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| nowwhatnapster88 | Keep in mind you could buy all these parts 2-3 years ago, 3dmark 05 and 06 weren't even public. |
| nowwhatnapster88 | 2843 on 06, I dont think there many systems like mine that even come close to 3000 on 06 lol. stock for my gt are 350/1000 i had it at like 384/1100 when i did the 3dmarks. i cant remember the exact, i since then lost the precise max before i got artifacts. |
| Teyber | i like the mods. dude is that 2300 on 3dmark06????!? eh, im sure its good for your hardware but w/e. what speed are your gpu's stock? |
| Shocker | NICE!!!! |
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(front side of case with UV lights on)
So basically this is my Pc. I originally built it when i was 16. It wasa booring white server case back then. A few months later i painted thewhole case black. When My 17 birthday rolled around I got the guts tofinally attempt my watercooling dream.
(The original case, after painting black)
The Watercooling setup consists of a Triple 120mm fan dual pass radiator which i mounted on the top of the case (the solid alluminum fans i used did not line up with the screw holes on the radiator, thus the large wood temporary contraption sits holding the fans ontop of the radiator)
(Radiator with fans resting ontop) - (top of case after cutting fan holes)
I used a swiftec MCP655 1/2 water pump because it was relativly cheap and had a high water flow rate of 300 something GPH
The water block i used on the CPU is made me polar flo, because they seem like a pretty nice brand. Solid copper, 1 input 2 outputs and it rotates with a clear lid. It also fits a ton of different socket types, which is good for when i upgrade my hardware. The tubing is 5/8in outer diameter 1/2 inner diameter UV greenreactive. I also put plastic spiral stuff on it so it didnt kink asmuch, which it didnt do a whole lot anyways.
There is a clear dual bay resevoir with 1/2 fittings sitting in the middle of my two 16 dvd burners. Not really the ideal place for a resevior, but it adds a nice water trickle effect so i know that thepump is still working. (front of case where dual Resvoir is located, top 2 5 1/2" slots are still open in this pic)
All the clamps are regular hose clamps i got from the home depot, I made sure they were extra extra tight. They barely fit on the water block but they add a nice touch.
The bleeding for the system was not done correctly, i have a Y splitter right before the Pump at the bottom, which then converts to brass fittings and downsizes to 1/4 and runs a tube all the way to the top of the PC, it doesnt allow air to escape when filling the system so it was tediouse filling the system. that is one thing i will be changing in the future. Along with many other things.
That pretty much sums up the watercooling aspect. All the lights are made up for 4 UV 3led lights, 4 4inch uv cathods and 2 uv blue cathods. + 1 green 3led ligt on the side panel where i put the nvidia logo on the case door. All the wiring was spliced and hidden behind the case between the back panel and the actual case. No visible wires can be seen in the front of the case aside from eide cables and such. Soon everthing will be upgraded to sata and there will be less clutter. All the lights are wired together so i have 3 custome made switches on the front of the case. I made a custom front panel out of the back panel switches from the cathods. I took the switches out and mounted them on the plastic front panel 5 1/2 inch drive slot. They have 1 switch for all the UV lights 4 cathods and 4 led, 1 switch for the blue UV in the bottom. and 1 switch for the green UV on the side of the case. Additionally i would like to note that i Hid all of the lights. Most are mounted on the underside of the PSU, HDD, or top of case. the bottom UV led is actually screwed into the expansion slot headers.
(the back side with spliced and hotwired lights)
I have since then removed all the cathods because they all burned out during the summertime in my school dorm. The transformers got too hot. I will be upgrading to all UV LED's from now on. They are smaller and dont burn out as easily.
The case as you can see has been heavily modified. I designed on the case with a white colored pencil. Then i took it into my garage and took a dremel with a cut off bit to it. It took many many hours of tediouse cutting to and filing to remove sharp edges before i finished.
Then i drilled 16 holes into the case to mount plexiglass to it. I used 1/4 inch plexi which was rather thick and had to be trimmed in certain places to get the door to fit. I used regular bolts i had in my garage with nuts on the inside to mount the plexi. I additionally decided to grind off all of the paint. The black paint i had put on and the white paint underneith exposing the silver steel underneith. Since i have done that the case has started to "age" it is now covered in a brownish rust which actually looks quite cool. So I'm rather glad that turned out the way it did.
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I also added a rose to the large solid part on the upper right hand side. I did the same deal. I sketched it onto the case, and took the dremmel to it. However a dremmel is not that tiny with a cuttof bit, so i couldnt cut all theway through. So i just "etched" it onto the surface of the sheetmetal. It is suttle but it turned out well, I didnt have a good camera to take the picture of it. Sorry. In the future i would like to fully cut through the case where the rose is, and have it illuminated with red and green. or maby ... green and UV for the rose ?...
(close up of rose etched into sheetmetal) - (whole side panel with new rose etching)
My future for this case will remove the triple 120mm fan from the top and replace it with 2 or 3 quad fan 120mm's on the back side of the case. The case is too tall and not wide enough. I will revamp the water cooling system, to clear tubing. and UV liquid. I will also ditch the front bay resevoir. And instead put 2 or 3 of those clear pumps that light up on the top of the case with some sort of resevoir up ontop. The pumps will be directly connected to the radiators since their I/O ports will be at the top. The fill bleed will either be up there if i can fit it. or down at the bottom of the case. If they ever make cheaper watercooled powersupplies i will buy one of those. Unless i recieve funding for this computer that is the extent of what i will be doing to it in the future.
Alas that is where i stand. I am in college at the moment and i have no more money source to feed my hobby. If you would like to donate to see how much more rediculouse i can make my case, please contact me @ sbouza@optonline.net. I am thinking of making a webpage if people like my computer. I will make more cool things. And you can donate to make them happen, or maby even buy my creations!. haha we'll see.
Comment Up tell me what you think. As you can tell this is a fun hobby of mine, Im very big into creating things be it my computer, or designing things in games, coding ect. I also want to put my PS2 inside my PC since i have space up in the top. and connect it to a tv decorder card so i can play my ps2 games on my windows XP deskop! I also have more Pic's if you want me to put them up.
OVERCLOCKING
Oh... I almost forgot, Temperatures! When everything was fresh aka no dust or dirty water in the system. Fan's on high Full load was about 3-6 degrees celcius above room temperature if i remember correctly. Idle it was room temperature + or minus 1 degree. yes. below room temp. that was at stock speed. Bumping up the clock rate to 4Ghz cpu idle was around 40C load 45-47C
Now its running much warmer but that is because i never implemented the air filter idea i had. so the radiator is very clogged with dust. and additionally the copper heatsink and aluminum radiator are oxidizing and reacting so the water is murky brownish tint and im sure my GPH rate has severly droppd lol. But that is because i have no fill bleed system. Never the less with fans on high i still maintain my CPU overclock from 3.2ghz to just under 4ghz. 4ghz crashes every now and then. i have run 3dmark with cpu at 4.1 ghz though :-) above the cpu external maximum clock and FSB over 1000 up from 800 mhz. CPU voltage is at 1.6. ram is up to 2.75. Gfx card is on stock cooling, but with all the air flow i can take my 6800 GT very close to Ultra speed's
Full System Specs
(Me behind of The Beast all the lights on) Monitor: 19" BenQ, 25ms response, 700:1 contrast (needs upgrade)
Speakers: Logitech z5300 (I want z5500's but I have no $$$)
Keyboard: Logitech Elite Keyboard
Mouse: Razor Copperhead, 2000dpi, red (I want the blue one, or an MX300)
Webcam: Logitech Fusion, 1.3 Megapixil
PSU:Antec True 480 PSU (running strong 2 years with way more load than it should have)
GPU:2x NEC dual layer 16x dvd burners
MOBO: Asus P4P800 SE
HDD: Western Digital 500GB & 320 GB, 7200 rpm, Sata
Sound: Sound blaster Audigy II ZS
5 & 1/2: 2x NEC 16x dual layer DVD burners
5 & 1/2: Resvoir >_>
5 & 1/2: Card reader + temp sensor x2 + USB x2 + fan Controller x2
3 & 1/2: USB 2.0 x5 + 3 Firewire (only Firewire works, requires PCI card and eide cable connecting the two)
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