Post Your Rig 2012 Edition

[Redeemed]

Originally Posted by Roadhog

did you get the water in your loop from a muddy puddle?

Gosh, you're so condescending! At least his tubes are the same color.

[Roadhog]

Originally Posted by Redeemed

Gosh, you're so condescending! At least his tubes are the same color.

Lol, touche. Not remotely close to as bad as my ghetto multi colored tubes and clamps. . It does look like dirty water though.

[Muppet]

Originally Posted by Xion X2

Final build shot:

Looks bloody awesome. Well done on an extremely tidy build.

[Xion X2]

Muppet - thanks.

[Xion X2]

Originally Posted by Roadhog

Lol, touche. Not remotely close to as bad as my ghetto multi colored tubes and clamps. . It does look like dirty water though.

You're kidding, right? I'm guessing that you haven't been watercooling for very long...

Tubing discoloration is quite common. The reason you don't see it most of the time is because guys use additives to color the water. I'm not using any additives this time because 1) it can raise temps by a few degrees and 2) the dye can separate from the coolant and clog your blocks under certain metal/chemical mixtures.

So no, the water is not "muddy"; it's just the tubing changing color from the variable temps of the water. Happens with most tubing. You just don't see it because of the colored coolants that guys use. You can look in the bay reservoir and the water is quite clear.

[tjohn]

Looks great to me!

[Xion X2]

Thanks, tjohn.

[ViN86]

Originally Posted by Xion X2

You're kidding, right? I'm guessing that you haven't been watercooling for very long...

Tubing discoloration is quite common. The reason you don't see it most of the time is because guys use additives to color the water. I'm not using any additives this time because 1) it can raise temps by a few degrees and 2) the dye can separate from the coolant and clog your blocks under certain metal/chemical mixtures.

So no, the water is not "muddy"; it's just the tubing changing color from the variable temps of the water. Happens with most tubing. You just don't see it because of the colored coolants that guys use. You can look in the bay reservoir and the water is quite clear.

I think Roadhog was joking lol... He seems to be the most misunderstood here at nv news.

Looks good Xion.

[lee63]

Looks great, did you say were going to sleeve the PSU ? I was thinking on getting the new Corsair cables, but I just cant justify spending $100 on them...I'd like to learn how to do it myself.

Not sure if I have the patience though...seems like a lot of tedious work.

http://www.corsair.com/power-supply-...cessories.html

[Xion X2]

Thank you Vin and Lee.

Lee - That's a great upgrade option from Corsair. Wish I had a modular PSU and I would try them. I'd advise you to get them because sleeving a PSU will probably be the most tedious, boring, aggravating mod you will ever do to your PC.

By the time you pay for the sleeving and heatshrink and the tools to free the molex connectors you're going to be spending a good 50-60$, anyway. And then you'll still have to do all the sleeving yourself.

I don't plan to sleeve mine at this point. I think the conduit looks fine, and I don't have many cables that are showing, anyway. Plus my PSU's not modular and so I can't use those.

[lee63]

Originally Posted by Xion X2

Thank you Vin and Lee.

Lee - That's a great upgrade option from Corsair. Wish I had a modular PSU and I would try them. I'd advise you to get them because sleeving a PSU will probably be the most tedious, boring, aggravating mod you will ever do to your PC.

I don't plan to sleeve mine at this point. I think the conduit looks fine, and I don't have many cables that are showing, anyway.

Well with Corsair AX PSU's all the wires are black already..its really doesn't look to bad at all, but your right though...just need to convince the wife now Oh btw, what drivers are you using for Xfire ?

Thats the thing with AMD, too many drivers..its hard to keep up sometimes.

7950s will be here today

[Xion X2]

Grats on the 7950s.

I'm using the 12.2 Pre-certified driver on AMD's site. It's also linked in the drivers forum on Rage3D.

Just to give you a heads up.. there's a bug I'm getting right now where my framerate will drop in a few games and I get some pausing and stuttering (Skyrim is one of them). ALT-TAB out to the desktop and back into the game fixes it every time. I've reported it to the driver team.

Haven't seen this happen but in Skyrim and Rift so far. Crysis I had some issues with. BF3 plays great. I'm playing Skyrim with the 4k HD texture mod, tree shadows, shadow maps at 8192 and ugridstoload at 9 (distance terrain mapping) with 4x transparency/supersampling AA and getting a constant 60fps.

Just keep in mind that it's a new architecture and there will be a few growing pains with the drivers. The 12.2 pre-cert is the first official driver for the 7900 series.