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Sweet! Looking forward to seeing some pics. :p

just switched coolers on the card and finished cleaning the battle axe now im taking it out to the garage :p will have pics up when i can get them
 
do you think i should paint the heatpipes black or red? maybe just cover them up and leave unpainted? need a answer in less then 5mins of i am just going to do what comes to mind
 
do you think i should paint the heatpipes black or red? maybe just cover them up and leave unpainted? need a answer in less then 5mins of i am just going to do what comes to mind

red would look cool on it on the heat pipes! Maybe you could paint the tips of heat pipes on the xiggy s1283 red to match as well.
 
red would look cool on it on the heat pipes! Maybe you could paint the tips of heat pipes on the xiggy s1283 red to match as well.

good thing you think red would look cool because there red now :laugh: i'm not going to do anything else to the s1283 YET. I am going to strip the paint off of the top fin and tips of the heatpipes and redo them.So i may do the tips red then :toast:

BTW here is the temps with a battle axe with 1 80mm fan zip tied to it this is my folding temp but NOT my normal clocks
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thanks.I know i need to get new batts. for my cam so i can get better pics. I spent 2 days on the WM this time. I even removed pins from the USB,Audio,pwr,res,hdd led,pwr led and some fans to get the wires in some holes that are too small for the connectors on the end. (yes everything still works :laugh:) its going to be a bitch to replace the fans if i have to. :banghead:

damn good job bro. Just owe us some better shots. Overall like the work bro, you did a good job :toast:
 
damn good job bro. Just owe us some better shots. Overall like the work bro, you did a good job :toast:

thanks:toast: will get some pics up monday (i hope) i am going to be kinda busy this weekend with my family and gf so i will try to get to the store for batts. and get the GPU cooler finished

i didn't even stop folding or crunching while i was working on the rig :laugh:thats why i had it running on the 350w psu. i never stop folding or crunching aslong as its possible :rockout:
 
thanks:toast: will get some pics up monday (i hope) i am going to be kinda busy this weekend with my family and gf so i will try to get to the store for batts. and get the GPU cooler finished

i didn't even stop folding or crunching while i was working on the rig :laugh:thats why i had it running on the 350w psu. i never stop folding or crunching aslong as its possible :rockout:

thats the spirit bro. We'll be waiting for the pics ;)
 
I must say that the heatsink is looking sweet. The red isn't covering the dark color too well on the cover so i think i am going to try 1 more coat if that doesn't work then i am going to use some white primer that should take care of it.

EDIT: here is a teaser
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i really wouldn't paint the fins, it will probably drop the thermal performance.

i painted the fins on my S1283 heatsink and noticed no difference at all :toast:
 
You are a braver man than I.

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I have found that you have to use 1 light coat of paint and it doesn't affect it but i have also found(thx google :laugh:) that other people have done it and had temps go up anywhere from 2-5c but i think they used a thicker coart or a gloss paint. I am using a light coat and flat paint
 
POS... Man, put down the spray paint!! lol.. Nah, it's looking good man. Can't wait to see a picture that isn't a "sneak peak"!!!

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Here is my new i7 rig. Can't wait to water cool the i7 :rockout:

Spent time on cable management on the i7 rig, however the E8500 rig I need to still work on. Just wanted to get it up and crunching. Plus the sucky AeroCool case is terrible for cable management (as well as a PSU that is not modular). :(
 

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POS... Man, put down the spray paint!! lol.. Nah, it's looking good man. Can't wait to see a picture that isn't a "sneak peak"!!!

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it kinda is i haven't shown all sides and you haven't seen the cover or it all together with the fans.. I still have to cover the heatpipes after they dry overnight and paint the last fin and another coat on the cover for the fans.

BTW it turns out that a battle axe can't cool a 8800GT voltmoded and OCed while folding for hours with just a 80mm fan on it. It got to a toasty 69c GPU 60c vreg 57c PCB. Put a house fan on it on high and a better 60c GPU 53c vreg 40c PCB
 
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Is this the longest going therd on TPU? and I'll post some pics of my rig later when the camera is charged just put in two gts 250's pretty sweet :)
 
Is this the longest going therd on TPU? and I'll post some pics of my rig later when the camera is charged just put in two gts 250's pretty sweet :)

I dunno... but it will be soon.

SLI goodness ftw.
 
Yea I should come on here more often I am normally busy working or playing games.
 
Here is my new i7 rig. Can't wait to water cool the i7 :rockout:

Spent time on cable management on the i7 rig, however the E8500 rig I need to still work on. Just wanted to get it up and crunching. Plus the sucky AeroCool case is terrible for cable management (as well as a PSU that is not modular). :(

bro that looks good man, really not much more you can do to it ;)

Is this the longest going therd on TPU? and I'll post some pics of my rig later when the camera is charged just put in two gts 250's pretty sweet :)

actually there are threads wayyy longer. But however, looking forward to those pics man :toast:
 
My battle station. Sorry for the iphone camera quality.
 

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heres my case, its a work in progress and allot of inspiration came from energy fx's case so check his out its really good
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a bit mongrel but it goes
 
Got really driven this afternoon to fix the disaster I created.

Just haphazardly threw eveything in for fit....
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Sitting around and using it a bit, I figured why not pull the HDD rack and move them above the CPU. That and a bit of wire routing led me to this rear veiw shot...
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And the front with the rear panel back on, those fans have a much better chance to cool things now!
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^ teh sex...pics of mine in a day or 2 when the last of my H2O parts come...bigger and better WC FTW!
 
extremely well done sneekypeet :respect:
 
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