My new twin loop watercooled modded PC70!

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this has been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time coming, my very good friend Tom went and picked up this PC70 on my behalf a looooon time ago, maybe 6 months? maybe even more!

The colours were decided ages ago, I originaly thought orange or red with black inside but evenetually settled on green for no other reason than I hadn't seen anything quite like it.

I knew I wanted 2 x PA120.3 but I didn't want a MM UFO or similar, partly don't have space and partly they don't do it for me.

So we came to the conclusion we needed to stand one up in the front as well as having one in the roof, then the main topic of endless debate was what to do with the 5.25 bays and hard drives.

I eventually decided after looking at lots of laptop slot drives etc that no optical drive was the way forwards, I'm going to get a usb laptop external drive thing so its bus powered and that will do me, I can plug it into the monitor and I rarely use it anyway..

full spec list:

fully modded Lian Li PC70
Asus P5K
GSkill PC8000 2 x 2GB
Q6600 G0
8800GTX
Seasonic 600w
2 x 250GB SATA 2

Cooling

Loop 1

Laing DDC12x 18w
Swiftech Apogee GTX + Copper top
Thermochill PA120.3
3 x Yate Loon
EK 150 res

Loop 2

Laing DDC12v 18e
EK 8800GTX full cover block
2 x Swiftech MCW30 (nb/sb)
MIPS mosfet blocks x 2
MIPS ram freezer 4
Thermochill PA120.3
3 x Yate loon
EK 150 res

And a big pile of kick ass :)

So, pics!

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you'll see we came to a conclusion about 2 reservoirs on a fitting next to the mobo, its all powdercoated too, fancied a change from anodising and I like the glossy finish.

Plus I wanted 1 fan controller, hidden with just the knobs (fnar) visible..
 
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Next thing to do (after stripping and hoovering everything from the old case!) was to dress the mobo..

I was going from cpu and gpu cooled to cpu, gpu, nb, sb, ram and mosfets

I have to say I've never felt a mobo anywhere near as heavy as this one when i was done, furthermore the whole heatpipe arrangement came off with a massive CRACK and I was fully expecting my P5K to be totally fubared...

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and then the pretty rare MIPS ram block, £65 worth of germanies finest pointless cooling :) basically its the only thing I could find that offered G1/4 barbs on an expandable solution. Looking at the reviews the performance is actually pretty good often halfing the temperature on passive sticks

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and then all in situ :)

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First time I've used masterkleer... hasn't reckoned on just how much that 1/16 difference made.. wound up grabbing the boiling water to get it over the barbs.. then came to the conclusion I didn't need cable ties/jubilee clips! (for now)

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THEN...

I started filling it, filled the non cpu loop first and wound up with acid green feser all over the place and a dead pump.. figured my pump had given in and went for the 2nd loop which filled just fine.. so I went and bought another pump... got round to filling it again tonight and it disgorged its feser again THEN i realised I hadn't replaced the O ring when I fitted the alphacool top... (what a knob) so I refitted that and everything worked fine :)

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and another

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maybe one more?

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and now gratuitous "finished" shots...

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so...

things that need sorting?

get rid of that seasonic label

maybe get smoked perspex?

new psu altogether??

lighting? no cathodes in there, fuly intend to get 2 full size UV cathodes, need somewhere to hide them first.

not much else... any suggestions? oh yeah, I need to stop the upright rad exit tubing fouling the window, thats easy done..

otherwise very happy.. very very quiet, idling at about 28, yet to try load temps.
 
Stars a plenty :D

That's pretty damn pretty impressive, no expense spared! Are you overclocking, or just noise reducing?

What you doing for a DVD drive?
 
randal24 said:
Stars a plenty :D

That's pretty damn pretty impressive, no expense spared! Are you overclocking, or just noise reducing?

What you doing for a DVD drive?
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actually not as expensive as you might think :) I had noise under control anyway as I used to have twin 120.1 loops, also not sure my Q6600 can go much further than 3.5ghz so not sure what I'm looking to achieve although the fan controller does has the option for "off" so it'll be fun seeing if it can run passive.

Otherwise I'll see about upping the vcore and maybe reaching for something like 3.8ghz.
 
Awsome project there Matt, I dont think I've seen such a complete water cooled board before!

Whats the full system spec you have and what are planning in terms of overclocking?
 
That's awesome Matt100 nice work from you and WTom! Agree on the label....that's gotta be first job on your list buddy.

Also, that Feser looks very transparant...is that normal? usually it seems more 'solid green' or is that when it is under UV only?

Nice work mate, can't wait to see you finish it.
 
sepulchre said:
Awsome project there Matt, I dont think I've seen such a complete water cooled board before!

Whats the full system spec you have and what are planning in terms of overclocking?
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full specs at the top..

planning as much as poss with the clocking, looks like I have a fairly poor 8800GTX and Q6600.. I got a G0 about a fortnight before they hit the UK so its very early, had it to 3.6ghz on a 1201 before though so I might be able to ramp it up a bit now.

Blackout said:
That's awesome Matt100 nice work from you and WTom! Agree on the label....that's gotta be first job on your list buddy.

Also, that Feser looks very transparant...is that normal? usually it seems more 'solid green' or is that when it is under UV only?

Nice work mate, can't wait to see you finish it.
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its watered down a little because I lost so much with the leaking! mind you UV should sort that, It was probably a res full that I lost, I'll be able to beef the colour up a bit, I have some dyes here too :)
 
Reality|Bites said:
Why do you have fillports + resevoirs?
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He doesn't, those are bulgin switches for power and reset on the top (I presume that is what they are atleast!)

I'm planning on having fillports and reservoirs in my new case when I get it, means I get the convenience of a reservoirs, plus the looks of a fillport, if you can afford it, why not get it :p
 
Very nice. Looks like you planned it well :) I particularly like the mosfet cooling! that thing should clock like a beast.

Only thing that sticks out like a sore-thumb for me is the PSU: that nasty big white sticker and the black-electrical tape job on the wires going in/out..

akakjs
 
looks ace, have a specific question of filling up the loop with liquid, how did you go about doing it exactly, and also you tried load temps and OC etc?
 
Very nice water cooling. Not sure about the green case though. I moved into a house that had every downstairs room painted that colour. Needless to say it was'nt like that for long.

One question though. Where is your DVD drive?
 
I love the front panel. I would have liked to see the fan grills in green too though. That would finish it off nicely.
 
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