[OcUK Staff Builds] rjkoneill's TJ07

Puppetmaster said:
Awesome build. Loving the colour scheme. Ram looks sweet too.

The fans you are using, are they these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-005-XG&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=4

If so, how quiet / noisy are they? What about the amount of air.
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they are the fans you linked yes

they push a lot of air at full speed but they are a bit noisy
i run the fan controller at just over a third of the way to max speed on all 6 fans

this keeps them running very quiet and means the LEDs arent too bright.
they still push a good amount of air and keep the system cool.

the past week i have been running the system with the front fans [on the double radiator] switched off. the temps are around the same as they were before [ambients have dropped quite a bit]

seems to be working well and cuts down on a bit more noise too

the system is so quiet i dont know its on half the time

- thanks for the kind comments above too :)
 
Nice!

Now this is what I had in mind when I decided I wanted to do a water-cooled build. Mine turned out a bit rubbish though.
Still hopefully one day I'll try again and hope I can get a bit closer to this.

Gotta say, when I look at some of the close up pics I can't help but remember this post! :D (Has this been mentioned before?)
 
Came here after following a link in your sig. Your PC is a work of art... I tried to get mine that way many times over the years, but I eventually threw in the towel last summer and gave up on watercooling.

Getting blocks for the boards I had was impossible, I got AnfiTec blocks and they weren't a good fit. I was using AquaComputer stuff.

I threw all the watercooling stuff away and now it's air only for me.

To be honest when I started watercooling in 2004 or so, air cooling was nothing like as good as it is now. So you don't need to watercool now, unless you want a system that's beautful like yours :)
 
look what finally arrived...

only a year late :D

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the quality of this panel is incredible. nice work murdermod ;)

it wont be going into the system just yet.
i have a bit of a sidegrade planned as my computing needs have changed a lot in the last few months.

i no longer need the processing power of a 6core hyperthreading monster in the system so will be going for a much more focussed system based on sandy bridge.
this will be primarily aimed at gaming.
 
well after much messing around today im now on SB


i ripped my entire rig apart and cleaned out my rads, tried installing the murdermod panel which was originally set up for when the rig was white and black [see the op]

guess what. it fits beautifully but the holes for the fittings are an inch too far over this means i cant have it sitting properly :( i am going to install it eventually but it wont fit with my quad rad in the position it is currently in.

after a great deal of swearing i put the system together.

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got the intel cloning tool off their site and copied my old C:\ to the new SSD
totally rapid. cannot even comprehend how fast it is. after the initial shock i am sitting at 5ghz with 450mb/s reads on my os drive. couldnt be happier.
 
Nice Rich.

2500k or 2600k? Just built up a 2500k for my Mum's BF today, but testing with a single F3 320gb for the time being, didn't seem anything special to me, apart from at stock settings it did Super Pi 1m in under 10 secs...

Does it seem faster than your 980x setup?
 
it is faster than my gulftown and westmere setups yes.

but that is only because the cpu is at 5ghz and i have a new ssd :D

the cpu is the 2600
couldnt resist :p
 
How's the temps on that 480 GTX when under load, as I am thinking of getting one and running a similar setup but with the loop going from cpu to a 120 rad at the back then into GPU>res>pump>240 rad and back to cpu
 
hyperst said:
How's the temps on that 480 GTX when under load, as I am thinking of getting one and running a similar setup but with the loop going from cpu to a 120 rad at the back then into GPU>res>pump>240 rad and back to cpu
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Hi mate, I've got a gtx 480 and an i7 4.2ghz in the same loop. My 480 is extremely cool, reaching 45' at load, occasionally going to 50, but the cpu goes to 60'c.
 
hyperst said:
How's the temps on that 480 GTX when under load, as I am thinking of getting one and running a similar setup but with the loop going from cpu to a 120 rad at the back then into GPU>res>pump>240 rad and back to cpu
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temps are a lot better now. the rads dont have to cool as much stuff down. the x58 mosfets and nb/sb blocks dump a lot of heat into the loop
in comparison SB is cooler but running at 5ghz makes the cpu bump up its temps a lot. i would say on average, the sb cpu at 5ghz is about the same heat output as a gulftown at 4ghz but with the motherboard heat removed from the loop.

my graphics card runs at 900mhz on the core with a slight overvolt. it used to run at above 55'c under load. now it hasnt broken 50'c but i guess now the loop is reversed, the gpu is getting the water first when it is at its coldest, just out of the radiators.

this is all with my fans turned right down of course. i love having a silent pc so the point of the clock is that it has to be sustainable with minimum rpm off the fans. i would guess that every fan is running at about 600-800 rpm.

i tired a stress testing run today with all of the fans on full and it dropped temps on the cpu by 10'c and gpu temps under furmark to 45'c
not bad in my opinioin. the 480 is a superb card under water. especially for the price it is now.

NathWraith said:
Intel SSD

That is all :)
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:D "My name is rjk and I love Intel SSDs"

seriously though, thanks for the help with the system man, couldnt have done it without you ;)
 
the coolant is mayhems. they seem to have ceased trading by the looks of their website :(
shame, was nice to see some innovation in watercooling.

no gunk in my loops ;)
 
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