Isn't it awesome having things to keep you amused? Such as this little project that has been going on for the past month or so... Sure, you lose sleep, and think constantly about the project, and spend copious amounts of money on it... Wait a minute... This is beginning to sound like a woman! Curse you water cooling!
Anyway, quick update. Both the EK FC470 and the EK Supreme HF were received today in Amherst. Nick was nice enough to inspect the FC470 for cracks and to take pictures of the boxes side by side, so I could keep my lovely blog in the loop. Har har. Water cooling. Loop. Right. Onto the picture.
I really like EK's box design. modern, and good use of pattern to attract the eye. Very easy to see what the products are too. I cannot wait to get my hands on them on Friday.
In other news, everything else except for the stuff from Elwoodz has shipped. Elwoodz not shipping came to me as no surprise, he did let me know that he wouldn't be shipping until Tuesday due to post office renovations or something of that matter. I'm fairly certain that everything should be in Amherst by Friday though. The 2 NCIX orders are a guarantee as they were shipped by purolator, and Dazmode was shipped Xpresspost which should also be pretty much guaranteed, as they're slated for delivery on the 13th. I'm hoping and dreaming that the stuff from Elwoodz will be in by the 14th, as I'd love to have 2 radiators in my system.
So, Nick's build is coming up on the weekend. He'll be upgrading from:
To:
Overall the increase in performance should be pretty good, considering the drive he has in there now is a 150GB Velociraptor, and his 8800GT should hold him just fine until tax return time when he decides to upgrade to a GTX460 or something.
Anyway, I will be putting a post up about Nick's build with (hopefully) a lot of pictures. Will keep the blog updated with more pictures and eventually an entire build log!
-Jon
Anyway, quick update. Both the EK FC470 and the EK Supreme HF were received today in Amherst. Nick was nice enough to inspect the FC470 for cracks and to take pictures of the boxes side by side, so I could keep my lovely blog in the loop. Har har. Water cooling. Loop. Right. Onto the picture.
I really like EK's box design. modern, and good use of pattern to attract the eye. Very easy to see what the products are too. I cannot wait to get my hands on them on Friday.
In other news, everything else except for the stuff from Elwoodz has shipped. Elwoodz not shipping came to me as no surprise, he did let me know that he wouldn't be shipping until Tuesday due to post office renovations or something of that matter. I'm fairly certain that everything should be in Amherst by Friday though. The 2 NCIX orders are a guarantee as they were shipped by purolator, and Dazmode was shipped Xpresspost which should also be pretty much guaranteed, as they're slated for delivery on the 13th. I'm hoping and dreaming that the stuff from Elwoodz will be in by the 14th, as I'd love to have 2 radiators in my system.
So, Nick's build is coming up on the weekend. He'll be upgrading from:
AMD Athlon x2 4600+
2GB Crucial DDR2
Asus M2A-VM mATX motherboard
To:
Intel Core i5 750
Noctua NH-U12P
4GB Mushkin Silverline Stiletto DDR3
Gigabyte P55M-UD2
Overall the increase in performance should be pretty good, considering the drive he has in there now is a 150GB Velociraptor, and his 8800GT should hold him just fine until tax return time when he decides to upgrade to a GTX460 or something.
Anyway, I will be putting a post up about Nick's build with (hopefully) a lot of pictures. Will keep the blog updated with more pictures and eventually an entire build log!
-Jon