Performed Mods:
None really except addition of northbridge cooling and a southbridge chip fan(thumbnail #6) and better wire management. upgraded the existing H2O cooling to include the northbridge chip after failure of the "AR" version of this 680i mobo!! ALSO re-routed the water tubing (Old tube routing in thumbnail No 2#) Doing it this way verses the former way(Thumbnail #2) shaved 1C off of the Northbridge. Idle temps are now at CPU...29C and NB..49 to 50C Have yet to reach over 35C at a room temp of 71F. Even after HOURS of rigorous gaming!! :-)
29 Comments on The 2nd Revision2
First off, you have way more cables than I do, so your rig isn't going to be easy. Second, you have at least one IDE cable that I can see, which just adds to the challenge. Thirdly, are you willing to gut your entire computer to acomplish cable managment bliss?
If you want to do this I will help you, but there is absolutely no way to do it without taking everything out of the case. You'll also probably need to spend a little bit of money on wire, sleeves, edge molding, and possibly some connectors.
9/10 from me.
a tad bit more on cable hiding then add the GPUs to the loop and ill give a 10 ^^.
That Kingston HyperX memory is very underrated. I have that in my system and it can easily do 1,120MHz @ 4-4-4-12 @ 2.2V even though it is rated at 1,066MHz @ 5-5-5-18 @ 2.2V. I think it is silly that all this "enthusiest" memory such as the dominator series is so hyped up when sometimes it can't even touch this Kingston memory.