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After(Water Cooled): |
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| Lapped Q6600: |
Arctic Silver 5 Application: |
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| eVGA 780i SLI Ultra(currently using this): |
eVGA 790i SLI Ultra returned it for 780i going to "step-up" to 790i in 60 days: |
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| Air Cooling(Before): |
| A couple months ago I was an air cooling fanatic and would have never thought I would water cool my computer. I had a Thermalright
city and it was beautiful, but watercooling is more beautiful and more effective. Air cooling can be very good if you know the simple
physics of air flow and the laws of proper computer air cooling.
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| Water Cooling(Current build): |
| The Antec 900 case, that I use, is not made for water cooling so this process took a lot of preping and patience. I cut a few holes
for the radiator's tubes and wire management. Also I could have probably done this in one night but more of a chance to fry something,
and it would not have looked as good. I took my time and fixed every little thing I could make better. Took a night to put stuff together, then
took a whole night to do the leak test with just the waterblocks in there, then finished it up on the last day. After three days of hard
work we have good results : ).
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| Materials: |
Thermalright HR-09 Type 4 & mosfet heatsinks: |
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| Mosfets Picture: |
9800GTX with D-Tek Waterblock: |
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| 780i with Danger Den CPU block, EZ NB block: |
Side Picture: |
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| Doing a leak test(everything but PSU in case): |
Top Picture: |
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| During leak test: |
Radiator Top Picture: |
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| Lapping: |
| For those of you that do not know what lapping is,
it is pretty much taking the nickel coating off the top of the processor. This process takes a very long time because you have
to be sure to do it on a flat surface and check it. This is not something to rush it took me 8-10 hours to do the TRUE heatsink, Q6600,
and HR-09 SLI. Took a lot of cafeinne and movies hehe. |
| 3M 600, 1000, and 2000 grit sandpapers: |
Materials: |
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| Getting started on CPU: |
Almost there on the TRUE: |
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| Right before 2000 grit paper: |
Nice and shiny : )!: |
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| This is all I did to the HR-09: |
Nice and shiny TRUE *SUCCESS*: |
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