Project: 900D dual loop

Things have moved on a bit. Having spent another £100 on some fittings that would have cost me £150 at ocuk (! Seriously WTF!). I have managed to complete the cpu loop (for now).

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I have been waiting for a specialist debur tool which has cost me around £50 including shipping. I have been waiting for over a week now, I have been tracking it via the courier and apparently the donkey which was due to deliver it has decided to take a break and it might be another week or so.

I have since bought a tool from screwfix which does an acceptable job. I have now de burred the cpu loop and tidied up most of the tube routes. The last one leads to the res, this will be re done shortly as I can't stand the quality as it is.
 
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Hi,

I've removed several images from the thread as they were over 1,280 pixels wide and spoiler tags aren't allowed in Project Logs.

Cheers

Surveyor
 
Surveyor said:
Hi,

I've removed several images from the thread as they were over 1,280 pixels wide and spoiler tags aren't allowed in Project Logs.

Cheers

Surveyor
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Thank for doing that and sorry for breaking the rules. I am posting from my phone so it is difficult to judge how big my pictures have been coming out at. I did ask on the last page whether they were of an acceptable size, however I appreciate it is my responsibility to know this. I will get the pictures resized accordingly and upload.
 
Brian18741 said:
What sort of debur tool did you buy? I paid about a fiver for one made from Silverstone on a popular auction site.
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Not sure if I can link but OCUK don't stock so I hope it's ok (perhaps OCUK should sell this item so I don't have to wait 10 days for delivery from Belgium! )

this is where I bought from however I am trying to find a link to the youtube page which showed how well it works. It works via being used with a combination drill and gives perfect finishes everytime. I will post a link once I find it.
 
As for a general update I have eventually managed to run my ek d5 pwm pump at full speed with the cpu loop complete. I have spent a while researching how to make an ek pwm pump run at full speed without being plugged in to a pwm header on the motherboard.

All that is required is to run a paperclip from the green cable on the pwm lead from the pump to the fourth plug on the molex.

I am still not sure whether my secondary loop per loop idea is going to work. The flow on the secondary loop which monitors flow has a much higher flow rate compared to the main loop. I am hoping this is due to significant bleeding required on the main loop.

I have run into a bit of an issue with bleeding... The cpu loop has a 480 rad at the top of the case. I can't see anyway of accessing the valves on the top of the rad to release air? There does not seem to be any valves anywhere else on the rad?
 
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I had the same problems with my pwm d5, bit of a pain in the hole. Re bleeding, I just turn my case on its head a few times to get most of the bubbles out. There was a particularly stubborn bit in the CPU block, I nearly had to make the case do a somersault to get it out!
 
PFarrey said:
Not sure if I can link but OCUK don't stock so I hope it's ok (perhaps OCUK should sell this item so I don't have to wait 10 days for delivery from Belgium! )

this is where I bought from however I am trying to find a link to the youtube page which showed how well it works. It works via being used with a combination drill and gives perfect finishes everytime. I will post a link once I find it.
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I bought the same tool from a site in the Netherlands, 2 day delivery....

See This link for how it works...
 
Three Titan X now installed. Waiting on few more components which will be delivered tomorrow. Fingers crossed I should have this complete by the weekend.

Should receive psu cables by weekend. Got some internal cables to sleeve and start routing. Cpu loop complete and running well.

The pwm pump is giving me a headache, I have forced it to run at full speed which is causing bubbles to form in the reservoir which in turn are being sucked back into the loop by the pump. If only there was a way to make a pwm pump run at 70%?

Wife and son have decided on cable colours and fluid colours. So cpu loop will be white and gpu loop pink. Not sure how I feel about the pink but I promised they could choose!

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It looks amazing. Can't wait for the final photos with the coolant. May be grab a friend with DSLR to do some high res shots. Or may be you have one sitting around and you are just being t0o lazy to showcase your work with it :)
 
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Due to stock issues I have only just been able to complete gpu loop. Currently leak testing both loops with both pumps running at max speed. So far no issues but I will leave for a few hours.

As you can see I am toying with the idea of the ek led lighting in the pump blocks. I was intending on using the ek led lighting on most of the blocks however the reality is that there isn't any cable routing possibilities.

I have since ordered some led striping from Pexon PCs which I have no doubt will be able to create the look I am after.

Finally I can see an end to this project. I never thought it would take this long. Working full time and having a family is certainly a big influence on the delays as is doing this over the school holidays. Would I do this again? Yes for sure but I will do a far simpler build next for my son using mayhems glass once available.

My only advice to others would be to have a stand by computer as I have been using phones and tablets to buy stuff and research things as this is currently my only pc. Also if you are planning on doing a build as expensive as I have done, allow a further £600-£800 for stuff you don't initially think of.

I will update during the week once mayhems pastel fluids in place and pexon pc cables installed. I will then do some high res pictures. Finally I will do some overclocking and publish results with real world gaming results. Happy to do some other synthetic benchmarks if anyone is interested. If so please suggest what benchmarks to run etc as I don't normally bother with that stuff.

P'S please ignore some of the drunk tube routes I didn't straighten things up before taking this picture, only just noticed!
 
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Hehe, the projects always do seem to take longer than expected (what with stock issues and such) but they are always worth it. :D
Your loop looks excellent, looking forward to seeing it up and running. Also I too am interested to use the Mayhems glass tubing :) I think the Bitspower/EK 12mm fittings are best suited for the glass as it cant be bent. :)
 
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