I am eagerly waiting since the first day on how much better looking can the SG03 be after modding..LOL..

Interested to get one since the first day but Matx is keeping me off..Too hard to find a nice mobo..(and of course, lack of moolah..)..lol..

cool..when will the project finished..?

waiting ur project ian brother

Aiyar... still no updates kar.

Be careful with your lightsaber... don't burn the house down just because of a mosquito.

LOLZ. I just burned a few mozzies last night during a BBQ. Anyway, I'm waiting for sum new stuff from a certain new sponsor for Project GT40. Once it's all confirmed n the stuff has arrived, the project shall jalan full steam. I dont wanna leave the new sponsors too far behind in the log that's y I'm still waiting. It shud be in sumtime next week.

wah new sponsor lagi.........fyiyoh.......cannot wait to see what goodies will go into this baby

WALAO!!!! ianho sure got a lot of neat stuff to play with..... sponsor me also.... LOLZ!!!

uncle, when can update.... at least the scoop... huuhhu ~ tell us u did something ~ pleaseee ~

Abandon the scoop idea oredi coz I cant find it. I can oni find the fiberglass type. I dont like fiberglass as it has an imperfect finish. I was looking for the molded plasctic type.

Brudder... putty.. putty... sand...sand...sand.... putty... sand sand sand lar

hahah he got flattered mah ...

Uncle must keep up the spirit of modding things in outrages manner..

uncle i cant wait to see your crazy ideas!!!

faster start up the engine of gt40 cant wait leh update update

i think there was someone mod his casing using air scoop? hurm... have to selongkar back all the previous thread... may be he got clue where to find the scoop

Sry guys. I know there's been many delays but I've just been notified that the gfx cards have been delayed again. The cards shud b in sumtime next week. I don't like to stop n go after I start a mod hence I rather wait for all the parts to be in b4 I start n then go full steam ahead.

8800 GTX? or Ultra?

u still planning on SLI-ing rite?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. The gfx cards are finally here. The courier called me while I was away on holidays. I arranged for them to be delivered 2moro. I just came home from the hols last night n asked for delivery today but forgot it is public hol so TNT sed they'll send it on Friday.

The Double Dragons are here at last. The reason for the long delay was, Zotac didn't want to send me the reference cards which were green PCB n Qimonda chips in the initial batch. They wanted Project GT40 to use the very best 8800GT they had which is the new revision of the AMP Edition now. This version uses Zotac's very own trademark blue PCB and most importantly the new Samsung chips.


Here's what the postman brought today. The Double Dragons have had a long tiring flight all the way from Hong Kong. High class fellas only wanted to fly by Cathay Pacific Airways only.















Let's crack open the box shall we?














The Double Dragon's are peeking out.














They're out at last. Now let's take a closer look at these ferocious beauties.













Taking them out of the box.
















More pix coming right up.

This post has been edited by ianho: Dec 21 2007, 05:40 PM

Tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Ladies n gentlemen, may I present the Double Dragons.














Now let's take a closer look at the card itself. This Zotac 8800GT 512mb AMP Edition is pretty special. It's factory OCed to 700/2000. It comes with a nice full aluminum cooler which includes an aluminum fan cover. Take a look at this pic. U can clearly see the aluminum cover here. Normal 8800GT is using plastic for it's cover.














Here's a look at the back of the card.















Let's get on to stripping the Dragons naked shall we?














The naked GPU after cleaning with some good ol Zippo fluid. All nice n shiny now.














Here's the special thing about these Zotac cards. Zotac is the only 1 using Samsung chips right now. The others are still using Qimonda.














N finally, b4 putting it all back together, I applied my favorite thermal paste- Arctic Cooling MX2 on the GPU.








That's it. All the hardware is finally in. I can now proceed with the project full steam ahead now.


I'd like to say a big huge thanks to my new sponsors Zotac Technology HK for providing me with these wonderful cards. Also big thanks to E-Devices Technology, the local distributor for Zotac graphics cards.

Uncle ianho, the zotac cards are simply awesome, so envy that you get it sponsor hehe anyhow cant wait to get this project updated because its been awhile though.