Pics of my system

[Markbnj]

Spent this afternoon installing a Zalman cooler and cleaning up my cabling. The Coolermaster has this horrible pile of 4-pin plugs attached to the two front fans and the leds behind the bezel. I cut all that crap off and attached the fans and LED's to a single 4-pin, and generally cleaned up the rest of the cabling to make sure air could flow over the Zalman. I think I did a decent job with the cabling, but not great. I also think I might have messed up the AS5 application, by smearing a thin layer over the whole chip instead of putting a dot in the center as they instruct. Idling at 37 deg. c atm on stock settings.

The pics aren't great, as they were taken on a phone cam.

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[ElTorrente]

Thats good quality for a phone camera. 🙂

It looks nice and neat - all you need is some sleeving and heatshrink on some of those random wires for the final finishing touches. Nice job - you get a :thumbsup:

 

[Markbnj]

It's a Treo 650, which actually doesn't have a bad camera, and can record 5 mins of video too.

All of which makes up for having to dial with either a touch screen or leetle teeny buttons the size of fly dicks.

Thanks for the comment. I may go in and sleeve some of those off, as you suggested.

 

[Eureka]

That's bad for a phone camera??

Norm

 

[JBDan]

Lookin good Mark. Some sleeving as El said will really nicen it up. 🙂

 

[Markbnj]

[That's bad for a phone camera?? ]

Well, mostly it's just that I have a hard time holding it still.

 

[QueBert]

I really hate you people who can clean up the inside of a case like this. I think I have tried to re-wire my Tsunami 2 or 3 times, I start out okay, but by the end it's shat he he he. Stupid side window panel makes me want to have it looking perfect inside.

 

[Shenkoa]

Nice rig, I would do something about the HDD space though.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Looks OK, it really does! Better than most, not as good as some.

When working in close quarters, those sharp ends of the zip-ties are like tiny razors. I just
bought a small flush cut tool($3) and works great to nip the ends smooth. In the past a sharp
knife was used.

Give the AS5 time to bed-in, they say 100hours. Even if you do have to reapply that HSF is
a breeze to pull.

Galvanized

 

[Markbnj]

[Looks OK, it really does! Better than most, not as good as some. ]

I've spent my life in the middle, and I'm comfortable there 😉.

[Nice rig, I would do something about the HDD space though.]

Yeah, I made some stuff go away by shoving it back in there. Maybe that will be next weekend's project.

Thx for the comments!

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

Nice work, but how are you idling at 37C?? I have that case and the two front fans are connected to the fan-only connectors and I can't get anything below 40c. Maybe it's just because my ambient temps are so high... anyways, nice work on the cabling, I only wish I had a digital camera of some sort here at school so I could take some pics of mine and we could compare, hehe.

 

[Markbnj]

I didn't use the fan-only connectors the second time around. I was sick of the mess in the front of the case caused by the double-molexes on each fan and LED, so I snipped them all off and wired the lot into a single molex that I plugged into the same multi-plug line that is powering my sata hd, and video card. So I suppose the fans might be running faster, but they don't look or sound as if they are. It could be ambient temps, since it is pretty cool here today. I am idling at 34c right now with a 40c case temp.