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CDsDontBurn

Well, finished my wiring w/my OCZ PSU, and here are the updated pix like i said i'd post them .



Side panel on


Ever since i got my 6800GT along w/my seagates, the molex for my video card and the SATA connector has been touching each other. I've been worrying about the SATA connector snapping off because of that. I need to get me one of those 90 degree SATA cables but i don't want to pay more for the shipping than the cost of the cable itself .


EDIT: Cleaned out my VGA silencer .


and also

Zardon

You need to think about taking that cooler off and cleaning the dirt/dust out bud.....

Sandok

That's an artic silencer cooler thingy right? Mine get's quite a bit of dust too... And those things are damn annoying to clean! lol

Drakon

I need to clean mine too. Was thinking of getting a can of compressed air and squirting in between the blades. How do u guys clean your Artic Coolers?

J0rs

I have a compressor and I use that to clean my Arctic Cooler. I dont even take my gpu out of the comp to do it. I just shoot the air at the fan blades first and then through the back, at the aluminum heatsink. I also use our vacuum just to pick up most of the dust that comes off.

CDsDontBurn

already cleaned it off......edited my post above . Looks alot better......the q-tips i used came out ugly black after i had used them .

Son_of_Thunder

well, my digicam sucks w/out the flash turned on, and w/ it on it takes sucky night pics. so here goes, the night pics are, obviously, very blurry.








and then some oldies to show off my case a little:

The_Neon_Cowboy

Dude to each his own but IMO you seriously need to clean up those wires
and it's not expensive invest in some wire ties and make it look neat / clean
I just go crazy seeing messes like that. Not to meantion how it adversly effects
your airflow and cooling...

(Just like I do when I see dusty and some timesdirty hardware! LOL keeps names out of it)


heres an starter example of what I mean.... when you lok thew the window neat clean an tidy should be what you see some you can't help but hide and bundle what you can... the system with e board I just RMA'd...





I used the parts to build to go to my parewnts house for my son, and my nephews to use....




What you don't see is the detph of field very well but everything is out of the way pused back as to stay out of the way. Another thing you don't see is the case side that i've modified with an 80mm fan blowing out, and the bay hard drive cooler...

(There is no window so looks are less important here...)

I'll post mine when I get my main rig decided and built...
I'll update this when I get my C strip in th mail had to oder more I useally keep a big wad of it for makeing case holes I cut look alot more attractive and to protect the fingers..

(Btw: thats not dust in pick two its a discoleration when they had spilt a drink and got it inside the computer), of couse now thier not allowed to have drinks near the comupter)

CDsDontBurn

Hey man, I already fixed that! Besides, you shoulda seen it before i started my wiring. I swear i could have started my own little garden inside my case .

tankhunter01

was there roses?

CDsDontBurn

lol.....i didn't say that i did, i said that i could have .

The_Neon_Cowboy

The sad thing I see any more is a lack of custom mods.... I've gotten a bit lazy but I still
do modifications anywhere I think need it though pre windowed cases etc save alot of
trouble....


those comments where not aimed at you or anyone in patular but where a friendly
reminder or suggestion . But dust is to electroincs , as kyptonite is to superman


I mean this is watter cooling so it's not as important (air flow) but any time theres a mess
inside its just (FUGGLY) to me and probubly most people... watter cooling kinda of an
exception you have to make for it... but for example he could do something with his
wireing/cableing...




I'd give you all tips but I think i'd get called out for sounding like a know it all like you
should hide your cold cathodes so thier not visable thew your window if possable... But people can do what ever they want. But there is no right way or wrong way to do stuff but I can tell you what most people do and what looks more attractive... I see alot of bad arse stuff at the lan events that gives me ideas and insight...

For example if he where to add a red cathode up on the top end it would be two tones and mix in the middle for 3 colors ! and look pretty cool

Son_of_Thunder

eh, yah, my wires are a mess, the cables that come w/ my psu are so dang stiff that it's hard to push them out of the way, but it's still a lot better looking than the interior pic that's up there. i have them all following the same general contour and tied together now rather than going directly to where i need them. i'll try to get a pic soon.

G@MeBoY

Try having 2-3 HDDs, 2 Optical devices, 12molex PSU (w/ 4 sata connectors) cold cathodes, one fan in front and one in the back of the case, and THEN keep your case that clean as yours is No way man, no way ! 2 HDDs one above the other are enough to have that "mess look" in yor case, especially with hard IDE rounded cables...

The_Neon_Cowboy

I do i've got col cathodes. lazer leds.. top blow whole , side blow wholes 120mm in the rear... 2 80mm in the frount.. 1 hard drive 1 CDROM and 1 CDRW/DVD all IDE

case #2 4x 80mm in the frount, 2 side blow wholes, 1 60mm out with 60 to 80mm adapotor 1 CDrom 1 IDE

I use rounded cables for you ide and tie everyhting up nice and neat.. but right now the facy cases set empty untill after our taxes roll in... I'll post pics after I get them built.... If i ran across them I'll ost up my old main rig shots too.. its purdy

itchy5

ya that was my old set up (it was messy ) its alot cleaner now just see my earlier posts and i put that UV CCFL beside my mobo so it makes all the x connect cables glow :P and i put a blue led fan in so now it looks more organized :P (see)
no more rats nest :P o and dont worry about my PSU kinda tipping it was cause it wouldnt fit with my 120x38 fan but its fixed now

ReV smokey255

those are some nice rigs

El Kapitano

Well here's my half finished pimping effort.



There's alot of tidying to be done and the Red UV Psu connector kit and sleeving has landed today I'm having a ponder for a couple of days though before I launch into a cable sleeving frenzy.

That sleeving you see there btw is the old vantec stuff I used before, kinda too orange for my liking; my new sleeving gives the cables a red (hot) tinge to the edges.

CDsDontBurn

looks awsome man . I can't see the second pic though......just a little white box and a red "x" inside the box.

El Kapitano

What second pic? Oh, it doesn't show in my firefox?....There fixed. It was a mistyped link that vanished in the editor. Wonder why/how that happened.

CDsDontBurn

awww....so there wasn't a second pic after all . It's cool though....i can just drool over your fx55 system .