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that dust :o mine was dustier when I had a faulty psu and was waiting for it to arrive.  And that SSD is just sitting there xD!  Nice work man!

Thank you! I hate dust so much!  :angry:  Also my PSU started  making  a not so audible tick  some hours ago and a quick search shows that a lot of people have a similar problem with the cheapo fan in these PSUs. but it doent realy bother me at the moment especially knowing that its the fan and not the PSU itself :P Also following the advice of linus about the ghetto mounted SSDs :P

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Thank you! I hate dust so much!  :angry:  Also my PSU started  making  a not so audible tick  some hours ago and a quick search shows that a lot of people have a similar problem with the cheapo fan in these PSUs. but it doent realy bother me at the moment especially knowing that its the fan and not the PSU itself :P Also following the advice of linus about the ghetto mounted SSDs :P

I bought a Noctua and it difinatley helped... yet my box is still roaring away due to the horrible psu fan.   I use a Silverstone Strider Plus

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So my arduinos finally arrived! banggood is slowww. Going to build my automatic fan controller while waiting for my samsung 840 EVO 256GB SSD to arrive. Bought some led strips too!

Here is a photo of them: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ehq9elm194csru/PC033132.JPG

 

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So my arduinos finally arrived! banggood is slowww. Going to build my automatic fan controller while waiting for my samsung 840 EVO 256GB SSD to arrive. Bought some led strips too!

Here is a photo of them: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ehq9elm194csru/PC033132.JPG

LOL! You actually buy stuff from there? I thought that was only for sex toys and horse masks?!?!  but I guess its somewhere.  Can you use your 120GB SSD as cache for you super fast 256GBSSD? and nice!  I've been thinking about getting LED strips but I think making sure my fans aren't total crap is first priority.  My exhaust fan, it has the worst airflow.  You can't feel any air coming out on your hand. 

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LOL! You actually buy stuff from there? I thought that was only for sex toys and horse masks?!?!  but I guess its somewhere.  Can you use your 120GB SSD as cache for you super fast 256GBSSD? and nice!  I've been thinking about getting LED strips but I think making sure my fans aren't total crap is first priority.  My exhaust fan, it has the worst airflow.  You can't feel any air coming out on your hand. 

Yep started shopping there after LInus suggested this sitejust to test it :) they have nice prices too! I sold my 128gb ssd to buy the 250 model of the evo. This LED strip costs like 2-3 euros its a 60cm one and looks really good! Today I will get my new SSD, install the os and post some upadate photos

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Yep started shopping there after LInus suggested this sitejust to test it :) they have nice prices too! I sold my 128gb ssd to buy the 250 model of the evo. This LED strip costs like 2-3 euros its a 60cm one and looks really good! Today I will get my new SSD, install the os and post some upadate photos

Nice! I'm afraid to even open my comp now.  My room is so dirty and dusty! it was last vaccumed in 2007.  

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I would love to see this thing with a custom water loop. Youve got rad space, so why not :D

LOOK AT MY TUBE, MY TUBE IS AMAZING. DONT LICK IT IT DOESN'T TASTE LIKE ANYTHING. IT DOESN'T HAVE A MANE OR PENIS EITHER. SHUT UP.

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I would love to see this thing with a custom water loop. Youve got rad space, so why not :D

it says modded on the cheap I think custom loops are expensive
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it says modded on the cheap I think custom loops are expensive

I'm aware, but how boos would it look with some Blue UV liquid and some cold cathodes?!

LOOK AT MY TUBE, MY TUBE IS AMAZING. DONT LICK IT IT DOESN'T TASTE LIKE ANYTHING. IT DOESN'T HAVE A MANE OR PENIS EITHER. SHUT UP.

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I'm aware, but how boos would it look with some Blue UV liquid and some cold cathodes?!

it would look lame...  with all the other parts not even comparing to the price of the cooling. 

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I would love to see this thing with a custom water loop. Youve got rad space, so why not :D

But for the price of a cutom loop I can upgrate to an new gpu and cpu :S

Thinking about an AIO loop like the H220 if I can find them for cheap.

 

it would look lame...  with all the other parts not even comparing to the price of the cooling. 

Well watercooling is not ment for high end systems only as far as I can see. I mean people watercool i5s and  HD7870 or gtx 660ti. I am sure my system will benefit from watercooling allowing me to do some overclocking while being quiet and beautifull. The 7950 can get a big performance boost from overclocking.  but the cost is too damn high! Before that I think I should upgrade my PSU first to a 650w one just to be on the safe side when overlclocking while maintaining a quiet pc.

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Working on the fan controller. Was going to use pwm but there is a whine coming from the fans so I am going with voltage control

Here is a quick preview of the pcb I am working on. Improvement can be made but  I am bored to edit them now   :P

This is based on this http://www.ruggedcircuits.com/images/sch14.png But I am using a 4 channel op- amp (lm324) 

 

 

Ignore the 10X

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Working on the fan controller. Was going to use pwm but there is a whine coming from the fans so I am going with voltage control

Here is a quick preview of the pcb I am working on. Improvement can be made but  I am bored to edit them now   :P

This is based on this http://www.ruggedcircuits.com/images/sch14.png But I am using a 4 channel op- amp (lm324) 

 

 

Ignore the 10X

da faq?  I don't even know what that is! :P  please explain

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da faq?  I don't even know what that is! :P  please explain

Ok so I have an arduino which is a micro controller. It has some analog and digital outputs. digital is eather 0volt or 5volt. anaolog is anything from 0volts to 5volts. There are also PWM outputs. The pwm signal is being generated from the microcontroller. Think pwm as a switch which turns on and off really quick. the faster you switch it the higher the pwm signal is. more info about PWM here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation

 

So the max voltage output of the arduino PWM signal is ~5volt. I am smoothing the pwm signal to constant DC voltage and them amplifying it using an op-amp by 5-7volt so I have a controllable voltage output of 0 - ~12 volt. Becouse this voltage cant provide enough current to drive a fan, I am using that voltage to controll another transistor, the LM317 to be able to drive 1 or 2 fans.  This might look confusing but it actually is preaty simple. 

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Here are some benchmarks I did. I dont have 3d mark at the moment..

 

I play battlefield 3 at high details at ~ 60fps

Far cry 3 with high setting and I thing no anti aliasing at 50-60fps

Dirt3, Battlefield bad company 2 and burnout paradise all on Ultra I get 60fps (Vsync on)

GTA IV on high I get around 45fps (badly optimized?)

 

All the above at 1080p

 

Also I ordered a Coolermaster Hyper212 evo. Decided to spend my money on a new ssd(sold my 128gb one and bought a 250gb EVO), new fans and maybe new keyboard and some extensions. PSU  fan continues to be making a clicky sound but I cant hear it because of the amd stock cooler :P Also I ordered all the components for my D.I.Y. automatic fan controller including some temperature sensors.

 

Christmas is going to be busy ;)

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An update!

Hyper212 evo arrived!

Decided to redo my cable management and it looks so much better now.  The components for the fan controller will arrive someday in the next year unfortunatelly :/

Also installed an LED strip and it looked soo good until I broke it 

The package of the cooler was damaged but the  cooler was OK 

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But as soon as I closed the sied panel and screw it in half of the led strip stopped working. This is why. 

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Going to see if soldering the broken points fix it

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Nice build.

CPU: 2x Xeon E5 2670 Motherboard: ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16,  RAM: 64GB of 1333 MHz mermory from Samsung (ECC),  GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1070,  Case: NZXT Switch 810, Storage: Samsug EVO 250GB and 500GB, 3x3 TB and 1x1TB  HDD  PSU: Corsair RM 850,  Mouse: Logitech MX Master 2s,  Headset: Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO black edition (80 ohm), OS: UnRaid with two VMs and Plex 
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Oh my! You broke the led :(

Yep. I will try to solder the broken leads 

 

Nice build.

Thank you!

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Paint the 212 and u better cut out a window.

Exactly my plan :) I wont paint the whole heatsink, only the top as I heard it might make my temperatures worse. Window and front panel mod are coming soon. I just dont know what type of paint to use. Anyone has experience with painting heatsinks?

 

Also I am thinking of buying 3 bitfenix spectre pros for intake. So I will have 3 intakes and 3 outtakes. The top 2 outtakes will run slow all the time. I think this will give me some positive air pressure. 

 

I am heating up my soldering iron right now. Lets see if the led strip can be fixed.

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Exactly my plan :) I wont paint the whole heatsink, only the top as I heard it might make my temperatures worse. Window and front panel mod are coming soon. I just dont know what type of paint to use. Anyone has experience with painting heatsinks?

 

Also I am thinking of buying 3 bitfenix spectre pros for intake. So I will have 3 intakes and 3 outtakes. The top 2 outtakes will run slow all the time. I think this will give me some positive air pressure. 

 

I am heating up my soldering iron right now. Lets see if the led strip can be fixed.

I wouldn't paint the heatsink, but Enermax has some awesome CPU coolers with are painted with a special coating.  This might help you with your question.  

 

 

 

Good luck mate!

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This will be one sexy case :D

Thanks! I hope it will  :)

 

I wouldn't paint the heatsink, but Enermax has some awesome CPU coolers with are painted with a special coating.  This might help you with your question.  

 

 

 

Good luck mate!

Yep I saw the enermax heatsink and it costed like 20 euros more than the hyper 212 and in benchmarks it has similar performance to the evo so I went with the evo :) I will not paint the whole heatsink just the top fin. here are some examples of what others have done

 

http://assets.overclock.net.s3.amazonaws.com/3/32/328b168b_vbattach219588.jpeg (vinyl  wrap of the top fin)

http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1a/LT/2zFpV4FL/1/img3203.jpg (whole heatink and apparently no performance decrease )

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/826/8a04.jpg/ (top fin)

 

The LED strip works now! solder can fix everything :D

 

Bitfenix spectre pros are on their way! I ordered the black ones because they where a lot cheaper than the blue ones. Ordered 3 and I will start modding the front panel to add mesh with a d.i.y. filter. 

 

Also today I bought a Raspberry Pi and finally  tried some mechanical keyboards. The one with the  MX blues switches felt soooooooo good!! To bad they are very expensive :(

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Exactly my plan :) I wont paint the whole heatsink, only the top as I heard it might make my temperatures worse. Window and front panel mod are coming soon. I just dont know what type of paint to use. Anyone has experience with painting heatsinks?

 

Also I am thinking of buying 3 bitfenix spectre pros for intake. So I will have 3 intakes and 3 outtakes. The top 2 outtakes will run slow all the time. I think this will give me some positive air pressure. 

 

I am heating up my soldering iron right now. Lets see if the led strip can be fixed.

exactly what i did but just remember to prime it or else it is so easy to scratch, i love cheap mods

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