Tony
05-30-2005, 05:52 PM
Here you go guys, the IC7 finally started showing me it was terminally ill so i had to rebuild. Now you know i have a reasonable amount of hardware so i had to pick something that wasn't totally current to use.
Lian Li v2000blk with a few mods :D
Im thanking DFI for the donation of a 925X T2
Intel for the CPU - which cost me an arm and a leg as usual ;)
OCZ for some DDR2 i have had for a while thats been updated by a new range/speed
OCZ for the 600W PSU which is actually a customers return unit as i gave mine as an RMA
DangerDen for the truely awesome watercooling...Rokk you are the man !
All that is left is to install a fullly watercooled 6800Ultra I friend gave me, but I don't have the waterblock as of posting this.
So, pics...:)
http://img272.echo.cx/img272/5913/newworkststion0010du.jpg
http://img250.echo.cx/img250/8876/newworkststion0032vx.jpg
The missing drive bay is there for the new Akasa 4 way fan controller im waiting to have delivered...so we move on to the internals as it stands now.
http://img278.echo.cx/img278/1689/newworkststion0098on.jpg
Yes..it has 2 rads, the bottom unit features 2 high speed panaflows that push 130cfm at 12V and hopefully 60CFM at 7V or so and a little quiet ;), the rear fan has an Akasa 12V Super quiet ball bearing fan 40+ CFM which I will be feeding off the cpu fan header so i can have the motherboard control the speed dependant on the CPU temps. The reasoning behind this is the top rad will recool the coolant for the 6800Ultra so the more heat the cpu puts out the more cooling i need from this fan ;) before the coolant hits the GPU and video ram.
http://img248.echo.cx/img248/4273/newworkststion0113vq.jpg
This is a close up of the bottom cooling compartment, this area used to host the drive mounting bays but they had to go in favor of the primary rad and pump setup. I used a second Dangerden fill port as a drain port although it won't drain all the system it will get the top half dry if I need to break things down a little.
I chose to run no res but its easy to put one in if needed but I have a feeling i won't be bothering.
http://img247.echo.cx/img247/3315/newworkststion0073wu.jpg
This pic was to show how i mounted the HDD's, I decided to utilise one of the coolermaster 3 into 4 drive bay converters to mount the HDD's as it features drive dampening bushes and a 120MM cooling fan. I actaully swapped the fan for another Akasa unit as it pushed near to the same CFM but is quieter than the coolermaster unit.
So, in a few days it should be 100% complete, i will of course finish any wire tidying etc and offer up a fresh set of pics for you to view.
im thinking of offereing a rig building service also, if you like what you see let me know if you think its worth while offereing such a service.
PS...Idle at 4.3GHZ is 28 to 30C wilth full load only a few C higher
Lian Li v2000blk with a few mods :D
Im thanking DFI for the donation of a 925X T2
Intel for the CPU - which cost me an arm and a leg as usual ;)
OCZ for some DDR2 i have had for a while thats been updated by a new range/speed
OCZ for the 600W PSU which is actually a customers return unit as i gave mine as an RMA
DangerDen for the truely awesome watercooling...Rokk you are the man !
All that is left is to install a fullly watercooled 6800Ultra I friend gave me, but I don't have the waterblock as of posting this.
So, pics...:)
http://img272.echo.cx/img272/5913/newworkststion0010du.jpg
http://img250.echo.cx/img250/8876/newworkststion0032vx.jpg
The missing drive bay is there for the new Akasa 4 way fan controller im waiting to have delivered...so we move on to the internals as it stands now.
http://img278.echo.cx/img278/1689/newworkststion0098on.jpg
Yes..it has 2 rads, the bottom unit features 2 high speed panaflows that push 130cfm at 12V and hopefully 60CFM at 7V or so and a little quiet ;), the rear fan has an Akasa 12V Super quiet ball bearing fan 40+ CFM which I will be feeding off the cpu fan header so i can have the motherboard control the speed dependant on the CPU temps. The reasoning behind this is the top rad will recool the coolant for the 6800Ultra so the more heat the cpu puts out the more cooling i need from this fan ;) before the coolant hits the GPU and video ram.
http://img248.echo.cx/img248/4273/newworkststion0113vq.jpg
This is a close up of the bottom cooling compartment, this area used to host the drive mounting bays but they had to go in favor of the primary rad and pump setup. I used a second Dangerden fill port as a drain port although it won't drain all the system it will get the top half dry if I need to break things down a little.
I chose to run no res but its easy to put one in if needed but I have a feeling i won't be bothering.
http://img247.echo.cx/img247/3315/newworkststion0073wu.jpg
This pic was to show how i mounted the HDD's, I decided to utilise one of the coolermaster 3 into 4 drive bay converters to mount the HDD's as it features drive dampening bushes and a 120MM cooling fan. I actaully swapped the fan for another Akasa unit as it pushed near to the same CFM but is quieter than the coolermaster unit.
So, in a few days it should be 100% complete, i will of course finish any wire tidying etc and offer up a fresh set of pics for you to view.
im thinking of offereing a rig building service also, if you like what you see let me know if you think its worth while offereing such a service.
PS...Idle at 4.3GHZ is 28 to 30C wilth full load only a few C higher