Finally i get cracking 900d time !!

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Morning Paul have you decided on hardware yet?
I tried to get inspired but at the end of the day I would just settle for a generic looking build with some nice touches. Something as simple as painting corsair fan rings or strips of metallic tape then there's good old fablon for covering the silver mess in the i.o. area

 
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Yes, well, almost, 4770k, x-oc with a 780 phantom glh :) still to decide on case, was going for an enthoo then parvum threw a spanner in the works with their new tower case so that parts undecided :p

Looking more for how you have everything laid out, routed and colour scheme as the x-oc is very similar to the ud7.

I tend to get fed up half way through and rush it :(
 
Morning Dave I left a message in the thread.
I rinsed thoroughly with a tiny bit of bicarb in the water got every last trace of pink out and repeated the whole thing it turned pink within hours this time.
I don't want to give up on the colour so going to have one more attempt tomorrow and rinse 10 times if I have to if it fails again (another £45 on coolant) then its getting a black dye bomb and be done with it :D
 
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Yes, well, almost, 4770k, x-oc with a 780 phantom glh :) still to decide on case, was going for an enthoo then parvum threw a spanner in the works with their new tower case so that parts undecided :p

Looking more for how you have everything laid out, routed and colour scheme as the x-oc is very similar to the ud7.

I tend to get fed up half way through and rush it :(
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:) We've all done that, get a few hiccups and you shake your fist and swear its going in the first for sale thread you can find key is to see the wall coming and head of and do summat else.

I might pick your brains while your here, there is a distinct lack of 7990 backplates out there and I looked at the xspc backplate the hole spaces look the same just wondering if the white lettering is raised in any way because that would be coming straight off??
 
Nah don't do that mate, give me a few mins, il get in contact with them for you via Facebook. If they can't do anything for you, I have all the dyes you will need and will send them to you.

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I've sent them a link to this thread, knowing how good they are with their customers, I'd expect them to reply to ya pretty quickly Tbh. I recommend them to people all of the time based on how much they have helped me in the past and how quickly they help too!
 
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Ooooh this sounds like the start of a good day, I don't mind trying the orange again the money is spent now if it does not work I will take you up on your offer, naturally I will compensate your good self ...... unless of course it turns an even brighter shade of pink in which case find yourself a dark cave somewhere :eek::D:D:D
 
Haha, Tbh, they should sort you out, with me being on my phone again, I can't send you their email address, but they do strive to make their customers happy.

If they don't get back to you in the next day or two, just post here or drop me an email and il find where I put them and send them out to you, I have red, yellow and orange.

Just add them 1 drop at a time, seriously. Only 1 drop, you would be surprised at how much of a difference it makes... You will have the colour you want in no time!
 
Thanks once again chaps, going to get cracking on todays tasks starting with a 28kilo package to the post office providing me back holds out :D
 
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:) We've all done that, get a few hiccups and you shake your fist and swear its going in the first for sale thread you can find key is to see the wall coming and head of and do summat else.

I might pick your brains while your here, there is a distinct lack of 7990 backplates out there and I looked at the xspc backplate the hole spaces look the same just wondering if the white lettering is raised in any way because that would be coming straight off??
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Afaik the white lettering is just print, should scrub off or worst case a quick spray over.

Tried giving coldzero a shout? He should be able to custom make you some plates :)
 
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Thanks J much appreciated, ordered the blocks today and am going to get stuck into it Thursday, will make sure I take some decent pics this time after everyone moaned and forced me into spending £135 on a camera :(:D

If you do hanker after a basic loop there are spare nickel/silver fittings here should you need em
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Ah quality and quantity! Nice! :D Which camera did you end up getting?

Thanks for the offer of bits as well - very kind of you. A gent as always! If I need anything I'll let you know.
 
Evening Peeps :)

Phew that was a hair raising few days. As some of you may know I had a bit of a problem with some coolant going pink which is not what you want when your aiming for gigabyte orange.

I posted a note in the Mayhems thread, within an hour my jaw hit the deck when Mick told me he was mixing me some up and fetching it over that night, made it even better that the science behind the coolant is pretty damned interesting I must admit.
It transpires that its not the coolant, Mick had it under the microscope and there was a load of flux in it so a combination of my fault and the rad manafacturers not rinsing out excess flux .... boooo!

Anyways the advice was to run it with water and biocide for a month to be sure everything was out ....... now I don't want you to think I am deliberately ignoring your advice M but I had to do the bicarb rinse n repeat 20 times and could not resisit another go with the orange.
Main reason is I want to be sure its definitely what I want before I go spending moolah on accessories and tarting the case up. I know full well in 3-4 weeks the machine is getting pulled apart for a clean and .. ( sorry its secret for now :p)

Plus a few people had said Tbag "y u spend loadsa pennies and use an average cpu etc" , hmmm well that bugged me no end so promptly wizzed out the original spec from page one and ended up with

I7 3930k
2 x Gigabyte 7990s

... and that friends is where yesterday morning 11.30am I started ....

First up the 7990's



Strip!





This is where I hit a problem, I had sized up the xspc 7990 backplates and by all accounts they fitted, holes lined up perfectly so on with the washers etc





Problem number 1

The 4 screws around each gpu fitted fine but were maybe half a mm too long, then I made the mistake of messing with extra washers but given that these were made specifically for the xspc waterblocks hardly suprising. £50 down the plug hole but not a total waste ... sprayed one black and using it as a temporary shelf for the res :D :o

So off comes the freshly painted xspc backplates ( pretty naff looking to begin with if you ask me ), good old amd stock backplates!! Yeah I know the labels oh noes!!! not fussed if I find something more suitable will re do em when I next strip the loop down.



The case and a few rightings of wrong uns

I re jigged the fan controller into proper zones

1. 2 front af140 quiets and the 1 x rear af140 quiet on zone 1
2. Top quad push/pull sp120s zone 2
3. Bottom quad push pull sp 120s zone 3

Would have liked 3 x 140s at the front but you cant expect to get a quad in there on push /pull and all the bells n whistles



Change out the i7 3820 for a 3930k .... should make all the difference when playing bejewelled 3:eek:







Hmmm and out comes the orange 24 pin in favour of black. Had so many bits n pieces of res what with the confusion of the original model, to make a long story short I ditched the res with the extra tubing ...

.... in favour of this cheeky little number from ek an x3





Looks a lot better ... I think

So given that the whole things getting pulled apart in a few weeks and a new psu will be fitted .... I errrr.... skipped a tiny bit of the cable management. The fans etc and associated cables are neat enough its just a wee bit diss-organised down below.



Time to add the gubbins out front and fill her up :D

I was stood facing the side of the case and begin pouring the coolant in, strange I thought "this res is taking forever to fill up" and then I looked around the other side of the case ...... nice orange swimming pool going on arggghhhhh unplug everything panic panic.

All swabbed out and dried up







So I guess that's phase 2 out of the way and over the next few days will decide on wether to stay with the orange, change the psu in a few weeks and route out the rads for a good clean.

Yeah I like it but not jumping for joy yet, am hoping it grows on me.

Any comments/constructive criticism allways welcome ..... don't expect to land on the Christmas card list mind ;)
 
Looking good mate.

That orange coolant isn't to my tastes tbh. Looks a bit to pastel against the UD7 unless that was the look you were going for?

I did an black/orange build a few years back m8 (5.5yrs - where does the time go :(). Bit dated now but might give you a few ideas.

Tiger Style

Not saying to use coils but the orange XSPC tubing is a perfect match for the UD7 imo - you can also just used plain old distilled without worrying about gunking your blocks up through dye separation ;).

Dunno if you are any good with a soldering iron but you could also change some leds to orange too:

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