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Ok, cheers m8.
Tiger Style: Build log
- Thread starter w3bbo
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**Update**
Got a four boxes waiting for me this morning which contained :
Gotta love the smell of new hardware:001_cool:
So on with the build.....
Wanting everything to be as new meant everything need to look like it was fresh from the warehouse. So I made a start on the Alphacool plexitops which had become a little battle scarred from the numerous rebuilds I have done, nothing serious just a few scratches that needed polishing out.
1500 wet and dry paper does the trick :
But........Oh noes
:crying:
Got a four boxes waiting for me this morning which contained :
Gotta love the smell of new hardware:001_cool:
So on with the build.....
Wanting everything to be as new meant everything need to look like it was fresh from the warehouse. So I made a start on the Alphacool plexitops which had become a little battle scarred from the numerous rebuilds I have done, nothing serious just a few scratches that needed polishing out.
1500 wet and dry paper does the trick :
But........Oh noes
:crying:
Caporegime
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But........Oh noes
assuming you are crying as its now cloudy, flame polish it. blow torch.
Fear not though - Brasso to the rescue :
So while I had the pumps apart, giving them a clean I decided to do the 10W pro to 18w ultra mod. The pumps are easy to take apart with the impellor just being held in by magnetism. A slight push on the back and it all comes aprt easily (after removing the screws first!
This is a very easy mod all you need to do is join the 2 contact points at the end of the pcb (see my very dodgy soldering skills lol).
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Tested and working fine, a successfull mod which should give the pump more power to pump through the chipset blocks I have in store
...Sorted!!
So while I had the pumps apart, giving them a clean I decided to do the 10W pro to 18w ultra mod. The pumps are easy to take apart with the impellor just being held in by magnetism. A slight push on the back and it all comes aprt easily (after removing the screws first!
This is a very easy mod all you need to do is join the 2 contact points at the end of the pcb (see my very dodgy soldering skills lol).
link
Tested and working fine, a successfull mod which should give the pump more power to pump through the chipset blocks I have in store
...Sorted!!
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Nice going so far.. All that stuff!!!!!!!!! lol
Thanks for mentioning the Pump mod, I will be doing the same to mine when I have a reason to dismantle my water cooling kit.
Thanks for mentioning the Pump mod, I will be doing the same to mine when I have a reason to dismantle my water cooling kit.
Soldato
I've had a PSU start smoking and make a burning smell from using the 7v mod, seemed to be fine afterwards, but i swiftly put it in a non important pc 
Molex provides :
12v | G | G | 5v
As standard the PSU can provide 12v or 5v depending how you wire the fan, with no side effects, since the motor is simply provided with a voltage and grounded.
When providing 7v, you give 12v to the motor and 5v to the ground (12-5 = 7), however the 5v is then fed back to the PSU somehow, through the ground line.
I dont fully understand it (im not an electrician) but this is how I understand it, and since my PSU went a bit dodgy, im reluctant to use it tbh. 5v for me, plus its quieter
Yate-Loons are fine at 5v btw
Molex provides :
12v | G | G | 5v
As standard the PSU can provide 12v or 5v depending how you wire the fan, with no side effects, since the motor is simply provided with a voltage and grounded.
When providing 7v, you give 12v to the motor and 5v to the ground (12-5 = 7), however the 5v is then fed back to the PSU somehow, through the ground line.
I dont fully understand it (im not an electrician) but this is how I understand it, and since my PSU went a bit dodgy, im reluctant to use it tbh. 5v for me, plus its quieter
Yate-Loons are fine at 5v btw
Caporegime
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Thanks for the info on the pump mod.... So there's no proper reason for why the 18w one costs £10 more?! Is there a large difference in noise?
Soldato
Soldato
Very sweet work so far mate. Inspiration to us all tbh. Just one little question. In the pic below, you have 6 fans on the 120.3 if Im not mistaken, but apart form that fans is there something else you have attached to it?
It seems a little bulky for being a 120.3 with fans on either side.....might just be me though.
It seems a little bulky for being a 120.3 with fans on either side.....might just be me though.
shroud
ppphhhh ^.^