Open Personal Computer Club [OPCC]

[r-18]

Zeus - Spiral Cut Tubing

we used this at the telco to route wires in the rack systems we had before this and still we also used waxed nylon string to hand wrap wire bundles...

[Lan]

Originally Posted by KnoxSe7eN

Lanx I see you are running the corsair water cooling setup. What do you think of it? I was going to go that route but ran out of money >_< haha

Thanks for the pictures. What case do you have that is anodized red? So is your color scheme black and red? < that was my High School colors lol

I am going black and blue.


Where would one by this?

The spiral tubing would work for your psu cable if they don't already come sleeved. Which is a pain to do. Although I think most higher end psu's are sleeved.

So far I'm a fan of the corsair cooling (lclc - low cost liquid cooling :D ). I wanted to be able to overclock my computer fairly high without having that annoying and noisy fans or the really expensive water loops. I'm pretty happy with my temps. Right now its 40c outside and I'm over a garage with little to no insulation. So far great temps on idle and load!

The case is the Lian li Armorsuit series pc-p50r. Won her off a contest at my local Lan café.

Yea it just turned into black/red randomly since I have the old red mx510 logitech mouse and black/red M$ x6 keyboard. lol its all looks pretty cool with the red light together! I am a fan of the black/blue. The Antec 900 case looks good by its self plugged in with out any lights. :D

edit: found the pic I has posted before of the red awesomeness!

[KnoxSe7eN]

Originally Posted by r-18

Zeus - Spiral Cut Tubing

we used this at the telco to route wires in the rack systems we had before this and still we also used waxed nylon string to hand wrap wire bundles...

Thank ya thank ya I will see if I can find anything around town.

Originally Posted by Lanxdata

edit: found the pic I has posted before of the red awesomeness!

First thing I saw....... the poster with the shapely bums

That's a lot of red lol. Shweet though

I saw that case when I was searching for one myself. Must be nice to win one ^_^ I won a game off IGN back in the day

I have a G15 keyboard that I am afraid is going to clash with the blue :/ I know blue and orange go together but meh

I want to get a blue lighted keyboard. The new razer StarCraft II one looks cool but I don't want to spend that kind of money when I have a decent keyboard now.

[RedMaw]

Originally Posted by KnoxSe7eN

This will be my first true build. I have done upgrades in the past. Added a bluray drive, 8800gts, an a antec 500 psu. But I feel pretty confident I can do it without any help. I hope :3

I wanted to go Intel but the prices were just more than I wanted to pay for both the mobo and cpu. Maybe on the next build when I hopefully have money lol. I am sure I will be happy with the X6 1090T.

Spec on my build.

Antec Nine Hundred Two
Phenom II X6 1090T
MSI 890FXA-GD70
BFG 8800GTS(want to replace)
OCZ Platinum ddr3 4GB 2 x 2GB 1600
Antec 500 psu(might buy a larger one before build)
WD Caviar Black SATA 6.0Gb/s 1TB HDD

Everywhere I looked the 1090T and 890FXA cost more than my i7 mb and cpu :\

Originally Posted by Lanxdata

Nice nice. I still want to try out the new 6 core cpu sometime along with the WD Caviar Black HDDs.

lol the first time I built a pc I pretty much just jumped into it like 7 years ago. Didn't know a damn thing about what I was doing to. :D It still was fun putting it together even though it may have taken me a few hours.

lol apart from two seagate barracuda's WD black drives are all I own XD

and it still takes me a couple hours to do a build, I take my time.

Originally Posted by KnoxSe7eN

I am def going to take my time. Any tips on keeping the wires neatly together and routed? I bought some zip ties.

I don't expect any huge gains from the six core over a four since to my knowledge most programs do not support it. Of course I could be wrong..... normally am

Just make sure everything works before tidying up the wires.

Lanxdata, Wish I won my lian-li case, it's not worth what I paid for it lol.

[KnoxSe7eN]

Originally Posted by RedMaw

Everywhere I looked the 1090T and 890FXA cost more than my i7 mb and cpu

well hmmm errrr I was looking for a mobo that could run quad crossfire(why I don't know because I sure as hell can't afford it) usb 3.0, sata 3.0. My cpu and mobo together cost $440.

Eh regardless it should run well..... it darn well better

If I went with the intel I would have wanted to run one of the 900 based i7s. I know I would have always wanted that crazy 6 core extreme model........ The total cost of this computer build is cheaper than that one cpu

[RedMaw]

lol the intel hexa-cores are insane. Supposedly the performance matches the price but it's not often one has that kind of money to kill (SR-2 anyone? ).

My X58A-UD3R has two x16 pcie slots (not that it really matters) but do to spacing unless you water cool them you'd only get two cards in with breathing room for the coolers. It also has usb 3.0 and sata 3, both of which are still useless lol. I managed to get my cpu and mb for 200US each but imo the 1090T is a better cpu to have.

[KnoxSe7eN]

Yeah usb 3.0 is....... well useless right now haha but soon they should start rolling out products that use it...... right? >_<

The HDD I ordered uses the sata 3 but I read at least on the HDD that I have it is a minor improvement. meh maybe in the future it will improve further or maybe it is better on the more expensive models.


You can water cool a gpu?

[Lan]

Originally Posted by RedMaw

lol apart from two seagate barracuda's WD black drives are all I own XD
and it still takes me a couple hours to do a build, I take my time.
Just make sure everything works before tidying up the wires.
Lanxdata, Wish I won my lian-li case, it's not worth what I paid for it lol.

lol I wish I could win more computer parts by gaming. Yeah Lian Li does run on the pricey side but from what I see they do make one hell of a solid case.

Can you tell a performance difference with the Black series HDD?

Most of my case build was spent wiring and rewiring the case to get everything to fit all nice and neat.

Originally Posted by KnoxSe7eN

You can water cool a gpu?

You can water cool a lot of things.
CPU/ GPU/ Mobo south and north bridges/ RAM/ HDDs/

[KnoxSe7eN]

Originally Posted by Lanxdata

You can water cool a lot of things.
CPU/ GPU/ Mobo south and north bridges/ RAM/ HDDs/

Sooooo pretty much everything that could benefit from running cooler aside from the psu can be water cooled?

Interesting I have only seen WC on CPUs. Could all of this run off the same reservoir and pump? or would you need something separate for each?

[Lan]

you can even water cool...

You can run everything off one system you will just need a strong pump to handle the extra water load an a larger radiation to also handle the added heat.

I did see one time a setup that had 2 loops.

Hell check this vid with a triple loop set up...
YouTube - Disruptfam's tri-loop v2000 pc