Soldato
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
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- Aranyaprathet, Thailand
A few months ago, I acquired an Antec SLK3700BQE for free and wanted to use it to house my Opteron rig which was in a particularly hideous and ancient Samcheer server case.
But, I wasn't going to get my Eheim1250 and heatercore into a weeny narrow Antec so...
I bought a Swiftech kit at auction for only £60 which included a 6000-A64 block, a Swiftech MCR120 rad & radbox with a DDC-12v Swiftech pump/res combo.
This is what it looked like in its final stages after leak testing:
Pretty clean huh? Do you like the internal floppy? I leave the Memtest86 boot floppy in it.
Then I came to turn it on and IT DIDN'T WORK!!!
No POST, no fans, nothing. Tried a different PSU, still no good. Then when I wasn't even in the same room, its Tagan PSU blew taking out the ground floor circuit breaker. I have an RMA for that and bought a new DFI Ultra-D NF3 to replace the one that seemed not to work. It could have been the cpu, but it turns out I was right and with a new mobo, it now works fine.
Much as I'd like to be able to compare temperatures with the old system, the new mobo with a different BIOS means any comparison would be meaningless. I'm running with a spare QTEC 550W (I know!) and missing some of the motherboard cooling upgrades so the overclock is slightly down as well.
So far, this "upgrade" has cost me over £150 and a lot of grief from SWMBO.
Motto: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!!!
But, I wasn't going to get my Eheim1250 and heatercore into a weeny narrow Antec so...
I bought a Swiftech kit at auction for only £60 which included a 6000-A64 block, a Swiftech MCR120 rad & radbox with a DDC-12v Swiftech pump/res combo.
This is what it looked like in its final stages after leak testing:
Pretty clean huh? Do you like the internal floppy? I leave the Memtest86 boot floppy in it.
Then I came to turn it on and IT DIDN'T WORK!!!
No POST, no fans, nothing. Tried a different PSU, still no good. Then when I wasn't even in the same room, its Tagan PSU blew taking out the ground floor circuit breaker. I have an RMA for that and bought a new DFI Ultra-D NF3 to replace the one that seemed not to work. It could have been the cpu, but it turns out I was right and with a new mobo, it now works fine.
Much as I'd like to be able to compare temperatures with the old system, the new mobo with a different BIOS means any comparison would be meaningless. I'm running with a spare QTEC 550W (I know!) and missing some of the motherboard cooling upgrades so the overclock is slightly down as well.
So far, this "upgrade" has cost me over £150 and a lot of grief from SWMBO.
Motto: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!!!
