Time to journey down water cooling...

Pretty good video! I was expecting just a quick shot of the inside but proper talk through it all :)

Along with distractions (FA cup, phone etc :p )

Looks good tho, nice work!
 
Looks like you have air in your CPU block no? Also your tubing could be cut down a lot. Rest looks tidy and full vid is nice and should help newbies looking to set there own up.
 
Ducky Spud said:
Pretty good video! I was expecting just a quick shot of the inside but proper talk through it all :)

Along with distractions (FA cup, phone etc :p )

Looks good tho, nice work!
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lol...yeah the distractions helped I guess haha...thanks tho :D its still running right now and so far still no leaks :D and yeah I wanted to give a full run down cos it is my first attempt and I was so pleased about it :D

.:SAmSuNG:. said:
Looks like you have air in your CPU block no? Also your tubing could be cut down a lot. Rest looks tidy and full vid is nice and should help newbies looking to set there own up.
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When you say air, do you mean the fact you can see the water rustling about?
 
Have you run the case at diff angles? Around 1.30 in the vid to me that looks like alittle trapped air. Maybe a few others can take a look.

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Yes that is definately air trapped in the cpu block, its a sign that you haven't managed to fully bleed the loop. Also, they way you have your rad mounted with the inlet/outlets at the bottom, if you have air trapped in your cpu block then its highly likely you will have some trapped in your rad too, it all depends how violent you were with tipping the case whilst filling. Basically tilit the case any which way, as long as you don't move it into a position where the pump inlet will be exposed to air. Does it have a bleed screw at the top? If you do carfeully uncsrew it whilst the pump is on and see if any air comes out.
 
Yah i would expect a lot in the rad too. Iv never used a bay res but i guess u have to fill it to the brim and plug it so no fluid comes out or air gets in. I would lay the case on its side so your looking down on the mobo and pulse the pump alittle.
 
Nice setup... Ive been thinking about going water too... Im getting my i7 4ghz bundle next week, so will see what air cooling temps are...

Incidently, can you tell us what your temps are like now, compared to what they were like before.. I have no idea what the difference is likely to be, as Ive not seen many before and after measurements...
 
well looks like I need more coolant after all cos the bay is not even full to the brim...I did a lot of tilting and even put the case on its side and allowing the liquid to move around more but it wouldnt have any of it...so I will buy more coolant and go from there...also I do need to cut the tubing to slightly smaller size cos now one of the is touching the GPU and the others will more than likely touch the side panel when I put that back on...so still a long way to go...

As for temps...nothing special to report...I think I may actually have a bad CPU after all cos even on idle the temps are still reading mid 40s and when I run Prime at 4.0GHz not only do the temps hit as high as 80C it then gives me a BSOD...which is always nice I guess...but I will buy more coolant first see how that goes and if I still cannot get lower temps then a new CPU it is...

Thank you for those who have helped me so far and for those who have kept an eye on my progress...now I know what needs to be done and I shall follow through with it...

:D
 
You dont need to fill the res to the very top, just make sure that the barbs are well covered. I have about a cm of air in the top of mine and never had problems just so long as theres constantly coolant going out to the pump your fine (hence why the barbs need to be well covered :p )
 
Ducky Spud said:
You dont need to fill the res to the very top, just make sure that the barbs are well covered. I have about a cm of air in the top of mine and never had problems just so long as theres constantly coolant going out to the pump your fine (hence why the barbs need to be well covered :p )
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I am using compression fittings and I have made sure they have been screwed on very tightly and making sure no leaks are being made but I still think more coolant is needed.

.:SAmSuNG:. said:
Hows that work with the case on its side when trying to get rid of air in loop?
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didnt do much good at all cos the amount of coolant I had in there wouldnt shift around the loop...
 
CK61938 said:
didnt do much good at all cos the amount of coolant I had in there wouldnt shift around the loop...
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Looking at the amount of coolant in the res in the vid, before you had a go at tilting, it seemed pretty full. Now you say you've had a go at tilting and now the level has dropped massively. If I understand you correctly this is direct proof there was virtualy no coolant in the rad the first time. If the level has dropped then you've bled some air out of the rad succcesfully, you just need to continue doing this but with more coolant. It helps when bleeding to imagine where a pocket of air would go if left to its own devices, then plan your tilting accordingly. I'd also think about mounting the rad the other way up if you can, it will make bleeding in your case much easier.
 
As for temps...nothing special to report...I think I may actually have a bad CPU after all cos even on idle the temps are still reading mid 40s and when I run Prime at 4.0GHz not only do the temps hit as high as 80C it then gives me a BSOD...which is always nice I guess...but I will buy more coolant first see how that goes and if I still cannot get lower temps then a new CPU it is...
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Good luck.. Ill keep on eye on this thread see how you get on... Before I ordered my 920 D0 4ghz bundle (arriving tomorrow I hope..), I was reading about temps.. and thought they all seemed quite high, but I believe this is quite normal for the i7 - howver, most were achieving mid 70's on air under load. I would have hoped using water would knock a good 10c or more off this, but then I dont really know...

lol.. maybe Ill spend £150 on a portable air con unit in the room to lower the ambient temp which should have a knock on effect on cpu temp...!!
 
Well I managed to do some more changes...this time I reduced the amount of tubing being used as it was slightly overkill and one of them seem to be touching the GPU which I didnt like...and I then reapplied more paste and I started seeing temps of 70C max when running Prime which I thought was damn good this time round...but after about 5min of Prime it BSOD again...so maybe the CPU isnt bad after all and I guess I just needed to sort out the pasting lol...now I just need to get more coolant to allow the liquid to bleed out the air cos ever after so much tilting and wanting to drop it from 10ft there is still air being moved about.

Bubo said:
Looking at the amount of coolant in the res in the vid, before you had a go at tilting, it seemed pretty full. Now you say you've had a go at tilting and now the level has dropped massively. If I understand you correctly this is direct proof there was virtualy no coolant in the rad the first time. If the level has dropped then you've bled some air out of the rad succcesfully, you just need to continue doing this but with more coolant. It helps when bleeding to imagine where a pocket of air would go if left to its own devices, then plan your tilting accordingly. I'd also think about mounting the rad the other way up if you can, it will make bleeding in your case much easier.
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You have a point there. I did notice the liquid was going down in the res so yeah definitely more coolant is needed. As for the rad the only way to get it working the other way round is if I move it outside of the case cos it wont fit inside that way round. the way that it is now works better for me as I dont want to do too much with it. Maybe when I decide to cool my GPU I will think about putting another rad on the outside but so far so good.
 
DrMekon said:
lol.. maybe Ill spend £150 on a portable air con unit in the room to lower the ambient temp which should have a knock on effect on cpu temp...!!
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TBH my room is the warmest room in the entire house a) cos the sun hits directly into my room in the morning and during most of the day and b) cos of the number of machines I have it can get quite warm in here (which is only good come winter time lol) but even now as I am typing this idle temps in my gaming PC are under 40C but I bet come winter they will get considerably lower...saying that my other machine which has a Q6600 using an Arctic Cooler Extreme CPU cooler is also idling at under 40C, but I have noticed that on some days even when I am not doing anything on that machine the temps have risen to almost 50C and that leads me to believe that my room is damn hot lol. But I have the window open right now and my door and cool air is circulating which is nice :D
 
Your rad is ok as it is you just need to lay the case on its side and then stand over it with the pump running. Lift the case off the floor so your looking directly down on the mobo and tip it all diff ways.
 
.:SAmSuNG:. said:
Your rad is ok as it is you just need to lay the case on its side and then stand over it with the pump running. Lift the case off the floor so your looking directly down on the mobo and tip it all diff ways.
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I tried that too...but I noticed when I did that, the pump stops and that is down to the fact that there is not enough coolant. No matter how much and how hard I tilt it in different positions cos there is no liquid in the pump to circulate it, it stops pumping. I have bought more coolant and when that arrives I will carry on where I left off.

But blimey this has been one big learning curve for me thats for sure. :D
 
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