Decided to push my 920 a bit more

Yer its a great feeling building your 1st PC anf it fires up 1st time and you've hit it on the head > Kinda man made fire moment, " me man make fire, woman you cook ugg ". l wonder if stone age man was made to do the dishs afterwards, lol. :D
 
nice :D my first build was March last year, I was totally new to it really after doing a hardware and system building/computing & IT course at college but I really wanted to build my own PC.

Bought a PII x4 965, Asus M4A785TD-V Evo, G.SKILL RipJaw 4GB, Sapphire HD 5770 Vapor-X. Unfortunately being a newbie to it I though I got a good deal with an 'EzCool' case & PSU bundle...

5 weeks later when I was doing course work, bang. PC died. Took me about 5 months to get my PC sorted because I was buying each part with what ever money I had at the time to find the problem. Turned out that PSU took out my CPU & mobo :(. Only remaining part I have left is 4GB of Ram and a HDD since I first built it :p

Makes you truely appreciate how PC's work really.
 
Ah sorry to here that m8, it could happen to anyone, l'v had a PC or l should say my sons have had a PC for about 12yrs its only since l retired, l've learnt a great deal in the past 3 years by being in this forum. As one time l just use to look at the forum now and again, l never dreamt l would end up watercooling my PC.
 
Ach it's all in the past :p I taught myself really, and I suppose you have to experience these types of situations. And congrats on the watercooling, thats my next big step but I really don't have the confidence to do it :(.
 
Yep, it was this forum that got me interested in the "black art" of overclocking. First i started on gpu's, then an e6600 @3.7ghz, q6600 which i got to 3.8ghz on air cooling, (my favourite cpu ive owned), q9550 @3.8ghz on air, and my current i7 @4.2ghz. I love tweaking things, pity i didnt pay as much attention at school. Might have a better job than painting and decorating lol.:D
 
Cal, l thought it was abig deal, but folks told me to read up via the net plenty of info, choice parts put a thread up with parts you have selected and any questions.

When it came to building it l took 2 days and just took my time, if you can build a PC your half way there.
 
Yup water cooling is all about research, and taking your time over it, i was nervous the first time i did it.

The XSPC and EK Kits are very good, not the best stuff, but ideal for people new to it.
 
Setter l use to clean the trains night shift and believe you me , l'v cleaned up some *** things as well as cleaning the bogs, but l worked my way up shunter, them traindriver.
 
Yeah I love tweaking and upgrading and getting my hands on the latest gear but it's and expensive hobby or 'habit' as my girlfriend sometimes likes to call it even though deep down she takes an interest in it :D I put together my PC once I had all the parts ready to go at my dads when she was over and we sat and basically built it together, it was brilliant. I am tempted to sell my CH4, 1055T & 6870 and get a Gigabyte UD4, 2500K & 480 SUPER OC (possibility of SLI) now that I have a new job which I start on monday :p. But I don't really have to but its hard not to give in!, I have actually thought about selling my full rig and starting over again because i'm so eager to build another PC but I don't think I could do that lol :D.

edit: and about the watercooling I have looked at the XSPC Rasa 750 RS240 WaterCooling Kit, but spending £130 on one loop for a CPU that I might only get another 200Mhz out of isn't worth it in my eyes :(
 
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Regarding watercooling guys, what does bleeding the loop require? Ive heard people talking about tilting the case at different angles etc, to get rid of air in the loop. I know a bit about watercooling, as i done a wee bit of research a year ago or so. But my knowledge is still very limited tbh.
 
All i do to bleed the system, is take the cap of my res (bay res) whilst its running, to allow air to escape that way, its a different method depending on the types of res's used..
 
Yes thats right l had to do it as my res:pump is at the botton of my case, it helps getting the air round the loop, especially the rad.
 
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Setter l use to clean the trains night shift and believe you me , l'v cleaned up some *** things as well as cleaning the bogs, but l worked my way up shunter, them traindriver.
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I know how you feel mate, when i was serving my apprenticeship. I spent 99% of my time sanding things, my fingers bled every day for about a year, then finally i got to paint something. In our job, we have an old saying, 99% of your work is never seen.
 
If i was to watercool using my current case, i was thinking of one of the ek tube type res's.

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Yep, its a very spacious case bifday, that big i need high cfm 140mm fans at the front for air intake, (for the gpu's). Also got a 120mm fan in the 3 remaining 5.25 bays. The case has lots of extra screw holes on the mobo tray as its an E-ATX case. Rad mounting would mean gettting the top panel cut for a 120.3, therefore loosing the top two 5.25 bays, or a dual 140 rad by removing the hdd bays, (7 bays in total).
 
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