My first watercooled rig...

Monkeyspaz5000 said:
My brain is now telling me I need a new case!

Naughty brain!!!!
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Depends on your mother board, I looked at a 60mm but think it would start to seriously encroach on your heatsinks, ram etc and also limit your mobo options in the future, and might stop you from plugging in power plugs etc at the top of the board... You could get round this by just mounting the rad inside the case and the fans on the outside, maybe with a shroud, but this won't be as tidy as having it all inside the case. Its worth wondering if that extra 13mm in thickness will give you noticeable gains compared to the sacrifices made in space. Might be 1c off temps maybe?
 
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You could mount it upside down if you either A) Cut a sqaure into the drivebay or B) shifted the mounting bracket much further down and drill new holes but then your front fan wouldn't line up with the rad very well.

However the 200 mm rad has a bleeding screw at the top and as i cut a section out of my drive bay to make it fit i can access this with the rad in still place if i slide out the front bay res.

I dont think bleeding is a big issue though, not that i found anyway. I just filled my loop up, and let it run for a few days. The res was slowly going down the whole time and needed topping up every 8 hours or so, this was due to air working it's way out of the loop. You can also rock your case back and forth to work air out the system quicker. It took quite a few days before the liquid level stopped going down. i found the air all comes out anyway given enough time. I can't hear any noise that sounds like trapped air in the rads. Draining it was much harder, water seems to 'rest' in multiple places, including inside the rads, and its quite hard to work it down towards the drain port.
 
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With GPUs on 1200 MHz and CPU on 4.4 GHz - Load range is between 47-53c on the GPUs and 44-47c on the CPU.

(When you reduce the OC on the GPU's, the CPU temps get much lower, so the GPUs add a few degrees onto the CPU).
 
Nice build, as Monkeyspaz says, even more impressive as its your first.

The black definatly looks better than chrome would, it fits with the white/black theme, chrome wouldnt go so nicely.

I wanted to insert LED's into my EK block too but was scared of doing anything to it as the top is frosted so i cannot see to drill a small hole for the LED's, do you have any photo of how you've done this?
 
cs2000 said:
Nice build, as Monkeyspaz says, even more impressive as its your first.

The black definatly looks better than chrome would, it fits with the white/black theme, chrome wouldnt go so nicely.

I wanted to insert LED's into my EK block too but was scared of doing anything to it as the top is frosted so i cannot see to drill a small hole for the LED's, do you have any photo of how you've done this?
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Thanks for the comments. The CPU block i am using had the holes drilled in already. So i used the tips detailed in this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18445228 to create my own LEDs. (I sourced some pre-wired LEDs and spare fan connectors off the web for a couple of quid). For the GPU blocks i have not gone as far as drilling in LED holes into these, as these don't come with holes pre-drilled like the CPU block did, so instead i just kind of rested them in position (sort of gently wedged inbetween the side of the block and the mother board) so they shine light into the blocks. Seems to work well if you are tidy with the wiring.

There are some projects logs on the web that i can find the link to if you really want where guys have drilled 2-3 holes along the side of their GPU blocks and put LEDs in. I just didn't want to go this far yet on my new EK blocks and i was still deciding on using LEDs in the first place. Maybe i'll drill them in one day, but for now resting them against the blocks works just as well.
 
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Its hard to say because i haven't tried it, most these things are proven once you try. Not helpful I know. I suggest maybe looking at pics of a 650D and the internal measurements. Maybe trawl 650D build logs and maybe someone has successfully done it. I know I have seen people who have offset the top rad because the 650D has many mounting holes to choose from. Whether they did that with a 60mm I don't know. Might work.
 
Final question for you mate!! lol

Any vibrations/resonance from your bay res/pump??

Can you secure it into place easily enough seeing as the case has quick release things.
 
You need to remove the quick release things (they just pop off) and then just screw it in the screw holes on the case as normal.

Its vibrates a bit yeah, but I eliminated it by using foam and bit of blue tack on the inside edges to make the fit as snug as possible.
 
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