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Old Mar 28, 2011, 04:40 PM   #16201
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Wut

You must be kidding me
HERE are pics of me doing cable management. There's really not much more I can do

But, of course, all ideas are welcome

The front intake fan is currently not connected as I'm lacking FAN headers on the motherboard and I don't want to attach Molex cables to the PSU just so I could run a fan. The cables at the bottom are SATA cables, perhaps I could rid one of them by buying a sata extrension cable and connect it to HDD (the sata power cable going to dvd drive doesn't reach the hdd)
Well, everything can be "clean".. Just gotta play with Lengths of cables and so forth..
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Longer sata to Dvd Drive, that way you can tie it to the 8pin and have it branch at the top.. if it's all ready long, connect the cables with ties..

As long as your connecting cables to each other.. Do that with the Sata power cable.. connect it to the 24/8 pin and it would make it cleaner just by that one little thing.. Even playing around with the GPU cables to connect them with the 24, would make that area cleaner..

The best thing to look at when you have a case that small, where there isn't really anything that you can "go back" and hide the wires there.. Bunch them together and branch them.. That way it's nicer looking then cables everywhere..

I'm not saying that you didn't work on it.. But, to cable a case.. for MAX air flow, it takes time.. and time... and even more time to do.. Then You Curse yourself when you want to change that mobo... Or case even...
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Old Mar 28, 2011, 04:45 PM   #16202
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That is why My pump is mounted on a Pad for vibration and also right in front of a 140mm Fan for heat. This thing should last awhile IMO :P
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Old Mar 28, 2011, 06:41 PM   #16203
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Prepping the video cards & cpu for water cooling this morning






The watercooling came in on time this morning (thanks ups)



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Wut

You must be kidding me
HERE are pics of me doing cable management. There's really not much more I can do

But, of course, all ideas are welcome

The front intake fan is currently not connected as I'm lacking FAN headers on the motherboard and I don't want to attach Molex cables to the PSU just so I could run a fan. The cables at the bottom are SATA cables, perhaps I could rid one of them by buying a sata extrension cable and connect it to HDD (the sata power cable going to dvd drive doesn't reach the hdd)
There are just little things you can do to clean up those cables, like the SATA power on the CD/DVD drive, use the first connector of the cable and place the others, that are not used, somewhere else. Here are a couple of pics of my PC, of what I find to be (somewhat) adequate cable management. Hope this helps.

This would also be good for catnipkiller, as my case is as cramped as the Antec 900
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 12:33 AM   #16206
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and maybe the most redundant label aswell I mean whens the last time you tried to put bits of your mobo into your gun errr never that's when
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and maybe the most redundant label aswell I mean whens the last time you tried to put bits of your mobo into your gun errr never that's when
its due to customs regulations, so the stuff is easier to ship.... probably also saves them a lot of RMAs, where Cops tried to pull the magazine from its "socket"
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 03:58 PM   #16208
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as promised

Started out with the pump and res assembly



Damn thing leaked everywhere twice on me - go figure the O ring that was provided by danger den was too thin and the pump back was not hitting the rear cap making it leak everywhere, makes you wonder why they didn't provide spacers to push the pump up against the face










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That looks a LOT better then what you had it yesterday. Cable management is a PITA, but you'll love the look of the system afterwards.



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as promised

Started out with the pump and res assembly
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http://img.techpowerup.org/110329/DSCN0483.jpg

Damn thing leaked everywhere twice on me - go figure the O ring that was provided by danger den was too thin and the pump back was not hitting the rear cap making it leak everywhere, makes you wonder why they didn't provide spacers to push the pump up against the face

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will have some more updates later, stay tuned.
Arrakis: I gotta look at my Monsoon over again.. I wasn't able to do the power cable of the pump in one of the wholes.. I had to take a part the wires and do it one on each side...
If the pump leaked on you.. I might want to try mine tonight and see if it'll do the same for myself.. But, I am using Bitpower D5 o-ring and not what they supplied..
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 06:53 PM   #16211
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Arrakis: I gotta look at my Monsoon over again.. I wasn't able to do the power cable of the pump in one of the wholes.. I had to take a part the wires and do it one on each side...
If the pump leaked on you.. I might want to try mine tonight and see if it'll do the same for myself.. But, I am using Bitpower D5 o-ring and not what they supplied..

DD provides two O rings with the res, one thats suppose to be "safe" and the other for "extreme" performance, both of them from my experience are too thin unless you put a shim behind the pump to press up against the cap on the back of the pump housing.
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Arrakis: you use a HELL of a lot of thermal goop :O
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Arrakis: you use a HELL of a lot of thermal goop :O
it looks like a lot in the picture but it really isn't i used that method on the frio and when i took it off it spread nicely but didnt manage to get the full ihs, the corners were still bear


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I am not sure about how you have the SLI water connectors installed...
It seems as though the water will just travel down from the inlet to the bottom card. It may fill the block up on the bottom and then allow the two top cards water blocks to fill up.
I have always used one SLI water connector on the opposite side of the inlet to the second card and then on the opposite side is the outlet. Then again I have never water cooled three cards...
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 10:43 PM   #16215
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I personally use series connections and cool card 1 -> card 2 -> card 3 -> rest of loop.

Not a big fan of the parallel connections.
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Old Mar 29, 2011, 11:01 PM   #16216
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It seems to be working well actually, all 3 cards are dead cold on the back of the gpu and the only thing that is "warm" on all 3 cards is the vrm area. haven't gotten a chance to boot it into windows yet and check the temps but that should come in a couple of days. for now sitting idle in the bios everything is running very cool.
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Sounds like it is working fine then

Here is how I have always set-up my dual cards:

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Sounds like it is working fine then

Here is how I have always set-up my dual cards:

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Must you make me jealous with that awesomeness setup
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The way Arrakis did it, is more efficient... parallel flow will lower the load on the pump, and increase overall head pressure, which is most benefitful for jet impingement type blocks
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Lurked for a while, finally posting for the first time, but here's some pics of what i've been through the past couple of days on my new build.











Still have yet to put in the RAM since it won't be here till tomorrow (ordered the wrong ones in the first pic had to send them back) and then i'll also put on the 2 fans on the Hyper 212+. Wished I had my normal camera during this as my Droid can't take pictures worth jack.
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Lurked for a while, finally posting for the first time, but here's some pics of what i've been through the past couple of days on my new build.

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Still have yet to put in the RAM since it won't be here till tomorrow (ordered the wrong ones in the first pic had to send them back) and then i'll also put on the 2 fans on the Hyper 212+. Wished I had my normal camera during this as my Droid can't take pictures worth jack.
Looks good, man. Gonna be great to see what you're able to do with it in terms of cable management.
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Lurked for a while, finally posting for the first time, but here's some pics of what i've been through the past couple of days on my new build.

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_Y...330_180604.jpg

Still have yet to put in the RAM since it won't be here till tomorrow (ordered the wrong ones in the first pic had to send them back) and then i'll also put on the 2 fans on the Hyper 212+. Wished I had my normal camera during this as my Droid can't take pictures worth jack.
Be sure to pop into HERE when you get to OC'ing that system!
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