To quote a Ferengi... Treachery, Faith and the Great River.

Well... not the Treachery part but the Faith definitely and perhaps the Great River in the form of my custom tubes and my liquid gold.

Nooo... not Kraft Mac-N-Cheese liquid gold, but this liquid gold - Mayhem's Sunset Yellow Concentrate.

BEHOLD!

(OK OK, it looks more like orange juice.)

If there was treachery involved in my PC build I'm sure I definitely would have went mad coupled with the burning of my hands and fingers like Anakin on Mustafar. Oh trust me, there was lots of fits of anger and four letter curse words in the early morning hours during the bending process.

The only treachery that would have occurred was if there was a leak in my loop, but I am happy to say that all was well.

CPU Loop; you can also see part of the GPU loop and part of the case pass thru on the top, right of the Aquacomputer Flow meter.

GPU Loop - the power supply compartment which houses the two 360mm radiators for the GPU loop; ready to handle a second GPU if I choose.

Some haters had some choice things to say about my loop stating it was messy or disorganized, but considering the placement of my hardware I don't really see any other option I would have had.

One person suggested that I buy two new reservoirs that has a pump attached to the bottom to minimize the need for more tubing; sorry but I'm not dropping more money to for improved aesthetics. Perhaps if I had a disposable income to buy two XSPC DDC Photon 170s and two Aqua Computer flow sensor with temperature I would.

Hint hint, if any companies want to sponsor a small time modder :)

Removing the Dark Side from my sound card

My not so dated Creative Labs Recon3D is a great sound card, with only one glaring issue... the horrible red LEDs. They are so bright that I'm convinced that if you stared directly at them you'd go blind. It glares red with the fury of a thousand suns, well OK not that bad.

It's bad enough that it interferes with anyone utilizing the RGB LEDs on their hardware and matching it to their system design with matching fluids and cable sleeving.

With some basic electronics / soldering skills I have removed the Dark side from my Recon3D.