Project: POWERTHIRST

[Luthien]

Ah, I know the feeling...though, normally for me it's the other way around...classes started, so I have no money because I just paid tuition.. Good luck with your summer classes.

I'm lucky: I get money cuz of financial aid. (But some of it's loan $$$ I'll have to repay after I graduate )

Thanks, and good luck w/your classes, too.

[Luthien]

Sometime soon I'll be getting in the rest of what I need to complete PowerThirst. The work may be slow because of school, but I will be working on it as much as I can as soon as the parts come in the mail.

[Luthien]

I now have everything in that I need. I took pictures but haven't been able to upload them yet. I'll get them on here asap.

[Luthien]

So much for getting the pics posted asap...Sorry about that, but school's kept me pretty busy. As promised, here's the pics. Better late than never, right?

The Y-Joint needed for some of the tubing:

2 new video cards (5770s) that are replacing the card I had:

2 more Yate Loon 140s (for the rad) and a 120 (replacing a stock fan):

24-pin extension:

Stronger res holders:

And Hawthorne (supplier of cat-ergy power) looking on from the window in the door:

[SXRguyinMA]

lookin good! I think those 5770's are defective though...you should just send them to me and I'll test them, and I'll even send you my pair of 3870x2's to use in the meantime

[x88x]

Nice new hardware.

[Luthien]

Thanks guys.

It's all installed now. The outside work is all that's left before it's finished.

[Luthien]

Well, I tried to do a new update (with lots of pictures) but photobucket is officially giving me the double bird.

I will attempt it again tomorrow.

[Luthien]

Okay, let's try this again...

The motherboard with the air cooling removed & the cpu cleaned:

With thermal compound and the standoffs in place:

With the water block in place:

Kitten in a dustpan (kept staring at me as if I'm insane as I went in and out of the house with the motherboard and the camera):

There are no pictures of the process of putting the water cooling in. It involved a lot of cat wrangling and creativity. Here's what it looks like all put together:

All lit up:

[x88x]

Looks great. I'd worry about the small tubing overlap on the barbs on that Y-fitting...doesn't necessarily mean there isn't enough, but I would worry.