Modded Watercooled RV01 (Warning lots of Pics :D)

[Mr. May]

Hi all and welcome to my thread didnt know to put here or in case central as it is a mod on my rid which involves me rebuilding it oh the joy

The rig in question is the rig in sig which i had not long upgraded to 470 sli which as i found out runs so hot and loud even in this case which is ment to be good for gpu cooling lol

So to begin with i bought these few parts to install in my case which where a 140mm & 180mm silverstone air penatrator's plus a 140mm hole saw and some mx4 for the gpus





I want to mount it on the back of the outside off my case where the rad is here




But 1st ill have to space my rad more to allow clearance for the fan as they are mount with this brackets atm



And these are the bits ill use to space it more M4 screw + nut and a big washer to silence the noise for the fans virabtion all got from wickes lol



To do this iam going to need to drill the rad, que the BHP451 this is a beast as you will see later



On my 1st hole i slip and drilled the rad gutted ! so decided to carry on and ordered PA120.4 so it seemed an upgrade and wasnt so heart broken




And here it is on its new mountings




Time to see if the fan will fit and what do you know ...... Likeeee aaaa gloooooveee !



Once it was in position i marked it ready for drilling and removed the rad and all componants



Bring on the Beast




The hole took less the 30 seconds and look at how clean that is was hardly any filling needed most pleased




Now to do the mounting holes and get it fixed and get the componants back in








This is my favriote picture looks a bit like a v6 manifold




Now to re-apply the TIM on the GPU's was really impressed with how the coolers came apart well designed for re-apply TIM







Fermi Porn



All most there just the gpus to put back in and tube up






Just waiting on the PA120.4 but all wired and ready with the leaky .3






Finally finished ready for leak testing the PA120.4 it is a beast off a rad made my .3 look small







And back in its place ready for Shift 2 hope you enjoyed reading through my little mod sorry it isnt very well detailed as done it once took me ages and then deleted by mistake but iam glad to report that the temps droped from about 91 degrees @82% to 75 degrees @76% with custom fan profile much better now many thanks again for reading

 

[Mr. May]

lol i did for 19 inch monitor thought they would off been smaller cba doing its all over again already done it twice lol might do it later if i dont for get

 

[Mr. May]

there push and pull as there are 3 ac ryan's on the front and only 140mm fan at the back off it to allow airflow for the gpu's

resized the pictures aswell to 15 to make them easier to view

 

[Mr. May]

came down a lot was maxing at 90 with 90+fan speed now it wont go over 82 at 72% fan speed with a custom fan set up well worth doing for £5 worth of tim

 

[Mr. May]

time to put an update on this

just ordered some EK blocks and plates for the 470's for some whisper quite gaming

will update the log when parts arrive

 

[Mr. May]

Cheers mate

And i cant route the tubes that was as there isnt enough space behind the mother board and it would be nightmare to pump but i am gonna change the fans soon as the noise they give off it annoying me now i was a quite rig so might get 4x silverston AP120's the same colour as the 140mm i put in as i am fed up off the bright led's aswell lol

just want a change i guess lol

 

[Mr. May]

Ah right, fair enough mate

Could you turn the radiator upside down and have the tubes running underneath? Mind you, you would have to change the brackets on the radiator and would probably be more hassle then its worth!

Sounds like a good plan with the fans mate

That could be a good idea that never thought off it with the 120.4 as the bend was to tight to do it like that with the 120.3 and it would make it easier to bleed as that is a mission in its self with it being a closed loop but it looks so much nicer lol

its funny how quickly you can get annoyed with lighting if it is not subtle i have toned mine down many times after being fed up with the bling

i know i've put a hole in the back of it for a switch to the neon lights but the fan lights have a another 3pin just to power the leds so they dont dim when changing the speed off the fans but there 2000rpm fans and kick up a lot off noise lol

Great build Love the w/c setup with the massive engine-like module on the rear of the case

cheers mate more to come soon and ill put up a build log of my other WC pc soon

 

[Mr. May]

i will do if the pipes havnt gone to hard as the old bits i took out last time i altered it where how can i put it ... quite set in there ways lol

 

[Mr. May]

got my 1st parcel today cany any one guess what these are for

 

[Mr. May]

2x 3 slot sli tubes for parallel cooling

 

[Mr. May]

well all the goodies have turned up today so will be cracking on with this tomorrow heres a few pics

 

[Mr. May]

finally done the water cooling on the gpu and am really happy with the results ill upload the pictures tomorrow

 

[Mr. May]

Time to upload some pictures

heres a few pics of preping and putting the blocks and backplates on the gpus







And some true EK porn here 470's with ek block and backplates and a evga sli3 with ek block




and heres a dremel idea for my new 120gb ssd




and a few of putting everything back






i love this ram suits the build so well




and heres the tubing routes E for EVGA POWER




and i desided to keep the long tubes i kinda like them for some odd reason lol




and a load of shots of it up and running









Also very glad with the temps idle at 33 and 34 and at full load 61 and 63 and cpu temps have only gone up 4 degrees

Next on the upgarde list

4 new sythe kaze 19000 for the rad

and a bigger psu as my 850w is making clicking noises when i overclock past 800 on the cores of my 470's

so on the look out for a thermaltake tough power 1200w

hope you've enjoyed reading

please feel free to leave comments

 

[Mr. May]

when there idling in 2d clocks ony about 33 on the 1st card and 34 on the second and topping out at just a little over 60 at full pelt need a beeter psu to get a higher overclock over 800 which they feel like they can do but my psu is making a clicking sound

 

[Mr. May]

Nice temps Hmm thats odd, i thought an 850W would handle them alright.

Id go for Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 1000W Power Supply give you enough juice thats for sure and not TOO expensive hehe!

i know but i have had it nearly 5 years and it survived one machine blowing its VRM's up and setting fire also and there is a lot running in the machine 2x180mm fans 1x 140mm and soon to be 5x120mm fans 4 fast hhd's including one raptor a sdd and the pump and lights and thats with out the hardware lol

I was looking at them or the ocz 1250w but i kinda want to stay with thermaltake toughpower series really good psu would like 1200w version as if i want i could go tri sli some 480's (if i could afford them ) as its only the psu which limits what gpu's i get atm

 

[Mr. May]

the psu is the same cpn unit the corsair but when i ran furmark it jusy made clicking sounds and turned off straight away but when i run a game at 800 core makes the same clicking noise but dont turn off so i think iam asking to much off it

i want to break the 850 barrier maybe even 900 core if they can do it with a new PSU as temp's are not an issue anymore

 

[Mr. May]

Thank you ill update my other HTPC log as soon as i get a min over the weekend

 

[Mr. May]

HTPC log updated now

I need peoples opinions i am about to install another GPU and 2 more rads so iam looking to change a few bits i was wondering.......

Would it be a good idea to spray the mesh on the bottem side vents and top a silver like the tubing ?

or

Would this spoile the stealth look off the case ?

 

[Mr. May]

Its silver feser stuff 3/8 ID 1/2 OD can get five meeters for five pond and is very good also the fittings are feser but they dont make them any more as ive been trying to find some

 

[Mr. May]

It went in the bin long ago mate