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System Name | YAA05 |
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Processor | AMD Phenom II Thuban 1055T |
Motherboard | ASUS Crosshair IV Formula |
Cooling | Custom Watercooling Loop |
Memory | 2x2 GB G.Skill Eco |
Video Card(s) | ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
Storage | Samsung F1 1000GB, G.Skill Falcon II 64 GB |
Display(s) | Samsung T260 |
Case | Lian Li PC-A05 |
Audio Device(s) | ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 |
Power Supply | Antec TruePowerNew 650W |
[Project] Cake's YAA05 - 11/16/2010
Hello and welcome to my first worklog!
I've been fumbling around on my old system for quite some time, but I finally decided to let a few more people have a look at this project.
As one can see, I'm starting pretty much in the middle of the whole project - I'm calling it: YAA05 - Yet Another A05. I did already put a lot of work in it, but it's still faaaar away from being "finished" or "beautiful".
Let's start with the hardware it's supposed to be:
CPU: AMD 1055T - 4,2@1,488V
MB: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
RAM: G.Skill Eco 1600 7-8-7-24
GPU: Radeon HD 5870
HDD#1: G.Skill Falcon II 64 GB
HDD#2: Samsung F1 1TB
Sound: Asus Xonar DX
Cooling:
Laing DDC with Zern top
Phobya Xtreme NOVA 1080, with 9x Scythe Slip Stream 800rpm
Watercool HK 3.0 LT
Watercool Silentstar Single
EK-Waterblocks FC-5870
EK-Waterblocks 250er AGB
Iandh Stealth Clamps
AquaComputer DFM
MIPS Filter
11,2/8 Tygon with 11/8 Feser Screw-On-Fittings
CPC 7,9mm quick release couplings
Red Feser One
Also featuring 2x NB Multiframe S1 and 1x NB BlackSilentPro PK1 in the case
And an Alphacool Heatmaster managing all of it
What it looked like before:
ToDo-Liste:
- Switch out the LED on the card reader
- remove the card reader's writing
- properly fix the hole in the top
- Try to fix the crappy wiring on the radiator-fans
- maybe get some proper tubing for the outside of the case (maybe 16/10 or 19/13)
- turn the radiator 90°, so that the fittings are on the back
- change the length of the tubing from the case to the radiator
- get a window in the side
- try to fix the wiring inside of the case
- sleeve the cables that are still visible
- fix the holes for the fittings in the back of the case
- properly mount the LED in the back of the reservoir
- get the VGA card light up
- switch the screws for black ones
- get this case black after it's all done
Day 1 (10/25/2010)
All right - here we go.
Today I got the first shipment by Aquatuning, looking like this:
So here I went, carrying the case down to the cellar and started disassembling.
This way the case got emptier...
and emptier...
finally being empty.
First stop, Heatkiller 3.0. It really needed some cleaning - again:
Looking at this picture in combination with what I found in my reservoir:
...made me decide not to use Feser One anymore. In the future, I'm going to use Aquacomputer Double Protect, which I hope will not do this.
After reassembling the HK, it was the VGA card's turn.
Before:
Disassembled the waterblock,...
...cleaned it and reassembled it. Seal, I really hate you.
After wanting to smash the card to bits after this, I decided to switch the standard ATI-backplate against one by EK. Doesn't look as good as the newer backplates, but it's still pretty nice in my opinion.
The acrylic glass top of the block will soon be lit by two red LEDs, making this the only illumination inside of the case.
Next stop: PSU. Top off, fan off. It doesn't run smoothly and will soon be replaced by a Noiseblocker BlackSilentPRO with four pins.
After this, I started to remove the stock sleeve of this Antec PSU, it just didn't look pretty. This will be replaced by sleeve by mdpc-x.com sooner or later, anyway.
I was out of time for today, but I'll continue soon -ish.
Well, so this is where I'm going to write down my work in the next couple of days, weeks, probably months. I hope, you'll have as much fun reading as I will have working on this project.
Thanks go out to the company aquatuning.de for supporting me with this project.
-cake
Hello and welcome to my first worklog!
I've been fumbling around on my old system for quite some time, but I finally decided to let a few more people have a look at this project.
As one can see, I'm starting pretty much in the middle of the whole project - I'm calling it: YAA05 - Yet Another A05. I did already put a lot of work in it, but it's still faaaar away from being "finished" or "beautiful".
Let's start with the hardware it's supposed to be:
CPU: AMD 1055T - 4,2@1,488V
MB: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
RAM: G.Skill Eco 1600 7-8-7-24
GPU: Radeon HD 5870
HDD#1: G.Skill Falcon II 64 GB
HDD#2: Samsung F1 1TB
Sound: Asus Xonar DX
Cooling:
Laing DDC with Zern top
Phobya Xtreme NOVA 1080, with 9x Scythe Slip Stream 800rpm
Watercool HK 3.0 LT
Watercool Silentstar Single
EK-Waterblocks FC-5870
EK-Waterblocks 250er AGB
Iandh Stealth Clamps
AquaComputer DFM
MIPS Filter
11,2/8 Tygon with 11/8 Feser Screw-On-Fittings
CPC 7,9mm quick release couplings
Red Feser One
Also featuring 2x NB Multiframe S1 and 1x NB BlackSilentPro PK1 in the case
And an Alphacool Heatmaster managing all of it
What it looked like before:
ToDo-Liste:
- Switch out the LED on the card reader
- remove the card reader's writing
- properly fix the hole in the top
- Try to fix the crappy wiring on the radiator-fans
- maybe get some proper tubing for the outside of the case (maybe 16/10 or 19/13)
- turn the radiator 90°, so that the fittings are on the back
- change the length of the tubing from the case to the radiator
- get a window in the side
- try to fix the wiring inside of the case
- sleeve the cables that are still visible
- fix the holes for the fittings in the back of the case
- properly mount the LED in the back of the reservoir
- get the VGA card light up
- switch the screws for black ones
- get this case black after it's all done
Day 1 (10/25/2010)
All right - here we go.
Today I got the first shipment by Aquatuning, looking like this:
So here I went, carrying the case down to the cellar and started disassembling.
This way the case got emptier...
and emptier...
finally being empty.
First stop, Heatkiller 3.0. It really needed some cleaning - again:
Looking at this picture in combination with what I found in my reservoir:
...made me decide not to use Feser One anymore. In the future, I'm going to use Aquacomputer Double Protect, which I hope will not do this.
After reassembling the HK, it was the VGA card's turn.
Before:
Disassembled the waterblock,...
...cleaned it and reassembled it. Seal, I really hate you.
After wanting to smash the card to bits after this, I decided to switch the standard ATI-backplate against one by EK. Doesn't look as good as the newer backplates, but it's still pretty nice in my opinion.
The acrylic glass top of the block will soon be lit by two red LEDs, making this the only illumination inside of the case.
Next stop: PSU. Top off, fan off. It doesn't run smoothly and will soon be replaced by a Noiseblocker BlackSilentPRO with four pins.
After this, I started to remove the stock sleeve of this Antec PSU, it just didn't look pretty. This will be replaced by sleeve by mdpc-x.com sooner or later, anyway.
I was out of time for today, but I'll continue soon -ish.
Well, so this is where I'm going to write down my work in the next couple of days, weeks, probably months. I hope, you'll have as much fun reading as I will have working on this project.
Thanks go out to the company aquatuning.de for supporting me with this project.
-cake
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