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8. Does your PC live up to your expectations ?

Absolutely, it took some work to get everything to fit, not very much space for the amount of stuff I have in there. But now that it is up and running it is just simply awesome. Fun to just watch, trying to follow the little air bubbles.
 

9. What's the best part of your rig?

That it is in a fish tank and to boot it has way better cooling then most extreme air or water cooled machines.
 

10. What sucks and should not have been bought?

Hmmm I've got nothing. I did tons and tons of research and planning to find the perfect parts. Every one of them is working perfectly. Maybe a little bigger tank (that a long stretch) but there isn't any that look as cool as this one
 

11. Did you modify anything ?  cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.

The only thing that had to modified was the power supply but it did have to be extremely modified. My original plan was just to remove the fan from it but b/c of lack of room I ended having to cut way all of the sides of the box and even at that point it still didn't fit. Then I had to add 10inches extensions on each of the wires going from the main power to the output distribution panel (there should 2 or 3 pictures of the power supply without any sides or top and the output distribution panel and the extensions).

There were about 50 wires if I remember correctly. It required a ton of soldering. When I finished soldering the last wire, all I could think about was, "Man, I am going to be pissed if this thing doesn't work". LOL, lucky, it worked perfectly, no issues what so ever.

12. Your 3DMark06 / 3DMark Vantage score (P+GPU)

Keep in mind it was finished last summer, my 3DMark Vantage score from then was just over 23,000. I believe it was in the top 15%, it could be a little low tho.
 

13. Do you have any Future updates planned ?

Maybe to add a second solid drive and to run them in RAID 0 but other then that nope. It is good to go!!!

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