Moar updates!!
To start, I apologise for taking so long to do more updates. I was busy last weekend and then this week I was watching paint dry (literally). More on that in a bit.
My PWM fan splitters came in. This enables me to have my radiator fans all be controlled by the BIOS.
Unfortunately, they only came in x5 or x3, so I needed to splice the two 3's together for the top radiator fans. Couple pin pulling and wrapping of wires, and re-insertion. Don't worry, I'm going to come back and solder those all together when I do my sleeving.
My pump mount came in as well. But, as you would guess, the paint is not anywhere close to what the picture showed. I wanted red and got some dark maroon color. My picture doesn't show it well, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
Anyway, I got some sandpaper and Rustoleum and went to work.
(New way to dye your hands?)
Ghetto drying rack
After primer
Some sanding in-between coats of red
Sometimes I wish I didn't live in an apartment and had a full garage to do this work in. Needless to say, I'm going to have to wash the floor of my porch. (It didn't get painted. It's just the dried paint that got overshot by the spayer)
And the waiting game.... 24-48 hours until full cure....
Done!
In the case
(Once again, cameras do a terrible job at picking up reds. It's fire engine red in real life)
Now I can FINALLY do my tube routing with my new 45/90 degree rotary fittings
Leak test (horribly blurry)
With dye!
Damn you paper towel particles......
Moar pics
I'm really happy with the way the tubing routing came out. Especially since the tube from the bottom rad to the cpu will be cut down when my new video card comes. On that note, I'm 87 in the EVGA Step-Up queue. I've been going down about 50 each week, so expect a 680 under water in about 2 weeks.
I don't know how I feel about the color of the water in the tubes. I would prefer it darker, but I've already added 25 drops of Mayhem dye and I don't want to super-saturate the loop. I know it's partly due to my tubing (they're a tad cloudy) but lately all the other brands have been having huge problems. (*Cough* Primochill *Cough*). I could use colored tubing and just dye for the color in the radiator, but same problem as before (and somewhat worse since only certain brands have colored tubing) What company to choose for tubing? (I'm using Duralene atm)
With the main loop now done, I'm moving on to lighting and sleeving. I already have the lighting supplies, so I'll probably work on that while the sleeving supplies are shipping.
As always, feel free to comment, ask questions, etc.