New bits for my WC loop- a mini project

DoneADougalOnSofa · 26 Jun 2020 at 15:25

Bought some new bits for my water loop. Specifically, a Barrow distro board, custom-made for my ridiculous Thermaltake Level 20XT case.

There is one bloke on ebay who can supply the cable necessary to connect the RGB, so there's one of those coming, and the total lack of useful documentation meant I had to actually get the thing, before being able to work out what other bits I needed (which are currently in a DPD van, about half an hour away!).

Just starting the thread off with a couple of 'before' shots. I have a feeling this could take a few hours...

It'll look great. Honest!

This looks way better in the flesh than a photo. Really it does...

Thinking about sticking a couple of plecos in there to keep the glass clean

And it'll look something like this. But red. And with floppy tubing not hardline, as I'm not currently made of money!

pugheaven · 26 Jun 2020 at 16:16

can't wait for the finished article!!!

DoneADougalOnSofa · 26 Jun 2020 at 16:23

It's going to be a strip-down and full rebuild I think.

And I've run out of zip ties. Bum.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 26 Jun 2020 at 20:20

Cor, that Conductonaut is bizarre stuff, isn't it?
Doesn't want to spread, then suddenly decides to...

Still, that's the re-paste done. Now for the loop and all rest of it.

I'm taking some pics, but I'll edit them in later once she's back up and running

DoneADougalOnSofa · 27 Jun 2020 at 00:51

UPDATE

Job done! Pics will follow tomorrow, as I'm now thoroughly knackered, and can't be dealing with uploading tonight.

It was not smooth- my fingers are destroyed from some particularly uncooperative compression fittings, and I ended up wearing half a pint of Mayhems Blood Red, but all is now good.

And the Conductonaut appears to have lopped nigh on 10c straight off. I'm calling that a day right there.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 29 Jun 2020 at 00:13

Uploaded a few build pics, plus a minor accident... Chucked them in Spoiler tags as big photos!

DoneADougalOnSofa · 29 Jun 2020 at 00:16

And the finished article!
Well, nearly. Some fan extension cables and another bag of zip ties required, but almost there.
I do wonder what the hell I'm thinking sometimes...

DoneADougalOnSofa · 29 Jun 2020 at 00:19

Got a cable en route to connect the distro block's aRGB up to the motherboard, too.

Had to go back to latest BIOS rather than the older one I was using, as I was having stability issues, with hard crashes, and a flashing LED on the mobo indicating a memory hiccup. No amount of tweaking solved this.

As a result, I get PBO etc that's been optimised for the 3000 series chips.
It's pretty rubbish on a 2700X, so I've now plugged in a 4.3GHz all-core OC, at 1.4v, and I've just set my second-quickest R20 run ever at 69.4 degrees, so I'm settling on that for now!