UPDATE!
Hello every happy soul! well hello to you even if you aren't, I have some good news to come with!
To begin with I can do a recap of what has happend the last year with a small.. ehm.. smallish wall of text! About a year ago I was waiting for an agreement to settle with a company and take act.
I was searching for someone who had enough of Bitspower fittings that was required to complete the watercooling loop. In the beginning the loop was designed differently, that was before the huge popularity wave of acrylic tubing or so called "crystal link" for use for the whole loop instead of just between GPUs.
After time I realized was almost double the cost of the already redicolous cost of the watercooling loop. I also stumbled upon space diffulties with the design,
Well, back to searching. Said and done I finally found someone who had all the fittings I needed, though no one had the amount I needed. Therefor they had to order more from Bitspower, who was just moving to another factory. This step delayed it all a very long time. After 6 months of digging my own grave, walking backwards and forward waiting for them. Finally they were here, what a joyful moment!
With all this said I want to present to you my latest sponsor Sidewinder Computers!
They provided me with a very good deal on all the components! And normally they have very good prices so definetly check them out if your in need of something!
Since then I have been working to get this project completed until the end of the summer as I will be moving away for a year or two.
It was a real marathon with few hours of sleep the last days. I was leaving the 1st of September 06:00 in the morning. The project was put together, completed, refilled, leaktested and ready to take it's first breath about 04:30 in the morning. It died as quickly as it started. The dissapointment was horrendous and the dissapointment was somewhere down in the basement.
I didn't want to leave home without a working computer, in perticular this one! I chose not to bring my working gaming machine since I thought that my motivation to fixing it faster would be greater. There after I was computerless for over a month... Hasn't happend in over 5 years and remember I'm still quite young^^ I was busy all days and the little freetime I had went toward troubleshooting.
After have tried EVERYTHING that was possible to do, asking for advice, frustration.. The conclusion I came to after so much troubleshooting that I'm sick of the word by now, is that either the motherboard or the CPU was defected, something that must have happend after my testrun. Even If your careful with things, I guess they can go faulty..
I sent it back to the retailer(again), I think they have a "WANTED" post of me in their office at this time. So much trouble I've had with this motherboard. 1st exchange was because of aesthetics reasons as you can see in the earlier posts. 2nd switch because of dead bios, had to update it to be able to have my new GPU working, Bios update is like a lottery, and I didn't win if you say so. They changed it as a goodwill!<3 The 3rd switch was now when I had troubleshooted the issue to either mobo or CPU, Thankfully they exchanged it once more, I didn't get a answer on what the issue was though.
I'm not kidding they have the best support! Thank you Inet.se! I am now on my 4th sample of this motherboard, as I have heard it's supposed to be a good and stable motherboard, unfortunately this is not my case.
Much hard work, knowledge and patience can summarise this update, but ohboyy what joy it was when it revved it's engine for the first time for real!
Now I have some pictures to summarise this, I have slacked a bit with taking pictures though. Sorry for this. Also some mobile pics.
I would love to hear from you!
Let's go!
What a beuty for a card! Sad to pick it apart to apply waterblock^^
No pictures on the mounting, hope you know how to do it
Like a bag of candy! Not to many per day though, I think you'll have a toothache
Bought these a year ago, they're already outdated ;(
Garbage next?
Well, let's see what we can do!
HOKUS POKUS...
...POFF!!! What do you think?! I LOVE EM' one of my favorit details on the whole build!
Continued working on the plate that will cover the front area of the side and housing the SSDs.
Something like that.
Test mounting, screws in from behind with a motherboard standoff in between.
Had to file down the threads because it didn't fit, had to glue the filed part into the ssd and screw in the other end.
Red primer, my father loved the color.
Didn't have a hole for the CPU 8pin so had to do some last minute surgery since I forgot to do that in the planning stages. I cut it in the top right corner where the hex mesh is so looks genuine.
hade inget hål för CPU 8pins kontakten att gå igenom då den andra inte var ett alternativ, så fick ta att göra ett litet snitt i hex meshen för att få en 8pins kontakt igenom.
Sleeved 24pin connector, pics doesn't do it justice
Connectors...
Connectors in galore!!
Reservoir
Doing some work.
Have 10metes acrylic pipe, if someone has a hardtime finding it, you know I have. It was very hard to get hold of. Managed to get a company called akriform to sell it to me even though I'm not a company
Now a day you can find it very easily at E22 Say hi from me (he doesn't know me)
It is TIGHT up there^^
Mounting on the way, it's very picky with the angles since it's not bendable..
Have a few places where it is a few mm of but can't really adjust it more, hope it's fine
Starting to come together
The mad scientists liquid this is.. aka Michael Wood, lol
TADA, well there was some tweaking afterwards to get the right color.
PLZ DON'T LEAK PLZ DON'T L... DOOOHHH!!!!
Had some problem with a few placed where a few drips were zipping out. After changing some fittings and rubber gromets. 1-2h later with tizzling and tazzling I had it leakproof.. so far atleast
tizzle
tazzle
Some entertainment in the middle of the night
Moments before I get my hopes crushed...
That was all for this time, now the project is finished, Now before you throw your banana at the screen shouting for final pics, keep calm Next week I am going to have a photoshoot so that I can give you as much please I can through pictures
So next weekend I may have e nice nice update with final result, summary and ending of this fantistic experience and project! Thankt again to you who have supported me! Also a HUGE thanks to my sponsors for their trust for a newcomer to the scene Fractal Design, Corsiar, Aquatuning, NZXT, Dm-finearts, Plåtspecialisten Örebro, Mayhems, Sidewinder Computers.
I'd love to hear feedback from you all!
Take care, until next time!
Johnny
PenguinMawdz
Hello every happy soul! well hello to you even if you aren't, I have some good news to come with!
To begin with I can do a recap of what has happend the last year with a small.. ehm.. smallish wall of text! About a year ago I was waiting for an agreement to settle with a company and take act.
I was searching for someone who had enough of Bitspower fittings that was required to complete the watercooling loop. In the beginning the loop was designed differently, that was before the huge popularity wave of acrylic tubing or so called "crystal link" for use for the whole loop instead of just between GPUs.
After time I realized was almost double the cost of the already redicolous cost of the watercooling loop. I also stumbled upon space diffulties with the design,
Well, back to searching. Said and done I finally found someone who had all the fittings I needed, though no one had the amount I needed. Therefor they had to order more from Bitspower, who was just moving to another factory. This step delayed it all a very long time. After 6 months of digging my own grave, walking backwards and forward waiting for them. Finally they were here, what a joyful moment!
With all this said I want to present to you my latest sponsor Sidewinder Computers!
They provided me with a very good deal on all the components! And normally they have very good prices so definetly check them out if your in need of something!
Since then I have been working to get this project completed until the end of the summer as I will be moving away for a year or two.
It was a real marathon with few hours of sleep the last days. I was leaving the 1st of September 06:00 in the morning. The project was put together, completed, refilled, leaktested and ready to take it's first breath about 04:30 in the morning. It died as quickly as it started. The dissapointment was horrendous and the dissapointment was somewhere down in the basement.
I didn't want to leave home without a working computer, in perticular this one! I chose not to bring my working gaming machine since I thought that my motivation to fixing it faster would be greater. There after I was computerless for over a month... Hasn't happend in over 5 years and remember I'm still quite young^^ I was busy all days and the little freetime I had went toward troubleshooting.
After have tried EVERYTHING that was possible to do, asking for advice, frustration.. The conclusion I came to after so much troubleshooting that I'm sick of the word by now, is that either the motherboard or the CPU was defected, something that must have happend after my testrun. Even If your careful with things, I guess they can go faulty..
I sent it back to the retailer(again), I think they have a "WANTED" post of me in their office at this time. So much trouble I've had with this motherboard. 1st exchange was because of aesthetics reasons as you can see in the earlier posts. 2nd switch because of dead bios, had to update it to be able to have my new GPU working, Bios update is like a lottery, and I didn't win if you say so. They changed it as a goodwill!<3 The 3rd switch was now when I had troubleshooted the issue to either mobo or CPU, Thankfully they exchanged it once more, I didn't get a answer on what the issue was though.
I'm not kidding they have the best support! Thank you Inet.se! I am now on my 4th sample of this motherboard, as I have heard it's supposed to be a good and stable motherboard, unfortunately this is not my case.
Much hard work, knowledge and patience can summarise this update, but ohboyy what joy it was when it revved it's engine for the first time for real!
Now I have some pictures to summarise this, I have slacked a bit with taking pictures though. Sorry for this. Also some mobile pics.
I would love to hear from you!
Let's go!
What a beuty for a card! Sad to pick it apart to apply waterblock^^
No pictures on the mounting, hope you know how to do it
Like a bag of candy! Not to many per day though, I think you'll have a toothache
Bought these a year ago, they're already outdated ;(
HOKUS POKUS...
...POFF!!! What do you think
?! I LOVE EM' one of my favorit details on the whole build!
Continued working on the plate that will cover the front area of the side and housing the SSDs.
Something like that.
Test mounting, screws in from behind with a motherboard standoff in between.
Had to file down the threads because it didn't fit, had to glue the filed part into the ssd and screw in the other end.
Red primer, my father loved the color.
Didn't have a hole for the CPU 8pin so had to do some last minute surgery since I forgot to do that in the planning stages. I cut it in the top right corner where the hex mesh is so looks genuine.
hade inget hål för CPU 8pins kontakten att gå igenom då den andra inte var ett alternativ, så fick ta att göra ett litet snitt i hex meshen för att få en 8pins kontakt igenom.
Sleeved 24pin connector, pics doesn't do it justice
Connectors...
Connectors in galore!!
Reservoir
Doing some work.
Have 10metes acrylic pipe, if someone has a hardtime finding it, you know I have. It was very hard to get hold of. Managed to get a company called akriform to sell it to me even though I'm not a company
Now a day you can find it very easily at E22
Say hi from me (he doesn't know me)
It is TIGHT up there^^
Mounting on the way, it's very picky with the angles since it's not bendable..
Have a few places where it is a few mm of but can't really adjust it more, hope it's fine
Starting to come together
The mad scientists liquid this is.. aka Michael Wood, lol
TADA, well there was some tweaking afterwards to get the right color.
PLZ DON'T LEAK PLZ DON'T L... DOOOHHH!!!!
Had some problem with a few placed where a few drips were zipping out. After changing some fittings and rubber gromets. 1-2h later with tizzling and tazzling I had it leakproof.. so far atleast
tizzle
tazzle
Some entertainment in the middle of the night
Moments before I get my hopes crushed...
That was all for this time, now the project is finished, Now before you throw your banana at the screen shouting for final pics, keep calm
Next week I am going to have a photoshoot so that I can give you as much please I can through pictures So next weekend I may have e nice nice update with final result, summary and ending of this fantistic experience and project! Thankt again to you who have supported me! Also a HUGE thanks to my sponsors for their trust for a newcomer to the scene
Fractal Design, Corsiar, Aquatuning, NZXT, Dm-finearts, Plåtspecialisten Örebro, Mayhems, Sidewinder Computers.I'd love to hear feedback from you all!
Take care, until next time!
Johnny
PenguinMawdz
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