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So I ordered the Lian Li V3000+ what I want to do is cover the bottom of the Case. I know I can use Acrylic. but I would like to use a sheet of Aluminum. I just don't know what thickness or what tools I would need to screw it to the case. I don't want to stick it on the case. I would like to actually screw it on. Any advice would be helpful. would I need to thread the Aluminum and if so what tool do you use? what paint would you recommend to color the sheet of metal? I am trying to make a clean look at the bottom where my hardline tubes will pass thru. this is my first time attempting this kind of mod. please any advice or tips.
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Hey, Does anyone know if the casing of the MSI creator z16 is full Aluminum, or just part wise? And does anyone have a picture of the inside of the laptop? What do you think about this device in general?
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hello everyone =) has anyone found out what type of waterblock the xtreme waterforce 3090 has, if it's copper, brass or aluminum? i'm referring to the xtreme waterforce without the AIO. Correct me if i'm wrong, please: i have a copper rad. having a brass plated block or a copper block, is ok for a copper loop right? it's just if other metal is aluminum is the problem. is my understanding correct? thanks in advanced! chris
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Buy CPU cooler on Amazon: http://geni.us/j6k84gX Can you make your own heatsink? Hell yeah! Should you? Let's find out...
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Hello guys, Just wanted to share a recent project. Triangle was always an interesting geometric shape and at that time of building I haven't found triangle pc case on the web so I decided to build one. Primary function of this case is to be NAS. I don't have need for anything bigger so building one with 4 drives was enough. I am sorry I didn't log the entire process but I do have some pictures of the core of the system as well as the finished product. The core was built from aluminum, L profiles were bent to the 60 degree angle. After some drilling and combining this was assembled: The motherboard in the picture is mini-ATX board with integrated CPU, ASRock N3150-ITX. It also has 16GB or RAM, as recommended by FreeNAS community because sometime in the future I will put 4x4TB drives in there. For now these are dummy drives As you can see the skeleton is allowing easy access to the ports as well as the hard drives if they need to be replaced. The enclosure is built from MDF, two sides are 16mm MDF and the back is 20mm MDF. The difference is required for the extra space for the ball bearings drawer slides. I painted it black and then polished it. This is how it looked like after a few coats of paint You can see my brother in the reflection. After that come the fine sanding and polishing, the result: Final assembled NAS looks like this: The top slides up so you can easily access the components inside. Maybe next project will have motorized open and close mechanism Thanks for reading Wish you all the best. Greetings from Montenegro.
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hi everyone,,,, i know the question i'm about to ask has a bit personal preference taste to it,but i want to know your opinions... i recently bought an EATX motherboard (asus rampage v edition 10) and now i want a full tower case for my new build....i want to know what are the best E-ATX supporting cases out there,,, i want a simple matte black minimalistic look on the case with side window and nothing fancy like gaming cases but i want it to be high end recent model...so are there any models that fit into these specifications? i like the coolermaster master case maker 5 but it doesn't support E-ATX....thanks...
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what if you were to add one of these to cool the VRM? I don't need any comments about copper, trust me i'm an engineer.... it's aluminum on purpose there is a copper variant of this. to be fair a flattened pipe would be about the same i recon but i'm pitching the concept here.
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Hello! I'm new to water-cooling and am looking to build my first loop. Since I am super cheap I am trying to buy parts for as cheap as possible. Because of this, I don't want to buy the "standard" EK Pump/Reservoir that matches the rest of my copper stuff. Instead, I found an XSPC X4 Photon 270mm Reservoir/Pump (aluminum I think). My problem is that I have a copper water-block and radiator. Will the aluminum pump/reservoir hurt my loop? If I use an anti-corrosive fluid will it be ok? Thanks for the help! lahren1
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Hello there I have become very interested in EK Waterblock's a240g kit, which is basically a full watercooling kit for a "Custom" loop. Although I am very interested in doing a rigid tubing loop, and as such I would need to use PrimoChill Revolver SX fittings, which are Nickel plated brass. Would the brass/ Nickel Cause corrosion alongside the Aluminum waterblocks/ radiator?
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Hello again, nice people on this forum! I'm here to make more questions everyone finds hard to answer I'll keep it short: I'm looking for a case with the following characteristics: black, brushed aluminum like finish, windowed, micro atx, ample filtered front intake and direct airflow path towards the back (I kind of like the define mini C, but I also think it looks kind of cheap). Also: do you know any forums with nice computer design pictures? I'm looking to get inspired Hope you can help me and thanks in advance for your attention
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Hey guys! I'm looking for a 420 mm radiator, that is not made of copper or brass (preferably made of aluminum), any suggestions? Brand? Model? Anything! Thanks in advance!
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Hey guys! Wasn't sure whether to post this in here or case mods, so I just picked this one. I've been designing my own custom Pc case in sketchup for the past few months, slowly learning things like which bits are needed to drill holes for motherboard standoffs, and what the dimensions are for a properly placed and sized I/O cutout. This is the design I've come up with so far! I wanted a nice triangular design. I knew it might be awkward to fit all the components I want inside that, but I took the time to make sure everything was spaced correctly. Also, at the tip of each point of the triangle, there is a small rectangular cutout which I would use to mount the pc on the wall, if I wanted to do so. Another design element I'll be implementing is hardwood panels to be fitted on the front triangular panel, around the fan cutout. These would be interchangeable for different themes, with their own carved designs and led light accentuation. For example, one theme would be Harry Potter. The case itself is a triangle, and the acrylic cutout at the front is a circle. So a wood panel with the elder wand going up the middle with some diffusive acrylic at the tip, and some blue/white LEDs to make it seem like the tip is lighting up, would turn the front into the Deathly Hallows! Any thoughts/notes?
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to start hello its been a while sense ive been here. Hi ? so I've had a issue with noise constantly being a issue for working and i in past years have come into income that i can now use to see this project through I want to have a system as quiet as i possibly can with also the ability to cool high end system the sacrafical pentium d from a thrift dell tower using linux i set the cpu to just ramp to 100% use for set times for testing the loop my retention method was not tight enough and so added coin spacer. because of testing and the wip of this build thermal grease would be a pain so 30x30mm and 40x40mm graphite pads used.i purchased a ek aluminum am4 block because the china block was proof of concept and didn't have the thermal transfer i needed. the anti corrosive i am using is fernox f1 this is used in mixed metal water boilers and the water on the left is 1 year of a steel nail and copper tube and aluminum fitting the right is fernox f1 and tap water 2200g 8gb ram gigabyte ab350n itx the system is still a wip the flex tape failed after 4 months the adhesive melted due to 60-80c temps on the aluminum more to come later sorry for piss poor formatting cheers transplanting myself here from other forums. have fun with this
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Ok, although the title may be confusing, I want to know if I could replace a fluid gaming kit slowly until its fully copper but I don't know the specifics of it. I know AIOs mix metals and that I can add ethylene glycol to slow galvanic corrosion but I don't know what the ratio of water to ethylene glycol would be. Is there a way I could replace the parts from an EK A240 that are aluminum (Pump, Rad, Block, Fittings) with copper while running a ratio of water and ethylene glycol. I forget if the copper, aluminum or both corrodes in a mix metal setup so if you could say that too that'd be helpful. My current plan would be Buy A240 -> Replace 4 parts over 18 months, while adding ethylene glycol -> Have a full copper loop and upgrade that. Thanks in advance.
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Hi guys Long story short: I made my own CPU-block on my CNC mill and would like to test it. However, I made it out of aluminium because its much easier to mill and now I can't seem to find radiators with aluminium pipes in them to avoid galvanic corrosion. Is there something im missing? All I see are copper and brass radiators (inside materials) which shouldn't be mixed with aluminium. Can you point me to a respectable manufacturer (not Aliexpress/Amazon no-name rads)? Thanks for the help Chrys
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Hi guys Question 1: If u have an AIO cooler with a 360rad and a custom loop with a 360rad, is it the fact that the Custom Loop is using copper in the rad or the fact that the custom-pump moves the water faster? (Jayz2cents made a vid claiming that pumpspeed dont matter) (i know that its kinda both but if you needed to pick 1...? Qustion 2: lets say i wanna make an custom loop out of AIOs... (3) Should i replace all the aliminuim rads and go for all copper? (the CPUblock-PUMP combo has copper) thanks guys
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hi guys i planning to use liquid metal on my build i am aware that you cannot use on aluminum but what i worry is ,is the retention arm in the cpu socket made of aluminium? thx
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Ok let's try this agian take number two. I want to actually build my next computer with that being said I'm new to this as I never have done this before. Things i have; 1 raidmax delta 1 case 1 1050 ti 1 1tb Samsung evo860 sdd 1 1tb Seagate hdd 1 static free work mate from Ifixit with grounding loop 1 ifixit pro kit. Now I am getting mother bored that can handle icore7 8700k The case can at least one 360mm rad I wanna use "blowyatrons" and there good fans. My issues is my issure I rad and all water blocks I dont wanna mix copper and aluminum. And am wondering what the empeller is made of in the D5 and mcp655 pumps as that is what like to use. And I want a rgb Reservoir as the rest of the tubs will be color. Now we are only talking cpu and expand to gpu. Later I am not trying to cheap out on these parts as they as they are transplant able from one computer to another. Hope this is enough to to work with.
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Do you guys know whether the second part of a Mayhems Blitz cleaning kit will play nice with an EK Aluminum system? (Note, PART TWO - that's the general system cleaner, NOT the more extreme radiator-specific cleaner! I'm pretty sure that Part ONE is NOT compatible with aluminum, on account of Mayhems explicitly saying so!)
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Hello everybody. I had a Sony Vaio laptop, bought in 2010 and the time has come to change it because it doesn't cut it anymore. The usage is mainly web development, very simple image processing (change the colors a little bit, resize images and add a few filters, that sort of stuff) and gaming (but not major titles, mostly strategy, like XCOM for example). Right now the apps I use are PhpStorm, Visual Studio, Navicat, Photoshop. What I am looking for is (in order of importance) Screen: 15.6" CPU: Quad/Hexa Core, would prefer 8th-Gen i5-i7 GPU: at least GTX 1050 / 1050 Ti (this is probably an overkill for the games I play, but since I plan to keep this laptop for another 8 years hopefully , I would like a GPU that can handle future games). I could accept an MX150 for now if I have a Thunderbolt 3 available (see point below) USB-C, Thunderbolt 3. This is also important. Like i said I plan to have this laptop for a while, so being able to hook an external GPU adds to its longevity Numpad. Strangely enough, I use it all the time, so I really need it Chassis: Aluminum, thin and light and also (this part is important) not gaming. I plan on using this in the office and I want it to be discreet (so not rgb backlight or various colorful decals) SSD: 256GB HDD: it would be nice to have a second HDD for the simple files but it is not a deal breaker if it doesn't Battery: now, this is not very important as most of the times I use it plugged in and I will have a power bank with me I do not care about the OS, I already have a licence for Win10 Pro that I can use and I also will install Linux. Location: Greece but I do have relatives in the US and Canada that can purchase it for me and send it. Budget: around $1800 (~1500€), of course the less I spend the better. I was going to buy the Dell XPS15 9570 but unfortunately it doesn't have a numpad (though if I cannot find anything else I will probably buy an external one) and I also looked at some of the HP Premium laptops (but I am confused if they support thunderbolt 3 or not). Thank you in advance
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I bought an EK Fluid Gaming kit second hand - and after a few months of operation, the pump died. Second buyer = no RMA. I COULD buy a replacement pump - but I ALSO have an Aquastream XT pump lying around, which would work just fine in the system. Problem: to be used with 13/10 tubes and g1/4 fittings, the aquastream pump needs a 1/8-1/4 adapter - and the one I have is naturally NOT aluminum. I think it's nickel - but whatever it is, I can't use it. You guys have ANY idea where I could find an ALUMINUM adapter?? (I've sent mails to EK and aquastream, but I thought I'd ask here too!)
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I'm trying to find a solution for a drain port on an aluminum loop, but I've been seemingly out of luck. I found an acrylic splitter that I can put some of EK's fittings into but I've been hard pressed to find a G1/4 male to male adapter to plug it into my pump, and then I also need to find some sort of ball valve of plug so I can seal off the port with a tube connected. Thanks.