The Red Queen

[dave.leblanc]

Looks great ! I was always wondering if I could get my upper two covers to flap up and down like wings and maybe take off !

hmmm perhaps a DeLorean style door mod might be required... I have to drill the rivets out to get the panels over to my painter at somepoint.... hmmm

[Bartacus]

Looking great Dave! How do you like that fan controller? Got any specs (or a link) to that thing? I gotta get a decent one.

[dave.leblanc]

Looking great Dave! How do you like that fan controller? Got any specs (or a link) to that thing? I gotta get a decent one.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16811999230

that's what I have

it's 5 channel but it's not many W /channel but i'm driving a max of 3 fans per

I'm using Daz' fan splitters to drive multiple fans (I have one that I think needs resoldering as one port regarless of the fan I plug in causes alarms to go off registering 0RPM even though the fans are spinning. the alarm is sporaddic so I think it's a faulty connector

[dave.leblanc]

OK... so I'm about to be either INSANE or brave


when I received my TFC graphics cards I noticed they had dual DVI but the model number still matched the waterblock selector on EKWB

I tore it down and there are a couple small changes. I had to use a thicker piece of TIM pad on one side of the mosfet chips to get them to meet the waterblock and I had to use a slightly longer screw. this is all due to a capacitor being replaced by a slightly taller one at the end of a row of capacitors. this created a ramp up the mosfet line.. I checked re-checked and busted out the spotlight and the magnifying glass and I'm confident I'm made a solid connection.

I'm plumbing things up for a leak test and we'll find out this weekend how bright my idea was

on another note the back plates don't line up due to a chip moving a 1/2" on the board. I'm going to see a machinist tomorrow and having a new slot milled out

fingers are crossed this could be a pricy learning lesson but at this point I'm too far in to turn back and too many GPU returns to keep playing that game.

if this doesn't work worst case I'll only fry one board. I'll sell the other used and suck it up and shell out some coin for a 7990block and run a single board with on board Crossfire until I decide to expand to 2... I really don't want to go that route and I'm hoping my bravery pays off.

[Bartacus]

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16811999230

that's what I have

it's 5 channel but it's not many W /channel but i'm driving a max of 3 fans per

I'm using Daz' fan splitters to drive multiple fans (I have one that I think needs resoldering as one port regarless of the fan I plug in causes alarms to go off registering 0RPM even though the fans are spinning. the alarm is sporaddic so I think it's a faulty connector

Cool, thanks for the info. I'm looking for 50W / channel.

[DazMode]

Oh boy, GPU watercooling is really pain sometimes.

Thicker thermal pad should work safe

[scaccima]

Good luck Dave. I hope it works out for you!!

[dave.leblanc]

ok so the machinist should be getting back to me later tonight (Wed) with the results I'm not expecting any problems but I'll be taking extra precautions during testing and assembly.... in the mean time

my HDDs and SSDs have arrived


my Network card for the server up top has arrived



and a few more odds and ends from Daz has me experimenting with lighting in the case




tomorrow I'll be able to individually test the gpu waterblocks but I don't think I have enough fittings to mickey mouse the two together and it's my gpu link that's on backorder from EK at this point
I'm still waiting on a some loose ends, and will probably add to and/or change up some of the lighting I'm currently using the down time is giving me more time to plan and test wiring and lighting as well. something I'd probably neglect the finer details of if I had a pair of wet GPUs on my hands

[dave.leblanc]

created a 3 fan header to 1 cable out of a pair of Daz's Y splitters


I made one for each radiator setting each trio of fans to a single channel on the fan controller

[dave.leblanc]

milled out back plate


milled out water block



comparison of wet and air cards side by side



leak testing

[bungwirez]

Looking good Dave. nice mill job.

[gdesmo]

Red and black look great in 4000 cases, very nice work !

[dave.leblanc]

Red and black look great in 4000 cases, very nice work !

thanks! between the case and the RIVE board it just didn't make sense to go with any other scheme for this build.


this is the last intermediary build/test the only thing I'm waiting on now is for Daz to get in the Triple Bridge and blank I need.

the hose connecting the two GPUs sticks out much too far to close the case and still has enough of a bend in it that I won't run this machine through overclocking or stress testing until I can get it fixed but it's enough flow that I can get this machine into the Bios and get all those drive arrays configured

[Father Fuzzy]

Lookin good

[scaccima]

Nice!!