My new dual loop sli watercooling! (lots of big pics)

matt100

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Right.. I've had a dual loop setup for a while (well.. a while for me.. 3 months I think) always had some issues with it.. namely...

too many kinks
too small tubing (thin walled 1/2")
bad routing for sli (1 maze 4 turned 90 degrees to the first to give the tubing a big loop to avoid kink)
bog standard green coolant

And finally, most importantly the 2nd pump was residing in my 3.5" bays leaving me room for only 1 hdd which was half full and also we just moved to a digital camera so I wanted some backup options be them RAID/dantz etc.

So.. I'm finished.. its done, here are some pics of my exploits!

Before:
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(see little yellow cable ties holding up all the kinks?)

disassembly and reveal of trade secrets for tidy wiring!

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Next the 120.1 that has air sucked over it.. this is 3 months of dust in a non smoking household! (plenty of talc around with the baby though)

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needless to say the filter has gone back in.. stuff the noise!
 
Right.. really getting it to bits now...

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(started changing my mind at this point)

Water kit drained/spilt all over kitched..

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and after what seemed like hours of cutting (3 meters of tubing and I have 4" left!!!)

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note the dyes.. the blue is allegedly dark blue and the pink is allegedly blood red! whats more I'm only supposed to have half the dye I have for blood red!
 
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going back in.. and with the thicker tubing it really didn;t want to know.. many cuts received!

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I had to do some in situ changes to the sli bridge again as I had cut too much pipe and cocked up a pipe route (hence the half empty tube)

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but then.......

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ITS IN!!! yes I have a cable clip over the sli link but it's only one (red one removed now) and it is a hella tight bend so I can live with that.
 
Obligatory darkness shot..
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would you believe these pics are with a 7.2mp sony dsc? Just goes to show how bad things can perform in the hands of people who just won;'t read manuals ;)

So.. its working, its much nicer, much quieter (due to inclusion of 2 papst fans rather than vantecs) it fits better (bad length on gfx 2 to rad on first pic made window hard to get back in) it's not leaking as I can tell and I have 2 hard drives!

Success all round.. shame the red isn't red but hey.. my 4 year old girl loves it and believes me when I say I did it for her.. :p

Here endeth another chapter in the life of mr "I do it because I want to prove I can"..

Any comments welcome!
 
weescott said:
Very nice! Job well done!

Did it take much to get the 120.1 in the front there?

I must get round to adding my second loop sometime! Darn i just remembered, I need ANOTHER new motherboard first!:rolleyes:
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thats the extent of it, I can never put the drive cage back because I had to remove the bracket and I have no post beep anymore cos the speaker's gone :D
 
no I meant the lower drive bay.. the floppy bay is still there, if you look at the bottom of the case there's a series of holes, thats where the speaker and a sliding cage mechanism for the hard drive cage was.

Its the thing with the holes in at the bottom right of the case

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it was fixed in with rivets that I had to dremel off from the underneath of the case.
 
welshtom said:
sweet Matt :).

Everytime on that on kitchen worktop eh ;)

you need a shed my man.

Tom
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lol.. got one.. a big one!

Its just down the bottom of my garden which without wanting to sound like I'm bragging is too far away from the house for me to be bothered using (about 150ft) especially considering I've neglected the garden so its dark, has no path and is covered in grass/leaves etc. 2006 is garden project year!

As far as pc work goes I only use it for dremeling..

Besides its cold and wet and there are big spiders in it :eek:
 
harris1986 said:
hmm there was a time when, watercooling proved to be a lot cooler than air but my freezer 64 pro cools my opty at 2.8ghz at temps of 28c idle and 41 load :S
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thanks for your input.. :confused:

problem is it'll be a hell of a lot louder doing it and I guess it probably looks a bit dull.

This isn't an exersize in low temps for me and quite honestly I'd be a bit worried with a 13 degree idle-load difference. (dunno whats in your opty but I also have to get 1.55v into this x2 to get it to 2650mhz)

Anyway, it's whatever floats your boat, I got tired of having huge great lumps of copper hung off my motherboards
 
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