Unboxing video!

Finally got a firewire cable and some time to cut the video together.

POST Test and Some Bench Tests

So, last night I did a POST Test with the goodies I received. I will be voiding warranties here, (no doubts about that) so I may as well make sure everything powers one correctly before going much further.

I'll let the captions under the pictures guide you.

Laying out the goods

Unboxing Water Cooling Parts

So, also on Monday I recieved the water cooling parts I ordered. I also took pictures of the unboxing...

Here they are!

12' of Fesser One UV 1/2 I.D. Tubing

Box Opening!

So Like I said, I would post all the pictures and video at a later date. I had a bit of a hard time getting pictures off my camera, since I took apart my main computer for the build last sunday. Slight oversight on my part, but I do have other comptuers to use.

I apologize, there is no video as of now, since I lost my firewire cable :(
I will purchase a new one tonight, and see if I can upload the video to you tube by the end of this week.

For now pictures!

Thank You ASUS and Sponsors!

 More below the jump!

Parts from Asus!

So I got another email from my mother, apparently a large package had come to the door from FedEx. She wasn't sure who it came from but it was pretty big.

I just got two emails form Brian, from Asus, he apparently put our prizes in the mail last week, and just sent us the tracking number. Checking the FedEx tracking number it seems that the parts were delivered today!

Hurray!

Christmas is officially November 23rd now.

Expect pictures and a you tube video to be in following posts.

Parts Order

So my parts order for water cooling products had came in today...

I had began to research and order the water cooling products as soon as I was announced as a stage one winner. It sometimes takes a bit of time tracking down water blocks and specific water cooling products, so I wanted to order the parts as soon as possible.

There were some issues trying to find the correct water blocks for the build. At first I knew there would be few choices for lga1156 socket coolers. Even if I were to use aftermarket air coolers, there are very few choices for models and manufacturers. Water blocks, even tougher.

Changes and Clarifications

So, as I had mentioned in an earlier post I have minor changes to my build that I had identified when I began to further plan the project.

The biggest change is the additional radiator I am using. I originally posted in my entry that I was going to use two 2x120mm radiators. Actually if you look closer at the original entry, on one of my mock up pictures I had made, I had labeled the radiator a the front of the case would be a 3x120mm. Apparently my subconscious is psychic and saw into the future that I would indeed be using a 3x120mm radiator...

With that being said, I will be actually using my original 2x120mm radiator, and an additional 3x120mm radiator. Reason for changing: when I went to go order additional water cooling parts, the Fesser One TFC Triple Xchanger (3x120mm) radiator was onsale. It was still cheaper for a Swiftech 2x120mm radiator, or even the Fesser One TFC Dual Xchanger (2x120mm) radiator, but the 3x120mm radiator should be able to transfer heat much better.

Next, Interior case color will change from being red, to blue. Reason: ASUS P7P55 motherboards use a nice blue theme. Why fight it? there really is no way of changing it.

Now with going with a blue theme, I will be getting blue UV reactive tubing, opposed to using clear tubing and coolant dye.

I will also be trying to change the color theme of the Antec Power supply from yellow to blue. I will see once I get the power supply what will all be involved. All I can tell currently, is that I will be covering over the yellow on the power supply with blue.

There will probably be more minor changes in the future. I imagine there will be road blocks during my build, and I will need to adjust some of my planning to overcome some challenges.

Original post

This is the original entry found on the SilentPCReview.com forum. The direct link to the forum page is here. You will see at the top of this page, the prizes which were awarded for stage 1.

Introduction

So as an introduction to this blog, I will introduce myself. My name is Randy Fyfe. I am 22 years of age, living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I would normally hide my identity, but as this blog is part of a requirement of the Xtreme Design Contest (Hosted by ASUS) for Stage 2, I will throw some caution to the wind.

My gamer handle varies; I have been known on the internet as: Dude, Minimum Infinity, EyeKanSpele, Randay, Sharri (World of Warcraft, I played as a female Draeni),  Randie (I later server transferred and decided to switch names), and fps randy. Generally I like to keep my handles pretty common, you never know who may be lurking on the internet...

Anyways, so if you are here, you may be wondering "What is an Xtreme Design Contest?" or "Stage 2?". Well the best thing I can do to help explain is to go here. That is a link to a Facebook event that Asus had created for the contest. After you are done reading the face book page everything should begin to make sense.

First Post

First Post!

So, I have finished up setting up this blogger account and blog. What took so long was setting up the domain with 1and1.com to work with blogger. For some reason while adding a CNAME entry to the domain on 1&1's end and waiting for it to propagate across DNS servers, something must had gone wrong. 1&1 forgot I was trying to add a CNAME and decided to revert the domain to continue to forward to their place holder page.

Oh well, two tries later and some head banging, it is now setup!