Jiggy's WC long log (TJ07)

[domthecondom]

looking nice man

 

[Bradley8988]

Are you not planning on inverting the mobo?

 

[jiggyghallam]

That is a frightening amount of work you've done on your pc there. I'm stunned for words.

Wow thank you Its surprising how long little things take like sleeving a fan or routing tubing just right

Well for a cheap family cam it gets some good photos!!

What are you doing cooling wise? 2 separate loops or just the one? Just asking as it looks like the tubing you have is different sizes?

I know, but you have to hold it perfectly still and change all the settings and have a lot of light
Will be doing two loops, One with a 240 + 360 rad with the GPU and CPU and on the other a zalaman resorator for NB and mofset

Whoa, that's more soft focus than a star trek love scene!

I know, soz . i dont have any software only Piccasa from google so the best i could do

quality work there and i praise your enthusiasm for trying something new.

p.s. weather looks ace. shame we just have rain at the moment

Cheers, kind words

i know, honestly its to hot, it gets to about 40c in the shade in the day and if u leave anything black out in the sun you cannot touch it without getting burnt lol

looking nice man

Cheer

Are you not planning on inverting the mobo?

Not now its all done, might think about it when i put my new hardware in a few months down the line



Ok the build is done, tested the wiring. lighting and fans, just need to fill it up in the morning and leak test then i should be ready to go

I have taken lots of pics so i will post the full work log from start to finish in one go, along with the nice finished pics in the end

see you all tomorrow

~Jiggy

 

[jellybeard999]

This is what i did but you dont need to remove the facia. Just stick the double sided tape onto the cd drawer and the bottom corner of the bezel will rest against the button. Well thats how it worked out on my NEC drive.

Yes sorry, just double sided tape it to the fasica and set it back a screwhole. Was referred to as "stealthing" way back when, like this - he used lego lol - http://www.rabidhardware.net/?id=2

 

[jiggyghallam]

Ok, here is the work log from the past 3 days, i know i should have done it day by day.. but ever tried to surf through hundreds of pics, crops, edit, re size and organize all from a net book and little touch pad :down:

So i got up bright and early Tuesday, and got straight to work with drain most of the water out in my room into some jugs, then took the case down to the kitchen where i took the tubing out

washed the Pump top, and cleaned all the gunk off the blocks,

all the dust has built up just over 4 months , so got the hoover on it

Cleaned the thermal paste off the CPU, and realized that silver cleaner really makes copper shine =]

At this point the kitchen and dinning room was just full of PC parts, looks like a bomb had hit it

Once i had cleaned the MOBO with canned air and cleaned the blocks, i put it back together and took some photos outside

Cleaned the thermal paste off the GPU and put it back together again

I use OCZ freeze for the CPU and GPU and them Artic silver 5 on the RAM chips and parts on the MOBO

Cleaned the GPU up and put the block back on, i changed the oriantaion of the barbs 4 - 5 times after this as things didnt fit and tubing wouldn't bend etc, when i get the new hardware in a month or so i will get some 45c fitting

 

[jiggyghallam]

Cleaned the CPU block and put that back together with the new compression fittings, was worried at first that they weren't going to fit

Once all that was done i put everything on the MOBO tray, and routed some tubing from the CPU to the GPU, also ran my 24pin ATX extension cable under the MOBO as there was no way in hell that would have worked once everything was fitted (there is there pic from the other day with no blur this time )

Now it was time for the sleeving of the 8pin CPU and the 6 + 8pin PCI-e cables, my original plan was to sleeve each wire but.. i didnt have enough 4mm sleeving so i just did them in one go

I checked to make sure the 240 rad and PSU wud fit, they did which was good, but it ment the 2nd mid plate holes wouldn't line up *fail* so i had another idea to use blue acrylic to make the midplate

Put the pump back together and put barbs on the 360 rad with lots of PTFE tape as last time i did it it leaked then connected them together and put them into the case, was a close fit

This is the pic at the end of day one (well at 12.30 at night )

Do to the direction of the top SATA power connector needed to changed the direction of the others that were at 90c, was more difficult than a thought it would be

i tried to sort cable managment but with 4 x HDD, 1 x SSD and 1 x DVD drive all with cables its a bit difficult.. but o well out of site out of mind

Once i did all the cabling i found the wire wasn't long enough so i had to join it, used juction boxes and it fitted all neatly back in place

Ironically fans didnt fit in my fan grill due to depth so i used acrylic and some spare blue LED's

 

[jiggyghallam]

I had chopped all molex's off the ends of my wires to save on space, so i made this, just one molex with a female connector on one end then all the cables in the case go to a male connector and simply pushes in, and they had yellow black and red

Here a pic of the HDD, the SSD is ontop of the DVD drive (blury pic soz)

A late night snap shot of cable management

Heres the a Pic of the PC at the end of day two, testing out the lighting

Got up at 7 this morning and got straight to work with filling the loop up with Pink dye and Ultra pure water

I had jsut enough space the squeeze tubing in the top to fill it

And here are the working results

I have lots more to say but in a rush at the moment so will post thoughts and stuff later

hope you have enjoyed this installment

~Jiggy


(3 posts due to 25 pic per post limit )

 

[mjones1]

That is one great build!
I take my hat off to you.

 

[RJC]

Excellent build

 

[jiggyghallam]

That is one great build!
I take my hat off to you.

Thank you for your kind words

Excellent build

Cheers


Now on to what i have learned from my build...
-That cheap 90c barbs are very very very restrictive to flow
-Pink looks nice in the day.. but not so nice under UV
-Dont put fingers into fan blade to see how fast its going, it cuts fingers and breaks fan blades
-Always think of everything ahead don't think "it will be fine if i leave it"
-Make sure tight bends are secure to the barbs, and if out of site use jubilee clips
-Fan controllers are awesome
-HDD's get very hot in a small place
-Making PC makes a lot of mess

Things i am, going to do now
-Replace pink tubing with orange (so blue and orange loops)
-Change 90c fittings to bitspower fittings and put a 45c fitting on the top of the graphics card so it can go from the top of the GPU to the CPU instead of looping
-Maybe get a new pump because my current one is making weird noises
-Find a way to cool hard drives better

1 -2 months down the line
-Get i7, X58 MOBO (watercool it), 6Gb DD3 RAM, and a RAM cooler
-Maybe SLI

 

[Ducky Spud]

lookin great man!! One thing... wheres the res for the blue loop? You not got one in there?

 

[jiggyghallam]

lookin great man!! One thing... wheres the res for the blue loop? You not got one in there?

The res with the pink is for the blue loop i did it like that for effect the pink tube res is the Zalaman resorator

 

[EdGey]

looks superb

 

[Ducky Spud]

The res with the pink is for the blue loop i did it like that for effect the pink tube res is the Zalaman resorator

Haha, nice! Looked back at the photos, can only see it on one of them though. Good idea, looks good

 

[Sayso]

great build....looks like im going back to the drawing board for stage 2 of my build

 

[LukeTW]

Wow that is one great build

Good job man

 

[RIZZEE]

wow that looks awesome!

nice work

 

[CK61938]

may I just say mate, that is one serious achievement you have done there. I am speechless. well done my friend. keep going. this should be an entry for MDPC

 

[jiggyghallam]

looks superb

Thank you, i tried my best

great build....looks like im going back to the drawing board for stage 2 of my build

Cheers, make sure u do a worklog

Wow that is one great build

Good job man

Thanks

wow that looks awesome!

nice work

very nice of you

may I just say mate, that is one serious achievement you have done there. I am speechless. well done my friend. keep going. this should be an entry for MDPC

thank you man, very nice comment well you know what to do to enter me


Here is 3 new pics of the PC in my room in the dark and light enjoy

I know the tubing is a small amount kinked in that picture above, its sorted now

 

[Raikiri]

Excellent build, nicely done

Your camera takes some nice photo's.

He takes some nice photos, not the camera. Sorry but people saying that really bugs me.