Case Build - Part 2
Onwards!
Good shot of the case and the beginning of cable tidying. First, you can see the removed hard drive bays in the background - I removed them to improve the airflow in the case. Secondly, it really pays to think about cable tidying right from the start of any build. I've used black electrical tape as a cheap 'braid' on my bares wire cabling, its surprising effective and takes 2 minutes to apply.
Another Imageshack "I've re-rotated your photo for you"
Anyways, front case fans got installed on the supplied rubber mounts. These work really well.
They look even better lit up
Ok, back to the motherboard. I was never really happy with the mounting of the northbridge heatsink, so removed it and cleaned up the board. This time I mounted it using the pushpins method - its seems more secure and less prone to moving around.
You can just see below the VX the pushpin used for the NB Heatsink install here.... but I'm getting ahead of myself here
120mm Enermax Cluster installed on the Venomous X. Enermax fans were used through out the build.
I learned from the first install I needed to use zip ties to keep the fan on the VX, thanks to the mosfet install on the motherboard. So rather than having a clip on one side and a ziptie the other, I just use white zipties on both sides and it looks better for it.
Fan tested sperately just to make sure its working and its not catching on any HS fins etc...
Here's the fan holder from the HD Hotswap bay, being re-used for another fan mount inside the case.
And there we go, motherboard finally makes it back in to the case.
Still more to come!
Onwards!
Good shot of the case and the beginning of cable tidying. First, you can see the removed hard drive bays in the background - I removed them to improve the airflow in the case. Secondly, it really pays to think about cable tidying right from the start of any build. I've used black electrical tape as a cheap 'braid' on my bares wire cabling, its surprising effective and takes 2 minutes to apply.
Another Imageshack "I've re-rotated your photo for you"
Anyways, front case fans got installed on the supplied rubber mounts. These work really well.
They look even better lit up
Ok, back to the motherboard. I was never really happy with the mounting of the northbridge heatsink, so removed it and cleaned up the board. This time I mounted it using the pushpins method - its seems more secure and less prone to moving around.
You can just see below the VX the pushpin used for the NB Heatsink install here.... but I'm getting ahead of myself here
120mm Enermax Cluster installed on the Venomous X. Enermax fans were used through out the build.
I learned from the first install I needed to use zip ties to keep the fan on the VX, thanks to the mosfet install on the motherboard. So rather than having a clip on one side and a ziptie the other, I just use white zipties on both sides and it looks better for it.
Fan tested sperately just to make sure its working and its not catching on any HS fins etc...
Here's the fan holder from the HD Hotswap bay, being re-used for another fan mount inside the case.
And there we go, motherboard finally makes it back in to the case.
Still more to come!
But thats the front fan filters in place.
), I'm getting to overclocking again.
