Project : Black Ice (reborn)

Ok, here's a shot of the *&!? up buy EK. I was honestly so peeved about this coz the whole kitchen was littered with PC components (much to the missus dismay) as I set about making the build all to be held up by one screw hole :

Spot the difference?

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Still this little baby made me smile again:

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I don't think I'll be lapping this one tbh!

I took the opportunity to strip the 790i of its heatsinks in preparation of another SB/VGA block arriving:

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Now the drilled chipset block is here it was time to set to work on the motherboard:

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One thing I should point out at this stage is be VERY carefull with exposed cores as the can crack/nibble very easily if you don't get a good mount. It is also a good idea not to use conductive TIM on the chipsets as it can bleed on the surrounding capacitors shorting them out - arctic ceramique is my paste of choice for chipsets/GPU's. To prevent chipset 'wobble' when setting the blocks I used the little screw hole innards from a PA 120.3 neoprene gasket as 'stabilizers' while screwing the blocks down which work really well:

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God only knows how I'm gonna tube this lot up:

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I needed to mount the pump as far away from the business end of the PA 120.3 to allow for tube curvature (I hate elbows) so I drilled a couple of holes then mounted the pump (DDC Ultra 18w XSPC top) with some anti vibration mounts:

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I also put some blowhole trim edging around the pre cut holes to protect the tubing/cables:

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Time for a quick measure up:

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Heres are few close-ups. I attached the 7/16ths XSPC black tubing to the barbs by first heating up the ends with boiling water so the tubing expands and becomes more flexible, attached to the blocks with an additional tie wrap and allowed the hot tubing to shrink fit onto the barbs while cooling to provide a watertight seal.

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Wow thats impressive, the black tubing looks really good and better than coloured liquid. I have to say that I'm finding the feser fluid to be no where near as bright as I hoped, even under UV.

I'm planning on doing some much more intensive water cooling when I upgrade my mobo but I can't see that I'm going to be able to go to this extent!
 
I think Feser liquid looks cheap and nasty tbh, you can still see the silver barbs and the liquid looks deep purple around that area.
 
It looks like it is but it is actually mounted upside down (so the GTZ is the right way up in a BTX style case). It makes no difference tbh aslong as its perpendicular to the cpu clasp and the bottom barb is the inlet ;).
 
Yeah this is the problem with looking at w3bbos build logs. Really makes me want to go out and spend some money I don't have :p

Out of interest w3bbo, do you recommend any other coloured liquid I could use instead or is it just best to go with coloured tubing ?
 
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