I'll see where I can fit that pump of mine when it arrives and work it out from there. Filling is gonna be a pain in the rear regardless of where I put the pump though sadly -.-
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I'll see where I can fit that pump of mine when it arrives and work it out from there. Filling is gonna be a pain in the rear regardless of where I put the pump though sadly -.-
If I placed the pump directly below the res, how would I actually fill the res? Some sort of pipe going out of the back of the system or something or just dont attach the res until I have filled the loop outside of the case? (sorry for amazingly daft question)
No need to argue guys as I'll see what works best when it all arrives anyway. Still have a few things to do in regards to the case before I can do the watercooling anyway which is proving to be problematic. Need something to support the divider tray which separates the lower and mobo compartment due to the 240mm rad mod done to the bottom of it removing the hdd cage. I also need to drill some holes to secure the 240mm rad at the bottom of the case as well due to not wanting it to go walk about when I move my pc in a few months time lol.
My waterblocks have been posted to ocuk so just waiting to find out when they turn up from RJK or 5UB. Should get delivery of all of it this week though unless there's an unforseen delay.
My waterblocks have been posted to ocuk so just waiting to find out when they turn up from RJK or 5UB. Should get delivery of all of it this week though unless there's an unforseen delay.
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Took advantage of the low price of my RAM so added another 8gb set
All DIMMs are filled now so it looks rather good, plus the colour of the RAM matches the heatsink colour of my motherboard also, same with the pcb colour on the RAM and mobo!
Shame my gcards have brown pcbs.... although full waterblock + black backplate should sort that out
edit: removed the low quality picture as it has the invoice under it with all my address details lol
Took advantage of the low price of my RAM so added another 8gb set
All DIMMs are filled now so it looks rather good, plus the colour of the RAM matches the heatsink colour of my motherboard also, same with the pcb colour on the RAM and mobo!
Shame my gcards have brown pcbs.... although full waterblock + black backplate should sort that out
edit: removed the low quality picture as it has the invoice under it with all my address details lol
Gonna be a busy boy on friday as my housemates PC components are arriving so I'll be building that for him. I've sold him some items I'm upgrading from, incluiding my CPU cooler, so praying my watercooling stuff actually comes this week!
His spec is as follows:
i5 2500k
MSI P67A-C45 (use to be mine)
Coolermaster CM690II advanced (same)
8gb Crucial 1600 vengence blue
seagate 1tb hdd
60gb OCZ agility SATA3 SSD
Windows 7
MSI 6950 2gb
OCZ 600w stealthXsteam2 PSU (also sold to him from me)
Corsair H60 + apache black (same as above)
Should be a nice little machine! (little compared to my corsair 800D)
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I've also been doing some modding today but don't have a camera at the moment so I'll have to steal my girlfriends lol. I bought the case with a 240mm rad mod done to the bottom shelf of it, which I've smartened up today and added some dust filters to fill the gap. I've had to order another 90 degree SATA cable due to noticing that the 6gb upgrade kit for the hotswop bays was being bent by the plastic cover as I have 3 hard drives, so 2 90 degree bend cables and a straight one, which is the problem and is being replaced.
Looking at putting some sort of support for the tray and have a few ideas, yet I don't own ANY of the tools necessary to do it, so watch this space lol. Seen someone use a black wooden dowel as a support which actually works quite well, yet it wasn't secured, which is an issue for me as I will have to move the case at some point. Due to that, I've ordered some velcro addesive pads from OcUK to secure some components which may be loose, depending on what loop layout I choose (like whether I should suspend the pump below the res etc).
His spec is as follows:
i5 2500k
MSI P67A-C45 (use to be mine)
Coolermaster CM690II advanced (same)
8gb Crucial 1600 vengence blue
seagate 1tb hdd
60gb OCZ agility SATA3 SSD
Windows 7
MSI 6950 2gb
OCZ 600w stealthXsteam2 PSU (also sold to him from me)
Corsair H60 + apache black (same as above)
Should be a nice little machine! (little compared to my corsair 800D
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I've also been doing some modding today but don't have a camera at the moment so I'll have to steal my girlfriends lol. I bought the case with a 240mm rad mod done to the bottom shelf of it, which I've smartened up today and added some dust filters to fill the gap. I've had to order another 90 degree SATA cable due to noticing that the 6gb upgrade kit for the hotswop bays was being bent by the plastic cover as I have 3 hard drives, so 2 90 degree bend cables and a straight one, which is the problem and is being replaced.
Looking at putting some sort of support for the tray and have a few ideas, yet I don't own ANY of the tools necessary to do it, so watch this space lol. Seen someone use a black wooden dowel as a support which actually works quite well, yet it wasn't secured, which is an issue for me as I will have to move the case at some point. Due to that, I've ordered some velcro addesive pads from OcUK to secure some components which may be loose, depending on what loop layout I choose (like whether I should suspend the pump below the res etc).
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Setup my housemates PC today and it works nicely and got confirmation that my entire watercooling order has been shipped for saturday delivery so it'll be with me tomorrow
Gonna take my time and build the loop tomorrow, so I'll update the thread at some point with the photos I take (won't be good quality though as I only have my phones camera
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Gonna take my time and build the loop tomorrow, so I'll update the thread at some point with the photos I take (won't be good quality though as I only have my phones camera
)
Just turned up gonna be a busy boy today! Quick question about PSU cycling. I need to unplug EVERYTHING don't I?
gonna be a busy boy today! Quick question about PSU cycling. I need to unplug EVERYTHING don't I?
Thanks will do. Also to fit the tubing on the barbs, I need to use hot water to soften the hose so I can fit it over the barb yeah?
Understood thanks. Looks like I have space for the pump at the bottom of my case but I'm confused by the inlet and outlet as it comes with no instructions :s there's an inlet and outlet then two other unamed ports. What do I need to put into these?
The alphacool res also comes with no instructions with 6 plus and at least 10 holes :s there's four small holes in the bottom and I have nothing to plug them with. ideas?
Can't tell what I need though. The res also doesn't come with any screws -.- proper nightmare setting this up lol
Its all done. Found out that the res is a dual setup in 1 tube with 3 of the stoppers on the top and bottom of it. The middle could be just left open as it doesn't affect the flow at all. Temps are VERY nice though on the max pump setting, although its a bloody annoying noise lol.
23/28C idle on both GPUs and 26C on the CPU with 43 on the CPU after 10 mins of BF3 with each gcard at 46C (99% usage)
CPU is back at 4.5ghz as well. Really impressed with the setup so far, yet it was a nightmare to actually assemble though with the tubing being VASTLY harder than I thought it was gonna be. Shot myself in the foot getting all straight barbs tbh as I've had to be really creative with my tubing layout lol. Had to use a few cable ties to stop kinks from forming in 3 areas also, which I didn't wanna do but its not too bad.
23/28C idle on both GPUs and 26C on the CPU with 43 on the CPU after 10 mins of BF3 with each gcard at 46C
(99% usage)CPU is back at 4.5ghz as well. Really impressed with the setup so far, yet it was a nightmare to actually assemble though with the tubing being VASTLY harder than I thought it was gonna be. Shot myself in the foot getting all straight barbs tbh as I've had to be really creative with my tubing layout lol. Had to use a few cable ties to stop kinks from forming in 3 areas also, which I didn't wanna do but its not too bad.
Before! by jjohnson2012, on Flickr
Self explanatory... first of two!
During! by jjohnson2012, on Flickr
Had a nightmare with the quality of the pads that EK supplied me with them being a mismatch between them and them being precut didn't fit anything, had to trim EVERYTHING to size.
After! by jjohnson2012, on Flickr
Finished the first one, took 2 1/2 hours in total to do both cards properly, including backplates!
I'll do some proper photos of the finished loop tomorrow instead of my crap camera pictures as my gf is lending me her camera
Just played some AVP on max everything and the higest temp including the GPUs was 42C lol. Loving the performance! Massive difference over air cooling.
White stuff?
second pic.
It looks white to me, jusyt wondered if RK have changed their thermal pads
Yeah, wasn't happy with them at all. The white ones came with the grey ones in the same packet. Both GPU kits had the same also. The white ones barely stuck and wasn't cut to the right sizes at all. The grey one was sticky and after cutting fit the vrms nicely.
Can't have been as I only got 1 stick of grey (which was about 1 1/2 inches long) with each kit. Got 3 decent length white strips with each though.
Just turned all my fans down via my fan controller to silent levels and tried trine 2, which is easily the hottest game in terms of temp for my SLI setup. Use to put my GPU1 to 90C on air :S
Whilst silent the top temp is 58C with the CPU overclocked on around 61C. Pretty good for inaudible! My external harddrive it literally louder than the PC on these settings :S
Whilst silent the top temp is 58C with the CPU overclocked on around 61C. Pretty good for inaudible! My external harddrive it literally louder than the PC on these settings :S
Still waiting for the mrs to bring her camera round lol. Gonna have to get some 90 degree fittings the next time I do some watercooling as the straight barbs are a nightmare to try and avoid kinks in tubing sadly. Got 2 kinks so far, which haven't affected temps or performance though, yet still dissapointing to see!
Bled the system and now when I move it there is no bubbles coming out of anything, nor can I hear any when I stop/start the system or rock the case. I'll keep checking it though regardless.
For my top rad (360), which way should I have the fans? Got some dust filters coming to keep the dust out of my case and so far they are blowing into the case from the top with an extraction fan at the back. The bottom rad (240) is sucking air into the case from the bottom, which I have 2 dust filters covering the gap where it was modded.
Bled the system and now when I move it there is no bubbles coming out of anything, nor can I hear any when I stop/start the system or rock the case. I'll keep checking it though regardless.
For my top rad (360), which way should I have the fans? Got some dust filters coming to keep the dust out of my case and so far they are blowing into the case from the top with an extraction fan at the back. The bottom rad (240) is sucking air into the case from the bottom, which I have 2 dust filters covering the gap where it was modded.