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Q6600 air rebuild

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Hola guys, ever get bored one day and you notice a little imperfection about your pc and you have the sudden urge to rebuild it?
Well that happened to me, and in the meaningful words of daft punk:"build it harder better faster stronger" ;]
Before:
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Okay gents, by a rebuild I mean gutting the thing and rebuilding it from scratch.
So here we go:

also if you would be so kind as to rate the paint job I did that would be lovely ;]
Here is a front view with the cages removed:

and the rear:
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I'll update this tomorrow, Its 5 am x-x'
:edit: I'm thinking of doing some cable banagement holes any ideas on the placements?
lol and as for me tis sleep teim X_X
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Okay here is the board, Im going to be updating that hs on the northbridge
with this one:



It probably wont have much impact but whatever
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Im also thinking about lapping my cpu and hs.
And doing push pull on the xiggy.
recommend me some fans? im thinking of scythe slipstreams
Man is that so hard to see, the pictures are blurry. By what I can tell its looking good, keep it up, by fans are you wanting colors or just a regular fan? If you lap make sure to take pics of it so we can see that shiny beast
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alright, I lapped the cpu and here are the results (sorry about the quality)
Before:


Afterrrr:
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Done (with a better cam ;])
Can you guys rate it on a scale of 1/10
The lapping made a very nice improvement in my temps.
It idles at around 20-25c and loads 30-40c
also im getting another scythe slipstream for the xiggy ^_^
for some reason though I can't get past 3ghz stable at least, I got up to 3.20 but it froze on css and BSOD'd my VID is at like 4 right now but here are the pics of the finished rig:












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Um

Dont lap the heatsink.
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Originally Posted by d3v0 View Post
Um

Dont lap the heatsink.
Already did I did not do it too much, I started at 600grit and went up to 2000
It looks sexy with that mirror Finnish~
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Originally Posted by Danylu View Post
Wish I had money to buy stuff

you have a 780i!!!!
just get a new gpu, and lap your cpu ^_^
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he already lapped the CPU

nice rebuild bud. grab another GTX 260 for SLI
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Originally Posted by -iceblade^ View Post
he already lapped the CPU

nice rebuild bud. grab another GTX 260 for SLI

But that means getting a new mobo D:
But thats next ^_^ x-x' that bose was pricey it sent me back 450.00 x_X
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