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As I mentioned elsewhere.....
Get next door's 12 yr old to do it.
PC's are designed to be built by young Chinese and Taiwanese girls with delicate fingers and sharp eys, not by half blind geeks with ten thumbs on two left hands......like me.
Get next door's 12 yr old to do it.
PC's are designed to be built by young Chinese and Taiwanese girls with delicate fingers and sharp eys, not by half blind geeks with ten thumbs on two left hands......like me.
That's a contradiction in terms
Bigger Case Suggestion: Antec 1200, Lia-Li V2000 / V2010 ...
Cheap = Not in the least, hold onto your wallet
It would be cheaper & better to go with a Small Water cooling Kit than to buy a new box.
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... Nobody said building boxes wasn't "fiddly: ... I don’t know why I do it, it ****** me off to no end at times, but like a daft bugger, I keep going back for more punishment, just to reiterate to myself why I shouldn’t' do it ..
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You want swearing?
Install a TT120 outside the case.
Pop board into case.
Realise you never connected the CPU power, LCD poster and rear panel ground tag.
Remove, reconnect, return board to case.
Realise you STILL left the CPU power off.
Spend an hour twisting the TT this way and that trying to get CPU lead on.
Bleed a bit.
I'm goind to patent the folding/unclipping case.
That way you can build the system with no left side, top, back, or bottom on the case, but with the drive bays at the front (possible movable forward for more room in the way you can sort of do with the Antec modular bays) and just fold them round or clip them onto the finished machine.
Install a TT120 outside the case.
Pop board into case.
Realise you never connected the CPU power, LCD poster and rear panel ground tag.
Remove, reconnect, return board to case.
Realise you STILL left the CPU power off.
Spend an hour twisting the TT this way and that trying to get CPU lead on.
Bleed a bit.
I'm goind to patent the folding/unclipping case.
That way you can build the system with no left side, top, back, or bottom on the case, but with the drive bays at the front (possible movable forward for more room in the way you can sort of do with the Antec modular bays) and just fold them round or clip them onto the finished machine.
you genius. didnt even realise it was a clip on fan until i looked at the heatsink. should be somewhat easier now than intricately placing mirrors to see where my fingertips are going lol
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Pardon your french... I suggest you steer clear of watercooling, something simple like upgrading your graphics card means you often have to drain the whole system...aw that was a piece of **** to fit.
yes it certainly helps, im not to bad when it comes to pc buildng. but intels push pin config is a joke. im thinking of removing the pushpins from my arctic cooler and using nuts and bolts. i was gonna buy a thermalrite ultra but i have to put that on hold as i think my motherboard is on its last legs. anyway glad to hear you got it sorted.
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I'd advise VERY hefty rubber/plastic washers if you do that. Nut/bolt tightened directed againt the board could just cut off a bolt-head sized bit of board, PCB's are kinda funny in the stress loadings they will take and those they wont. They are also a little like glass with a fair portion of their strength being in the glazed finish helping to spread forces....and like glass if you scratch that coating, it can fail under much less load.
In fairness most of the above is based on single/dual layer board in electronic music kit, I dare say an 8 layered PC mobo is a bit tougher....but you ARE about to wind $DEITY alone knows how much force into a tiny area. A custom backplate might even help, but would probably cause more harm than good if not very well engineered and made.....ie you want it to spread the load evenly accross the whole area, not just carry forces between the bolted corners.
In fairness most of the above is based on single/dual layer board in electronic music kit, I dare say an 8 layered PC mobo is a bit tougher....but you ARE about to wind $DEITY alone knows how much force into a tiny area. A custom backplate might even help, but would probably cause more harm than good if not very well engineered and made.....ie you want it to spread the load evenly accross the whole area, not just carry forces between the bolted corners.