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So my fiance does slumber parties. The 18+ adult parties for women. The office is full of $3,000 of Ikea Besta and Inreda stuff to match the colors of the business. I've been wanting to ditch the PITA Antec 900 thats served as my server box for ever and always wanted to mod a case. So I moved my server hardware into my game case an ABS A+ El Diablo. (I'm going to be modding this one later to match the Red/Black theme also)
I picked up a Cooler Master Sphere HAF 932 and a cpu loop with a tripple rad from Turk-FX here on HF. This is my first time going water cooled so I honestly have alot of reading to do. I have plenty of time as I haven't gotten my board, cpu, or gpu/s yet.
To start off this wonderful build. The dumb a%% carrier from fedex left the box 200 address's away at 619 instead of 419. Of course the people took the box in then left for the day. (Just my luck) I called up fedex and said it shows to be delivered and it sure as heck wasn't delivered at my house. Thats when they told me it was left at 619. They sent the currier back to the house she left a note and stopped by at my house and said she guessed at the number. (I'm thinking you don't f%#$#$ing guess at an address.)
I ended up going back by the house several times to see if anyone was home throughout the day. Finally late in the evening someone was home and they put it back outside. Unopened. I'm thinking why even take it in your house if its not yours?
So yesterday around 12 I take out the ol razor blade and start cutting through the tape to check out what I got. Needless to say the outer window panel was scratched from when Turk packed it which he told me about after he shipped it out and after I paid. This is already a problem because I was going to stick with the exterior paint and wasn't going to paint the outside. Now I'm forced to! So its making more time, more work, and alot more cost especially since I'm powder coating the inside of the case. The amount of supplies to repair and prep for paint because of the water damage is going to be some dough.
Below are the photos I was shown when I agreed to make the purchase:
Following are what I have to work with now after receiving the package:
So moving on with the worklog. What on earth is the goup that collected on the cpu block?
This substance was actually such as a putty substance. I just rubbed it off under the bathroom sink. Then after I patted it dry was left with this:
So I put on a magnifing headset with light and grabbed a needle. This stuff Seemed more like dried algea as it came off in fuzzy sheets.
This was after an hour and a half:
There is still some minor shit there that I will clean later. I wanted to make sure I could get the foreign shit off.
Now flipping over the copper block we have another nice surprise:
This must have been from shipping considering I asked to have crushed newspaper stuffed in the case to keep things from moving around. The cpu block was just stuffed in the cpu section of the mobo backplate when I pulled the case out of the box. Which in turn put the copper block against metal. so it could rattle and slide while it is shipped.
Granted The pump and res were tapped down and the 6 gigs of gskill ram and box of case accesories were tapped and bubble wrapped together.
What nice find did I have of that ram with red heatsinks? Thermal paste smeared all over two of them on one side. Considering there was thermal paste on the inside of the anti static bag they were in.
So going to have to read up on lapping apparently so the block seats against the cpu properly.
While I was moving the Cooling setup I noticed Some fuzzy green particles floating around in the system:
Is this shit normal? I'm guessing its a form of algae.
Now for the Rad I was rather pissed off when I saw the following as I wasn't informed of this nice little bit of findings either:
Nice stuff huh? Not only did I have to clean shit off the water block, I'm going to have to straighten rad fins out the ass and sand blast and paint the rad now.
Down to the case:
Wow dust buildup. Just wait thats nothing:
Wow and a can of air is what $3 bucks. I paid $397 dollars for beat up and banged up stuff unanounced to me and it doesn't even arrive clean. Pretty sad. I've never sent anything dirty to a buyer on this forum or any other hardware forum let alone on ebay.
Oh look its the missing bay cover still missing from the initial pic where I asked if he had it and was told yes its sitting right by him in a drawer and he insured me it would be sent along with all the plates. Hell I only got maybe 3 of the IO Plates.
Bare chasis:
I made sure since I am drilling out the rivets and having the chasis painted well powder coated to make sure I have a log of rivet locations:
Now with a close look over the case we have the following:
Mangled Drive hold offs:
Water damage out the ass:
Of course above under the rad section I have that damage noted along with under the cpu block section I have the damage posted about the copper block also.
So New retail workup of purchased items:
Cooler Master Haf 932 $139.99 FREE SHIPPING NEWEGG
Swiftech GTZ 1366 $59.99 +$5.99 SHIPPING NEWEGG
Swiftech MC320-QP $54.99 +$7.56 SHIPPING NEWEGG
Pump and Pump Top $99 Discontinued from Petra Tech
GSKILL DDR3 RAM $129.99 +5.99 SHIPPING NEWEGG
Clamps, Barbs, Hose $25ish
Res $20 He said it was about this
Total retail $688.00ish
What I paid for the package Not knowing of all the damage was $397
$85 of that was for the ram which is a fair price. I don't have a problem with the ram cost as long as it works when the build is complete that is. Since it was left to flop around in the case with bubble shit wrapped around it in an antistatic bad who knows. I don't have anything that will run ddr3 to run memtest on it though so I'm kinda left hanging.
So factor out the ram from retail and your left with: $552 If I were to buy the case and wc gear. Which is only $240 bucks off new prices. Which is fair. IF THE PRODUCTS ARE COMPLETE AND NOT LOOKING LIKE THEY WERE THROWN IN THE BACK OF A GARBAGE TRUCK BEFORE THEY WERE SHIPPED.
Not only do I not have everything for the case. The case is trashed up pretty damn bad, the radiator is far from even 50% quality The cpu block was full of shit that took forever to clean and still isn't clean not to mention the back side that contacts the cpu is trashed to hell. The dust is just unbelievable I mean COME ON $4 bucks for a f%#ing can of air.
I'm not at all happy with the start of my mod at all. I would have rather just spent the extra $240 bucks and gotten new products vs what junk I ended up with.
NEXT UP DRILLING RIVITS:
I picked up a Cooler Master Sphere HAF 932 and a cpu loop with a tripple rad from Turk-FX here on HF. This is my first time going water cooled so I honestly have alot of reading to do. I have plenty of time as I haven't gotten my board, cpu, or gpu/s yet.
To start off this wonderful build. The dumb a%% carrier from fedex left the box 200 address's away at 619 instead of 419. Of course the people took the box in then left for the day. (Just my luck) I called up fedex and said it shows to be delivered and it sure as heck wasn't delivered at my house. Thats when they told me it was left at 619. They sent the currier back to the house she left a note and stopped by at my house and said she guessed at the number. (I'm thinking you don't f%#$#$ing guess at an address.)
I ended up going back by the house several times to see if anyone was home throughout the day. Finally late in the evening someone was home and they put it back outside. Unopened. I'm thinking why even take it in your house if its not yours?
So yesterday around 12 I take out the ol razor blade and start cutting through the tape to check out what I got. Needless to say the outer window panel was scratched from when Turk packed it which he told me about after he shipped it out and after I paid. This is already a problem because I was going to stick with the exterior paint and wasn't going to paint the outside. Now I'm forced to! So its making more time, more work, and alot more cost especially since I'm powder coating the inside of the case. The amount of supplies to repair and prep for paint because of the water damage is going to be some dough.
Below are the photos I was shown when I agreed to make the purchase:
Following are what I have to work with now after receiving the package:
So moving on with the worklog. What on earth is the goup that collected on the cpu block?
This substance was actually such as a putty substance. I just rubbed it off under the bathroom sink. Then after I patted it dry was left with this:
So I put on a magnifing headset with light and grabbed a needle. This stuff Seemed more like dried algea as it came off in fuzzy sheets.
This was after an hour and a half:
There is still some minor shit there that I will clean later. I wanted to make sure I could get the foreign shit off.
Now flipping over the copper block we have another nice surprise:
This must have been from shipping considering I asked to have crushed newspaper stuffed in the case to keep things from moving around. The cpu block was just stuffed in the cpu section of the mobo backplate when I pulled the case out of the box. Which in turn put the copper block against metal. so it could rattle and slide while it is shipped.
Granted The pump and res were tapped down and the 6 gigs of gskill ram and box of case accesories were tapped and bubble wrapped together.
What nice find did I have of that ram with red heatsinks? Thermal paste smeared all over two of them on one side. Considering there was thermal paste on the inside of the anti static bag they were in.
So going to have to read up on lapping apparently so the block seats against the cpu properly.
While I was moving the Cooling setup I noticed Some fuzzy green particles floating around in the system:
Is this shit normal? I'm guessing its a form of algae.
Now for the Rad I was rather pissed off when I saw the following as I wasn't informed of this nice little bit of findings either:
Nice stuff huh? Not only did I have to clean shit off the water block, I'm going to have to straighten rad fins out the ass and sand blast and paint the rad now.
Down to the case:
Wow dust buildup. Just wait thats nothing:
Wow and a can of air is what $3 bucks. I paid $397 dollars for beat up and banged up stuff unanounced to me and it doesn't even arrive clean. Pretty sad. I've never sent anything dirty to a buyer on this forum or any other hardware forum let alone on ebay.
Oh look its the missing bay cover still missing from the initial pic where I asked if he had it and was told yes its sitting right by him in a drawer and he insured me it would be sent along with all the plates. Hell I only got maybe 3 of the IO Plates.
Bare chasis:
I made sure since I am drilling out the rivets and having the chasis painted well powder coated to make sure I have a log of rivet locations:
Now with a close look over the case we have the following:
Mangled Drive hold offs:
Water damage out the ass:
Of course above under the rad section I have that damage noted along with under the cpu block section I have the damage posted about the copper block also.
So New retail workup of purchased items:
Cooler Master Haf 932 $139.99 FREE SHIPPING NEWEGG
Swiftech GTZ 1366 $59.99 +$5.99 SHIPPING NEWEGG
Swiftech MC320-QP $54.99 +$7.56 SHIPPING NEWEGG
Pump and Pump Top $99 Discontinued from Petra Tech
GSKILL DDR3 RAM $129.99 +5.99 SHIPPING NEWEGG
Clamps, Barbs, Hose $25ish
Res $20 He said it was about this
Total retail $688.00ish
What I paid for the package Not knowing of all the damage was $397
$85 of that was for the ram which is a fair price. I don't have a problem with the ram cost as long as it works when the build is complete that is. Since it was left to flop around in the case with bubble shit wrapped around it in an antistatic bad who knows. I don't have anything that will run ddr3 to run memtest on it though so I'm kinda left hanging.
So factor out the ram from retail and your left with: $552 If I were to buy the case and wc gear. Which is only $240 bucks off new prices. Which is fair. IF THE PRODUCTS ARE COMPLETE AND NOT LOOKING LIKE THEY WERE THROWN IN THE BACK OF A GARBAGE TRUCK BEFORE THEY WERE SHIPPED.
Not only do I not have everything for the case. The case is trashed up pretty damn bad, the radiator is far from even 50% quality The cpu block was full of shit that took forever to clean and still isn't clean not to mention the back side that contacts the cpu is trashed to hell. The dust is just unbelievable I mean COME ON $4 bucks for a f%#ing can of air.
I'm not at all happy with the start of my mod at all. I would have rather just spent the extra $240 bucks and gotten new products vs what junk I ended up with.
NEXT UP DRILLING RIVITS:
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