Operation Fresh Toast H440 Watercooled

fantasticCG · 12 Mar 2015 at 20:42

Cute dog!

nice build too

Bonjour · 12 Mar 2015 at 20:49

Superb.

Disco_P · 12 Mar 2015 at 21:04

Just found that coldzero make custom backplates for soundcards. Gonna request one for the Xense!

fantasticCG said:
Cute dog! nice build too

Would have been better with your titan

(though mutually beneficial that you sold it for more elsewhere!)

Bonjour said:
Superb.

Cheers man, did you get in contact with NZXT?

Bonjour · 12 Mar 2015 at 21:18

Awaiting their reply.

I'm probably going to use this thread as a reference for cable management. You've done amazingly well to get everything crammed in there and keep it looking so clean.

ClubFoot · 13 Mar 2015 at 01:26

Have to say, that looks impressive cousin. Want to go bowling?

~Mike~ · 11 Aug 2015 at 19:43

How's the jam? Still maxing out 1440p?

Shengli · 14 Oct 2015 at 16:52

Yeah what are the temps now ater you got the giant front rad in there?

Disco_P · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:31

~Mike~ said:
How's the jam? Still maxing out 1440p?

Oh course, at 150fps... in black ops 2. Which incidentally is the only game which will crash my overclock. GTA V and Witcher 3 run perfectly but blops2 has none of it.

Shengli said:
Yeah what are the temps now ater you got the giant front rad in there?

TBH they haven't really dropped much - maybe a couple of degrees. But it was more of case of doing it because I wanted to rather than needed to.

Update time!

Got titans!

I don't need titans so sold one, put the 780 block and backplate on the other and changed to fluid to yellow.
Also made a custom braided cable from cablemod.

Glam shot

Killed my new temp sensor by shorting the cables so got a new yellow one that is definitely orange. Bought a gold backplate cause it was cheap and will spray it white at some point. Changed the Arctic F12s for Silverstone FQ121WC resulting in a 4C temp drop.

Z77 MPower started dying so replaced it with a Sabertooth for during RMA.

Fan Control on the Sabertooth is bad.

So I bought a NZXT Grid+ V2 (highly recommended)

I also added some string so the pump didn't look so droopy.

Dog Tax!

TechMinerUK · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:50

Looking very nice indeed.

To be honest I quite like the gold backplate as it looks in your system now. Also what is the Grid like to use as I also found the Asus fan control software to be poor at controlling the fans.

Disco_P · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:01

The gold doesn't look too bad but I am hoping to reduce the number of colours to just white, black, silver and yellow.

The Grid+ V2 (make sure to get the v2 for individual fan control) is a delight to use. NZXT CAM is really easy to use and making profiles is super easy too. Just set it and forget it, though I do like to tinker with the profiles quite often and the monitoring is fairly decent too.

TechMinerUK · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:04

Disco_P said:
The gold doesn't look too bad but I am hoping to reduce the number of colours to just white, black, silver and yellow.

The Grid+ V2 (make sure to get the v2 for individual fan control) is a delight to use. NZXT CAM is really easy to use and making profiles is super easy too. Just set it and forget it, though I do like to tinker with the profiles quite often and the monitoring is fairly decent too.

Hmm I will have to have a look at investing in the Grid V2 then

What method do you think will you be using to paint the backplate

Disco_P · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:05

I have already ordered some white plastidip

If all goes to plan I will be painting the black plastic of the case yellow too.

TechMinerUK · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:13

Disco_P said:
I have already ordered some white plastidip
If all goes to plan I will be painting the black plastic of the case yellow too.

I'm looking forward to seeing that, the back should look excellent in yellow

Disco_P · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:37

Yeah can't wait for it to arrive - never done any painting before.

Rehok · 16 Oct 2015 at 13:55

Very nice build, Love the name although was a bit let down when i found out you didnt build a PC in an actual toaster

lol

Disco_P · 16 Oct 2015 at 14:18

That will be happening but it'll require lots of new hardware that I don't want to get whilst my current stuff does the job.

dlknight · 20 Oct 2015 at 00:40

Nice build fella - preferred the white look fluid though - not sure about the yellow!

Disco_P · 20 Oct 2015 at 19:55

The yellow probably isn't to everyone's taste but I found the white to be really quite boring and dull.

Speaking of white I recieved my white plasti dip and started painting the backplate and have experimented with the mesh of the H440 too. Backplate is still drying so no images quite yet

First layer on the backplate

How the white mesh compares.

How it looks in the case.

I'm not actually using that bit of the mesh as it impedes the airflow and cannot be seen, but I will paint the bit that I can see now I know that it looks great.

savagesam117 · 20 Oct 2015 at 20:49

I like that mesh, I'm going to do that on mine!

I also find white a bit boring and dull now, thinking of how I can change mine.

Disco_P · 20 Oct 2015 at 21:08

I have already ordered some yellow and might order another can of white as I used quite a lot.