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Here is a pic of what I did, it's just make sift until I remove the stock cooler to install the water block. I will be mounting 2 heatsinks instead of one. I am using a couple of Zalman heatsinks that came with an old GPU cooler to cool the RAM. If you have an old CPU or Northbridge heatsink you could mod that to fit easily.
Here is the pic:
And another:
Ordered some small copper heat sinks from Performance PCs yesterday. Boy are they fast... I placed an order on Sunday, they shipped on Monday. I placed another order on Monday which they also shipped on Monday! :up:
When we started this mod I thought that case was huge... Now I am starting to wonder were we are going to fit everything...:cgonfused:
Just waitng for the boy to decide to get up...
While I really should be working.... Ive been flicking through the works in progress. There is some great work here. I am new to modding myself and I really like the sharp, clean look you are going for!
Well, I got held up for the last update, so i'll combine it with this one, for a [loud ultra deep announcer's voice] SUUUUUPER UPDATE [/loud ultra deep announcer's voice]
First, my dad decided to show off his newfound metalworking skills by building a UV Puck mount to light our flow meter.
...unfortunately, he grossly miscalculated, it didnt work. XD
So anyways, we installed the card reader while I waited for dad to finish playing with his mount. :)
Next, we popped one of the exhaust fans into the case. It definately moves some air! :)
During the horrible neverending sleeving, there was an accident....
:O :'( One of our temperature probes! Nooooooooooooooooooo!
Good thing we bought a bunch of extras!
Once that was done, we moved on to painting the T joints for the probes. Like how they look?
Then, wonder of all wonders, are CPU finally got here!
After that, I installed our lightbus! We tested it out for quite a while, it works pretty well! One thing we wish though, was that it would use the different channels to cover the highs and lows, instead of each channel operting on one sensitivity. Oh well. :P
Welcome to the first national cable forest, located in scenic Josh's basement!
Were on to the second half of this update! You are about to see, ladies and gentlemen, the long loooong process of lapping, and several other miscellaneous tasks! :)
Note: If you can count the number of pictures of lapping in this update you will win: one lungful of air! :)
BEFORE
This is my lapping work area, complete with a laptop with several TiVoed episodes of Futurama and Family Guy. :)
While i worked at grinding away our CPU cooler, dad finally got his UV LED mount right (on the third try) :P Looks pretty slick though, eh?
I've gotta give the old man props for that, you kn ow he deserves some rep for it (he's never metalworked a day in his life as far as I know. :) )
Back to me! I finished the first grit of sandpaper, and already its starting to shine! Wow! :)
And, the next grit too!
Around this point we found that circular motion works best, one set clockwise, one set counterclockwise (or as our lightbus manual form New Zealand says, "withershins"). :)
And finally, last grit, you know its amazing, here it is!
Oooh! Ahhh!
Well, thats it for now, time to get back to work! :)
You have a lot of cables there lol. Bracket looks great. Nice job on the lapping.
Lookin' very sweet guys. But I'm curious.... why watercooling and air cooling? Extreme overclocking?
Even though you water cool you still need airflow to remove all the heat from your HDDs motherboard and other bits of tech. Your RAM would bake without any air flow around them to keep them cool.
Hey guys, another day of hard work to show for with this update! :)
First, we took our handy little heat sinks we bout off of PerformancePCs.com, our favorite parts store. :) hey were smaller then we originally anticipated, but they made up for it in number (10 per kit)! So, we cleaned up the power controller chips on the graphics card with our ArctiCleaner kit, and went online to get some instructions for our Arctic Silver Transfer material.
My dad is a butt. (he told me not to type that while I was writing this)
Anyways, the instructions for the Arctic Silver were laughable... we'd come to expect better from them. In short, the instructions told us all about the materials pot life, and workable time, and protogelwhatsit... or rather, it told us the DEFINITIONS of all those terms, it never gave us any actual numbers! What the heck? :o Ignoring that, we mixed the material and got to work.
A pea-sized amount wa more then adaquate. Then we spread it onto the two chips in question. (Seen here just to the right of the black cooling attatchment.)
...and here, with the material spread on.
Here it is with 4 of the heat sinks per chip.
While we waited for the thermal epoxy to dry, we went right to work on the lighting, WOOt!!!!! ;) We took all of our LED strips and stared at them for a while. Unfortunately, they were covered with a nasty gooey foam adhesive strip... certianly not preferable when we're using velcro to hold all the lights! Even better then that though, the adhesive had leaked out of the foam, covering most of the light strips. :/ Anyways, a lot of rubbing alcohol thermal material remover, and surface purifier later, the LED strips were merely sticky. We mounted our only white light strip on the crossbar that supports the PSU, and then mounted a UV strip on the top of the case. We also mounted two more UV strips along the bottom of the case.
We had already mounted our blue lights, so all we needed was our greens. Unfortunately, the green laser LEDs had only one molex connection per light, so they couldn't be daisy-chained without a ton of Y-splitters. Being the stickler that he is decided we would be building the Y-splitters ourselves, so we had to put that off.
Since we couldnt finish up the lights, we moved on to hosing!
Fther got this hideous pink anti-kink wrap, which i had to put on for him, but hell, this computer is gonna be worth it. :P
This is a piece of our coolant circuit, sans the CPU cooler.
Speak of the devil, it was time to load up our G0 stepping quad core!
Then apply thermal goo,
and finally, finish the circuit!
Now, I want you to look at the circuit, theres a silly error in it, which has to do with the placement of our temp probes (the silver T joints). If you can guess what it is, you will win 50 Attaboy credits to be used at any participating CKDD Retail store.
certain restrictions apply, must be 0 years of age or older to participate. Contest requires submittance of 1000 word essay or larger of the error in the coolant flow in triplicate, or entry is void. Must pay a fee of 5 dollars to participate, and must live in North Korea or Lorain, Ohio to recieve prize.
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for, the lights! so, without further ado.
LIGHTS *flash*
CAMERA *beep* *whirrr*
ACTION *snap*
NOTE: the wiring is ONLY TEMPORARY, dont give us any gaff about it! XD
NOTE2: green light scheme hasnt been implemented
NOTE3: many light schemes will involve one or more color of lights, which you can't see jsut yet.
NOTE4: our LightBus enables us to change the lights brightness, as well as run them all according to patterns involving sound, HDD usage, CPU usage, and several other things, which looks friggin' sweet, if I do say so myself. Expect us to get some type of video recording device before this monster is done to show you. :P
Well, were off to the store to buy a funnel to put our awesome Feser One liquid into the system, which is solid black in visible light, transparent blue in UV! Until then, this has been CK, signing out. :)
Try to get blue or green anti kink wrap. The red/pink looks highly out of place.
Well it's 12:25 pm and the boy is still asleep. I tried to wake him at 11:00 am, but he just went back to sleep.:down: Oh well I didn't want to finish this mod anytime soon:(
As you will find if the boy ever enters yesterday's work. we are currently leak testing the loop. What fun...
First we had a leak at one of the plugs on the GPU cooler.:mad: It wouldn't tighten soo we had to empty the loop and put a second oring on the plug. (yes I know that's not the right way, but it worked.) We refilled the loop and restarted leak testing.
A few hours later we found the video card was wet.:dead: After a little soul searching we once again emptied the loop and then pulled the video card and removed the cooler. Was the liquid left over from the first leak? Who knows? Anyhow we cleaned and dried the cooler and card. We pulled apart the cooler to check the gig oring. (it was ok) We checked everything tight. Refilled the loop without installing the the cooler on the video card and restarted the pump.
No leaks when I checked this morning! :banana: I was really starting to worry.
