Every interaction with everyone is new relation
Start from scratch or stretched for years
We don’t all make sense
We all project our worries on each other
Casting out our own fears
In a net to catch our nightmares
Don’t try to tell me it’s just the other person
My tail can only be commented about
Just. So. Many. Times.
Before the smoke indicates it’s on fire
You say I’m not dumb
Or at least not to be so sad about it
It’s just too easy for me to fuck it up
Make that choice
Which breaks the light
“It’s not my fault”
“It’s not my fault”
“I didn’t meeeeaaaan it”
Ha
I’m so scared of being alone that I cast my fear net out to catch all the emptiness I can find
Anything meaningful I manage to snag, I throw back every time
Eventually……
And it Begins…
While waiting for the primary parts, I figured it was time to tear the case down and see what can be done with it. I intend to go with no optical drives. I reached the point with the tear down that I was able to get rid of almost all of the drive cages. I also discovered an SSD socket on the back of the motherboard plate.
These are the parts that I’ll install for this round.
eVGA SuperNOVA g2 850W Power Supply
Power supplies seem to always come in bags. It really seems like the manufacturers expect us to carry these around. I can see the party now, “Hey do you have a power supply?” “Well as a matter of fact I do and look at this great bag!”
It also came with a bag to carry any extra cables and accessories.
Being a fully modular power supply, installation becomes so easy. That and you get enough cables to make it rain.
Here’s how the Power Supply installs, when using the upper portion of the case.
This is how it looks from behind. If you look at the bottom of the picture, you can see the chrome black plate that covers the i/o panel for the upper portion of the case.
On the lower portion of the case, I’ve installed the back plate for the Power Supply hole
For the SSD, I’ve gone with my second Mushkin. The first one has been running for 5+ years without a hitch.
While I can’t do anything with the RAM yet, here’s pictures of it anyways. I love the looks of these sticks.
The cooler I’ve run with is the Glacer 240L v2. The best benefit being that it is expandable, without voiding the warranty.
One item that will be adjusted is the Radiator. A first minor gripe will be the fin count in the radiator. As you can see here, there is lots of space between these fins. The good being is that the fan being used doesn’t have to be “high static”, but the overall cooling capabilities are usually less.
Now to tear down the case. I discovered a few interesting things.
Like, 2 more spots for fan placement!
Lots of hard drive cages in the way for the air flow…oh wait, those can go away
Oh wait, everything is removable and there appears to be an 80mm fan here! Not a fan of this thought, it’d make a lot more sense for it to be a 120mm fan…
If you look closely, you’ll see that the front panel has been reoved. After some fiddling, I was able to install it on the top portion of the case.
Oh look, fans!
By this point, I’ve discovered the SSD slot on the back of the motherboard tray. So let’s put an SSD there!
Now I get to put the water cooling radiator
I’ve screwed it into the side-wall of the top portion of the case and begun to run the cables for the Power Supply.
Time to…pull out more drive cages!
This is starting to get roomy. Let’s see what we are looking at downstairs.
Finally, if I didn’t have a hard drive cage collection before, I definitely do now!
The next update will be the installation of all the PHUN stuff!
In the Beginning…
The path to this build began with winning a contest from the hardware review website www.hardwareasylum.com.
The prizes were a custom-painted HAF Stacker, a Cooler Master 750W 80+Gold PSU and a t-shirt.
This is the case, from receiving to exploring some of its options.
Being the combination of a “Mid” (according to CM) and mini-ITX towers, this made quite an imposing figure lurking on my doorstep.
The Mid-tower, standing by itself.
Front Panel, when installed on mid-tower (it is removable and able to be installed on mini-ITX). 
Seperated, Siamese-twins standing side-by-side.
Setting the cases up in the configuration I’ll be using.
Even outside the box, this case is beasstly!
I also received the PSU and shirt! The PSU will go in my old system, which recently had a PSU failure.
Build Preview ‘Orange & Black Attack Stack’
The name is pending, but I figured to start with a list of parts going into this rig:
- I won a custom painted HAF 935 from my friends at www.hardwareasylum.com. This is an extremely customizable and expandable case. To start I’m placing a majority of the components into the Mid-Tower HAF 945 portion. The water-cooling and PSU will go in the mini-ITX 915F portion. Later I may expand with a 915R to add a removable Steam Box, so I can stream games from the main PC into any room on my network. The timing of receiving this case placed me in a position to enter into an Overclocking Competition on HWBot.org, though the delay in my funding being received may’ve delayed my build too long to actually win. http://us.coolermaster.com/product/Detail/case/haf-series/haf935.html
- For cooling, I was shopping for a Swiftech H220 to start a custom cooling loop. Well, it was going to be $150 for just that pump, once I added in a radiator I was already up to $350. Then I saw a deal on the CoolerMaster Clacer 240L. While the radiator is only 120×2, when I was aiming for 120×3, I realized it has the Swiftech H220 for a pump! Plus, the deal meant it was $100 for all the parts and it is all expandable, so I can still customize it, down the road. Including changing out the radiator, tubing and expanding it to include other parts. http://us.coolermaster.com/product/Detail/cooling/glacer/glacer-240l-v2.html
- Initially I thought I had a Power Supply in place. Especially after Seasonic said that it worked fine. Yet, while it was at Seasonic my current rig started working fine, not showing the issues that were there when the Seasonic PSU was installed. So, I had to purchase a new Power Supply. After combing through deals and reviews, I landed on the eVGA Supernova 850 G2. While it’s not 80+ platinum like the Seasonic unit was, it posts figures comparable and it appears to actually be more efficient than the 80+ Gold rating requires. http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=220-G2-0850-XR
- I’ve used Crucial and Mushkin SSDs. Recently Mushkin released an exclusive line via NewEgg. I looked over the specs and I’m more than satisfied with the idea of using this ECO2 line. Initially I will be overclocking and testing with this rig, so capacity isn’t an issue. http://www.poweredbymushkin.com/index.php/catalog/45-eco2.html
- Once I went down the line of using this case, I committed to a primarily orange and black color combo. When it comes to orange and black motherboards, you are pretty well set on a Gigabyte SOC board. This worked out in a few directions. First off, the competition I was interested in entering requires a Gigabyte board. Secondly, I was pretty set on going with the x99 chipset. Finally, they were releasing a new board the SOC Champion. The few drawbacks of this board are that it “only” has 4 RAM slots, “limiting” it to 64GB DDR4, rather than 128GB. It doesn’t have dual NIC. The m.2 socket is “limited” to 20 GB/s. These drawbacks result in higher memory performance due to less line tracing for the additional RAM slots, more CPU cycles due to handling only one NIC and less of the PCI-e bus being taken up by the m.2. Plus, I love the looks and performance of this board. http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5280#ov
- For the processor, I’d debated between the 5820k and 5930k. The 5960x being far beyond my needs or budget. I settled on the 5930k, so that I could take advantage of 16x speeds in SLI, which maybe in my future. http://ark.intel.com/products/82931
- The last two items took the most research and work, the video card and the memory. On the video card part, I already have a GTX 680, which plays fine on my 1920×1200 resolution display. Though it doesn’t do so well on more demanding games on my 2560×1600 resolution display. This is mostly due to only having 2GB of on-board memory. While researching, I discovered the ASUS Platinum Poseidon gtx980. It’s pricing is about the same as buying a GTX980 and adding a water cooling block, while not adding the risk of voiding the warranty. Plus it has air-cooling, so if I am not completely ready to add it to the water-loop, I can run it without worries. http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/POSEIDONGTX980P4GD5/
- Finally, there’s the memory. This was a tough one, memory support by motherboard manufacturers has been spotty at best. I was leaning towards a 3000mhz kit, but the design, overclocking and MOD monitoring of the Crucial Ballstix Elite Memory won me over. http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/memory-ballistix-elite-ddr4
Goilem
I am the Goilem
I wait for your command
You take me and you leave me
As only you can
Crush the gem
Burn the scroll smash your mirror
Free
My
Soul
Living your life
As free as a bird
Casting your bidding
Into the visage of your mirror
I am a cyclops
The emerald in my forehead
Casting its pale light
Guiding my way
Crush the gem
Burn the scroll smash your mirror
Free
My
Soul
You mold me with your will
Shape me as only you do
The mouldy scroll
Giving me life
Crush the gem
Burn the scroll smash your mirror
Free
My
Soul
Living my life
As dumb as a rock
Wrapped in clay
Soaked in mud
Crush the gem
Burn the scroll smash your mirror
Free
My
Soul
I am the Goilem
Crawling back to you
Drying clay crumbling
Each step an act of surrender
Lingering spirits
There’s a picture of 3 ghosts beside my bed,
A mother, a daughter and a dad,
They look like nice people,
So happy and alive,
I can almost place their names,
It’s all right there in my head,
But maybe I’m wrong,
I often am.
I think i knew them once,
Lives spreading out before them,
All the doors were open,
All the lights were green,
Always smiling,
Never dying.
There’s a picture of two ghosts beside my bed,
I think of them every day,
A man and woman leaning together on a concrete bench,
Surrounded by nature and beauty,
Backs to the camera,
I remember them happy,
But maybe I’m wrong,
I often am.
I think i knew you once, perhaps it’s just a dream,
Future memories of holding elderly hands,
Walking through the store,
Guiding through doors,
Shuffling on floors,
Always smiling.
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