Wife's Despair - Finished!! 19 June 2006

Really think your rig is cool man, but isn't the case a bit of an overkill for the conponents you actually have in it? Whats your plan for cpu/gfx/mobo?

 

How did you get on with those fans? As quiet as they claim?

Mod is seriously impressive BTW, good job!

Sam

 

Im really liking it. It's good to see a practicle, yet, good looking mod instead of something that's just purely sexual and completely useless to use.

 

Beautiful. 'nuff said.

 

I am waiting a little while before any major upgrades....have a 7800gs coming and am swapping the mainboard out this weekend.
At some point I will upgrade to either AM2 or possibly Intels' conroe chip but TBH its gonna have to wait a while.
I will add another water loop as I've vague plans on a home brew HD cooling...watch this space.

 

Thanks Sam. The three fans on the rad are real quiet. They are wired into a Zalman fanmate and on the lowest setting they are not audible at all yet provide plenty of cooling. Even at full speed they are still quiet....quieter than the Akasa Ambers I have anyway.

 

I do like to think of myself as practicle yet good looking

Thanks for the continued comments and opinions...they are much valued

 

Cool

 

really nice case man liking the idea ... although i don't think the res mount looks great, considering the res's are see through ....

 

Thanks for the comment. I do see what you mean but I'm stuck for other ways...any suggestions?

 

any chance we can get a little more candy photos of the final product?

love it.

 

is it possible to hold it at the top and bottom, and then by having a block at the bottom you can hide the tubes (make a channel, and have a direct run between the 2 res's)
Im not sure how well it would work, but interesting to try maybe ?

 

I'll see what I can do

 

The visible tubes at the bottom is my favourite bit!
I think if I was going to redo it I would move the mounts further to the top and bottom and maybe make slim metal mounts to blend in with the aluminium caps.
Easy to say in hindsight!
I may have a fiddle though

 

can i ask what hardware and water cooling your using?

aslo, what are the temps of the hardware?

 

i dont think the hardware is actually sorted yet ... so how he would get temp readings ....

 

I've just finished swapping out the MSI K8T I used for testing and also changed the 6600gt.
As it stands the final (for the moment) spec is:

Abit KV8 Pro Rev 1.1
AMD 64 3000+ (currently a tad over stock at 2250mhz)
2 gb GSkill PC4000
Club 3D Nvidia 7800GS
1xSeagate 120gb
1xWestern Digital 300gb
Hiper 'Type R' 580watt PSU

Watercooling is:
Alphacool/Ehiem 600 pumpstation
Alphacool Nexxos Xp cpu block
Alphacool SNB/N NB block
Alphacool HC360 rad
2x Cape coolplex 250mm res
3xExtrema Pro 120mm fans on the rad @900rpm
2xAkasa Amber 120mm fans as exhaust @1000rpm

Temps are currently:
CPU 13c (I'm sure this mainboard reads a bit low )
PWM 29c
Sys 25c
Both hard drives are at 22c

Under full load the CPU temp never goes above 23c and the PWM hovers at 37c.
When I had the 6600gt in it had an Innovatec block on and never got above 37c....compared to the stock cooler that ran around 60c
Still looking for a waterblock for the 7800GS....anyone seen one?

Hope thats enough detail...but feel free to ask for more

 

Did you not see all the pretty pictures above?

 

doh me being a bozo and watching too many project logs (63 atm) ...
Cant really add anything to that, just ignore me

 

would you reccomend alphacool?