Project: Rad In Mi Kitchen

[TheCenturion]

yeah, I might reapply the thermal paste and see if that makes a difference. But I suppose that load temp is all that matters. I'll play GTA in a little while and see what the temp reaches.

 

[TheCenturion]

oh yeah: also despite the fact that I have speedstep on, it's staying at 3.8 while idle and showing no signs of slowing down.

 

[TheCenturion]

I pretty much just failed at trying to calibrate my dell. I couldn't get it to the appropriate image on any of the tests :\

 

[TheCenturion]

Scrap that. Won't be able to post pics for about 3 weeks now

 

[TheCenturion]

Here's what it currently looks like from the front:

Silver Kill Coil:

A couple more to come

 

[TheCenturion]

Coil in res:

Cable management went to pieces

 

[TheCenturion]

Thought you guys might like to see this. I put a lot of drops of mayhem's dye into the loop, but it kept fading, so I drained the loop, thinking something was clogging it, and then refilled it with new distilled water. The water somehow became dyed

 

[TheCenturion]

It shouldn't fade mate The colour should become more diluted. One drop was more than enough for my loop so obviously something was wrong.

 

[TheCenturion]

about 2 minutes

When I put it inside a bowl, the colour was fine for one drop, it was about 600ml

 

[TheCenturion]

Pretty dye is pretty

 

[TheCenturion]

+1
Sort them out

I... can't :\

 

[TheCenturion]

The main cables on show are:

p4 cable - Waaay too short to route round
gfx power cables - same as above
24pin - too thick, so when I route it round the other side of the motherboard tray, I can't put the side panel on.
sata cables etc - don't look that bad irl

 

[TheCenturion]

Just did a bit of cable management, it looks better now... but I can't put the side panel on. And the only way to get it on would be to mess up all this good cable management work I just did.

 

[TheCenturion]

What's that pointless bit of velcro around the tubing achieving though?

It's holding the two tubes together. Without it, the bottom tube has a lot of slack and flops down, looking pretty ugly.

 

[TheCenturion]

@TheCenturion awesome build, where did you get that purified water from?

Hi mate. I just popped into the local chemist, it was £3 for 5 litres. If your local chemist doesn't have any, they can order it in for you.

 

[TheCenturion]

Are you still using Mayhems dye? How does it look now?

Cheers

No change from post 307, looks exactly the same

 

[TheCenturion]

I did have a problem at first where the dye was just fading, so I had to drain the system and flush it a couple of times. But yeah, then after that I just added a few drops until it went to a colour that I liked

 

[TheCenturion]

Having changed the fans from push to pull, it looks like 1'c has been knocked off each core

 

[TheCenturion]

One person I'd like to thank - my 10 y/o brother. He helped flush the rad, he helped to hide inside the box my case came in, he helped hold certain stuff in place, and generally provided a spare set of hands when I needed them. He also benched crysis for me, and played it for a day and got further than me

 

[TheCenturion]

Thanks bud

I'm considering just replacing the fans altogether, as they don't push that much air (34cfm @ 1200rpm) so I might get some vipers which push more air, and they are braided too
The problem with having a braided cable is that at the moment the cables are being routed through a very thin hole and a braided cable is probably too thick to fit through the hole.