Project : Black Ice (reborn)

w3bbo · 22 Sep 2008 at 21:07

gt_junkie said:
As ever - really enjoying the progress w3bbo.

Particularly like the picture of the front with the vandal switches.

gt

Cheers m8.

Might have something extra planned for the plate - maybe some engraving or something as it looks a little plain - dunno yet, might leave it as is.

setter said:
Nice braiding on the fans, i use a couple of those same yates in my case and the bare wires dont look that great. The black braid really tidies them up

Yup, I hate the braiding part as it is real tedious and finger cramping but worth it in the end.

p4radox said:
Good work. I like this project.

Thx.

Mr Kingston said:
very nice build so far, what watercooling u gonna be using ?

Funny you should ask :cool:

Thermochill PA 120.3
Swiftech (Laing) DDC Ultra 18w
EK Mosfet 790i P1
EK Mosfet 790oi P2
EK SB 5
EK VGA(SB) 790i
Swiftech GTZ

I don't think I'll be going with the EK res tho, looks a little puny.

orderoftheflame · 22 Sep 2008 at 21:13

Fantastic stuff.

Pneumonic · 22 Sep 2008 at 21:22

looking sexy

I have to say all your lovely looking water builds are the main driver behind my next project

w3bbo · 22 Sep 2008 at 21:32

Get a project going m8 - are you finally going water or sticking to air?

RJC · 22 Sep 2008 at 22:01

Looking good, what components are you going to use - or have I missed them

w3bbo · 22 Sep 2008 at 22:05

QX9770
4gb 2000mhz DDR3
790i Ultra
GTX280 XXX SLI

:cool:

RJC · 22 Sep 2008 at 22:21

Cheers, will deffinently keep an eye on this!

w3bbo · 23 Sep 2008 at 21:01

Just one?

TheCenturion · 23 Sep 2008 at 21:06

keep it up! good work, some high quality components, i suspect you'd reach 4.5ghz with that cpu!

w3bbo · 23 Sep 2008 at 22:15

Lets hope so huh.

I got a QX9650 that will do 4.2 on lowish (1.45) volts so its not all doom and gloom if not.

Schnippzle · 24 Sep 2008 at 00:04

w3bbo said:
Rather than spend an obscene amount of money like my previous builds I intend on doing this one more on a budget

Ok, not quite like you but...

w3bbo said:
...although like most bdugets its hard to stick to them but I'm off to a damn good start lol!

Sounds more like it, and from looking at the parts list it seems as if you have already strayed quite far from the "budget" thing

Pneumonic · 24 Sep 2008 at 08:46

w3bbo said:
Get a project going m8 - are you finally going water or sticking to air?

Well I have been gathering water bits for a while got a couple of Thermochil PA120.3 six nice 120mm delta's (cant have a build without deltas!!

) and an EK Supreme CPU block.. just got to get a Res/Pump and some tubing together.. was considering running two loops but now I might just try and cool my quad passive-ish at a high clock on a duel rad loop.. dont know how sucessful that will be but well give me something to play with.. and can move one rad over to a 2nd loop at some point to do GPU/NB/Mosfets/etc..

Have been looking at phase based water chilling.. certainly looks like fun to play with

YoungRogue · 24 Sep 2008 at 19:35

i see the origianal P Black Ice is on the Bay atm

w3bbo · 24 Sep 2008 at 23:38

Yup, that was actually the 2nd version this one was a 'trial' run for. The one on the bay is a v2000b, this is/was an A+ BLACK PEARL...Oh and this only cost me £6.79 (delivery)

YoungRogue · 25 Sep 2008 at 02:56

yer its pretty shiny

i have a silver v2000, is it hard to change the power switch over to one of those vandal ones? and wherebouts can they be got from as i cant seem to find them on ocuk?
and the reason why im up so late before anyone says anything is because its payday and wanted to see how much i didnt get paid

im not usually up this late

Guardsmon · 25 Sep 2008 at 13:34

mm yummy.... wish i had your sort of budget and time.

EdGey · 25 Sep 2008 at 13:39

awesome

konam4 · 25 Sep 2008 at 14:23

How much did the case cost to Powder coat in the end?

<3 EK Gear

Happy · 25 Sep 2008 at 15:30

Looking great

clone · 26 Sep 2008 at 08:49

Rich get the xspc res top mate ive got one and its great and very quiet.