Dripping with style or floody disaster?

darwin1859 said:
I like the M.2 heatsink. Completely pointless functionally, but looks tons better than the green.

My current build uses a green M.2, but luckily the M.2 slot is under the ITX mobo, so nicely hidden away.
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Cheers mate, there's nothing bugs me more currently than manufactures using green PCB's, especially when like Samsung they'll sell you a more expensive yet almost identical model with a black PCB... They must know how annoying it is and know people will pay the extra to avoid the rancid greenness!

Oh yes, and sorry for the excruciatingly slow progress guys. With my proper job, IT tech support for every local too cheap to use proper tech support and feeling like crap the last few days, not much has been done. Still, I have found one potential time saver...

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Reckon that'll do nicely as a base for mounting the Aquaero and Colour Work, even if it does need a bit of modifying. Not sure whether to put one in front of the other or the Colour Work on top with the Aquaero underneath, but it should be here tomorrow or Thursday so will trial it then, and hopefully have it all finished ASAP! :D
 
OJ46 said:
Cheers mate, there's nothing bugs me more currently than manufactures using green PCB's, especially when like Samsung they'll sell you a more expensive yet almost identical model with a black PCB... They must know how annoying it is and know people will pay the extra to avoid the rancid greenness!
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I know how you feel. Just remembered I made a black plexi piece to cover up the green WLAN card (next to the top left CPU thumb nut) on my build.
 
FINALLY! The last part has arrived and the second strip of lights have been mounted behind the top radiator :)

Reckon this is going to do quite nicely as a mount for the Aquaero & Colour Work boards, hardly going to show as they'll be underneath the bracket :D

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So looks like that's my afternoon sorted, get the bracket modified, plug everything in and hope she flies :p
 
freddie64 said:
Good find on the bracket, looks perfect. :)

Did it come with the pcie bit (YF-PCIex1)?
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Got very lucky on that find mate, damn near perfect size. It did indeed, comes with a PCIex1 and a PCI & PCIe, so will be stable wherever you slot it :)

Couple of quick teaser shots as I wait for Windows 10 drivers to download. I'd forgotten how painful this was after years of Linux... No internet connection, so you get "Go online to update drivers" etc. GENIUS! :mad:

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Why does red lighting never work in photo's? Or am I just crap at taking photo's? :p

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Please ignore the massive mess of cables, it's just thrown together to get things running and set up properly. Thinking of cutting a piece out of an old case in the shape of the red outline below to make it look even neater once the main cables have been tidied / USB cables removed :)

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Another random question from a watercooling noob: What's the usual temperature difference between ambient temp and water temp when basically idling? Currently running at 3° higher atm, but not altered pump speed / set fans up properly yet. Cheers :D
 
Looking real good there!
Good job!

I'm also a watercooling noob but from what I've read, a few degrees above ambient is good at idle, but it's the temperature at load that's important.

Oh and a question, with that PCIe bracket, can you monitor anything you plug into the aquaero through software?
 
Very nice work matey, bracket was a winner, looks really slick fitted like that. Like you say, a small cover will just finish it off perfectly.
 
Ohjay said:
Looking real good there!
Good job!

I'm also a watercooling noob but from what I've read, a few degrees above ambient is good at idle, but it's the temperature at load that's important.

Oh and a question, with that PCIe bracket, can you monitor anything you plug into the aquaero through software?
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Cheers mate :) After slowing down the pump and optimising the fan speeds it's now about 1.5° above ambient and also a bit quieter without the high pitched whine of the pump :)

Unfortunately can't monitor anything extra on the Aquaero, the PCIe bracket is purely to support the weight of the SSD's that should have been mounted on it :(

Luggs said:
Very nice work matey, bracket was a winner, looks really slick fitted like that. Like you say, a small cover will just finish it off perfectly.
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Thanks Luggs :) Thinking of adding a 90° bend and going to within a cm or 2 of the motherboard, but also leaving a tiny gap along the top / bottom to help airflow from the PSU, just hoping it doesn't look stupid! Oh well, as it'll be cut from an old case there'll be plenty of room for errors :D

craig_t said:
I will be! Although, it will be nothing as good as yours I will still log what I do.
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Mines nothing special at all mate, everything I've done has been done using off the shelf parts, nothing like some of the truly awesome custom builds on here :)


Thought over dinner I'd just run a very quick 3DMark 11 test with everything bog standard, including the RAM and its truly horrendous standard clock... Not exactly setting the world alight (though not bad for a work PC ;)) but at least now I can see how much things improve :p

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Very awesome work sir, love the EVGA block on that card.

Out of curiosity, how is the white lighting on the lighting kit. Have the same kit in two PC's but always find the white is more of a pale blue so supplement it with Darkside White LED strips. Quiet annoying, but not sure if its just PCB I got or something.
 
Radox-0 said:
Very awesome work sir, love the EVGA block on that card.

Out of curiosity, how is the white lighting on the lighting kit. Have the same kit in two PC's but always find the white is more of a pale blue so supplement it with Darkside White LED strips. Quiet annoying, but not sure if its just PCB I got or something.
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Cheers Radox, appreciate the kind words :)

The lighting is just as you say, it's not quite a pure white light and has a subtle blue tint to it. I'm actually very happy with them though, think the subtle blue looks good and would definitely prefer it to the yellow tint of some lighting kits :)


Got a few minutes spare between jobs so knocked up a quick mock-up of what I was thinking for the cable shroud. Left a gap at the top level with the bottom of the Aquaero to help with airflow, and also think it's going to look fairly decent, like a teasing letter box :p
Currently got a small gap around the bottom as well, but might scrap that... Thoughts?

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Indeed, had a few issue with yellow tints, looks most awkward with half the lights shining white and the other a pale yellow. But yeah other then that the kit is pretty amazing.

Imo shroud looks nice, cleans up the area fairly well :)
 
Nice build man, I'd be interested in seeming some more bench results and stuff as I'm planning on a similar build this year. Only main different will be mine will not be a full custom loop and mobo is different. But I'll have the same RAM, M2 SSD, CPU and a 980Ti
 
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