My Watercooled Lian-Li SR-2 slow build!
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Soldato
This board will dwarf a 6990.
Just got me new radiator, one of the first in the country as they only just got released last week, they are the new XSPC EX range which are thinner cored but perform as well as the thicker core radiators apparently so going to see how a single quad rad copes with 2 Hex Xeons @ 4.2ghz!
Also I need to get my hands on some Black Perspex / Acrylic, can anyone recommend a good place online which dont charge shed loads? nothing very good on eBay....
Also I need to get my hands on some Black Perspex / Acrylic, can anyone recommend a good place online which dont charge shed loads? nothing very good on eBay....
Man of Honour
Hows this for you, 3mm black cut to size £45m^2 so 600x600mm is £16.20
Should be fine mate, I've got mine cooled with a 3 x 140mm radiator and it runs 4.2Ghz 24x7@100%
And thats with rubbish fans. Should really get better ones but it doesn't crash so for now its good enough
Sorry guys im being rubbish again, just dont seem to get much time free at the moment and all the folding points im loosing by not running the rig is devistating lol.
Ive finished the roof now with grill, fans and new rad and wrapped it in matt black wrap, looking sweeeet, just need to buy some black perspex and then sort the floor and do some more wrapping, just not sure what to do with the front at the moment, need to get my think on...
Will chuck a couple of pics of the roof up though
Ive finished the roof now with grill, fans and new rad and wrapped it in matt black wrap, looking sweeeet, just need to buy some black perspex and then sort the floor and do some more wrapping, just not sure what to do with the front at the moment, need to get my think on...
Will chuck a couple of pics of the roof up though
Should be fine mate, I've got mine cooled with a 3 x 140mm radiator and it runs 4.2Ghz 24x7@100%
And thats with rubbish fans. Should really get better ones but it doesn't crash so for now its good enough
Thats good to know cheers mate, am looking forward to seeing how well it can cool it all, am thinking about a waterblock for the SR-2 as well but wasn't sure if that and the dual CPU's would be too much for the rad, hmm....
Woohoo a decent update lol - at last I pulled my finger out this weekend and done some more to it! I wrapped the lid of the case with the matt black vinyl wrap which was fiddly but looks nice and I also got the SR2 out from storage and plumbed it in to the XSPC EX480 and been benching/stressing it (damn I forgot how powerful this thing is) plus I ran a few folding@home projects on it and the temps are great with the Xeons @ 4.2ghz they hover between 54-58 degrees depending on ambient temps
I decided wrapping the whole case just wasn't going to work so the motherboard tray and the structural part of the case will need to be painted so after many hours of rubbing down, priming and painting matt black they look pretty good I think!?
Before anyone says anything about the base of the case not sprayed properly, its having a perspex floor to cover those old fan holes plus the front and top wont be seen which is why its a bit patchy, all the bits that will be seen have had 3 coats of primer and 3 coats of paint so I'm "hoping" it wont scratch off easily being aluminium!! If the drive bay starts scratching I will make a cover to go over it or just chuck some vinyl over it!
Anyway heroes some pics, want to get as much done as possible over Xmas as I need the SR2 running 24x7 to get my moneys worth out of the hardware but I say again, damn I forgot how powerful this thing is
I decided wrapping the whole case just wasn't going to work so the motherboard tray and the structural part of the case will need to be painted so after many hours of rubbing down, priming and painting matt black they look pretty good I think!?
Before anyone says anything about the base of the case not sprayed properly, its having a perspex floor to cover those old fan holes plus the front and top wont be seen which is why its a bit patchy, all the bits that will be seen have had 3 coats of primer and 3 coats of paint so I'm "hoping" it wont scratch off easily being aluminium!! If the drive bay starts scratching I will make a cover to go over it or just chuck some vinyl over it!
Anyway heroes some pics, want to get as much done as possible over Xmas as I need the SR2 running 24x7 to get my moneys worth out of the hardware but I say again, damn I forgot how powerful this thing is
Looks OK actually mate, I had to go Matt black and the vinyl is Matt black otherwise I was going to go Satin, will see what its like when all together but im happy so far, just preying its not going to peel or scrape off very easily!!
They are for weight saving mate
lol Nah kidding its just how Lian-Li made it as its supposed to hold pretty much any motherboard out there and you just insert the stand off clips where you want to mount your board