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moonlightcheese · 08-26-2005, 03:21 PM

i never meant to offend. i'm just telling you what i know.

- i never said maxtor was a crap company. i own the DiamondMax10 300GB same as you. and i love it.
- there are plenty of benchmarks to back me up. i'm sorry you had a bad experience with the DFI but there are plenty of other users who have bought the board and had extreme success in overclocking and longevity. sorry for the offensive tone

- there are also plenty of benchmarks that show that SLI isn't worth the extra cash. i'm not saying it doesn't provide performance increase, i'm saying it doesn't provide significant performance increase. PCI Express and AGP are entirely different. did not have near the bandwidth of PCIe. having 16 serial connections to a device and having one 64bit connection to a device are very different. SLI x16 should be an enourmous increase in performance.

- you can do 1/2" ID tubing. i have a Coolermaster T01 Cavalier, which is roughly the same size as your case. everything fits in my case nice and tightly. my setup:

Loop1:
BIMicro on the intake fan
Chipset Block (DangerDen "Z")
MCP350 pump
T-line with mounted fillport in the top
Panaflo80mm high speed

Loop2:
2-302 heatercore
Swiftech Storm G4
dual panaflo M1As
MCP655 pump
HDPE bay-res

it fits. all 1/2" ID tubing. it's tight, but it fits. pics are coming soon.

as for water cooling the HDDs, a fan is a much more inexpensive and feesible option and works equally as well as the HDD blocks.

again... sorry if i seemed offensive. you asked for advice and i was giving mine. i never meant to sound like a jacka$$...

08-26-2005, 03:21 PM	#7
moonlightcheese Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 13	i never meant to offend. i'm just telling you what i know. - i never said maxtor was a crap company. i own the DiamondMax10 300GB same as you. and i love it. - there are plenty of benchmarks to back me up. i'm sorry you had a bad experience with the DFI but there are plenty of other users who have bought the board and had extreme success in overclocking and longevity. sorry for the offensive tone - there are also plenty of benchmarks that show that SLI isn't worth the extra cash. i'm not saying it doesn't provide performance increase, i'm saying it doesn't provide significant performance increase. PCI Express and AGP are entirely different. did not have near the bandwidth of PCIe. having 16 serial connections to a device and having one 64bit connection to a device are very different. SLI x16 should be an enourmous increase in performance. - you can do 1/2" ID tubing. i have a Coolermaster T01 Cavalier, which is roughly the same size as your case. everything fits in my case nice and tightly. my setup: Loop1: BIMicro on the intake fan Chipset Block (DangerDen "Z") MCP350 pump T-line with mounted fillport in the top Panaflo80mm high speed Loop2: 2-302 heatercore Swiftech Storm G4 dual panaflo M1As MCP655 pump HDPE bay-res it fits. all 1/2" ID tubing. it's tight, but it fits. pics are coming soon. as for water cooling the HDDs, a fan is a much more inexpensive and feesible option and works equally as well as the HDD blocks. again... sorry if i seemed offensive. you asked for advice and i was giving mine. i never meant to sound like a jacka$$...