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When you set up your cards in water cooling builds shawy what do you prefer serial or parallel?
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Parallel.
In my own systems, I even put the CPU in parallel with 2 GPUs - that's just for aesthetics though.
On to today's update - been a while since the last one as I was away on holiday, but it's a good one!
And it starts with this rather blurry picture:
As this case came pre-assembled, some disassembly was required.
Midplate marked out
and cut
close up of the holes, cut with a stepper drill bit
and the best hole I have ever cut
couldn't have been any more accurate.
also mounted the Aquareo to the back of the motherboard tray
Now on to my favourite part.. The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed 8 circular markings on the mid plate arranged in 2 squares.. but how many of you realised those were mounting holes for the pumps?!
TADA!
This originally started out as a joke, but the more I saw it, the more it made sense.
They fill up some empty space, as well as cleaning up the tubing runs
And they used the pre-existing cable management holes to make things easier.
Testing to make sure they're level
The bench was not.
But the pumps were
That's it for this update - though I would like to plug my own personal build log that I have just completed. Click the sig to take a look.
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Yeah, 8pack is in constant contact with the customer to let them know what's goin on and to keep them updated. All part of the 5atar service.
That looks amazing, had no idea those pumps worked when sideways?? May have to alter my build now...
Yup, as long as they're not starved of water, then can be used in any orientation. Some bay reservoirs even mount them upside down, though that's not recommended outside of those reses.
Any more updates? Pretty please?
Yeah, sorry. Didn't realise it had been so long since an update.
On to the tubing
As always, I get myself into very tight spaces.
It was hard enough to cut the tubing down there
And it turned out impossible to fit it, so I had to remove the fittings from the rad to fit the tubing on
And then refit the fitting - one of the many benefits of rotaries!
And here you can see the nice short, hidden run
The disadvantage of hiding the tubing from the front of the case, was the tubing needed to be routed from the other side of the rad. Multi port rads would have been great (if they'd fit), but rotaries and extensions are the next best thing.
This run went across the radiator
to the GPUs
Back to the other side
The HDD caddy had to be modified to fit the tubing through
No kinking
and the first loop is finished.
For the second loop, I had to remove some fittings to fit the tubing on once again
for another piece of hidden tubing
Perfect.
and from the other side
I originally wanted all vertical lines here. But the blocks just don't line up. So I thought I'd keep things parallel at least
and at the other end of that tubing is another tight squeeze
I'm not sure which was harder: trying to fit the tubing onto the fitting, or trying to take a picture through the case
Again, I had to remove the rad from the system to fit the tubing
Worth it though.
Some more tight spots linking the rads together
And some more rotary fittings
And there's loop 2 done!
As you can see, or rather can't see, everything is nice and clean with most of the tubing hidden from view.
Just got to fill her up next!
Did you plan it beforehand or just play it by ear?
Most of the first day of this build was spent measuring, test fitting, and just sitting on a stool staring at the case. I do put a lot of time and effort into these big builds, and I'm glad you guys can tell.
I knew from the start I wanted the rads facing the wrong way to hide the tubing, and then the rest sorta fell into place. When I said earlier about mounting the rads on their sides being a joke - it was more of a "I need to mount the reservoirs like this to make everything come together, but that's not the normal way to mount a res". It cleaned up the tubing massively and filled a huge empty space inside the case, and just happened to be an unconventional way to mount the reservoirs.
Sometimes you've just gotta think outside the box - but keep the watercooling inside the box. External set ups are just yuk.
As 8pack said, the system has shipped and I didn't record any videos. There really wouldn't be that much to see, most of the tubing is hidden in the back section. It wouldn't be very exciting.
They can be, but there's no real need for it. All of the holes were filed down nice and smooth and touched up with some black paint (not that you can see it).