Iceshock's Ongoing long project log. (Move to 750D, New room transformation, New motherboard + ram,

[IceShock]

Lovely job there mate. I'm thinking of getting this case and I was wondering if you could explain how you've installed you SSD and HDD's?

thank you,

Well, iv always bunjee modded my hard drives see this thread here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18269719

Also see this picture, this is from my old case, iv always used Thick eleastic which is mainly used for boxer shorts, and I can buy it from my corner shop for £1 so iv always used that, it stops vibrations of hdds and makes them silent
see this picture http://s11.postimg.org/4h3mhhvr7/IMG_3150.jpg

I used to use the same exact way of doing it in my 750d, just used elastic and stuck my HDDs in the dvd drive bay slots.

Now, if you look at this picture of my 750d http://s24.postimg.org/pkzf97y91/IMG_5553.jpg

I took out the ssd sleds, and I put elastic there using holes in the case that are already there, was quite tricky, but the result was that I could have my drive bays back for fan controllers etc, and my SSD, I just got it aligned up with that rectangle shaped hole on the motherboard tray and I simply used tape to tape it there, doesn't matter where a ssd is really, could have it stuck down the back of a motherboard tray or anything at any angle, it will work and perform just the same.

Then iv covered up the whole back of the motherboard tray etc area just to make it look tidy with black cardboard cut to size lol

hope this helps

 

[IceShock]

gj with the card, looks good

Cheers

I didn't do it for the looks, at first I thought my self, god that looks daft, but by modifying its angle/position, I got the temperatures of both cards 100% identical for the air flow in my case, which from air cooling is quite impressive.

And the looks after looking at it like that for over 2 months, its grown on me massively, It would definitely be hard to look at two cards stacked on top of each other again with a really small gap between them restricting air flow.

My ocd would be saying, feed that top card some air man! haha. + when the top card is restricted, it obviously means, less or no overclocking. iv got quite decent clocks out of my cards.

Only way id ever use a crossfire setup that isn't set up like this, or etleast with a board where I can have more of a space between the cards, is if I had water cooling for the gpu's.

 

[IceShock]

Looks great dude, nice use of the card to make it look clean.
Going to do anything with the yellow rm sticker to make it match the theme more or doesnt it bother you?

Thanks

and, Haha, oh god don't make me start on that yellow psu sticker, especially how corsair released the new psu's with a blue one a month after

But meh, I dno, one day maybe I will when I can be bothered, but to be honest I barely look at my pc that much anyway. eyes are always on the monitor

 

[IceShock]

Transformation looks good, how do you find the Akasa fan controller? I was tempted in to buying one as my AF120's are quite loud but the reviews were bad. I decided to go for the NZXT Sentry 2 in the end. Great build btw.

I really like the fan controller, i went for this one as it can controll 6 fans a lot are just 4-5 fans, and it also has the ability to turn the rpm right down to the minimum untill the fan turns off, or you can just turn them off anyway.

For deaktop use i only use one fan which is one fan on the h110 at the lowest rpm possible, and also I use ulps on my gpu so only one card is running when idle, idle gpu is 30c and the fans on the lowest setting and idle cpu is 40c with just one fan running and the psu fan is off idle.

So it's a very quiet system indeed when not gaming even then it's still quiet compaired to some of the rigs iv made in the past!

One thing with the fan controller though is that one of the LEDs for one of the fans died after just 3 weeks, but I just got a replacement led bulb and soldered it on took two seconds. must have just been unlucky with that

 

[IceShock]

Hi there bigmac,

I have 1 rear exhaust fan, and 2 exhaust fans on the roof which is also my radiator for my cpu.

If you have a HDD cage in the front, ideally you want a SP fan to push the air through the HDD cage, where as I have no HDD cage there, so I use AF fans which are designed to blow air into non restrictive places. (a hdd being a air restricting object, a SP fan would push air through it better)


My fan set up is, 2x 140mm AF fans at the front blowing air into the case, and 1 rear exhaust fan, and 2 fans on the radiator at the top also exhausting.
But air doesn't pass through a radiator that quickly, so the rear 140mm fan exhausts most of the warm air created by the gpu's.
Whilst the top two fans on the radiator are just doing the job of cooling the cpu really.

Hope this helps