Long time no see. Upgrade time.


So aye. Two custom made black EPS cables and a Strimer, and one finished RGB thing. Will hook up the EK screen shortly to make sure it is good. I am hoping Lconnect shows on that and scales...

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If not I will have to buy AIDA and pee around making my own.
 
Santa came. I was trying to figure out when OCUK was open yesterday. I found out they are indeed open after Xmas between NY. DPD arrived this morning, and so did the other things.
 
OK so things done. Remove retention (squeaky bum time). Fit CPU, install frame.

I then removed the top NVME cover and reversed it. Like, 180'. It then fits the middle one. 1tb installed in there. The big old Thermalright one will go up top on show. Part of me wonders why they couldn't just add another fiver and give you three, but I suppose then it looks the same as the one costing 3x as much. My little hack on the other hand makes it look that good any way.

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Other things. The other week my new TV PC was fired up for our game night. Went to connect my controller and uh oh... No bluetooth. "OK I will use my USB wifi card !". Still no bluetooth ffs. So I had to play wired. Really not wanting to buy a wifi card I found that you can buy £5 dongles for BT only. Perfect then, they are also tiny so nice and stealthy and tidy.

The CPU block concerns me. They provide the block, one set of post screws with springs on and another without. No instructions and no labels on the baggies to tell you which are to be used for which. I hope Barrow have instructions on their site ffs.

Also Ross.... They are M3 now. So I guess they realised like every one else that M2 sucks monkey testes?? I mean even tapping M2 is a bloody nightmare.
 
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They are M3 now
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Good to hear. The posts I have suck bawls lol

Assuming the mounting is the same, I just dug out my brass one and refreshed my memory. On mine I have a plastic backplate with threaded inserts on each corner, those inserts are just long enough to poke flush with the top face of the motherboard. I only have 4 of the post thumbscrew things and they have springs. The posts go through the block's mounting plate with the springs above the mounting for pressure, and just dial them in.

Because the block's mounting bracket is just through holes, the only thing that can even keep the block in place would be the springs. I presume the extra posts you have are just spares.

I actually got paranoid about inconsistent pressure because as I was measuring real-world install height so I could update my CAD model, I noticed significant discrepancies in height from block top to motherboard face on each corner. It was like trying to level a bloody four point printer bed lol
 
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This is why I'm looking at bodging a different mounting mechanism :P was originally looking at my spare EK Supremacy EVO but I think the knurled portion of the mounting posts as actually taller than the space underneath the Barrow's mounting bracket; the EVO's coldplate is thicker than the Barrow certainly.
 
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