Electricity may be expensive but I read that South Korea has the fastest overall internet on the planet. I am not positive but rates did not seem too high for that.

I finally got off DSL and now have 8 Times the speed on cable. I think I am getting like 50 Mbps max for $45 month, I was getting 4 Mbps with dls for a few bucks less.

Didn't mean to get off topic but since I had read that a little biot ago I had to inquire.

Bob

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I got some work done on moving the radiator to the NZXT Switch 810 case, I looked at the fans and there might be room for 38mm tall fans, but until I find a 120x38mm fan I can't tell, but I got the radiator in place, now I have t look for a loose black screw that came from one of the fans.

But then I remembered that I could take the top off of the case.

A decent amount of room inside with a 60mm thick radiator, a thicker radiator could be installed, but you'd loose another drive bay.

Looks good this way, I put the end where the barbs go at the front, why? So that I will have more room at the back for a 120x120x60mm radiator, I'll have to measure and see if a 140x140x60mm radiator will fit though, I'm pretty sure I can mount a radiator up front and 2 fans in the bottom of the case, since there are mounts for 2 fans in both locations in either 120mm or 140mm sizes and spacing, of course that means giving up the hdd drive cage, but that's ok, I have one 5.25" drive bay left below the Tt 650w drive bay psu, a 950w Corsair psu will go in the bottom of the case for space reasons, otherwise I'd have an EVGA 1600w psu in the case.

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Ok I'm back, today I did some work on the EVGA X79 Classified, I was doing some research on how much Noctua NT-H1 TIM to apply to a cpu/gpu and I found a YouTube video that mentioned how much(a grain of rice's worth, in the center of a cpu) TIM to apply to the cpu. A grain of rice worth, in the center of the cpu.

So far this is as far as I have gone in My Alphacool Eisberg 240 cpu cooler install on the EVGA X79 Classified, why? The included M3x5mm short screws heads are too big around and won't work with the stock fans, in each corner of the fan near the holes there is a structural support that won't let the short screws attach the fans to the radiator, since I wanted to install the 2 fans onto the radiator and to use self tapping fan screws to secure the 2 fans to the case in one assembly, I contacted Alphacool today, maybe I will hear something from them soon. I also asked what direction the airflows, since this is not apparent on the stock blue bladed 1300rpm fans, I also got the 4 screws needed for the installation of the cpu cold plate installed around the cpu socket.(continued after the pic)

I still need to go and remove the old Cooler Master fans from the case, which means opening up the back, I'd thought of using the Cooler Master fans instead of the Alphacool fans, I'm going to look into doing that, though I'd rather use the Alphacool fans and the 8 M3x5mm screws, if I can.

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I stumbled across this guy on YT, who is building weird but wonderful stuff. Like a CPU heat sink on his GPU, and thereby cooling his GPU under full load at 20 degrees centigrade less, against a way lower sound level.

And then that GPU built into his self made PC case, with the motherboard turned sideways so the ports are at the top of the case, and two huge 140mm fans in the bottom taking care of all the cooling.

Maybe it gives ideas. ;-)

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I stumbled across this guy on YT, who is building weird but wonderful stuff. Like a CPU heat sink on his GPU, and thereby cooling his GPU under full load at 20 degrees centigrade less, against a way lower sound level.

And then that GPU built into his self made PC case, with the motherboard turned sideways so the ports are at the top of the case, and two huge 140mm fans in the bottom taking care of all the cooling.

Maybe it gives ideas. ;-)

I like their overall concept. My only concerns on that build are the use of a towel due to static issues. Then the heat from the PSU moving up to the CPU.

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Well, as he said, it's for ideas. I'm pretty sure the towel will be replaced by something else in his 2.0 version. It is only there against the vibrations, so find some other material that takes up the vibrations and doesn't add a fire-hazard, and Bob's your uncle.

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I stumbled across this guy on YT, who is building weird but wonderful stuff. Like a CPU heat sink on his GPU, and thereby cooling his GPU under full load at 20 degrees centigrade less, against a way lower sound level.

And then that GPU built into his self made PC case, with the motherboard turned sideways so the ports are at the top of the case, and two huge 140mm fans in the bottom taking care of all the cooling.

Maybe it gives ideas. ;-)

Reminds me of the SilverStone Raven RV02 and Fortress FT02:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/raven/products/index.php?model=RV02&area=usa
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=242&area=en

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I came to the conclusion that I'll have to substitute the 2 Cooler Master fans from the dead R1 Glacer cpu cooler and attach them to the Alphacool Eisberg cpu cooler radiator, I got no response from Alphacool in Germany. If I had another Delta 120x38mm 151cfm fan(Afb1212she R series), I'd use 2 of those instead.

Of course My problem today is lots of aches and pains, among other problems, yeah I took a few pain pills, My joints and right calf aren't happy today.

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Greetings,

It's amazing what watching a video about a home-built PC case will do. It caused me to solve a mystery.

Not long ago I had to replace a PSU in the other's PC. After a few minutes the PC would shut down. Let it sit for a few, fire it up, booted just fine and again after a few minutes the PC would shut down. I discovered that the fan was not spinning just before shutdown.

This morning I opened that PSU and saw nothing that jumped out at me right off. I made a jumper for the 20 pin connector and powered the PSU. No fan spin. Ok, where's the problem?

I pulled the fan and used my multi-meter to test voltages. +5v was averaging 4.95v. I figured that was tolerable. All others were fine. I decided to test the fan again. This time I used 2 short pieces of wire that fit the PSU connector and the fan connector. Connected the 2 and hit the power button. Voila, the fan works as it should. Conclusion: there is a problem with the fan circuitry on the PSU PCB.

Now, to the video: That PSU would do just fine in a custom made PC case.

What do you think? :)

Keep on BOINCing...! :)

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Ok I finally got some more work done today, on a Sunday, oh wow...

Alphacool screws and CoolerMaster fans work perfectly together, I got all 8 to hook down the two fans, air flow is towards the top of the picture.

I got the whole thing up with 8 case fan screws, plus the 2 fans are both connected to power. Also I made sure that the tubing for the cpu went behind the graphics card tubing, why? Ease of removal of the graphics card, just in case.

Now I only need to peel off the film on the cpu water block, put a grain of rice worth of Noctua NT-H1 thermal compound on the center of the cpu, put the springs and screws in place, I need to look at the instructions first, once I find them, then this step will be done. Then I need to remove the battery for 24 hours, then I think this should start up. I hope. I still need to install a 120mm fan in the bottom of the case(if the fan will fit) and hook up to power the 120mm and the 140mm that are both in the bottom of the case, but that means removing the bottom of the case, just to install a fan, but not today, that'll happen soon.

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I did get 3 things done recently, 1. I pealed off the plastic film from the water block/pump's cold plate, 2. I plugged in the one cable into the motherboard cpu fan plug, that's all the energy I could muster(depression sucks, I also like black jeans, but then I like Black stuff). 3. I have reinstalled the battery in the motherboard(I needed to clear the cmos memory, the button wasn't good enough).

To do: Add a grain of rice's worth of Noctua NT-H1 thermal compound to the center of the cpu, then add 4 plastic washers(one on each bolt), then 4 springs(same location as the washers) and the final 4 parts(same as before) and tighten down the block by hand.

If this doesn't work to get the PC to come to life, there are two more steps: 1. Replace the Bios chip w/the old bios chip(which I still have, the chip's in a safe location), if that fails then 2. Replace the EVGA X79 Classified motherboard with an Asus Rampage IV Extreme motherboard, both motherboards each have an i7 3820 cpu.

Battery is out, next it's back in.

All the wires for the Alphacool Eisberg cpu cooler are in place and this matches the instructions as to the orientation of the cpu block.

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My experiment to make an evga gtx580 water cooled with an nzxt x31 cpu cooler and bracket that I bought a while back is a failure, but I have a pny gtx580 that is in another pc, if I had an evga gtx670 sc (2774-kr), I could combine the x31 with a Corsair hg10 n970 bracket, hopefully I don't need a Corsair hg80gt cooler to make that happen. I am done for the night, sorry no pics, they're on the pc.

Posted from My phone.

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Posting with the fastest and to Me the coolest idle on a GTX580 I've ever seen, with only 1-120mm fan too, idle temp 33C, loaded 49C @ 857 MHz while doing Cuda 42, driver 335.23, driver straight from MS, sweet.

It's a PNY GTX580 XLR8 Liquid Cooled video card.


The Galactica is back baby, heads up, coming thru, make a hole...

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My experiment to make an evga gtx580 water cooled with an nzxt x31 cpu cooler and bracket that I bought a while back is a failure, but I have a PNY LC GTX 580 that is in another pc, if I had an evga GTX670 SC (2774-kr), I could combine the x31 with a Corsair hg10 n970 bracket, hopefully I don't need a Corsair hg80gt cooler to make that happen. I am done for the night, sorry no pics, they're on the pc.

Posted from My phone.

Ok here is two pics of the bare EVGA GTX580 card installed in the Waterline bracket, it's very secure and all(like rock steady, kowabunga dude!), but since I could not mount the bracket with the stock frame, the ram has no heatsink. I may need to see if I can find some double sided thermal adhesive tape for some heatsinks. I'm going to see why the NZXT X31 was not keeping the idle temp closer to 31C, instead of 81C, maybe not enough Thermal Compound, I applied about a grain of rice worth, probably not enough, but I just have to remove 4 locking nuts and 4 fiber washers to see what is going on with the 580 gpu(700MHz).


I forgot to get a pic of this card installed, the 92mm fan is lit with blue leds, pretty.


The PNY LC GTX580 operating in Galactica's current case(I was pretty tired, this took two days to do, My back is finally forgiving Me), the PNY operates at 857MHz, idle right now is 29C-31C, when crunching about 55C-57C, yeah there is a Delta 120x38mm 151cfm fan attached, though the stock fan would do under normal circumstances, this home isn't quite normal enough.

Sorry these are only partial pics, getting to this point was a real painful, cussing affair, good thing no one could hear Me. I only wish I had two more of these beastly cards...

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Ok, now this FF bios code is still displayed on the motherboard, I've eliminated the video card, the ram(two sets of dimms), the hdd, 5 fans, the cpu cooler has water flowing, since all work in my old pc (which finally died) or just work, yet I can't get this pc/motherboard to boot, what's my next step?

Oh and the power and reset buttons don't appear to work, lots of red leds on the EVGA x79 classified. I had unplugged the battery for about 2 days, to no effect.

Exchange the bios chip from evga for the bios the motherboard came with, which could be the problem, I have my doubts that the cpu is bad, but I do have another 3820 cpu, that is in an Asus Rampage IV Extreme motherboard.

Otherwise I'm stumped, right now I need to cool off, as I'm a bit overheated and my shoulders are hurting.

I am on my phone, so no pics.

Ideas are welcome at this point.

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What I do need is a phone number to evga tech support.

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What I do need is a phone number to evga tech support.

http://www.evga.com/about/contactus/
Office Hours: Monday – Friday 9AM to 6PM PST

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What I do need is a phone number to evga tech support.

http://www.evga.com/about/contactus/
Office Hours: Monday – Friday 9AM to 6PM PST

Thanks Hal9000, I called EVGA tech support, this I was told could be a psu or a motherboard problem, the motherboard would require an rma, so I'm going to swap the Silverstone st1500 1500w psu for a Corsair 950w psu, if that works, then the st1500 psu needs new cables, otherwise it's rma time.

Sigh...

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Ok, now this FF bios code is still displayed on the motherboard

Look at this FAQ: http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=58590

For this person it was his CMOS battery that was the problem. So you can try this out, power the system down completely, take the leads out the wall-sockets, then open the system and take the CMOS battery out.

Leave it out for a minimum of 10 minutes, more is better.
Then replace it and put the leads back in the power sockets, then reboot the system. See if that works. Remember to check your BIOS/UEFI settings after this though, as most all will be reset to default.

Completely replacing the CMOS battery may also be an idea, they don't have eternal life. When you do, also leave it out for some time to allow what possible corruption there is in the CMOS to reset itself.

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Ok, now this FF bios code is still displayed on the motherboard

Look at this FAQ: http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=58590

For this person it was his CMOS battery that was the problem. So you can try this out, power the system down completely, take the leads out the wall-sockets, then open the system and take the CMOS battery out.

Leave it out for a minimum of 10 minutes, more is better.
Then replace it and put the leads back in the power sockets, then reboot the system. See if that works. Remember to check your BIOS/UEFI settings after this though, as most all will be reset to default.

Completely replacing the CMOS battery may also be an idea, they don't have eternal life. When you do, also leave it out for some time to allow what possible corruption there is in the CMOS to reset itself.

I did that already, for two days. I think that I mentioned that already.

Right now I am searching for an 8 pin psu extension cable, this not a pcie cable, somewhere in the front bedroom I think that I have one, since my 8 pin cable is too short.

I can't just buy one, I don't have tools Here or the money to spare currently, the tx950w was not designed with a case this tall in mind.

Vic

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