haha it's the DFI 680i club

indeed!!!

Can we call it the DFI 775 club so I can join? *has a pretty clear idea of what hardnrg's next post will be like*

hmmm, maybe a good idea would be to post up BIOS screenshots of your 24hour+ Prime stable settings, along with the BIOS version, cooling, CPU, RAM, etc... might be cool to have a reference of settings that work (this is especially for the 680i which has so many scenarios where it won't even POST if you set something a touch one way, but be Prime stable a touch the other lol...

this could be good for ALL motherboards, 680i or not, DFI or not... I think I might start doing it

I don't think it would be all that useful to post non-Prime stable settings, unless they were tailored towards benching or something

That is actually a really good idea, so basically a place to look and see what exact settings other people use to achieve their overclocks. Sweet, if you start it, I might implement it into the 775 OC Competition in a way

the ones tailored for benching would come in handy for the forum wars...
i missed out this year due to Aquamark not running on 64 bit XP.
that is why i am dual booting 32 and 64 XP-Pro.
glad there are some DFI guys in here.
i am probably going to bug the hell out of them...

Go ahead I'm about to bug around as well, the mighty Bluteisen is giving me problems

blue screen of death!!!! GRRR

right then i had some free time to day so i lapped my cpu a bit more and fitted the maze 4 block on my chipset

Awesome job with the lapping.

Lapping looks pretty good dude...

it Deffently makes a good avatar

Yea, thats the first thing I noticed...

Flashyness of lapped stuff FTW

Flashyness of firky's lapped cpu FTW

Right then ive bin in France for the past week or so and cant do any modding or Ocing for that matter... but I've not been Slacking like Nrg ive been busy ording all the bits ill need for when i get home.

I'm goin to drill the fillport holes as the next job. Then cut the mobo tray up a bit more to root cables so they cant be seen. Hopefully i'll be gettin a pelt block soon ish and that will mean modding my psu to see if i can run the mains to from the 750Watt psu to the meanwell psu instead of having two mains plugs in to my case also i with thinking i could remove some of the cables i dont need cleaning my case up a bit. i think im goin to cut a new hole in the side of the psu so the cables cant be seen and go strait out and to the under side of the mobo tray. I need to make a few leads up too for the two Fdd connectors on my mobo!

I odered some UV led's from RS yesterday and im goin to mount them in the roof of my case with led collers from Maplins hopefuly these will shine down and make my mobo glow.

after all the cutting and drilling is done and i'm sure it all fits in nicely im goin get my case power coated jet black. as i dont want my case to scarch like nrg's

the next trick up my sleve is it ditch the Rez's because if ther not full up that draw the water from the top of my case in to the rez and makes an air lock so im goin use T's in sted of those rad might make the case look bigger again too.

Asfor the uv side of things im goin for a fire Red Die! so go with the few red Led's on the dfi mobo and im goin to brighten things up a bit with the 25 birght Red Led's I ordered.

then i hope the last job will be the side window insted off cutting a hole in the side im going to Remove the locking frame off the cosmos and fix it on a clear pice of plexi and cute it the same size as the metal door!

I'm not quite sure what you are talking about here but I think you are saying that you get an "airlock" when you try to fill your rez's through the fill tubes going to the top of your case. In otherwords, when you pour in the water it just sits in the fill tube and won't drain down into the rez.

I had this same problem on my sons build....the solution is easy.....just insert a smaller diameter tube inside your fill tube (make sure it goes all the way down to the top of the rez).
The inner tube works as a breather when you fill the rez's and allows the trapped air to escape....this idea isn't new....how do you think you get gas to go down that long tube to the gas tank on your car.....without a breather the entire driving world would come to a dead stop

Besides your rez's look good.....it would be a damn shame to get rid of them.

the idea of the smaller diameter tube to let the air in is used while getting hammered! put a straw in a bottel beer bend the end over and down it all! lol


The air lock its the problem getting the water in.... it happens when the rez its not full the water from the rad runs back down in to the rez and as doing so sucks the water from the pump up in to the rad. leaveing air in the pump so when the rig starts up the the pump makes lots of noise and air is pushed around with the water. the quick fix was to fill the Tube to fill port right to the top so ther was no room for any air. The whole idea of me putting the rez's the wrong way up was so you could see the water flowing... maybe if i put a T above the rez the air would go up to the fill port and the water flow down the in to the rez's making a lovly Water Feature lol

Hmmm.....sounds like the system is not sealed airtight. Do you have the fill tubes plugged shut after the system is full? If not then that is your problem. When the system is sealed airtight then any air left in the fill tube works in your favor.....the air is trapped in the tube and will not allow any fluid to drain from the rad.

Edit: If the fill tubes are sealed and fluid is still draining back from the rad to the rez....then you have a leak somewhere

ok maybe i sed that wrong the water in the rad is higher than the rez and the wight of the a water is gettin pulled down and because the loop is sealed it sucks the water from the pump bac up to the top and because the rez isnt filled up fully there is air in the loop becuase my rez is up side down it allows the air to get drawn around the loop in to the pump ....


But i will make sure that there is no leaks any where .... but like i sed it works right when i fill the loop right up so it cant be a leak..... :S

Yep....I see what you mean....they are upside down. All you have to do is flip'em over and your problem goes away....a little extra tubing for the longer runs won't hurt anything and having a larger volume of coolant running thru the system can't hurt either....sorta like having more cooling fins on an HSF.

indeed....fliping the one over the gpu loop works out ok but the one for the cpu dose not i might move the rez to up next to the mobo. but i donno yet i still quite liked the idea of beeing able to see flowing water in side my pc as you cant realy tell if the water is flowing in side the tubes. seeing as its all going to be lit up with uv ther must be a way i can get round this littel sucking problem. with the rez up sidedown you can see the water rushing in through the top and splashing in to the bottem and in uv red that would look real nice.... im thinkin if i just got 2 more rez's and use 2 tops on each rez so ther's only an inlet and an out let and used a T to link in the return and the fill port to the top of the rez i can still have my flowing/splashing afect. as long as i mount the T quite high the water wont keep flowing back in to the rez right? because theres more water lower than the rad and no wight behind it does that make sence??

And THAT is your problem....with it setup that way you will be constantly introducing air into the system with a very negative impact on it's cooling capacity. You can't have air or bubbles in the system. If you want to make sure water is flowing ....get an inline flow meter, there's plenty out there to choose from

hmmm yh i no but a water fountain in side a pc is a cool idea but if its gunna be an . ill have to forget that idea . and buy some nice flow meters.


ty any ways

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Very nice! Quite neat case, wire not quite EVERYWHERE

Not quite as good as i would like so some work needed looking ford to goin all uv tho

Be sure to post some night shots then

makes my cosmos look bad...lol...nice setup man. def need some night shots

Need some UV led's first tho lol.... i did order a load from RS but there yet to come =/

my stock Cosmos looks like pooh now lol. Must....start....cutting. Looks real nice man.

Nice job firky...

Thanks my led's are on there way... been on order for ages there in france so there gettin posted over

I added a 5.5mm Nozzle to my D-Tek to day.

the temps have droped 9c

There was some crap in my block i did run water around the loop and changed to help clear any bits out but here's a pic.



and heres a pic of the fitted Nozzle


idle the temps were around 33 c and load they were about 45-47c

now with the nozzle its idel of 24c witch is only about 2c warmer than my room and the load temp is 33-37c

Very nice improvement! Be sure to push that E6850