Does anyone use a rad box

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so bottom rad pulls into the case and presume you have fans on the top rad expelling air?

Sounds like a similar issue to my 800D case, 1 x 140mm in vs 4 x 120mm out, thinking about modding my window and install a couple of fans there. Gaming at 4k did get it very warm inside.
 
Has it always been that bad? What setting do you have your pump on? When was the last time you changed your coolant?
 
Your temps aren't that bad really seeing as there are a pair of gpu's and the cpu in the loop. When are you seeing those temps, during gaming or stress testing?

I have a pair of fat rads mounted in a box on a windowsill so they suck in cold air from the outside. Highest I have ever seen my water temp is 28.5 degrees when I forgot to open the window. This time of year with freezing cold outside temps I regularly have water temps in the 11-14 degrees range. :D:D:D


No I don't get any condensation before anybody asks.
 
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1 120mm fan on the front (air in), 240 rad push pull (air in), 360 and rear exhaust, side window has 200mm (air in)

Pump has no control as modded to 12volts.

Them temps was after a round of bf4 and was only 1gpu.

pastymucher, have you got a picture of how your box is, i cannot look at my water temps as broke my sensor.
 
pastymuncher said:
Your temps aren't that bad really seeing as there are a pair of gpu's and the cpu in the loop. When are you seeing those temps, during gaming or stress testing?

I have a pair of fat rads mounted in a box on a windowsill so they suck in cold air from the outside. Highest I have ever seen my water temp is 28.5 degrees when I forgot to open the window. This time of year with freezing cold outside temps I regularly have water temps in the 11-14 degrees range. :D:D:D


No I don't get any condensation before anybody asks.
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That's brilliant. Brb, just gonna drill 2 holes through my wall.... :D
 
I built one a few years ago.

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Never ended up using it and I sold it once completed. Then DHL destroyed it and that was the end of it. a lot of time and money went into it for it to get destroyed and never used.
 
jamiehard1989 said:
1 120mm fan on the front (air in), 240 rad push pull (air in), 360 and rear exhaust, side window has 200mm (air in)

Pump has no control as modded to 12volts.

Them temps was after a round of bf4 and was only 1gpu.

pastymucher, have you got a picture of how your box is, i cannot look at my water temps as broke my sensor.
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It looks to me that your bottom 240 rad is exhausting air as well. Those top fans on it definately are anyway. If you only have a 120mm and 200mm sucking air into the case maybe you are straving the rad fans of air.

Here's a quick piccy:-



Rads are joined by a short section of tubing. To make bleeding easy the water enters the lower rad and then the top rad. There are 12 120mm fans inside in push/pull and the rear of the box is cut out with a layer of fish pond filter wool between to sheets of mesh to keep any dust and beasties out. It all works very well and this is the third evolution of this box. The original only had a single rad and was half height. The second version had the top rad mounted in the roof of the box but was awkward to bleed so I ended up with it this way. It measures 450x370x160 (LxHxW) and is made from 10mm thick MDF. The rads are both Coolgates, the bottom being the G2 360mm and the top being the CG360. I have both pumps and the fan controller in a second, soundproofed box in my pc room.



krisboats said:
That's brilliant. Brb, just gonna drill 2 holes through my wall.... :D
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That's exactly what I did (the wife was out :D) except it's three holes (two for the 15mm copper pipes and one for the fan wires). My computer room used to be a cupboard at the top of the stairs. It wasn't being used so I claimed it (it's doubled in size since because I took the wall out that seperated my room (cupboard) from the spare bedroom cupboard and boarded up what used to be the doorway to the cupboard in the spare room. The only problem was that when I had SLI 7800GT's it got extremely hot so I need to get the heat out of the room. That's where I got the idea for the window mounted rad box. That door in the picture is my computer room so it's only the dividing wall that needed drilling.



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I built one a few years ago. Never ended up using it and I sold it once completed. Then DHL destroyed it and that was the end of it. a lot of time and money went into it for it to get destroyed and never used.
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That was a really nice looking project. DHL smashing that up was criminal!!
 
Very nice samsung wish i had the time to do something like that, and for my bottom rad i know what i done wrong now, the top fans are wrong way round as was in a rush to do it, but bottom fans are pulling air.

Thanks for the pics looks like i try the mdf when i get time next week.
 
So basically the bottom rads is doing nothing because the fans are pushing against each other. Turn the top set around and your problems may be solved. The bottom one should be sucking air in from outside the case anyway. With it exhausting the hot air will just be sucked into the psu.
 
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