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Cosmos S: Watercooling

Ah… The Cooler Master Cosmos S. Immediately recognized as one of the world’s most elegant chassis, the Cosmos S possesses support for extreme watercooling, air flow, and sleek cable management out of the box. In this article, we will push the limits and go beyond them, mounting a HWlabs Black Ice GTX 480 radiator on top of the Cosmos, and a GTX 240 radiator in the front. These two beasts of cooling power will be the backbone of this water cooling set up, taking on an Intel Core i7 960 clocked at a blazing 4.5Ghz, and an EVGA GTX 295 clocked at a screaming 772Mhz.

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2011
09/26
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How-To: Building a PC in the ATCS 840 (Part 5)

A note from txtmstrjoe:  This CMHD.tv Blog miniseries is respectfully dedicated to my OCN brother, Syrillian.   Syrillian, a saint of a man, left this world far too early.  He leaves his family, friends, and OCN family.  He is sorely missed.

ATCS 840

And so here we are, the final steps of our shared journey towards building a custom PC together.

It has taken us five weeks, five consecutive Wednesdays, to get to this point.  But we’re finally here, the threshold, the precipice.  Once we go over the edge, we can say what most people simply cannot:  We’ve built our own custom PC!

In the past four Wednesdays, we’ve learned how to install a motherboard, mount the hard disk drives, optical drives, as well as a solid state drive in the ATCS 840, install the CPU, its cooler, and the RAM, and finally, install the graphics card and power supply unit as well as do some cable management.  We’ve done most of the essential hardware installation; we’ve built the body up, and it’s ready for the final step.

Our custom PC is now ready for us to breathe life into it. Read more

2011
09/21
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How-To: Building a PC in the ATCS 840 (Part 4)

A note from txtmstrjoe:  This CMHD.tv Blog miniseries is respectfully dedicated to my OCN brother, Syrillian.  Syrillian, a saint of a man, left this world far too early.  He leaves his family, friends, and OCN family.  He is sorely missed.

Opener Part 4

Welcome to Part 4 of this how-to miniseries.  For the past three weeks, we’ve walked through how to install the motherboard in Part 1, how to install hard drives, optical drives, and a solid state drive in Part 2, and installed the CPU, CPU cooler, and RAM in Part 3.  Part 4 will be all about how to install a discrete video card, the power supply, and how to manage the various power and data transmission cables in your new PC. Read more

2011
09/14
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How-To: Building a PC in the ATCS 840 (Part 3)

A note from txtmstrjoe:  This CMHD.tv Blog miniseries is respectfully dedicated to my OCN brother, Syrillian.   Syrillian, a saint of a man, left this world far too early.  He leaves his family, friends, and OCN family.  He is sorely missed.

Opener Part 3

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been on a journey building a custom PC in my all-time favorite Cooler Master case, the ATCS 840.  In Part 1, we installed the motherboard; in Part 2, we installed the hard drives, optical drives, and a solid state drive (SSD) which will host our operating system.  Our journey continues this week. Read more

2011
09/07
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How-To: Building a PC in the ATCS 840 (Part 2)

A note from txtmstrjoe:  This CMHD.tv Blog miniseries is respectfully dedicated to my OCN brother, Syrillian.  Syrillian, a saint of a man, left this world far too early.  He leaves his family, friends, and OCN family.  He is sorely missed.

Carbon Fiber Motherboard Mod

Last time we began this miniseries of blogs geared towards novices PC builders.  If you’ve never built your own custom PC before, you’ve come to the right place.  Here on the CMHD.tv Blog, we share helpful information on and insights into this beautiful hobby.  And if you’re a veteran, I’m sure you’ll still find something new to try on your own projects.

This project is based in one of Cooler Master’s all-time best chassis, the classic ATCS 840.  Last week we started the process of building a custom PC in this superbly-designed computer case, ending up with the new PC’s motherboard installed onto the ATCS 840′s convenient removable motherboard tray.

This week, we continue the process of building a custom PC. Read more

2011
08/31
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