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Thanks, it wasn't much of an improvement, but it looks a lot better.



I also got some splitters for the cables, and I got a bendable SLI bridge, that was actually made for those coolers, I posted them and the pictures in the New Toy thread.



Thanks.
 
Alright, so I made some good progress with managing most of the cables in my case, but it still needs some work.

Before:
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After:
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I took off the fans on the GPU's, because the top set kept falling off a little, and I didn't want to take the chance of having them fall off while they're on, so I decided to take both sets off and test my temps, so.

And you can't see them, but I still have the green cathodes on the bottom, one 4'' blue cathode in the middle, and one 12'' blue cathode on the top.


I'll work on everything else later this week.
 
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Since I added the fans back on, I noticed my temps dropped my 10C per card, but now my temps seem to be slightly higher, especially the top card, but heat rises up, so I was thinking if adding a fan or two on the bottom would help?

My case can have two power supplies, so the bottom part has two 80MM fan ports, would that lower my temps, or would reapplying more ASC *Ceramique* on the CPU of the GPU and maybe doing the same on the ram-sinks? I just used the sticky part of the ram-sink and put it on there.




Or is this something I shouldn't worry about?




Thanks.
 
I wouldn't worry about it unless they're higher than snoop dog at a concert...

I guess you could add more fans in to see if it makes a difference. Do you have any lying around?
 
Kornowski said:
I wouldn't worry about it unless they're higher than snoop dog at a concert...

I guess you could add more fans in to see if it makes a difference. Do you have any lying around?
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Lol, what the hell? Haha.

I do have a few spare 80mm fans, I'll see if they help or not.



funkysnair said:
what case is that? its massive!!!!

how does it stand next to the antec1200 space wise?
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I'd say it's a bit more roomier, I saw the 1200 at the store, and the 1200 was a bit smaller, so.





Also, this came:
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Now, what to do with it, lol.

I'm thinking of making an external housing case for it, so I would be able to use it on my laptop, or I'll just mount it inside my case.
 
Awesome. I think the external idea is good, as you could move it around. But having it mounted in your case would be cooler. So, really, awesome-ness or practicality?
 
Yeah, I plan on building a rackmount servers for my LANs, and I could have the external monitor show temps or something, since I wont be using SLI on the servers.


I also just realized that my laptop has an S-Video port, but it also has SLI, lol.
 
I mentioned this earlier, but I will be going through with volt modding both of my cards. I currently have to wait a little while since my second GT has a different circuit board layout, the guy has to modify the volt mod chip, so.


Then the overclocking will begin.
 
g4m3rof1337 said:
I mentioned this earlier, but I will be going through with volt modding both of my cards. I currently have to wait a little while since my second GT has a different circuit board layout, the guy has to modify the volt mod chip, so.


Then the overclocking will begin.
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Copy /Paste! :P

Nah, should be good, Dude! When do you think you'll start? I'm expecting some good results with those coolers and the volt mod!

BTW, What are you pulling in 3D Mark 06?
 
I was going to mention the copy and paste thing, but figured people would realize it, :P.

I'll start the overclocking process once I get the second volt mod chip, should be a week or so, the guy has to get a hold of the same exact type of my second card, and test it and stuff, and he's in Canada.

Not sure what my exact score was, but it was under 15,000 and I believe that was before I overclocked my CPU, but I'll run it before I overclock my GPU's.


I also plan on trying out the dual 80mm fan theory with my case, if it helps quite a bit, I'll go through with it.


And since I realized that my graphic cards will be good for a while, I plan on buying a nice quad CPU in the Fall, and maybe a higher resolution monitor.


Also, probably on Sunday or next week, I'll start planning what I want to do with the PSOne screen.
 
Alright, so I got an E8400 and overclocked it to 3.60GHz, only upped the FSB, haven't messed with voltages, yet.


What should I test, to see how high I can get the CPU stable on my current cooler?

Maybe running Orthos for an hour, and monitor my temps with RealTemp every 15 Mins?


If I need to, I don't mind buying another CPU cooler, but I would like to get one that can compete with water cooling, maybe not exactly or better, but around it.
 
An update..!

Alright, I want to make my case look even more awesome..

So, I have some ideas..

Work on cable management, obviously.

More lights, lol, I was thinking an El Wire trim on the side panel, top half blue, bottom half green.

Maybe moving my radiator on my back exhaust fan, so I can show my WC set up off more.

And maybe putting this, http://www.xoxide.com/primochill-water-cooling-additive.html in my WC system.



Here's a customer image, from Xoxide, on an El Wire trimmed window.
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Thanks.
 
Yeah, that's why right now it's currently behind one of the front intake fans, but you can't really see the tubes and stuff, so.
 
I'd mount the rad externally. You may get better temps too. Plus, it'd look sick! What about UV lights and UV reactive liquid, with the e window thing?
 
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