Or, I have black and orange sharpies you can borrow.  

@r72019 @Anonymous :

@r72019     Or, I have black and orange sharpies you can borrow. 

Or, we can take the nursery kids stuff and re-market it as "custom build high performance  back-asswards fan hub super illusive modification emblems"

Now we're talking! And 1 out of a 10000000 lucky customer will get a rare BOXED Intel 10980XE as part of our launch Giveaway! Yeah, Giveaways all the rage nowadays. You either enter and retweet/ follow like some crazy nut just to win some free stuff. Or you can win the genetics lottery and be a social media influencer.

BTW, I have a can of this shipped to me:

https://www.amazon.com/Montana-Black-400Ml-Pure-Orange/dp/B004W4AM30/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=montana+cans+orange&qid=1593494942&sr=8-1

@Anonymous :

So . . .  Pure Orange  is the new  Black

The "artisan paint" from I dunno... Montana? They have colored labels for their product range. Gold is for low pressure cans. Black is for high pressure cans. My search history is filled with "Montana Cans Black Black".

This looks like it might fit

    FINALLY!!!

@Anonymous :

Oh gosh I'm so excited you finally can complete your Cosmos. How's the processor like? Does the box smell new? Sealed? Any plans for booting this week? 

Only the first is arriving in today's package.

Radiator is on Thursday.

1 fan is on Friday while the other 2 is in August.

MNPCTech grill... well... that's a splurge too much.

@Anonymous :

So anyway, Cosmos is still upstairs, and not constantly 4 feet away from me where I could glance over and dream up plans, all day long.

I cook up plans for the orange julius even when I'm showering the toddler or I'm here at office 10 miles away. It's just a background task running in my mind visually imagining the various mods/ cabling/ placement.

Just got a message from Fedex that they delivered a package from PPCS today.

How is it that you quoted the same text twice in one reply and only the first quote got moderated.  

I looked up at the clock and it was past midnight. All I did was sleeve 3 fan cables and played around a whole lot in placing the Quadro controller. Perhaps it's one of the most masochistic way to mount a fan controller and connect 3 fans to it. That's why it took 2 hours.

@Anonymous : I'll cogitate on your questions in the morning. Right now in my state of mind, everything seems like Greek to me too.

Where did you post the box picture?

@Anonymous :

as always (click photo to embiggen)

Thanks for the link. Looks like a very full 3 year warranty.

the iPad doesn't allow me to click to embiggen. Looks like we're all good that this boxed processor is genuine, unless seller has a very skillful way to slap on labels.

Empty Intel box with pristine sticker: 

Most likely just trying to make a quick $250 a pop by selling them $500 over cost.  I'd only worry about something like that if you bought from like say someone with 0 feedback as a seller, or the new member icon after their name and a couple small value feedback.

@Anonymous :

That's probably @r72019 own box which he opened using a heatgun. How about the anti-tamper translucent sticker? I see them on both my boxed 9th Gen CPUs.

Anyways, things have gone south with the 420mm big boy.

I totally missed the width by 7mm. So focused on the height which actually fits nicely.

Illegal extension #1

Illegal Extension #2

I've submitted a return request to PPCS. Let's hope there's some mercy for me.

RGB cable on the GPU waterblock popped out this morning so I decided to sleeve them together to clean up the stringy mess from them.