Um, Hey man great work so far. But I do have a question. It looks like you put a rivet directly into the radiator. Is there something there I'm not seeing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Langer
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Um, Hey man great work so far. But I do have a question. It looks like you put a rivet directly into the radiator. Is there something there I'm not seeing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Langer
Factory rivet. I just used VHB tape to hold the power distribution in place.
Keen eye though, points for that.
langer it is really looking awesome! Last night I was laying in bed, thinking about this build and I had a brainstorm! Then I woke up and saw that you got the wires successfully soldered to the board. My idea was to make a 90 adapter for the 24 pin plug so it would come of the board to the side. But I must say that you do an amazing soldering job! I like the HDD activity LEDs, I was really wondering how you were going to wire them up. just using the mobo's activity plug, or is there one on the raid card? Awesome job man, so happy you came back to the mod!
Ah, ok, I figured you would not have done that yourself. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Langer
Espo - Check out markkleb's (aka MKmods) work - he's the pioneer of the soldered ATX power trick.
Here are some better images of the ATX wire - still without a black rubber coating. I tried to get pics of the solder joints but it'll have to wait until I next remove the motherboard.
This wire probally took me 5-6hours to fabricate... and another 45mins or so to solder it in place.
The sun was out, so I did a fit test today. I'm pleased, I hope you will be as well:
Here's the Pico-ITX w/ it's 40mm rad hanging below via VHB tape:
Power source for the 40mm fans on the rear chassis wall, and the LED on the rear of the RAID card:
Note the SATA port location... right smack in the way of the watercooling ports - I'll have to flip this block 180degrees
I'll leave you with this for now:
More proper updates later. I'm going to do a little experimenting with the Ethernet port -among other things- this evening
one of the things i respect the most is the fact that you have taken this thing apart, and then put it all back together just to take it apart again more times than i remember...
i like this build, and looks foreward to the day i can see it finished:)
Thanks man. It's only a few weeks from completion now.
Every time it goes together I learn something new. I tried estimating my sizing in the beginning - the pcs worked but I demand higher tolerances.
this thing is gorgeous, I cant wait to see it done!!
Soon... soon.
So I FINALLY received by two Copper AquaComputer AquaTube reservoirs today...
These are MAGNIFICENT - they weight a tonne but they are so sexy. Lots of respect for AquaComputer!
tasty
