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ello chap
yeah sorry mate i must have missed it. yup the sli bridge i have is pretty long. enough anyway it came with my mobo luckily as palit don't include em.
once i know both cards r working properly i'll probably take the plunge n dremmel it or find a aftermarket cooler. eventhough though the warranty will be void by doing this. its looking like my best option as i dont really want odd cards :P
its a bit of a design fault i reckon as most boards have the front panel header in the same place. nevermind aye

Tohma,
Nice upgrades and killer WEI score. Please get us some pictures when you can !

Tw33k,
Awesome upgrade on the new Asus mobo it looks amazing with lights on and off, great job and I'm sure it runs fantastic.

ganjiry,
Keep after it as it sounds like your just a little mod away from SLI heaven !

@ Tohma nice upgrades bet ur well pleased

@linnemeyerhere will do lol these cards would be epic sli'd. i'll get there eventually

Tomha said:

I'm looking at getting some LED strips to light it all up too, but literally no one in Auckland has the kinds I want in stock, and none of them can give me an ETA either . I also want to get a nice matte black plate over the 5.25" bays to tidy things up, and I'll mount the SSD on there. The great thing about the Samsung 830 is it looks nice and sleek with its brushed black aluminium :).

You might give this place a look. I think they'll ship to NZ, not sure.
PC Case Gear

Britton30 said:

@Mark: Good luck on de-lidding the i7 and not cutting you fingers. I have rad the heat spreader is not soldered on so hopefully it comes off without pulling the die with it.

It's not soldered which is why there are temp problems with these chips. I have a really thin, sharp blade that will cut through the glue no problem. I'm then using CoolLabs Liquid Ultra between the die and the IHS and between the IHS and the H100. They sent the Liquid Ultra 8 days ago so it should be here very soon (I hope) I can't get it locally so had to order it from the US.

tw33k said:

It's not soldered which is why there are temp problems with these chips. I have a really thin, sharp blade that will cut through the glue no problem. I'm then using CoolLabs Liquid Ultra between the die and the IHS and between the IHS and the H100. They sent the Liquid Ultra 8 days ago so it should be here very soon (I hope) I can't get it locally so had to order it from the US.

You're going to put the IHS back on? It's usually about 3 weeks AU>US.
I did some research on the Liquid Pro TIM and it looks like ordianry mercury in their video. Where in the US did you order it from?

Great numbers Tomha. Looks like you'll have a killer rig

A Guy

Britton30 said:

tw33k said:

It's not soldered which is why there are temp problems with these chips. I have a really thin, sharp blade that will cut through the glue no problem. I'm then using CoolLabs Liquid Ultra between the die and the IHS and between the IHS and the H100. They sent the Liquid Ultra 8 days ago so it should be here very soon (I hope) I can't get it locally so had to order it from the US.

You're going to put the IHS back on? It's usually about 3 weeks AU>US.
I did some research on the Liquid Pro TIM and it looks like ordianry mercury in their video. Where in the US did you order it from?

I am going to put the IHS back on yes. Liquid Ultra is just liquid metal but it isn't mercury (I do know it contains gallium). I ordered from Performance Pcs. I've ordered from there lots but this time I used a mail service called Ship To because Performance PCs wanted $30 for shipping. Also, it doesn't take anywhere near 3 weeks for parcels to arrive here from the US. I order from the US a lot and it's never taken more than 2 weeks.

I've been reading that the tim Intel used is great stuff. The problem is the glue. It keeps the IHS from making good contact with the die.