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Mates
PC Mods
The
following pages are dedicated to my mates computers that have 'visted' the garage
to have work/mods etc...done on them. These pages will steadily grow as there
are more up and comming mods in the works :-)
First
PC belongs to my best mate Paul or Snapper as he is known to his friends, great
bloke known him for nearly 20 years now! His computer consists of Tsunami case,
AMD3200+CPU, Gigabyte mobo, 1gig DDR400ram, 400watt PSU, Nvidia5600 gfx card
with Thermaltake heat pipe cooling, 80 gig hard drive, DVD/CD burner. In the
cooling department it has just recently been hit with the 'water treatment'
@ The Garage! Danger Den TDX cpu block, innovatek© radiator & UV blue
mini coolshroud all connected with 1/2in.ClearFLEX tubing encased in UV reactive
Coolsleeves™ . Cooler Master SAG-K01-U1 Liquid Cooling Thermal Conductivity
Fluid fills the sysyem and is pumped by an Eheim 1048 Pump. Relay is custom
made using same parts as seen on the relay
page of this site (relay was however not constructed in this instance
by myself, it came with the 2 blocks, radiator and pump that were won on ebay
by myself for $172. Extra block was a Silverprop Evo! GREAT win! IMO)
Not
a bad looking case the Tsunami, as can be seen in the picture to the left it
has received a custom black tint window. The shape was a Snapper Fish design
and cut by myself with the trusty dremel. Two 80mm fans (one intake one outtake)
complete with Blade fan guards finish it off... Snapper wanted the front drive
compartment covered from view and the focus on the rear end of the PC, I believe
he has achieved this with the shape of window he designed...nice job bud :-)
Above
pictures: A couple more side on pics of the window with and without fans lit.
Pictures dont do it a scrap of justice it looks far far better in person. The
black perspex makes the non fluro components ie.mobo, drives,wiring etc within
the case 'less visible' it really makes the fluro and UV components stand out...very
impressive look I think not over done but enough done to make it stand out from
the stock case....
OK..To
the interior of the PC. Snapper fitted the system himself my part was minor,
I fabricated the cpu socket brackets and perspex plate to attach the Danger
Den block...I gave a little advice/guidence too (not that it was really needed)
It is the Big Fishes first H20 cooled PC! As can be seen Snapper went for an
external rear mounted radiator the shroud /radiator & case all have double
sided adhesive rubber tabe between them to provide an air tight seal, radiator
& fan are attached with four long bolts through the case, the fan pulls
air from the interior of the case and blows it through the radiator (Im not
a fan of this type setup I prefer internal front mounted setups, I see no clear
cut advantage performance wise, rear mounting you're blow warm air from case
through radiaotr, front mount you blow cold air through radiaot BUT it exits
radiaor warm and into case...comes down to the individual as to which way to
go I think)
Left picture: Not the best of pics here
im afraid, the camera doesn't seem to like the fluro lighting a great deal
but it gives you some indication of the extent of the lighting in the PC.
Needs a little attention on the wiring side of thngs apart from that it's
quite a neat unit.
Snapps will be making a couple of 'adjustments'
to the tubing attachment to eliminate the 'S' he's got happening on the tube
connecting the radiator outlet to the pumps intake fitting. a 90 degree for
the pumps intake (as used on H20 BitchThings Hydor
pump) Would be the ideal solution, just a matter of finding one that
will fit the Eheim pump! Paul isn't happy with the exsisting fitting on the
Eheim, the outter collar that usually clamps the tubing to the lip wasn't
used as it wouldn't fit over the ClearFLEX tubing due to the large outter
diameter. The tube was pushed on and cable tied (Personally I think it's fine
but agree a 90 degree fitting is needed)
Overall Snapper is very happy with the
cooling and the performance @ last report cpu temp was sitting steady on 36
degrees this I believe will drop slightly as the few air bublles work their
way out of the system.
A very worthy addition to The Garage! a neat system not over the top with
mods and lit up like a Christmas tree! Big thanks to Snapper for the pictures
& allowing me to add it to the pages of The Garage ...Thanks
mate!
There are 3 more PC's that have passed through The Garage and come out the
other side a 'little' different than when they went in hehe...pictures of
these will be added in the not too distant future...
