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BubbaJudge · 11-29-2004, 03:55 PM

It took awhile, a long while, first to gather all the components, then to sit and procrastinate, and then finally to build. It was the most complicated i've tried, since i threw in the liquid cooling into the equation and had never WC'ed before, and had to figure out a cooling system layout, namely because the pump would not reach the floor of the case as shown in Swiftech literature so I had to jury rig the pump by mounting it in my floppy bay and because swiftech convienently shows all their layouts diagrams/pics without any HD's or opticals in their case. And by coincidence I even used the same case, you bastiches, lol. Assembly was kinda tricky because I also added in the aspect of the upside down mobo(always wanted one to show off the good side of pci/vidcards, and so had to rebuild the case to accept it. The liquid cooling of course required me to assemble the mobo and water blocks and components separately then bring them together in the final assemble and hope it all fit. It didnt, and I rebuilt this thing maybe 5 complete times. Filling the system was fun because I sprang a leak all over my power supply, a bad quick connect on my 80mm rad(yes its pushed all the way in, heh), too much entry angle makes it leak, so I straightened it. But to add stupidity to injury, I then didnt pay attention and overfilled the Res, spilling liquid all over my drives, lol, but it luckily posted first boot. After a bitch of a time bleeding all the air bubbles from the rear Rad, dismounted and flipped it to finally lose them, cpu/gpu/chipset now run at a cool 30-32C under full load. I made a respectable 66,000 aquamark at stock settings and I am optimistic of quite an overclock since this mobo has such a good track record and everything is Swiftech cooled.

this is not an advert but thanks Bill and the rest of the Swiftech crew for the great products. I am very satisfied thus far, and thanks to the members of this board who allowed me to steal(borrow) all their WC knowledge for free

Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1gb Crucial Ballistix PC3200 CAS2
DFI Lanparty UT250GB NForce3
2x74GB Western Digital Raptors in Striped RAID cooled with Vantec HD fans
ATI X800XT Platinum
Creative Audigy2 XS platinum
NEC 3500a 16x DVD/RW Burner
Power PC & Cooling 510 Deluxe Power Supply
Swiftech H20-80 series Liquid Cooling Kit
MCW20 chipset Water Block
MCW50 VGA Water Block
MCR120-FRB Radbox Radiator Kit
PC Toys Fan Controller
Logisys Case

so without further adieu, the finished machine, followed by the pics of the patience grinding assembly process. I hope the number of pics don't offend.

"The Liquid64Judge"

11-29-2004, 03:55 PM	#1
BubbaJudge Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 6	My Finished WC Rig or My Exercise in Swiftechness It took awhile, a long while, first to gather all the components, then to sit and procrastinate, and then finally to build. It was the most complicated i've tried, since i threw in the liquid cooling into the equation and had never WC'ed before, and had to figure out a cooling system layout, namely because the pump would not reach the floor of the case as shown in Swiftech literature so I had to jury rig the pump by mounting it in my floppy bay and because swiftech convienently shows all their layouts diagrams/pics without any HD's or opticals in their case. And by coincidence I even used the same case, you bastiches, lol. Assembly was kinda tricky because I also added in the aspect of the upside down mobo(always wanted one to show off the good side of pci/vidcards, and so had to rebuild the case to accept it. The liquid cooling of course required me to assemble the mobo and water blocks and components separately then bring them together in the final assemble and hope it all fit. It didnt, and I rebuilt this thing maybe 5 complete times. Filling the system was fun because I sprang a leak all over my power supply, a bad quick connect on my 80mm rad(yes its pushed all the way in, heh), too much entry angle makes it leak, so I straightened it. But to add stupidity to injury, I then didnt pay attention and overfilled the Res, spilling liquid all over my drives, lol, but it luckily posted first boot. After a bitch of a time bleeding all the air bubbles from the rear Rad, dismounted and flipped it to finally lose them, cpu/gpu/chipset now run at a cool 30-32C under full load. I made a respectable 66,000 aquamark at stock settings and I am optimistic of quite an overclock since this mobo has such a good track record and everything is Swiftech cooled. this is not an advert but thanks Bill and the rest of the Swiftech crew for the great products. I am very satisfied thus far, and thanks to the members of this board who allowed me to steal(borrow) all their WC knowledge for free Specs: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 1gb Crucial Ballistix PC3200 CAS2 DFI Lanparty UT250GB NForce3 2x74GB Western Digital Raptors in Striped RAID cooled with Vantec HD fans ATI X800XT Platinum Creative Audigy2 XS platinum NEC 3500a 16x DVD/RW Burner Power PC & Cooling 510 Deluxe Power Supply Swiftech H20-80 series Liquid Cooling Kit MCW20 chipset Water Block MCW50 VGA Water Block MCR120-FRB Radbox Radiator Kit PC Toys Fan Controller Logisys Case so without further adieu, the finished machine, followed by the pics of the patience grinding assembly process. I hope the number of pics don't offend. "The Liquid64Judge" http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge5.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge8.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge9.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge10.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge11.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge14.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge15.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge16.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge17.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge18.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge20.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge22.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~bubbajudge/liquidJudge24.jpg