800d Watercooling advice

jinxpad · 18 Jul 2012 at 00:59

gorrrrgeous

I like the implementation of the thin 120mm Rad too.. very good, might have to nab that idea from you when I rebuild my loop

Pgreenwo · 18 Jul 2012 at 01:04

jinxpad said:
gorrrrgeous

I like the implementation of the thin 120mm Rad too.. very good, might have to nab that idea from you when I rebuild my loop

Thanks
I cut a hole in the plastic guard and mounted a 120mm fan in the other side pulling in. didn't do much for temps but dropped a stack off my gpu's when they were on stock cooling.

Pgreenwo · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:15

Emjay86 said:
Once you have finished could you add a picture with the side panel on?

That would be great, thanks!

Keep up the good work!

P.S. are those corsair fans any good? Im thinking of getting one to go under the grill where the 2 WC tubing grommits are (by the PSU).

Here are a few more for you

Pgreenwo · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:17

Temps are 63c max load on cpu (5ghz 1.38v) and 49/48 max on gpus no oc

qbazdz · 19 Jul 2012 at 15:32

Dude, what have you used for the drain port on the bottom by the front rad?

Have you tried different routing - GPU>CPU>RAD>RAD>RES>RAD>GPU?

Pgreenwo · 19 Jul 2012 at 15:35

It's a bits power T with a 45 off it.

Do you think different routing would be better

qbazdz · 19 Jul 2012 at 15:38

Thanks!
No idea, wondered if you did it and this had better temp results

Pgreenwo · 19 Jul 2012 at 15:41

On the drain I also needed a male to 1/4male adaptor and obviously a plug. Tried a few loop configs but this seemed to work best

qbazdz · 19 Jul 2012 at 15:44

Pgreenwo said:
On the drain I also needed a male to 1/4male adaptor

would the fitting not go in into the T? or would it affect the flow?

Pgreenwo · 19 Jul 2012 at 16:29

The T is all female so needed the male to male to plug in to rad. You can get male T pieces but it made no odds. As for flow if you lessen the cap a touch you can bleed it up

pastymuncher · 19 Jul 2012 at 18:49

Pgreenwo said:
It's a bits power T with a 45 off it.

Now that's something i wished i had thought of doing.

Surely that side fan on the hdd cage is just about right up against the side panel? If so i would remove that as it's not likely to be doing much.

fantasticCG · 19 Jul 2012 at 19:12

Looks amazing m8, lovely first WC build. I have pretty much the same setup but a 2700k and only 1 680. Going to try the WC soon.
I went for a red and black theme but used bitfenix cables. How many fans did you use? 6? and are they just attached to the mobo?
Are they the 1650rpm ones?

Pgreenwo · 19 Jul 2012 at 19:43

The side fan actually has about 30 mm clear from the panel and helps the little wind tunnel behind it. I stripped out the hdd bay behind it and the 120mm rad in the middle sucks air straight through onto the gpus as there is a 120 fan in the plastic shroud.

All the fans are on controllers they are in the hot swap bay it's just a 3 channel sliverstone (2 fans per channel). The 120 fans are all the high performance sp120s and the 140's are af140s

fantasticCG · 20 Jul 2012 at 10:50

Did you have any length issue's with the corsair custom cables reaching?

qbazdz · 20 Jul 2012 at 11:08

Pgreenwo said:
The T is all female so needed the male to male to plug in to rad. You can get male T pieces but it made no odds. As for flow if you lessen the cap a touch you can bleed it up

I still don't quite get that.
You have a 3-way T - all females.
You screw in a 45deg fitting male-female into it (like this one)

and then put a plug on it...

Why would you need a gender changer?

Pgreenwo · 20 Jul 2012 at 11:40

gender changer was to connect the bitspower cube T (all female connection) to the 120mm rad.

you don't need a gender changer if you are doing it mid line

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1 x BitsPower Y-Block G1/4" Connector - Black Sparkle (BP-BSTMB) £5.99
1 x EK-PSC Adapter Rotary 45° G1/4 Black Nickel £3.59
1 x XSPC G1/4" 5mm Male to Male Fitting (Black Chrome) £1.79
1 x XSPC G1/4" Plug (Black Chrome) £1.55
Total : £18.89 (includes shipping : £4.98).

qbazdz · 20 Jul 2012 at 11:46

Aaaaaah! I have noticed the connection now

Having some blond moments... guess it's the weekend coming causing all this

Pgreenwo · 20 Jul 2012 at 11:50

qbazdz said:
Aaaaaah! I have noticed the connection now Having some blond moments... guess it's the weekend coming causing all this

Lol - I could have explained better it's not so clear on the pics.

fantasticCG · 20 Jul 2012 at 13:18

is that a 240 rad on the left side of the case?

Pgreenwo · 20 Jul 2012 at 14:04

RX360 roof
Rx120 rear
Ex120 slimline at the front