Ghost...

[Shayper]

Finally fixed!
New psu didn't help, but tried everything else, until I reseated the CPU. Now it's fine

So I shall roll on with this update! Nothing left to do now but take a picture of it in the dark

So some stuff arrived, a week late but hey

The res (terrible picture I know )

Shot from above, showing the pump

The 240 rad with fans attached

Shot of the fins

LED for the res

Enough tubing to watercool everything!

A lot of pr0n storage (games and stuff really )

The backplates (not actually needed in the end, just used my Kuhler backplate as I couldn't get it off the mobo...)

This kit comes with everything! Even a PSU bridger!

Screws and unused TIM

Hose clips (might need another two)

Decided to go with deionised in the end, so a leak shouldn't do too much damage

Le kill coil

Mmm... Shiny

Looks damn awesome eh?

Even Shinier!

Quick shot of all the new gear

Block installed...

And all piped up! (with my mate guy in the background posing! )

Naked front shot

Shot of the tubing

More WC goodness!

Shot of the res from the rear

And one last picture for you!

I shall take some more piccies later, when it is nice and dark!

Load at 4.2ghz is about 60-65 degrees, that's with 1.4volts. Epic, compared to the 95 under the Kuhler!

It is so nice to have a working PC again

 

[Shayper]

24 hours for the leak test, and the coil is in the res

Some lovely night time pics now

One quick shot with flash

Overview of the pc

Close up on block

And one final shot!

Well, that wraps up this project, thanks for taking the time to look! If any additions happen, then I shall continue.

I HAZ W4T3RC00L1NG! L33t eh?

 

[Shayper]

Thankyou very much

 

[Shayper]

I have a crucial c300 64gb for my os, it's blisteringly fast

 

[Shayper]

What could this be? An update?

So, I received a lovely couple of things through the post

A GTX 580 Twin FrozR II:

NOTE: This is only the cooler, the gfx card underneath is my mate's GTX 480 which I spent a long time modding to fit it

I also got a waterblock, to make my system even more epic

So what do I do? Completely refit the whole system. First overall shot:

The lovely red Xilence fans

A shot of the CPU block and ram

GPU pr0n

Possibly the best picture I have ever taken (not saying much)

Forgot to get a pic of the new 1200w PSU before, so here we are

Bottom rad

Storage and SSD

The res from the back

Rear of the case

MY EYES!!! THE CABLES!!! (Still not tidy, just jammed the side panel back on )

The res from the front

And the pure epicness

So, what do you guys think? Temps have dropped from my Xfire setup, and framerates have scarily increased

But yeah! Can't think of any upcoming updates for a while! So Enjoy!

 

[Shayper]

Some GFX Overclocking

Nom. NOM. NOMNOMNOM!

Ladies and gentlemen, that is a 1GHZ GTX 580

Running furmark now, working fine

 

[Shayper]

Trust me and I'l let you know I did buy the 580 block from OCUK though.

Had a major leak last night, which necessitated a pipe refit (one of them came off as it was too tight ) and a trip to Wilko's for 5l of deionized.

So a couple more awesomesauce pics

Much looser

Epic Funnel

BLUEEE!!!

And my thumb, randomly

 

[Shayper]

It's because I cut the tubing a little skew-whiff. Ordered some hose clips to sort it

 

[Shayper]

Psu is brilliant, had no problems!

The waterblock was really easy to sort out, took about 20 mins

Guys, awful news, my motherboard has exploded. Literally. The mosfets set on on fire

So I'm selling a couple of things, and buying a 2500k and a z68 board

 

[Shayper]

exactly what i was just thinking!

Haha thanks mate

Update:

I have a brand spanking new z68 extreme4, but no CPU till next Friday at the earliest

Damn you global gathering tickets!

 

[Shayper]

Probably the attempt at hitting 4.6ghz on an i7 860 that did it

But yeah, I have some good news and bad news guys...

Bad news, I won't be able to afford a new CPU till the 1st of June.

Good news, I will also be able to buy a set of Corsair sp2500s.

So, new PC and some **** off loud bass heavy dubstep in the same day I'll post a vid when it's all sorted

Oh, and, I have a new dremel, so keep your eyes on the thread for some mods to the case

 

[Shayper]

Roight. Some updates! (Even though the 580 has decided to be a bitch )

So, my new CPU arrived today, So I decided to do a total rebuild! Focusing on cable management, and rad security, not to mention aesthetics

First off, a couple of shots of teh partzzzzz (note that a lot of these pictures will also be used in the watercooling sticky

My new mobo

My case, stripped completely bare and the scorch marks cleaned off

The new motherboard in situ

Sound card and wireless card installed, and front panel wired up

360mm Black Ice rad

With fans

And installed

(note the failed mounting here, this is rectified later)

Bottom of the case marked up for new screw holes to fully secure the bottom rad

And drilled

Top of the case redrilled for better mounting

Much better

Rear 120 installed

Front 120 installed

As the motherboard has so many fan headers, I could connect all of the rad fans to the top of the mobo without the cables being obvious

GPU in place

Nom

Rear USB 3.0 bracket placed

Getting a bit busy back here

Bottom 240mm rad mounted, with fans in Push rather than pull this time

The new mounting holes doing their job

Drives and res mounted

Cable management starting (lolworthy picture on this later )

24 Pin extension connected

HDDs and SSD mounted

And connected

Power supply in

And starting to plug everything in, to work out cable management

And my EPIC cable management. Warning: may contain sellotape

Looking nice and tidy

Hidden a lot of the cables behind the rad, where they won't restrict airflow, and can't be seen

Top and front panels replaced

And starting to pipe up

Lovely CPU block

Nice and shiny

More tubing connected (note: block is hanging loose due to lack of CPU on sunday night, received it monday )

GPU connected. Used a lot more hose clips this time, cheers OLDPHART for sending me a couple

Floor rad connected

And all piped up

See? You can hardly see the cables this time

Mocup of where the CPU block will be placed

Aaaandd.... Look what arrived yesterday morning?

TIM

Another shot of piping

And the CPU and block installed

Loop filling

The res, filling up nicely

PSU bridger connected, ready to commence leak testing and bleeding

And of course, my coolant of choice:

Proper cheap stuff, 5 quid for a 5l bottle

Leak testing

And all finished

Well, that's it until I get my 580 problems sorted! I'll use a lot of these pics, plus a short video in my watercooling sticky, so keep an eye out! Not overclocked yet, still getting used to this UEFI black magic thingy .

Thanks guys for staying with me till now

edit: apologies for some of the more awful pictures, my phone really doesn't like low light

 

[Shayper]

Haha glad you got your system back dude!!

Cheers

Only problem is my 580 isn't working now, so got to get that sorted

 

[Shayper]

What keeps happening to the 580, all I've read is the problems you've been having with it?

Also lovely build man, certainly seems you've gone through a lot of hard times to finally get it where it is, good work

Keep getting the display driver stopped responding error

And cheers mate, never expected to have this much work to do!

You need to get some white led strips in there man, would look sick!

I have a strip of blue LEDs in the bottom, I'll take a picture later

 

[Shayper]

That IHS on the CPU is well twisted by the looks of it, pics are little too big mate for my monitor lol, hope you get it all sorted soon though.

Sorry, I'm confused... On which CPU? And what do you mean by twisted? I'm confuzzled lol

 

[Shayper]

Yeah, it's fine in the flesh, just terrible photography

 

[Shayper]

Well, my 580 is sorted, seems it was linked to the baseclock on the processor. Weird. But yeah. GAME OOONNN!

 

[Shayper]

All perfect now, runs like a dream, hit 5.1 stable on the cpu but running at 4.7 24/7. 580 is now back at 1ghz, but now with 2.2 on the memory

Should be receiving SP2500s at the weekend, with 8gb of HyperX Genesis grey on monday

 

[Shayper]

Nice setup, must ask though, were up in Norwich, seemingly as student?

kd

I live in Dussindale during holiday time, and Greenwich during term time

Cheers man

 

[Shayper]

Ah! Other way around!

Live in Essex, Uni in Norwich

kd

Ah, you in Norwich at the moment?