Project: Aquasidian (Corsair 800D)

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Couple more pics to show how the pump is mounted and the pipe routed behind the motherboard wall. There is a good inch of space back there, so with that smll piece of the case bent it allows the pipe to not be squashed at all.

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Looks a great build wish I bought this case instead of my lian li 1010b now, oh well my sell it and get this.

Just a question about the pump mount, I have the mcp655 and I'm pretty sure that the pump has to be moounted vertically, i.e. with the outlet straight up, not as on the side as shown there.

I could be wrong though

cheers
 
dazzerd said:
Just a question about the pump mount, I have the mcp655 and I'm pretty sure that the pump has to be moounted vertically, i.e. with the outlet straight up, not as on the side as shown there.
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Hi, the only thing to make sure is that the inlet is not upwards as in the water has to go against gravity and into the pump, this may cause the pump to run dry if there is air in the loop. With the inlet horizontal or on top the water is always going towards the inlet to keep the water supply.

But... if you look at the pics further down you can see I've now changed the pump front to the EK top which has the inlet and outlet on the same side, to basically aid in the pipework. I wasn't happy with the pipe bending on the oulet in the above pics. I think over time it would start to restrict and also I was worried about it being behind the case side, even tho it seemed to not get squashed with the side on.
 
Well after a long evening, it lives!

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That cpu temp was after it had been sat in the bios for about 15 minutes, after an hour it was at 38DegC, but I've yet no idea if thats good or bad?

I've still got a lot to do yet, but couldn't wait to get it turned on and make sure it was all going ok so far :)

Job list looks like this:

Resleeve the power cable for the RAM cooler unit,
Spray paint the cases of the DVD drives black,
Try somehow to make the 24 pin cable look tidier,

Then I've got some white strip cathodes I'm hoping to fit in somehow, I want some basic white light in there, but not too much, and not so that you can see the light source at all. The cathode wires are already sleeved so they just need placing when I can work out where. I definitely need one to light up the res :)

I'm also thinking of some sort of support for the gfx card, it's definitely bending over at the front end, just some sort of thin metal tube to wedge from one of the power connectors to the middle case floor to prop it up will do I think.

I'm also looking again at fans, I've found a lovely fan for the case rear but it's only in 120mm and not 140mm as is now. There are holes to fit a 120mm fan in that place, but I'm not sure of the effect of the smaller fan. The current 140mm one is sat at 900rpm and really doesn't feel like it's doing that much. Also the fans on the rad were meant to be the 1900rpm ones, but I got sent the 1200rpm version instead, and I didn't notice on the packets untill after I'd sleeved them all, doh!

Anyway, after a few more bits sorted I'll get some more, and maybe final, pics up in a few days time. :cool:
 
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did you get the 1000W power supply because the sticker was blue? :p haha, going to great lengths to keep the theme running!

Looks good though. Ive no idea on BIOS temps either, get windows installed and run get stress testing :p

Ive got a similar problem with my graphics card, seems to have warped or something and is curved down, no idea why as its temps are fine. Your "propping up" idea may have to be copied lol
 
Thankfully all that range of Corsair PSU's have the blue sticker, but as with everything on this build, the parts were chosen not only for their performance but their colour as well :eek::D

Decided to do a couple more pics...

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Very understated, good work. This has got me seriously interested in this case and water cooling. I feel so ashamed about the fan ridden mess that is my main PC :/
 
I've had blue cathodes in my last pc, and it just makes everything blue (to state the obvious), but you loose the clarity of the other colours / chrome bits in there.

I've got some white cathodes, 30cm and 10cm long to see how it works. Currently I've put a single 30cm one in the top fixed to the radiator fans but I'm not sure if it's too bright now :confused: Going to try a 10cm one up there instead to see how that looks later tonight, and a 10cm behind the res also.

I may even try a LED strip instead, as they offer a more 'crisp' type of light which may provide the look I'm after.

Going to pop the hard drive in tonight and get Windows installed, make sure everything is working as it should. Then finish off the last bits over this week as I can.

Still also looking at fans. I think this would be perfect for the case rear:

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_photo.php?pno=suscool121&area=usa

Still trying to decide if it's worth it just for the look by going from a 140mm down to a 120mm as the suscool one is. There are already holes in the case to take a 120mm instead which helps of course :)
 
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I quite like the look when people used smoked acrylic instead of clear. Can buy a sheet of 'tint' and stick it onto clear rather than replace the window but not sure how well that works. But yea, used a smoked window makes the lighting look less harsh, I personally prefer the look when smoked, just a bit more subtle :)
 
Think I've sorted the lighting out. Decided to ditch the 30cm cathodes as they definitely put out too much light. Instead I've used all 4 of the 10cm ones, one mounted vertically behind the res, one at the bottom lower rear of the case mounted vertically next to the expansion slot screws, and the other two fixed across the case to the fans on the radiator...

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Thoughts?

The only thing I'm thinking is the one behind the res is too much, and possibly needs to be an LED plus in the bottom res socket to shine up into the liquid?
 
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I like this approach, do a very clean build with transparent tubes and only use white light to accent the inside, looks very pure inside this way
 
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