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IrishStuff09

New monitor purchased today, HP 23xi. Absolutely love it!

Lu Tze

Serephucus wrote: »

Just to be perfectly clear on this one: You are joking, yes?

Nope! Posted up a picture before - ill try and dig it out!

Edit: Took a while to dig that up, hadnt actually stuck up post-amputation pic, put here is the pre-op!



Doing a case transplant (probably tomorrow) so ill stick up a post-op pic of it then

Serephucus

Um... heatpipes don't work when you cut the tops off them.

Redfox25

Would it not have been easier to drill a few holes in the case to let the tips out?

wandatowell

Redfox25 wrote: »

Would it not have been easier to drill a few holes in the case to let the tips out?

Well excuse him for not having an engineering degree.................or a bit of cop on :pac:

Lu Tze

wandatowell wrote: »

Well excuse him for not having an engineering degree.................

Ironically i do...

Didnt give it any thought at the time, just assumed it was a large heat sink, hadnt researched into the actual heat transfer process or queried why there was both copper and aluminium in there!

Weirdly enough its been like that about a year and i've never had an issued, not one blue screen or anything like it. Temps not terrible either at about 30 idle and 60-70 when gaming etc (i5 3470).

Will have to do some thing about it now though... ignorance was bliss

shootermacg

Serephucus wrote: »

Um... heatpipes don't work when you cut the tops off them.

There a vacuum in there or something? Oh and as long time reader, I now know vacuum is spelled with 2 'u's. Thanks god for spell checker!

Never mind, I always thought, they were nothing but a metal block, now I know the principles, thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe.

It all makes sense now, so that begs the question, what happened to the fluid, surely it would be all over the components in the case?

Anyway, I have a Macho fitted with a 120mm fan, http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Thermalright-Macho-CPU-Cooler-Review/1449, thanks to the PC building regulars for the advice! And its completely silent, I toyed with water cooling, but tbh, I actually didn't need it at all, I can happily overclock my I5 without serious temperature increases, so it gets my 100% stamp of approval. Why have a water pump, its just more noise. I love the fact I can turn on my PC and not hear anything.

Serephucus

It's not quite. It's a low pressure chamber with a small amount of ethanol (I think). The liquid evaporates, carrying heat with it up the fin stack, cools, and condenses again. When you cut open heatpipes, the system collapses.

Gumbi

Serephucus wrote: »

It's not quite. It's a low pressure chamber with a small amount of ethanol (I think). The liquid evaporates, carrying heat with it up the fin stack, cools, and condenses again. When you cut open heatpipes, the system collapses.

This. 60 - 70 sounds high for a 3470 (basically a non OCed 3570k. But it's still OK. TBH there was no need an aftermarket cooler if you weren't gonna have an overclockable CPU.

Lu Tze

Gumbi wrote: »

This. 60 - 70 sounds high for a 3470 (basically a non OCed 3570k. But it's still OK. TBH there was no need an aftermarket cooler if you weren't gonna have an overclockable CPU.

Only got it as the fan on the Intel one was quite loud. That and it was only 15 on adverts

Gumbi

Lu Tze wrote: »

Only got it as the fan on the Intel one was quite loud. That and it was only 15 on adverts

No biggie then!

frozenfrozen

Dell U2711, Apple cinema 20"
Aune T1 Tube amp, old hifi being used till I can afford proper speakers, Audio technica ATH-M50c headphones, Razer megalodon headphones (just for microphone these days)
Apple aluminium fullsize wired keyboard, Razer mamba&Razer Deathadder (Depending which is working at the time)
2 Razer goliathus mousemats, one is the speed edition, other is the 'control', switched depending which mouse is being used

PC specs:
Asus Sabertooth X79
3930k @ 4.4ghz, 1.32V speedstep off
32GB G.Skill RipjawZ 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 1.5V. 8x4GB sticks
Nvidia 580gt MSI Twin Frozr
H100
Corsair 850w gold fully modular psu
Samsung 830 120gb
Samsung 840 pro 120gb
WD black 1TB
Seagate Barracuda 500gb
Bitfenix Shinobi XL

Other things, technics 1210mk2's, Ecler hak360 mixer, Serato SL3, can of lighter fluid, iphone on the table in a green lifeproof case, and yes those are ~40 school books holding up the stand the pc is on.

I need to get around to fixing the missing 2gb of ram, replacing the h100 because it's got a dodgy pump, get new quiet fans for the case because it sounds like a jet taking off, get a lot more hard drives for storage, and get proper speakers... and get a mechanical keyboard.. and a fully functional mouse.. and a microphone.. and a 144hz monitor.. I think that's about it. OH wait no, I also need a new chair because this one is crippling me. But that really is all that needs to be changed. So only most of it.

Bazzo

Quite the man cave.

That chair looks comfortable as hell.

frozenfrozen

Bazzo wrote: »

Quite the man cave.

That chair looks comfortable as hell.

It was when new but it has lost the padding so gets quite uncomfortable, and sometimes it will randomly drop completely to the floor. There's a 5 cent coin stopping the metal rod from dropping through the bottom where ball bearings used to be. Still though MUCH better than the kitchen chair I used to sit on!

Baked.noodle

Have been meaning to make the effort to post a pic or two of my cave, so here it is. Had to use the crappy camera on my Moto G as my Kodak crapped out on me. I'm a big movie fan so I like to be able to watch TV from my bed.








My system is a little old at this point so I'm planning to upgrade to either Broadwell or Skylake, depending on how long I can hold out with my current build. From my sig: Q6600@3GHz, GA-P35-DS3R, Sapphire Radeon 6870 1GB, 4GB DDR2@800MHz, Samsung 840 120GB, Seagate Barracuda 500GB, LG 24" IPS 24EA53, LG 32" 1080p LEDTV, Plantronics Gamecom 780 Headset, Sony Stereo.

I think I have the same chair as you frozenfrozen, except it's black. Very comfy

Yeti Beast

Pics no worky.

Baked.noodle

Yeti Beast wrote: »

Pics no worky.

I messed it up somehow :rolleyes:
Should be working now, Thanks.

glynf

Nice setup frozenfrozen, kudos on the 1210's:)

Blitz17

Will try get up a pic of my work in progress 540 Air tomorrow. Took a jigsaw to it

Tazzimus

My current set up, only a low-mid level gaming PC but I add to it as I go so it's a constant work in progress. Motherboard and RAM are next to go with the colour scheme and maybe another fan or two.

Baked.noodle

Lovely build Tazzimus. I could be wrong in this instance but I thought most case's that have a bottom mounted PSU usually draw air in from the base of the case and expel it out the back. I just noticed that your PSU is sucking air from inside the case.

Tazzimus

Baked.noodle wrote: »

Lovely build Tazzimus. I could be wrong in this instance but I thought most case's that have a bottom mounted PSU usually draw air in from the base of the case and expel it out the back. I just noticed that your PSU is sucking air from inside the case.

Had trouble lining the screw holes up when it was upside down so put it in that way. Air temps seem fine since I've had it anyways.

deceit

Replacing standard watercooling tubing/compression tubing with e22 acrylic tubing. Hopefully turns out as good as I expect it too
Some of the cuts i've tried so far


Edit:
I've decided to add them today to see how they fit. I think they look really well so I will order the other 16 fittings I need and finish it off .
I will have 26 compression fittings and some angled fittings spare now so will have to build another pc now :P

Blitz17

Pretty much finished the first mod of my 540 Air, took a jigsaw to the top and made brackets to support 3 x 120mm fans. 3rd one is for show as I have a 240 rad up there. Would of looking stupid with just 2 fans. Nothing is really secure in these pictures hence why the top rad isnt level. Next up is to make custom fascias from acrylic and also do all the inside in acrylic

Blitz17

Also sorted this out today. RGB leds powered by Molex and controlled with infared remote.

http://s10.photobucket.com/user/Blitz_Tuning/media/VIDEO0026.mp4.html

Recurve360

Blitz17 wrote: »

Also sorted this out today. RGB leds powered by Molex and controlled with infared remote.

http://s10.photobucket.com/user/Blitz_Tuning/media/VIDEO0026.mp4.html

Thats pretty cool, any links to buy it?

Serephucus

Sort of like this dude's mod?

Blitz17

Serephucus wrote: »

Sort of like this dude's mod?

Exactly dude ! Lot bigger of a job then it looks unfortunately ! There is 2 of them like that. The one you posted was made by Kier and there's another called Majestic 540

Grim.

apologies for the crap phone pics but finally (just about) finished my rebuild into the SM8

still need to braid pcie cable but fairly happy with the results

Yeti Beast

CaseLab cases are awesome - I really want a Mercury S8 for my next build.