Cooling Unorthodox Wavemaster with pics

Ok its been a long time coming i know but eventually found a bit of time to semi finish this Wavemaster project or at least get it to a standard that looks semi finished and it now takes pride of place as the main workstation in my office 8)

It was a 9800XT purchase that spurned me into action.........the card remained with its stock cooling less than a day partly due to its extreme heat (67c) and secondly my inherent desire to take things to bits

On opening the Hercules box i could see immediately its shiny potential (yes I have a shiny fetish but we'll keep that for a different forum lol) with the big copper heatsink on one side so it was straight off with that and over to the buffing wheel........voila.....one shiny heatsink and to the other side i strapped a red DD Maze4 (in keeping with the card) for some extreme watery goodness.....yeeehaa!

Anyway onto the Wavemaster and more specifically the big piece of billet aluminium that serves know other propose than to....... well to look like a big piece of billet aluminium so i also attacked that with me trusty buffing wheel so now at least it looks like a nice shiny piece of billet aluminium that doesn't do anything other than to look nice and shiny

Globalwin obviously heard of my shiny fetish and kindly made me a chrome 520watt super silent (22db) PSU.....very nice so all that was needed there was a quick cable braiding exercise with one of our UV green Techflex braiding kits and to finish it off some nice UV green Molex and ATX connectors.

That's about it really so here a run down of spec followed by some pics!

Coolermatser Wavemaster Case
DFI Lan Party Rev B
AMD XP3200 Barton
2x 512 Corsair DDR XMS3200 Low Latency Platinum Cas 2
Hercules 9800XT - Omega 2.5.22 drivers @ 499MHz Core 445MHz memory
Globalwin Super Silent 520watt Chrome PSU
Maxtor HD

Cooling:-
D-Tek White Water (polished)
Maze4 GPU Block
Z-Chip Block
Thermochill 120.1 Rad
AquaTube Reservoir
Eheim 1250 Pump
Note: the unorthodox set-up configuration.....CPU temps at 36c

Pics...........any good???

Front


Back


Back with polished copper heatsink........mmmmmmm




......and Maze4 to tuther side



And onto the Wavemaster........

Heres the big piece of shiny billet aluminium.......oh and the WW ain't bad either


/..........and a close up


quick one of the Chrome Globalwin with Techflex and UV molex


and just for good measure


all done

 

looks shiny! nice setup you got going there keep up the work!

 

looks good as per usual, the green dye and sleeving works well together, but we all know your just an attention seeker at the end of the day

 

Nice, first mod of that case ive seen, its so..... shiny

(i also have a bit of a shiny fetish )

 

I like it!! Its so shiny and green and it looks good in that case

 

couldn't resist.........


I liked the shiny thingy so much i decided to polish the whole front and ............man am i glad i did

Took quite a bit of time but i can't believe myself how shiny it turned out 8)

Just got to do the bottom half and the few other bits tomorrow night if i get time.

When it's all done i'll get some better pics in the day light see if i can show it a bit better!

What you reckon?????

SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY SHINY

 

haha! thats awesome!

 

Lol...Just no Ebay/Teapot pictures...please!

Seriously though, really nice rig. Really clean looking, even with all that tubing...

 

Woah!!! That really is shiny

lol

 

yep paul. lol. You done it again. U damn hero. That thing looks like art.

What did u use to stick the ram sinks on?

You can now see your lovely figure paul on the case

 

i think you need to see a dr about your shiny disorder lol. damn magpies

did you compare parallel performance with series?

 

no shine?

 

it matches the red of the card silly!

 

Pimping, dude. Now put a Matrix Orbital LCD in that lower oblong of shiny aluminium.

Man, I gotta get a buffing wheel. And a metal mill. And...

 

errrr......you can probably guess what i been doing tonight but just in case you can't here's a few pics

olv........i never got a chance to run it any other way apart from running a WW with a 1048 pump which gave good value for money at around 38c......
I got WW, Z-Chip and Maze4 running off a 1250 at around 41c but i'm sure some of the increase is off the 9800XT that run damn hot (no likey)

pauldenton.......yeah i sold my last polished Maze4 GPU so it was the best i could do......got me a SS Cascade coming so I'm hoping I can get a silver northbridge and GPU block knocked up in keeping with the case

Nexxo......seriously man I tried always to fit one in but the alu is just so thick (18mm in the middle) i just couldn't do it..................oh and yeah, you gotta get a buffing wheel. And a metal mill. And...
[song] Keep on pimpin in the free world [/song] in the tune of Neil Young

Full Frontal


Close up with SHINY D-Tek


.......and just in case you missed the last 2 it


With Flash it

 

But will it stay shiny? Have you treated the surface with anything horrible?

Looks nice mate, makes the wavemaster almost bearable

 

yep thats one sexy case, like u *hides*

Damn shiny. That really look somthing. Paul. You done it again mate.

 

/me begins practicing jedi mind tricks

"You will give me that computer."

"Give me that computer."

"You have to give me that computer."

Bah, whatever.

"Give me the computer or you and my lightsaber are gonna have a meeting "

Seriously nice work there dude

 

New French Connection T-shirt slogan: "FCUK grey boxes".

That looks soooo good! Overall it's a brilliantly executed case.

I figured it might be a solid oblong. You could, possibly, make a hollow display surround of exactly the same dimensions as that oblong. Or if you know someone with a metal mill (again, man I just gotta get...), see if you can hollow the thing out from behind...

Oh, anduh... Polishing an MCP600 pump yet?

 

/......must of had me David Bailey head on over the weekend and came up with a few more shots of me finished Wavemaster plonked on the pool table which seemed like a good idea at the time

I think it should stay shiny as all the aluminium polished blocks i've made have all stayed the same!











Ahhh......the force is not quite strong enough Yo-DUH_87