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If you find him tell him about the thread in the mod forum since people are looking for him apparently.

groid wrote:

I can make you one Kirk.

Send Groid the other mats and I'll get on it.

Wow he does post here. Since the topic is done I'll hyjack it.

My new machine is almost complete...back online July 4th!?! I hope...

So you're coming back to WoW, Llevi? 

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Kirk wrote:

So you're coming back to WoW, Llevi? 

Yeah I have missed it & have a lot of catching up to do.

...totally ripped it apart, added in the upgardes

En upgarde! I'm finally at nearly the same point; working on it now, in fact. Dual 7800s, eh? My X1900 XT still has a better featureset.

...and cleaned out the cooling lines. I'm now at the point of turning it on and installing everything.

Begone, green slime!

Yeah, besides all the *stuff* you've heard about (and more), teh mercury-like liquid metal cooling compound was bit daunting to tackle in the little available time. Now CPU's in, RAM's in and final connections 'n' wiring are happening. A *trifle* late, but... soon, My Preciousss...

Got a SATA & IDE->USB adapter too, JIC.

(And don't let Warcrack eat up all your time, either. We need you on H2V; get that Dedicated Server up soon, k?)

/Hyjack

NAG wrote:

Why am I always a step behind when it comes to Halo?

You don't have H2V, Boot Camp and the DX9 hardware needed?

Anyway, it's all been under discussion, mostly open here, for months. Read teh Halo Forum to stay current.

I think currently we're thinking on the lines of 'H2V can run as a process, not much Halo 1 or UT2004 play going on now so plenty of resources and bandwidth available on MA3. Might as well get H2V up and running.' And Levi has H2V now.

No overnight transitions, from either H1 or H2 on XBL are planned AFAIK.


(Edit: how much oily Khorium do you need to destroy, Kirk? And are you ready for UT3? )

Last edited by Bat (2007-06-28 3:26 am)

Kirk wrote:

Hey, hey hey, start your own thread for Halo  topics.

What coolant is that Bat?

Normally I do, and in the Halo forum no less , but Levi already declared

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Since the topic is done I'll hyjack it.

My new machine is almost complete...

I got it here well over a year ago. It's not that user-friendly, being rather "runny," and I'd steer people instead to a fairly new version incorporated into pad form, like so.

I see they now make them for GPUs, like so. Makes sense with videochips dissipating upwards of 220w these days. 700 million+ transistors... May be little or no different than the single-pack CPU pad excepting instruction sheet.

Interesting, Bat.  There are only four metals that melt at a low enough temperature so they could be used for that heat transfer pad, indium, mercury, bismuth and cadmium.  Cadmium and mercury are nasty toxic.  Bismuth is very brittle.   So they're probably using an alloy of indium with traces of other metals.  Indium oxidzes readily so the effectiveness of that pad will degrade as the indium slowly fully converts to the oxide.  So watch your CPU temp and replace that thing when it gets too warm.

Bat wrote:

My X1900 XT still has a better featureset.

Yeah I know but I only game and work on the PC. No movies so some of those would've been wasted on me. NTM I bought before the 1900 was out.

Bat wrote:

I think I'll let Levi win this round...

I'll have to see if my idea to mix 49% 99% isobutyl alcohol, 49% distilled water and 2% antifreeze works. The idea with that was to lower the boiling point of the water in hopes of makeing it cool better and to make the solution too toxic for the green smurf to grow.

Good news...I've run the pump for a few hours and now it has sat for a couple days. NO LEAKS!!! ::happy dance::

Before entirely leaving interesting thermal compounds behind, this stuff is pretty new and rather the opposite of that other...

CK4800 is an ultra conductive thermal compound which is specially blended for hi-performance heatsinks. The featured ingredient of CK4800 is Nano Diamond whose well-known characteristics are high thermal conductivity and complete insulation. It only takes a small amount for each application to greatly enhance the performance of heatsink. Besides, CK4800 is totally free from the possible electric conduction of those metallic based thermal compounds. CK4800 is an optimal choice for best performance and safety purposes.

Who knows, maybe Nano Diamond can even destroy Khorium.

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

IT LIVES!!!

WOOTS!! ::happy dance::

4 120mm running full bore. The thing is effn LOUD!

Kinda defeats the point of water cooling. And new-tech quiet fans are Good Things.

::RANT::
OMG the BSODs killed me yesterday. The mobo had a fairly recent BIOS on it (there were only two other vers ahead of it). I kept getting ACPI BSOD as soon as XP started to load.

[etc]

Wonder how fun Vista is going to be...

Most accounts have Vista as the quickest, easiest Windows install ever. It should have virtually all your drivers on disc, and you've updated your BIOS already. This is one of the few benefits of using hardware a bit behind the curve... & thank God for OS-based BIOS updating.

Bat wrote:

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Good news...I've run the pump for a few hours and now it has sat for a couple days. NO LEAKS!!! ::happy dance::

Kewl. Now get that H2V Ded Server up.

I have to call AT&T again. All last fall, some of winter and again all spring the work crews went nuts in the 'hood. I know for a fact they ran a bunch of fiber 'cause I watched them do it. Now I haven't seen them much this summer and I don't have fiber to the house. So either they are done or doing work else where. If they are done I shoud now get 6mb at home allowing me to keep MA3 there.

Eggzellent! ::happy dance 2::

Mine doesn't live yet, but it's awfully close, I think. H2V here I come!

(18 months without PC gaming... ::sob:: Only consoles. Make it stop... )

Not that I wouldn't trade it all for one cat back alive.

Last edited by Bat (2007-07-03 3:23 am)

Ya know I would've forgotten it if it weren't for all the BSODs I got at the start. During the adventure to find a cure I came across a thread about that. Thanks for the reminder.

2.4! Pffft! With the Asus util I'm at a 5% OC, bumping me to 2.51. But I've run nothing harder that Outlook...We'll see if I can get the max of 10%. After that anymore OCing will have to be done by hand.

The 7800s are at 470/1300 for GPU/Memory. Not big steps...yet. Those will come after I get HL2, WarCrack & UT2004 but I may not get those on until the weekend. I wanna try Vista first.

I didn't notice until last night that one of my drives was missing. I added a third 80Gb SATA drive for Vista and it wasn't there. Took a couple hours last night to get visable and formatting. Now ready for the plunge.

4 120mm: Well three came with the cooling system and are bolted to the radiator. The 4th I added as a exhaust fan. What I did was cut the bottom out of the case, mounted the radiator there with the fans on the outside. So the airflow is fans suck outside air from the bottom, through the radiator, then is push up into the case and is exhausted through the 4th fan and PSU. Air also escapes out the side which is nothing more than a screen.

I'd link a picture of the case but it was a close out special from CompUSA. Nothing too fancy...the price was right and it came with a 500W PSU. Not using it but it's good to have a spare.

More to do: Have to add feet to the bottom. At some point my daughter will want her legos back.

You squeezed it out of a tube?  Then it is most definitely not really a metal.  It might be a metal powder filled epoxy.