SuperCricket, I and some other GhettoLanparty members built a crazy computer for QuakeCon. We dealt with many of the issues you were talking about and ended up with an incredably complex, hard to maintain beast of a machine.
An airconditonder actively cools a dexcool water solution which is...
So I finally got my pc up and running again. What a nightmare... I dropped the new Epox board in and powered it up just to see my favorite constant FF on the debug 7segs. I tried swapping out a few components but it was pretty obvious it wasn't going to post for me.
Next step was to...
So, how often do you guys do maintenance on your water cooling systems? Stuff like changing out water, new tubing, or flushing.
I have a close to 95% duty cycle on my main watercooled rig and I have been replacing my clearflex and changing out my water every 6 months or so. The sediment...
Vynl tubing sucks. Once you get it installed and leave it there for a while it'll get rock solid and start turning brown. Espically if you have uv lights in your case.
Clearflex bends and ages better, but because it is softer be prepared for your pump to cause kinks even in straight runs...
whoa, why didn't you take the 3.5" drive bay covers out before you painted?
btw, nice mod so far. i wish i had the time/tools/money to do this kinda stuff...
My main watercooled pc died about a week ago, after I finally dissassembled it I found what had caused the motherboard to fry so soon.
There are a couple capacitors really close to the retention frame. Because of the amount of force the springs were supplying the pins managed to poke through...
Thanks for the love slammr and cleric. We try [h]ard to keep you guys happy. Anyway, heres a couple pics from DFW's very own Ghetto Lanparty.
old panoramic from GL15
overhead from GL16
cool glowing monitor shot from GL16
shots of the pinball machines Dallas Arcade was kind...