Monday, March 3, 2008
New MK2008 Rig!
Some of you maybe wondering what I’ve been doing this weekend. I have been working on my new water-cooled computer, my new MK2008 rig.Okay, I ran into several problems, my gpu full-copper ramsinks were too heavy and kept falling off, and I discovered a leak in my reservoir! I had to drain the whole system, so leaving it as that, I went down to SLS (again), headed to UVnium, and found that somehow he wasn't very hospitable today, he wasn't in a chatty mood neither did he really bother to really entertain me, a patron. Leaving a cold couldn't-be-bothered expression. And to think he is the modder-guru, with kick-ass mods and killer water-cooled rigs! Disappointing.
Nevertheless, I bought a pair of UV-CCFL (Ultraviolent Cold-Cathode Fluorescent tubes) from him, (I remember the FIRST time I bought my first pair of CCFL blue-tubes to be put into my zheng-ed casing almost 8 years ago! I went home, removed the old 3M thermal-tape from the ram-sinks, fixed up fresh 3M thermal-tape, then super-glued the ram-sinks to the gpu and fixed it back into the system. Now I am waiting for the super glue to dry, though it sets in 10 seconds, it requires 12 hours to acquire full strength.
On my way there, I happened to board a very crowded train, and was naturally met by the true-face of ugly Singaporeans, fighting and jostling their way unceremoniously in and out of the crowded train, people will jostle their way out at every station stop and others would try to force their way in, hence creating much unnecessary tension. My bags were rudely bumped about as well.
Sigh.
Nevertheless, my rig is finally up! I’ve fixed up all the lose parts, hooked up all the tubing, and finally it's all up and running! Apparently the Thermaltake UV tubing kinks easily, and I just cut the tubing longer and made the loop longer, just as well, it looks much nicer and neater now! The intake tube is still Eheim clearflex after all and it's covered by insulation, so it doesn't really matter. Now the loops loop out of my casing into my custom-made reservoir.
I poured in the distilled water, mixed a little bit of Ethylene Glycol and the whole system started up just fine. It took several minutes before the water flow reach laminar, and after several hours, the thing still ran fine with no leaks whatsoever. Yes I am very happy. In first stepped up the clock speeds to 3Ghz first, and the reservoir soon hit 50degs! My cpu temps were very good, almost 20-30 degs.
So now with the bling bling in place, all the UV CCFLs working nicely and the UV-tubing glowing nicely, I am quite happy with this setup, but it's not complete yet, I am going to push my clock speeds to 4Ghz. Plus I am going to add 2 more CoolerMaster chipset cooler fans onto the Northbridge and Southbridge, an OCZ XTC ram cooler, more rams, and a Skythe Kamameter front-bay fan controller.
Just a little bit more modifications to be done before I am finally satisfied with my new MK2008 rig. =)
