Mothball

Mole. · 8 May 2014 at 17:03

It's a Zalman Reserator 3 Max by the looks of it, certainly a tasty looking AiO cooler, they do a double one aswell.

http://www.zalman.com/global/product/Product_Read.php?Idx=824

23RO_UK · 10 May 2014 at 12:58

deFiniLoGy said:
oh wow

what cooler is that? Looks amazing!!

Mole. said:
It's a Zalman Reserator 3 Max by the looks of it, certainly a tasty looking AiO cooler, they do a double one aswell.

http://www.zalman.com/global/product/Product_Read.php?Idx=824

Thank you deFiniLoGy, I take it that means approval? lol

And as Mole has correctly stated it's a Zalman Reserator 3 Max, It's a great bit of kit, very efficient and has a HUGE plus point in that owing to it's flower design it also cools the Daughterboard and VRM's

23RO_UK · 11 May 2014 at 12:42

A Wee Upgrade...

With Mothball up and running I decided to treat myself to a long overdue monitor upgrade this week, the method in the madness being I do a lot of photo editing and I'm attempting to teach myself CAD :rolleyes:

Anyways I picked up an Asus MX299Q, very very happy with it; the picture quality is absolutely mind blowing!!! B)

However gaming at a resolution of 21:9 2560x1080 kinda stretches an Nvidia 760 just a touch and why have a quality monitor of that res and skimp on the GPU???

More Va Va Voom needed methinks

Enter a wee upgrade -

What we have here is the Powercolor PCS+ R9 290 4Gb, cute ain't she

She comes clocked at a sedate Core Speed of 1040MHz with the Memory running at 5400MHz out of the box

Powercolor have seen the light to install a backplate as standard, great quality to :cool:

(the stickers will stay on for now until the GPU is bedded in)

Heat issues??? No problems with that here lol

And here's some eye candy of the installed GPU -

Mothball now has graphical cojones, bloody great HUGE ones!!!

jimbaw · 11 May 2014 at 13:38

really didn't expect this build to look this good once completed!!! really clean I love it!

Mole. · 11 May 2014 at 14:16

Now the case doesn't look anywhere as empty!

Pgreenwo · 11 May 2014 at 14:41

Very tidy build. Really like it!

23RO_UK · 13 May 2014 at 13:22

jimbaw said:
really didn't expect this build to look this good once completed!!! really clean I love it!

Thank you

May I ask why it's surprised you?

Personally I feel it's more challenging to create a clean looking non watercooled build in that the eye isn't drawn in a multitude of direction, with a watercooled build visually you'll be distracted by so many other elements and not focus on any specific given area.

Mole. said:
Now the case doesn't look anywhere as empty!

lol how true Mole

Pgreenwo said:
Very tidy build. Really like it!

Thank you, very much appreciated

jimbaw · 13 May 2014 at 13:29

when i first saw the case, I had no idea how clean it was going to look! I was really pleasantly surprised as I wasn't sure what mods you were going to make

WalderX · 13 May 2014 at 14:17

Bang tidy mate! Love the colour scheme

23RO_UK · 14 May 2014 at 10:55

jimbaw said:
when i first saw the case, I had no idea how clean it was going to look! I was really pleasantly surprised as I wasn't sure what mods you were going to make

You can never tell the contents of a book by just it's cover

WalderX said:
Bang tidy mate! Love the colour scheme

Thank you, very much appreciated fella

jimbaw · 14 May 2014 at 16:12

you're absolutely right! and this is a great way to prove it.
once again, great job!