It's getting real hard!

TechMinerUK · 2 Dec 2015 at 20:18

I do like the look of Bitspower but my wallet definitely doesn't

I can't wait to see the system finished off but can you get the same finish on the revolver fittings by spraying them or will they look different to the original black ones? Also somehow I never noticed the temperature monitor device throughout the build for the LCD screen.

Either way I can't wait to see the finished build

savagesam117 · 2 Dec 2015 at 21:13

Neither does mine, P£11 for that T fitting.

I can't get this one bend right. Well close enough.. I think I need another fitting

Snookums · 2 Dec 2015 at 22:09

savagesam117 said:
Neither does mine, P£11 for that T fitting.

I can't get this one bend right. Well close enough.. I think I need another fitting

£11 for one fitting!! They may be beautiful but they do take the biscuit a little!

does this mean no finally update tonight?

savagesam117 · 2 Dec 2015 at 22:45

Snookums said:
£11 for one fitting!! They may be beautiful but they do take the biscuit a little!

does this mean no finally update tonight?

Yeah tell me about it! I got two normal fittings for that! My 90 degree one cost that too! Daylight robbery.

This does mean no finale update but you do get a bit of an update.. This evening hasn't been very successful

Snookums · 2 Dec 2015 at 22:55

savagesam117 said:
Yeah tell me about it! I got two normal fittings for that! My 90 degree one cost that too! Daylight robbery.

This does mean no finale update but you do get a bit of an update.. This evening hasn't been very successful

Fittings as a whole are expensive.

Thats unfortunate to hear, must be getting annoying now all these delays.

savagesam117 · 2 Dec 2015 at 23:03

Well parents off to bed means no more work as they get annoyed with the sound of the heat gun. I walked upstairs went to turn on my PC, forgot it's not there

So i'm on my laptop which doesn't process stuff quite so quickly and doesn't like too many things open, but it can run BF4 on high so it's got that going for it!

The first thing I done was strip and re-paste the blocks. I noticed card two (Which is now card one) when I took the block off there wasn't a great deal of paste on either two of the sides of the chip, which explains why that card was quite a bit hotter than card 1, which was odd as that was getting the fresh supply of cooler, coolant.

Anyway, both apart and back together with no problems at all.

Card all stripped and cleaned. I done one at a time incase something went wrong then I still had one working. I also managed to spill some coolant onto card 1 which he didn't like too much.

The paste is awesome, it comes with an epic little spreader thing which is well handy! Was having too much fun with it to get any pictures sadly.

All back together and clean too.

One 120mm radiator fixed into place after being flushed with some DI water.

I thought this bend would be close enough between the radiator and the CPU. I couldn't have been more wrong.

I got a bit carried away with bending and didn't take pictures but after much measuring, heating, tweaking, trimming we got there!

Not one of my prettiest and the pictures looks like there's loads of marks when there isn't, it looks quite neat in person. It also looks pretty drunk in the second picture. It's actually straight. I made sure of it!

Then it was time to go from GPU 1 to the newly found radiator..

This was first attempt with no measuring to make sure it was possible.

Hmm...

Something is not quite right here but i'm not sure what it is yet!

This is the point where my parents said goodnight so here I am..

I think tomorrow i'm going to have to crack open a new tube of tubing as I've just finished pack 1 of 3.

I've got to be up at 5am for work tomorrow, I work in retail and have to be there for 6am what is this!? and I don't finish until 6pm so i'm not sure if i'll have the energy to finish it tomorrow. I hope I can.

At least my fans from OcUK should come tomorrow. I've had a delivery from them every day this week

theaterix · 2 Dec 2015 at 23:58

savagesam117 said:
Well parents off to bed means no more work as they get annoyed with the sound of the heat gun. I walked upstairs went to turn on my PC, forgot it's not there So i'm on my laptop which doesn't process stuff quite so quickly and doesn't like too many things open, but it can run BF4 on high so it's got that going for it!

The first thing I done was strip and re-paste the blocks. I noticed card two (Which is now card one) when I took the block off there wasn't a great deal of paste on either two of the sides of the chip, which explains why that card was quite a bit hotter than card 1, which was odd as that was getting the fresh supply of cooler, coolant.

Anyway, both apart and back together with no problems at all.

Card all stripped and cleaned. I done one at a time incase something went wrong then I still had one working. I also managed to spill some coolant onto card 1 which he didn't like too much.

The paste is awesome, it comes with an epic little spreader thing which is well handy! Was having too much fun with it to get any pictures sadly.

All back together and clean too.

One 120mm radiator fixed into place after being flushed with some DI water.

I thought this bend would be close enough between the radiator and the CPU. I couldn't have been more wrong.

I got a bit carried away with bending and didn't take pictures but after much measuring, heating, tweaking, trimming we got there!

Not one of my prettiest and the pictures looks like there's loads of marks when there isn't, it looks quite neat in person. It also looks pretty drunk in the second picture. It's actually straight. I made sure of it!

Then it was time to go from GPU 1 to the newly found radiator..

This was first attempt with no measuring to make sure it was possible.

Hmm...

Something is not quite right here but i'm not sure what it is yet!

This is the point where my parents said goodnight so here I am..

I think tomorrow i'm going to have to crack open a new tube of tubing as I've just finished pack 1 of 3.

I've got to be up at 5am for work tomorrow, I work in retail and have to be there for 6am what is this!? and I don't finish until 6pm so i'm not sure if i'll have the energy to finish it tomorrow. I hope I can.

At least my fans from OcUK should come tomorrow. I've had a delivery from them every day this week

Looking good, but think the admins will have something to say about those naked pictures hehe, geekbanter

What fans are you getting?? Need some for my new rig, and for my H100.

TechMinerUK · 3 Dec 2015 at 18:02

As always looking good, those blocks look very nice fitted on the cards (They give it a beefy look) and don't worry about the tubing runs as when I did my build there were appeard to be marks on the tubing but as soon as the coolant ran through it they vanished.

I'm not quite sure about the last run though

koolpc · 3 Dec 2015 at 18:20

You are gifted mate. Keep going!

savagesam117 · 3 Dec 2015 at 20:07

TechMinerUK said:
As always looking good, those blocks look very nice fitted on the cards (They give it a beefy look) and don't worry about the tubing runs as when I did my build there were appeard to be marks on the tubing but as soon as the coolant ran through it they vanished.

I'm not quite sure about the last run though

Yeah the last run got redone and turned out pretty well. That first one was awful!

koolpc said:
You are gifted mate. Keep going!

I wouldn't say gift but thanks!

Should be finished tonight. Just got to get the tubing behind the case done including the drain port.. Going to be fun!

koolpc · 3 Dec 2015 at 20:10

Pics!!!!

savagesam117 · 3 Dec 2015 at 20:20

koolpc said:
Pics!!!!

Later this evening, don't worry. Want to get it finished then I'll put them up. Was just eating dinner so I thought I'd reply.

BriT · 3 Dec 2015 at 20:26

Look forward to them

. Still laugh at the title heh

savagesam117 · 3 Dec 2015 at 23:58

It's complete!!! And am I proud

The OcUK fans turned up today, they are so good!! Silent and work so well.

With the blocks repasted, I forgot the cpu but hey ho.. sitting happily at a idle temp of 25c.

Was hoping for a slightly better sticker, maybe with the OcUK logo on it.

So I left last night with no tubing from the gpu and rad to the pump. So today I had to make them up, also redo my GPU to 120mm Rad tube as the last was awful!

I was getting carried away and pictures got forgotten sadly. I am getting much better at this bending business!

Had to bend this slightly inwards so that I made good contact with the fitting.

This was my tube running from the rad to the inlet port on the pump, I made a bit of a boo boo which I was really annoyed about as the bends on this were perfect, the size everything on this was amazing! But can you guess what's wrong?

This was the bend from the rad into the drain port.

By this point my fingers were so used to the heat it didn't really matter where I held it!

I then added In my drain port.. Again, something else I didn't think about, wrong tube, this is the outlet, so it doesn't really drain at all.. I only realised this when I had to try and drain the loop as I had one leak where I forgot to tighten a fitting. I also added my water temp sensor onto the end with the valve open so it will read the temp.

Now to get this bend without getting the blue thing stuck I had to do it without which went.. Badly.. So here we are, I purposely kinked it as there was no way it was holding it's own without being really flat, I'm still getting a good flow rate and it's not causing me any issues. But i'm not happy with it by any means.

And BAM! They were done!

And then time to bleed and fill the loop. I had to ramp up the pump from 2 up to 4 as it wasn't getting enough flow to complete the loop but everything is fine now.

And now the pictures can talk..

Here are some in my room powered up.

My lighting hasn't turned up yet but that's an easy install once here and Pexon hasn't got back to me yet, he did say he was pretty busy so i'll let him off

But other than them two little things, it's finished infact i'm typing this from it now!

Temps are much better now and I'm really, really, really happy with how it's gone.

Luggs · 4 Dec 2015 at 08:21

Nice work matey, your tubing looks amazing. You should be well chuffed for a great looking build. And now your parents can sleep soundly at night too

lol

tyler_jrb · 4 Dec 2015 at 10:12

Looks very nice!, some of those bends are rediculously tight. Id never get it done if mine were like that. Nice work!
just started doing hard-line for mine yesterday. Halfway through now

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TechMinerUK · 4 Dec 2015 at 17:28

Excellent build, you've done a cracking job on the bends as hard tubing is certainly a challenge but it has paid off as the rig looks great. I must admit I am a sucker for the black and white colour scheme but this rig certainly does it justice.

It will look even better with the LED strips but it has definitely been worth watching this build log

savagesam117 · 4 Dec 2015 at 18:17

Luggs said:
Nice work matey, your tubing looks amazing. You should be well chuffed for a great looking build. And now your parents can sleep soundly at night too lol

Thanks. It did take a while but it was worth it in the end. Haha, they will indeed. I'm sure it won't be long until I change something though

tyler_jrb said:
Looks very nice!, some of those bends are rediculously tight. Id never get it done if mine were like that. Nice work!
just started doing hard-line for mine yesterday. Halfway through now .

In all honesty the bends weren't that hard, it was just finding a way that they would still look good and not kink or anything.

TechMinerUK said:
Excellent build, you've done a cracking job on the bends as hard tubing is certainly a challenge but it has paid off as the rig looks great. I must admit I am a sucker for the black and white colour scheme but this rig certainly does it justice.

It will look even better with the LED strips but it has definitely been worth watching this build log

Yeah, the LED's should really make the coolant 'pop' and bring the system together as at the moment you can't really see anything through the window.

I wouldn't hesitate to do hardline again, that's for sure!

Thanks everyone for the comments. I'll have an update with cabling and LED's in the not to distant future.

Snookums · 4 Dec 2015 at 19:01

Nice to see it finally in all its glory. Some of those bends look perfect! The case itself looks outstanding, one simple mod changed so much! So the hardline was worth it in the end?

You're making me want to go hardline and I haven't even started my normal loop yet!

savagesam117 · 4 Dec 2015 at 19:59

Snookums said:
Nice to see it finally in all its glory. Some of those bends look perfect! The case itself looks outstanding, one simple mod changed so much! So the hardline was worth it in the end?

You're making me want to go hardline and I haven't even started my normal loop yet!

Is hardline worth it? Not really.. Nothing has changed. But, It looks so much nicer that's the reason I done it. My older WC set up worked just as well, well a bit worse but that's the case that's helped with that as the H440 is awful for airflow.