Layer Cakes
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Oh right! That's quite expensive to be honest. Our dearest 120mls only go up to £22!
This is getting a bit off topic :lol:
[Build Log] Delilah 2.0
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Oh right! That's quite expensive to be honest. Our dearest 120mls only go up to £22!
This is getting a bit off topic :lol:
Layer Cakes
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So, my CPU arrived and the build is back on! 
Wasn't expecting an engineering sample, but as long as it works eh!
I also picked up this Adata 16GB 2800 kit for £100, which I really don't think is too bad considering current ram prices!
So I finally got everything together and it works! Honestly never been so relieved. As this is entirely second hand parts, I was just expecting something to go wrong somewhere.
Sorry about the mess :lol:
At this point I also popped the heat spreaders off the ram. Too much of a faf to repaint them, they could cause clearance issues and they have black PCBs anyway, so just leaving them naked.
All that was left to do then was chuck it in the case and fill the loop! But no.. I soon realised that I'm not going to be able to replace my EPS power cables when they arrive without draining the loop, so best wait.
My custom cables arrived the next day and golly gosh am I pleased with them. Fantastic service from To The Wire.
So I loaded up the case..
Then found out that i'd planned on using my monoblock backwards as such, so had to add some risers and move the tubing around a bit. Doesn't look quite as clean as it did, but it's the best I can really do without going hard line.
So next was just to fill her up! Started pouring water in to the res, just for it to immediately flood out of the pump. Luckily nothing toon sensitive got wet, but I was puzzled where the leak was coming from. In the end, I took the pump out to test, and noticed that the water was coming out the actual casing. Took it apart, and lo and behold there was no O ring.
All I can assume is the previous owner opened it up to clean before selling and forgot to put it back in? I was told it was brand new, so I just didn't even check. Massive PITA.
So build yet again is on hold, until I get my hands on a replacement O ring. Also I'm going to have to drain the loop to fit an m.2 drive, so I may wait until I have one of them to before finally trying to fill again, we'll see.
~~ Lucy
Wasn't expecting an engineering sample, but as long as it works eh!
I also picked up this Adata 16GB 2800 kit for £100, which I really don't think is too bad considering current ram prices!
So I finally got everything together and it works! Honestly never been so relieved. As this is entirely second hand parts, I was just expecting something to go wrong somewhere.
Sorry about the mess :lol:
At this point I also popped the heat spreaders off the ram. Too much of a faf to repaint them, they could cause clearance issues and they have black PCBs anyway, so just leaving them naked.
All that was left to do then was chuck it in the case and fill the loop! But no.. I soon realised that I'm not going to be able to replace my EPS power cables when they arrive without draining the loop, so best wait.
My custom cables arrived the next day and golly gosh am I pleased with them. Fantastic service from To The Wire.
So I loaded up the case..
Then found out that i'd planned on using my monoblock backwards as such, so had to add some risers and move the tubing around a bit. Doesn't look quite as clean as it did, but it's the best I can really do without going hard line.
So next was just to fill her up! Started pouring water in to the res, just for it to immediately flood out of the pump. Luckily nothing toon sensitive got wet, but I was puzzled where the leak was coming from. In the end, I took the pump out to test, and noticed that the water was coming out the actual casing. Took it apart, and lo and behold there was no O ring.
All I can assume is the previous owner opened it up to clean before selling and forgot to put it back in? I was told it was brand new, so I just didn't even check. Massive PITA.
So build yet again is on hold, until I get my hands on a replacement O ring. Also I'm going to have to drain the loop to fit an m.2 drive, so I may wait until I have one of them to before finally trying to fill again, we'll see.
~~ Lucy
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Layer Cakes
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A little update! The build as such is still on hold and my system continues to live air cooled out side of it's case... But I picked up some more RAM!
Got offered a cracking deal on these used dom plats and god damn are they a bit sexy!!
They're only 4GB modules, but thats the beauty of having 8 slots!
Got offered a cracking deal on these used dom plats and god damn are they a bit sexy!!
They're only 4GB modules, but thats the beauty of having 8 slots!
Layer Cakes
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They're so nice right? I'm already contemplating buying the light bar kit!
Unless they've improved it, I wouldn't get too excited about the light bars. They're very dim lights. But the tops themselves still look great. Just don't count on them as a light source. I Sharpi-ed mine in my previous purple build:
Layer Cakes
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Unless they've improved it, I wouldn't get too excited about the light bars. They're very dim lights. But the tops themselves still look great. Just don't count on them as a light source. I Sharpi-ed mine in my previous purple build:
Yeah, they lights are a bit dim. I was just considering the clear ones, but I'll havr to see how they look with the existing case lighting once I get things back in the case.
Layer Cakes
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Unless they've improved it, I wouldn't get too excited about the light bars. They're very dim lights. But the tops themselves still look great. Just don't count on them as a light source. I Sharpi-ed mine in my previous purple build:
Prefer dim lights over IN YOUR FACE colour bleeding. LED lighting should be subtle. It should light the colour of your choice, but also compliment the colours/details and contours of components in the case.
People who use these stupid RGB fans ruin their case unless the also dim the saturation down. The colours bleed throughout the case too much and when using primary colouring like Red or Blue often you lose focus of the rest of the attention to detail.
