Recent content by Bartacus

Intro: every since I was fortunate enough to lay my grubby old hands on a 6900XT (Asus TUF Gaming OC), I noticed something: it was unhappy. At first it was unhappy for obvious reasons: the included factory air cooler sucked copious amounts of bum. This was rectified eventually, by an Alphacool...

Well this isn't much of a 'project', more of a quick 2-day rebuild of a rig that has now come full circle. It *used* to be on a Core P3 case with a single 420 rad, but I wanted more rad space for gaming, so it got moved into a Lian-Li Dynamic XL with triple 360s. But now this rig servers as my...

Greetings humans! I figured I'd post up a rig thread, since I recently finished building a Threadripper system for the first time. This was a difficult build, some money was wasted, but it all worked out in the end. I've been working on this for the better part of two weeks, and it's pretty...

G'day mates! Happy Good Friday / Easter and all that good food chocolate bunny stuff! Hope you are all eating and drinking merrily! I haven't posted much of anything lately as far as build stuff goes. But I did pick up some new toys recently, the main one being a Radeon VII GPU, Gigabyte...

Hey Dudes, I have a Ryzen rig with the Asus Crosshair 6 Hero. Nice little board. I have a custom loop in it, and I have a temp sensor connected to the WATER_IN sensor. For the life of me, I cannot seem to bind my fan curve to that sensor. Any idea WHY NOT?!?! I'm a long time Asus fan...

Hey dudes! I'm starting a build log here for the first time. It will most likely suck, so prepare yourselves. :) I'm not a perfectionist, I don't mod, I'm a complete nerd slob, I can't take pics worth a damn, etc etc. Cable management will be optional, if I do it at all. :D Criticism can...

G'day gents. I've been working on me rig over the holidays (because no kids). It's not anywhere NEAR done yet, but I must say I'm enjoying the color change! Before: Dat flow meter (ugh!): After: So much more to do, but not a bad start. Purple is the new black. :D Bonus pic of a...

Hey guys, I thought this deserved it's own thread, as this seems to be a subject not too many people talk about. A few weeks back, the main man for water cooling in Canada (Daz) posted a short video about PETG. He came across a YouTube video where someone mentioned that PETG was not...

Is anyone else around here dumb enough to be running mismatched GPUs in Crossfire and OCing them? I'm running a pair of Sapphire 7950's, one is a 7950 reference PCB, the other based on the 7970 PCB. Both cards draw different voltages, and I suspect one of them is a crappy overclocker...

Ok this is driving me bonkers. I only got into WCing 1 year ago, and for the most part I've been leak free. One of my rads developed a tiny leak not long ago (TFC Admiral). Known issue, got a set of replacement end tanks from my awesome local retailer, installed those without issue. I...

Hey Guys! I'm looking for some expert electrical geek input. Today, I noticed the power supply fan on my Corsair AX750 PSU wasn't spinning, even under load. I notice on power up that it does spin up for a very brief second, but never gets going. I wasn't sure if that was normal or the fan is...

Hey guys, fairly new member here, figured I'd toss up a log of the upgrade from my virgin water build. So this is my second water loop. I'm 43, been building systems for years, but never got into water until recently. Now I'm hooked! WARNING: I am a complete noob STILL, and I'm not good...

Hello from the politically correct over-taxed polite socialist ice cube known as Canada! :beerchug: Like a lot of people, Tom's excellent videos brought me here. He's a fun guy to watch / listen to, and I figure if he's here the rest of you can't be that bad. :cool: I'm about to embark on my...