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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/21 11:29:55
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Why did you use another PSU if you said 1000w is enough?
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/21 11:38:33
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Why did you use another PSU if you said 1000w is enough?
just takes the load off of the main psu and will make it last longer and run cooler plus 130 watts for all the fans and pumps is quite a bit. and if the upcoming gf100 cards are 6pin and 8pin then they also have to potential to 300watts each.
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/21 16:29:23
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Do those 90 degree fittings impede flow by a lot?
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/21 17:04:43
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Do those 90 degree fittings impede flow by a lot?
i haven't noticed any difference in flow rates since i added them, it might have impeded flows rates some but not a noticeable difference im fairly certain that the most restrictive piece in my loop is the cpu block anyway and the mcp655 is a strong pump to begin with.
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/21 22:35:17
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Holy sh*t, that case is completely stuffed. What was your reasoning for rotating the front panel 180 degrees?
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/21 23:21:14
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Holy sh*t, that case is completely stuffed. What was your reasoning for rotating the front panel 180 degrees?
the 5.25 drive bays would hit the radiators on the side panel if i ever get a job and get some more money ill get a pedestal and put the hdd's, pumps, and two of the radiators in their along with all of the 5.25 bay devices
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 00:09:41
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sinsear
Holy sh*t, that case is completely stuffed. What was your reasoning for rotating the front panel 180 degrees?
the 5.25 drive bays would hit the radiators on the side panel if i ever get a job and get some more money ill get a pedestal and put the hdd's, pumps, and two of the radiators in their along with all of the 5.25 bay devices
That's a bad idea because a pedestal should be dedicated just for 2 quad radiators. If you put anything else in there, it'd block the air flow for the rads. Just get two pedestals; one for HDD's and 5.25" drives and one for quad rads.
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 04:59:27
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Holy sh*t, that case is completely stuffed. What was your reasoning for rotating the front panel 180 degrees?
the 5.25 drive bays would hit the radiators on the side panel if i ever get a job and get some more money ill get a pedestal and put the hdd's, pumps, and two of the radiators in their along with all of the 5.25 bay devices
That's a bad idea because a pedestal should be dedicated just for 2 quad radiators. If you put anything else in there, it'd block the air flow for the rads. Just get two pedestals; one for HDD's and 5.25" drives and one for quad rads.
He got a regular Ascension so i think quad will not fit on pedestal........ IMO just put the RADS and pumps then leave HDD, 5.25 drive bays and reservior on top
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 09:04:47
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well i could get the 24" pedestal and just weld on a cross bar where the front support for the wheels are and then just fabricate and paint a 6" piece of aluminum or acrylic panel to fit in the open space
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 09:11:49
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Yea you could do that too..... and that will give you more space and youre air circulation would be more better...
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 09:14:43
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me im gonna enp up getting a extension kit for my ascension..... because ther just not enough space.....
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 09:21:06
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me im gonna enp up getting a extension kit for my ascension..... because ther just not enough space.....
might also do something like that but the reason i didn't get the extended was because of the lack of side panels it was either big window of solid alu panel
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 09:35:16
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You got a point ther but for me a better circulations is air coming from front and out on the back... cuz i dont think it will have a better circulation on one side panel with in and out air...... like my set up all air sucking on front and my back side will be blowing air.... thats my opinion which i might be wrong
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 09:42:22
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my air flow is fine just a little restrictive down at the bottom where all the wires meet and the pumps and psu are. the only reason for me wanting to get the pedestal would really be to mount the pumps, hdd's and bay devices and maybe my 3x120mm radiator since the case is a bit cramped as is right now and i would just leave the radiators on the back at least the gtx 480 since that would be too big for the 18" pedestal. guess ill ask for an 18" pedestal for my birthday since i hope to get a few fermi around then anyway, and when i do get them i have to tear apart my case again to water cool the gpu's.
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/02/22 15:17:10
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ug0tserved
me im gonna enp up getting a extension kit for my ascension..... because ther just not enough space.....
might also do something like that but the reason i didn't get the extended was because of the lack of side panels it was either big window of solid alu panel
What side panel did you want that wasn't available?
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/03/02 20:16:06
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 nice !! i'm gonna order 1 soon
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/04/01 19:47:23
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i could not get two radiators side by side in that case.
must be because my rads are to wide.
cool case.
i got the same one but with a different front
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/04/01 20:08:13
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For me this cases are the best! lots of option and lots of room.... im so happy with it
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/04/15 11:23:50
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alright i got my 3 gtx 470's coming in tomorrow and hope to have blocks for them by the end of next week, i will be posting some benchmark results on air cooling in here later this weekend after i do my homework  unless someone wants to do it for me  . and ill be completly redoing both loops for the cpu and gpus, also for those of you that are or are going to be sli watercooling what connectors do you use to connect the sli'd gpus?
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/04/15 17:20:48
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Damn! this is gonna be nice! looking forward for PICS ASAP ok!
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/05/17 23:07:36
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ok so i got my blocks and fittings about 2 weeks ago and i finally had some time this weekend to install the blocks on 2 of my three cards. im waiting to do the 3rd card and install, till im done with spring quarter (about 3 weeks). so far i really like how these blocks and fittings have turned out, here is a list of the items that will make up this loop. HW Labs GTX 480 Extreme with 4 scythe UK3 in pull Swiftech 655B Koolance 240mm inline reservoir 3 x EK full coverage gtx 470 water blocks EK-FC Bridge Triple Serial 3 x FC Links and of course some pics of the progress that i made this weekend    
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/05/18 01:12:09
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Damn really nice! im jealous for those people that have a 400 series PGU!
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/05/18 10:42:47
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Dangit ajr you make me wanna almost ditch the idea of using a HAF 932 and going back to my original plan of grabbing a MM case. 
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/05/18 12:33:37
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Dangit ajr you make me wanna almost ditch the idea of using a HAF 932 and going back to my original plan of grabbing a MM case.
Just get a MM case! you wont regret it
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/05/18 13:55:13
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Gah! I hate choices! Sweet setup by the way ajr. Edit: Hmmm if I were to go MM I might go all out crazy and future proof with the SR-2 option despite the fact I plan on doing mATX mobo again.
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/05/18 16:11:24
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if you do decide to get a mm case i would definitely recommend that you get an extended ascension. that way you have room for anything and then some. as for the mATX you know that you want to get some of the sr-2 goodness
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/05/18 21:33:40
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Hmmm kind of too high of a price for me. I might have to go with a U2UFO\Extended U2UFO. Although the Extended option might be better for future proofing in terms of bigger boards.
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Re:Looking at a Mountain Mods case
2010/06/13 00:13:50
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alright i have for the most part finally finished my build, and here are the pics to go with it. the block are EK FC GTX 470, and i also went with the triple sli serial bridge  here is the motherboard partially naked  with everything installed and ready to go  downward shot of the board and a better shot of the bridge  looking down through the top at the 2x quad radiators  pic looking through the side of the case at the mb and partial loop  the waterblocks in all their glory  and finally the temps at idle  and here are my helpers all tuckered out after a hard days work 
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