Slaymate's Saga

[hikaricloud]

This is looking pretty sexy. Can't wait to see it finished.

 

[Slaymate]

When this project started I was going to use the Cooler Master V8. But then Cooler Master released the V10 and I decided to try that instead. But I may still change my mind, I've been known to buy on impulse.

I'm not a fan of the Black Plastic Cover. I'll probably take it off and lose it.

The base has a pretty nice finish to it

When the cover is removed things start to look a little shoddy. Everything looks a little bent. I'm not really impressed with the side view but it may not be noticable installed.

If I do lose the cover I'll be using this fan grill on the exposed fan.

Here are the fans, they are wired together.

 

[Slaymate]

Back to the heatsink. There are a bunch of Void Your Warranty Stickers on this thing. Luckily I'm highly skilled at Voiding my Warranty

With the control module removed we can see the thermistor is located on the outer edge of the base. This means the Peltier doesn't even activate until the outer edge of the base gets hot. I'll be relocating it to the center or slightly off-centered (now that I've tried it as packaged).

And here's a picture of the Peltier. And I've also ordered a couple different Peltiers to try in-lieu of the stock unit. The stock unit is rated at 70 watts with 21 volts at 9.8 amps. I just don't see the Peltier getting more than 12-13 volts so it's never going to get that cold. So following there logic I ordered a 120 watt, 24.6 volt, 7.9 amp Peltier. Once again it's never going to reach it's potential but it should get much colder. I also decided to try using my logic and I ordered a 80 watt, 16.1 volt, 8 amp Peltier. I have high hopes for this one. It should run at 75-80% efficiency with 12 volts.

And the Mounting Hardware. I didn't realize that the AM2 plate was stuck to the 1366 plate.

I also bought one of these t-shirts. As I understand it, the wearie is inbued with an extra 10% modding bonus

Front

Back

Fruit of the Loom, you know it's comfee

 

[aspire]

Back

Just one problem, condenser style radiator.

 

[Mnpctech]

I should have dan's case panels back from powdercoating tommorow, yippee!

 

[Slaymate]

Today we have the Video Cards. I bought the EVGA GTX 280 1st and I took quite a few pictures. When I got the BFG GTX 280 I was in a hurry to plug it and I only took a single photo. But we'll get to see the BFG stripped down tomorrow when the new cooler is installed.

The BFG GTX 280

And the EVGA GTX 280

And I finally got a shipping notice for the Peltiers I'll be trying with the Cooler Master V10. Looks like I'll be tinkering this weekend.

 

[Slaymate]

Today I have some pictures of the coolers I'll be using on the GTX280's. This is the SilenX IXG-80HA2 Noiseless GPU Cooler. They have an optional fan kit, which I bought, Ixtrema GPU Fan Kit. But I won't recommed the fan kit, it's expensive, flimsy and the fans are totally exposed. Instead I bought (4) Scythe Kaze-Jyu Slim 100mmx100mmx12mm 2000 rpm 27.6 cfm fans, (2) for each card. On a side note, these fans come with brackets to mount them onto a hard drive.

Here are the basic spec's of the Coolers
dimensions - 228.4x113.2x33.2mm
base material - Copper Heatpipes, Aluminum Plates
fin material - Aluminum Fins
fin surface area - 2800cm²
weight - 365g
gpu compatibility - Most Radeon and GeForce graphics cards with mounting holes, SLi and Crossfire supported

While they say the Cooler is Crossfire and SLI compatible, it is only compatible as a fanless alternative. If you want to use fans with these Coolers you'll be looking for a new case, probably.

 

[Slaymate]

In this next picture you'll notice that (2) of the Memory Modules don't have Ramsinks. Instead you have to apply a Thermal Pad to (2) of the modules as the heatpipes are located above them.

 

[aspire]

nifty.

Didn't realize exposed heatpipes had migrated to gpu coolers already.

 

[Trotter]

Oh yeah. My Accelero uses heat pipes.