Carbide Air540 - Transplant & Upgrade

Dirk Diggler · 12 Feb 2014 at 23:11

Finally got round to adding CPU to the water loop. Fixed that kinked tube with a right angle fitting, and added another 80mm fan to cool the HDD's (they sit below 30c now).

Some images...

Canary Wundaboy · 15 Feb 2014 at 12:04

I was going to ask about the CPU look as you had an H100i in the original build that I couldn't see in the finished pics! Great to see a 2 rad setup in that case. Going to ebay the H100 or got plans for it elsewhere?

Dirk Diggler · 15 Feb 2014 at 12:20

I've already sold the H100i. The H100i is excellent for a hassle free water cooling solution, but the EK block takes it to the next level. As an example, stress testing the CPU with H100i would see its coolant temp sit around 36c. Under the same conditions, the EK block has water temp sitting at around 24c. The actual chip temp sits 10-15c cooler too.

Divine Pain · 16 Feb 2014 at 21:24

Do you mind listing all the water cooling parts you have in here please?

I have been wanting to do something to my PC, thinking of watercooling depending on costs...

Dirk Diggler · 16 Feb 2014 at 21:28

Divine Pain said:
Do you mind listing all the water cooling parts you have in here please?

I have been wanting to do something to my PC, thinking of watercooling depending on costs...

I had to delete my list as I'd changed it all so much! Will post up to date list tomorrow.

Divine Pain · 16 Feb 2014 at 21:33

Thankyou x

Bart_Hunt · 16 Feb 2014 at 21:50

I made a list for my new project yesterday and It gave me a headache.
Its almost 40% worth of the whole rig.

Dirk Diggler · 16 Feb 2014 at 22:03

Tell me about it, it's addictive! One thing I can say straight out, water cooling has massive advantages, but one thing it is not, is inexpensive.

Bart_Hunt · 16 Feb 2014 at 22:54

Just to give you idea, 24 x 10/13 Primochil rigid acrylic fittings + 2.7m of 10/13 blood red acrylic tube from Primochill. That alone cost me around 200£ and that is just a tip of an iceberg.
I still didn't buy angled fittings ( another 100-150£ ), blocks (250-300), pump/res (100), rads (150-200), fans (100-150).
My head !!!

NirK · 28 Feb 2014 at 02:21

I think you should swap the white cables for black ones. (not the WC, the power / sata cables)

Halestorm · 28 Feb 2014 at 14:13

Im guessing thats the drain hose thats kinked? no real obstruction to normal water flow?

Dirk Diggler · 28 Feb 2014 at 19:10

It is the drain hose, or rather it was. I've replaced the kink with a right angled fitting.

Dirk Diggler · 15 Sep 2014 at 23:22

Went SLI and decided to add a touch of colour.

xXxsephirothxXx · 19 Oct 2014 at 01:04

Hey bud, could you tell me how deep those rads are and how big of a gap is there between the 240mm rad and the 360mm rad.

Do you think i could fit a 240mm and 360mm XSPC RX v3 rads in? they are 56mm deep.

Dirk Diggler · 19 Oct 2014 at 06:44

I'm away from home at the minute mate, but I'll get back to you later in the week.