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Okay, so it's not much of a build log since I only have one picture, but this is my old rig. Thought I'd post this just for the Lolz. Let's see your old rig :)

 

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Specs:

 

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (later upgraded to Opteron 165)

A8N32-SLI Deluxe

2x 1GB generic Samsung DDR400 RAM (going for capacity, not speed)

BFG GeForce 7900GT x2

2x Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GB RAID0 for boot. Can't remember what the other one is

Antec P160 with black paint job

OCZ Powerstream 520W (single rail... mmmm) with UV green sleeving

Dual optical drives (one CD-RW, one DVD-ROM) for disc-to-disc burning goodness

UV green painted Silenx cooling fans

 

Liquid Cooling Specs:

 

Swiftech APOGEE CPU block

HW Labs Black Ice Pro II

Swiftech MCW60 x2 w/ random aluminum sinks cut out to fit on my cards

MCP350 pump

Generic tubing from the hardware store

T-line for filling and bleeding

 

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Okay, so it's not much of a build log since I only have one picture, but this is my old rig. Thought I'd post this just for the Lolz. Let's see your old rig :)

 

wakdlLw.jpg

 

Specs:

 

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (later upgraded to Opteron 165)

A8N32-SLI Deluxe

2x 1GB generic Samsung DDR400 RAM (going for capacity, not speed)

BFG GeForce 7900GT x2

2x Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GB RAID0 for boot. Can't remember what the other one is

Antec P160 with black paint job

OCZ Powerstream 520W (single rail... mmmm) with UV green sleeving

Dual optical drives (one CD-RW, one DVD-ROM) for disc-to-disc burning goodness

UV green painted Silenx cooling fans

 

Liquid Cooling Specs:

 

Swiftech APOGEE CPU block

HW Labs Black Ice Pro II

Swiftech MCW60 x2 w/ random aluminum sinks cut out to fit on my cards

MCP350 pump

Generic tubing from the hardware store

T-line for filling and bleeding

Dang OG linus build!

AMD FX-8350 OC to 4.5ghz      Evga gtx 660       SilverStone FT03      Samsung 840 128gb  

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fyCwyBbZA&feature=player_embedded

Built this PC a few weeks ago, I found everything in my house!

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My first Watercooled PC! (I had the GTX 580 in when it was made)

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Intel i7-2600K @ 4,5GHz | EVGA GeForce GTX 780 w/EKWB Copper Waterblock | Kingston HyperX blu 16GB @ 1600 MHz | Phanteks Enthoo Primo | MSI Z77A-GD65 | CM M1000 Silent Pro | Samsung 840 Pro 128GB | BenQ XL2420T 120hz | Logitech G710+ | Razer Deathadder 2013 -


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Dat top psu.

 Asus M5A99X Evo  - AMD FX-8350 - 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz - Corsair 120mm Quiet Edition Fans BenQ XL2411Z- EVGA GTX 980 Superclocked Fractal Design Define R4 - Corsair H100i - 2 TB 7200rpm HDD - Samsung 840 Evo 120GB - Corsair RM750w PSU - Logitech G502 Proteus Core - Corsair K70 RGB MX Red - Audio Technica M50x + Modmic 4.0 - LG 23EA63V x2


Spinthat Spinthat Spinthat Spinthat

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My first water cooled PC:
 

(boom, nothing).. I ain't never dun water cooled no 'lectronics yet.


 
Anywhoo, Dat green fans/tubes and dat copper heatsink don't go together well at all. 

 

Edit: My old rig was my family's generic HP POS desktop (some low-end cheapo AMD CPU) with my friend's old 6950 jammed in there.. I would take a picture of how bad the cables are jammed in there, but I'm pretty sure it'd break the internet if I posted that.. But, it ran BF3 well enough until I had to leave for college.

i7 not perfectly stable at 4.4.. #firstworldproblems

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I have not done a water cooling build yet! I have my first build which was a $300 challenge. It has been upgraded to the build in my description(amd).

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Okay, so it's not much of a build log since I only have one picture, but this is my old rig. Thought I'd post this just for the Lolz. Let's see your old rig :)

 

 

Specs:

 

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (later upgraded to Opteron 165)

A8N32-SLI Deluxe

2x 1GB generic Samsung DDR400 RAM (going for capacity, not speed)

BFG GeForce 7900GT x2

2x Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GB RAID0 for boot. Can't remember what the other one is

Antec P160 with black paint job

OCZ Powerstream 520W (single rail... mmmm) with UV green sleeving

Dual optical drives (one CD-RW, one DVD-ROM) for disc-to-disc burning goodness

UV green painted Silenx cooling fans

 

Liquid Cooling Specs:

 

Swiftech APOGEE CPU block

HW Labs Black Ice Pro II

Swiftech MCW60 x2 w/ random aluminum sinks cut out to fit on my cards

MCP350 pump

Generic tubing from the hardware store

T-line for filling and bleeding

I'm still running an older version of that CPU at this moment. (Check my sig)

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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I don't have pics, but I had a build with these specs:

 

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

ASUS Amberine A8AE-LE HP Motherboard

Windows XP

2GB DDR 400

ATI Radeon X1600 256MB

OEM HP case

top-mounted 250W PSU

100GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 512GB SKHynix PC401, 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x Micron 1100 256GB SATA SSDs | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra 10GB | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Lian Li SP 850W

 

Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Crucial DDR4 Pro | Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS AC-HES | Storage: 128GB Samsung PM961, 4TB Seagate IronWolf | GPU: AMD FirePro WX 3100 | Cooling: EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850

 

Miscellaneous: Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro (i5-8500T/16GB/512GB), Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q Tiny (R5 2400GE/16GB/256GB), Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF (i5-6400/8GB/128GB)

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I dont have any pics, but my first computers for gaming where old workstations from my dad's company. He worked in engineering, and the IT department was aware he was into computers, so on multiple occations I got a new computer that my dad dropped an old NVidia card in and called it my "gaming" computer for around 75 bucks.

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Okay, so it's not much of a build log since I only have one picture, but this is my old rig. Thought I'd post this just for the Lolz. Let's see your old rig :)

 

wakdlLw.jpg

 

Specs:

 

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (later upgraded to Opteron 165)

A8N32-SLI Deluxe

2x 1GB generic Samsung DDR400 RAM (going for capacity, not speed)

BFG GeForce 7900GT x2

2x Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GB RAID0 for boot. Can't remember what the other one is

Antec P160 with black paint job

OCZ Powerstream 520W (single rail... mmmm) with UV green sleeving

Dual optical drives (one CD-RW, one DVD-ROM) for disc-to-disc burning goodness

UV green painted Silenx cooling fans

 

Liquid Cooling Specs:

 

Swiftech APOGEE CPU block

HW Labs Black Ice Pro II

Swiftech MCW60 x2 w/ random aluminum sinks cut out to fit on my cards

MCP350 pump

Generic tubing from the hardware store

T-line for filling and bleeding

 

Mmm, green. Do you still have it? If so, what is it used for?

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 512GB SKHynix PC401, 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x Micron 1100 256GB SATA SSDs | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra 10GB | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Lian Li SP 850W

 

Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Crucial DDR4 Pro | Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS AC-HES | Storage: 128GB Samsung PM961, 4TB Seagate IronWolf | GPU: AMD FirePro WX 3100 | Cooling: EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850

 

Miscellaneous: Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro (i5-8500T/16GB/512GB), Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q Tiny (R5 2400GE/16GB/256GB), Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF (i5-6400/8GB/128GB)

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Mmm, green. Do you still have it? If so, what is it used for?

 

Naw I don't have any of that stuff anymore EXCEPT the APOGEE block (in storage), the MCP350, which is in B-Roll's editing machine, and the Black Ice Pro II which is still in my personal rig to this day.

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The hardware in my picture is like 3 month away from being 5 years old though! :(

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However I used to have my p4 2,8GHz in that case. The case was a fake NZXT Guardian or something like that. Can't get any worse.

Notice the great cable management along with the awesome way I mounted the back fans.

And the Zalman nailpolish thermalpaste :D

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Naw I don't have any of that stuff anymore EXCEPT the APOGEE block (in storage), the MCP350, which is in B-Roll's editing machine, and the Black Ice Pro II which is still in my personal rig to this day.

 

Cool, that's one reliable pump.

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 512GB SKHynix PC401, 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x Micron 1100 256GB SATA SSDs | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra 10GB | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Lian Li SP 850W

 

Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Crucial DDR4 Pro | Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS AC-HES | Storage: 128GB Samsung PM961, 4TB Seagate IronWolf | GPU: AMD FirePro WX 3100 | Cooling: EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850

 

Miscellaneous: Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro (i5-8500T/16GB/512GB), Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q Tiny (R5 2400GE/16GB/256GB), Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF (i5-6400/8GB/128GB)

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One of my old rigs from about 7 years ago. 

 

Some sort of MSI motherboard

AMD Sempron 2800+

1GB of memory

Powercolor Radeon X800 Pro

2 x IDE 80GB 7200rpm spanned

7 x SATA drives from 120GB - 200GB

2 x 4 port sata raid controllers

700w Thermaltake PSU

Thermaltake Kandalf case with 3 x hdd expansion cages

ASUS DVDWriter

 

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From about 4 years ago

 

Raidmax Smilidon Case

Vantec ION2+ 500w PSU

Asus M2N-SLI Board

Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition

XFX 9600GT XXX Alpha Dog

2 x 1GB Corsair DDR2-800 CL4

Asus DRW-2014L1T Drive

250GB Western Digital Caviar 16MB Cache

1TB Seagate 32MB Cache

 

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Okay, so it's not much of a build log since I only have one picture, but this is my old rig. Thought I'd post this just for the Lolz. Let's see your old rig :)

 

wakdlLw.jpg

 

Specs:

 

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (later upgraded to Opteron 165)

A8N32-SLI Deluxe

2x 1GB generic Samsung DDR400 RAM (going for capacity, not speed)

BFG GeForce 7900GT x2

2x Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GB RAID0 for boot. Can't remember what the other one is

Antec P160 with black paint job

OCZ Powerstream 520W (single rail... mmmm) with UV green sleeving

Dual optical drives (one CD-RW, one DVD-ROM) for disc-to-disc burning goodness

UV green painted Silenx cooling fans

 

Liquid Cooling Specs:

 

Swiftech APOGEE CPU block

HW Labs Black Ice Pro II

Swiftech MCW60 x2 w/ random aluminum sinks cut out to fit on my cards

MCP350 pump

Generic tubing from the hardware store

T-line for filling and bleeding

 

Oh sweet lord, the look of that thing..... woah...

 

You know, this is the tech equivalent of seeing someone's yearbook picture from when they graduated in the 80's. lol :D

 

Anything that is fashionable in it's time turns into the COMPLETE opposite later on.

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I'm too broke to go get a camera that's actually mine, but here's a vdeo I threw on YouTube for mine a while ago. I changed some things, so...Yeah. It and my ASUS 1005HA netbook won't last through 9th grade (in terms of performance). But give it some cred. I put it together around Christmas of 2012 for just over $200 (mobo, video card, SATA DVD burner/SATA cable were the only new things.

 

Poor, Poor ASUS

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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My first water cooled PC:

 

(boom, nothing).. I ain't never dun water cooled no 'lectronics yet.

 

Anywhoo, Dat green fans/tubes and dat copper heatsink don't go together well at all. 

 

Edit: My old rig was my family's generic HP POS desktop (some low-end cheapo AMD CPU) with my friend's old 6950 jammed in there.. I would take a picture of how bad the cables are jammed in there, but I'm pretty sure it'd break the internet if I posted that.. But, it ran BF3 well enough until I had to leave for college.

lol

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