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Absinthe

Project Absinthe – Part V

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I picked up the order from my local FedEx office, which included: 2 x Swiftech 90-degree single rotary fittings 10-pack Primochill Rigid Revolver compression fi...

Absinthe

Project Absinthe – Part IV

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The night after posting the previous section, I got right to work on advancing things as best as I could. I mounted the 240mm radiator where I had suspected it ...

Absinthe

Project Absinthe – Part III

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let’s start with a proof of concept in a bid to do something different. For making hardline water cooling loops, most everyone is using acrylic or PETG tu...

Absinthe

Project Absinthe – Part II

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Progress on Absinthe would have continued on Saturday had a little shipping concern not gotten in the way. Instead everything had to wait till Monday. This wasn...

Absinthe

Project Absinthe

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Project Absinthe started life as an upgrade from an AMD X2-3800 system running Windows XP. Here are the current specs on the system (PCPartPicker.com list) CPU:...

Absinthe/First water cooled build

Water cooling build in my wife’s computer – Part IX

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

For just $6, I was able to overnight a $160 power supply. Pretty sweet deal, courtesy of Amazon Prime. Anyway. I ordered the RM1000 power supply to go in my wif...

First water cooled build

Water cooling build in my wife’s computer – Part VIII

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The day after posting the last part, the AlphaCool CPU water block was confirmed delivered in Germany. I’m definitely curious as to what they’d find...

Raspberry Pi

Cooling off a Raspberry Pi, revisited

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Previous: “Cooling off a Pi so it won’t crash” I have to admit that before starting this little experiment I was a little nervous about how it would...

First water cooled build

Water cooling build in my wife’s computer – Part VII

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Well to begin, the CPU block is going through customs in Germany as I write this. I don’t have any reason to believe it won’t get through, but we...

First water cooled build

Water cooling build in my wife’s computer – Part VI

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The original CPU water block was sent on its way to Germany a little later than I wanted, via USPS. That was part of the delay, as I originally wanted to send i...

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