Emission
Supreme [H]ardness
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Well, to make the long story short and sweet, I decided to upgrade my AMD based 6000+ system to an Intel 45nm system with some spare cash that I received from some hardware sales, and I decided to go all-out while I was at it. My objective for this build was to squeeze out as much performance as possible while keeping things as quite as possible, because as we know, there's nothing worse than the drone of some crappy fans in your case, especially with the door open , which I'll get into later. I'm too cheap for watercooling so this is my version of *extreme*. May not be exciting as the mutli-thousand dollar projects rolling around the Worklogs forum, but I figured it might produce some interesting looks on your faces, some laughs, and some clever commentary . This is only the beginning, and I'm gonna need your input on some interesting ideas for what to do after I'm done with Stage I.
This will be a running summary of what I plan to do with this system, what I am currently doing and how I am doing it, and a place where suggestions can be made, because there's always something I can do to make it even cooler . Now for some "Before" pics, and a teaser .
AMD 6000+ Brisbane 3.1 GHz, Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2, the main parts that are getting the hell outta' here. Board and CPU w/ cheesy HSF pictured above.
I picked up this Dell m-Atx case from school, it was extra materials, and I was too cheap to actually buy a new case, so this worked well. However, I wasn't satisfied with how it looked, so I cut out the window and cut down a piece of acrylic to fit. I had this piece of red acrylic in my closet for ages, and finally, I came up with a use for it. End result look pretty neat, I even got a red ccfl to put behind it. I like to call it, the Dell from [H]ell.
It's not as bright in person, it's a little more subtle. Old single-core A64 LE-1660 and MSI 9600GSO OC pictured, previously upgraded from.
Now, for my teaser. You KNOW something big is going down when your HSF box is like 3x the size of your CPU box .
My overall plan is to make sure that said heatsinks fit nicely in said computer case, and then, cut a 140mm diameter blowhole in the top of the case to mount the 140mm fan that comes with the Orochi. Then, remove the fan at the rear of case, and leave those areas open for air intakes. I bought a 15mm thick 80x80mm fan to attack to the chipset cooler and get some air circulating in that inner-case area. Hopefully it's quiet enough, if not, I'll make a 5/7v adapter.
Now it's time to clean my desk and get busy! Be back in a few .
This will be a running summary of what I plan to do with this system, what I am currently doing and how I am doing it, and a place where suggestions can be made, because there's always something I can do to make it even cooler . Now for some "Before" pics, and a teaser .
AMD 6000+ Brisbane 3.1 GHz, Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2, the main parts that are getting the hell outta' here. Board and CPU w/ cheesy HSF pictured above.
I picked up this Dell m-Atx case from school, it was extra materials, and I was too cheap to actually buy a new case, so this worked well. However, I wasn't satisfied with how it looked, so I cut out the window and cut down a piece of acrylic to fit. I had this piece of red acrylic in my closet for ages, and finally, I came up with a use for it. End result look pretty neat, I even got a red ccfl to put behind it. I like to call it, the Dell from [H]ell.
It's not as bright in person, it's a little more subtle. Old single-core A64 LE-1660 and MSI 9600GSO OC pictured, previously upgraded from.
Now, for my teaser. You KNOW something big is going down when your HSF box is like 3x the size of your CPU box .
My overall plan is to make sure that said heatsinks fit nicely in said computer case, and then, cut a 140mm diameter blowhole in the top of the case to mount the 140mm fan that comes with the Orochi. Then, remove the fan at the rear of case, and leave those areas open for air intakes. I bought a 15mm thick 80x80mm fan to attack to the chipset cooler and get some air circulating in that inner-case area. Hopefully it's quiet enough, if not, I'll make a 5/7v adapter.
Now it's time to clean my desk and get busy! Be back in a few .