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Old May 11, 2010, 08:43 PM   #10276
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np bro, and yes you should indeed put it on if you already have it

i just find it shitty that its like that from ASUS
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Old May 11, 2010, 08:47 PM   #10277
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Did a bit of cleaning up, which is quite hard actually. I need to get me some black sata cables and sleeve the front panel ones.

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Old May 11, 2010, 10:56 PM   #10278
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It turned out that my boot failures were being caused by an OC I left in the BIOS a while back. It was only at 3.6GHz but something's not enabled or disabled because it doesn't work. I was able to disable the floppy drive so it's gone. A CD drive is still showing up though, it's not in device manager to disable. It also turns out that the 100MB "System Reserved" partition has some boot and diagnostic stuff on there. I think I can get rid of it but there's no real reason to.

I read something about enabling "ACHI" mode for the hard drives instead of native IDE mode, or something like that, and that it increases HDD performance. Does anyone know anything about that?
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Old May 11, 2010, 11:05 PM   #10279
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do you use daemon tools or similar?
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Old May 11, 2010, 11:06 PM   #10280
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do you use daemon tools or similar?
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A virtual drive is usually the extra drive you see in your window. I use daemon tools and alcohol 120 but limit it to 1 drive
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Old May 11, 2010, 11:13 PM   #10281
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A virtual drive is usually the extra drive you see in your window. I use daemon tools and alcohol 120 but limit it to 1 drive
Whoops yeah. PowerISO was putting that extra drive there, thanks for the reminder. It was set to emulate one drive at the moment, I disabled it.
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Old May 11, 2010, 11:16 PM   #10282
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phew, we can call of the alarm then
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Old May 12, 2010, 12:04 AM   #10283
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Whoops yeah. PowerISO was putting that extra drive there, thanks for the reminder. It was set to emulate one drive at the moment, I disabled it.
Yes, I run poweriso as well. But I make a point to mental note the virtual drive letter E:... Good call (FIH) The Don.

But soylent...didn't you say it was a fresh windows 7 install? If so the virtual drive should not have been there unless you installed PowerIso after the fresh Win7 install.
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Old May 12, 2010, 12:06 AM   #10284
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Old May 12, 2010, 12:08 AM   #10285
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Did a bit of cleaning up, which is quite hard actually. I need to get me some black sata cables and sleeve the front panel ones.

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Looking good man! My bro has that case and I just love it! Big enough for everything, yet small enough to just move around. A little "sleeper" case
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Old May 12, 2010, 12:08 AM   #10286
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Old May 12, 2010, 12:23 AM   #10287
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Looks.... Warm, Fits.

I have the CPU cooler, got a 120mm on it and it's probably the best air cooler i've ever used. Amazing kit.
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Old May 12, 2010, 12:57 AM   #10288
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Yes, I run poweriso as well. But I make a point to mental note the virtual drive letter E:... Good call (FIH) The Don.

But soylent...didn't you say it was a fresh windows 7 install? If so the virtual drive should not have been there unless you installed PowerIso after the fresh Win7 install.
Yeah it's fresh, but PowerISO is installed. I use it a good bit so it was on the urgent list.
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Old May 12, 2010, 04:59 AM   #10289
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Got my 2nd fan for my rear radiator, looks much better. Once the 1090T gets in, I'll put the white tubing on, clean up the loop better and flip the rear radiator. During all of this I realized a much better solution to my water cooling using a Mountain Mods Pedestal: http://www.mountainmods.com/tower-pedestal-p-565.html and I have a 3x120 XSPC RX Radiator on the way. The pump/res combo and XSPC RX120 will also go into the pedestal. The wheels will be removed from the bottom of the Lian-Li and the pedestal will be mounted beneath it, and a simple hole will be cut at the bottom of the case to allow passage of the block(s) and tubing. Then re-mount the wheels under the pedestal. Total cost comes to about $350 which is a bit less than I expected.

Anyways, here it is now. (I can't wait to get my HDD space back!)

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Old May 12, 2010, 05:02 AM   #10290
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Got my 2nd fan for my rear radiator, looks much better. Once the 1090T gets in, I'll put the white tubing on, clean up the loop better and flip the rear radiator. During all of this I realized a much better solution to my water cooling using a Mountain Mods Pedestal: http://www.mountainmods.com/tower-pedestal-p-565.html and I have a 3x120 XSPC RX Radiator on the way. The pump/res combo and XSPC RX120 will also go into the pedestal. The wheels will be removed from the bottom of the Lian-Li and the pedestal will be mounted beneath it, and a simple hole will be cut at the bottom of the case to allow passage of the block(s) and tubing. Then re-mount the wheels under the pedestal. Total cost comes to about $350 which is a bit less than I expected.

Anyways, here it is now. (I can't wait to get my HDD space back!)

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Really nice erocker!!

Tell me though...why are all your pics reversed?
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The case is like that, not his pictures lol
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Really nice erocker!!

Tell me though...why are all your pics reversed?
Lol, the water would be pouring out of the resevoir if it were. The case is reverse ATX. Lian Li V1000B Plus II http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product...s_index=96&g=q

Unfortunately they aren't being made at the moment. I love it.
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Tell me though...why are all your pics reversed?
He's holding his camera upside down, or hes from Australia
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Wow that Scythe Ninja Plus is big. Even in your huge (for a mid tower) V3.
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@SK-1 -- should I spray-paint it black?
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Looking good man! My bro has that case and I just love it! Big enough for everything, yet small enough to just move around. A little "sleeper" case
Yeah I love it, "sleeper" is the right term there. Fits a full ATX board while remaining mATX size. The only problem I have with it is heat buildup at the top, since I run a low airflow config it doesn't suck the air out of there. I plan to fix that with a blowhole later on.

Cable management is hard, but not impossible.

The 5850 is missing there, it's currently packed up into its box, waiting for it to be sold. I'm getting a different card, most likely a 5770.
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i just got some money... ill be building an phenom x6 rig after my exams so in about a week or two

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