dannyisnow
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Love what you've done so far its looking amazing :worship:
Tiger Style - A build log
- Thread starter w3bbo
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Did a few more little bits and pieces over the weekend :
A pair of Temp gauges (orange of course!). Top is the board mosfet temp and the bottom is the exhaust air from the 3870x2.
I also painted a couple of thermochill grills for the inside of the case (black powdercoated ones just arrived for the exterior), a 120.1 and 120.3 which look great under UV and perfectly match the theme:
I still need to even out the coils but thats will be one of the last things I do after doing the final cable tidy.
More to come soon....
A pair of Temp gauges (orange of course!). Top is the board mosfet temp and the bottom is the exhaust air from the 3870x2.
I also painted a couple of thermochill grills for the inside of the case (black powdercoated ones just arrived for the exterior), a 120.1 and 120.3 which look great under UV and perfectly match the theme:
I still need to even out the coils but thats will be one of the last things I do after doing the final cable tidy.
More to come soon....
name='webbo' said:I decided to do the 10W pro to 18w ultra mod.
This is a very easy mod all you need to do is join the 2 contact points at the end of the pcb (see my very dodgy soldering skills lol).
Tested and working fine, a successfull mod which should give the pump more power to pump through the chipset blocks I have in store...Sorted!!
How are the pumps, still alive? interested in getting ddc-1t Pro myself, and then modding it to ultra, this way saving a few quid... worth it or not? i got the soldering skills (dads electrician)
btw, loving the coil around tubes bit, looks fantastic!!!
Update :
OCZ Ram cooler
I bought this ram cooler after having one previously and being impressed with it. However three things let it sown imo. The fans are a little 'whiney' and get a little irritating after a while and they also don't exactly push alot of air. They are also blue led versions which dont fit in well with my build at all. So I got a couple of replacement fans:
These 60mm fans are almost twice as thick as the original fans but push alot more air through without being 'whiney'. They are however very loud as you would expect being 60mm but run quite @60% speed while still pushing more air than the stock fans. Fitting them was relatively easy as I just bent out the original screw holes and then bent them over the top of the new fans after they were replaced. So thats the blue led, noise and airflow problem sorted - now onto the aesthetics.
The main unit, while having a fantastic chrome effect sticks out like a sore thumb in my new build so something had to be done about it. A little sanding, priming and spraying and hey presto, a more sullen but subdued look:
OCZ Ram cooler
I bought this ram cooler after having one previously and being impressed with it. However three things let it sown imo. The fans are a little 'whiney' and get a little irritating after a while and they also don't exactly push alot of air. They are also blue led versions which dont fit in well with my build at all. So I got a couple of replacement fans:
These 60mm fans are almost twice as thick as the original fans but push alot more air through without being 'whiney'. They are however very loud as you would expect being 60mm but run quite @60% speed while still pushing more air than the stock fans. Fitting them was relatively easy as I just bent out the original screw holes and then bent them over the top of the new fans after they were replaced. So thats the blue led, noise and airflow problem sorted - now onto the aesthetics.
The main unit, while having a fantastic chrome effect sticks out like a sore thumb in my new build so something had to be done about it. A little sanding, priming and spraying and hey presto, a more sullen but subdued look:
Now while black looks alot better, I still felt it still didn't 'fit' with my theme. It left a big dark area on the motherboard area which looked kinda out of place. I tried using some orange leds behind the mesh but that didn't look right either so I got a little creative:
Note to self - must wait for things to dry before taking pics :
The paint is AC ryan acrylic UV wasn't exactly easy to use on a mesh surface but the effect I was after comes out fine under UV I think you'll agree:
Well thats pretty much all the work done now so I just need to do a few tidyup operations and then I'll take the 'money' shots.
Note to self - must wait for things to dry before taking pics :
The paint is AC ryan acrylic UV wasn't exactly easy to use on a mesh surface but the effect I was after comes out fine under UV I think you'll agree:
Well thats pretty much all the work done now so I just need to do a few tidyup operations and then I'll take the 'money' shots.
