Project: Black Ice

EggFunk · 4 Jan 2012 at 18:39

looks really good man. i would go with yellow fluid personally . would work well with everything else!

Staffy50 · 5 Jan 2012 at 13:08

rjkoneill said:
looking really good.
some cable braiding will really add to the overall finish of the project

Cheers, Still waiting on the delivery of my braiding *****

Rik1254 said:
You need some foglights in there, its soooo dark in the drive bay area

Looks good though, personally dont like the purple fluid, bit dark, but might be swayed with more lights

Im not a huge fan of it either, will be changing it soon as the braided cables are on, im thinking an Icy Blue colour atm.

marc1024 said:
Dont like those GPU waterblocks, i prefer the full cover but awesome at that!

No full covers as there not ref cards. These keep the temps wayyy down though.. 6850 at 950mhz running at sub 45'c temps in BF3

I'ver not seen any of the system get above 53'c and that was after an hour of stress testing my i5 2500k at 4.5 ghz

EggFunk said:
looks really good man. i would go with yellow fluid personally . would work well with everything else!

Thanks. Not sure about yellow :/ will think about it

All in all im really happy with the watercooling. Now im looking at a new SSD to replace my redonkulosly old OCZ Solid SSD (thats all its called, cant find out what model it is) which im only getting like 100-200mbs read speed..

Cleeecooo · 14 Jan 2012 at 21:18

Very nice! (apart from that acetal :/

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Staffy50 · 17 Jan 2012 at 22:54

Cleeecooo said:
Very nice! (apart from that acetal :/)

Yeah, would have gone plexi but no stock

Staffy50 · 17 Jan 2012 at 22:54

Updated

EniGmA1981 · 18 Jan 2012 at 06:12

EggFunk said:
looks really good man. i would go with yellow fluid personally . would work well with everything else!

No no, yellow would look like pish lol

Staffy50 · 18 Jan 2012 at 13:05

EniGmA1981 said:
No no, yellow would look like pish lol

Yeah, went for Clear UV blue

CaptainRAVE · 17 Jun 2012 at 08:33

Build is looking good

Juantjie · 18 Jun 2012 at 15:00

Bro, what's with the vinegar? Can you put that in as a liquid or something? If so I may try it

Staffy50 · 18 Jun 2012 at 17:19

Nah, too clean out the rads before using them

I've redone the loop since those pics, will upadate here at some point..

Simon_89 · 18 Jun 2012 at 17:28

Looks nice and neat, nothing over complicated which some wc systems tend to look

Tattysnuc · 18 Jun 2012 at 20:35

Juantjie said:
Bro, what's with the vinegar? Can you put that in as a liquid or something? If so I may try it

Please don't try vinegar - it's acidic and therefore, over time, will react with the nickel in your system. It'll also degrade rubber seals at an accelerated rate.

OP: MAHOOSIVE case! That motherboard looks positively titchy when installed. Any plans to fill it any more than you have? Surely you could get another mobo in there, or even and SR-2/X in there!!!! Seems a shame not to...

Staffy50 · 19 Jun 2012 at 18:57

Haha if i had the money. This loop is gonna have a major update soon.

Staffy50 · 19 Jun 2012 at 19:29

Heres what it looks like atm. I know the 2nd gpu is wrong, not any major diff in temps and i'll fix when my new fittings get here

Staffy50 · 21 Jun 2012 at 23:35

Look what arrived today...

Nicest fittings ever?

What they look like in a build

minty · 22 Jun 2012 at 08:10

With the 360 rad at the bottom, have you mounted the PSU up top?

Staffy50 · 22 Jun 2012 at 08:15

minty said:
With the 360 rad at the bottom, have you mounted the PSU up top?

Yep. case set up for either/2

scottmuir424 · 22 Jun 2012 at 08:32

liking the braided cables did you do them yourself bud

Staffy50 · 22 Jun 2012 at 12:26

scottmuir424 said:
liking the braided cables did you do them yourself bud

I started doing it, bit its such an epic i just bought them off an auction site for like £20.

Staffy50 · 23 Jun 2012 at 13:30

Updated the loop now, justr waiting on my new fan controller..

Better pics when its done

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