Jizzy's Log

[MikeTimbers]

Looking good. I like the way you’ve put the old cooler around that Heatkiller. Hopefully they’ll perform well.

 

[Jizzy]

That was my main idea, but the real test will be once the rest of my parts come. As it was suitable with the corsair cooler, there should be no reason its not suitable for the custom loop. It saves me buying the stick on heat syncs that some people do with a universal gpu block.
It also saves me a load of money rather then buying 2 x full card blocks would have been £200-250.

 

[Jizzy]

Small update, I finally have a date for the delivery of my missing parts. Tuesday.
So tomorrow I'll take everything apart, tidy up all wiring etc. getting bits out of the way for working on and clearance etc. I'll post some photos tomorrow.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

I used alphacool GPX block with Aluminium heatsink under Gigabyte and Asus 970 blower style units. Worked a treat. Could actually fill it with water and seal it off and fan would keep if cool when in idle

 

[Jizzy]

Some more photos. You'll begin to see an emerging theme that I'm heading towards.

New cables:


Bits & bobs:


A before picture with glass side panel:


Without Panel:



My professional cable management:


In Progress:


Finished, sort of:


Thats all for now, I could have done more with the wires etc. but as most of it will be taken out again tomorrow, and many wires will be swapped or moved no point in spending too much time for a couple of days.

 

[Jizzy]

Ok so finally an update, my parts finally came and I've build it, then took it apart again and built it again. For now I'll be posting this in stages when I get time, Stage 1.

The begining ... the missing parts finally here.


One barebones case. Minimalistic look.


Let the mess begin. Front radiator & fans in.


Top radiator now in. Testing position of res.




This showed my first not so major issue, the case has a built in square part on the shroud to allow the radiator to be mounted to the bottom of the case and come out, the trouble was, they did not seem to line up.


I thought for now I'll move on and worry about that later, thought I should put the mobo power cables on and found issue no. 2. The clearance between the rad exits, the mobo VRM heatsync and the fans was small. Too small.

 

[Jizzy]

Stage 2.

Found an old 120mm fan chrome cover, fitted and did the job, so ordered x3 from OCUK


Fitted first tube:


Then came across my next issue, what I was planning to do was have a 90 degree coming off the CPU block opposite to the one used, but realised it wouldn't clear the RAM.



So went straight from CPU block to radiator with the tubing.

Black fan covers had arrived also.




Going to try and get the rest of this posted tonight as if I don't it probably won't happen for a while with CODMW coming out tomorrow.

 

[Jizzy]

Stage 3.

Seems I missed on taking a few photos, but graphics card in, and pipe to it done. Res in and pipe to that too (looks wet cause I'd cleaned it before putting in.





Shroud test fit:


First filling:





Final photos for now.

 

[Jizzy]

So if you notice, I setup as a solo graphics card, however I actually had 2 near the start of my log. The other was still in use as a hybrid up till the build so I had to convert that too.
I'll stop typing now and just spam photos as i've already shown with the other card.

 

[Jizzy]

Here it is again with 1 1080ti, before adding the other.


Now the pair together again:




And in they go.



Lastly, my cable management ... well its better then it was.

 

[Jizzy]

Now the final photos.
Lights off

Lights on


Some extras:

 

[Jizzy]

I will also update to say that I received the replacement upgrade H115i Pro RGB through corsair support about a week ago. My use of corsair customer support has been positive.
I now have a H115i to sell and re-coup some of the money from the watercooling parts.