Worklog: Project King Kong II, Silverstone TJ07

[zy]

nice

[DanielDev]

Everything is looking really nice

[Chai]

Why change the cooler?

[neverthar]

I"m guessing the old HSF was a pain as it made the mobo dirtier then what he's gonna use now

@ianho: compressed air still RM40/= a can at ACE ka?

[ianho]

Originally Posted by Chai

Why change the cooler?

Well, I was supposed to use the Freezer64 as Arctic Cooling is my sponsor. It just took a lil longer than expected to arrive. The CM is my own n I used that while waiting for the Freezer64. Surprisingly the Freezer64 is a lot smaller n quieter but it's only 3C hotter than the gemin. That's on a fresh coat of MX1 though. Once the MX1 cures, I'm pretty sure the load temp will drop 2-3C n have the same temps as the gemin. That's pretty phenomenal for such a small n quiet cooler. I'll be receiving the Freezer Extreme soon n that shud really kick butt.

Originally Posted by neverthar

I"m guessing the old HSF was a pain as it made the mobo dirtier then what he's gonna use now

@ianho: compressed air still RM40/= a can at ACE ka?

Yup, rm40 per can for the big huge Ambersil can. The ACE can has half the contents at rm20.

[ianho]

here's sum stuff I did for King Kong just b4 the new hardware arrived. I decided to change out the fans n use the lovely Arctic Cooling 12cm PWM fans for my HDD racks.

Here's the 2 lovely beauties. A big thank you to Arctic Cooling for providing me with these fans. U guys shud go to the Arctic Cooling site n check these fans out. They're really special. There's a PWM sharing function which I havent seen on any other fans.









Here's how the fan looks like. Plain black fan. No colors, no bling bling. Just the way Arctic Cooling has been. Just pure performance instead of going for looks. Note that the wire is nicely sleeved in black so that's a big bonus for modders. Nonid to waste time sleeving the fans.











Installing the AC fans into the HDD racks.









Done.








After that I proceeded to install my new aluminum fans too.

Here they are in the back of the case as exhaust fans.









Aluminum fans in the front too, as intake fans.









Here's the back again with blue CCFLs turned on to show how the alu n chrome blades really haf a nice bling bling effect. :thumbs:







Wokeh, here's the update that I really love. New hardware!!!!!!!!!!!! :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: I've been waiting waiting waiting for teh AMD quad to arrive for such a long time. They kept delaying it until I oso fed up liao. So I decided not to wait anymore n jsut get the Intel quad as my AMD X2 jsut cudn handle the new multi core coded games like Bioshock anymore.

Here's the new hardware. A loooooooooooooovely Striker Extreme mobo, Q6600 CPU, sum small DX10 gfx cards for use as a 3rd gfx card. More story on teh 3rd gfx card later. Got sum drama 1.











The very next day I went shopping in LYP again. Bought a boot full of stuff. After buying all that I had to go grocery shopping in Tesco. My wife took so long with the groceries. I was totally bored out of my mind so I decided to go back to the car to play around with the new stuff. I also decided to do a photo shoot right there in teh car park with my PDA's camera. :lol So many ppl were staring at this weird fella arranging stuff in the boot n taking pictures. Anywa, here's a list of teh stuff I bought. HP all in 1 printer, copier, fax, scanner. 2 ram heatspreaders in my favorite black. A PCI slot blower fan. A USB cup cooler n warmer. A special edition copy of PC.COM magazine, I dont read that mag but I bought it anyway coz i really like the metal box cover. Finally we come back to the small gfx card again. This time I bought an ATi 2400Pro.



Now let's get back to the story about the gfx card. I actually bought a 8500GT n 8400GS earlier. I cudn decide which card I wanted to use as a 3rd card. So I bought both. Once I got home n took out the cards, I decided to use the 8400GS coz it's a half size card. the 8500GT is full sized. I prefer half size coz it sits on top of my 8800GTX n blocks the intake fan n also the exhaust slots on the back. The half sized 8400GS will allow the 8800GTX to haf better ventilation. My priority is always the performance of the GTX. So I spent the whole night trying to get the 3rd card working to power my 20" 2nd monitor while I SLI the 30" monitor. By sunrise oso cudnt do it. So I went to sleep after a frustrating night. Woke next day n started googling like a mad man to find out how to set up a 3 gfx card system. I then found out that for a 3 gfx card system to work with SLI I needed the 3rd gfx card to be ATi. Oh well, nothing like a lesson well learned the hard way. So, off I went to LYP again to buy the ATI 2400Pro.









B4 I get on with this episode of updates, I'd like to apologise for the very, very poor quality pictures. I oni had a puny 2mp Sony camera to work with. My good camera wasnt with me at the time. Hope u guys enjoy the updates considering the pix r of such bad quality.

Wokeh, time to get on with the mods this time. Remember the PCI slot cooler I bought earlier. Well, I'm not using it in the PCI slot. I wanted it for the purpose of ventilating the area between my 2x 8800GTX. The area where the SLI bridge is, it's waaaaaaaaaaay too hot I tell u. The side panel is burning hot in that area after a few hours of gaming. Here's what I did to it.



Here's the fan with the metal plate removed. See that L shaped part that screws into teh PCI slot? I flattened it with a hammer after this pic was taken.









After hammering the metal slot flat. I drilled 2 holes in the top n bottom of the plate so I can screw it into the back panel of the case. This is how it looks like installed in the case. I'm doing sum rewiring in this pic. I had to extend the wire longer n also changed the molex plug to a 3 pin mobo plug so I can just plug it into the mobo for neater wire management purposes. This Striker Extreme mobo has lotsa fan plugs in all the right places. Just perfect for overclockers n modders who need lotsa fans.









Soldering the wire joints n covering with heatshrink. Then sleeving the wires in black for stealth look.










All done. This is how it looks like now with the new mobo, new CPU, new fans, 3rd ATi gfx card all installed. U can see I've installed the stock Intel HSf coz I wanted to compare the temps n also measure the performance of the Arctic Cooling Freezer7Pro.








After testing the stock heatsink to make sure everything was working nicely, I then proceeded to install a nice lovely Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro which was kindly provided to me by E-Devices Sdn Bhd. :thumbs: Once again I thank them profusely. I cant thank them enuf for the support. The Q6600 overclocked to 3.0ghz was just burning hot with the stock heatsink. Everything is under control now with the Freezer 7 Pro.


As usual, I cleaned off the old paste n applied new paste. This time I used MX2, the latest thermal paste from Arctic Cooling.








Freezer 7 Pro installed.










Everything's back in the case now.











A closer look at the 3rd gfx card installed between the 2x 8800GTX.

[ianho]

Here's a lil sumthin I did over the weekend. I did a replica of King Kong in black.

[Chai]

I definitely prefer the black 'King King'.

Will it be a completely new system?

[eXPeri3nc3]

Black edition? Cool.

[ianho]

I actually built it for sum1 but I may just keep it.