Project Helca Yár

Ollie1132 · 20 Jul 2012 at 21:14

Hit a snag trying to remove the cooler off my windforce.. seems I don't have a small enough screwdriver and not even my smallest flat headed screw driver will get the last two screws to turn.

Ollie1132 · 20 Jul 2012 at 21:16

Nevermind I got it off! lol trying to remove two screws for something that I wasn't meant to try to remove (oopsy) Oh wait I have to remove that.. Hmm this could be problematic :/

Ollie1132 · 20 Jul 2012 at 21:40

So I got the haetsink off (and later the other bit off!

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and then with the koolance block (just sitting for now)

Ollie1132 · 20 Jul 2012 at 21:48

Yup ahah. it's my old gt240.. some size difference ain't it? ;D

Ollie1132 · 20 Jul 2012 at 22:02

Making use of my new mug and having something to eat (yup I put monster in my mug... cause I'm that hardcore!)

Ollie1132 · 20 Jul 2012 at 22:08

It will be a while before I get to properly set everything up Technics

My AX750 PSU has died on me (sadfais) RMA'ing it monday so shouldn't be long before everything is up and running! Haven't properly fit the 680 block yet Pgi since I'm not sure of the best way to measue + cut my thermal pads xD and yes cheeseburgers and energy drinks. I must say the comments about the mug running hot are rather silly. Mines running at around room temprature or just below

Ollie1132 · 20 Jul 2012 at 23:32

Figuring out if I should chop a corner off one of my scythes to make it fit above the 8pin atx...

Ollie1132 · 24 Jul 2012 at 23:30

So I got the Koolance block fitted on my 670 today (with assistance from my mum due to not being able to cut in a straight line since my hands shake quite a bit :/) was easy as to put on the 670 hope the thermal paste spread alright (did it twice to make sure it spread properly) heres a pic of the lovelyness (minus the blue pcb...damn gigabyte!)

Just need a backplate to cover up the blue pcb at the back and I'm all sorted

Ollie1132 · 30 Jul 2012 at 22:11

Being patient whilst waiting for OcUk to get stock sucks... But at the same time my motherboard is being RMA'ed so I suppose there isn't much of a rush! But it has sort of put my project at a standstill which sucks

Ollie1132 · 30 Jul 2012 at 23:38

Both sides

if you look the bottom is currently the inlet and the top will be the outlet.

Ollie1132 · 31 Jul 2012 at 20:33

Loool. That sounds dodgy lol! Ill get a backplate and itll all be ok xD

Ollie1132 · 31 Jul 2012 at 22:39

There is apparently PCB friendly varnishes. Ive heard of only one person in the forums that uses them though I can't recall whom.

Ollie1132 · 1 Aug 2012 at 23:13

So my motherboard just had a bent pin (just the one... No idea how I managed that) but itll be back to me soon and I can build my pc (minus loop c'mon ocuk get the pump top in stock! D: )

Ollie1132 · 2 Aug 2012 at 20:33

Alphacool HF something or another. Ive bought a pump OCUk put together for me and its the only D5 pump there is :/

Ollie1132 · 3 Aug 2012 at 20:29

So I got my motherboard back... And I still have restart issues!

tried booting with 1 stick of RAM (twice with two different sticks) still having problems. Its not possible the cpu is causing the issue is it?

Ollie1132 · 6 Aug 2012 at 21:41

Ok so I got the rest of my stuff! (minus one fitting but at least I can start planning my loop properly now

) this will be the hardest part due to where I plan to put my 120mm rad I'm not quite sure where I'm going to put the pump currently :/ Pics sometime soon... trying to sort my motherboard out still.

Ollie1132 · 6 Aug 2012 at 22:48

Going to have to add a couple of modifications to my CM storm trooper to be able to have the res where I want it to be etc (GG to hard drives but who needs those anyway?!) this will be interesting and quite the challenge. Going to figure out how to still have my 2x fans as front intake whilst they are no longer on the HDD bays as well as how to still have flow throw the case as well! things got a lot more interesting as Im sure you can all tell

Ollie1132 · 7 Aug 2012 at 22:11

Ahah well basically I'm taking out both HDD bays (I don't really need a lot of file space tbh got an external anyway) and using this (holes need drilling out just a tad so the M4 mounting screws for my res fit grr! but oh well! (the three holes in the dead center part of the HDD bay mount = the ones to be drilled out theres 2 of these and it'll give me a lot of space to work with) started somewhat planning my loop now at least.. if OCuk manage to send my last fitting before the weekend I can get everything going finally! But I doubt that'll happen :/

I would mod it to fit a 360mm rad but maybe at a later date I'm more than happy to have a 240mm for now (plus where would I put this beauty if I did put a 360mm rad in? be a bit of a tight fit?)

Considering putting the temprature sensors around my case. Think it's worth the hassle?
Also got to figure out a way to still have my 2x 120mm coolermaster fans at the front of the case (they are currently mounted to my HDD bays... I'm sure I can figure something out)

Had a play about with my 4x scythes and it seems that 1200RPM is the sweet spot for noise. Will hope that has a decent enough temprature level once I get the other 3 I have mounted on my rads.

This weekend will be an interesting one mainly full of planning it out and possibly a dry loop setup if I'm lucky!

Also got to figure out what I'm doing with my pump might try to find some aliminium thats the same black as my case and use where the tool box use to slide as a place to fit the little sheet and have the pump on that... the biggest problem would be the aliminium finding :/

Ollie1132 · 7 Aug 2012 at 22:34

Also whilst I'm at it, my res has 1 inlet at the top 3x outlets at the bottom which confuses me... would it be safe to somehow have the inlet at the same kind of level as the outlets? I meant to take pics to show what I mean but I forgot and I'm rather tired currently :/

Ollie1132 · 8 Aug 2012 at 17:11

Just tried putting a compression fitting into the 7/16 hose I bought (ID/OD = perfect match) won't fit for the life of it! What the hell? :/