Watercooled Haswell build in a 650D

looking very exciting, the black plates on the gpu's look great! that top picture is perfect :p I would love to see someone build a 'stealth' build, with the new asus black mobo, with black coolant etc. THe green is really going to spice things up :D
 
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I thought the green would make it look a different! I'm not into the complete stealth look. I like the black, black chrome and green look! Gives it that biohazard/ army look to the system.

Cant wait to have it finished now though! Got loads of work backdated now!
 
I need to wash out the rads and wait for the remains few fittings. I have a total of 3 45 degree angle fittings and two stop fittings. I have been putting it together and measuring out the tubing!

Here are some images of it together!


Here is the CPU block tubed up.


Partially together! by Mat Teague, on Flickr

Here is the full computer! Still a lot more to be done!


Partially together! by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 
Yeh! The green coolant will really make it stand out! there is still too much black at the moment. The green will split the black up nicely.

Once the reservoir is in, it will make it much cooler!
 
Well the loop is together and is currently just doing its leak test/ bleeding out the air bubbles from the system. Super stoked now that it is all together. Was less stoked that a few of the fittings were faulty and when I added the coolant into the loop it started to leak. I had to empty the loop three times to get it to stop leaking.

Everything is all good now though, I have been leak testing for about 8 hours now. I am going to leave it running until tomorrow just to make sure that there are no leaks before booting the system. Also, I need some fan extensions because ones I had seam to be broken in some way (these were from old rigs).

So I will need to braid these up and then the build will be pretty much complete. The only thing left afterwards is to set up some lighting inside the case to give it a better look.

Here are some images whilst it is leak testing.


Filling and bleeding the loop by Mat Teague, on Flickr


Filling and bleeding the loop by Mat Teague, on Flickr


Filling and bleeding the loop by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 
Covered where it was leaking with tissue paper. Had to drain the loop as quick as possible. once it was done, took what was leaking apart and fixed it.

I thought one of my GPU blocks were leaking last night, checked it and it was very slightly. It was then I realized that the block wasnt tightened right up from the factory. Tightened it up and went to bed. Got up throughout the night to check and it seams fine now...

Just need to get those fan extensions and then it can be booted for the first time!!!
 
The system is now running! and running very cool I might add!

I have just done a benchmark of Heaven. This was mainly to see what the load temps would be and I am astonished!

The GPU's running on air were capping out at 88 degrees. They are now capping at 34 degrees!!!!!!

That is insane!

Going to be overclocking the system shortly. Might upgrade to windows 8 before I do this however...
 
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The system is now running! and running very cool I might add!

I have just done a benchmark of Heaven. This was mainly to see what the load temps would be and I am astonished!

The GPU's running on air were capping out at 88 degrees. They are now capping at 34 degrees!!!!!!

That is insane!

Going to be overclocking the system shortly. Might upgrade to windows 8 before I do this however...
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34 degrees on your CPU is absolutely mental! Fantastic build
 
Okay, here we are again! After a long period of doing nothing, I have finally decided to empty the loop and add some LED's to the res! I have also added LED's all over my build to make it look awesome! The build is not finished... but it is very close now. Just a sticker and a cover for the SLI bridge.

But here are some images of the build so far! So close to be done and then on to the next project...











 
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