Watercooled Fortress

[Sir Hiss]

I recently overhauled my rig and gave it a splash of water! Here are the results...

Spec:

Intel Core I7 920 @ 4ghz
Corsair 6GB Dominator
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 285
Creative X-Fi Titanium
Edimax Wifi Card
Corsair P128 128GB Solid State HDD
2x Samsung 2TB Spinpoint F3 HDD
2x Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F1 HDD
Corsair HX850
Silverstone Fortress FT01

Watercooling Spec:

EK-Supreme HF - Nickel Plexi
EK-FC285 - Copper Plexi
EK CoolStream 360mm Radiator : XT360
EK 5.25" Dual Drive Bay Spin Reservoir - Acetal
Laing DDC-1T Pro with EK V2 X-Top in Plexi
XSPC 5/8" White Tubing

 

[Serpantine]

Not a fan of external rads personally but it looks good man.

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

Not a fan of external rads personally but it looks good man.

I have the same opinion on that topic after i went with an external rad, after awhile i just got sick off it blocking some parts off the mobo ports on the back, so went back to air and not looked back since.

Been 2 months since i converted over and with the watercooling kit doing nothing i am thinking of selling it for a H50 when i get a new cpu.

Back on topic, how is the loop for air bubbles? i always had problems with drive bay res so i switched to pump/res combo which solved my problems with air bubbles straight away.

 

[Gary*]

Im really liking that external rad, looks very tidy indeed!

I like your loop

I don't think some braided cable or extensions would go a miss, I think it'd polish it off nicely

 

[Sir Hiss]

Thanks guys.

It took only a few days for it to burp out all the air bubbles. I have none at all now and it's all quiet as a mouse!

The rad doesn't block anything off at the back, although the soundcard headphone socket is a little hard to get to. :/ Maybe the case you used had a different layout but the FT01 seems brilliant to me and it's exactly how i wanted it!

 

[ricky]

Your build looks really nice,well done dude,you must be well pleased with it.
Have you got a pic of the back,would really like to see how the rad sits?

 

[OLDPHART]

Cracking m8, l was thinking of going custom water my self today FTO1(black) owner myself, love the white tubing against the black

How about some temp's, the 180mm fan's are great at keeping the temps down in side the case.

Great Photo's as well, again nice job, enjoy the silence.

 

[Sir Hiss]

Cracking m8, l was thinking of going custom water my self today FTO1(black) owner myself, love the white tubing against the black

How about some temp's, the 180mm fan's are great at keeping the temps down in side the case.

Great Photo's as well, again nice job, enjoy the silence.

Do it if not for the cooling, do it for the silence! No more graphics card fan ramping up and down when gaming is utter bliss! lol

Temps are 45c idle and 80c prime. Bare in mind that i'm running the radiator almost passive with no fans on it at the moment because i'm enjoying the silcene. While playing BF:BC2, the cpu is around 70c and the gpu 60c.