Test your board first
 

I was looking through pictures of rigs I have made when I came upon these. Building this system took many days. I hate to recall how much time I spent putting all this together. The odd looking reservoir was a 2.5 gallon water bottle with about 2" of polyurethane foam insulation. My hope was to capture all world records.

Unfortunately, my new motherboard was DOA. :argh:

Test your motherboard before you add custom cooling. :ash1:

I hope this will help someone else avoid a similar situation.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...rdprep3011.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...dicator005.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...nestines3B.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...reservoir2.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...seModdong2.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...on/Mosfet2.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...on/NB-PCIE.jpg

Haha, that reservoir looks like a mutant pineapple!

I sent Steve a schematic of a pineapple and he found that it had peculiar coolant properties and created this thing :rofl


Excellent point on checking for doa mobo, gpus and the like before heading for the pineapple fields. :D