First watercooling attempt

Cat_J · 19 Dec 2011 at 23:42

I've been extremely impressed by the 295, I've never had a GFX card that has kept up this well for so long. Do you think my 360 XSPC rad would keep up with adding a GFX card in too?

Cleeecooo · 19 Dec 2011 at 23:45

Cat_J said:
I've been extremely impressed by the 295, I've never had a GFX card that has kept up this well for so long. Do you think my 360 XSPC rad would keep up with adding a GFX card in too?

yes

Captain Chaos · 21 Dec 2011 at 10:14

Loving the fact your attempted a wc rig.

One question though. Are you going to attempt some form of cable management

?

Cleeecooo · 21 Dec 2011 at 10:56

Lol... That comes later

Cat_J · 7 Jan 2012 at 02:50

Just a quick response to the cable management comments...

Everything running behind the motherboard now;

Cleeecooo · 7 Jan 2012 at 14:50

Much better!!

But cut those silly cable ties on the tubing! looks pathetic

Cat_J · 9 Jan 2012 at 10:48

Clearly there is just no pleasing some people

Barrybear · 9 Jan 2012 at 11:08

If your not too bothered about cutting your case I'd turn the radiator around and cut holes near the front of your case and have the barbs coming in at the 5.25" bays, would reduce the amount of tubing by so much and look better.

Or change the loop order to Res->Pump->Radiator->CPU->Res. (also easier to add in a GPU between the pump and radiator without much change to tubing)

Cat_J · 9 Jan 2012 at 15:22

That is a good idea although I have already cut the case to fit the rad as it is and im not sure I could fit it the other way round as holes probably wouldn't line up. I kind wish I'd just bought a bigger case in hindsight. Perhaps in the future but spent enough over Christmas as usual.

I'll have a look at it when I get a chance as I may be able to turn it round and you're right, it would look better.

The other thing I need to get is a grill to protect the rad from the top.

Shes running at 4.6Ghz at the moment

Cleeecooo · 9 Jan 2012 at 19:23

a grill isn't really needed

Defy Belief · 9 Jan 2012 at 22:31

Much better now it's tidy. How easy did you find it? half tempted to have a go sometime.

Cat_J · 10 Jan 2012 at 14:46

I only wanted the grill incase I dropped somthing on it one day.

Defy Belief said:
Much better now it's tidy. How easy did you find it? half tempted to have a go sometime.

Watercooling? I found it as easy as I find building a PC, the hardest part was decing what to buy and the overclockers V12 kit made that easy. Putting it together couldn't have been more simple really. I think it would have been easy to over tighten the barbs when fitting but I was careful and they all seem fine.

I just took my time over it all to make sure there were no leaks.

Cat_J · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:04

Well I turned the rad around today as suggested. I actually had to cut out all my terrible work in the top of the case and start again with another sheet of metal and make a frame. Made things look much better although I'm now thinking of spraying the whole case. One thing leads to another...

Pictures:

Still a bit of wet paint above

Cleeecooo · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:07

Looks beautiful!

Dud you make it yourself?

Cat_J · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:19

Yes, I'm rebuilding my Land Rover at the moment so I'm used to metal work. The new tops riveted on and perhaps a little over engineered. The only thing bugging me now is that I didn't have any matching paint for the top. I'm tempted to spray the whole thing with the green paint I'm spraying the Landy in.

I'm such a nerd I even used a Draytek ruler...