well I've been making some changes to my rig and uh I mentioned it in one of my
other videos and someone asked me to do a blog post on what I'm actually
installing in here and what kind of changes I'm making so first of all I've
gone with an MSI Big Bang X power for my latest build it's a very solid board
comes with a very good accessory package and just all the features that I really
need lots of PCI Express slots I'm pretty much done with PCI personally so
that's uh that's one of the reasons I decided to go with this board and uh
Down Under that enzotech Luna water block I've got a 980x 6 core processor
that's 12 gigs of ocz special edition
see the blue and black color scheme which is just dead sexy on there and uh
so I'll be running that in the motherboard this is an MSI GeForce GTX
480 I've gone with a single card this time around although I usually do run
SLI and I may change it later on in the future to add an additional graphic card
I am using a modular power supply that's an enax Revolution 85 plus it's an 80
plus silver Power Supply so I will have the option to add more cables and add
another graphics card in the future should I desire it yes that is
a vision Tech killer
Nick it's got a feature I really like it's got that bandwidth allocation
feature which I find really cool I like their software overall I found that
having the killer neck in my computer is better than not having the killer Nick
in my computer so I went ahead and replaced my Intel Nick with it a while
back so let's move back and take an overall look at the PC this isn't a
Silverstone tj07 the only modifications I've really made to it are a couple
holes here and there and I have painted the interior with a black wrinkle I had
it done by Mountain mods a couple years ago at this point I guess I am using GED
Wing fans up here in the visible parts of the build and then here in the front
GED Wings again but then where it's actually hidden I have the new
Silverstone air penetrators which are running the main Thermo chill PA 120.4
radiator that does most of the cooling in this build
although there is a black ice 2 Pro here
in the front but these fans actually only turn on if the system gets hot
which with a single graphics card in it is very unlikely for the liquid cooling
system to actually heat up uh speaking of the liquid cooling system here's an
EK gtx480 uh nickel plated Plexi block
so that's going to go on the 480 once I've finished doing some burn in and
testing on this system you can see the
back of the system I'm using noise dampening mounts for all of the fans
where that is a possibility this build is all about silence this liquid cooling
system is not for performance all of these fans will be run at much less than
full Voltage at all times thanks to this
guy right here this is the brains of the operation so it's got a couple of
temperature sensors one of which gets uh attached to the side of my main radiator
and the other one sits around the uh here there it is right there sits in the
North Bridge so basically I use those as a reference points for how hot is my
liquid cooling system how hot are the air cooled components in my rig and then
I adjust the fan speeds in zones so these two and these two are actually
adjusted together and I use the 92s
first because at low RPM where I don't need a lot of cooling they're actually a
little bit quieter than the 12 then the 120s kick in when things get
hot and the liquid cooling system actually runs with the fans off on the
front and right around like 30% fan
speed on the bottom ones until things start to get a little bit warm there's
that Amax Revolution yes I realize in an
Ideal World I would have this fan turned around but then I would have to uh use
the other holes in my power supply Mount down here and then I'd like chip the
paint and really I have enough Radiator in this rig to cool a couple machines
like this so I'm not too worried about it there's the air penetrator fans I was
talking about these are going to be a great addition to this build I just
changed over to these I was using Y loons down here before because air
penetrators are designed to actually blow air in a column directly away from
the fan so what that means is once I close up this side panel and the mesh is
sitting here it should more in this is all in theory it should in theory more
effectively blow the air through and out the other side panel rather than just
kind of scattering it around in here and relying on random chants to blow out the
other side of the computer so that that is my
theory seems like a good theory uh here's some inverters for cold cathodes
here's where I mount my uh 2 and 1/2 in SSD drives so I'll just uh run all the
SATA cables here I use this hole right here to run some SATA power up there so
all the drives stay completely hidden out of the way I still have some stuff
to do so I still got to mount of pump and some kind of reservoir down here I
haven't decided how I'm going to do that because honestly it's a total nightmare
to mount uh one of these I've got a few MCR micros here here's a REV 2 here's a
REV one here's a really old rev one that
has like some kind of Gunk on the side of it then I've also got uh one of these
uh t- virus reses this one leaks though so and I haven't really found a place to
to put it where it would really work like it doesn't really fit here which is
ideally where I would want to put it so I think that one's pretty much out of
the question right now um yeah this is what the floor looks
like oh yeah I've been working on sleeving the revolution comes with just
horrendous looking sleeving on I me look at
this so I went ahead and replaced it with uh plain black sleeving that I
bought from cable organizer.com it's cheap it's fast things get done so uh
yeah that was why I went that root so you can see all the cables are now
sleeved black I've got the two eps8 pins up here I've got my six pins here my 24
pin I've still got to do some uh some SATA cables as well as a Molex cable
make sure I've got power everywhere oh yeah I've got one of those cool LG uh
Blu-ray slhd DVD drives I know no one
cares about HD DVD anymore but if I ever
happen to cross an HD DVD drive I could or disc I could play it so there you go
that's more than you can say oh yeah I replaced the uh the front of the case
the the front drive bay covers with antech 900 ones so now they are uh
perforated and you can run air through them which is good here in the front I
still have the stock USB fire wire audio
thing and I have UV lights yep black
lights here here two of them here one
more back here and that lights up the UV
Blue uh primoflex LRT tubing as well as
the UV sensitive GED Wing fans
and I used to have a DFI land party board so it lit that up as well but uh
there you go that is the build that I am working on and it's been sitting here
for wow like weeks I I wish it worked
cuz then I would have a computer again that would be great