Looks like my entire page six post got eaten by the ProForums' system crash
I will attempt to remember what I wrote...
Here I've milled away most of the outside of the pattern... rough, but it will be finished up after the cover plates are soldered on.
Here I'm preparing to drill the pilot hole for milling out the GPU area.
GPU area is now milled to depth... only checking the width and length to do.
Here I've measured the width and length and it was a bit small... so I made a few passes around the perimeter of the GPU area and took a few thousandths off each pass.
Once the size was correct on that... I began rough milling to remove the large corner section... I LOVE roughing endmills...
Here I've roughed out the smaller area to be removed... did I mention I LOVE roughing endmills?
Now that the overall shape is complete, I then milled down the RAM areas like so...
After a few "adjustment" passes on the mill and several test fittings... we have what is beginning to resemble a full water cooling solution...
Front side...
Back side...
Here are the blocks alone as a full unit after some edge trimming...
Front side...
Back side...
That's all I can remember... Hope to get the cover plates soldered on tonight.
Cheers!