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5HTSynaptrip
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Overhauled My Classic Wavemaster & Added Fans
#14909401 - 08/12/11 12:34 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I bought all of the components for my first desktop in four years! My time with the Navy was coming to an end and I ordered all the parts my last month out, and they were at home waiting for me(back then my setup cost almost $4k).
The WaveMaster is a mid, but the quality is amazing. It weighs nothing, is COMPLETELY aluminum except for screws. In 2008 I upgraded to the E8400, which I think were some of the first Wolfdale's... I also bought 7-7-7-20 1333Mhz DDR3 from OCZ, and a PC Power and Cooling PSU 80+ Cert. It's been unused since 2010 really, and I used my laptop the most since I quit gaming. Last December I put together a new beast and the WaveMaster sat. It was so neglected that I didn't do any internal cable management, no interior cleaning, and the front bezel didn't come off in 5 years. The airflow sucks balls in this case, especially with factory 80mm... 1 80mm exhausting and 2 80mm in the front behind an aluminum wall with holes drilled in it. The shit is retarded.
First thing I did was buy these CL8 sticks of DDR3 (2x2GiB) for $35.

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R that supported DDR2 and DDR3 and the new RAM was made a year ago. It took me a couple of hours to get it stable at 3.8 with the RAM 8-8-8-23 @ 1333MHz. I had to really fuck with the MCH, FSB, CPU, and RAM voltage to get the shit stable(Prim95 LargeTFT 6 hrs and Blend for 10).
Fans were replaced in the case. MicroCenter had $4 80mm CoolerMaster fans so I got two for the front and one 80mm Blade Master from CM(which works really, really well!). The CPU heatsink/fan were both completely broken down and detailed with Noctua TIM put on the CPU. All parts were disassembled and cleaned to perfection. The dust was horrible... Once the tower had been completely stripped it was washed with a soft scrubbie and some light dish detergent. Then wiped with 90% iso-alcohol.


  
Then it was cable management, installing new PCI slot plates for the case, and adding 2 x 120mm fans to the side acrylic panel for extra air intake. The case was an oven before this. Now it's incredibly cool and the entire E8400 line of CPU's are incredible. Psychotic with stability and stay really cool on air. I should have taken before pics of the clumps of dust/shit in the fans and front bezel. Disgusting and highly neglected while folding proteins. 
 



I forgot to mention it has 2x WD Raptors in RAID 0, a floppy drive!, two IDE DVD multis, another 80mm fan on the top, and 9600 GT. It was fun, and I fucking love overclocking this line of CoreDuo's!
You may also be wondering why the fans are where they are... for future upgrades I put the fans where a video card would go, actually fit inside the case because they couldn't go anywhere else due to drive bays and the shitty frame for the PSU, and lastly the front door to the tower is being further modded with a table saw. I'm cutting horizontal grooves about 3/8" wide so a fan setup can be put in the drive bays(or a res in the future). Fucking thing looks awesome! It's almost room temp as well.
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Edited by 5HTSynaptrip (08/12/11 12:42 AM)
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Re: Overhauled My Classic Wavemaster & Added Fans [Re: 5HTSynaptrip]
#14909706 - 08/12/11 02:30 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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yeah nice, coolermaster wavemaster case is oldschool. i regrettably sold the case with my old system (had to let it go as the complete package) btw the side panel looks cool, quality mod
MR14
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Re: Overhauled My Classic Wavemaster & Added Fans [Re: MR14]
#14910875 - 08/12/11 11:33 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Never been fond of gigabyte or rattlemaster (I want to like coolermaster but previous experience with their HSF's just left me bitter).
That's a heck of a lot of fans, be curious to know how air flows in your case. My games machine has 6 fans. Two noctua 12cm fans: one blowing over hard drives, one sucking hot air at the top back. A 12cm seasonic power supply fan, with an additional 4cm fan. I have stress tested the power supply on a friends obscene machine (3 gpus, 6 core processor, raid 0 super hot raptors) and did see the fan spin. A 12CM Zalman fan, on that old cooler that has the fins all around the fan. an 8cm GPU fan on the new Radeon 6750.
Now, it's fairly quiet for a games machine, temperatures before the new GPU were about 40C system even on heavy load, 50C for the processor (60 if all CPUs on at full load) with the GPU getting very hot, as is the way with Nvidia's offerings. New machine is quieter. I have yet to take temperature readings.
What temperatures do you get for your machine? Can you say if it's quiet or noisy?
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Re: Overhauled My Classic Wavemaster & Added Fans [Re: Visionary Tools]
#14911217 - 08/12/11 12:49 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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The WaveMaster I just cleaned/modded is really quiet. I've only had rattle sounds from sleeve fans not mounted vertically, and this case only has one of those on the top near the PSU. CoolerMaster cases are the only cases I've purchased for my own PC's. They have amazing quality. My new PC that I built in late December has a HAF-X case so it has a 230mm fan in the front cooling the storage drives, two 200mm fans on top exhausting air, and a 200mm fan on the side panel for intake. The case came with a video card shroud that goes towards the front of them and it holds 120mm fans so I put a Scythe Ultra Kaze in there @ 3000rpm/130cfm. For my i7-950 I have a Corsair H80 water block on it and the rad is mounted where the rear case exhaust used to be. The radiator has push/pull with Scythe Ultra Kaze's as well. This PC is loud as fuck but my CPU is a few degrees above room temp.
The WaveMaster has incredible temps now with the CPU being ~40C under load at 3.8 GHz, but the northbridge is a bit toastier since I had to up the voltages a lot for the 4 GB of DDR3(well within safe ranges though).
On my HAF-X I purchased some electrostatic microscreens that cover all the fans with a perfectly molded magnetic/bendable frame. It's ridiculous how fucking awesome they are. The intake fans have so much dust on them every week, and that shit would otherwise be in my tower.
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