my 8800gt block and back into my res. In addition I decided to ditch my TT system so I didn't have to mix metals and risk any future problems with it. Also I decided to rearrange my rads so all rads that took in the cooler air were first in the loop before the CPU. THen any rad that weren't push/pull that I had the capacity to add another fan to I did.

In the process I tried to postion it so the flow was kept at the highest velocity by dedicating the Laing d5 to push through the 120mm feser, swiftech 220 and swiftech 320 I have then the danger den pump I have would push through my Mc-tdx waterblock, northbrige, a 120mm swiftech over my exhaust and then my 8800gt fullcover and back into my res.

For some reason a lot of thermaltake green uv dye was left in the loop but other than that I have no real complaints about my current performance. The 8800gt never goes over 38 degrees load even volt modded to 1.4 vgpu at clocks of 922/2150/1065 and at stock settings my i7 920 idles just a few degrees over my ambient, around a 7-9 degree drop. My OCed temps aren't as pronouced because of my 1.4 vcore but I still lost aorund 6 degrees. I went with ICD7 instead of mx-3 but this stuff seems to work well.

More over im stocked with how much better this looks/ is more efficient and the fact that once I get my gtx 295 back from RMA and hopefully another one after that, im sure this loop sohuld be able to handle those one water.

Let me know what you guys think.

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Don't mind the poor cabling at the bottom, thats usually hidden by my RMAed gpu. also the back rad mount bracket is kinda shoddily thrown togeher from Lowes but it works and the ghetto radioshack voltmod is less than perfect but hey.. its a work in progress

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AndrewH

Nice job, I like it! Though I am a fan of completely internal components, yours looks good bro!

tha d0ctor

thanks man I appreciate it

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