Should be about 780mm or so since the top cover was not on yet.
8pack Supernova - build log!
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Should be about 780mm or so since the top cover was not on yet.
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Hehe, Shawy, 6 boxes 
You should see my spare room - it's full of boxes of stuff that went inside my S8 and there is still more to come.
Your build is going to be epic too.
Can't wait for more updates
You should see my spare room - it's full of boxes of stuff that went inside my S8 and there is still more to come.
Your build is going to be epic too.
Can't wait for more updates
You massive tease
Love the plastidip, I might do that too. Ya, I saw heard people say the entire loop froths like crazy and takes hours to clear up. I haven't yet gone to that stage so that's why I was wondering if I can get away like you did with just the rads. They are the culprit pretty much every time anyway.
Yeah, waterblocks, pump tops and reservoirs are usually milled out of solid pieces and then screwed together and are generally clean. It wouldn't hurt to flush them out, but it's not strictly necessary.
My mistake, vsg28 is right - about 780mm tall. When the feet and external panels are installed it sits at around 820mm
Hehe, Shawy, 6 boxes
You should see my spare room - it's full of boxes of stuff that went inside my S8 and there is still more to come.
Your build is going to be epic too.
Can't wait for more updates
At least you have a spare room! My bedroom is still full of my own build log (still in pieces, really need to get it finished
). That plus my next build log that I haven't even started yet but keep spending money on lol. Oh and a bunch of car audio and interior trip pieces…I need an intervention with all of this modding.
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The 5litres of Mayhems Ultra Pure distilled water wasn't enough. I had to break out the big guns.
That 25 litres of distilled water is out of date. Unacceptable, never buying from OCUK again, etc etc.
(Who am I kidding, I'm probably going to get an Infinity this week. The fans in my XClio Windtunnel are starting to die.
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That 25 litres of distilled water is out of date. Unacceptable, never buying from OCUK again, etc etc.
(Who am I kidding, I'm probably going to get an Infinity this week. The fans in my XClio Windtunnel are starting to die.
That's the date it was made.
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Ask ScottiB to pop in and tell us the case specs please and btw shawy they don't call you a master builder for no reason nice work
and btw shawy they don't call you a master builder for no reason nice work 
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Ask ScottiB to pop in and tell us the case specs please
Will do when I'm back in tomorrow.
But for now, some more prep work from the build.
3 little Titan blacks before
A cheeky little nude shot of the cards
And quickly covered back up
Similar story for the DDC pumps
Their new house inside the EK mod kit
And with a Bitspower top
A comparison of stock DDC to the EK mod kit and Bitspower top:
The kit makes the unit quite a lot taller, but looks much better, is far easier to mount, and will run a lot cooler.
Next up the board
And, of course, the chip specially binned by 8pack himself!
Naked again
Don't worry, that filth was soon covered up
As was the processor
All EK Nickel Acetal water blocks in this build.
All nice and uniform
Time to get some fittings & tubing on board with some Bitspower Blood Red compressions and rotaries.
I'm not gonna lie and say this piece was easy
This bit was
But the tubing didn't even stick out of the compression ring
And once the tubing was on the fitting, the compression ring was touching the threads
And it was finally screwed in
The second piece was a lot easier to fit
And a quick look of how the graphics cards will contrast with their black fittings.
Eagle eyed amongst you will notice one of the crystal link fittings is missing - don't worry, it was on it's way from CaseKing at the time, and I did remember to fit it before filling the loop.
How come you didn't go with a couple of 90 degree adapters and an extender instead of that ridiculously small piece of tubing and compressions? It would have made your life a lot easier.
Example from an older build:
I will be re-doing it with a single fitting in the middle but you get the point. Love the acetal blocks + red fittings color scheme!
Example from an older build:
I will be re-doing it with a single fitting in the middle but you get the point. Love the acetal blocks + red fittings color scheme!
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Thread gets better.
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Is this your best selling 8pack build?
Very much so, it has come as a bit of a surprise too.
STH10 Matte Black
XL Clear Window
Vented top and chamber covers
solid flex bay
4x 120.4 radiator side mounts
Soldato
You ain't seen nothing yet.
You guys should do a time lapse video of one of these builds.
That I could imagine.
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wow, what a build. One day if the lottery numbers come right!