well hopefully this time it will....maybe....kinda......hopefully.....
the old girl just wasn't cutting the mustard...
what with an old Alphacool Nexxxos triple rad, Asus Crosshair and AM2 6000 (waits for Jims abuse to start) and old 8800gts (I do have 2 but only 1 ever made it in to the case the other is still on my desk at work) she was starting to show her age. Now I tried to start a new one ages ago but due to a heavy workload it's done nothing but sit there.
Case is staying the same as I had a spare G70 and was kindly powder coated by Tom @ Chilled
Tom even came up trumps with a blank side panel (without fan holes) and kindly had it laser etched for me (skaters will know that design)
and even more he sent me one of his prototype Thermochill rad grills (OK this was a while ago)
now while there's totally nothing wrong with the radgrill this is being changed to a one off laser etched version...design to be finalised but this will be based around my favourite hobby - Skateboarding and mostly in respect to Independent who manufacture the best trucks in the World
Plans are to have red plexi in the side panel and the 'Independent' name etched into the plexi plus there's a few tricks up my sleeve for modding the case...
(big thanks to my main main Woody @ Big Woodys skateshop for flowing me some 'special' bits
Now on to spec...
errr as Jim and a few others will tell you this changes daily, scratch that hourly but I've finally decided to move from AMD to Intel...I have a Q6600 and an E8500 sat there and a decision must be made soon.
Mobo is probably going to be the XFX 780 or 790i with a few personal mods done.
Memory - errr Corsair spec to be finalised but all depends on which Mobo as it's DDR2 or DDR3
HDD's are staying or I may change them, undecided yet.
Graphics cards - man the bain of my life, GX2's or 9800's or wait for late May/June to see what Nvidea are doing, although I keep waiting, hence never getting anywhere.
Cooling - Water of course....
Dual loop probably maybe triple loops depending.
Mostly XSPC for the main loop may do CPU on its own and GPUs on seperate loop or may just do them as a single loop if I decide on XSPC it'll prolly make the GPU decision lean in favour of a couple of 9800's.
MIPS or EK for Mosfets etc..
again a few one off's and tricks up sleeves for the watercooling if my plan comes off........all depends if I can finance a new lathe at home and get it past the wife
So really nothing to report but maybe if I post it...I'll be forced to do something about it.
And while I'm at it I might even finish this (being watercooled again)
the old girl just wasn't cutting the mustard...
what with an old Alphacool Nexxxos triple rad, Asus Crosshair and AM2 6000 (waits for Jims abuse to start) and old 8800gts (I do have 2 but only 1 ever made it in to the case the other is still on my desk at work) she was starting to show her age. Now I tried to start a new one ages ago but due to a heavy workload it's done nothing but sit there.
Case is staying the same as I had a spare G70 and was kindly powder coated by Tom @ Chilled
Tom even came up trumps with a blank side panel (without fan holes) and kindly had it laser etched for me (skaters will know that design)
and even more he sent me one of his prototype Thermochill rad grills (OK this was a while ago)
now while there's totally nothing wrong with the radgrill this is being changed to a one off laser etched version...design to be finalised but this will be based around my favourite hobby - Skateboarding and mostly in respect to Independent who manufacture the best trucks in the World
Plans are to have red plexi in the side panel and the 'Independent' name etched into the plexi plus there's a few tricks up my sleeve for modding the case...
(big thanks to my main main Woody @ Big Woodys skateshop for flowing me some 'special' bits Now on to spec...
errr as Jim and a few others will tell you this changes daily, scratch that hourly but I've finally decided to move from AMD to Intel...I have a Q6600 and an E8500 sat there and a decision must be made soon.
Mobo is probably going to be the XFX 780 or 790i with a few personal mods done.
Memory - errr Corsair spec to be finalised but all depends on which Mobo as it's DDR2 or DDR3
HDD's are staying or I may change them, undecided yet.
Graphics cards - man the bain of my life, GX2's or 9800's or wait for late May/June to see what Nvidea are doing, although I keep waiting, hence never getting anywhere.
Cooling - Water of course....
Dual loop probably maybe triple loops depending.
Mostly XSPC for the main loop may do CPU on its own and GPUs on seperate loop or may just do them as a single loop if I decide on XSPC it'll prolly make the GPU decision lean in favour of a couple of 9800's.
MIPS or EK for Mosfets etc..
again a few one off's and tricks up sleeves for the watercooling if my plan comes off........all depends if I can finance a new lathe at home and get it past the wife
So really nothing to report but maybe if I post it...I'll be forced to do something about it.
And while I'm at it I might even finish this (being watercooled again)
