First Watercooling Attempt (PICS AT LAST!)

gr1mey

gr1mey

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Well, Ive got my hands on a Digital Camera, so I thought I'd post some pics of my first watercooling setup I installed a few weeks back:

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You have to excuse some of the tubing, as when I first installed this it was a different motherboard, and te DFI board as you all know have a different layout to most, the CPU mounting is turned through 90' compared to my old board, and the CPU/PCI slots are close - hence use of cable ties and 1 nylon clip to prevent kinks and enable me to get the side panel on :) I will drain and re-cut those tubes at some point, just not now, lol!

edit: my camera skills are poor too :o
 
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Looks very nice, would be better I think if you put the 24pin mobo power connector round the back of the mobo tray like the other cables and then had it coming in at 90 degrees from the right under that silentmaxx thingy
 
yeah I wasnt sure about the chrome at first, was a toss-up between that and a black aquacomputer one, but the buttons on my case have the chromed bevelled edge to them so i thought I'd pick up on that...

only thing I found with that grill is where its been laser cut, they hadnt filed off some of the burrs fully before plating, and the back side of the grill in particular was pretty rough, so I had to do a bit of clean-up on it.
 
thanks for the nice comments.

I think now Im a bit more confident with the way its all set up, when I do get around to altering the tubing (I might even wait for when I upgrade to conroe etc) I think I may do away with a bay res and just put a T-Line for filling and top-up in there, as I'd like the 5.25 bay for another silentmaxx to accomodate a big storage drive (dont wanna use the 3.25 for HDD's as it contains pump and wiring bits). Although I spose I could get a double 3.25 res...

Maybe its just me, or is there always something you wanna change, it always seems to be "just about right" :p
 
I could always do with this or that, even though its not really necessary :p

EDIT: Are you gonna put any fans in the back? What about a zalman passive NB?
 
dont think a NB HS will fit in there, maybe if I moved GFX to the second PCIx slot, tbh the fan isnt that noisy anyway. its the Raptor that makes the most noise and thats in the silenmaxx anyway :eek:

might add 2 silent 80mm in the back, not much need for it atm, temps are fine.

I have the two fans on the rad blowing straight down into the heart of the case, and a 120mm fan in the front exhausting - in addition the 120mm fan from the PSU extracts any stagnant air from that side of the case.
 
gr1mey nice lookin setup, have you removed the ihs from the cpu?
I was told the Alphacool NexXxoS XP block worked with ihs'less cpu's.

cheers
 
well I'll think about the NB but its not really needed atm :)

no the IHS is left on, Ive reached the limit of my CPU/Mobo/RAM with decent temps with it ON, so dont see any point in takin it off tbh :)

Im sure the Nexxxos would work very well as the way its retained with the screw applying direct pressure to the middle of the block would ensure a nice contact on the core of the CPU - you'd have to be very careful not to put too much and crush it though :)
 
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