So here it is, i got some post today, making me a very happy chappy.
especially when i found this was inside
Trusty MX2 that i buy in giant tubes
Line method to spread the best, also eliminates air bubles
10 minutes later and i had installed my very bent fined and naff, yet also well performing akasa nero s
wait whats this i see? is this a fan next to my board and heat sink, next to a glue gun.... oh dear, we all know where this is going
actualy not a bad job, now for some explanation, the rubber grommets that came with it should never be used on metal finned heat sinks, its just a fast ticket to bending your heatsink fins and never being able to get your can of again, so i just cut them of, hot clue is relatively easy to peal of as it generally comes of as one blob and causes no damage, so i just thought id try make my heat sink last as long as possible.
another image
tatty jumbled case
board and heat sink in... wait do you smell upside-down?
Hmmm, ill have enough clearance for my ram...... fat chance
test fit of a 4830 that i received today, yes.. i was bored
Before taking out my hard drive from my old build
and then i stole the hdd the 5830 and the 4gb corsair (witch seems to work better than i thought)
and after a few minutes of wiggling and feeling like im forcing it i got the ram in
Then i sat back eating pizza and gave the wires a chance to all wire correctly and then cable manage as well.
unfortunately it hates my case as much
AND IT LIVES
i think overall the lighting is not bad, yet it could need some green led's towards the upper end of the case to brighten it up a bit, and well this case is horrible to cable manage so will either be replaced or modded (depends how much my wallet grows over the next few months)
and there we go, installed windows now, bottleneck it the hdd, but it is a great improvement over my last system
especially when i found this was inside
Trusty MX2 that i buy in giant tubes
Line method to spread the best, also eliminates air bubles
10 minutes later and i had installed my very bent fined and naff, yet also well performing akasa nero s
wait whats this i see? is this a fan next to my board and heat sink, next to a glue gun.... oh dear, we all know where this is going
actualy not a bad job, now for some explanation, the rubber grommets that came with it should never be used on metal finned heat sinks, its just a fast ticket to bending your heatsink fins and never being able to get your can of again, so i just cut them of, hot clue is relatively easy to peal of as it generally comes of as one blob and causes no damage, so i just thought id try make my heat sink last as long as possible.
another image
tatty jumbled case
board and heat sink in... wait do you smell upside-down?
Hmmm, ill have enough clearance for my ram...... fat chance
test fit of a 4830 that i received today, yes.. i was bored
Before taking out my hard drive from my old build
and then i stole the hdd the 5830 and the 4gb corsair (witch seems to work better than i thought)
and after a few minutes of wiggling and feeling like im forcing it i got the ram in
Then i sat back eating pizza and gave the wires a chance to all wire correctly and then cable manage as well.
unfortunately it hates my case as much
AND IT LIVES
i think overall the lighting is not bad, yet it could need some green led's towards the upper end of the case to brighten it up a bit, and well this case is horrible to cable manage so will either be replaced or modded (depends how much my wallet grows over the next few months)
and there we go, installed windows now, bottleneck it the hdd, but it is a great improvement over my last system
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