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Alrighty, since my last updates I have had some setbacks, and come up with some solutions, but first the positive news: Despite DHL seemingly trying their hardest to derail my project, the replacement cover from Watercool arrived in one piece, due in no small part to the Watercool shipping...

I am now caught up. From here on out I intend to simultaneously update the build log here and on the hardforums

Oh, and to follow up on the dented radiator. Watercool demonstrated some excellent customer service. They replied to my email as soon as it was business hours in Germany, and asked if it was OK if they shipped me a new cover for me to install myself. I said that would be ideal, as shipping...

Some very loud noises, and flying sparks later, the cuts were good and straight, but I wound up with some serious burrs. I decided to take the burrs off, and dull off those sharp edges with my Dremel, as I know if I don't I am going to cut myself on them later... They wound up maybe not...

We had an audit at work this week, which pretty much sucked up all of my time, but having passed with with flying colors by midday Thursday, I decided to take Friday off, and while I mostly caught up on sleep, I had a little time to make progress on the project. Having had to lift and move...

Meanwhile, I moved on to the next radiator. I took it out of the packaging and it looks fine. In another thread Hardforum user cpufrost recommended a flushing method I had never thought of, that sure might save on water and effort. Essentially, get a couple of household water filters, and...

So, I decided to take out one of the radiators and start to flush it today. When I did? Bummer. The first one I opened had quite a dent on it. Not quite sure how transatlantic RMA works, especially on something this big, but I guess I am about to find out. I'm not sure how easily that...

Thank you sir! I had just noticed that all of a sudden everything was working, and I had wondered if you were tinkering while I was testing ?

Some Prepwork I spent some time looking at the rack a few days ago, and noticed that the side panel I was planning on hanging everything from is really only held on by some plastic latch handles: Those two little black handles, and a wimpy lock (for which I do not have the key) are what...

Arrival of the Radiators: These came on December 23rd. I originally ordered them in early November, but the wall mounts were back-ordered (and there was no mention of this on the Watercool store page). Eventually they transited the Atlantic and arrived at my house. The holidays being a...

Never mind. It turns out I am not actually having an issue uploading encoded jpeg's of any size (that I have tested yet). It is when copying and pasting image data into the graphical editor it sometimes rejects images for being too large (and other times does not) Not quite sure what is...

Hey @David_Schroth, I have a quick question for you. I'm about to start uploading a metric ton of pictures for a build thread. To save me the trial and error of manipulating resolution and file size limits and repeatedly uploading until the software sops telling me it is too large, are any...

Planned Loop Routing I know this is still somewhat controversial in PC cooling circles, but I did it with my current build and it has worked really well, so I am going to do it again, just on steroids: The final loop will consist of 4 separate smaller loops that all mix in two reservoirs. I...

3.0 Build plans So, the plan is for there to be a dedicated game system and a dedicated workstation, both in the rack, with external cooling in the form of two MORA IV 600 radiators hanging from the side of the rack. The Workstation (Phase 1) This system will take the motherboard, RAM and...

The reason for Build 3.0 This project kicks off for a few reasons: 1.) S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 I have been waiting for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 for **** near 15 years, and I want to play it in all its glory, without "fake pixels" or "fake frames" at 4k Ultra. The 4090 can almost pull this off, but really...

So, it has been about 5 years and two moves since the Z Build 2.0 project kicked off. Time for yet another overkill build. Note 1: All the pics in this thread will be uploaded at the max resolution the forums allow, but for layout purposes, I will scale them down to where the largest...

Lovely. Wasn't everyone saying that this was going to be positive for system performance, as the old app was written poorly? :p

I haven't used a SATA SSD in years...

To each their own. The Johnny story and the environment of this title sucked me in like few others have. I'd rank it up there as the best title I have played in the last 5 years at least. Possibly even 10.

Here Hector entered, with a spear eleven qubits long in his hand; the bronze point gleamed in front of him, and was fastened to the shaft of the spear by a ring of gold. -- Homer (The Iliad)