Plastic.

Prior to block and after radiator -- ambient temp.

3/8" end of adapter barb.

No. This was a new Asus barb used from the set that shipped with the replacement motherboard. Installed after PC Ice was replaced with Fluid XP.

The first failure was the Asus supplied 3/8" tubing -- it literally split. This failure, as you can see, was failure of the barb itself. I thought it was the tubing again -- loosening under heat and pressure. It wasn't.

The real -*test*-('") will be tomorrow when the Warren Buffet couplers arrive. If $280 in couplers blow, it's doubtful any adapter will work. I have faith that they will work.

(Did you notice the avatar? Look familiar?)

Cheap plastic sh1t.... The waterblocks look VERY nice... You have 2 cards right?

Just got my 3870x2 today, but I'm too tired to go stuffing around with it tonight. Will do some stock clock -*test*-('")s tomorrow with it to see how I go... Tomorrow I will definitely press the BUY button for those Cellshock DDR3 sticks (maybe) just have to cajole myself a bit, but I will press the button because I do NEED the sticks..

Yours is gonna be a spectacular rig when its done.. and then some benchmarks eh

Hi Paul, I held off adding a second for the time being. If I did, it would be solely for the purpose of FW.

I like playing games, but . . . (1) I can't think of any game out there now that would require two of these beasts (unless you're running a 30"+ monitor; I'm happy with my 24"). (2) After living with 8800GTX SLI for a year, it was nice, but I never really used that power (again, apart from FW). I would rather use the extra PCIe slot for a nice audio I/O card. (3) The Tygon for the extra vid card makes it a real PITA to service any cards between the two vid cards.

Just personal preference and application. I enjoy making my small contribution to FW, but I'm not as keen on the year round benchmark competitions (HWbot, etc) as you, Merc, David and Tim are.

I think David will be running two. I don't know of anyone else here that intends to.

Dont worry just the 1 will be enough to do some damage....

I'll be following your lead, Yoda. Think you'll have yours gassed up tomorrow?

It'll be up and running tomorrow... LOL @ Yoda... I'm a complete ATI n00b, I have no idea at all with these cards ..I'll have to learn...Quick

UPS had a "flight delay due to mechanical reasons," so the "overnight delivery" becomes 'second day' delivery. It's 'next morning' overnight, so should have it here by 10:30am, Thursday. Don't you love when this happens?! This is why, when given a choice, I always ship FedEx! Ahhghhhh

Eeeg. That's a long mechanical delay.

I replaced both reservoirs today, trimmed and refit Tygon. I also substituted Norprene with smart coil for the 3/8" Tygon running to the SB/NB wblock.

I won't be able to leak -*test*-('") until tomorrow after receiving the delayed coupler shipment. Storms in KY mucked up UPS' delivery schedule.

The new PC P&C 860W PSU will be here tomorrow to (or should be), but I will hold off on installing that until I get everything leak -*test*-('")ed and running (next week sometime). I don't want to make too many changes at once.

Damn it you guys... Lucky I waited a few days before buying this DDR3, the price of the RAM dropped as well as AU$ to Euro exchange rate went more in my favor . But its paid for and will be on its way soon... This whole computer hobby is a sickness and the only cure for me is a bullet




Are there 3 of us guys on the forum with DDR3 now?...

Nice going Pual, you should love that DDR3. Its expensive, but very nice for high overclocking.

With you getting the CellShock, we now have the 4 Musketeers of DDR3, thus making you D'Artagnan Zig.

Welcome aboard.

Made even longer today: UPS attempted delivery in the wrong city, delaying delivery another 24 hours! How can you confuse entire cities when the shipping label is printed correctly, is entered correctly in UPS' electronic records -- even appears correctly on their public website? 24-hour delivery somehow morphed into 100-hour delivery.

Cole-Parmer is trying to figure out it why the parcel shipped via UPS in the first place. According to their shipping agent, the company never ships time sensitive deliveries via UPS for this very reason. Cole-Parmer credited my account for $50.00, but still . . . . Imagine if this were a true emergency -- a chemical spill in a lab or something. Mother of god what a nightmare.

When it takes less time to receive a waterblock from Slovenia sent standard USPS than a 1.80 lb shipment from Illinois -- after paying $50.00 in postage -- that's a sad commentary.

Whew boy ...

Did you buy our favorite chemist a Valentine's Day mate? We all have a vested interest in keeping her happy.

lol. She's covered. She's upset because her gift to me didn't arrive on time. The storms out of the NE really mucked up mail delivery.

I told her it's ok because I got my 'Valentine's gift' in the form of the DoD couplers today instead of Friday (as I was told by UPS this afternoon):

I ordered two different flavors, NSH and NS6. I'm only posting photos of the NS6 couplers, as the NSH are too big and must be returned. The 4.5" NS6 is a "no-spill" coupler with spillage rated at 0.03 cc/disconnect or "wet surface." In short, no drips: