my vento 3600 log

[Twigsoffury]

Well here are my specs

Amd 6000+ Brisbane 65nm 3.1Ghz [edit]
Msi mobo
Evga 8800GTS KO SSC
2048MB Vanilla DDR2-667
Enermax Noisetaker Rev 1.0a

So here are a couple recent pictures

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9110/dscf8697qn0.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9384/dscf8696bq0.jpg

Those are minus the hood for the cpu.
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/259/dscf8613zh3.jpg
I've still got some work to do on it.

here it is of now.
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/2658/dscf8621ef9.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/8916/dscf8625ft1.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

The whole chassis is a Cherry gloss red with two coats of clear wet sanded inbetween for a nice finish

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/9422/dscf8626cz3.jpg


Rather short on pictures at the momment these are just whats on the camera. but heres a all together picture

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/4797/dscf8558od9.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

Other things i've done that arn't typical to a asus vento case.

the front power switch changes colors from red to green. it has a reset screw. and quad LED lighting for the front ducts.

I'm also using 110v fans instead of 12v there Dayton 120mm 115Cfm fans. And i've rigged up a 110v fan controller. i'll post more as i go. lol if i find out actually some one is interested in hearing about it i guess.

all of the heatsinks have been lapped i guess you call it. including the north and south bridge heatsinks. the 8800GTS is actually cooled pretty well.

heres a video of that
a1k7Pribx2k

That video is pretty old. it shows artic silver but i'm using the new ceramique stuff. actually works quite well after it sets up. with all the cooling i have now it's a base line temp of 125F and I havent seen it go above 151F. mind you this is a Super Super Clock Edition 576Mhz/1.35Ghz Spu's. It gets flippin hot.

[Twigsoffury]

I'll post more later.

[gramatton]

Never liked the vento case, but I like the two tone case. nice paint job

[SXRguyinMA]

:stupid: colors look nice :up:

[eslfish]

case looks good, I like your GPU

[TheGreatSatan]

Looks like Vader!

[Twigsoffury]

Looks like Vader!

Everyone says its Darth vaders helmet when its black. if its red its a ferrari. green a ufo.

These really are 1 off cases. Suprisingly my case is around 5 years old now. Still looks brand new. I got this cause I was done with Rectangle stacks and wanted the easy way out. Stock cooling on it really does blow chunks. But it has potential to do well the main chassis is pretty much sealed except for the front intakes and rear exhaust. As of current at full bore 100% fan speed. at which on paper should be 230Cfm keeps the 8800SSC at a nice 123F idle and 140's on a good load.

oh yea more pictures.I'll try and explain as I go along. But I was never one for blogging about what I do.

[Twigsoffury]

I needed to clean my table. this picture is about a month ago.
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/2163/dscf8575ij7.jpg
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/4548/dscf8573wi8.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8682/dscf8543zk5.jpg
Here is the cpu duct by its self. It's smooth. but i'm still attacking it with hand sanding and clear coats.

[Twigsoffury]

These pictures are showing the front light change color.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6193/dscf8666fd6.jpg
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2920/dscf8665ai4.jpg

other lights are the ground effects and HDD one of the HDD lights going off.

[Twigsoffury]

exposed 8800GTS SSC edition.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8375/dscf8518ch1.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2508/dscf8519ae0.jpg
there is a green sharpie mark where the gpu was selected from the line for rigorous overclocking. from that line it was picked again to be Super Super Clocked. These Also carry 112 SPU's over the normal 96.

A'la SSC edition.

Soon after it got AS Ceramique :)

[Twigsoffury]

Post more later

[Twigsoffury]

Here are the side panels.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5013/dscf8640ug9.jpg

Chassis being hand sanded
http://i33.tinypic.com/oa9ppu.jpg


I saw no point in taking apart the front cage and painting it. Only time you see it is when the front is off.
http://i36.tinypic.com/30b1qtk.jpg

right side.
http://i36.tinypic.com/2j3s9x4.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

if you look at the picture i said last month you'll see the front part wasn't painted all the way.

so here it is on it's 3rd coat about a week ago.
http://i37.tinypic.com/2n86hjt.jpg

Here is a better picture of the front fan.

http://i36.tinypic.com/2vblrbl.jpg


Video card w/ fan blowing on the back side of the gpu. Helps alot.
http://i37.tinypic.com/23tlhth.jpg

That one is a 74mm. The Fan is resting on the Bracket screws. not on the PCB itself.


putting it back together after 3rd clear coat.
http://i33.tinypic.com/2d8hw8i.jpg

After this sets up for awhile it's time for a carnuba wax job.

[Twigsoffury]

I just ordered a Bunch of Crap. 5.25" LCD screen Controller, another rheobus controller,slot fan,dual 4" red neons for the front intakes and a Athlon X2 6400+ w/ cooler.

[Twigsoffury]

So i got a Lian Li TR-5B

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8128/tr5bsy6.jpg


Four thermal probes and three fan speeds i think. Manual or automatic adjustments. aluminum bezel and just about as big of a 5.25" screen you can make. It's semi monochromatic but for 50$ it seems about as good as what I could get outside something that resembles a Car stereo.

I'll post a review with pictures of it in the other department when I get it. I appear to be the first person on the internet to Order one as there are absolutely no pictures besides Retailer pics, no reviews and just about noone saying anything about them. No youtubes. No googles. no toms hardware really or TCBS.

Well hopefully its not crap.

[Twigsoffury]

So some new stuff.

I found some nice aluminum 'esk paint. so I took the Front lifting rods apart and painted them. There flat Black on a Stock Vento. I'll do the guiding mechanisim later when I've got the patenice to do it.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7534/dscf8852jr5.jpg

The black slit on the back of the rod is where the retention spring goes.

So for the Safety of My fingers and the Fingers of others I got a 120mm Grill for the back fan.I almost caught myself Slippin' one night with those 110v Fans going at about 75% of there speed. I soon decided that It needs a Grill ASAP.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/7567/dscf8848zx9.jpg

It'll be red like the chassis here in the next few days when it gets warm enough to paint in the basement.

Other things in that picture are the ghetto Cardboard slat test I have going as you can see. It Really reduced My tempatures So I'm going to have to Fashion one out of aluminum,Steel or Plastic. The 74mm Fan also on top of the card helps a crap load. Rests on the bracket screws. I know you'll say "they don't make 74mm fans"

They do for Humidifiers. My kids Grandma might of left it on the carpet so it burned up. But the fans and switches worked. Took out my micrometer measured across the gap. took that measurement and compared it to the bracket on the top. and it'd fit! so there you go.

I have a 75mm fan but it doesn't rest as well on top of the card.

[Twigsoffury]

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/6686/dscf8847tz3.jpg

This is what that cardboard slat is for. It's a Jungle down there at the moment. I'm adding fans to those holes. just waiting on the fans.


It's really hard with this case since it's got a Sealed in Motherboard tray. No place to do secret cable stashing. Although i have a card up my sleeve....


Heres a Sorta Top down view in case you were wondering what that sticker said.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/3766/dscf8846ro1.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

home made 110/220V Fan controller.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/106/dscf8854ks1.jpg

I'm going to print out a dial and try that as a gauge. I just put some dots on there for now. First dot is my "Quiet mode" that 2nd dot is what i use for video games.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/636/dscf8853qo6.jpg

Lol Ta-Da!!1

[Twigsoffury]

. at which on paper should be 230Cfm keeps the 8800SSC at a nice 123F idle and 140's on a good load.



Scratch that Now it's 108.5 Idle 135F is the highest it goes it seems now.

Thank you riva tuner for manual control of my video card fan and that cardboard slat.

I'll post a youtube video of it when i get the time.

When this card showed up at my door it'd idle in the 130's and hover in the 150-60's under load.

Lol amazing what happens when you increase the airflow and surface area between the sink and componants.

That Ceramique stuff is quite amazing after a couple weeks of letting it do "it's thing".

[Twigsoffury]

Ordered Heat Spreaders for my ram.

[jdbnsn]

Looking great dude!

EDIT: Would you like this moved to the works in progress forum?

[Twigsoffury]

Looking great dude!

EDIT: Would you like this moved to the works in progress forum?

Acutually yea if you could. Didn't know I posted it in the wrong part.

Parts are in.


post pictures later today.

That 5.25" display is fat.

[Twigsoffury]

Heres The front intakes with the 4" neons
http://i41.tinypic.com/29gles0.jpg

Here is that LCD display.
http://i39.tinypic.com/xaq9tk.jpg

lemme see ya grill, its red now

http://i41.tinypic.com/dcvfp0.jpg

one left to fill

http://i40.tinypic.com/23ibjiq.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

You'll hear about this guy later.

Hes quite powerful. actually one of the fastest 80mm fans that has ever existed.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2qu7yo0.jpg

It's going to be doing the job of cooling off that new cpu.

[Twigsoffury]

this isnt my stack its my friends but worth a note in here just cause its pretty cool. I'll post the rest of the photos somewhere else.

It's a kick ass kiosk.
http://i39.tinypic.com/a2vx1j.jpg

with some cable management issues

http://i44.tinypic.com/t7e8zq.jpg

Somewhere off in there are two Sli 7900GTO Ltd edition. (like 700$ back in the day) a uber Pentium Cpu, 2 gig's of ram and Asus Deluxe Sli/wifi/tv edition mobo. 1000GB hard drive plus more (1.6TB) i think

But its all on a dolly so it's easily wheeled around between places.

That computer is also extremely heavy. (50+ pounds)

http://i43.tinypic.com/2q0tw86.jpg

heres another stack built for a friend. also has a 8800GTS SSC and a AMD 64 7750 Black edition (its quite fast)

http://i39.tinypic.com/2ivk3d2.jpg

That really is a 1" Bullet Resistant piece of Polycarbonate in the drive bays holding that fan.

[Twigsoffury]

ok back to vento

Heres a Video Showing How Fast these 110v fans go.

it's old before i did much to the computer

PzyRpS-JKEE

it's about 230Cfm no joke.

[Twigsoffury]

The new stuff.

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/7417/dscf8886zs1.jpg

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3360/dscf8890wj8.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/2njdnnl.jpg

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7850/dscf8902kx3.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

http://i44.tinypic.com/nwzses.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2u8cc1y.jpg

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/7729/dscf8908wl2.jpg

It's back in the saddle again.

wouldn't you know soon as that son of a bitch fired up again after 3 years of not using it. It cut the livin hell out of my finger. just like always. Guess this is the 3rd time its gotten me.

http://i42.tinypic.com/idcaaa.jpg

Just like old times.

that LCD panel tells me its spinning at 4540rpm and if i set it at 100% it spools upto 6100rpm.

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/4472/dscf8910gx8.jpg

So far I see it's hovering in the 90's (F) idle and gets upto the 130's (f) under load. I saw that stock fan let that cpu hit 155F and i said Hell no. I knew it would need it but I just wanted to see.

It's from the Thermal Take Volcano 12 cooler.

Yes i tried that heatsink and it didn't want to fit. thats a damn good heatsink that volcano 12. This one really for a stock cooler is extremely good. Hard to find a heatsink with the fins mated against the sink itself.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Looking good mate. The gloss red and black go very well together.

[billygoat333]

pretty sweet air cooling going on in that case.

[Twigsoffury]

Ran into a problem last night with that LCD controller.

http://i44.tinypic.com/2vucxvn.jpg
So I already knew the Rectifiers didn't have heatsinks like they should of. so i went digging and found that .45A is the most they'll carry. Guess what that red triple blade draws .45A. So i took it off and touched the first rectifier Burning hot. I mean BURNING hot.

So my solution

Hammer on a 6x6 inch piece of aluminum foil until it matches the size of the rectifer. Cut and fray the end.

apply thermal paste between aluminum sink and rectifer. wrap in VHB and this is the end product.

http://i40.tinypic.com/28cg1g1.jpg

Lol Looks like a ghettofablous zalman cooler. But it works great. It's only warm now.

Oh here is the re sprayed Grate. got a clear coat the other day.


http://i44.tinypic.com/8xtpap.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

10,098 marks on 3dmark 2006

33,376 marks on 3dmark 2003

that new cpu is really supreme stable. the Thermal compound is still doing "it's thing" but temps are in the low 90's now dips into the 80's when its absolutely idle. hits about 136-7F underload.

That cooler is great. guess I don't even need a fancy one.

If you have a lower speed dual core X2 socket AM2. I'd highly recommend upgrading to a 65nm Brisbane 3.1Ghz 6000+ X2. and it can be had for under 80$ on newegg.

4200 to 6000+ is like a slap in the face.

Couldn't imagine what a Intel would be like.

I looked it up and this specific cpu seems to be at about the same performance as a 6600 series intel dual core.

but intels have cache everywhere its no wonder they stomp on AMD's among other reasons.

[Twigsoffury]

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[Twigsoffury]

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[Twigsoffury]

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[Twigsoffury]

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[Twigsoffury]

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[FuzzyPlushroom]

Brilliant work mate, love that color combination. I never liked the Vento until now. +rep

I ran a Volcano 11 on my 4400+ for a while with the next-best Tt 80mm fan - had to wind it up to 4800 RPM for gaming or it would overheat! That case was rubbish in terms of cooling, though.

I don't blame you for not painting your Enermax - those are quite attractively finished, I've got a lighter-blue 420w unit in my backup machine.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Man she looks good, fantastic end result. +rep

[Karbon Killa]

That case looks great. But it looks a bit messy inside if you know what I mean...

[Twigsoffury]

That case looks great. But it looks a bit messy inside if you know what I mean...

Yea Its a Sealed Motherboard tray so theres no place to stash cables. And the side panel only leaves about 3/8" gap.

So all the cables go into the spare 5.25" bays. It's cluttered atm since all those new parts got installed. still have to figure out where i want my probes and stuff.

[Twigsoffury]

Brilliant work mate, love that color combination. I never liked the Vento until now. +rep

I ran a Volcano 11 on my 4400+ for a while with the next-best Tt 80mm fan - had to wind it up to 4800 RPM for gaming or it would overheat! That case was rubbish in terms of cooling, though.

I don't blame you for not painting your Enermax - those are quite attractively finished, I've got a lighter-blue 420w unit in my backup machine.

Ha thanks man. these fans do spool up hardcore. I added Bearing oil to this fan awhile back and it went even faster. dunno if its moving more air or not but that high pitched whine is there for sure.

yea No paint on the Enermax. I bought that back when AGP 6800GT's were top of the line. I paid over 200$ for it at the time. 600W was the best. It's a old one and the parts inside are a Hell of alot better then the Noisetaker II.

Something to be said for Enermax. 3-4 years of gaming almost everyday and the voltages are still what they were when i first powered it up to the dot. 12.03v

[Karbon Killa]

One last question. Why not mod the mobo tray so you CAN put wires behind it? All you need is a couple of squares right?

[The boy 4rm oz]

One last question. Why not mod the mobo tray so you CAN put wires behind it? All you need is a couple of squares right?

Or just a few holes with some rubber grommets. Will also add a bit of ventilation behind the mobo.

[Twigsoffury]

Or just a few holes with some rubber grommets. Will also add a bit of ventilation behind the mobo.

Theres no space behind the motherboard tray on this case. The other panel pretty much mounts flush with the mobo tray on the other side. maybe 3/8" at the most in some spots.

I've got a sinkplate mated against the back of the cpu bracket holder to help dissapate heat out into the chassis.


This really isn't you know a show room stack. i've always got my hands off in it. plus i take it all apart once a month to clean the dust out. So uber cable management can be a pain. I've done it in the past with stacks and always seems to be a pain in the ass when you've routed your cables all throughout the board makes something as simple as removing a mobo a complete pain in the ass if you know what i mean.

Gimmie a couple days to get some more spare time and I'm going to stuff n stuck some cables out of the way.

but i can see holes below the mobo for those usb cables

But sure would be a shame to tarnish 87$ worth of paint with a holesaw.

[The boy 4rm oz]

You don't need to full everything apart to clean it. Just use an air compressor from a distance (get too close and condensation may form), works like a treat.

[Twigsoffury]

You don't need to full everything apart to clean it. Just use an air compressor from a distance (get too close and condensation may form), works like a treat.

thats not condensation thats water in your tank.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Don't worry, I empty our compressor after every use ;).

[Twigsoffury]

Don't worry, I empty our compressor after every use ;).

its some scary stuff man. just trying to look out.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Yeah I have seen one blow before, glad I was a fair way away lol. Probably hasn't a good idea to shoot it either HAHAHA.

[Twigsoffury]

Yeah I have seen one blow before, glad I was a fair way away lol. Probably hasn't a good idea to shoot it either HAHAHA.

hahahhah your alright by me sir.

majorbud the wheel a stack guy made a ball bearing shooter once out of one.

[Twigsoffury]

Just a short update I'm fighting some pieces of polycarbonate right now with hole saws. three hole saws are now perma attached to a piece of it. theres no hope of them coming back out.

I need a band saw and a 240v Saws all apparently

check back in a few days and i'll have a shiny new slat for the video card.

[Twigsoffury]

http://i42.tinypic.com/wrx5ci.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/1zmj8fo.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/2yuaz3t.jpg

well i feel asleep today instead of going out and making it.


but this is what I have so far.

lol

[Twigsoffury]

http://i44.tinypic.com/2yudf2v.jpg
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[Twigsoffury]

http://i36.tinypic.com/1zufs6.jpg
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[Twigsoffury]

http://i33.tinypic.com/11uyes2.jpg
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[Humvee21]

http://i42.tinypic.com/wrx5ci.jpg
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well i feel asleep today instead of going out and making it.


but this is what I have so far.

lol

Nice set up! Just curious.. is that fan that's standing next to the vid card just free standing? And I'd assume that the same goes for the one in the front under the optical drive bay?

[Twigsoffury]

Nice set up! Just curious.. is that fan that's standing next to the vid card just free standing? And I'd assume that the same goes for the one in the front under the optical drive bay?

Nope, Secured with VHB

The worlds Strongest adhesive tape period.

it'll tow a rail car when fully cured, also used to secure windows to sky scrapers


The burj dubai has VHB assembled windows.

[AmEv]

What MNPCTech calls TOTG?