Project part Deux

And what's installed into the casing?


First off, the motherboard!
Was a fight between Asus Rampage II Extreme VS Gigabyte EX58-UD5. I forgo the Gigabyte Extreme edition as it was practically the same as the UD5, just minus the hybrid water cool block thingy, in short for water cooling perposes.
After months of bugging usagi, zid and some random peeps all over, I ended up with the Asus one.
Reason for this was that there is a Service Center about 20 minutes away from where I live! Giga would have to be sent back to the seller -> distributor -> Singapore = long wait time!

The box!

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Outta the box with Processor installed i7-920. It's already in cause I asked the shop to install it for me. That way if anything goes wrong, it AIN'T MY FAULT! Woulda avoided any delay in setting up my PC, coulda exchanged the chip there and then if they screwed it up

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The nifty little joystick and power buttons for peeps that prefers to fine tune the board via hardware. Tried it, was fun! for the first 5 minutes lol didn't wanna risk screwing up the board that fast :P

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Next up! Since I'm planning to OC everything, had to get some slightly better colling capable RAM. So picked up some

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Installed on the board

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For sound, the motherboard came with X-Fi's SupremeFX by Creative

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To be continued....

Project Part 1

About time I updated about this. Been to busy updating softwares and stuff.

so for this

Casing arrvied last weekend. Had to pick it up from the station at 4am in the morning. Didn't trust the shipping people there.

Silverstone Raven RV01

With a new concept based on the Law of Thermodynamics...Heat goes up. So what they did was, the Motherboard was basically placed in a 90deg rotated position, whereby your connecters and stuff would be facing upwards thereby with all exhaust panels are concentrating upwards where heat will go. Thus maximizing the hot air flow - Stack Effect Cooling

Here is a video demonstration of this. All fans removed.





How big was the box? I'm not that flexible so can't really show but yea, it's huge. I tried standing in the box and I went in easy.

Here's a pic taken by my friend who had to yank it all the way back to me. Thanks Ganesh LOL

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With the casing outta the box, it wasn't really that big but still big. From the side with the panel removed

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The top right corners have the tools-free installation thingy. Slide in the Blu-ray player and just press a button, and voila, it's locked in place. Under that, would be the HD compartments. They came with lil nifty drawers. All of them contained lil rubber to minimize vibrations and stuff.


Attached here is the drawer with my Raptor 10,000rpm HD for my OS.

This is how it looks like when it's inserted back into the slot More to come soon! :D