my dual 360 rads in my 800d are finished

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so 2 weeks after deciding on the kit for my first watercooled set up it has evolved into this and I am very happy at least until the credit card bill arrives

 

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Now comes the testing fun...

 

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Did you mod the case to fit in the bottom 360 or is it just sitting there after removing the lower drive cage?

yep, had to remove the hdd cage, drill out the bottom of the case, fit the rad then put the sides of the cage back

 

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Looks Great, Really nice job and colour scheme.

Gotta say though a motherboard as nice as that needs to be accompanied by a Chipset block. xD

"Damn the expense!"

Really nice build though would love to see some Temps. =]

yep, mobo block is the next thing, ioh hit 68 when testing 4.2, gotta love the ROG connect
and yeah "damn the expense"

 

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Spot on that mate!!! I hope mine will look somewhere near! Ive gone for the 2 rs triples and new as well. Figured it best as its gonna be for the long haul this case. What is the gpu your running?

did u measure your PSU ? mine is 150mm long so has 30mm clearance to rad

GPU is a 5970, with the airfan on it looks like a beast and weighed 1000g, but the air fan weighed 830g, without it it doesnt look much for the money
looking forward to turning it up

 

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Now that i DOOOOOO like! i like that a lot. Very simple but clean and pretty.

Nice job with cable management.

Do you have two loops or dual rads single loop?

Looking good! Chipset block required though, and at least one more GPU.

What's the spec of it?

changed my sig to include spec

I think these have just come down in price for me

 

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I'd do away with the red spirals and use black tubing. Looks good though.

yep, hard to decide, I hoped the spiral would stiffen the tube cos it is quite a long straight run to the top pump and it sags a bit.

But there is a lot of black in there already and I have to leave something to fiddle with later

 

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any chance you could go into more detail.

perhaps show us how you put the rad in the bottom?

Lots of people seem to remove both sides of the lower hdd to fit a rad in the bottom of the case, then the shelf above the PSU droops.

I wanted to fit a 120.3 in the bottom cos
1. hadnt seen anyone else do it
2. I bought a RS360 for the top but wanted to change it to a deeper rad and hated to waste it
3. seemed like it would balance the triple fan outtake at the top
4. the space was wasted

first plan was to cut a hole and mount a grill over it. So off with the feet

drill off 3 rivets on the front

and grind off 1 rivet on the top of the HDD cage ( which was a bit tricky and I scuffed my paint )

put the grill on to mark out holes

I was planning to mount the rad in the middle of the bottom of the case at this point and marked the mounting holes before drilling...
I put the fan in to just have a look and realised if I mounted it just off centre it would fit perfectly against the HDD cage and the mount screws for the rad lined up with holes in the bottom grill

I was a bit nervous about making the first cut, so I screwed up the rad to look at how to mount the grill ;

Instead of cutting a hole, I thought why not use the grill as a template for drilling 200 holes ?

 

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a couple of battery charges later my drill was blunt....

then to support the shelf, I snipped and bent the cage

I put a couple of screws where the rivets had been and it worked.

The rad fans can now blow thru the HDD bay, but as I only have 2 SSds I am not worried about the heat.

I mounted the second pump where it would let me add another GPU if I need to, but I want to test it out under water first

 

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Now that i DOOOOOO like! i like that a lot. Very simple but clean and pretty.

Nice job with cable management.

the advantage of making one loop then the other meant I could put it back together the second time more carefully when I knew what wires I had to deal with, it didnt look like this first time

 

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I guess I need to vote for a build log section at case central, once I fell off the front page I let the updating slide ...
Trying not to epeen but rjks score on the rampage thread #1244 was 26239

 

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need to clock the 5970 now, but the system is noisier than I hoped, tried setting the fans to silent but the temps now the case is under my desk are getting a bit high, maybe a fan controller is simplest ?
also need to sort ssd times

 

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Yeah but you have a 5970 so its not a fair comparison. He's getting that off 1 GPU


Do like the x2 360 rad mod, very interesting.

I know my place really! not sure the scores make any difference irl

thx on the loops, I hadnt seen one before but now eclectic has one too and he has 140s in the roof

 

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Holy sheet, you drilled the mesh yourself , brafreakingvo bro , really well done, looks spot on.

very weird !
compared to your build a few holes is nothing !
I went to bed dreaming about how to make a case from scratch using mesh and there you are in the morning !, my thought were started by looking at the LV3000..
the idea of using some heat fins from under floor heating to have the exterior of the case as a giant rad, but I am on the other side of the time / work scale

 

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I'm confused. I've just realised that your Drive Bay res supports 2 pumps. Why Dont you use both pumps in that res so you Dont need to have the pump mounted under the GPU.

I saved £ 5 and only ordered the res with mounts for one pump, a couple of days before I decided to add the second loop, I was too eager to start

 

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the build log was in a seperate thread, excuse my newbness and I will stick on the end of this one so its all in one place ....

Well hardly anything from my original picking list made it.
Trying to decide on which ASUS mobo and I saw the Rampage and was powerless to resist.
The red and black led onto Corsair Dominator RAM and the search for an older Corsair HX620 with a red label.
It took 5 different suppliers to get everything here within 3 days.

I have looked at lots of builds here and know there will be lots of tweaks, so I decided to get a basic loop running and see how it goes.

The reason/ justification for the build is to show my son ( who has just started his GCSE IT ) whats inside the boxes he loves so much ...

But that means I have to wait for him to get home from school before I can start...

 

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the loop went in pretty easy for a first timer, but a couple of things I need to sort ;

the pipe work is kind of saggy. Will some anti coil keep it in position ?

the writing on the cpu block is upside down, not sure what to do about that ?

but i am very happy with the match of the xspc front and the blu ray player

I didnt want to have to try to match the brushed aluminium with the dvd door.

its time to fire it up and test it now...

 

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2 schoolboy errors ;

I followed the rampage manual order of installation, but you cant fit the bluetooth when the mobo is in the case, grr

I forgot the 6gb sata ssd cant go in the hotswap bay... guess I can remove a backplane

but first post works apart from sata

 

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just waiting for some braided cables and stage 1 is complete,
ordered another 360 rad for the base, it will be interesting to see how that goes.
I am hoping it will mean I can remove the 3 corsair stock 140mm fans.
very happy with the Rampage mobo~ oc via a netbook

I will have few days to enjoy it before fitting another loop

 

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It's a Hanns-G, it says it narb

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-001-HS&groupid=17&catid=1120&subcat=


great for reading pdfs at work

hope to set up two 19" monitor in portrait either side in eyefinity soon...