Here's a portion of the item. It got broken (not my fault), so I requested for replacements. The company was excellent and friendly and happily sent me replacements in other colours.

Haha. Not a pump top bro.

Will post up a few more photos. Maybe then you guys will be able to guess.

Excellent service from Primochill.

Some acrylic faceplates. The one is the original my unit came with. I requested for smoke and clear plate replacements.

TBH, the smoke acrylic is quite a disappointment, it's quite a dark colour, so unless you want the unit to be stealthed out, I wouldn't recommend getting it.

Haha yeah. I did some "advertising" for Primo on the watercooling thread. lol.

Thought of the D-plug. Wouldn't work for me. But I figured it out and got the fittings I needed. Now it's perfectly seated with little room to move.

Polishing eh. Ok. Will give it a shot with my dremel.

I'm still thinking of the coolant thing. Since I'm using coloured tubing, it doesn't really matter if I use dyes or coloured coolant. Can just use LED to light the res.

work over! back to having more time to mod out my rig.

my MSI 7950 Reference card had issues so I sent it in for repair and it came back as a Sapphire 7950 Vapor-X, meaning I can't exactly water cool it any more.

Any one wants a 7950 Vapor X? Thinking of selling it off, but not exactly sure so no WTS thread yet.

Because of this, I have made some arrangements to get a GTX 680 reference card.

In the process of making this, I've jumped from: HD 5850 Vapor-X, GTX 670 Reference, HD 7950 Reference, HD 7950 Vapor-X and soon, GTX 680 Reference. LOL.

Purchased my pump and decided to go with Monsoon Compressions in black chrome colour.

Still plenty of things to buy! I wish I had more cash on hand.

I think I saw that customed block. Fugly like hell. Lol.

I already made arrangements for a 680 and i have a waterblock otw. But thanks for the offer bro.

No extra cash to splurge on a GPU. haha. even the 680 I'm getting is on a trade basis.

As luck would have it, my SSD is dead. It magically died after I updated my motherboard's bios.

So kinda updating this through a Sempron powered computer.

Recently received my box of fittings and my aquacomputer D5 pump, sp,e inline temperature sensors, ram water blocks, and a new water block for the GTX 680 which I got hold of yesterday.

I just realise I seem to have a lot of aquacomputer stuff in my build. Photos will be up when I dig out all the boxes again. Had to stash them away when I rearranged and cleared out my room. Was getting too messy. haha!

Will be spending the next few days doing mundane things like sanding my radiator down (no, I'm still not done. ) and since my rig is out, I might as well clean out the capacitors.

Photos when I'm able!

Suicidal SSD. oh well. RMA.

Since I haven't posted anything in awhile, and since my Sunday afternoon was empty, I made my motherboard's capacitors shiny! Got 90% of the capacitors on my board. The other 10% requires me to remove heat sinks, which of course I'll eventually get to doing.

Sorry, phone camera quality. I can't use my DSLR coz well, my rig is down.



As you can see, my motherboard has been collecting dust from being used bench table style.

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Vacuum blow? Lol. Mine only sucks. HAHAHA.

Hit beetle_larvae a PM. Not sure if can still get the ones I'm using. Supposed to be limited edition.

Haha. Yeah, using something similar from Ambersil. Need to go buy more.

LOL. Mine is compressed air + cleaning agents, so no thx.

I wish I had one of those. Would make my life so much easier.

Just using the canned stuff.

Had some spare time today so I did a couple of test fits for things I haven't.

1. Aquaero 5 waterblock; issues with compression fitting rings just because of the two screws in the middle of the block.



Easily solved with extenders I suppose. Gotta buy some short extenders.

2. Aquacomputer D5; issues with fitting together with the bitspower mod kit I have. Have to use the pump cover without the rear plate.

Have to make it look really presentable now, can't hide the pump back and cable headers.

Also decided to stop being stupid, going to buy a can of paint stripper this weekend and just let my radiators have it. Sand papering the paint of is getting me nowhere and if I persist, I could probably say bye bye to having any fingerprints.

My radiator as no plastic parts... so shouldn't be an issue.

Also, I don't have extra brake fluid lying around.

Went out and traded off my pimped out pump for a power supply today.

Got hold of this, pretty much brand new with warranty and stuff in tact.



A Seasonic, X760. I think this just speaks for itself.


So no more Corsair TX650M!




Or so I thought.

Turns out because of the nature of the cable layout, the TX650M has pretty much the best layout for my case. However, because I don't want to void it's warranty so soon and that I want/need my cables to be somewhat short and sleeved, I kinda have to change it to a modular.

The issue? Well, with the radiator installed, I can only plug up my 2x 6-pin PCIE, 24-pin Mobo, and 8-pin mobo. NOTHING ELSE. Even plugging the 2x 6-pin PCIE slightly blocks the port for my radiator.
No SATA power, no 4-pin molex power. wtf.

That pretty much means my rig would be stuck in post then it'll just die from heat.

Lucky for me, the PSU is secured to my case using a bracket, so I'm going to make it fit.



If you're wondering, the PSU fits on the other side of the bracket. The side that's on the box.

I just need to make my own lower profile bracket. That's until some other issue turns up. We'll see.

I think when I'm finally done with this, I'll write up on the amount of items that I've changed out throughout the journey. Should be mind blowing.

This post has been edited by pristine: Aug 4 2013, 01:55 AM

No updates yet coz I got sick

BUT! I managed to secure some funds so I bought the remainder of the stuff I need for my build. Should get to me by the end of the coming week. Got some new tools, should get to me by mid coming week.

Just need to finish my case! Why is it so hard to do these things.

Oh, got my hands on some paint stripper. Shall have a go at my radiators when I open the can of rambutan or peaches in my fridge. I need a metal can to hold the stripper while I work. LOL.

ALSO! Will be tossing out the black oxide screws (most of them) and swapping them with stainless steel nuts & bolts. Need to buy metal polish next time I go to the hardware store so I can make em SHINE.

This post has been edited by pristine: Aug 11 2013, 01:32 AM

Not much space behind my mobo tray.

Haha. No, I really don't have space behind my mobo tray. Especially after the modifications I've made.