Hmm, that sleeve color
Does it mean that you will go for uv pink liquid?
It looks great
Pastel pink. With extra pink dye to make it pop.
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Pastel pink. With extra pink dye to make it pop.
And me lol.
I've made some minor progress on this build and I am getting to the point of final assembly. All case mods are now complete and the cut edges have been painted. All of my tubing is cut, I just need to bend 4 pieces and fit it all together.
Super busy atm and struggling to find time to work on this unfortunately.
Stop wasting your time with a Smart CarAnd finish the damn thing.
But I need to finish my car!
So sorry guys!! It's been a while since the last update.. Way too long to be honest, but one thing after another kept coming up preventing me from finishing this build..
I know a lot of you, myself included, really wanted to know how the stacked rads performed. And I now have the answer!
.... but you'll have to wait a little longer...
I'm still getting a few test results before posting anything, and I will be creating a discussion topic over in the watercooling forum.
Since the last update, I've just had to finish cutting the acrylic and didn't take any photos of the assembly. It was awkward enough as it was without having to stop and take photos every 2 minutes. I will be posting finished shots and giving more details on the build, including test results very soon.
For now though, here's a teaser of the finished build:
(as for the car, I was fitting a new double-din heat unit, active subwoofer, new speakers etc. - had to hide all the cables under the carpet)
I know a lot of you, myself included, really wanted to know how the stacked rads performed. And I now have the answer!
.... but you'll have to wait a little longer...
I'm still getting a few test results before posting anything, and I will be creating a discussion topic over in the watercooling forum.
Since the last update, I've just had to finish cutting the acrylic and didn't take any photos of the assembly. It was awkward enough as it was without having to stop and take photos every 2 minutes. I will be posting finished shots and giving more details on the build, including test results very soon.
For now though, here's a teaser of the finished build:
(as for the car, I was fitting a new double-din heat unit, active subwoofer, new speakers etc. - had to hide all the cables under the carpet)
Jawdropping, truly jawdropping. I am going to make a criticism though, which to my mind is a big one given the meticulous attention to detail.
The coolant and the paracord don't match
The coolant edges towards a more violet side of pink whereas the paracord edges to a more magenta side. In a perfect world the coolant needs to shift towards more red to even the colour up.
It may be nothing, but to me with the pink being the highlight colour it disappoints slightly that the colours don't match.
Yeah, I know what you mean. The lights on my Ducky Shine III are completely different too. I also kinda wish I had used black parachord for the cables too so to just highlight the tubing and nothing else. Not gonna change it any time soon though lol.
Slight hiccough with the testing. But here's some temp results gathered so far for an i7 3930k (6cores/12threads) and 2 GTX 770s SLi:
Stock settings under Prime 95 for 30 minutes:
- idle 38-42°
- load 68-81°C
- idle 49-52°
- load 78-91°
- CPU 68-72°
- GPUs 51-52°
Overclocked, the CPU get's quite toasty. But stays under the throttling temperature (95°C), albeit by a couple degrees. Running at stock speeds (3.4 turbo) only saves 10°C at both idle and load.
Now onto the problem: the fans.
I chose 800rpm eLoops because they are as close to silent as you can get from a fan. They are silent because they barely spin. Because they barely spin, they hardly move any air.
Normally, when you finish a bench mark/stress test, the temps rapidly drop down 20-30° then then slowly level out. With the eLoops, the temps stayed stupidly high and only dropped very slowly. And when I tried to run a couple of graphics tests, things got warm. A little too warm. So warm, in fact, the fluid reached over 60°C. Now, I don't have any temp sensors in my fluid, so how could I possibly know that? Well, DDC pumps have an operating temperature of <60°C.
Yup. I fried my pump.
So this weekend, instead of getting some pictures of my finished build, I will be stripping down my whole system - partly because the pump is completely hidden underneath the inner part of the case - partly to swap out the eLoops for some Silverstone FQ121s, which look an awful lot like gentle typhoons…
Yeah. I'm still sure it'll work. After all, the components were kept cool (minus the pump) on a practically passive set up. Once the hot air is removed, things should be a lot cooler.
Right guys! I know I've said this before, and it's been a few months since I've last posted.. BUT... The final images are being uploaded right now and I will be finishing this build log later today!
Stay tuned.
Stay tuned.
Final update time!!
It's been quite some time since the teaser images and the failing of my fans & pump. Truth be told, I repaired the PC months ago and it's been
working just fine ever since - I've just been too busy/lazy to update this build log. But better late than never eh?
There's a couple things I'm not 100% happy about - the fans mainly. They do the job just fine, I'm just not a fan of the white frames and
should have gone with some higher RPM eLoops, but I'm not gonna strip it all down and spend money again when I don't have to. I might end up
covering up the fan frames eventually with some black vinyl or something, but for now it'll do.
So, anyway, here it is. Enjoy.
There you go. Hope you guys like it.
When I started this log there was a lot of discusion about whether or not the stacked rads would work, especially with the parallel loop, and
it turns out it does work. Admitidly, it didn't work with 800RPM eLoops in there because they just didn't move any air. But with some 1500RPM
'GTish' fans, it's been working flawlessly (other than a slight memory overclocking fault that's now been fixed).
Temps may not appeal to everyone, but they are well within Intel's spec, and the system won't be run anywhere near full load for prolonged
periods of time anyway.
Stock:
Overclocked:
(CPU @ 4.5GHz 1.35V, RAM @ 2000MHz 9-10-10-24 T1 @ 1.7V)
And here's the whole set up for anyone interested:
LG 34" ultrawide
Ducky Shine III - Cherry MX blue
Logitech Performance MX
Corsair SP2500
Generic RGB LED strip
It's been quite some time since the teaser images and the failing of my fans & pump. Truth be told, I repaired the PC months ago and it's been
working just fine ever since - I've just been too busy/lazy to update this build log. But better late than never eh?
There's a couple things I'm not 100% happy about - the fans mainly. They do the job just fine, I'm just not a fan of the white frames and
should have gone with some higher RPM eLoops, but I'm not gonna strip it all down and spend money again when I don't have to. I might end up
covering up the fan frames eventually with some black vinyl or something, but for now it'll do.
So, anyway, here it is. Enjoy.
There you go. Hope you guys like it.
When I started this log there was a lot of discusion about whether or not the stacked rads would work, especially with the parallel loop, and
it turns out it does work. Admitidly, it didn't work with 800RPM eLoops in there because they just didn't move any air. But with some 1500RPM
'GTish' fans, it's been working flawlessly (other than a slight memory overclocking fault that's now been fixed).
Temps may not appeal to everyone, but they are well within Intel's spec, and the system won't be run anywhere near full load for prolonged
periods of time anyway.
Stock:
Overclocked:
(CPU @ 4.5GHz 1.35V, RAM @ 2000MHz 9-10-10-24 T1 @ 1.7V)
And here's the whole set up for anyone interested:
LG 34" ultrawide
Ducky Shine III - Cherry MX blue
Logitech Performance MX
Corsair SP2500
Generic RGB LED strip
Yeah, I'm not a fan of it either. I do have a plain black ribbon SLi bridge somewhere, I need to dig it out and swap it over.
Cheers guys!
It makes such a difference when you make your own cables - standard ones are always either too long or too short.
It makes such a difference when you make your own cables - standard ones are always either too long or too short.
Long overdue update time!
After nearly 4 years of use & neglect, I finally got around to properly finishing this build, the way I should have done those years ago.
As you can see, Mayhems Pastel shouldn’t be used for this length of time. The white particles completely separated from the rest of the liquid, there was a semi-pastel suspended in the middle, and a rather clear pink fluid floating on the top.
Elsewhere in the loop, there was no pastel left, just bubbles and transparent pink fluid.
There was also some discolouration in the tubing, likely from the sun.
Here you can see the discolouration of the tubing more clearly after draining the loop.
As well as the manky fluid, the fans didn’t age well either.
Or the radiators.
Gross.
I was never a fan of the white fans. Some of you may recall I used them after the 800rpm e-loops didn’t move enough air and I ended up frying my pump. They were meant to be a cheap rival to Gentle Typhoons, but they were just cheap. And the white looked awful.
So here they are; actual Gentle Typhoon 1850rpm!
These are much quieter, don’t have an annoying “ticking” like the old fans would occasionally produce, and push a lot more air!
I did, however, have to modify the fans to allow me to attach a radiator to both sides - but these cuts will be hidden from the final build...
As well as changing out the fans and the coolant, I decided on a colour change for the cables. I wanted to hide them a bit, and for a quick fix I decided to dye them black.
This didn’t work. And the only thing that was dyed was the missus’s hand.
Oh well.. New parachord and cable combs it is!
That’s it for this update. I also bought some 1mm aluminium sheet to neaten up the original cut-outs of the case and hide the PSU - but no build pictures of those, unfortunately, as it was a big enough job without stopping for photos every few minutes.
I’ll leave you with an image of how I fill and bleed the loop. Case on it’s side, front of the res taken off, topped up, put back and bled.
Repeat x12
After nearly 4 years of use & neglect, I finally got around to properly finishing this build, the way I should have done those years ago.
As you can see, Mayhems Pastel shouldn’t be used for this length of time. The white particles completely separated from the rest of the liquid, there was a semi-pastel suspended in the middle, and a rather clear pink fluid floating on the top.
Elsewhere in the loop, there was no pastel left, just bubbles and transparent pink fluid.
There was also some discolouration in the tubing, likely from the sun.
Here you can see the discolouration of the tubing more clearly after draining the loop.
As well as the manky fluid, the fans didn’t age well either.
Or the radiators.
Gross.
I was never a fan of the white fans. Some of you may recall I used them after the 800rpm e-loops didn’t move enough air and I ended up frying my pump. They were meant to be a cheap rival to Gentle Typhoons, but they were just cheap. And the white looked awful.
So here they are; actual Gentle Typhoon 1850rpm!
These are much quieter, don’t have an annoying “ticking” like the old fans would occasionally produce, and push a lot more air!
I did, however, have to modify the fans to allow me to attach a radiator to both sides - but these cuts will be hidden from the final build...
As well as changing out the fans and the coolant, I decided on a colour change for the cables. I wanted to hide them a bit, and for a quick fix I decided to dye them black.
This didn’t work. And the only thing that was dyed was the missus’s hand.
Oh well.. New parachord and cable combs it is!
That’s it for this update. I also bought some 1mm aluminium sheet to neaten up the original cut-outs of the case and hide the PSU - but no build pictures of those, unfortunately, as it was a big enough job without stopping for photos every few minutes.
I’ll leave you with an image of how I fill and bleed the loop. Case on it’s side, front of the res taken off, topped up, put back and bled.
Repeat x12
Yup! Just over 5 years since this thread was started...
& Here it is! The PC is finally finished.
What I did:
- Cut and bent sheet of aluminium covering the PSU and cable mess, as well as fully hiding the pump, fans & SSD power cables.
- Cut to size a large sheet of aluminium to cover the whole back of the case so only a single cable is visible & drilled holes so that only the tubing can be seen.
- Cut and bent 4 strips of aluminium to cover the fans up on the radiators.
- Sprayed the blanking covers, plugs, SLi bridge in satin black.
That's all folks; she's finished!
...Apart from maybe colouring the fluid at some point down the line...