[build log] Corsair 650D to 750D and 420 rad

ugh. had to to a bit of a botch job... i wanted to connect the res to the pump directly by a male-male connector. during the initial leak test i found it was leaking significantly. I removed it and re-inserted it, but it was still leaking and i must have cross-threaded it when i put it back in because for the life of me i cannot get it out...

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Might have to resort to dremmelling it out.

Anyway so i've temporarily botched it using 2 right-angle connectors. my in-line temp sensor is in the middle, i think i will get a new temp sensor to fit in one of the spare outlets on the res. I'm just testing it with filtered water at the moment and it's all fine except for a minor leak in the right sli connection, so i'm going to have to drain it down again and look into that.

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pair of vice grips sorted that stuck connector, so i'll put the bottom piece back on the res when i drain it down to finally add the pastel coolant.

and some good 'ol ptfe sorted my sli leak :) (can you get black ptfe?)

Now to just try to tidy up the rear cabling... :(
 
It's been a while, thought I'd better post a status update. Had the house re-wired and had to move everything out, then back in again. ugh. Anyway, here's the system up and running, and pretty much done except I've still got to cut some led strips to length and decide the best place to stick them, this will connect to the led header on my CL commander mini.

I looked into replacing the pump but in the end I couldn't justify £100+ for a D5 or DDC. I have been happy with my old Phobya 260 so I just got the new pwm version of the same pump, mainly because I now have it connected to the cpu fan header. There's nothing really wrong with my original pump and I was going to re-use it but I'm going to put a combo auction up on the bay for all my old watercooling kit and the only thing missing for a complete setup was the pump lol...

I replaced the 3x 140mm corsair fans with Akasa Apache Black 140mm fans, because they are awesome fans and also pwm so they play well with the CL commander mini.

I wasn't going to fill the res so full but there was only a little bit of coolant left so I put it all in... so there's a full 1L of mayhems pastel red in there now.

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Hey. Just resurrecting this thread... i'm kinda getting bored with my pc and it's a long weekend soooo.....

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cos you can never have too much rads... :D

and i'm getting rid of the Asus Formula VI in favour of the Gigabyte X97 Gaming 7, for no particular reason - the chipset upgrade in itself isn't worth the hassle of swapping motherboards, it's just I still prefer Gigabyte over Asus and I don't buy into the whole ROG branding thing... but that's just personal preference.

plus I've found a small leak in the inlet port of the res, so I have to drain the loop down anyway.

while I'm at it I thought I'd have a crack at some acrylic tubing, so I got me some hardline tubing and a bagfull of fittings:

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This should prove interesting...
 
Update!! So I went through 3 lengths of 80cm acrylic tube... but it's all a learning exercise...

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I added a set of braided EVGA cables (expensive but so much easier to manage), the EVGA SLI bridge, a t-section with a tap (Phobya ball valve) after the pump to use as a drain valve, and I had to cut another hole in the bottom of the case to access the drain port on the front rad. oh and I swapped out the 3 akasa 140mm fans i was using as intakes for another 3 of the noctua pwm fans - i found the akasa fans made an annoying tick (all of them) and I lurve the noctua fans but I wish they came in black. the bottom of the case is a sticky sheet of some sort of anti-vibration sound-dampening foam i cut to fit (from Akasa i think). All the tubing is now Alphacool 10/13 hardtube and all the fittings are Alphacool.

I got another 250GB Samsung 850 EVO as well.

Not much more I plan to do to it. I might top up the res, I've still got half a litre of mayhems pastel red (after the spill which has resulted in a bright pink stain on my carpet ugh...) It would look a lot better if I could work out how to clean the inside of the res and get rid of the condensation.
 
Looks good! Topping up the res will really finish it off, I've grown to really dislike half empty sweaty looking reservoirs.

The cpu to gpu bend looks excellent, as does the rad to rad bend. Top job there.

If it was me, I would have the pump located square to the case and just have another 90 degree bend into the outlet but I'm being unfairly picky. The whole build looks great and worth the pennies for the braided cabling.
 
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