External Rad Question

Mcnumpty2323 said:
Sciatica, few herniated vertebrae
Arthritis of the spine and sacroiliac
Other than that could run a marathon :cry:
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Wow! I know what Sciatica feels like as i have it in my left leg but none of the others! Sounds like you should be getting plenty of bed rest.:(
 
Jay85 said:
Wow! I know what Sciatica feels like as i have it in my left leg but none of the others! Sounds like you should be getting plenty of bed rest.:(
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Bed rest would be nice
Lying down used to ease the pain
But lately lying down
Either traps a nerve or causes bone
To grind on bone
Wakes you up rigid with the pain
Can't move for several seconds till the pain stops
On a really bad night can take 10 minutes
To accomplish just turning over and getting out of bed
As every little movement can set it off again
And you go rigid with pain again
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Bed rest would be nice
Lying down used to ease the pain
But lately lying down
Either traps a nerve or causes bone
To grind on bone
Wakes you up rigid with the pain
Can't move for several seconds till the pain stops
On a really bad night can take 10 minutes
To accomplish just turning over and getting out of bed
As every little movement can set it off again
And you go rigid with pain again
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I take it you've exhausted all medical help for your condition? Sounds horrendous mate, not gonna lie.
 
I used my 2 old 360mm rads outside my case about 1m of pipe and cable. I used molex cables and had a little fan hub sit on top of the rads with a switch for slow, fast and off. The rads I used were not especially good, mayhem havoc 60mm thick. It ran my system at temps only increasing to 50 or 60c on cpu and below 70c on the gpu. I replaced my rads with a nexxxos 1080mm later and the temps are even better. The mora is supposed to be a lot better than the nexxxos. 1 single rad looks a lot tidier than multiple rads.

2m tubing
Gpu block
Cpu block
Corsair XD3 pump res combo
Ekwb quick disconnects 2 sets
Atleast 4 angled fittings

They are working fine with no problems after atleast 9 months, rad under my desk and pc case on top of it. Apparently DDC pumps have less problems with head pressure according to the stat sheets.
 
D1craig said:
I used my 2 old 360mm rads outside my case about 1m of pipe and cable. I used molex cables and had a little fan hub sit on top of the rads with a switch for slow, fast and off. The rads I used were not especially good, mayhem havoc 60mm thick. It ran my system at temps only increasing to 50 or 60c on cpu and below 70c on the gpu. I replaced my rads with a nexxxos 1080mm later and the temps are even better. The mora is supposed to be a lot better than the nexxxos. 1 single rad looks a lot tidier than multiple rads.

2m tubing
Gpu block
Cpu block
Corsair XD3 pump res combo
Ekwb quick disconnects 2 sets
Atleast 4 angled fittings

They are working fine with no problems after atleast 9 months, rad under my desk and pc case on top of it. Apparently DDC pumps have less problems with head pressure according to the stat sheets.
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I was all set to get the MO-RA, but the UK place that sells them decided that my payment via paypal wasn't authorised, and even though paypal says the payment is pending awaiting authorisation, the company isn't responding to my messages. I wish OCUK sold external rads, like the MO-RA, Nexxxos, etc. Glad to hear how well the cooling is doing on your setup though.
 
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D1craig said:
I used my 2 old 360mm rads outside my case about 1m of pipe and cable. I used molex cables and had a little fan hub sit on top of the rads with a switch for slow, fast and off. The rads I used were not especially good, mayhem havoc 60mm thick. It ran my system at temps only increasing to 50 or 60c on cpu and below 70c on the gpu. I replaced my rads with a nexxxos 1080mm later and the temps are even better. The mora is supposed to be a lot better than the nexxxos. 1 single rad looks a lot tidier than multiple rads.

2m tubing
Gpu block
Cpu block
Corsair XD3 pump res combo
Ekwb quick disconnects 2 sets
Atleast 4 angled fittings

They are working fine with no problems after atleast 9 months, rad under my desk and pc case on top of it. Apparently DDC pumps have less problems with head pressure according to the stat sheets.
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This is similar to my setup but I don't have the quick disconnects.

I just have 2m of tubing between the pc and the component so I can move the case out if I need to work on it


What do you use ?
 
teejay73 said:
I was all set to get the MO-RA, but the UK place that sells them decided that my payment via paypal wasn't authorised, and even though paypal says the payment is pending awaiting authorisation, the company isn't responding to my messages. I wish OCUK sold external rads, like the MO-RA, Nexxxos, etc. Glad to hear how well the cooling is doing on your setup though.
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I cant remember where i got mine, it wasn't from here and its the same place I tend to get all my parts not available at ocuk. And I've never had a problem with them. Unless you hunted for the cheapest price and got scammed somehow, I imagine you ended up on the same website I did to get my stuff, I recall it was mostly watercooling stuff they sold so it's likely.
 
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D1craig said:
I cant remember where i got mine, it wasn't from here and its the same place I tend to get all my parts not available at ocuk. And I've never had a problem with them. Unless you hunted for the cheapest price and got scammed somehow, I imagine you ended up on the same website I did to get my stuff, I recall it was mostly watercooling stuff they sold so it's likely.
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Yeah I'm convinced it was the same place as yourself. I've got it sorted now - was a payment glitch at their end, however, they didn't have all the specific MO-RA parts in stock, so I've had to opt for the 1080 Nexxxos, along with the box cover for it too. It's been an expensive journey haha!
 
Yea but with quality quick disconnects it should be future proof. The QDCs have to be the weak point because they will be the parts used most. The rad will be perfect just left where it is don't even need to move it when you get a completely new system.

I didnt go for the box, I just got the feet. I even went for cheap fans but I beleive they are pretty good. 2x 5 packs of arctic fans I think. 35 quid for each pack and they are daisy chained. Daisy chaining is a must otherwise them fan cables will be overwhelming. I have my fans plugged into the little hub I bought and on the low setting, but being under my desk even on the fast setting they are barely noticeable.
 
D1craig said:
Yea but with quality quick disconnects it should be future proof. The QDCs have to be the weak point because they will be the parts used most. The rad will be perfect just left where it is don't even need to move it when you get a completely new system.

I didnt go for the box, I just got the feet. I even went for cheap fans but I beleive they are pretty good. 2x 5 packs of arctic fans I think. 35 quid for each pack and they are daisy chained. Daisy chaining is a must otherwise them fan cables will be overwhelming. I have my fans plugged into the little hub I bought and on the low setting, but being under my desk even on the fast setting they are barely noticeable.
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Yeah I bought the qd3's from ocuk yesterday. I've also ordered a powered splitty 9 for the fans, as well as some 30cm pwm 3 fan splitter cables. I'm re-using 9 noctua fans from a previous build, so that was handy in keeping costs down. I've opted to go for pump redundancy, so using two D5's via a watercool dual d5 pump housing, along with a watercool res and fittings. I'm going to run the pumps and res seperate from the pc case I think. What are your temps you are getting - do you notice a big difference?
 
teejay73 said:
Yeah I bought the qd3's from ocuk yesterday. I've also ordered a powered splitty 9 for the fans, as well as some 30cm pwm 3 fan splitter cables. I'm re-using 9 noctua fans from a previous build, so that was handy in keeping costs down. I've opted to go for pump redundancy, so using two D5's via a watercool dual d5 pump housing, along with a watercool res and fittings. I'm going to run the pumps and res seperate from the pc case I think. What are your temps you are getting - do you notice a big difference?
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I got around this by getting fans that daisy chain so opted for the T30's on a MORA. I went 3 banks of fans so 9 total and from that i go 3 to 1 cable which goes to a Noctua NA-FC1 controller powered through Sata and pwm controlled by the motherboard header. Much less wiring so much less mess to deal with.
 
My temps - coolant most ive seen is high 30s but normally 34c, cpu 3700x never go past 60c. Gpu 6700xt I think needs reseating as the hotspot can go high 70s maybe 80s but the core doesn't pass 60c. Them gpu numbers are off the top of my head as a driver must have removed them from hwmonitor and I cba to check the adrenalin app all the time. I mostly play new world which is a beaut for cpu and gpu. Runs them very high.

Tbh I'm probably stating numbers higher than I am getting. I'm not too sure, I'll check properly when I have a good go of the pc at the weekend.
 
im seeing cpuCCD1 and CPUdie maxing out at 53.9 after 1 hour of new world at 1440 ultrawide. GPU is 45. for some reason hotspot has been removed from any of my trackers so i cant say what that is but id guess it can be reaching 75C. like i said i think i need to reseat the block.
 
So just a little update and further questions. After going around the block with various choices, ordering the alphacool 1080 Nexxxos Nova and then realising that it was going to be a hassle to do what I want, I decided on going back to the drawing board and spending copious amounts of money on
a MO-RA 420 Noctua NF-A20 edition. I bought the NF-A20 fans from Overclockers. Here's what I've bought as well >> MO-RA 420 Noctua NF-A20 with deep cover grill, 4 way watercool noctua NF-A20 splitter, MO-RA3 420 D5-Dualtop module, Heatkiller Res & a splitty 9 active. I've also bought some EK compression fittings, 16/10 tubing.

I'm pretty much ready to go as soon as the MO-RA and other watercool bits get here, but I have a problem that I'm trying to solve. So basically I want to power everything via the pc PSU. The setup will be like this 4 x 200mm fans into the 4 way fan splitter, one pwm cable into the splitty 9 active, which will be on the MO-RA, extension power sata from splitty to case. Ok first part no problem, but then I'm thinking that I'll still have 2 x EK D5 pumps, both with sata power each, and PWM cable each, so I'm wondering if I can plug the pump PWM cables into the splitty 9 active, and just run the two sata power cables back to the pc, so basically only having to run 3 x sata cables back in total? Is this possible to do? If not how could I do what I plan to do with the PWM cables? I want to minimise the amount of cables, but at the same time I don't want to run an external psu or powerbrick, as I want everything to start up when I power on the pc.

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If it's of any help, when I built my full external loop I used Lumberg circular connectors to get the power out of the PC. Means building custom harnesses but has the advantage of easy disconnection of the PC from the loop same as with QD3.



This is the harness that goes from the power supply to the back of the PC case (not currently installed):


I put an Aqua Computer Aquaero 6 Pro in the external case which controls the fans, pump, flow meter and temp sensors, so then just have the two cables from the PC->external cooling case, one for power (+12V, +5V) and the other USB.
 
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