My First Water Cooled Build
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It's OK, I'm not making myself clear.
I am having two rads, one in top chamber and one in bottom chamber, as shown in photos. I have x4 fans for each rad. Really I just need to know which side of the rads the fans should be mounted - the front of the rad, or the back of the rad (as I have at present in the photos). Sorry if it's not clear.
I am having two rads, one in top chamber and one in bottom chamber, as shown in photos. I have x4 fans for each rad. Really I just need to know which side of the rads the fans should be mounted - the front of the rad, or the back of the rad (as I have at present in the photos). Sorry if it's not clear.
Yeah, but when you get the res and cards in it doesn't look so empty.
By the time I mount the front HDD bays it will look fairly full I think, with options to install more rads in the bottom chamber if and when needed.
On another note, I had to drill the case today to mount the res properly. I wanted to get the pump directly under the res. More than that, I needed to move res away the right to make room for the HDD cage when they arrive. So I think this was the right decision, and here the res is mounted, with an improvised fillport at the top. Lots of cutting I'm afraid.
Tubing on mobo is not the real stuff - just getting a feel for where things need to go.
Regards.
By the time I mount the front HDD bays it will look fairly full I think, with options to install more rads in the bottom chamber if and when needed.
On another note, I had to drill the case today to mount the res properly. I wanted to get the pump directly under the res. More than that, I needed to move res away the right to make room for the HDD cage when they arrive. So I think this was the right decision, and here the res is mounted, with an improvised fillport at the top. Lots of cutting I'm afraid.
Tubing on mobo is not the real stuff - just getting a feel for where things need to go.
Regards.
Sorry about that! Just hope the thread is useful for you, one way or another!
Take care.
Have gone an unorthodox route. Put tubing behind the mothrboard - I don't like cluttering the chambers with tubing. Waiting for a new EK bridge (quad link) so I can use the x2 16 PCIe on the mobo. At the moment one is in x8, meaning my cards would only run at that. Hope it works. Black tubing is just temporary.
Hi Illuz - don't mind at all 
I've lost count to be honest - but roughly
600 pounds for the case (but the case is really a luxury so you could save a lot on that)
Watercooling stuff - including fans, rads, res, x2 gpu blocks, 1 cpu block, compression fittings, tubing - roughly 900 quid. I know, I know, but you could save a packet if you just went with barbs and not comp fittings. I bought too many anyway, so overspent there.
The only hardware I have bought is the mobo, cpu and ram, which in all came to about 800 quid. I have the gpus (x2 gtx 570s) drives, fan controller, optical drives already, so I saved there. If I'd had the money I would have upgraded the 570 to the 670s but that's another 600 pounds, which was too much for me in the end. The cards I have now are really good in sli (great scaling), so I'll stick with them until the 7 or 8 series comes out (if they come out).
So all in all, and it terrifies me to say so, I spent around 2300 pounds, but if I knew then what I know now, I could have saved a couple of hundred quid.
I've lost count to be honest - but roughly
600 pounds for the case (but the case is really a luxury so you could save a lot on that)
Watercooling stuff - including fans, rads, res, x2 gpu blocks, 1 cpu block, compression fittings, tubing - roughly 900 quid. I know, I know, but you could save a packet if you just went with barbs and not comp fittings. I bought too many anyway, so overspent there.
The only hardware I have bought is the mobo, cpu and ram, which in all came to about 800 quid. I have the gpus (x2 gtx 570s) drives, fan controller, optical drives already, so I saved there. If I'd had the money I would have upgraded the 570 to the 670s but that's another 600 pounds, which was too much for me in the end. The cards I have now are really good in sli (great scaling), so I'll stick with them until the 7 or 8 series comes out (if they come out).
So all in all, and it terrifies me to say so, I spent around 2300 pounds, but if I knew then what I know now, I could have saved a couple of hundred quid.
Yeah, it works better like that since, well, it just looks nicer than one. Still waiting on the hard drive bays 
@fantasticCG The case is a Caselabs STH10
@fantasticCG The case is a Caselabs STH10
Yeah, 60 quid.
So here it is the door on, side panel on, and in its new location (my shed).
Running prime 95 small ffts and it's hanging in there at 43-44 degress on all cores under full load so I'm guessing that's a reasonable temp. Sorry about pic quality. Did it in phone, which doesn't seem too good
Running prime 95 small ffts and it's hanging in there at 43-44 degress on all cores under full load so I'm guessing that's a reasonable temp. Sorry about pic quality. Did it in phone, which doesn't seem too good