Build finished!

tintin82 · 20 Jul 2012 at 23:18

Completed my build tonight!

Some of you may have read my 'draining loop' thread. Well i was to impatient for the drain parts to arrive so went ahead tonight and built my first WC loop.

XSPC RayStorm D5 EX360 WaterCooling Kit
XSPC EX140 Single Fan Radiator

The idea was to fit all this inside but it wasnt going to happen so have to have the single rad mounted outside of my haf x. Apart from that upset all went great.

Before

After

And the all important temps! I have a 2500K clocked to 4.6Ghz 1.41v (yeah i know very high, but my ram runs at 2133mhz and this is IBT max stable.)

With the old Titan Fenrir max core temp 90C, and sounds like my Dyson
With the WC loop max core temp 61C and sounds like... nothing cant hear it over my PSU!!!

Epic, very happy with the results. Planning on taking this to 5Ghz and beyond!

Thanks for the advice from folk regarding the drain.

gatecrasherlok · 20 Jul 2012 at 23:20

Looks good mate.

panyan · 20 Jul 2012 at 23:33

tbh i'd back your ram OC down -> ramp up your cpu overclock

tintin82 · 20 Jul 2012 at 23:39

Yeah think i will, just seeing what my samsung green can do!

Pgreenwo · 21 Jul 2012 at 00:01

looks nice. Like the tubing look. Is that the alu bracket for the Raystorm?

Tattysnuc · 21 Jul 2012 at 09:49

out of interest, why did you mount the 120mm rad outside? Surely that will fit inside, along with the fan?

Tattysnuc · 21 Jul 2012 at 09:50

Looks good though

tintin82 · 21 Jul 2012 at 11:00

Tattysnuc said:
out of interest, why did you mount the 120mm rad outside? Surely that will fit inside, along with the fan?

Original plan was to have the single rad inside. But no way was it fitting with the way i had my triple rad orientated. Most of my front bays are occupied so putting the triple rad with the inlet / outlet forward was going to create more problems.

spixelspixel · 21 Jul 2012 at 12:15

Nice job, what does your core voltage read in cpu-z when running IBT?

Red Alert · 21 Jul 2012 at 18:46

tintin82 said:
Original plan was to have the single rad inside. But no way was it fitting with the way i had my triple rad orientated. Most of my front bays are occupied so putting the triple rad with the inlet / outlet forward was going to create more problems.

EDIT - Sorry, I was looking at the before pic. haha

tintin82 · 21 Jul 2012 at 19:40

spixelspixel said:
Nice job, what does your core voltage read in cpu-z when running IBT?

bios is set at 1.41v, but cpu z reads about 1.395v.

i am running bios F5b so dont have the LLC setting which is a pain. But the latest bios have various issues with resuming from sleep which i use lots.

tintin82 · 21 Jul 2012 at 20:29

Just hit the magical 5Ghz, 5 passes with IBT max settings. Max core temp 80C. However took a massive 1.6V bios (1.56v in CPUZ). Will do a loads of bench mark runs then prob drop back to 4.6 Ghz.

Water cooling rules!

pgi947 · 21 Jul 2012 at 20:47

I'd be careful at those voltages, you might be under water but it won't stop the thing going pop if you hammer too much voltage through it

Sounds like your chip is a stinker, have you adjusted any other settings besides the multiplier and voltage controls?

tintin82 · 21 Jul 2012 at 20:59

pgi947 said:
I'd be careful at those voltages, you might be under water but it won't stop the thing going pop if you hammer too much voltage through it

Sounds like your chip is a stinker, have you adjusted any other settings besides the multiplier and voltage controls?

Ive had a play with the other voltages but nothing helps apart from Vcore. Lots of 101 BSOD. IBT Max hits it hard, but not satisfied until i pass that test!

pgi947 · 21 Jul 2012 at 21:35

Yeah I'm a fan of IBT too

Have you tried adjusting LLC/Phase/Duty/Capability (names may change on other boards)?

1.4v even for 4.6ghz sounds a hell of allot!

tintin82 · 21 Jul 2012 at 21:50

I have a bit of an issue with the bios of the UD4P.
Basically, every bios old and new, screws with the resume from sleep (i use sleep a lot)
The only bios that doesnt is the F5b that Gigabyte mailed me. Only prob with that bios is that it doesnt have options for multi level LLC, or support for Ivy.

Pain in the ass, but rather that than the constant stalled when trying to resume from sleep.