[First WC] Rampage Crampage

[jashon093]

This is my first WC Build. I ordered blood red coolant instead OC send me Clear UV, which I tested is not UV at all. Can I mix in a coolant dye in to this and is it worth it? Anyway here is the pics: (taken on phone sorry)













Water cooling experience:
Make sure you leak test!! I had 3 leaks from the bay/res one barb was not tight enough and the drain port cap was loose. Leaked all over my HDD and SSD. Overall not too hard and enjoyable.

Specs:
Intel i7 3820 @ 3.8ghz
Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79
Kingston HyperX Beast 16gb 2400mhz Quad Channel
Corsair Force 3 120 SSD
2x WD Cavier 500gb
EVGA GTX 680 Superclocked
Creative X-fi Titanium PCI-E
Corsair AX850
Antec 1100
XSPC Raystrom RS240 Kit
Samsung Syncmaster SA350 27" 1920x1080

Temps:
CPU Idle@ 30oC
Prime 95 Load@ 48oC

Questions:
How do I do RAID 0 on the ASMedia Sata Ports? Kind of lame only 2 x79 sata ports on such high end board.

Looking at current temps how high can I overclock this system?

In GPU-Z it says the card supports PCI-E 2.0 but currently running at PCI-E 1.1? what is going on here?? I thought PCI-E 3.0 was possible?

 

[jashon093]

Someone help me re-size the images? I don't know how sorry.

 

[Addicted]

I'm interested to see why you went for barbs on a first watercooling build, but more interestingly why you haven't at least cable tied them?

I use compression fittings and have _never_ had a leak!

 

[jashon093]

I'm interested to see why you went for barbs on a first watercooling build, but more interestingly why you haven't at least cable tied them?

I use compression fittings and have _never_ had a leak!

I used barbs that came with the kit, I did use clamps that came with the kit I never had a leak from the tube fitting. Just the barb was not screwed into the thread of the pump/res hard enough if you understand what I am saying. No leak from actual tube/barb fitting.

 

[adi518]

You gotta make better pictures than these. If you have a decent point & shoot camera, then you should be able to put it under proper light, disable flash and let it shoot. You can also define the size of the picture (less megapixel) right in your camera setting so it doesn't end up being this big.

If you use barbs, don't use barb sizes that need a clamp, the clamps are old-school and quite ugly in today's standards. If you still want to go with barbs, rather the more expensive compressions, then pick up 10/16mm tubing and Bitspower 1/2" stubby barbs. Combined, it looks great!

 

[jashon093]

OK I re-sized the images and thanks for the comments and tips but to me the clamps do not look bad they sort of blend in with the CPU block. Later I will do modifications to this kit but for now I am happy. Also I fixed the PCI-E 3.0 issue just needed to download a Nvidia patch.

 

[TwsT]

I'm interested to see why you went for barbs on a first watercooling build, but more interestingly why you haven't at least cable tied them?

I use compression fittings and have _never_ had a leak!

I use barbs without cable ties and have also never had a leak. (don't copyme though see my sig haha)

on a more serious note I find barbs look nicer than most compression fitting certainly easier to work with for first timers and I also find compression fittings are a pain in the bside for taking the system apart when you are ready to change.

 

[jashon093]

Here is a pic of temps @ full load prime 95 for half an hour:

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