Yeah I wish I got all my tech after I finished my mod. By the time I was finished LEXA all my good gear was nearly second gen tech.
Yeah I wish I got all my tech after I finished my mod. By the time I was finished LEXA all my good gear was nearly second gen tech.
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is that a 120.9 raddy on your case, or are you just happy to see me?
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Yeah, though to be honest it was really more of a "Oh, hey, I suddenly have $1000 that I never calculated into my budget! ...*pst*..*hey budget, look over there*.." And actually, after I do all the upgrades, the only things coming over from my current setup will be my CPU and RAM. And while my CPU is over a year old, it's still a really nice CPU (Q9450).
yeah...a bit more than I care to admit...but I just couldn't justify buying a raptor, and I wanted something faster than a standard HDD for my OS and Apps, so that was the best choice. And, yeah, not letting myself use any of the new stuff till the mod is done is definitely giving me a lot of incentive to finish it soon. (Well, nothing aside from the 1.5TB HDD that is; I hooked it up last night to get stuff off my aging 7200.10 500GB drives....and they were not happy about working that hard...definitely gonna be RMAing those things before I sell them).
I can justify buying one but my bank account doesn't lol. I HAVE to save for my trip to New Zealand next year lol.
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So, yesterday I finally got the HDD mount done:
Fits in like so:
Unfortunately, it looks like I underestimated how much space the watercooling tubing would take up...also fans...also some other stuff...yeah... Anyways, I've rearranged some stuff and it should work now. The biggest change is that I'm ending up having to use a total of 7 right-angle connectors, which I'm sure will wreak havoc on flow, but hopefully it won't be a problem. I also ended up dropping one of the bottom fans, possibly both. One I had to drop because I ran out of space for the pump, but hopefully the other will still fit. I think I'll also leave the fan in the PSU for now, though I switched it around so it's pulling air in to the case instead of blowing out.
New partial layout:
Better shot of the pump and the newly water-blocked GPU:
And I will say this; prepping and blocking a GTX260 is a PAIN. All those little surfaces that have to be cleaned, prepped and gooped...geh. But, once it's all together, it'll be worth it. Still got a lot electrical work to do, but I probably won't get the new right-angle connectors I need to finish the loop till Wednesday, so hopefully I'll get a chance to finish the wiring before then.
The HDD mount looks awesome, nice work. The GTX260 looks great with the block on, would weigh a whole lot less also lol.
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Heheh, yeah, I thought it would too, but that water-block is almost a solid slab of copper...I think it's actually heavier now than it was with the stock HSF. It does look pretty though
Thanks both on the HDD mount. When I was cutting out the sheet to form it out of, I actually forgot about the SSDs, and made it just under five inches tall...a tad too narrow to get mount holes for both SSDs in there. Fortunately, it worked out well because I was able to put them almost flush together and the upper and lower edges stuck out just far enough off the edge that I was able to just throw a washer under each of the screws and it holds it on. I'll try and remember to get a pic of it when I takes it apart for painting.