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AdamPinnock

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About AdamPinnock

  • Birthday Sep 22, 1993

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    London
  • Occupation
    Engineering Student @ UCL

System

  • CPU
    i7 5820K
  • Motherboard
    ASUS Rampage V Extreme
  • RAM
    Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3000MHz
  • GPU
    ASUS STRIX 980ti
  • Case
    Custom
  • Storage
    Crucial 120Gb SSD x2 + WD Green 2Tb
  • PSU
    EVGA supernova 1000
  • Cooling
    Custom water
  • Mouse
    Razer Ourobros

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  1. Ouch, sorry to hear that! But thanks for the peace of mind - luckily I have some 99% and an esd safe brush so that's cleaned up now.
  2. Sounds like as long as it's dealt with properly, i've avoided anything more than cosmetic damage, yeah?
  3. Hey, so not exactly a disaster, caught it super quick. Trouble is I don't know what the damage is at all on this kinda thing: See the fan header with the small amount of corrosion? the very local area including the capacitor seems to have been affected - no unusual behavior from the PC, nothing. The motherboard is an ASUS rampage V extreme. Any experience with this kinda water damage would be super appreciated! Cheers A
  4. Yepp, even the XMP overclocking profile is functional. The only difference is that it runs as 2 x Dual Channel rather than 1 x Quad Channel. Interesting you say that though as RAM detection wasn't super straightforward on my board to begin with: as you can see in an earlier post I had the sticks in the red slots, although on applying the XMP profile, I 'Lost' a stick of RAM and only 12Gb was detected, then experimented with one stick in a black slot, only 8Gb was then detected. Got frustrated, pulled all sticks out and tried individually in all slots and no issues per stick or slot, so ordered another set of 4 sticks to fill all the slots and also troubleshoot a bit more and for the mean time just filled up one bank of slots... and then all 16Gb was detected... checked the settings and yepp, 2 x dual channel! If you have the same board and RAM, it'd be cool to hear if you have a similar situation!
  5. They work fine, perhaps 5% slower though? I know its not optimal for a quad channel kit from the DIMM prioritisation, but either way as I wrote, 4 more sticks are arriving in the next week
  6. It's a shame isn't it! I prefer being in the shed with the saws and drills, but studying at least I have CAD by my side to dream up other projects! And keeping it open for the most part, whilst arming myself with a can of compressed air haha! I like your thinking... I've had the gear idea in mind from the start! although that'll be a finishing touch, the pressure gauge and gear servos will be controlled by a Raspberry Pi which I've had in my draw for a while - as the total system load reaches max, the gears will turn faster and the gauge will flicker from 90% to 100% to give an 'overload' effect - I'll be starting work on the script for that soon hopefully, just a shame it'll be a while before I can add it to the build!
  7. 5 - Final (For Now) Pictures! So here's the build as she stands currently, sorry for the jump, since the last set of photos I routed, soldered and joined the pipework, added the temperature probes, made the drive bays (not seen, they're underneath the main platform) and filled the loop! I will remove the strix sticker, I needed the backing paper and just stuck it wherever temporarily, but didn't remove it before the photo haha So still quite a bit to do! I will be hoping to engrave some of the wood with a Victorian steam era style, finish some of the 'cosmetic' pipework, polish a few things and add more woodwork to hide the small amount of cable on show! But for now, I'm at uni for the next 9 months. A
  8. Thanks! The Gauge is definitely on the list when I have time! I looked into it and the way those old gauges work means i just have to gut it and install a servo
  9. Yeah I just wanted to see how complex the protein was, like one of the projects my cpu was on looked awesome, and was worth about 3000points, whilst my GPU was working on a 15,000point project and I thought that would look amazing
  10. Hey, just started folding and I've run into a small issue which I think I know the reason for, but not quite sure so would be nice if anyone had an answer! Essentially my CPU project loads the visualisation, but the GPU task has been stuck on 'Loading' for the past hour. I'm reckoning the snapshot size is massive? how long does it usually take for a 980ti visualiser to load? Thanks!
  11. 4 - Trying different fitting combinations and woodwork Moving on with the actual layout of components and how the fittings will join the pipework and other stuff, again taking to the workshop, I chose to recess the pump into a panel, this gave it a much more 'industrial' feel, although the satin black finish didn't suit it exactly, so I used some plastidip 'anthracite grey' laid over a coat of 'vintage gold' to dull the colour and bring it into line: Here's the pump up close - I included the tuning mechanism off of a guitar modified to fit the screwdriver slot on the pump for speed adjustment and aethestic! This is also before filling the gaps in the drilled holes for pipework (had to make them larger as the fittings needed to be soldered, and caused certain parts to be wider) This gave a really nice effect I thought, I'll be obtaining some copper-coloured paint to give the boltheads a 'rivet' look, which should look nice. All the wood in the build on display is mahogany which I had lying around in the shed, gluing and shaping went fairly smoothly: deciding the orientation (still hadn't by this point) of the motherboard actually came really easily, after observing the 24-pin, GPU 8pins, sata ports and cpu fan headers where essentially all in the same place, there was an inch and a half gap in the design where they could be hidden to such an extent that only an inch of cable showed on the entire build! Difficult to see on the picture, but to the immediate left of the pump/reservoir location: And also playing around with where I wanted certain things - like the obligatory pressure gauge, of course: Next post is just some nice shots of the current state of the build! I was in-between phones here and so didn't get many photos at all sorry! A
  12. Go nuts, turn the speed setting up and down rapidly, connect the pump to an external psu and turn it off an on repeatedly, then leave the pump on high for a couple hours before turning it down to save noise
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