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I did actually get a brand new hat...
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Papa gots a brand new hat.
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Those Cooler Masters are way too pricey! The most I ever shelled out for a case was 30 bucks, and thats only \'cause it had cool Neon lights and a two-tone front.
The thing that sucked about moving away from \'the beige box\' was having to spray the front of all my drives silver.
Pain in the ass, but it did come out awesome. I\'m in a no-name ATX tower. It\'s huge, gots six case fans, and is noisy as hell. Nice an\' cool, and it lights up green. I would have liked to get Thermaltake\'s Kandalf tower, heard great things about it in my gaming mag, but there was a $150 (CND) difference in price.
@Spacemunkie: The attic, you say? Trying to mask that musty smell they usually get?
@Spacemunkie: The attic, you say? Trying to mask that musty smell they usually get?
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Nope. It was the only space big enough to house them!!!
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i just keep them in a little bag in my wallet, well maybe in a different form.
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Originally posted by MarkusTay
Those Cooler Masters are way too pricey! The most I ever shelled out for a case was 30 bucks, and thats only \'cause it had cool Neon lights and a two-tone front.
The thing that sucked about moving away from \'the beige box\' was having to spray the front of all my drives silver.
After burning out 2 motherboards and about 5 power supplies due to overheating, I chose to build this one to last.
Since I do engineer water cooling systems for power supplies and electromagnets, I was going to do water cooling.
(I still might, I have an idea for a system I\'ve never seen done.)
However due to time and Money I chose to go with the Coolermaster case.
The Praetorian is on of the best I\'ve ever seen with 2 front intake fans, a rear fan, and a top blow hole fan, the cooling is awesome.
(Really good since I\'ve just added the second Vid card for the SLI config.)
It\'s also incredibly quiet.
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Hey! Mine glows green too!
... but it only has three fans including the PS. All the lighting is from the two green LED-fans I added. I still haven\'t painted my CD and floppy bezels like I planned though
Nice to see a fellow da Vinci fan (but who isn\'t?). I almost used that pic for my Avatar, NSA, but went with some of Michael\'s work instead. Paint the drives dude, once you go mod you never go back.
@Evil Dave - I think you might have sold me; I\'ve cooked three mobo\'s, two procs, and at least five power supplies. Gonna have to give one of those bad boys a once over at the next computer show.
@Evil Dave - I think you might have sold me; I\'ve cooked three mobo\'s, two procs, and at least five power supplies. Gonna have to give one of those bad boys a once over at the next computer show.
With my cooler master Im running at about 52... I might need to get some more cooling in there...
I plan on upgrading as I go... First gonna go to 2gb, then probably get the best video card out... get some more memory when I need it... I might end up sticking watercooling in it, or mabe i\'ll just keep it in the fridge... I dunno... ???
Water cooling definitely isn\'t cheap though, but probably a worth-while investment...
I plan on upgrading as I go... First gonna go to 2gb, then probably get the best video card out... get some more memory when I need it... I might end up sticking watercooling in it, or mabe i\'ll just keep it in the fridge... I dunno... ???
Water cooling definitely isn\'t cheap though, but probably a worth-while investment...
Originally posted by Levdir
Cheers, Dave. My mobo only has one PCI-E 16x slot, else I\'d be tempted to drop another $300 on a second 6600 for SLI...have fun experimenting with water cooling.
That\'s $300 canadian right?
Seems a bit high, although I don\'t know the conversions right off hand.
I got all my parts from newegg.com.
The second video card was my fee for building another computer for someone.
In total my new comp cost about $1400 USD, which may sound high until you compare it to the prebuilt comps with comparable components. In other words Dell sucks.
The problem with most water cooling designs I\'ve seen is that they have them hooked up in a series connection.
Now this may be fine for some, but if you\'re the kind of person that needs water cooling it probably means you have oc\'d or you have some high end, powerful stuff putting out a lot of heat.
Todays Vid cards are putting out as much heat as the processors. Now in a series connection this means that the hot water from the processor is going to the chipset (gathering more heat) then going to the Vid card. Sure if you got enough flow it really doesn\'t matter, but I\'m not sure these little pumps can handle the kind of flow requirements both a processor and a high end vid card need.
I\'m working on parallel system, in which each componet has a supply and a return.
heres my comp, it glows blue. there are total of 4 blue fans on it, 2 x 12cm, 1 x 14 and 1 x 8cm. Sorry for the bad pictures, these were one of the first pictures which I took with my new digicam, and I\'m not going to take better ones until I tidy up the cable mess inside.
The case is an antec Lanboy2, Ive swapped the fans that came with it for better ones. Ive got a rheostat (?) to control the fanspeeds, it also shows temperatures from the CPU,HDD,powersupply and from the case itself my case idles @ 25C, and rises to 27-28C under stress. I\'ve also installed a new copper vga cooler and some copper ramsinks on my Radeon9800PRO, it overclocks to XT speeds like a breeze
The case is an antec Lanboy2, Ive swapped the fans that came with it for better ones. Ive got a rheostat (?) to control the fanspeeds, it also shows temperatures from the CPU,HDD,powersupply and from the case itself
my case idles @ 25C, and rises to 27-28C under stress. I\'ve also installed a new copper vga cooler and some copper ramsinks on my Radeon9800PRO, it overclocks to XT speeds like a breeze 
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Wow! That\'s very glowy. Mine isn\'t half that glowy. I did buy primer today, to prime the drive bezels. I guess I just needed reminding
