Prometheus Project (PC Gaming Rig)
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@Calum said:
@mad73 Give me a spanner, what do you think I have been building this with my teeth!
Do both pal. To be fair, I enjoy building the computer more than I do using it. And that's the Gods honest truth lol. Once its built it'll be used for YouTube lmao.
It's just once you have had a custom PC, it's so hard to go to anythibg else. Just imagine no loading for anything. Everything is instantaneous on this machine.
It is lovely. But overkill. And you know me, I don't shy away from the tools.
But I am not very good at stuff like your man cave. One day I hope to be. But it's not a skill I posses right now. It takes all sorts of people in this world.
teeth hahahahahaha I like it
most things to do with carpentry is having the right tools same as most things really , I just cant get on with computers to small and fiddly for me hammers and power tools as there nice and big , if your good at building things which it seems you are going by your bike and computer building a shed is easy really you could build 1 with basic tools hammer hand saw nails sprit level , -
awwww maaaaaaaan, it's such a nice rig! Please trust, get Project Cars on there and upload some vids!!! Also a great rig for CAD. My favourite pass time atm
@Darty Hhmm, I bet if I check the bank the computer will say 'No'. I don't want to examine how much the upgrades have cost me lmao! Project cars next month.
I very rarely use this computer for gaming, not sure why I upgraded it, just fancied a challenge of building the liquid cooling system.
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@MIGHTYMAN Yeah, I wanted individual cold feeds to each of the components. As such it did take a few attempts to get right.
The hard part was making them all single pieces. The amount of pipes I had to scrap because I got it wrong three bends in grr!
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Individual cold feeds? I have never heard of anyone doing that before. I get the feeling this is a very similar scenario to you adding a second radiator to your DT. Looks very good, but doesn't provide any noticeable functionality. Whilst it would be good to drop some of the components by a few degrees, I'm sure in practise it wouldn't really help? The only benefit might be that you have a LOT of extra coolant so it might take a very small amount of additional time, before the whole loop gets up to working temp?
Sorry if this comment seems like I'm having a dig, I'm really not but I know you are much like me in that there are some unique ways we like doing certain things like this, even if the result is little to no gains and a much lighter pocket!
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@mad73 Cheers mate
Got it exactly how I want it, for now.@mightyman Nah you wouldn't put hot coolant from the GPU into the CPU then into the Motherboard. If you're going to do the job properly you want individual feeds after yhe radiator. It's a little more work but it is a noticeable difference. Remember if the average temperature is lower, then the radiator/fans has to do less work to cool it down. So it increases the lifespan of components.
The DT is modified so in theory needs a bigger radiator. On hot days it will see 100 degrees centigrade. Which was always worrying for me. But I am not convinced the Lanza radiator made that much difference. A proper Ally rad will though. So if you fabricate a proper ally rad to the dt the temperature difference will be mental. YZ runs with barely little coolant and the temps are like 50 degrees. That's half that of the dt.
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Been busy doing some more upgrades to my PC. Another 16 Gigs of ram, another SSD and a HDD. New pump and reservoir and have mounted an OLED screen hooked into an Arduino which in turn is hooked into the motherboard.
Eventually the Arduino will poll the motherboard for CPU temperature as well as time.
Always Originate, Never Pirate!
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Been busy doing some more upgrades to my PC. Another 16 Gigs of ram, another SSD and a HDD. New pump and reservoir and have mounted an OLED screen hooked into an Arduino which in turn is hooked into the motherboard.
Eventually the Arduino will poll the motherboard for CPU temperature as well as time.
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@CYBER-NINJA Cheers mate, it's good to have a PC again lmao.
I couldn't have chosen a worse time to rebuild this PC, as soon as I did the bloody forum started falling apart lmao!
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Another great looking iteration to you coolant loop! Hard line takes time but excellent finish to it. Is that the OLED screen at the top left of your case?
@Mightyman Yeah mate, that used to be the headphone and microphone port, but I never ever used them so I ripped it all out and put the OLED there in its place.
@Minia I always felt flexi pipe was a bit of a get out for people who don't possess the skill to do it in hard lines.
To me this build was a step down in technical ability. In the initial build I bent every single piece as one solid item. But this one I didn't. I used a get out by using prebuilt 90 degree bends. Uhhm those bends are 16 quid each. So guess how much this build cost me....
This build looks so much cleaner than yhe original go. I was a bit more aware of what was needed. I am pleased with the results... For now.
