Well over a year ago, Detale most generously sent me an EK waterblock for my 8800GT vid card.
An added surprise in the package was a pair of 90° fittings (not sure of the brand but they're quite fancy).
Although I installed the block immediately (and it's very nice), the fittings have been gathering dust, along with a new Apogee CPU block I inexplicably bought on a whim.
After recently receiving my OCZ SSD RMA, I decided to get off my ass and redo the loop as long as the computer was going to be open for work.
Here are the results (usual shit pics...sorry):
Incorporating the new fittings made for the most streamlined water loop I've ever created. One fitting went on the inlet to CPU block, the other on the outlet of the EK GPU block.
They saved about 10" of hose over the previous setup and resulted in a very unobtrusive hose layout.
So, a big THANK YOU to Detale!
Sadly, other problems have appeared.
I think the SATA ports are fritzing out on my Gigabyte motherboard.
Although the BIOS will recognize devices on all six of the Intel controlled ports, Windows install will not.
I spent all of yesterday attempting to install on the RAIDed SSDs, to no avail.
RAID was not possible on any combination of ports, Windows install claimed a variety of problems and the RAID BIOS would show "failed" after each attempt.
I now have Windows installed on a regular drive and most mysteriously, Windows will recognize and format the SSDs if they are reinstalled after Windows is in place.
Win install however, refuses to show them as an option during install.
They just aren't there.
Naturally- the computer business being how it is- my s775 platform is already extinct as far as manufacturers are concerned.
Basically, motherboards are simply not available...the few that are for sale are all low end, low spec models with too few SATA ports for my setup (I need eight).
So, I'm fucked.
Sigh.
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