Gadgetory

well I've been making some changes to my rig and I mentioned it in one of my other videos and someone asked me to do a blog post on what I'm actually installing in here and what kind of changes I'm making so first of all I've gone with an MSI Big Bang xpower for my latest build it's a very solid board comes with a very good accessory package and just all the features that I really need lots of PCI Express slots I'm pretty much done with PCI personally so that's that's one of the reasons I decided to go with this board and down under that Enzo Tec Luna waterblock I've got a 980 x6 core processor that's 12 gigs of ocz special edition see the blue and black color scheme which is just dead sexy on there and so I'll be running that in the motherboard this is an msi geforce gtx 480 i've gone with a single card this time around although I usually do run SLI and I may change it later on in the future to add an additional graphics card I am using a modular power supply that's an inner max revolution 85 plus it's an 80 plus silver power supply so I will have the option to add more cables and have another graphics card in the future should I desire it yes that is a vision Tech killer Nick it's got a feature I really like it's got that bandwidth allocation feature which I find really cool I like their software overall I've found that having the killer Nick in my computer is better than not having the killer Nick in my computer so I went ahead and replaced my Intel Nick with it a while back so let's move back and take an overall look at the PC this isn't a silverstone TJ of seven the only modifications I've really made to it are a couple holes here and there and I have painted the interior with a black wrinkle I had it done by mountain mods a couple years ago at this point I guess I am using gelid wing fans up here in the visible parts of the build and then here in the front gelid wings again but then where it's actually hidden i have the new silverstone air penetrators which are running the main thermal chill pa1 20.4 radiator that does most of the cooling in this build all though there is a black ice 2 pro here in the front but these fans actually only turn on if the system gets hot which with a single graphics card in it is very unlikely for the liquid cooling system to actually heat up speaking of the liquid cooling system here's an EKG TX 480 nickel-plated plexi block so that's going to go on the 480 once I've finished doing some burnin and testing on this system you can see the back of the system I'm using noise dampening mounts for all of the fans where that is a possibility this build is all about silence this liquid cooling system is not for performance all of these fans will be run at much less than full voltage at all times thanks to this guy right here this is the brains of the operation so it's got a couple of temperature sensors one of which gets attached to the side of my main radiator and the other one sits around the here there it is right there sits in the Northbridge so basically I use those as a reference points for how hot is my liquid cooling system how hot are the air cooled components in my rig and then I adjust the fan speeds in zones so these two and these two are actually adjusted together and I use the 92 s first because at low rpm where I don't need a lot of cooling they're actually a little bit quieter than the 120 s then the 120 s kick in when things get hot and the liquid cooling system actually runs with the fans off on the front and right around like 30% fan speed on the bottom ones until things start to get a little bit warm there's that enter max revolution yes I realize in the ideal world I would have this fan turned around but then I would have to use the other holes in my power supply now down here and then I'd like chip the paint really I have enough radiator in this rig to cool a couple machines like this so I'm not too worried about it there's the air penetrator fans I was talking about these are going to be a great addition to this build I just changed over to these I was using 8 loons down here before because air penetrators are designed to actually blow air in a column directly away from the fan so what that means is once I close up this and the mesh is sitting here it should Maura Fabian this is all in theory it should in theory more effectively blow the air through and out the other side panel rather than just kind of scattering it around in here and relying on random chance to blow out the other side of the computer so that that is my theory seems like a good theory I hear some inverters for cold cathodes here's where I melt my two and a half inch SSD drives so I'll just run all the SATA cables here I use this hole right here to run some SATA power up there so all the dry and state completely hidden out of the way I still have some stuff to do so I still get a mount a pump and some kind of reservoir down here I haven't decided how I'm going to do that because honestly it's a total nightmare to mount one of these I've got a few MC res micros here here's a rev - here's a rev one here's a really old rev one it has like some kind of gunk on the side of it and I've also got one of these t-virus reza's this one leaks though so I haven't really found a place to to put it where it would really work like it doesn't really fit here which is ideally where I would want to put it so I think that one's pretty much out of the question right now yeah this is what the floor looks like oh yeah I've been working on sleeping the revolution comes with just horrendous looking sleeting or let me look at this enough so I went ahead and replaced it with plain blacks leading that I bought from cableorganizer.com it's cheap it's fast things get done so yeah that was why I went that route so you can see all the cables are now sleeved black I've got the two EPs eight pins up here I've got my six pins here my 24 pin I've still got to do some some SATA cables as well as a molex cable make sure I've got power everywhere oh yeah I've got one of those cool LG blu-ray / HD DVD drives I know no one cares about HD DVD anymore but if I ever happen to cross an HD DVD drive I could our disc I could play it so there you go it's more than you can say oh yeah I replaced the the front of the case the the front drive bay covers with an Tek 900 ones so now they are perforated and you and run an air through them which is good here in the front I still have the stock USB firewire audio ping and I have UV lights yep black lights here here two of them here one more back here and that lights up the UV blue primo Flex LRT tubing as well as the UV sensitive gelid wing fans and I used to have a dfi LAN party board so it lit that up as well but there you go that is the build that I'm working on and it's been sitting here for Wow like weeks I wish it worked because then I would have a computer again that would be great