Update time, well sorta, how about a taste of an update thats coming soon ^_^

Wow, I had heard allot of negatives about the ASUS AMD line of motherboards, but I hope it works out, It sure does look sick!!

Alright so the update so far;

I got my ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe in today ^_^ so I can bring this beast partially alive



So now it was time to remove the mount from the board and prep it for the waterblock but I left the backplate on the motherboard.



After I installed the Phenom 9950 Black Edition, I hit it up with Arctic Clean and then I hit the CPU with some OCZ Freeze, which both you can get your hands on them from AcousticPC.com



Then I installed the D-Tek FuZion V2 block.



Then I followed that up with installing the little ASUS Fan and the G.Skill Memory



Now for this baby to meet its new home



Lastly the all important Leak Testing and Bleeding, One loop down, one to go ^_^



Now I will have some more updates coming at the end of the weekend, so stay tuned...

Nice, I cant wait for you to turn it on! Don't forget to do some benchmarks when its all done!!!

oh of course there will be benchies, I will be doing a review on the Mobo, CPU, Ram, and Graphics card so ya there will be plenty of benchies. ^_^

YAY, I love benchies!!! Can't wait for more!

Sorry for the lack of update, hit a slight financial wall when we got hit with that huge economy drop but Im somewhat back on track, I recently ordered a ASUS EAH4870 1gb card and at the beginning of next month I will order a second, I already have a sponsor for the 4870 water blocks so as soon as I get the last card I will have those blocks sent out and I will be able to official call this project complete and start showing some benchies. ^__^

W00t, cant wait!

KazeModz wrote: Sorry for the lack of update, hit a slight financial wall when we got hit with that huge economy drop but Im somewhat back on track

I'm sure you know you're not the only one.
Looking forward to updates.

OMFG! I love the HD4870 1GB version and the dark knight cooling is soooo nice looking and good working...
A damn good video card choice!

Well I ordered the ASUS 4870 Dark Knight yesterday and I got it today, man I love the place I work for lol, anyhow this is one of two, once I get the second card in, I will then have the EK waterblocks shipped out for them and then I will be close to calling this build done, again I said close I have a few more things after that to still do.

anyhow here are a couple teaser shots, I will be on vacation with limited to no internet activity until Sunday night (11/30/09) so you may or may not see me until then. ^__^

Nice, cant wait for the finished product, oh, and the benchies, cant forget them!

Wow the 4870 with that pwnage cooling looks so nice on that pic...

Second card came in, I will have to do some modifications to the water blocks but I will have pics up hopefully soon.

Nice, the anticipathion is killing me!!!

Alright so when I got the oh so pretty waterblocks for my two ASUS 4870 1gb Dark Knight cards I realized that once again the ATI reference design has been changed for yet a 5th time so these current blocks would not work with the current PCB layout.

Well I stared at it for a while and realized that I could cut the lip that attaches the power regulator cooler gets attached it would then clear those capacitors and I would leave the stock cooling thats already on the power regulators. This way I can still use the full coverage blocks.



So lets begin....

I first started by masking of the block and then taking my dremel cut off the lip and then followed that up with some sanding to make it nice and smooth.



and here it is installed....



so ya its somewhat of a tight fit but everything clears, so one block down one more yo go and then a few more plumbing parts to come in and I will be able to finish the second loop. :Thumb

Wow it is definitely coming a long well man. Keep it up!

IMG arent working, at least for me, but still sounds awesome, cant wait for the finished product!

EDIT: Fixed the images, YAY!!! loos pretty dang awesome to me, cant wait to see this thing in action!

Race, will you BIOS mod the 4870s like you did with the 4850s?

most likely, but I will see how it does as is and then see what I can push it to with a bios mod.

well I will get the last of the plumbing for the loop on Dec 30th so I will try to get the system done that day and get pics up.

Have you considered sleeving the tubing like in the murdermods?

ya I have thought about doing that but I like seeing the color of the fluid so on this one I plan to past but it is certainly something I want to try out.

Nice job! Its gonna be awsome...
Cant wait to see what the temps and OC will be with the watercooling.

So I stumbled across your F.E.A.R. build somewhere about 3 hours ago, I have been on your site since. After looking at that build I was really impressed and had to check out the rest of your projects. I have to say that I was so disappointed when I saw that this wasn't a complete project yet, kinda figured I was going to get to see the whole thing. Looks like I have something to look forward to after the holidays, lol! I am really impressed with the amount of detail in your work and your patience on the build, and using sketchup is a sweet bonus. I just wanted to say keep up the good work, and I can't wait to see how this thing turns out!

Welcome to the forums NSG, well the 30th is when I get the last few parts for the loop, so I plan to finish the loop that day, then all that will be left on this rig will be the etch and graphical work and then I shall call this complete and then focus back on one of the other open projects eg Open Air Test Bed and wrap that up. Then it will be onto any of the other number of projects already planned such as the Hamtaro Project.

well a bit of sad news, the four little pieces of plumbing needed to finish the graphics card loop has been delayed due to UPS and well I dont know but now it states it wont be here until the 2nd so my guess is a storm or somethin is slowing the shipment so we must wait for now ~_~

well its already 30th today, so not too long to wait.

OMG so I get the last fittings I needed from Koolance and guess what not only was there a delay in shipping but they shipped me the wrong fittings >_< UGH....

Modus Interruptus... Looks great.