because someone in product development was finally smart enough to come up with mean looking black heatspreaders that dont exclude them from my next ALL BLACK PCB BUILD.
Hook a DDR2 brother up!
Thank you for the review Earl. Perfect timing as I'm looking into a Xmas present for myself!!
I am a total noob when it comes to the audio side of things but am a avid gamer and interested in learning more...as a result, I have a few questions for the gang;
As a lifetime user of relatively...
When the game was released my performance was acceptable (not stellar)...
2nd patch introduced herky jerks in multiplayer
newest patch makes the game almost unplayable with the stuttering. Guess I'm going to have to try any of the previous mentioned fixes (love shadows + vsync) or wait it...
The EK blocks are always a crowd favorite because they perform well and are dead sexy...
I currently have my gtx 280s in SLI with the recently discontinued Koolance nickel blocks (still a couple refurbed left on their site) and have had no issues whatsoever. Look good, keep cards idling around...
In the pics it's primochill 3/8" ID, 1/2" OD.
I would not recommend this tubing to anyone though because at one point, coretemp was showing 55 degrees celsius...I popped it open and found 2 ugly kinks in relatively straight lines.
Replaced it this week with Tygon 3603, same ID/OD and it...
hey liquid, sorry for the late reply. You're right the psu was in the wrong position in the earlier pics.
I put the whole thing together without realizing the problem...fired it up and got a couple hard lock ups as a result of the toasty PSU (i think).
To remedy this, I flipped the PSU...
Finished the project...a few minor setbacks with cabling not being long enough etc but all in all its great.
CPU/GPU cold as all get out overclocked the wolfdale e8400 to 4ghz w no problem.
Thanks for all the help...
General shot ;
Top Compartment ;
Bottom ;
Figured I'd update my progress and get some thoughts/opinions.
An overall shot, radiator placement, akasa soundproofing mockup. res mounted, pump in mockup placement.
120mm blowhole made up top w/ ac ryan radgrill...will house a scythe g 1200rpm.
Here you can kind of see the...
Thanks for the reply arcy. The chalk idea sounds like a good one.
What do you think about the only hot air exhaust in the lower compartment being the 2 fans mounted below the top of the rad + psu exhaust?
Hey gang. Long time lurker/reader, 1st time poster.
I am a 8 year h20 cooler. I went from an ugly but effective ford radiator/panaflo home made block combo (tbird 1200) to a koolance exos-al (amd xp 2800+). My new h20 cooling setup is an evga 790i ultra, evga 280 gpu, e8400 wolfdale @ 3.6...
post a screenshot?
I had a messed up post screen when i removed my stock BFGTech video cooler and put on a koolance block...replaced the stock one on it and it started workin fine.
if its not a psu issue, it could be video card related. Have you modded yours in any way?