First New Build Water Cooled System

suprafogg

suprafogg

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Here is my first attempt to water cool a PC! Here is the below spec of the new PC:

Intel I5 - 2500K overclocked to 4.2ghz
Asus P8P67 Motherboard
MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4GB Graphics Card
8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600
Xgigamtec 700W PSU
Alphacool ST/LT 360 Radiator Water Cooling Loop CPU only
Samsung Blu-ray DVDRW Drive
NZXT Phantom 530 Case
NZXT Hue Led case lighting
240GB Kingston SSD Drive
500GB Hitachi HDD

What do you guys think? Decent rig?I really like the NZXT Hue Hub that allows you to change the colour of the light within the case really easily, currently got it set to slowly cycle through the different colour and seems just right.

Anyway some pictures:

















 
looks good

looks great :D.. im still not brave enough to venture away from all in one water coolers yet..:o
 
Just ran the Final Fantasy Benchmark and this is the result:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 11/05/2015 22:49:41
Score: 11431
Average Frame Rate: 88.516
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.355 sec
Scene #2 6.342 sec
Scene #3 5.422 sec
Scene #4 5.002 sec
Scene #5 4.783 sec
Scene #6 1.996 sec
Total Loading Time 24.904 sec

DAT:s20150511224941.dat

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Preset 1
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
8168.883MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (VRAM 3906 MB) 9.18.0013.4725

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn (Windows version) and FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward (Windows version) will run on your system.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Score: 11431 Extremely High
1920x1080 Preset 1 DirectX11 Full Screen
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_eu #FFXIV
 
Well done. Nothing like that first moment you turn on the pump and watch the fluid flow round. Then just when you think you have cracked it, you have to run the leak test!
Will you add the GPU next?
 
Exactly, nervous times indeed. Well it's currently left on at home download the Wither 3 ready for release, so hopefully there hasn't been any sudden leaking!

May be tempted to do the GPU block at some point, would I be able to do it with my current loop?
 
suprafogg said:
Exactly, nervous times indeed. Well it's currently left on at home download the Wither 3 ready for release, so hopefully there hasn't been any sudden leaking!

May be tempted to do the GPU block at some point, would I be able to do it with my current loop?
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A 360 rad will handle a cpu and gpu easily, so yes you should be able to.
 
The rule of thumb, which you will find in the watercooling stickies is 120 per component + 120, so you should be fine with a 360. I have a CPU/GPU with 2 * 240, but that was only to balance out the build. What pump are you using?
 
I have a reference r9 290, so water was always going to be worth it and I use EK block and backplate, which was a choice I made based on looks rather then performance. I am sure others will provide details on the benefits of water blocks v air cooling and the 970 thread in the graphics card section should help.
 
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