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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby Dian Wei on Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:18 pm

Shh mort, just cause you didn't understand.

That is minty stuff Craig. If all goes well i will have to get you give me a hand doing it for mine when i finally get round to upgrading again.
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby caspio on Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:19 pm

Damn you Craig stop making me jealous!
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby TORSO on Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:26 am

You should make it look like this:
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I know Bill would!
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby caspio on Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:49 pm

amazing! I want that computer!!!
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby Craig on Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:04 pm

Photos:

The calm before the storm:
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The beast before being disembowelled:
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ATI HD4870 minus heatsink and cleaned up:
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The finished graphics card with waterblock, together worth £210:
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CPU, GPU and Northbridge blocks tubed up:
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Tubing closeup:
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Coming along quite nicely :D
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby Dian Wei on Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:41 pm

Good stuff, and it looks a lot cooler than i expected.
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby Craig on Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:08 pm

A couple more photos of the second half of the loop:

Radiator (top) hooked up to the reservoir (centre) and pump (bottom):
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Reservoir and pump:
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Pump closeup:
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The radiator is actually fitted into the roof of the case, three 120mm fans on each side. Two of the top three are zip-tied in place, as the mounting holes on the radiator didn't line up with the ones on the case. Still, they're all in and they should all work.

I should hopefully be getting the final motherboard block and the coolant delivered at some point this week, so fingers crossed I should be able to complete it on Sunday when I next have some free time!
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby Craig on Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:22 pm

Well I've finally managed to get around to fitting the last waterblock and running the system through a leak test:

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Been running for 14 hours solid so far so fingers crossed there shouldn't be any problems. I'll probably leave it running until Sunday afternoon, then start putting the thing back together.
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby meluaz on Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:52 pm

i wish i had a nice new pc that play's all the fancy games of today,
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby James on Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:54 pm

For some reason I can see none of the pictures you're posting Craig, even when I paste the URL elsewhere.
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby Craig on Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:15 pm

James wrote:For some reason I can see none of the pictures you're posting Craig, even when I paste the URL elsewhere.


Just uploaded the pics to my main webserver rather than hotlinking them from another forum, hopefully they should work now :)
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby James on Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:19 pm

Yes, they do.
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Re: Building the Beast Part 2: Cooling the Beast

Postby Lev on Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:27 pm

Looks like it's from the pissng future.
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Re: Building the Beast - It's Alive!

Postby Craig on Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:36 pm

I'm considering being the ultimate geek and getting the side-panels of the case laser-etched. These won't just be any laser-etchings however:

The plain side panel will (depending if the people can do it) be entirely covered with the Painkiller album artwork (looking roughly like this). The other side panel will have a piece of clear acrylic laser-etched with the Somewhere In Time album art (will end up looking a bit like this).

Add some UV lighting and it should look absolutely awesome :)
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Re: Building the Beast - It's Alive!

Postby Metal Iain on Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:39 pm

It actually looks like you are building some kind of life-support machine.
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