Teenyman45
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This build log is going to chronicle my first foray into water cooling. The name Leaky Filing cabinet was chosen because once the casters are added to a CaseLabs TH-10 case with matte black powder coating it looks quite a bit like a filing cabinet... one filled with water.
Sponsorships:
This higher end build is being brought to you by, and with special thanks to, My Wallet.
Some parts are being reused but there are quite a few new goodies.
The parts list: With pictures to be posted once all the toys arrive and I borrow a digital camera.
Case: A cavernous CaseLabs TH-10 configured with a reverse ATX layout
Display: 1x HP ZR30W for 2560x1600 gaming and e-book viewing goodness
Video Cards: 3x 7970s in trifire (1x XFX 7970 Black Edition, 1x Sapphire 7970, and 1x Sapphire 7970 OC arriving soon)
CPU: I7-950 with an I7-930 as a back up
Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Formula
RAM: 3x 2GB G Skill Pi 7-8-7-24-2T DDR3 1600 & 3x 4GB Semi-Defective Corsair Dominator 9-9-9-1T DDR3 1600 that is almost certainly eating my IMC because it will not stabilize below 1.67v but after getting 6 bad Corsair kits I grew tired of cross shipping
SSD: 2x Crucial C300 256GB in RAID 0
HDD: 2x WD Caviar Black 1TB in RAID 1
Power Supply: RMA Corsair AX1200 and unlike my previous Corsair PSU experience, this one has not yet turned itself into a fragmentation device... so that's nice
Water Cooling Gear:
Swiftech Apogee HD CPU Block
2x Swiftech MCP35x PWM pumps
3x Swiftech 7970 Komodo full cover water blocks
Swiftech 7970 Komodo Trifire special double X bridge
2x Alphacool NexXxos Monsta 480 Radiators (These just went on sale, are 80mm of solid copper, and are very different from the older Feser Monstas)
1x Alphacool NexXxos XT45 120 Radiator (45mm thick and also all copper)
1x EK Multioption RES x2 - 400 Advanced Reservoir (I am stunned that I just spent $60 plus shipping on a water bottle)
30 feet of clear Tygon tubing
18x Swiftech Lok-Seal 3/8ID 5/8OD compression fittings
2x Swiftech Lok-Seal 45 degree bends
2x Swiftech Lok-Seal 15mm extenders
1x Silver Kill Coil that I forgot to order and will now need to have shipped separately.
2x Rolls of Paper Towels (Brand TBD)
1x Roll of disposable blue shop towels
Final fan load out and fan controller load out TBD.
The big component group shot!
I have gone way over budget and my credit card is beginning to melt from use.
All my images in this log have been, and will be, taken with a borrowed smart phone. The source images are about 2MBwhich gets shrunk to 500-600KB when emailed and the direct linking to Photobucket seems to shrink it further down to 150-200KB. So enjoy my "quality" digital photography.
Sponsorships:
This higher end build is being brought to you by, and with special thanks to, My Wallet.
Some parts are being reused but there are quite a few new goodies.
The parts list: With pictures to be posted once all the toys arrive and I borrow a digital camera.
Case: A cavernous CaseLabs TH-10 configured with a reverse ATX layout
Display: 1x HP ZR30W for 2560x1600 gaming and e-book viewing goodness
Video Cards: 3x 7970s in trifire (1x XFX 7970 Black Edition, 1x Sapphire 7970, and 1x Sapphire 7970 OC arriving soon)
CPU: I7-950 with an I7-930 as a back up
Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Formula
RAM: 3x 2GB G Skill Pi 7-8-7-24-2T DDR3 1600 & 3x 4GB Semi-Defective Corsair Dominator 9-9-9-1T DDR3 1600 that is almost certainly eating my IMC because it will not stabilize below 1.67v but after getting 6 bad Corsair kits I grew tired of cross shipping
SSD: 2x Crucial C300 256GB in RAID 0
HDD: 2x WD Caviar Black 1TB in RAID 1
Power Supply: RMA Corsair AX1200 and unlike my previous Corsair PSU experience, this one has not yet turned itself into a fragmentation device... so that's nice
Water Cooling Gear:
Swiftech Apogee HD CPU Block
2x Swiftech MCP35x PWM pumps
3x Swiftech 7970 Komodo full cover water blocks
Swiftech 7970 Komodo Trifire special double X bridge
2x Alphacool NexXxos Monsta 480 Radiators (These just went on sale, are 80mm of solid copper, and are very different from the older Feser Monstas)
1x Alphacool NexXxos XT45 120 Radiator (45mm thick and also all copper)
1x EK Multioption RES x2 - 400 Advanced Reservoir (I am stunned that I just spent $60 plus shipping on a water bottle)
30 feet of clear Tygon tubing
18x Swiftech Lok-Seal 3/8ID 5/8OD compression fittings
2x Swiftech Lok-Seal 45 degree bends
2x Swiftech Lok-Seal 15mm extenders
1x Silver Kill Coil that I forgot to order and will now need to have shipped separately.
2x Rolls of Paper Towels (Brand TBD)
1x Roll of disposable blue shop towels
Final fan load out and fan controller load out TBD.
The big component group shot!
I have gone way over budget and my credit card is beginning to melt from use.
All my images in this log have been, and will be, taken with a borrowed smart phone. The source images are about 2MBwhich gets shrunk to 500-600KB when emailed and the direct linking to Photobucket seems to shrink it further down to 150-200KB. So enjoy my "quality" digital photography.
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