Oh ok, didnt realise the 480 heatsink was hanging out like that, I see. You need 580 shrouds :p

Or you could just buy a small sheet of perspex and cut it to the right size.

Interesting. So when gaming how do you get the fan on the rads to speed up when the card heats up?

I have a lamptron fc4 so I just use manual fan control. Normally I just leave them where I know that they stay quiet and still work well. If I start overclocking or it gets warmer in the house I'll crank up the fan speed a bit before gaming. My 24/7 setting at stock speeds keeps the gpus around 50c in Heaven.

Nice PC. What are you using for lighting at the top there? LED strips?

lol just some white CCFL's I found in my closet and decided to plop them in to see how they look.

How are they powered? I have a monitor I salvaged that has a bad inverter. I can't seem to track down the problem so I am contemplating looking for a few cheap standalone inverters to cram in there and get the job done.

Hey cool, that might actually do the trick. The specs seem to be in the range of the inverter on the PSU board and I even have a 12V power supply laying around. I should keep looking to see if I can find one with adjustable brightness.

I got tired of the ugly elysium.

That is sweet mangler! :drool:

Excellent Mangler!

NZXT has come a long way on thier cases.

Very nice and clean looking build Mangler :drool:

They really have. That switch is a really nice case.

I really want to waterblock my gpu's. If for nothing else, just to have access to all my other pci slots. Realistically, how difficult of mission is it?

New Build up and running tonight. Still on the to-do list: CPU Cooling(H100 most likely); sleeved cable extensions(gold or black, haven't decided), 2nd GPU(with diff p/s)

Hey gay, you might be missing some cooling on the CPU and ram in the motherboard before you turn on that PC... :bleh:

Yah it won't post, WTF am i doing wrong!!! :p

I didn't get done til night time, and w/o some real lighting cell shots are garbage.

Not that difficult, but does require using a methodical aproach and having decent manual dexterity....Having a seperate power supply(a cheap one will do fine), to power up the water pump alone, without the rest of the system being powered up at all, will help with bleeding the system and if there is a leak, there's no damage to the system since it isn't powered up.


To help with bleeding, the reservoir should be at the highest point in the loop and keep in mind that the pump is lubricated with the cooling fluid itself, so no running it dry and as for radiators themselves, it depends how much room you have in your case and how silent you want it to be.


Generally speaking, the bigger the radiator the more cooling fans you can install on it and the slower the fans need to spin to acheive a specific temperature that is generally much lower than the stock coolers, making the system quieter overall.

Did it change colors or something?
I'm so lost.

These photos are great. Did you enhance them, or just use the camera? I suck ass at taking pics or my rig. :cry:

Thats 2 threads now, are you stoned? :sherlock: :p

Well, I cut out the fan grills on my HAF932. You wouldn't believe how restrictive they are and how much noise that they actually make. Excuse the picture quality and the wiring.

Ha yeh I cut the rear exhaust grills out on my case, makes a pretty big difference to air flow coming out the back.

and lool 4 x 120mm on the side :D was that for the 480 SLI set up?

Yeah, and because its there.The stock 200 fan doesn't really move much air. For a while there I wasn't sure which way it was installed since I couldn't really feel which way the air was moving. I also threw an AP-181 into the front. The case is pretty quiet too and moves a ton of air.

Pics taken with iphone 4s. Top one is, bottom one is not. For the top one just used "awesome camera" app(iOS) and a little contrast/saturation changes that is all.

This thread has good tips on taking pics of your pc, http://www.overclock.net/t/912437/ho...graph-your-rig

Thanks! Will hopefully put some of those tips to use this weekend after my rebuild. :)

Finished water cooling my pc. Ran the leak-test for about 24 hours and now need to start putting everything back together. Didn't bother with the backplates for my gpus (in hindsight I should have). Just a simple loop, nothing special. Anyhoo, here's a pic with it still hooked-up to a jump-started psu.