My new water cooled build log :)

How are you getting on with the d5 duel pump/res. i have heard some mixed reviews on them.

looking to change from tube res to bay.
 
Your safe enough afaik as long as you don't have copper and aluminium in direct contact with each other. Saying that you won't find many aluminium wc parts, when aluminium oxidises it pretty much pitts and dissolves.

If I remember I'll take some pics at work of what happens when untreated salt water destroys aluminium :p

Edit: gregster, your lamptron, did you set the jumpers to display rpm?
 
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gregster said:
Like you I have heard about different metals but not sure. PGI will confirm or soembody else in the know
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Space Monkey said:
I asked the same question and basically if you use a good premix fluid like the Mayhems then you should be ok as they have anti corrosion inhibitors in them :)
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pgi947 said:
Your safe enough afaik as long as you don't have copper and aluminium in direct contact with each other. Saying that you won't find many aluminium wc parts, when aluminium oxidises it pretty much pitts and dissolves.

If I remember I'll take some pics at work of what happens when untreated salt water destroys aluminium :p

Edit: gregster, your lamptron, did you set the jumpers to display rpm?
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Thanks everybody
 
opstrat said:
How are you getting on with the d5 duel pump/res. i have heard some mixed reviews on them.

looking to change from tube res to bay.
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It is quite noisy on full but I only run it on full when going for a big benchmark. I have it on roughly 3.5 speed (max 5) and it is very quiet. I will get some sponge when I have some free time and put this around the pump.

pgi947 said:
Your safe enough afaik as long as you don't have copper and aluminium in direct contact with each other. Saying that you won't find many aluminium wc parts, when aluminium oxidises it pretty much pitts and dissolves.

If I remember I'll take some pics at work of what happens when untreated salt water destroys aluminium :p

Edit: gregster, your lamptron, did you set the jumpers to display rpm?
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Yes PGI, it was just bad luck. I moved all the jumpers around to see if I could get any display. These things happen :)
 
Ah that's unlucky :(

My lamptron has been rock solid so far, even going to see if bitspower temp sensors work on it :D
 
Admiral Huddy said:
Good call on the watercooling kit. I did wonder why I couldn't see the parts in the photo.

What was the case like to build with? How would you rate it?
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This case is the easiest case I have had to work with. So much room and so many cable feeding holes, it just makes life easy to do cable management. I took off the bottom 3 HDD bays in prep for when the GPU blocks eventually arrive and this was just a case of a couple of screws and a couple of thumb screws.

If I have one criticism, it is the right side of ALL cases do not leave much room and as I have Bitfenix braided cable extensions for the 24pin/8pin/pci-e, when shutting the right hand side case door, it is very very tight (needs quite a firm hand to hold it while putting the thumb screws in). I wish they would make a little more room so cable blocks do not have to be squashed when closing the side panel.
 
what a genuinely great looking system.

i didn't think the board and coolant would go but it works well

good work :)
 
gregster said:
If I have one criticism, it is the right side of ALL cases do not leave much room and as I have Bitfenix braided cable extensions for the 24pin/8pin/pci-e, when shutting the right hand side case door, it is very very tight (needs quite a firm hand to hold it while putting the thumb screws in). I wish they would make a little more room so cable blocks do not have to be squashed when closing the side panel.
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Im with you on that, yet to own a case that gives you a bit of extra room at the rear to save you spending an hour clamping everything in place just to make sure the door go's on, an extra 10-15mm is all it would take as well.
 
Looks really good.

What's temps like for the cpu with that block? I wanted that block but it wasn't in stock so went for a supremacy instead.
 
Isn't much if anything between the Raystorm and Supremacy performance wise. To give you an idea of how well it holds up, a torture run on my 3820 @ 5.1ghz/1.53v gives me sythetic stress temps of around 75c, 24/7 clock of 4.75ghz/1.4v sits around 50-55c.
 
*Rich* said:
Looks really good.

What's temps like for the cpu with that block? I wanted that block but it wasn't in stock so went for a supremacy instead.
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Thanks :)

Idle sits at 50C with slow fans on the rad and under load at 4.6GHZ @ 1.32V, it goes to 62C. At 5GHZ with 1.495V under load, it goes to ~75C (I ran prime95 for 30 mins I think). I expect when I have the 2 GPU's cooled with the extra 240 rad, it will be a little warmer under load but not by much.

I only did the 5GHZ to see what 3Dmark11 score I could get :p Everyday clocks are 4.6GHZ @ 1.32V
 
It doesn't seem to move much then on everyday clock does it? about 12'c that's good. What speed do you have the pump on?
 
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