jeremyshaw
[H]F Junkie
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Howdy!
I started a wee bit of planning a while back, in order to reduce the amount of noise in my primary computer. After a flout with a SG02, P180mini, HAF932, and finally a SG05, I've finished my pathfinding and have decided to go mITX - all in
Without ado, and without any skills whatsoever, I'm going to make WaterCooling and mITX in a desperate chase for silence It'll be my first watercooling attempt (unless if a failed GPU loop - never worked due to bad pump - and a dying H50 counts ). I have one quirk - I love stock. So on the outside... everything better appear stock or I will likely lose it. The intent? Watercool the CPU and GPU. The HD5770 I have chosen for this task has an okay fan, but it does ramp up under load. The Intel stock cooler... say no more . Especially the even shorter i3 stock cooler. The 45nm C2D Alumi cooler was bad enough, IMO...
As such, I chose the SG06s - aluminum is really beautiful, pictures poorly taken can hardly do it justice. But I bear and try,
Parts?
XSPC Rasa 450 120mm kit
Gigabyte H55N-USB3
i3 530 [EDIT: replaced with a X3440 ]
SG06S
GT AP15
MCW80 GPU block
HD5770 [EDIT: replaced with a GTX460 - XFX HD5770 nonref *might* have different mounts, or the stock MCW80 doesn't include ATi mounts.... my MCW60 before this worked with my reference HD5770 and HD5870]
Micron awesomesause RAM DDR3
Some pics (please forgive me, I'll tidy up in a bit):
An IandH silver killcoil, AS5 TIM, anti-kink coils, DDR3, and a HD5770 didn't make the picture taking rounds
Thank you Jen, for inspiring me to try and beleive in mITX.... and for letting me purchase your Gigabyte mobo + CPU .
Thanks to cjwalker and scook9 (NBR) for helping me in other ways to make this possible
Dunno if my including their names in this is the right thing, or even a good thing for their reputations
Thank you! I will be updating this as my builds progress, my goal is to finish this by next weekend
Thank you!
-Jeremy Shaw (creative username...)
I started a wee bit of planning a while back, in order to reduce the amount of noise in my primary computer. After a flout with a SG02, P180mini, HAF932, and finally a SG05, I've finished my pathfinding and have decided to go mITX - all in
Without ado, and without any skills whatsoever, I'm going to make WaterCooling and mITX in a desperate chase for silence It'll be my first watercooling attempt (unless if a failed GPU loop - never worked due to bad pump - and a dying H50 counts ). I have one quirk - I love stock. So on the outside... everything better appear stock or I will likely lose it. The intent? Watercool the CPU and GPU. The HD5770 I have chosen for this task has an okay fan, but it does ramp up under load. The Intel stock cooler... say no more . Especially the even shorter i3 stock cooler. The 45nm C2D Alumi cooler was bad enough, IMO...
As such, I chose the SG06s - aluminum is really beautiful, pictures poorly taken can hardly do it justice. But I bear and try,
Parts?
XSPC Rasa 450 120mm kit
Gigabyte H55N-USB3
i3 530 [EDIT: replaced with a X3440 ]
SG06S
GT AP15
MCW80 GPU block
HD5770 [EDIT: replaced with a GTX460 - XFX HD5770 nonref *might* have different mounts, or the stock MCW80 doesn't include ATi mounts.... my MCW60 before this worked with my reference HD5770 and HD5870]
Micron awesomesause RAM DDR3
Some pics (please forgive me, I'll tidy up in a bit):
An IandH silver killcoil, AS5 TIM, anti-kink coils, DDR3, and a HD5770 didn't make the picture taking rounds
Thank you Jen, for inspiring me to try and beleive in mITX.... and for letting me purchase your Gigabyte mobo + CPU .
Thanks to cjwalker and scook9 (NBR) for helping me in other ways to make this possible
Dunno if my including their names in this is the right thing, or even a good thing for their reputations
Thank you! I will be updating this as my builds progress, my goal is to finish this by next weekend
Thank you!
-Jeremy Shaw (creative username...)
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