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#61 Guest_scaramonga_*

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 01:10 AM

I'm all done apart from fitting the G8800........but where the hell am I gonna put this lot?

Grr!.....I hate cable management!

On another note........in the BFG package was a pack of mouse teflon pads (24).....various BFG stickers and a BFG T-Shirt :worry:

.....nice touch!

This card looks a monster!.......its size and weight in your hands is something else....... :chrisno:

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#62 chriso_86

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 01:39 AM

You are putting you power supply at the bottom??? That is crazy with a water cooling setup!!!!

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 02:00 AM

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You are putting you power supply at the bottom??? That is crazy with a water cooling setup!!!!

And why?.......lol :chrisno:

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 03:19 AM

If water leaks onto that thing you might see some serious action!!

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 03:30 AM

chriso_86, on Nov 11 2006, 07:19 PM, said:

If water leaks onto that thing you might see some serious action!!

Chriso makes an excellent point. Given the Stacker's options, a top mount would be better.

From PhatSob's review on the other site...

"The Stacker has room for two power supplies, one at the top and one at the bottom of the case. The top PSU must be mounted from the outside and slid into the case through the opening. There is lots of room for most PSU’s but in the case of a very long PSU you might run into trouble. The Stacker comes with an adapter to run two power supplies off one motherboard."

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#66 Guest_scaramonga_*

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 03:32 AM

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If water leaks onto that thing you might see some serious action!!

That's the idea buddy..... :worry:

........blows the PSU and saves the board...... :chrisno:

....think of it as a FUSE..... :rolleyes:

Seriously though.........water could only ever come from the CPU block barbs into PSU.....and believe me....they will NEVER leak!.......I had to heat the tubing to get it over the barbs......it's sealed....lol.......well sealed!

If Res ever leaks...it will drain through vents in bottom of case as did last night when testing.......Rad is external so any leaks are.....well......external.......lol.... :rolleyes:

Pump is worse!..........had to heat tubing and use soap to get them over the barbs (they are larger and it tells you to do this in manual) so no way that will ever leak.

This case is meant for bottom PSU mount and is designed to be cooled by airflow from front fans..... :boom:

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 04:03 AM

Never say never my man!! I hope it all works ok for ya man!

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#68 Guest_scaramonga_*

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 04:12 AM

Then again..........say I mounted in top.........OK?

We have the G8800 there anyway.......so any leak is going to go there before anything (regardless of PSU position)......I'm more inclined to be worried about that than the PSU?

And its not as if I can move either the GPU or CPU position?

Have a look at this one..........

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More dangers there........as the rad is internal and could leak also......

It's a risk with water and anything electrical I guess? :chrisno:

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 06:42 AM

Hey Scara, have you considered running this in your system?

FLUID XP EXT EXTREME NON-CONDUCTIVE COOLANT

read more at their site: http://www.fluidxp.com/

or order it HERE

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#70 Guest_scaramonga_*

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 08:46 AM

What?........you trying to say my coolant ain't good enough Dave?........ :boom:

.......well your probably right!.....LOL :boom:

Nice one buddy!.......will get some of that indeed :worry:

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 06:02 PM

Oh yeah, I forgot about that stuff!! Sorry man, if I knew that you didn't know about that stuff I would of said something!! My bad!! Order that for sure, small price to pay for some insurnace on that graphics card!!

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#72 Guest_scaramonga_*

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 06:22 PM

Well Chriso........be prepared for your worst nightmare when your board arrives!

I see you have G.Skill RAM as I do.......well the board will not boot due to the RAM requiring 2.2v and is a problem G.Skill know about........ :chrisno:

Once 2.2v is set in BIOS the board should boot no problems......but how do we get access to the BIOS when the board wont boot?.......answer.....we cant!......unless we throw in some cheap DDR2 RAM to allow boot.....set 2.2v in BIOS.....swap RAM again and bobs your uncle! :worry:

Nice one!

Evga also refuse (for some reason) to release the fixed BIOS P20 that corrects the FSB holes??.....

Just thought I'd enlighten ya......... :rolleyes:

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#73 chriso_86

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 07:29 PM

Hummmm.... what a stink!! Oh well, I am sure I can find some DDR2 around here somewhere!! I'll go to my bosses house and pull some out of his daughters new computer!! hehehehe

Little problems such as this around bound to happen. Doesn't bother me to much. Maybe I'll go pick some up at Best Buy if I have to and then take it back that same day and say that it was the wrong kind or something like that. lol

Sweet, I just check my memory on newegg and this isn't even a problem for me!! My memory can run in 1.8 to 2.0! So mine should boot right up!! :chrisno:

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#74 Guest_scaramonga_*

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Posted 15 November 2006 - 06:16 AM

"Ground control to Major Tom"............

"Commencing countdown engine's on......Check ig-nition and may God's love be with you............."

HELLO????

It's Scara here reporting from another world........seems all 64bit?.......hellllllllpppppp!!!

LOL

Well up and running at last but not without problems!

I never checked my protein pills and put my helmet on......... :yahoo:

:rolleyes:

I want to go back to the simple life of my XP2200 and have tried to click my heels 3 times and say "I want to go home.......I want to go home.........."

:cheers: