Wasmachineman's Water Cooling Adventures
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Sort of, those are Karwei (our Home Depot equivalent) Rana cabinet knobs. M4 thread and ironically enough the caps included with Koolance QD3 fittings fit on them. I normally use them as motherboard spacers for bench setups.
I did thing. So I got a free computer with a P55 board and i5-750 right?
Cue me installing a HD7850, realizing the ShitrectCUII cooler on that card is complete crap and having a Define 7 XL spare that used to house the Better Retro Rig... let's just say that P55 setup now has a 4.1 GHz overclock, a EK Supremacy MX block and a Titan Black. Runs STALKER Anomaly maxed out.
Next step is reinstalling Win7 on a 950 Pro I installed just now. I tried cloning the drive from the 850 Evo that's in it right now but I keep getting 7B BSOD upon boot.
Cue me installing a HD7850, realizing the ShitrectCUII cooler on that card is complete crap and having a Define 7 XL spare that used to house the Better Retro Rig... let's just say that P55 setup now has a 4.1 GHz overclock, a EK Supremacy MX block and a Titan Black. Runs STALKER Anomaly maxed out.
Next step is reinstalling Win7 on a 950 Pro I installed just now. I tried cloning the drive from the 850 Evo that's in it right now but I keep getting 7B BSOD upon boot.
Didn't bother and simply reinstalled Windows. Barely had anything on the 850 to begin with. (STALKER Call of The Zone and a unmodded Anomaly install that I did move over, yay WinPE)
The clusterfuck in question. Why the P14 on the Titan? This board has a 3+1 phase VRM with a tiny heatsink :skull:
bruuuuuuuuuuuh this guy :skull:
Someone in my city listed a 980 Ti Strix with ****ered fans (I suspect it's ex-mining) for €40 and I bought it lol. Deshrouded the card, repasted it, and now it does 1480/2025.
Surprisingly clean under the heatsink though.
Surprisingly clean under the heatsink though.
The Better Retro Rig has been torn down until further notice (read: until I sell off that P55 board so I can reuse said loop/D7 for the BRR)
Not that I ever used it to begin with. A recurring issue I have with shit I do: building/acquiring it is more fun than actually using it.
Not that I ever used it to begin with. A recurring issue I have with shit I do: building/acquiring it is more fun than actually using it.
I have bought... this:
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Finally a block for the 980 Ti Strix I bought last May
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Finally a block for the 980 Ti Strix I bought last May
Block came in earlier this week. Missing half of the memory pads and all screws, outstanding /s
Bashed something together with slightly too thick pads (1mm instead of 0.5mm) and I had M3 screws enough as-is so the BRR is rebuilt into the Define 7 XL I had. But it's 30C plus outside so I sure as shit am not gonna do any benching or PC stuff.
Bashed something together with slightly too thick pads (1mm instead of 0.5mm) and I had M3 screws enough as-is so the BRR is rebuilt into the Define 7 XL I had. But it's 30C plus outside so I sure as shit am not gonna do any benching or PC stuff.
MoRA came in the mail. Boy is this thing rusted to shit.
Watertight though :^) Only thing I need are the NF-A20 bracket, fans, fan splitter and a bracket for a Heatkiller Tube. Thinking of buying the D5 Dualtop for my main rig and moving over the old HK bracket to this one.
Watertight though :^) Only thing I need are the NF-A20 bracket, fans, fan splitter and a bracket for a Heatkiller Tube. Thinking of buying the D5 Dualtop for my main rig and moving over the old HK bracket to this one.
OBT #3 really proving it's worth thus far, got a assload of computers and stripped the ones that had broken PSUs etc, used the bench table to test and update the BIOS on all of 'em.
damn AX1600i on OBT #3 decided to pop itself testing a P8Z68-V Pro. Took out my board.
Amazingly, the 970EP and 2600K survived.
Amazingly, the 970EP and 2600K survived.
Not WC, but I built this from spare parts I got and only bought that 7850. I normally use that M4A89GTD to wipe IDE HDDs.
FX8350 @ 4.6 GHz, M4A89GTD Pro, 16GB, 7850 (unfortunately 1GB), 950 Pro, X-Fi something, TP-Link 11ac PCIe NIC, GM 650, HAF 932 with a few P12's. And of course Windows 7 Ultimate.
Finally got around making the 980 Ti in the BRR less jank. 0.5mm thermal pads on all memory modules, backplate is now on... and I unfortunately only had two black flathead screws and one blank steel one for the backplate.
Stupid thing boosts to 1.7 GHz lmfao
Stupid thing boosts to 1.7 GHz lmfao