The Scarlet Harlot

[Cannibal23]

Zippo fluid is by far the best for removing sticker glue and leaving the paint under it alone.

i tell people this all the time and they never belive me. if only they knew what you and i know.

[Kaej]

I eventually got all of the sticky off with that industrial strength stuff my dad gave me, let it soak in for long enough and then it just wiped away nice n easy! The whole thing is being sprayed in the garage now, the case that is. I was gutted because last night i scratched the frame for the side panel pretty deep by kicking the hard drive bay into it...not intentionally of course. It'll leave a dint in it but beauty is in imperfections and it'll teach me to be more careful in future. Its only 1mm by 4 or 5mm tho so its not too bad.

The whole thing will be sprayed and curing by friday when i can take photos, going campin tomoro for 5 days so its adios till then!

[Maz]

cant wait till then

so you kicked your hdd bay into your case?!?!

that sucks, hope it turns out ok

[NamesAreUseless]

i tell people this all the time and they never belive me. if only they knew what you and i know.

Kerosene also gets sticky sticker marks off of stuff

[Kaej]

Fresh from camping and no disasters yet, just putting the final layer of matt black on my case now (not this second of course) and then all i need to do is decide on the interior spec and get the cooling up and working before i go away!

I was looking at sticking with S939 for the upcoming future and upgrading to Core Duo in about 12 months when I have a better idea of its capabilities and a better range of mobos to choose from.

I'm going to buy the DFI Lanparty SLI-DR Expert and an X2 3800+ to overclock the flip out of with the tasty voltages i can get from the mobo. The DFI came down from £150 to £120 recently so i'm gonna flog my A8N-SLI Deluxe and 3500+ on ebay or something.

In the meantime, my MDVA came this morning and looks great, cant wait to see it working.

http://www.modthebox.com/reviews/mas...mdva11_new.jpg

[chedabob]

kaej, could i get a price for the a8n-sli delux and the 3500+ (is that an X2?)?

[Kaej]

kaej, could i get a price for the a8n-sli delux and the 3500+ (is that an X2?)?

Well you could, but I dont think you'll be too interested when i tell you.

Its a bog standard 3500+ single core, 512K Cache, not sure what core that makes it but its the better of Venice and San Diego (dont know which is which).

Along with that, the chipset fan on my A8N-SLI has started to make a noise that sounds like a lawnmower going into labour. I used to give it a poke with a chopstick through a hole in the case and after about 10 seconds of prodding it would shut up and go back to its normal volume. But if you're not gonna use it for water-cooling or for L/N experiments then its not worth the look in really, because the fan needs either replacing or swapping for a chipset w/block.

If you're still interested i'll do the job lot for £65, inc postage. If you're in america or outside the UK then i dunno about postage but i probably wouldnt lose much more.

[Kaej]

Components = Bought
Water-cooling = Ready To Assemble
Case = Curing

And now we play the waiting game....I think another week should do it

[Kaej]

Ok, here's the skinny (Huggy-Bear I aint). The side panel is finished (voila).

The little missing red bolt is broken but can easily be glued on. The whole thing is being constructed on Monday. Here's a pile'o'stuff that will, with some luck, take the form of a PC. See you all Monday

[Kaej]

Here we go, halfway through Day one of putting togetherness. The only thing to arrive through the mail now is the coolant to go into the loop and some TIM remover and surface purifier for the GPU and mem modules on my 7800GTX.

That there is the inside of my side panel, the two fans are hot-glued onto the panel on top of some fan grills harvested from various parts of this PC case and the one i'm sacrificing to do my good work. I glued around the edges of the fans as well so they get nice clean suction from outside the case.

Motherboard, PSU and CD drive are mounted, along with the first radiator (out of shot). At this point i realise the size of the case is in itself a blockade to installing a water cooling loop of any magnitude. The amount of wires, tubes and fans (not to mention hard drives, which i now realise will barely squeeze betwixt the soundcard and radiator) will virtually fill the case with liquid like efficiency. The routing of the water-cooling tubes will be the last thing i do before filling the bitch via the resevoir, hot-glue sealing the resevoir and then hoping to god the best happens.

The worst has happened, in my rush to get this project finished (i'm going to university a week on saturday) I accepted that everything would arrive Bristol fashion. Not my luck. In the above photo you can see that a number of the CPU pins are bent out of shape, either in shipping or prior (the CPU was OEM). I've managed to straighten them again using a plastic guitar plectrum (which, fortunately, is the exact thickness of the distance between the pins, and because its non-conductive, helped me straighten them out and whack it in).

This photo shows the magnitude of the volume of the case. Already its feeling superfluosly dense as i carried it to my living room for more space, and the route to the different components are getting cramped (i'm particularly worried about said resevoir, which i'm keeping under-wraps until the end ).

With that said, thats lunch. I'll be back in about 2-3 hours with more progress shots.