Lian Li V1010 Watercool - Help!

orange_smurf · 5 May 2014 at 16:25

tubing installed - much tighted fit than ive seen on tutorials!

leak test complete. thankfully, no issues.

orange_smurf · 5 May 2014 at 16:30

oh, i had to do away with BitFenix Alchemy cables as they were poor quality and failed to mount.

one question, i've closed the fill port now as i think ive got all the air out of the system. however on occassion i can hear a trickle of water. is than normal or does than mean that there is still air trapped inside?

thanks.

deFiniLoGy · 5 May 2014 at 16:33

orange_smurf said:
oh, i had to do away with BitFenix Alchemy cables as they were poor quality and failed to mount.

one question, i've closed the fill port now as i think ive got all the air out of the system. however on occassion i can hear a trickle of water. is than normal or does than mean that there is still air trapped inside?

thanks.

There can be, you should run the loop and then rock the system side by side to release the air trapped in your blocks.

Also, do you know the life of Aurora is only 6 months?

orange_smurf · 5 May 2014 at 16:55

deFiniLoGy said:
There can be, you should run the loop and then rock the system side by side to release the air trapped in your blocks.

Cheers, ill try that...

deFiniLoGy said:
Also, do you know the life of Aurora is only 6 months?

yep, but it was too tempting to try out. as my first system i want to try draining, cleaning and refill before moving on to a more lavish build so i wont be keeping this fluid in that long

deFiniLoGy · 5 May 2014 at 17:49

orange_smurf said:
Cheers, ill try that...

yep, but it was too tempting to try out. as my first system i want to try draining, cleaning and refill before moving on to a more lavish build so i wont be keeping this fluid in that long

Ah, then that make sense

orange_smurf · 5 May 2014 at 19:32

deFiniLoGy said:
Ah, then that make sense

When I find a good mid tower case then ill initiate project watercool v2.0.

deFiniLoGy · 5 May 2014 at 20:07

orange_smurf said:
When I find a good mid tower case then ill initiate project watercool v2.0.

Are you going to stick with the premium metal build quality like the Lian-Li's?

If so, maybe look at Corsair Obsidian, they looks pretty nice

Or maybe Factal design and Caselabs if you are looking at market from outside EU

orange_smurf · 5 May 2014 at 21:35

deFiniLoGy said:
Are you going to stick with the premium metal build quality like the Lian-Li's?

If so, maybe look at Corsair Obsidian, they looks pretty nice

Or maybe Factal design and Caselabs if you are looking at market from outside EU

When I first thought about water cooling I looked at all the premium cases with a mindset to only upgrade if i could find a MID TOWER case that could comfortably fit a 360 and 240 rad with room for 3 HDD and an ODD without me having to do any mods.....nothing looked the part.

Saying that, the Corsair Obsidian is good, Factal Arc came close, Caselabs... maybe...

Lian Li so far has not come up with a good solution for water cooling imo. Hopefully that will change come Computex 2014 in June so that I can throw some money at them!!

orange_smurf · 7 May 2014 at 16:19

I'm done.

Cable routing was a pain as there is nowhere to hide cable in this case but i'm happy with my first dip in the pool

orange_smurf · 7 May 2014 at 17:01

gosh, r290 is sitting at 34 idle and doesn't go above 42 degrees under load. i think i can live with that....

many thanks to everyone who chipped in and helped spec this up for me.

cheers.