No updates for a few days, but I've not been slacking off!
I wasn't happy with the back panel, putting bits in & out over the last few days has highlighted that the bulkhead barbs being attached to the motherboard tray wasn't the best of ideas - so I decided to do it again, and I took that opportunity to spread out the barbs a bit more evenly.
Next stage was to then begin connecting up the components again, so a couple of gratuitous shots of the graphics and processor blocks
Next up, the power cables to the motherboard and graphics card.
Once those were in place, I could see where the tubing can run between the blocks and the bulkhead.
All the electrical bits were removed, and I began to fill the loop and leak test.
Just under 24 hours later, and not a drop leaking out, and no more bubbles of air flowing around the loop, I was ready to put the electric bits back in place!
Here's my Asus Xonar DX sound card that was in my HTPC - I've swapped it out with the D2X I was going to put in this - the DX is smaller, so doesn't hide the graphics card as much - I thought that would be a bad thing to have it in the way blocking airflow to the heatsinks on the graphics card memory.
Wires back in place, and next up was finding a way of mounting the power supply.
The wires are untidy, unfortunately I've not got one of those lovely modular power supplies, so I've got to have every cable, rather than just the ones I need!
Finally, it went into it's location, and it's currently up and running, and allowed me to type up this update using it.
I'm getting a bit of a breeze from those fans on the left because there's no front panel to direct the airflow at the moment, but other than that, I'm happy with how it's turning out!
