• EVGA X99 Series
  • EVGA X99 Waterblock - CLASSY, FTW & MICRO *UPDATE* and FTW K (p.12)
2014/11/05 07:24:21
Scarlet-Tech
<3 me some Nateman_doo blocks, but as the blocks get EVGA attention and the boards bios and DIMM issues get ignored, I am returning one motherboard, then going to RMA and sell the other. I hope to get me some Nateman_doo blockage for a board that lives up to the hype that is advertised.
2014/11/05 20:24:36
Boxlid
Well I've examined the classified board with two 780 Classified HC's, and don't think that fitting placement will have clearance unless a 1/4" ID barb is used.  From that side view, a Bitspower 3/8" ID compression fitting (set up against the first HC card the way it would be installed) extends to just short of the centerline of the next slot (where the fitting was tangential to the switch in the pic).  If possible, please (and I mean pleeeeeaaaase lol) accomodate EVGA's 1 1/2 slot hydro madness 
2014/11/06 08:03:24
zophar
All setup and ready for blocks on my FTW. Going to run without them for now though.
 

2014/11/11 06:08:33
SU11YBEAR
zophar
All setup and ready for blocks on my FTW. Going to run without them for now though.
 


Not to be envious but damn that looks nice
2014/11/11 07:50:10
zophar
SU11YBEAR
zophar
All setup and ready for blocks on my FTW. Going to run without them for now though.


Not to be envious but damn that looks nice



Thank you. Wish I could afford some pretty, new 980's or something similar. But I'll settle for the 3 760's. Got one new back in March, and the other two were bought used for about half price in the last couple months.
2014/11/14 09:19:43
nateman_doo
I anticipate a start date of about 2-3 weeks.  I am really sorry these stinger blocks have been holding me up, they are incredibly complicated.  Most of the parts are cut but I am designing as I prototype.  Usually I have it all laid out before I even touch the machine.  In order to speed things along to get these blocks done I went as fast as I could to get the stinger blocks done.
 
Those blocks are super complicated, with 5 blocks mating together, as opposed to normally 2 block halves, and all of them have to be the proper height (taking into account thermal pad pressures & cpu contact) and all the holes have to align.  
 
Once I finish those, I still have to make tool plates and get the machine ready to cut blocks, so we are still a ways away until folks get these in their hands.  This is kind of the nature of the beast when you are a one man show.  The Engineering and design, the layout of the machining, toolpath programming, designing & fabricating a fixture plate, designing stock clamping, actual machining of the blocks, assembly, finishing, testing etc all done by me.  Oh... and its all in my spare time as I have 2 jobs and a family.  Quite the juggling act I am going through at the moment. 
2014/11/21 04:33:40
SU11YBEAR
No problem for me, thanks for the update though
2014/11/25 04:29:22
nateman_doo
I officially finished all the machining for the Stinger blocks.  So that means I can move forward on these blocks.  
2014/11/25 05:21:58
zophar

2014/11/25 06:20:46
seta8967
woot nateman!Can't wait to see these ones!

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