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Old Dec 27, 2012, 11:57 AM   #22776
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After seeing several examples of immaculate perfection in this thread, I started feeling a little self-conscious about my own cable management. Eventually, it bugged me enough that last night I decided to "rage" fix it. Here is the result:

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Green: Cleaned up the two cables coming off the pump and hid them. Used a zip-tie to tidy things up.
Red: Swapped some cables around and routed the NB Fan out the back to the Case's fan controller. Cut and removed the rubber grommets after realizing there was no way I'd get them back in position with cables still going through them. They come out quite easily on this case which is odd because the grommets in a friend's NZXT Phantom feel a lot more secure.
Yellow: Brought the 2nd SSD from the top mounted drive dock (you can see the black SATA and SATA-Power cables at the top of the drive bays) back inside the case where it is significantly less vulnerable to theft. Not that any one would think to pop open that compartment or that the 64GB Agility3 is very valuable.
Blue: Took in some of the slack on the PCIe Power Cables to the 2nd GTX 480.
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After seeing several examples of immaculate perfection in this thread, I started feeling a little self-conscious about my own cable management. Eventually, it bugged me enough that last night I decided to "rage" fix it. Here is the result:

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http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7796cff0.jpg

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Green: Cleaned up the two cables coming off the pump and hid them. Used a zip-tie to tidy things up.
Red: Swapped some cables around and routed the NB Fan out the back to the Case's fan controller. Cut and removed the rubber grommets after realizing there was no way I'd get them back in position with cables still going through them. They come out quite easily on this case which is odd because the grommets in a friend's NZXT Phantom feel a lot more secure.
Yellow: Brought the 2nd SSD from the top mounted drive dock (you can see the black SATA and SATA-Power cables at the top of the drive bays) back inside the case where it is significantly less vulnerable to theft. Not that any one would think to pop open that compartment or that the 64GB Agility3 is very valuable.
Blue: Took in some of the slack on the PCIe Power Cables to the 2nd GTX 480.
Great improvement! As it's said, if you can't upgrade, just improve.
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Old Dec 27, 2012, 12:27 PM   #22778
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Noticed this before swapping cases. I guess I had negative flow, and the psu fan is off 99% of the time. Shouldn't be an issue now with 5 intake fans.

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Noticed this before swapping cases. I guess I had negative flow, and the psu fan is off 99% of the time. Shouldn't be an issue now with 5 intake fans.

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There probably was NO airflow at all with all those fibres. If you took out all that crap, you could probably knit yourself a new rug.
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Got new lighting kit, PSU and fans but farking forgot one fan somehow on my order so I gotta spend even more on shipping





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Got new lighting kit, PSU and fans but farking forgot one fan somehow on my order so I gotta spend even more on shipping


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yay new PSU
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Placing the components near the "Calculus" book has given any improvements with OC?
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Very discrete water loop you have there
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Some of the rigs you guys have got is mental. And that's a good thing
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There is some cheap parts, like the water is from Thermaltake the pump is the EK 2.2 little but good enough for 1 CPU waterblock.

Fittings and tubes are 11/8 mm Masterkleer PVC some fittings are from Bitfenix.

Cooling performances pretty good the 3770k at 4.6 Ghz all cores stay around 68 degrees ( while playing BF3 ) ambient temp 22 degress.
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There is some cheap parts, like the water is from Thermaltake the pump is the EK 2.2 little but good enough for 1 CPU waterblock.

Fittings and tubes are 11/8 mm Masterkleer PVC some fittings are from Bitfenix.

Cooling performances pretty good the 3770k at 4.6 Ghz all cores stay around 68 degrees ( while playing BF3 ) ambient temp 22 degress.
That ambient is great! Must be pretty cold indoors . My h100 keeps my 3770k thats at 4.5 at around 70.
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What is the specs of this mobo? Does it have HDMI plug? Will it be able to play properly BF2 on full 1080P ?

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I see kone like that for later bolting it on the back of my 32 inches screen
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That ambient is great! Must be pretty cold indoors . My h100 keeps my 3770k thats at 4.5 at around 70.

Yes it is. Your fans are at high speeds for get 70 degees ? Because i get 68 degress with 1100 rpm on my 3x noctua fans wich i think mine is alot quieter.



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Testing with everything plugged in. Next comes cable management.

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