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I've been playing like a mad dog for about 4 hours. I get on to just about every server. I only had problems with a couple. One of the problems on one server was I kept getting booted out. Just a black screen on all three monitors. I had to go back to my games and start from there to get back to the multiplayer. Oh yea, I'm on the east coast USA.

What about tranny fluid?

Respect fully. Congrats on your hard work and making the build of the week. ;)

Sorry it took so long to reply. I wasn't trolling. My statement about this rig needing more work was empty but that's because since you are the builder you need to come up with ideas on how this could improve. You did a rush job and some of the finer details show it. The work you did on the etched mid plate was awesome but the lighting is still not right. And the holes for the tubing to pass through the plate just don't seem to fit with the traces to me. The 90 degree fittings you selected look terrible. I think if you could have bent the tubing better you wouldn't even need 90 degree fittings. And what's with the open vented spaces in the front and back of the case, alot more things could have been done with that. Those vents just allow dirt and dust to enter the case. I'm sorry if you feel like I'm picking on your build. It is pretty good but in my opinion not awesome. It kind of baffles me how it was selected for the WAN show. Yea, I guess I'm jealous.

Not interested. I see to many things I don't like about it. My honest opinion this build still needs a lot of work.

The weight. I can barely lift the damn thing.

The NSA and gov't can do whatever they want to the internet. I'm tossing all my technology when I retire in ten years, moving away from people, and becoming a hermit. I've lived long enough now that I don't like the world as I see it anymore. I wasn't raised to believe that people were liars and greedy crooks but that's primarily all I see anymore. Nasty attitudes, quickness to jump to anger, selfishness. You all can have your mess I don't want it and I'm checking out. I want to enjoy my old age in peace. You can talk about this all you want to but the truth is it isn't going to get any better. If you believe things will get better you're idiots.

Modding is about building rigs using you creativity and talents. Nobody can give you a dictionary based on that concept. I think it's best left up to the person interested in modding to do their homework to figure out if their idea is going to work like the rest of us did. Of course one can always ask questions in forums.

I would never recommend PPC. They obviously don't check the items they ship before they ship them for damage and when you file a claim for RMA they act like it's something you did. If you ever do file a claim with them be careful what you say to them or they will cut you off. I would recommend when making a purchase from them you do it through your credit card so you can get your money back that way if you do receive something buggered. The only good thing I can say about them is they have a lot of the stuff builders want and they ship fast but they act like children when it comes to customer service.

If you are going with a basic pump and not planning on getting a pump top or mod kit then at least get the pump that accepts G1/4 fittings. The basic pump with the barbs is crap because you have to really stretch the tubing to get it on the barbs and you only can direct your tubing straight out from the pump. at least with fittings you could use angles off the pump if needed.

This is the first time I've actually seen a sleeved set of GPU cables organized and looking neat. A lot of other builders should follow this example.

So, I think we are missing something here. You're building your girl a computer that's not for gaming using a Sabretooth board, and pink paint. The Sabretooth is a gaming board and a military base theme. How does that match up with pink? I think you're just throwing this board in her build so you can get the board you really wanted for yourself. ;) Smart man.

I thought the small peak-a-boo views would be a way for me to charge my friends a $1 to open the door to get the full view. :D I had a full window on my last build and it was distracting because of the lights. This build is even brighter. I mostly use this computer in a darkened room and while gaming I can't be distracted from the battlefield.

I have both and the quality is night and day. The Caselabs are thick heavy aluminum with tapped threaded holes for mounting. The Silverstone's grills are cheap plastic and if you're not careful when mounting then the screw will eat right through the plastic. Believe me Silverstone's do not even compare.

Really nice. Greens my favorite too.

I guess at 15 you have your priorities. Studies would be the smart choice. I wasn't so smart at that age I was just chasing pussy. Now that I am old and don't get laid my priorities are wire management. LOL!

My previous build was in a Corsair 650D. I was looking at the back and all the wiring. I remember that mess. I tried multiple times to clean up the back but I couldn't get mine to look any better than yours. It is a nice case though. I liked it. Plenty of ways to mod it if you felt like cutting it up. Here's what mine looked like I built a pedestal to house a radiator under the case for more cooling. Anyway, that's all gone now and the case is going to be sold. I just wanted to say I like your build and share a bit with you.

I already told you I love this build but I was looking at it some more and just wanted to suggest something. Instead of the wire grill covers on that radiator why not take a look at Caselabs website and their cover plates. They are awesome and the quality is the best and I think would give your build a bit cleaner look.

Just had to add this one last picture.

Yea, it was a crimp on the wallet for a while there but one might say a good investment. I may never have to buy another fitting as long as I live. Temps are great. The top rad covers the graphics cards which run about 10 degrees cooler than the CPU loop. according to Core temp and GPUZ. The fan in the rear is pushing cool air towards the front and into the gap between the two rads. There is cool air rising up through and out the top of the top rad.

Holy Moley, I never been a fan of blue cars, bikes, or builds, but you've changed my mind with this awesome work. Nice job. And I love Bitspower. Hope you make the WAN show too. That was pretty creative building around the HDD like that, not necessary but I think it was good to include it.

I've been asked by a number of people in these forums to post my build in these log threads. I guess I didn't post it in the right section in the beginning so many of you have seen this already in another section. I have added some photos to try to give more detail on how this mod went down. Here goes, I started water cooling about a year ago and realized I was actually able to unlock more performance from my PC by doing this. But I kind of got a fever or addiction you might say because it didn't stop at just adding pumps, hoses, and liquid to my case. I watched a lot of Youtube and I particularly like Singularity Computers builds. I also like the build he did in the Silverstone TJ11 with dual pumps and the graphics cards positioned vertically. I looked around the web for a long time trying to find a case other than Silverstone's that had the graphics cards positioned like that but there aren't any. So when I found Caselabs I knew I wanted to mod one of these cases. From the info I collected off the internet I was able to make a drawing scale 1:1 to see if and how my components would fit and also radiator size and placement. Once I knew I had a chance of making this work I dropped the bomb and placed the order for a Merlin SM8. It took about a week and a half but it arrived fully assembled. I pulled it out of the box and immediately started taking it apart. Once I got the mid panel out I was able to determine my plan better as to how I was going to make the new mid panel mount in it's place. I went to Home Depot and I bought some 3/8" aluminum angle stock and some 1". I bought a few boxes of 6-32 screws because this is what Caselabs holes are all tapped at. I wanted to keep all the screws the same thread size just like Caselabs did. I bought a countersink bit for my drill. Next I went to a local metal supply warehouse and bought a sheet of .093 6061 grade aluminum. Then I took all this to the shop where I work so I would have a place to do the work. So I got to work installing the framework for the new panel. I used the existing mid panel holes made by Caselabs to mount my angles to. Then it was time to cut the new panel to fit perfectly. Next I was left with what to do with the back panel of the case where the motherboard tray originally slid in. That was easy. Put some fans there. So I went to Home Depot to get an aluminum sheet to make a panel for this but all they had was steel. So steel it was. I got a gage thick enough to be strong because I could only make four holes for the mounting bolts. I originally painted this back panel flat black but I realized it look terrible so I made another trip to Home Depot to look for paint. I found one. This paint matched the powdercoat finish from Caselabs perfectly. Look at the pic of the back section. I only painted the new cover panel. So next I had to cut the top rails where Caselabs as the frame for their drop in panels. I had to make the opening big enough for the motherboard tray to slide in and out without hitting the rails. Once dropped in the tray would sit on the 1" angle and support it. I put the new mid panel back in and I removed the motherboard tray slides from the original mid panel and installed the slides perfectly on the new mid panel. Mid panel removed again I started ctting the holes for the cables to pass through. This was a little harder because I had to drill big holes and then across them to make them elongated which turned out quite sloppy but after a day of filing I got them cleaned up nicely. and I then started to apply the DINOC carbon look vinyl. So here is what the new panel looks like installed I did some touch up painting and cut the screws to a flush custom length and any other details I found that needed attention. Next was time to make a support panel for the PSU. This took a day because it was a lot of work for one thing and I screwed up the first panel I made. It took a lot of filing and then painting and drilling holes precisely where they needed to be. I was glad to get it done but again it worked out perfectly So now I was at a point where I could start installing components. I started at the bottom with the radiators. I was going for attacking them so I had to make brackets to accomplish this. I had to cut the cover plate for the front I/O hole so that it would fit in the narrow space. So a lot of the work that didn't get photographed was just installing parts and getting my loop runs to work out. I started this build as a single loop setup. Money was the reason. I kept ordering fittings as the weeks went on and staring at the build coming up with ideas. Caselabs has come out with a whole bunch of neat fan covers and vented covers so I placed a couple of orders there too. They were great to deal with. Caselabs customer service is the best. One idea I had was to make a custom junction block for all the LED lighting. I sent Molex an email and they sent me free samples of their terminals and I went to Radio Shack to acquire a PC board to made this custom junction. At this point I still didn't know what I wanted to do with the door panel. Window? No. I had one in the last build with the Corsair 650D case and it didn't do anything for me. I had this idea At this point I'd like to just post the rest of the build completed Unfortunately I had a few more better pictures and one of my complete setup but the file size was to big. They were taken with a different camera. So I hope you enjoy what I've posted and thank you to all of those people who gave me compliments in the other thread section.

I'm pleased with the temps because they don't change much more than 10 to 15 degrees when I'm gaming. They used to get dangerously close to the components maximum capabilities, and even would crash at times, when I used smaller rads and had them in the top and front of the Corsair 650D case and that was only overclocking the CPU to 3.8GHz and the GPU's weren't pumped up much either. So now my rig is more in line with a lot of other peoples based on things I've seen posted in tons of forums. So yes, I'm happy. Go back to the end of the 1st page to see the images posted showing GPUZ, CPUZ, and CORE TEMP.

This build is true a work of art. You're very talented. But aesthetics aside I wonder if the motherboard takes a hit in performance due to the paint on the heat sinks. It's been talked about in many forums that you shouldn't paint the mother board or heats of any component. Can you post some screen shots of CPUZ, GPUZ sensors, and temps please?

First let me start by saying Thank you to all of you who took the time to reply and say you liked my build. The easiest part was the case mod and the hardest part was getting all the runs in my loops worked out with all those Bitspower fittings. I probably have a couple hundred dollars worth of fittings left over. I never got not one leak from the Bitspower fittings even after making 4 or 5 changes to the loops. The only leaks I encountered was from two new Swiftech rotary 90* fittings I bought because I couldn't get 90* Bitspower at the time I needed them. Anyway, I'm still working at this thing a bit getting a little better cable management, shortening cables, and changing some LEDs that for some reason have a different tint to them. I've owned several computers and built them all myself mainly using Silverstone cases and one Corsair Obsidian 650D and I must say there is nothing like a Caselabs. These cases are the best and even though it seemed expensive at the time it doesn't hurt a bit now that I've spent the money and got my case done. I like the performance I'm getting from the components and won't be upgrading for a while and when I do get a new motherboard and CPU it will drop right in to the existing case very easily. And that about wraps it up unless anyone has questions and I do have a lot more pictures I can add to hopefully answer specific questions. Here are the screenshots of the performance Again thank you for your kind replies.