The million dollar question!
9ine04
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The million dollar question!
Soldato
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.
Easier to change the coolant than the paracord
Enjoy the build now that it's finally done and revisit it when the inevitable itch kicks in.Personally all I'd do is bash some more red into the coolant to see if that helps - your paracord is identical to 50/50 mix strawberry Crusha mix, should be able to get close to that with some more red dye.
And yeah, how well does the rad stack work out? I reckon it's on par with a single 360.
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looks like it was definitely worth the wait! the colour combinations work really well! great job there
looking forward to seeing some results
looking forward to seeing some results
Soldato
Oh btw, being sick of no updates and the Murderbox monopoly (which I think is getting a bit samey samey now), I've submitted this thread to Million Dollar PC, because I think it's damn frakkin worth including.
Hope you don't mind.
Hope you don't mind.
It's so difficult to colour match when buying without seeing items in the flesh. I think you can get close by obtaining small samples helps, but it's not a given. Different manufactures with different shades. I don't think it's possible to be so precise and really it's not something most eyes will pick up on.
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.
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Any update with the new fans and pump?
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You only need a single Delta fan on the bottom
He wanted a quiet PC not a helicopter
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So sorry your pump fried very good of you to help the community by telling us.
The build is amazing and rates as one of the best I have ever seen, before I overclocked for my PC enjoyment I used to braid everything and put it together neatly I thought mine was one of the best out there, I powder coated my TJ07 internals before any I ever saw, yours makes mine look like an amateur did it.
Then lost interest came back 5 years later and now the side panels don't get fitted because I change things so often I really need a bench table but can't bear to part with my TJ07 and don't have room for both.
Well done mate enjoy reading your build logs it's great to see someone in the perfect job who can do outstanding work, I enjoyed every job I ever did and it made it like I wasn't working just playing and getting paid for it.
I would think that's how you are or you couldn't do such fantastic work day in day out.
The build is amazing and rates as one of the best I have ever seen, before I overclocked for my PC enjoyment I used to braid everything and put it together neatly I thought mine was one of the best out there, I powder coated my TJ07 internals before any I ever saw, yours makes mine look like an amateur did it.
Then lost interest came back 5 years later and now the side panels don't get fitted because I change things so often I really need a bench table but can't bear to part with my TJ07 and don't have room for both.
Well done mate enjoy reading your build logs it's great to see someone in the perfect job who can do outstanding work, I enjoyed every job I ever did and it made it like I wasn't working just playing and getting paid for it.
I would think that's how you are or you couldn't do such fantastic work day in day out.
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Awesome setup. I love rad stacks for aesthetics over anything else, looks really unique here. Hopefully with the new fans you'll get some better temps and no pump deaths
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
Soldato
Looks nice but that SLI bridge looks honking.
Why not make a pink cover out of acrylic? at least something, it looks awful in there.
Why not make a pink cover out of acrylic? at least something, it looks awful in there.
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.
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I think this is my fav PC build ever so clean and perfect.
Can I ask what tools you used to take out your 24 pin PSU cable connectors and other tools for that matter and where do you get the covering your using?
I used to braid all my wires and loved it but often a 24 pin connector would break, but I gave in for 5 years and would like to do my Corsair AX860 wiring.
Can I ask what tools you used to take out your 24 pin PSU cable connectors and other tools for that matter and where do you get the covering your using?
I used to braid all my wires and loved it but often a 24 pin connector would break, but I gave in for 5 years and would like to do my Corsair AX860 wiring.