iv pained my crossfire cable black so that it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. and im planning on painting the yellow writing on the PSU where it says RM to blue, I just don't know what would be the best way of doing so, im absolutely useless when it comes to masking stuff, or painting etc.Thanks
I just cant wait to get some blue braided cables, then it will look so much better!
Hello there,
Just been playing around with a idea I had for a while to get better spacing between my graphics cards.
Basically, my motherboard has 3 pci-e slots, but only the top two work due to only having a sandy bridge processor and I run 8x 8x, and if I did get a ivy bridge processor and used slot 1 and 3 id be running 16x4x and loosing around 3-5% performance, though I would get better cooling to my top gpu...
So a idea was to use a pci-e riser because iv read a article that shows there is NO performance loss through using one at all.
So, the problem with using one is I cant just move my card down a few slots because my motherboard is in the way, so I could mount the 2nd cpu vertically so the two cards make a right angle shape, but there wasn't enough space I tried it.
So heres what iv come up with, I just mounted the second gpu diagonally, it doesn't look too bad though some of you might think it looks stupid, but the idea works for cooling)
for mounting, I just used two tie wraps on the pci-e bracket, and I used a xbox 360 controller stick that I had spare to prop up the graphics card to give it stability and extra strength as you can see in the pictures.
So here goes, the before and after pictures and results (results below all pictures)
(oh also, iv painted the crossfire bridge black with a permanent marker pen):
spacing before:
And after
Okay the results.
Benchmarking firestrike before @ 1125/1450 (Auto default fan curve's used)
(Ambient temp 20c)
Gpu1 Fan 58% - 73c
Gpu2 Fan 34% - 58c
After
Gpu1 Fan 34% - 61c
Gpu2 Fan 30% - 57c
As you can see the difference is quite massive, before I did this I could hear the top gpu fan as it was a hotter of the two cards, but now they are running as if they would if it was just a single card temperature wise which is what I was trying to achieve so job well done as far as im concerned
Hey there,
My cold cathode tubes was looking a bit tired, and the power box the two plugged into started making strange whistling sounds and noises which started to annoy me and iv always wanted some led lighting in my case.
So I purchased some cheap RGB led's off of ebay see here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1M-2M-3M-...ng_Lamps_Lighting_SM&var=&hash=item2c76eca983
I opted to go for the £12 kit (2m length), because my idea was to route the power cable from the wall socket into my case, but then I realised theres no holes big enough to fit the wire through... So I could have just gone for the cheap £6 kit, because I braved up and decided though I know nothing about electrics to hook it up to my PSU! so heres how it went:
Here is what the kit includes
This is what I cut in half to find the black and red wires
And I cut the black and red wires off of my old cold cathodes cabling,
But you do not need to do this, just cut the old Molex plug off of anything and connect the black and red's together and your good.
Here it is wired up, I just used insulation electrical tape because I don't have a solder or anything like that, but after all its electrical tape so I figured it will either work or go with a bang!
It worked!! my face lit up like a Christmas tree, I literally stood back from my pc and pressed the power button with a shoe incase it went bang because like I said, Im not very good with electrics! but if I can do this, then anyone can do it, it was a absolute piece of cake!!
The led strip comes with sticky back, so time to stick it around the case
As you can see 2m length is Perfect for the 750D.
Now I will leave you with a bunch of pictures of the colours, there is a lot more colours than pictures I took here, though sorry about my bad camera work, a phone
Overall im very pleased with it! I love how I can change the colour, brightness and everything, can even have it to change colour really slowly or fast or flashing or anything, but for now I just leave it on a static colour, I think it looks much better, never again will I buy expensive lighting!
Hope you enjoyed reading
Just bunjee modded two drives in my 750D, something a bit different!
The whole motherboard tray including them two drives are going to be covered though soon when I get round to doing it
I don't have as much room as you but you've certainly inspired me to crack on with everything! Don't think it'll be worth posting a log but if people don't mind a rubbishly done log I may just do so Awesome work Ice! I've just moved out (well into my Aunties as parents moving mileage away and will be terrible commute for me to work!) and I've progressed a good bit with my own room here! Just need to design a desk get it made and install everything ready for my soon-to-be first build in the new year
Cracking work again Ice, love it!
I put it there just to stop dust coming in, but now iv replaced it with a black a4 piece of card. it stops all the dust from being sucked up in the bottom vents of the case, and since I did this, iv had a idea, going to get a A2 sized piece of black card and cover the whole of the back of the motherboard tray and my hard drives etc so everything has a smooth finish, just double sided tape it into place. it will either work or it wont, but ill post pictures up when I do it, it will be this time next week when I give it a shot.
It's my birthday, and my missus told me to open the small present first
Awesome!
Where did you get the braided cables from? I use the RM750 and didn't think you could buy cables for it
^^ they didn't release them till I already had my RM tho 
but my rm does the job infact, best psu iv ever owned so I better not complain about the colour of her sticker whilst she is doing the job nicely for me 
I used paper as a template then bought some a2 card and cut it out the shape, reinforced it a bit on the back with double sided tape and some more card about three layers in some parts. and double sided taped it to the back of the case 
