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post #101 of 205
9/2/08 at 1:11pm
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that worked, and funny enough I found the same link via Google Search lol
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post #102 of 205
9/2/08 at 6:08pm
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So how do you post pictures in a way that you can add comments to each of them ???

when I use attachments it just gives me one large group of photos ?
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post #103 of 205
9/2/08 at 6:25pm
on google

for pics I just hit the pic icon and paste the location from photobucket

it puts it in as square braket round img then sqr bracket round /img at the end


Dieing to see the pics of the rig
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post #104 of 205
9/3/08 at 5:07pm
okay Dave wins the award for biggest build tease

lol
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post #105 of 205
9/3/08 at 8:17pm
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lol I will be p'osting pics soon

Just been working on getting my 2 water blocks for the video cards
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post #106 of 205
9/3/08 at 10:34pm
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So at long last here are some Pics

Thermaltake Case




Case Exposed




Side Cover removed from the new case



DFI mobo



Water Cooling Kit that came with the Armor Case




Fittings for Water Cooling




Eveything New In The Box




OCZ Reaper DDR2 Memory




Silverstone 1000 watt PSU






ATI Radeon HD 4870x2 Cards Got two of these babies




Additional Cooling rad - this one is for the Motherboard




DFi Board Mounted in the Case



Added North Bridge Water block - which had to be abondend when I changed Motherboards.





Q9450 CPU




DTEK CPU Water Block




Rear View of the CPU Water Block Mount




Water Block Installed




Two 1 TB Sata Drives




Initial Install and wiring




Water Cooling layout CPU only this time GPU water blocks a few weeks away








Checking for Leaks - None Found




Pulled the DFI Board in favour of the Gigabyte X48-DQ6




Gigabyte Board installed now




DDR3 OCZ Reaper Memory 4 GB kit here, Second 4 GB Kit on the way.



Full View of the Gigabyte Board install




View of the Sata Drives mounted in the case, There is a fan that keeps thses babies cool




Single ATI Card installed for initila testing and benchmarks




Formatting the Raid 1 Drives this took several hours lol



Dual ATI 4870x2 Cards in Crossfire 4 GPUs Yeah baby






This is a view of the CPU Cooling Rad installed on the back of the case




Tried to show the factory installed Dual Cooling rad installed in the front of the Armore Case, has 2 120 Cm fans in from of them, this will be used for the GPU water Blocks




Front View of the Case



Side View after everything was installed




View of the Dell 2708 Monitor






Windows Installing

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post #107 of 205
9/3/08 at 11:07pm
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So the next step will be the GPU water blocks sometime in late September I should have them.
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post #108 of 205
9/3/08 at 11:45pm
which blocks will you be using? The only ones I know of available right now are the Dangerden blocks
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post #109 of 205
9/3/08 at 11:48pm
wow so sweet!, why XP and not Vista?

btw which drivers are you using w/ your x2's? I've tried every single beta/official driver and ATi drivers still suck so much ass!

looking forward to seeing your complete watercooling install.

if I had the room, I would love to add some waterblocks to my SFF
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post #110 of 205
9/3/08 at 11:53pm
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I am going to the Koolance Water Blocks - Full Coverage



I have Vista running now - took three tries.

8.8 Drivers as they are the only ones I know that support the 4870x2 cards.

I will install a second Water Cooling system for the GPU water blocks.
LL
LL
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post #111 of 205
9/3/08 at 11:55pm
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Originally Posted by Yang88She View Post
which blocks will you be using? The only ones I know of available right now are the Dangerden blocks

Koolance, Ek have blocks out for these 4870X2 cards.

I saw DD blocks but they were not full coverage from what I read.
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post #112 of 205
9/4/08 at 12:35am
nice, I'm going to take a look @ the koolance blocks

it's a bummer that the DFI board didn't work out for ya....I'm having some issues w/ mine as well grrrrrr
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post #113 of 205
9/4/08 at 1:04am
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well the Gigabyte has been solid for me so far
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post #114 of 205
9/4/08 at 2:42am
Fantastic Dave

Wow
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post #115 of 205
9/4/08 at 9:25am
Awesome Dave!


@ Yang - did you drop your 280 for a X2?
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post #116 of 205
9/4/08 at 10:31am
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Awesome Dave!


@ Yang - did you drop your 280 for a X2?
yea, the 280 just wasn't cutting it @ 2560x1600...plus it really didn't like to be in a SFF.

kinda funny that I get higher temps w/ the my x2's w/ out any artifacts/issues, and the 280 runs cooler, but just didn't like being in a SFF I guess (even though I had more than adequate airflow)
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post #117 of 205
9/4/08 at 11:04am
Hmmm. What is the temp difference <> 280 and X2 [load]? And you now have 2* X2s?
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post #118 of 205
9/4/08 at 11:38am
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yea, the 280 just wasn't cutting it @ 2560x1600...plus it really didn't like to be in a SFF.

kinda funny that I get higher temps w/ the my x2's w/ out any artifacts/issues, and the 280 runs cooler, but just didn't like being in a SFF I guess (even though I had more than adequate airflow)
Thats amazing you squeezed all that in that case
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post #119 of 205
9/20/08 at 2:36pm
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Just ordered two Koolance Water blocks, and another 1TB HD

so late Sept or early October I should be getting those installed
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post #120 of 205
9/20/08 at 2:36pm
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And ATI released updated drivers which are much more stable with my 64 bit OS
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