ok, got my goodies i was waiting on, and i decided it was time to make this thing come alive, took me about 6 hours to get it swapped over. all in all I'm not very happy with the quality of the mountain mods case, the screw holes for the radiators were barely lined up had to force a few, didn't really like that. and like i had stated before there were filthy hand prints all over the panels when i got them. any way's on to the pics....
boy i love getting boxes with that tape on it, makes me light up like a kid in a candy store.
here's what was in the box, xspc rasa cpu block, 4 bitspower 90 degree elbows some heat shrink, and my package from fastenal, wich was spose to be 40mm 3.5 socket head screws, but they didnt even fit in the rad, had to run out to home depot and get some ugly screws just so i could build this shit.
a couple boxes of shit i have been sitting on for way too long, finally will get used.
here's the screws i had ordered(top) and hoped to have used, instead i had to get some cheapo screws at home depot (bottom)to get my fans hung.
allright lets get down to some work now, shall we. here's a start on my san ace's soldering shrinking and sleeving.
finished, this project was my first ever experience with sleeving plus i was in a hurry so it's not best work.
here's my cpu getting ready for a new block.
ain't it purdy?
here she is all set, i really liked this block the mounting was a breeze and the backplate had threaded nuts in it, all i had to do was just screw the thumb screws in, no fucking around with a threaded rod with washers, nuts, and the hassle.
this is the 360 rad i had in my cpu loop for about 1 year and a half to maybe a year, how in the fuck was this thing even fucking working, lmao... gross....
simple solution, fill the sink with hot soapy water and submerge the rad and swish it back and forth working free all the shit, and a quick rinse then a shot with some compressed air.
looks like new, except for what looks like rust, actually couldn't see that untill i looked at the pic.
hey, look it's starting to look like something.
tubing installed, i really thought this was going to be the hardest part, turns out it was the simpelist part besides mounting the cpu block of course. i was actually really impressed with this tubing, it was very flexible and easy to connect to barbs. i'm now rethinking the 90 degree elbows and the antikink, as it seems i don't think any of that will be needed.
a drink for my newest child.
getting ready for the virgin run.
and first post what do i see?
wtf is this..... somehow i managed to damage my video card mounting the block(wich ive done tons of times, changed/mounted blocks without ever damaging components), the only thing i can think of is i might have let off a static discharge.
so now that's 2 280's ive killed in a bout 2-3 weeks, shitty. had to put my evga back in(has corrupted memory crashes to pink screen while gaming). also i had to swap the card on the block while all connected in the loop, what a pain in the cock that was, took me like 20 mins instead of about 3.
