Frosty's 780Ti X79 Overhaul

Silent_Scone · 6 Jan 2014 at 20:50

tipes said:
Me neither now - had great problems recently with Lamptron. What fan controller are you going to use?

Mark

I've gone for a couple of Lian-Li dial ones. Can't be done with the touch screen stuff. Still running passive on one 780 Ti till they arrive. Although I am enjoying the silence

Waiting on the Phyobia SLi fittings.

Last card done though

Silent_Scone · 7 Jan 2014 at 12:13

They do look smart

Gets hot too mind you

. Am tempted to see load temps without.

Adjustable SLi fittings arrived

Silent_Scone · 7 Jan 2014 at 13:19

Very nearly. I'm waiting on the fan controllers still but going to put the cards in tonight.

Also still need to decide how I'm going to mount the 4 SSDS

Silent_Scone · 8 Jan 2014 at 10:39

whyscotty said:
Velcro?

Aye I've got some velcro from Homebase

quick snap from last night.

Temps: 4960X @ 4.7Ghz (1.4V) 60C max

GPUs - idle 20-23-22 - Load 40c - 41c - 43c

As I expected from experimenting with the ref cooler the lower temps make the core much more stable. Where as on air I was able to hit 1240mhz as a maximum, not a playable clock either. With a quick play last night I was able to hit 1290Mhz (1.150v).

Firestrike Air Score: 11900

Firestrike Water Score: 12300

Heaven 4.0 Air Score: 1714

Heaven 4.0 Water Score: 1832

Had to use the drain valve to change a tube, works really well. Excuse the mess

Silent_Scone · 8 Jan 2014 at 14:27

That was after heaven and firestrike, 60c was the max

. Could be anything, fan speed, rad coverage, pump speed, run length.

I got worse temps with just the CPU on a 420mm loop. 76C @ 1.4v. More rad space the better

Silent_Scone · 8 Jan 2014 at 15:59

Cheers Greg. It was actually half your fault that I did all this in the first place, as when I saw your CPU temps under load in the Tomb Raider bench I realised just how lack luster one 420mm radiator was lol

Silent_Scone · 8 Jan 2014 at 21:08

Not done it yet bud just put them all in the base of the case

Silent_Scone · 15 Jan 2014 at 16:16

Nothing much to add. Have just been enjoying having it up and running again

Temps on GPUs hover around 40-50C underload after a long stint - water temperate between 30-38C when all three cards are in use.

I still haven't been bothered to clock all three cards in sync. I know that one of them is a terrible clocker, so am going to have to fiddle a fair bit to get a decent overclock going in Tri SLI.

Silent_Scone · 18 Jan 2014 at 15:59

Cosimo said:
Good job on the build.

That drain valve is great and I'll do that on my build. I'm trying to work out how you loop works. What is connected here:

Bottom of the gpu block. I've just not fitted it in the photo. Thanks

Silent_Scone · 19 Jan 2014 at 18:23

Cheers

TBH Water makes so much sense and now the Mrs doesn't have to hear 3 Ti fans screaming away in the evening

Does anyone know where I can get a side panel for a 900d in the UK?

Silent_Scone · 22 Jan 2014 at 20:10

Need my camera back, but here's another shot I've just taken on the phone. Waiting on 2.5" adapters for the SSDs to mount properly and a white LED strip for the bottom / side.

Silent_Scone · 23 Jan 2014 at 15:20

Thanks guys. Am very pleased with it.

Silent_Scone · 24 Jan 2014 at 09:47

Kaapstad said:
Looking good

Which quick disconnects did you use ?

Cheers mate. QD3s.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-102-KA

off tubing

and 1/4G threaded males on rads / GPU block. I decided not to fit them directly to the CPU block as frankly I wasn't happy even with the push pull how much pressure I was having to apply on top of the CPU.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ktdetailseite&emcs2=WC-102-KA&emcs3=WC-107-KA

whyscotty said:
Nicely done Mr Frosty

Ta Neil

Silent_Scone · 24 Jan 2014 at 14:03

On the subject of QD3s these just arrived. It's just a female to female ring to two 1/4G threaded male QD3s, in the event I need to remove the GPUS from the loop entirely

Silent_Scone · 25 Jan 2014 at 21:44

Fitting Silverstone white LED strip to light up the case a little...

Idle water temps after being on all day...

Silent_Scone · 5 Feb 2014 at 10:21

Small update:

Purchased another XSPC (green) temp monitor to keep a check on air temps before they leave the case.

Also finally got around to buying a three way EVGA SLi bridge

Quick shot with the Silverstone LED strip fitted near top radiator.

Silent_Scone · 7 Feb 2014 at 17:44

EVGA bridge arrived, and also fitted another temp monitor for ambient case temps. Green for air, blue for water

. Idle

Also I've decided to cut into the side panel and fit a 230mm fan for an intake. The apparent downfall of maximising all inlets with rads is there isn't much in the way of cool air getting in.

For the most part it's not a problem, but after a heavy stint on Tomb Raider it became apparent that the inside was starting to suffer a tiny bit. Hopefully should get that cut and done over the weekend

Silent_Scone · 8 Feb 2014 at 20:48

Lol! Not a bad shout

this 230mm fan is going to put a sizeable dent in the GPU temps as well

. Won't be able to cut it till next week now as need mates tools

Silent_Scone · 10 Feb 2014 at 12:31

Cheers, yeah the white LED give off a nice effect! Not normally into LED / fans etc

230mm fan arrived, time to mock up the side panel

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Silent_Scone · 10 Feb 2014 at 13:44

Every little helps

Should make a sizeable dent in ambient temps

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Bigger the better really as the rig is fairly quiet at the moment, adding a 180mm or lower would be a little too loud, or louder any who

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