Dream Machine

[tehgooch]

Got the Thermalright HR-09s on.

[tehgooch]

I almost forgot that I strapped two more 120mm fans on my hard drives.

[kcksteve]

looking good ide like to see some benchmark numbers when your done, what os are you gona run?

[tehgooch]

Just got a slip in my mailbox for what I think are my GPU blocks. I'm eagerly awaiting picking them up on Monday, and then I can assemble / leak test. Should be running by next weekend assuming all goes well. I'm also looking for some better clamps than the ones I have right now, they're a little too thick.

kcksteve:

I'm planning on running the gamut when it's all said and done. It will be running either a triple boot with XP Pro 32-bit, Vista 64-bit, and Ubuntu; or just XP / Ubuntu. I'm not looking forward to purchasing a copy of Vista, so it will probably be XP / Ubuntu.

[t0m]

dont forget xp64 if you want 64 bit but dont want vista...

very nice looking rig so far too

[tehgooch]

OK, been a while since I've updated. I was having major problems with leaks. Picked up some teflon tape and that fixed most of them, although my res was still leaking like crazy. I ended up just putting a T-Line in since I was tired of dealing with that res. It's bleeding as we speak.

[MpG]

What sort of leaks, exactly? I've heard occasional complaining about DD's reserviors, but nothing else on your list was jumping out at me as being known for troubles.

[tehgooch]

It was leaking around the barbs even after I had tightened the clamps as hard as I possibly could. Not entirely sure where it was coming from, but that was a minor problem compared to the bubles it introduced into my loop. For that alone it got the boot. I had retightened the barbs at least 4 times before I gave up on it. It leaked through the paper towels all over my poor DVD drive. The NCIX label is so mangled lol.

In other news I ran it all night since midnight and it is leak-free. I'm going to start getting the rest of it ready.

[tehgooch]

So I'm pretty sure my mobo is DOA. I've tried it with a single stick of RAM, single video card, and a different CPU. Looks like it's going back to NCIX in favour of the eVGA 780i .

[tehgooch]

Got my new mobo and it is working GREAT. I'm posting on my new rig right now. I'm running four instances of Prim95 and getting 40°C MAX on the CPU at stock settings. NICE! Unfortunately my NB and s/b blocks no longer fit this mobo so I just went with PUMP > RAD > CPU > GPU1 > GPU2 > PUMP. That DD bay res was junk so I just used a T-Line. Pics coming sometime tomorrow.