FarFarAway
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Post in ST's forum - they might be able to sort you out 
EvilWeevil : Project Air-Con
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EvilWeevil
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UPDATEY!
As the first post now says the remaining two items on my list will be ordered on Saturday, and hopefully the build will begin next week.
I'll keep you posted.
As the first post now says the remaining two items on my list will be ordered on Saturday, and hopefully the build will begin next week.
I'll keep you posted.
Rastalovich
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EvilWeevil said:
Drool !!!!
FarFarAway
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Oooh nice...look forward to this
EvilWeevil
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Slight delay in ordering those last bits, I'm about to do it. According to the Lian Li website, the PC-75 doesn't exist...
Kustom and Chillblast don't have it, ST are still showing out of stock. I'm going to the get the PC-71 black as I can't see any difference. Also, I'm getting a replacement windowed side panel which may well be subject to some modding.
EDIT: All ordered!
Kustom and Chillblast don't have it, ST are still showing out of stock. I'm going to the get the PC-71 black as I can't see any difference. Also, I'm getting a replacement windowed side panel which may well be subject to some modding.
EDIT: All ordered!
EvilWeevil
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name='dave87' said:
I'm expecting the stuff to come on Wednesday, and I'll start staright away really.
Time to charge the camera
EvilWeevil
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The Infinity arrived today, and it's HUGE! Looking forward to seeing what it can do. The case, according to my tracking number, was shipped at 5pm today and will be with me tomorrow.
FarFarAway
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Cool will look forward to it
EvilWeevil
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I've begun to build as my case came nice and early today. I have finally ended up with a PC-G71B which is pretty darn similar to the others (pictures soon, the camera is charging).
At the moment I'm not doing anything particularly interesting - I was going to have to cut a hole in my new side panel to accomadate the exhaust fan which is the cornerstone of Lian-Li's cooling layout. Then I realised that the Accelero and the Infinity wouldn't allow it to be there. So I'm basically redoing the fans to make a layout which doesn't need that side fan.
At the moment I'm not doing anything particularly interesting - I was going to have to cut a hole in my new side panel to accomadate the exhaust fan which is the cornerstone of Lian-Li's cooling layout. Then I realised that the Accelero and the Infinity wouldn't allow it to be there. So I'm basically redoing the fans to make a layout which doesn't need that side fan.
EvilWeevil
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I went ahead and built the whole thing yesterday, because having waited with this pile of luscious components on my desk for almost two months I couldn't wait any longer to see what they could do.
I started out by looking at the case. Beuatiful case, excellent airflow design. But there was one fan upon which hinged the entire layout. Unfortunately, the Accelero X2 is too big to allow the original fan (which was on a special metal mount, see pic) to be there. Also, there was a duct attached to the rear fan (which was meant to be an intake one). The Infinity is way to big to allow that
So those two had to go, which meant that the airflow was buggered.
I turned round the rear fan to be an exhaust, and now that I've built I see that I should be able to stick at least an 80mm exhaust where Lian Li wanted it, once I've cut a hole in my window panel. Then I'll switch the rear fan back round and alter the arrangement of the Infinity. The main problem is that while the CPU is cooled beautifully, the graphics card is rather hot, as the Infinity prettty much hogs the exhaust, and the only other is in the PSU at the top of the case.
Anyway, onwards!
Quickly installed the PSU:
The installation of the HSF was relatively easy.
Only minor problem was a little blob of metal joining two parts of the Skt775 bracket which were meant to be able to move relatively freely, but the Dremel quickly got rid of it. After that it was just thermal goo and mount:
Now I mounted the mobo in the case:
It's nice and high because of the space at the bottom for another PSU. I'm planning to use it either for some fancy-pants modding, or probably for sticking pump/reservoir when I watercool.
Next was replacing the x1900xt's stock cooler with the accelero, which was relatively easy. Just had to undo a few screws and remove the cooler, clean the GPU core and stick on the thermal pads before attaching the Accelero itself:
Finally I installed and hooked up HDDs in the removable cage and put in the DVDRW drive, hooked everything up to the PSU and....I couldn't get the 12V ATX connector in because the massive Infinity was in the way. So it was mobo back out of the case, plug in the connector and remount. After this minor debacle I plugged in the rest of the cables, did some crude tidying (the front panel ports are in one of those twisty plastic tubes and the IDE cable from the DVD drive is cable tied to it. The power cables need some more attention; the cable to the two HDs will be routed round the back of the mobo tray as it's the main offender.
Voila:
The next steps are cutting a hole for the side exhaust fan, rigging up some lighting (I'm thinking blue and orange, probably will make string of LEDs myslef), and possibly an etch on the window(nothing huge mind )
Also I considered doing something with a 5.25" bay, just don't know what yet
I started out by looking at the case. Beuatiful case, excellent airflow design. But there was one fan upon which hinged the entire layout. Unfortunately, the Accelero X2 is too big to allow the original fan (which was on a special metal mount, see pic) to be there. Also, there was a duct attached to the rear fan (which was meant to be an intake one). The Infinity is way to big to allow that
So those two had to go, which meant that the airflow was buggered.
I turned round the rear fan to be an exhaust, and now that I've built I see that I should be able to stick at least an 80mm exhaust where Lian Li wanted it, once I've cut a hole in my window panel. Then I'll switch the rear fan back round and alter the arrangement of the Infinity. The main problem is that while the CPU is cooled beautifully, the graphics card is rather hot, as the Infinity prettty much hogs the exhaust, and the only other is in the PSU at the top of the case.Anyway, onwards!
Quickly installed the PSU:
The installation of the HSF was relatively easy.
Only minor problem was a little blob of metal joining two parts of the Skt775 bracket which were meant to be able to move relatively freely, but the Dremel quickly got rid of it. After that it was just thermal goo and mount:
Now I mounted the mobo in the case:
It's nice and high because of the space at the bottom for another PSU. I'm planning to use it either for some fancy-pants modding, or probably for sticking pump/reservoir when I watercool.
Next was replacing the x1900xt's stock cooler with the accelero, which was relatively easy. Just had to undo a few screws and remove the cooler, clean the GPU core and stick on the thermal pads before attaching the Accelero itself:
Finally I installed and hooked up HDDs in the removable cage and put in the DVDRW drive, hooked everything up to the PSU and....I couldn't get the 12V ATX connector in because the massive Infinity was in the way. So it was mobo back out of the case, plug in the connector and remount. After this minor debacle I plugged in the rest of the cables, did some crude tidying (the front panel ports are in one of those twisty plastic tubes and the IDE cable from the DVD drive is cable tied to it. The power cables need some more attention; the cable to the two HDs will be routed round the back of the mobo tray as it's the main offender.
Voila:
The next steps are cutting a hole for the side exhaust fan, rigging up some lighting (I'm thinking blue and orange, probably will make string of LEDs myslef), and possibly an etch on the window(nothing huge mind
)Also I considered doing something with a 5.25" bay, just don't know what yet
FarFarAway
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Very sexy mate - looks great. Let's see a pic of the case outside too.
RE: The side exhaust - will this not mess with the airflow through the case?
RE: The side exhaust - will this not mess with the airflow through the case?
EvilWeevil
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Kempez said:
The original Lian Li design was to have that back 120mm as an intake along with the front intake. Then the airflow is inwards to the mobo and then up to the PSU and down to the side exhaust, which would cool down the GFX which is a bit hot despite the Accelero.
Although now I'm thinking put a 120mm intake behind the bottom 5.25" bays, and another exhaust in the empty bottom PSU bay. I reckon that would bring the GFX temp down with less work...
And, yes, now that my desk is no longer a mass of screws and wires I'll take some good shots of the outside. Just need to put the side panel back on
EvilWeevil
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Mini update: I'm adding another DVD-RW for copying, and some blue cathodes are on their way from Scan.
EvilWeevil
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Mini update 2: Have ordered a 2407wpf. Having shelled out for an x1900xt I want to use that power to drive a monitor with a decent resolution. 1280x768 no more! Long live 1920x1200!