New water build for 1080ti

haszek · 23 Mar 2017 at 20:51

I had a drain valve and every time it's going more efficient, quicker as you get more experience, you find your way etc.

I personally stayed away from pastel, no point to get messy while starting with watercooling imo

roysters · 23 Mar 2017 at 20:53

I'll have no bloody money left by the time i get enough experience!! To think I'd I want to change the cpu i have to drain the entire thing. Flush it with more water and re-assemble

haszek · 23 Mar 2017 at 21:03

Technically you don't have to. You can just undo 4 screws on the cpu block and gently move it on the side, with tubes attached ( I saw jayz2cents on his test bench doing it, I think on the video where he was testing different things as thermal paste

)

roysters · 23 Mar 2017 at 21:05

Ha. But obviously draining it first?

So am i right in thinking to clean it i can just put the drain valve in a bucket and them just keep feeding water into the resovoir?

haszek · 23 Mar 2017 at 21:11

Not draining it

Not sure how you setup your drain valve. Is it on a separate tube? or fitted to a component? I normally have extra compression fitting attached to a longer tube, which I'm attaching to valve whenever I want to drain, just gives flexibility to drain away from the case.

roysters · 23 Mar 2017 at 21:13

I got a y splitter compression fitting coming from the radiator and bunged the drain valve on that... probably wrong.. I'll found out sooner or later!

geordiejc · 23 Mar 2017 at 22:33

May i ask few quesitions;

1. How much louder/quieter going from air to water at idle/gaming load? - i know this is hard to quantify - but try

lol
2. how much did you spend in the end?

i've wanted to do this for ages but never took the leap of faith so i'm very interested in your reply mate.

cheers

roysters · 24 Mar 2017 at 01:29

well im still experimenting. On air i could hear my PC in the background, now its pretty much silent. in gaming its also pretty silent. When i had my 1080ti on air it was like a mini hoover. Now its constantly about 20 > 35 degrees under load.

I just turned the fans off and the system went up only 3 degrees... i guess the radiators are doing their job!

I probably spent about 600 on everything, but this included the block for 1080ti

it can get super expensive

Dirk Diggler · 24 Mar 2017 at 02:21

roysters said:
ok so i thought id show you the final thing (still need to add come coloured cables, etc)

im quite pleased! needed less to say i ran into about 200 problems and a lot of late nights... i actually did it twice! anyhow, temps are all good, no leaks.. and i added a drain valve!! big mistake i left out on first attempt

Which case is that? I thought you said earlier it was a 540 but your PSU can be seen there?

roysters · 24 Mar 2017 at 11:07

Ha yes! I found the 540 awkward to work with. I also wanted to mount the resovoir in the front. So i started again with the fractal design Define S case. Pleasure to work with.

Dirk Diggler · 24 Mar 2017 at 11:22

I actually find the Air540 brilliant to work with as the PSU is out the way. It just shows how we can all have a different view, which makes for varied builds.

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roysters · 24 Mar 2017 at 15:55

I do agree having power supply out of the way is nice. But having a 360 radiator i couldn't put it in the bottom. So it had to go in front, then the 240 was a squeeze at the top. Fractal S is so wide that

roysters · 24 Mar 2017 at 16:20

also my pump/reservoir combo was fatter

Dirk Diggler · 24 Mar 2017 at 17:36

roysters said:
I do agree having power supply out of the way is nice. But having a 360 radiator i couldn't put it in the bottom. So it had to go in front, then the 240 was a squeeze at the top. Fractal S is so wide that

Yea, I had to mod the case a wee bit to get what I wanted, but that was part of the fun for me.