Soo I've been looking at all the other builds builds here and must say I'm pretty jealous but also very inspired!
My first steps into WC didn't go quite so amazing, I ordered from koolance in the US before I knew about daz and bought a lot of refurb cheap items. At the Canadian border however I got hit with a nice $200 import tax bill! I would have done better to order brand new stuff from daz -if only I knew!
However lets get to it, Excuse the picture quality, they always look perfect on the phone and then horribly out of focus on the PC
These pictures are from a while back, things have changed a bunch since then and its about to change again.
In the beginning there was a normal tiny gaming chassis:
It had a closed loop little watercooler from LONG ago:
So my idea was long term to put two loops in, one for the VGA and one for the CPU.
My first (evil USA) order was just for the CPU, the radiator was too large to mount inside the case but the ports faced down so I figured I'd do a in/out combo type thing by making holes for the ports in the top of the case:
and then:
I got the dual reservoir unit for the future again:
(Couldn't find an old picture so this is a sneak preview of later)
Inside:
Cpu block on:
And then:
The tube I ordered was supposed to be blue under UV light and on the website it looked way different, once I actually got it the tube was hard and very "purple" but ohwells. I got some UV LED's from a regular electronics store and once again ran into disappointment, they were like spotlights and so bright that everything was a bright blue and a far cry from that "sneaky" UV look that I was hoping for. I still need to get back to that and try to get some diffusers and maybe run them at a lower amperage to dim them down some.
So that was the first part done, CPU cooled
Oh PC specs are not amazing but just for reference:
CPU: Intel core i7 2600k
Motherboard: Asus maximus Iv Gene-Z
RAM: Gskill 2X 4gb DD3 (just regular rammy ram, nothing fancy )
PSU: Corsair GS800 (intresting thing about this guy, when I got my new case and took apart the water setup I spilled some(A LOT) liquid into the PSU, So I opened it up and washed it out and dried it and reassembled it. In that process I noticed a bunch of burnt off tracks under it that was repaired (quite sloppy even by my standards) presumably in the factory and then sold to me afterwards)
Video card: EVGA Geforce gtx 670
Hdd0: OCZ vertex3 240gb (later replaced by Samsung EVO 840 250 since the OCZ started showing bad blocks after 4 years of heavy use)
Hdd1: 1Tb mirror of two Seagate disks(That I hate for their unreliability and noise and I'm suspecting them both to fail SOON)
Next post I finally found Daz and got my GPU block and did that part....
My first steps into WC didn't go quite so amazing, I ordered from koolance in the US before I knew about daz and bought a lot of refurb cheap items. At the Canadian border however I got hit with a nice $200 import tax bill! I would have done better to order brand new stuff from daz -if only I knew!
However lets get to it, Excuse the picture quality, they always look perfect on the phone and then horribly out of focus on the PC
These pictures are from a while back, things have changed a bunch since then and its about to change again.
In the beginning there was a normal tiny gaming chassis:
It had a closed loop little watercooler from LONG ago:
So my idea was long term to put two loops in, one for the VGA and one for the CPU.
My first (evil USA) order was just for the CPU, the radiator was too large to mount inside the case but the ports faced down so I figured I'd do a in/out combo type thing by making holes for the ports in the top of the case:
and then:
I got the dual reservoir unit for the future again:
(Couldn't find an old picture so this is a sneak preview of later)
Inside:
Cpu block on:
And then:
The tube I ordered was supposed to be blue under UV light and on the website it looked way different, once I actually got it the tube was hard and very "purple" but ohwells. I got some UV LED's from a regular electronics store and once again ran into disappointment, they were like spotlights and so bright that everything was a bright blue and a far cry from that "sneaky" UV look that I was hoping for. I still need to get back to that and try to get some diffusers and maybe run them at a lower amperage to dim them down some.
So that was the first part done, CPU cooled
Oh PC specs are not amazing but just for reference:
CPU: Intel core i7 2600k
Motherboard: Asus maximus Iv Gene-Z
RAM: Gskill 2X 4gb DD3 (just regular rammy ram, nothing fancy )
PSU: Corsair GS800 (intresting thing about this guy, when I got my new case and took apart the water setup I spilled some(A LOT) liquid into the PSU, So I opened it up and washed it out and dried it and reassembled it. In that process I noticed a bunch of burnt off tracks under it that was repaired (quite sloppy even by my standards) presumably in the factory and then sold to me afterwards)
Video card: EVGA Geforce gtx 670
Hdd0: OCZ vertex3 240gb (later replaced by Samsung EVO 840 250 since the OCZ started showing bad blocks after 4 years of heavy use)
Hdd1: 1Tb mirror of two Seagate disks(That I hate for their unreliability and noise and I'm suspecting them both to fail SOON)
Next post I finally found Daz and got my GPU block and did that part....
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