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Build log for building out a copper tubing water cooling loop in my wife’s computer under the name Absinthe.

Absinthe

Absinthe to Amethyst

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Naming computer build projects tends to have an art behind it. Some builders have a certain finesse with it, while others… not so much. I chose the name &...

Absinthe

Adjusting the recipe

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Bitfenix specifications for the Spectre Pro place them at the upper-end of what would be considered silent. They’re rated 18.9 dB(A) for the 120mm, 22.8 d...

Absinthe

Another glass of absinthe — II

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In the interim, the R9 290X was put back into the system and the GTX 1080 pulled and sent back to NewEgg on RMA. Unfortunately NewEgg didn’t send out the ...

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Another glass of absinthe

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Time to revisit Absinthe. Current specs for immediate reference: CPU: Intel i7-5820k GPU: XFX R9 290X “Double-D” 4GB Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512 GB...

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Distilling Absinthe — Part III

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The United States Postal Service certainly had a weird way of delivering a package. I live in an apartment complex, meaning that packages that cannot be put in ...

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Distilling Absinthe – Part II

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Now that we’re past the introduction, let’s actually get down to work, starting with a small aside on the table. I said in the previous section that...

Absinthe

Distilling another batch of Absinthe

Posted on January 31, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

It has been about a year since I last wrote about my wife’s computer, Absinthe. In that time the system has been running smoothly without any complaints. ...

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Absinthe – Part XX

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Okay so for Valentine’s Day I bought my wife an R9 290X to replace her GTX 660 pair. Previously I’d talked about going with a GTX 970, mainly becaus...

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Absinthe – Part XIX: Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The title almost makes this sound like some horrible romance/horror movie… Anyone know Neve Campbell’s phone number? I think she’d be perfect ...

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Absinthe – Part XVIII

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

And here we are to the 18th part of this build log for Absinthe. There’s not much of an update on this one, though — just some more pictures of the ...

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