Once again I've been cocky/pigheaded. Although many of you had told me it wouldn’t work, I still started trying out the "chrome" spray paint.
I toke the standard 140 mm fan of the Scythe Orochi and an old fan from my BFG mod.
First I cleaned them and then added a layer of primer. Then two thin layers of chrome paint over it.
As you said, it dries just not quite enough, it stay a bit tacky. (OK, even on the bus it says that "lightly" sticks, ahwell)
Here you see the result. It is not chrome, more of a silver-gray with a glossy coating.
When I started with this cooler, I couldnt stop. This is the toppart that sits over the cooler.
Underneath you can see a little chamber, there was a green LED. I swapped it for a
bright blue one.
Toppart on the cooler again.
When it is on, it looks kinda cool.
Even more so in the dark.
Because the Scythe Orochi was not intended for this socket, I had to make my own mounting, with the 775 bracket as an example.
A nice piece of 2 mm hard aluminium, I got from my friend Roger ( thanx man ! )
First drawing the lines.
And after some sawing, hacking, slashing, cutting, blood sweat and tears...
I also engraved the 'Cyberdyne Systems' text on the side.
Anyway, the little cooler I mounted on the side of the Orochi; I mean a Core I7 920
with passive cooling is just a little too risky for me (although I never overclock)
Brings me right to the specs of the Terminator. The "content" of the Terminator is a Gigabyte GA-EX58-X58 motherboard UDR3R,
3x2 Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 memory,
a Core I7 920 processor which is cooled by a Scythe Orochi cooler
and the graphics come from a Sapphire HD 4870 video card.
Could be worse, huh? Oh and the OS will run on two Hitachie harddrives
The OS I am going to use a 64 bit Windows7.
This hardware is partly from generous sponsors, partly bought with a discount and a part I had to pay myself. Thanx Maurice, Ben, Bernice, Bill, Jeroen, Bjarn en Kenny!
