Zeus

[Luke122]

I have that same Corsair in a 650w at home.

[Couch3ater]

Looks an awful lot like my PSU. And that packing looks familiar too. >_< Hahaha, I got mine about a month back. Love it.

[x88x]

Heh...so...while I was pulling out the old PSU, I discovered that one of the power contacts for the pump was loose....
So, in retrospect, the PSU may have been just fine, but the pump wasn't running, so it would run till it hit the limit in the BIOS and shut off...which really makes a lot of sense because when I left it overnight running memtest to make sure that it wasn't the RAM, it ran for a lot longer before shutting off at some point in the night.

Oh well, I was wanting to get a new PSU for this build anyways

So, running wonderfully on the new PSU; so far no problems, and according to SpeedFan, the rails on this PSU are much more stable than they were on the old one

So, I've ordered the new 2x140 rad for the top, plus fans and a mosfet block, to finally finish off the guts of this system. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a mosfet block that'll fit my board stock, but hey, since when has that stopped any of us
...I just realized that between my computer and car, I've spent almost $600 in the last 36 hours ...it's a good thing I don't do this very often...

Oh, as a side note, would anyone be interested in possibly buying, I think it was these two:
http://www.xoxide.com/noctua-nh-u12-cooler.html
http://www.xoxide.com/noctua-nhu9b-hpcooler.html
In opened boxes for $35 each plus shipping? They seemed to be in perfect physical condition, they just had been opened and returned. Assuming they're still there, I can pick them up for cheap off the Micro Center clearance returns cart.
They also occasionally have cases that had been on display for sale on that cart, and I was sorely tempted by an Antec Minuet, for I think it was $30? It was missing the top panel and USB/sound board, but the rest of the case (including the PSU) was still intact.. I did manage to persuade myself to not get that at least

[Trace]

Aren't cars and computers money pits? They're never good enough! But I wouldn't quit this hobby for anything.

[Snowman]

Aren't cars and computers money pits? They're never good enough! But I wouldn't quit this hobby for anything.

Tell me about it I am dropping about a grand in the volkswagen this week.

[x88x]

Aren't cars and computers money pits? They're never good enough! But I wouldn't quit this hobby for anything.

Yup. They're also about the two fastest depreciating things in the world too

[msmrx57]

Yup. They're also about the two fastest depreciating things in the world too

Entirerly too true. 30% value drop day one.

[billygoat333]

I'm so jealous, I wish I had a micro center close by.

[x88x]

So a quick update on this. Now, because I don't really have a good way of having packages delivered to my apartment without them sitting outside my door for a long time, I have everything delivered to work. Normally this works out great because stuff rarely gets delivered on the weekends anyways, so I'm usually there when it gets delivered. However, with all this snow we've had, I haven't been able to make it in to the office yet this week, so even though everything got delivered yesterday when the roads were barely passable (but my parking lot was still a mess), they're just sitting there on my desk.

So, here's hoping the snow stops so I can finally get this thing moving again.

[x88x]

Yay! The snow finally stopped and I was able to get to work! As a result of this....loot!

So first we have the mosfet waterblock. Very nice, simple packaging:

A trend which continues on the inside:

New fans. These move ~40CFM at ~10dBa, as opposed to my old ones that move ~80CFM at ~30dBa. I know they never actually moved that much anyways, since they've been on radiators all the time, so these will give me a much better airflow/dB ratio. Worst case, I get another 6 and do a push-pull configuration, and it'll still make less noise than my current setup. (Also, three of these should actually fit on my 360 rad).

And, last but not least, the star of this little show.. My new 280 rad

EDIT: I won't be working on it till tomorrow though; still got some stuff for work to finish up tonight.