Project Absinthe – Part X
Wednesday didn’t see much action on Absinthe due to some thunderstorms that rolled through the KC area, so I took the time to plan out what was going to h...
Wednesday didn’t see much action on Absinthe due to some thunderstorms that rolled through the KC area, so I took the time to plan out what was going to h...
Monday was a night off from working on Absinthe. Tuesday I ended up staying home from work due to some dizzy spells that greeted me when I woke up. And anyone w...
Another Saturday was upon us! Time to get to work! The drain port was my first move. I knew I needed to cut a hole in the bottom for it, but how was the questio...
Orders have arrived and some more assembly has progressed. One concern I had with the loop at the end of the previous iteration was how I was going to add the r...
Already to part 6 of this series and I still haven’t assembled anything resembling a water cooling loop – with the exception of getting both radiators mou...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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:...