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Yup the Catleap. It's a risk to buy one since they are from Korea, if you have to ship it back for a DOA it'll cost you like $120. But they do package them well.

Yup it's either I end up buying a 27" LED 1080p monitor for pretty much the same price as this. This is very tempting. Though i only have around $45 right now so i better save up :D Right now i'm reading up on people that have been buying this monitor.
 
So I got a bunch of sponsors for my computer, turned it into a racecar: :P

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nice angles of that machine

Heres a build we finished yesterday, its my roomie's computer

C2D e5200, 2x1 gig ddr2 667, ASUS P5QPL-AM Mobo, PNY GT430 GPU, Generic 350W PSU, and a WD Black 1Tb drive. Got a rocketfish heatsink from best buy for half off because it was used once...cleaned off the goop with alcohol and looks great. If anyone is lookin for heatsinks, they may have one near you, their really good, and cheap, id say its almost a 212+ clone, just not a 120mm fan, more like a 92 mm fan, but thats fine, a 120 would not fit in the case we had.

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Wow very nice! :eek::good:

Id love a 680,They are just too expensive though and you have two!:angry: :P

Even the bloody waterblocks are £80 each. :eek:
 
How exactly do you get sponsors?

You start out with a plan for a project. You then want to present this project and plan to your sponsor of choice. It'll be easier for me to explain with an example.

Say I'm building a new watercooling system and my choice for watercooling is EK. I would setup a project that I have in mind and make a plan of what I'm going to do with my watercooling, down to the last detail. I call up or write to EK and present them my project and that I wish to obtain so and so products for the project.

Now, in order to obtain those products, I pretty much have to use all EK watercooling products in my project (i.e pump, blocks, radiators, fittings) or no dice. In return to getting these products, I have to do something in return for the company, otherwise the companies would go bankrupt handing out products for free to everyone.

So, in return for the products I would have to, for example, show that I'm a dedicated member of a forum in the sense that I've done multiple successful builds, or that I'm an active modding member, etc. Or, that I would test bench, compare, etc the companies products and also provide business for them. That means, I would pretty much need to advertise only this certain company and none of its competitors.

Kind of a long paragraph but that's pretty much how it works.
 
Wouldn't the second card be a little hotter than the first one? Is it using water that was already used? I'm probably wrong.

Actually, running the cards in parallel as opposed to series actually shaves a couple of degrees off the temps and gives a more even flow through the blocks. In series, the second card is always using warmer second hand water from the first card.

I'm currently running 1220mhz on the core with max load temps not exceeding 47 degrees. These 28nm chips run very cool indeed.

Oh and I'm getting in excess of 100fps in BF3 @ 2560x1600 (Ultra settings with 4xMSAA).
 
Did some cable management on my old PC today. This thing is pretty much a wreck, pretty much everything on it is broken, but I managed to get the front panel USB ports working.

Here are some pictures.

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I think considering this chassis is horrible for cable management and I am having to use an IDE hard drive and optical drive as well as a floppy drive, I think my cable management inside this PC is pretty good. :) It took around 3 hours to do the whole thing, and several cut fingers and quite a lot of pushing and pulling later, this is the result. :D

Did I forget to mention that this chassis has no rounded edges, so basically it's really easy to cut yourself? It's quite honestly one of the worst chassis I've ever come across. Airflow is pretty poor too, so another reason to keep on top of the cable management. I would take the PC outside and spray some compressed air into it, but it's raining here right now. :(

Spec if you're interested (don't laugh).
MB: Gigabyte GA-K8VT800(PRO) | CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.4GHz | Cooler: Stock AMD | RAM: 1GB Crucial DDR (2x512MB) | GPU: Club GeForce 6600 GT 128MB (8x AGP) | Storage: 1x Western Digital WD800 80GB (IDE) | Optical Drive: HP dvd1440 (IDE) | Case: Don't know, some crappy thing | PSU: Antec 450W | OS: Windows XP Professional SP3 x86
 
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Machin3 said:
I know but both SATA controllers on the board are dead I believe. I tried to install XP on a SATA HDD using one of the ports on the board and it didn't find any hard disks even when I loaded the correct driver. That problem was my first thread/post on this forum I remember. :)

claptonman said:
I hate those friggin ribbon cables.
Me too. They have no benefits. They're big, restrict airflow, slow and the pins break on the hardware you connected the cable to if you pull the cables too hard, and they fall apart so easily too.

I tried to do my best at hiding those horrible cables though. It's not easy! :D

claptonman said:
They do make rounded ones, though
Yeah I may pick some up but to be honest, this 7-8 year old machine is pretty much a wreck and probably not worth my money. I only bothered to do the cable management because I was bored. :D I almost wrecked the thing by shorting the board out earlier, but luckily it recovered OK...
 
Alright, Here's my hunk-0-junk, don't laugh too hard now.

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Specs:
AMD FX 4100 Quad Black Edition unlocked
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2
Kingston HyperX Blue 8GB DDR3-1333
OCZ Power Supply

I have better cases but I like this old one.
 
Don't you just hate it how OEMs throw loads of stickers on the bezels of their home PCs? I notice HP and eMachines are the worst OEMs for this. :/ It makes the machines look horrible!
 
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