- Apr 27, 2008
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Hello everyone,
I just finished my first build ever, and everything is working. I am posting this pictures to thank you all, here at tom's Hardware for the great help, from choosing my components to closing my case. You are all amazing.
Here we go
My case, thermaltake armor+ 6000 with nothing but the PSU, ANTEC quattro 850, mounted in it. At this point, I jumped started the PSU to test my pump, a Koolance RP-1000BK. I did it when the reservoir was empty (oops!!). Luckily, I didn't burn the pump.
As you can see, my desk was really messy at this point, I didn't know where to start and man was I anxious about screwing up lol
Some of my tools and the CPU cooling block, a Koolance CPU-350AC. I didn't really know which bracket to use, the block came with a manual in Chinese
But well, I live in China so I should have expected it. Anyway, I figured it out.
Here are my two Sapphire HD5850 mounted in their cooling blocks, 2 VID-AR587 from Koolance. I got worried while installing those blocks. After screwing the card onto them, I realized that one of the card got bent a little because I had forgotten a stop-screw (don't know how to call it in English, sorry). But no harm done. I didn't use those crappy plastic things to fix the PCI cards from Thermaltake. I used screws instead.
I really like the removable MB panel from the case, it makes it really easy for n00bs like me to install all the cards and the motherboards onto it and gives plenty of space to install the liquid cooling system without having to worry about spilling cooling liquid onto your components ...
A really good look on my motherboard which really kicks ass. It is the 790FXTA UD5 from GIGABYTE and is by far my favorite component. It seems very solid, the BIOS is very well done, easy to overclock (even for n00bs). As you can see, at this point my CPU, an AMD PII X4 965BE 125W, and my memory sticks, 4 X 2GB DDR3 1600 RIPJAW from G-SKILL are already installed. Didn't have any problems.
This motherboard really looks great ... (but i am biased
)
The HDD is installed in the bracket too, a WD RE3 1TB 7200RPM. I didn't make a picture of it. I am planning on upgrading with 3 more of those for a RAID10 or 0+1 array very soon. Maybe even going to add to those 3, 2 SSD INTEL X-25M 160GB in a RAID0 .... we'll see. The SSD are still really expensive....
The messiest desk ever
Back to the case without the motherboard tray. Just cables, and cables and cables 
At this stage, i am preparing myself for the installation of the liquid cooling ...
And so it starts
You can see the back of my koolance RP-1000 and the first one fan radiator. I have mounted a 120mm fan with a blue LED on it. I didn't fix anything to the case, it is just lying there on top of the HDD rack. It doesn't move though, the tubes hold it in place. No vibrations or such. The CPU cooling block is in the loop.
Another picture where you can see where I put the radiator a little better. Nothing fancy.
The liquid cooling system is installed. I have the first radiator (1 fan) that gets the water first then goes to the CPU, then goes into the 2 fans radiator with powerful fans cooling it and to finish the loop, goes to the two video cards. It is starting to take shape. And I am getting quite handy with my screw driver lol (first time that I hold one of these)
Time to jump-start my pump with the cooling liquid (feser one green .... obviously lol). Works like a charm. I let it pump for 10 minutes to remove the bubbles. I am starting to be really proud of myself
I just finished my first build ever, and everything is working. I am posting this pictures to thank you all, here at tom's Hardware for the great help, from choosing my components to closing my case. You are all amazing.
Here we go
My case, thermaltake armor+ 6000 with nothing but the PSU, ANTEC quattro 850, mounted in it. At this point, I jumped started the PSU to test my pump, a Koolance RP-1000BK. I did it when the reservoir was empty (oops!!). Luckily, I didn't burn the pump.
As you can see, my desk was really messy at this point, I didn't know where to start and man was I anxious about screwing up lol
Some of my tools and the CPU cooling block, a Koolance CPU-350AC. I didn't really know which bracket to use, the block came with a manual in Chinese
But well, I live in China so I should have expected it. Anyway, I figured it out.
Here are my two Sapphire HD5850 mounted in their cooling blocks, 2 VID-AR587 from Koolance. I got worried while installing those blocks. After screwing the card onto them, I realized that one of the card got bent a little because I had forgotten a stop-screw (don't know how to call it in English, sorry). But no harm done. I didn't use those crappy plastic things to fix the PCI cards from Thermaltake. I used screws instead.
I really like the removable MB panel from the case, it makes it really easy for n00bs like me to install all the cards and the motherboards onto it and gives plenty of space to install the liquid cooling system without having to worry about spilling cooling liquid onto your components ...
A really good look on my motherboard which really kicks ass. It is the 790FXTA UD5 from GIGABYTE and is by far my favorite component. It seems very solid, the BIOS is very well done, easy to overclock (even for n00bs). As you can see, at this point my CPU, an AMD PII X4 965BE 125W, and my memory sticks, 4 X 2GB DDR3 1600 RIPJAW from G-SKILL are already installed. Didn't have any problems.
This motherboard really looks great ... (but i am biased
) The HDD is installed in the bracket too, a WD RE3 1TB 7200RPM. I didn't make a picture of it. I am planning on upgrading with 3 more of those for a RAID10 or 0+1 array very soon. Maybe even going to add to those 3, 2 SSD INTEL X-25M 160GB in a RAID0 .... we'll see. The SSD are still really expensive....
The messiest desk ever
Back to the case without the motherboard tray. Just cables, and cables and cables
At this stage, i am preparing myself for the installation of the liquid cooling ...
And so it starts
You can see the back of my koolance RP-1000 and the first one fan radiator. I have mounted a 120mm fan with a blue LED on it. I didn't fix anything to the case, it is just lying there on top of the HDD rack. It doesn't move though, the tubes hold it in place. No vibrations or such. The CPU cooling block is in the loop.
Another picture where you can see where I put the radiator a little better. Nothing fancy.
The liquid cooling system is installed. I have the first radiator (1 fan) that gets the water first then goes to the CPU, then goes into the 2 fans radiator with powerful fans cooling it and to finish the loop, goes to the two video cards. It is starting to take shape. And I am getting quite handy with my screw driver lol (first time that I hold one of these)
Time to jump-start my pump with the cooling liquid (feser one green .... obviously lol). Works like a charm. I let it pump for 10 minutes to remove the bubbles. I am starting to be really proud of myself
). I had never held a screwdriver in my life, even less opened the side panel of a computer, but I made it. It is quite an adventure, it took me two days to finish the build but man was it fun and enjoyable.
wish I could buy a beer to yall lol 
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