CandymanCan
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- Joined
- Aug 14, 2003
- Location
- Woodbridge, Va
Man im still shaking right now. The holes near the video card's core were to small for any hardware store in my area, they had the small bolts they just were long enough and he said they dont make them thin and the length i need cuss the strength will be comprimised.
So i grew balls today and decited to take my drill with a small drill bit and start drilling the hole away to make it bigger. Keep in mind i measured the distance between each hole and the traces (you know those little lines on the board where the card send information through that are all over the video card) and they were less or 1mm away fro mthe hole, thier is still some good distance between them but it was scary as hell.
Anyway i mounted the block with the 2 holes that lined up, leak tested it and hooked it in the pc crossed my fingers and flipped the switch. It worked i couldnt belive it. Im using hot water right now to get the kinks and bend the hoses cuss warmish hot water makes the clearflex tubes bend easier, but my temps are 47c right now, over the 55c or so i used to get on idle. 8c diff so far using warm water. My cpu temps will be a little warmer now cuss my Black ice will have to struggle keeping up with the Cpu and video card wattage but as long as the temps dont go above 50c im fine with that. Update the temps are fully idle @ 42c and load seems to stay in the 40's upper 40's. My cpu has actually only gone up like 3-4c on load which isnt alot.
Sorry for bad quality my bro stole my good camera and he is in school
Thier in this pic you see my whole pc pretty much, as u see i do have a modded Maze 2 block that i had to drill also to mod some bracket on the top and bottom cuss the 2 mounting holes were longer then the block was.
My Maze Lucent block on the GT, i had to take the memory sink off, but i actually think it helped more cuss the ram is able to overclock more also.
Here is one of the 4 mounting holes by the GPU, i could only use 2, but see how close the traces on the board are to the holes, i had to enlarge the hole to amount of the white circle, which is alot considering how close those things were.
Back of the card
and for the heck of it since i never posted pics of my maze 2 block here it is , that Oatmeal looking stuff is the nail glue for contruction work i used t seal it up heheh
So i grew balls today and decited to take my drill with a small drill bit and start drilling the hole away to make it bigger. Keep in mind i measured the distance between each hole and the traces (you know those little lines on the board where the card send information through that are all over the video card) and they were less or 1mm away fro mthe hole, thier is still some good distance between them but it was scary as hell.
Anyway i mounted the block with the 2 holes that lined up, leak tested it and hooked it in the pc crossed my fingers and flipped the switch. It worked i couldnt belive it. Im using hot water right now to get the kinks and bend the hoses cuss warmish hot water makes the clearflex tubes bend easier, but my temps are 47c right now, over the 55c or so i used to get on idle. 8c diff so far using warm water. My cpu temps will be a little warmer now cuss my Black ice will have to struggle keeping up with the Cpu and video card wattage but as long as the temps dont go above 50c im fine with that. Update the temps are fully idle @ 42c and load seems to stay in the 40's upper 40's. My cpu has actually only gone up like 3-4c on load which isnt alot.
Sorry for bad quality my bro stole my good camera and he is in school
Thier in this pic you see my whole pc pretty much, as u see i do have a modded Maze 2 block that i had to drill also to mod some bracket on the top and bottom cuss the 2 mounting holes were longer then the block was.
My Maze Lucent block on the GT, i had to take the memory sink off, but i actually think it helped more cuss the ram is able to overclock more also.
Here is one of the 4 mounting holes by the GPU, i could only use 2, but see how close the traces on the board are to the holes, i had to enlarge the hole to amount of the white circle, which is alot considering how close those things were.
Back of the card
and for the heck of it since i never posted pics of my maze 2 block here it is , that Oatmeal looking stuff is the nail glue for contruction work i used t seal it up heheh
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