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Those FlexII's really dont need the water cooling.....my set stay pretty damn cool and thats mainly due to their large (huge?) heatspeaders. :)
 

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Those FlexII's really dont need the water cooling.....my set stay pretty damn cool and thats mainly due to their large (huge?) heatspeaders. :)

In the testing I did, heatspreaders dont really do anything other than look good, if you got a cool set, I lend it to cherry picked IC's (congrats BTW). When I did testing, spreaders needed 2.5V to gain anything over naked IC's. Heatspreaders started life as a radio interference blocker, nothing more. Over time they realized people liked the looks, purely a marketing ploy IMHO. A fan placed in there does way more than spreaders could try to do, naked or not!;)
 

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In the testing I did, heatspreaders dont really do anything other than look good, if you got a cool set, I lend it to cherry picked IC's (congrats BTW). When I did testing, spreaders needed 2.5V to gain anything over naked IC's. Heatspreaders started life as a radio interference blocker, nothing more. Over time they realized people liked the looks, purely a marketing ploy IMHO. A fan placed in there does way more than spreaders could try to do, naked or not!;)

An informative post and a thanks to you. :toast:
 

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Your welcome. If they are already on the ram, it will spread the load of heat if say one chip is hotter than the others, it should even em out, but as far as buying them aftermarket, I advise against, unless you got to have the pretty factor. A found 80mm fan in a drawer will do wonders compared to spreaders you are gonna pay for, and we all know we have extras laying about with no uses;)
 

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Well, these FlexII's came with sinks and taking them off wouldn't be the best idea as I think they are bonded to the IC's.

Either way, they look nice and dont need the watercooling...they will get to their limit (1260mhz-ish) well before more aggressive cooling is needed; in this case water is a gimmick as mine with zero airflow over them sit at around 28'C loaded with 18'C~ ambient. :)
 

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THose are bonded, you are correct, and sweet IC's you got there!!!!!
 

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@ thee neonlightning - Are those holes way left in the 7 ring, or is it just a grainy pic? Are you trying to blow that silhouette's arm off?

actually there shots from an M16 and a desert eagle ...when i was in america i stopped by the gunstore :p This picture doesnt show very well my shots :cool:
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my 2nd rig, in a TT Element S case :toast:


the 24 pin is bothering me the way it shows :shadedshu Gotta fix that ;)

 
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Looks nice cp :)

And here is my mediacenter:p allmost done, might buy a Radeon 4890 from a friend :)



 
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Thanks azma :toast:



Dude that thing has so much space it's ridiculous :roll:
 

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Just because I don't use Windows 7 doesn't mean I can't use the Windows 7 background:

I have the extra PSU cables (molex and PCI-E) shoved between the PSU and the drive cage. Not really anything else I can do, it's hard to hide cables in such a small case. I know the cable sleeving for the front panel sucks, it's some of the sleeving off of the Galaxy I used to have and electrical tape.
 
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Hehe I know :p The plan was to build a Core i5 system in it :p With loads of disks :p That didt`n happen:p So now it is my mediacenter:p Maby buy some new disk`s sometime =)
 
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Cool, and i5 should be nice in there :).




Ion, that's looks small man. Or is I just me. I've had a few beers that's why i ask :p
 

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Cool, and i5 should be nice in there :).




Ion, that's looks small man. Or is I just me. I've had a few beers that's why i ask :p

It is small (about 12"x7"x6.5")
Awesome comp, almost silent, quad is good for WCG
 
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Just wasted half of Saturday transplanting the parts and do the wiring. Between this and being on call at psych crisis, the weekend is half gone...:mad:
 

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Just wasted half of Saturday transplanting the parts and do the wiring. Between this and being on call at psych crisis, the weekend is half gone...:mad:


badass case :rocktout:

now give us some better shots :p
 
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badass case :rocktout:

now give us some better shots :p

Love to but my good logitech webcam does not work with window 7 so iphone quality pic only :(. Now I need some fan filter and may be a 2.5" digital fan controller. Anything you would recommend.
 
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Love to but my good logitech webcam does not work with window 7 so iphone quality pic only :(. Now I need some fan filter and may be a 2.5" digital fan controller. Anything you would recommend.

2.5"?

Dude you can do a better job with an iphone, come on! :laugh:


Anyhow, the case looks badass, has tons of room and airflow from the looks of it heh?
 
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2.5"?

Dude you can do a better job with an iphone, come on! :laugh:


Anyhow, the case looks badass, has tons of room and airflow from the looks of it heh?

Dude iphone camera sucks. It is smaller than expected. Definitely smaller than my Thermaltake Armor. Only support up to 4 hard drives. My PSU is large so it sticks out a little bit in the back and I have to remove one hard drive cage to make room for the cable. Air flow is pretty good considering 4 intakes and 2 exhaust. The 2 side intakes help cool GPU and sound card. Now what to do with my TT Armor?
 
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I call it the "Blackbox". You can see what's inside in the System Specs. Very minimalistic thingie.
I'm just having hard time making it silent. When i managed to silent everything, it turned out that Corsair HX750 is boody noisy and i can't do anything about it (can't rip it apart and check the fan because of the warranty :( ). Oh well. It's small but still quite powerful :)
 
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http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a348/rejzor/P8080819.jpg

I call it the "Blackbox". You can see what's inside in the System Specs. Very minimalistic thingie.
I'm just having hard time making it silent. When i managed to silent everything, it turned out that Corsair HX750 is boody noisy and i can't do anything about it (can't rip it apart and check the fan because of the warranty :( ). Oh well. It's small but still quite powerful :)

Very nice design...me like the simplistic design...my pc table is full of stuffs.
 

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http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a348/rejzor/P8080819.jpg

I call it the "Blackbox". You can see what's inside in the System Specs. Very minimalistic thingie.
I'm just having hard time making it silent. When i managed to silent everything, it turned out that Corsair HX750 is boody noisy and i can't do anything about it (can't rip it apart and check the fan because of the warranty :( ). Oh well. It's small but still quite powerful :)

How do you like that Noiseblocker? I havn't been able to find many people using them. Probably because they are not really cheap but looks like they have really good noise to airflow ratio. Did you run anything else that you would compare them to that most others would consider quiet?
 
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How do you like that Noiseblocker? I havn't been able to find many people using them. Probably because they are not really cheap but looks like they have really good noise to airflow ratio. Did you run anything else that you would compare them to that most others would consider quiet?

buy you enermax magma. i own both the noiseblocker black silent x2,and these babies....
they do twice the air pressure, and move more air. also they should have 18dba/max;)
 
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