I take it the $50 offer was rejected for the mobo/CPU?
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Yeah, that's a no. It's worth more than $50 to me, I'm pretty sure the chip alone is still $75-$90'ish. Also, I am thinking I might be lazy and keep my Gigabyte DS3-965P and sell the MSI P35 Platinum I got instead.
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$75.55 for the whole thing, Bob.

K, just makin sure since you ignored rather than replied.
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I had left some things to dry at my office this weekend so I didn't get high all weekend working on this crappy site I had to have done by Monday morning. Here are some of the fruits of my labor. I hope this look was worth the $1200 I could lose if I need to RMA these GTX 295s


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$80

Butts.

Did some more wiring tonight then got bored and installed my new toys to see what they could do. My 30" and the pc on the same 900w APC UPS apparently pulled > 1000w at the wall and had it beeping at me like a motherfucker.

BUT! P31867 3DMarks - Previous System w/ GTX 285 SLI was 24344 or thereabouts.
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Sweetness!
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Side-project!

I traded the MSI P35 Platinum mobo & my old E6400 for $30 and watercooling parts! Unfortunately it wasn't anything I was interested in using in my i7 build other than the pump, so I decided to overhaul my old desktop some more!

New stuff:
Swiftech Apogee GT cpu block
Swiftech MCW30 NB block
Swiftech MCP655 pump
Swiftech Micro-res rev. 2
BIX 120.1 radiator

Going to be using ClearFlex 1/2" ID, 5/8" OD tubing for this as I still have nightmares from installing Tygon tubing onto 1/2" barbs.

I moved everything to a cheapo P3 case I had laying around and I started cleaning up my PC-65 last night and decided that the scratched up white interior paint had to go. Today at lunch I contacted several places, from radiator/transmission repair shops to regular car shops and finally found one that was confident they could chemical wash my case without it dissolving in the process so I took that down to them at lunch and I get to pick it up in another couple hours.

Hopefully my case is still intact and ready for a good sanding and a few new holes this weekend. I'm thinking flat black interior, flat black outside with glossy blood red stripes EVH Frankensteiner style and then red water of course


Will post some pics later, whether my case is no more or if it came out better for it.
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I lied about the pics, no pics. Maybe some pics, I'll go snap one now.

I'm about to die, I might as well have been huffing this can of aircraft stripper all night. The chemical wash got about 80% of the paint off. Had I fully disassembled the case it would have removed all of the paint, but my lack of forethought and general laziness didn't get that part accomplished so now I'm stuck getting the paint in all the hard-to-reach places with a plastic scraping thingy and aircraft stripper.









Oh right, I forgot to take a pic of what was on the side of my living room you couldn't see in that other shot from a few days ago.




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dont use that stripper indoors!

LightningCrash wrote: dont use that stripper indoors!

gee, thats lovely to know you are draining chemical solvents into the water supply... nice.
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Shinare wrote: gee, thats lovely to know you are draining chemical solvents into the water supply... nice.

Little update with what I've done this week so far.

box 'o parts from my PC-65 freshly painted and mostly dry



Shot of my music stand that's been overrun with watercooling parts



Close-up of my HDD cage where I made a nice little home for my reservoir



Another shot of my HDD cage + reservoir, it's definitely my favorite part of this build update. As you can see in the first pic of it, I cut a hole in the top so I can simply slide out the HDD cage about an inch and refill when the water level drops.



My new waterblocks! Swiftech Apogee GT and MCW30



Here's a shot of the red I chose for the outside. Once this dries I'll sand it down and repaint it red again. After that it's time for some painter's tape, the same black paint from the interior of the case, and some inspiration from Eddie!



Finally here's a random shot of the case frame upside down and the rear panel drying after some sanding and touch-up painting.

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Moar pics!







Couple shots of the new top and side panels for my old desktop. They still need a good sanding and some touch up work but they're mostly good to go. I wanted to do some more intricate work with the lines, but I was unable to come up with the proper sizes of painters tape before my A.D.D. got the better of me.

I still haven't painted the 5.25" and 3.5" bay covers yet, or the power/reset buttons because I haven't decided whether I want to do accent colors (red) on them or not. So if someone has an opinion, speak it!
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So, knowing that you were draining solvent with toxic qualities into the sewer system, you did it anyway because it was legal?
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TehDanMan wrote: So, knowing that you were draining solvent with toxic qualities into the sewer system, you did it anyway because it was legal?

Okay

I was really just giving you a hard time. I'm sure people dump much worse down their drains than a little bit of solvent. I imagine most of it evaporated.
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However, if you care about the plumbing in your house, you won't do that too often.
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