Project : Ive quit smoking so had to spend some £

What PSU you get? :)

antec 650
wasnt going to get antec but this one seems to be recommended a lot!


this thread has made me laugh quite a lot, but I'm looking forward to seeing how it looks when it all eventually works :D

shall I smile or slap you ;>

I almots always had some problems with this system....even unpluging one hdd could cause system not to post heh

was going to go AMD BD once goes for sale but maybe now will have to get something else sooner :(
 
I think someone doesnt want me to fix/finish my PC :(
I was expecting PSU to be delivered to work...stayed over 2 hours longer as I was waiting for it to be delivered....finally rang them to find out that they couldn't find address!!!!(same company delivered some goods to me on tuesday)

have to wait until Monday now:(
am really peeed off ...

am thinking about going to any PC shop tomorrow to get PSU and send the one from OCuk back ...

am really 'angry' :)

good news is that am going to see one of my mates tomorrow and will test my GPU using his PC...that will narrow down what can be wrong...he is intel user so no way of testing CPU ...and am not going to drag mobo cpu and cooler with me
 
So what is your new res and pump?
There are many easy ways to drain a loop.
It all depends on the the loop though.
Some with T line/ drain line at the very bottom of the loop.
Some use the fill line as the drain line as well, but have to tip the case upside down.
Some use Quick disconnects.

I first started with a res/pump combo(DDC with XSPC res top) and did the tubing long enough so I can take the pump/res out of the case and drain by simply unscrewing the tube connected to the pump.
But now I use Quick Disconnects.:D

I bought same res/pump combo. the wan I was given, was too loud for my missus ... ;)

My tubing is long enough to take combo out, will have to disconnect it anyway so need to do it above big bowl or smth.

or this fun has to wait until monday.
 
ok,
PSU is in da haus now.
just managed to connect it to pump and it works ;) not like with older PSU ( which is now in the bin :) )

completly forgot that my other half is teaching today and Ive left GPU in MOBO in living room [slap myself] so have to wait for student to leave...other half to leave ... put waterblock back on GPU, connect it ...switch it on....close eyes... and pray it will work ;D

if it will, then I will swap res/pump for new one(quiet one ;) ) and MOBO for new one ready for bulldozer :)

thats the plan ;) will it work? i do hope so but wont bet on it ;D
 
another Update...

new mobo in place...could not start it ...
managed to find a fault ..it was RAM...seems like its either incompatible with MOBO, or dead...i do hope its not dead as it was expensive and could still resell it :)

corsair xms3 2000MHz 2x4gb :)

and for some reason LED next to GPU says there is a fault with GPU, but it still shows picture on screen...


someone really doesnt like me up there :/
 
final look(and working;) )

sorry for the crap photo...will get better pic tomorrow


DSCN0389 by Lukasz Baszko, on Flickr

at the moment is all running (had to connect old screen as hazro is not showing UEFI Bios :/ )

need to get a grip with this new BIOS as well as ram is running slower then it can ;)


as for ram...my 8gb corsair is either dead or incompatible and am trying to find someone in London to check it for me...
 
Need bench marks and temps!

for some reason, when I set bios to monitor cpu fan it says its not working ;)
fans on rad are connected to it - and they work :)

so I had to switch monitoring of it off....still can set its speed in windows...

any how...cpu temp in idle is around 40 (not sure why so much)
gpu around 40 as well.

dont have any games installed at the moment , maybe will get to it today and see how the temps will change
 
Well you don't have a CPU fan now! that is why bios is giving an error. Many mobos will see it as you have not connected your Air cooled Heat sinks fan. But since you have water cooled, you can either disable it as you did, or connect any other fan to it so bios would not be "confused"
Some pumps have a wire to read the rotation speed, you will have to check if your pump has this, if so you can connect it to the CPU fan header.

Can you do some google-fu and see how the temps are for watercooled Phenom II 965s?
CPU370 is just a tiny bit better in temps than a full nickel EK supreme HF. Also your loop will be a tad bit "warmer" because of the GPU cooling as well,(Compared to a cpu only loop - but not by much)
How hot is your room temp?
When I had my Q6600 overclocked to 3.24 and HD6950(unlocked and Overclocked), it was about 3C higher than room temp for the CPU and 7C higher than room temp for the GPU (room temp around 20C)
You should not compare 2 loops directly as many aspects are different, but you can get the rough idea.

have no idea what my room temp is ;)

on cool start and using PC for internet/doc's ant this kind of stuff, GPU's temp stays around 40 degrees so eventually CPU will get to this temp as well.

Played crysis2 for w while yesterday to see GPU's temps.
Case is all closed, fans on rad are on minimum (20-30%) and max temp was 52degrees. so I think it is preety good specially that on stock fans and rads, GPU was way over 60 if I remember :)

need to get some apps to stress cpu and gpu...will do both at once and will see how it goes :)
 
ok.
made some stress tests...
furmark a 2x orthos to stress all cores

with fans on rad at 40% gpu temp went up to 65degrees and on CPU to 55
once changed fans to 100% temp dropped to 58 on GPU, adn 49 on CPU...still dropping but its getting warm in the room so will stop the test :)

so what you think about temps ?
 
Could you please re-post some pics of the Graphics Card? I've got the same card and am wondering exactly what you did with the VRAM!

sorry for late reply!

what have I done...nothing :) take cooler off and you will see a metal plate that covers all memory banks.
leave it as it is and just use gpu block(like mine koolance gpu220 )
 
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