New setup , and i love it ;)

[racer II]

I like your idea!

Btw the dfi expert mobo doesnt have the jumpers for sli anymore

But the real noise producer is the gfx card , its really loud.
And they say in reviews that this card is silent compared to other high end cards .... i feel sorry for the people with those "other" cards.

[kinson7]

Lols, cool setup ! I'd realli wanna try one of those top end graphics cards, hahaha, but I'm not a gamer, just the occasional Diablo II :p

Btw, Just outta curiosity, and hope you don't find it offensive. Seeing that you didn't hold back, how come onli 1gb of ram? I thought those top end setups now use about 2gb or something. Heheh

But thats just a weird question, hahah. Cool pc ! :p

Kinson

[racer II]

Lols, cool setup ! I'd realli wanna try one of those top end graphics cards, hahaha, but I'm not a gamer, just the occasional Diablo II :p

Btw, Just outta curiosity, and hope you don't find it offensive. Seeing that you didn't hold back, how come onli 1gb of ram? I thought those top end setups now use about 2gb or something. Heheh

But thats just a weird question, hahah. Cool pc ! :p

Kinson

Nope youre absolutely right , its on my wanted list and i will buy a matched pair 1gb sticks soon .

[clocker]

Btw the dfi expert mobo doesnt have the jumpers for sli anymore

Silly me, I missed that in your sig.

With the Expert you wouldn't even need to move the vid card.
Either of the blocks I mentioned will fit with the card in slot#1.

And problem number 2 , the chipset waterblock is waaaay to restrictive

As your system is already a "low-flow" design, I'm not sure that the percieved restriction of that Alphacool block would really hurt things much.
Certainly wouldn't hurt to try it and see.

[racer II]

Thats true clocker.

And for the other waterblocks , there really isnt much room for a chipset waterblock down there...

Anyway , i allready got tired of listening to that stupid whining fan on my 7900gt extreme ... and i thought what the hell.

Here are the pics:




Besides ill keep the original cooler in a safe place and if this card also craps out on me , then im sure noone would notice if i put the cooler back on the card and send it rma.
I didnt even wipe away the cooling paste on the original cooler , so nothing can go wrong there .

There was just one problem with the alphacool nvxp3 waterblock , and that is that it didnt include all the parts that were mentioned in the (crappy translated ) manual.
I almost made a big mistake and put the backplate on it without the proper plastic washers.
The manual only said: put the 4 plastic washers under the backplate of the kit.
Unfortunatly , my kit should have came with 5 thin plastic washers and 4 "large" plastic washers to clear the area under the backplate and avoid contact with some of the components there.
But there were only 4 thin plastic washers in my kit , not 5 and no "large" washers
So i almost installed it with the thin washers under the backplate and im sure it would have caused a short circuit or even worse.
I had some spare o rings from my old zalman passive cooler lying around and used 4 of those and it did the job fine and cleared the space between the components on the backside of the card and the metal backplate.

To be sure , i also used a plastic sticker on the underside of the backplate so nothing could go wrong.

Temps:

New GPU idle temp is 35 degrees celcius , and load temp after playing fear for 2 hours is 38 degrees.

And my cpu temp only changed 1 degree!