Quote: "It looks nice man. Very clean. How much of a difference did it make?"
thank you. In regards to air flow I am sure it makes some difference to have the wires well hidden compared to al over the place. The link to the work log will show you what I mean. It was more about asthetics at the moment
Quote: "1. whats the airflow like?
2. whats that black box at the bottom? is it a fan housing or something?
3. What CPU cooler is that?"
1-I have no measurement atm, since I may get stronger case fans and a controller, but I wont know that until I decide to overclock it a bit or not. The mobo has rpm control based on temps.
2-yes that box is a 120mm case fan housing, bottom intake. That circular part on it can rotate to aim the air flow at different parts of the case/mobo
3-thats the TRUE baby! TRUE=
Thermal
Right
Ultrta 120
Extreme, which is a mouthful, so people tend to just call it TRUE. Its one of the best, if not the best air cooling solutions for cpus, but there are other ones almost as good. Its a monster but is not expensive - just hard to find. It dropped my cpu temps about 8c less than the stock cooler, not lapped. The 38x120mm fan on it is a 4 pin PWM fan, idles at 450 rpm and will ramp up on temp changes
The case fans idle at about 1000-1100 rpm, everything nice and silent for now.
the work log link is worth a look, lots of cool pics
thanks
I have an aftermarket vga cooler coming today for the 8800gts. I ordered the Zalman VF1000 + the sink kit RHS88 (for 8800 series). I want to see if I can get better temps on the gpu since my Arctic Silver 5 job didnt go too well lol
http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/328344-complete-8800-gts-320-arctic-silver.html - epic phail!
