Project: Black Ice

TheNoviceModder said:
What does this exactly download?
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Ah sorry, It's a zipped PDF of the memory config from ASUS for that board, it's direct form ASUS' UK support site. It's showing how to lay out the memory for dual and quad channel configs, and as I suspected you need modules in matching slots either side of the CPU to enable dual channel.

+1 for single loop, just for the much less cluttered look if nothing else.
 
Ah okay, yeah last night I had a look in the mobo user guide and the very first thing in the book is a slip of paper detailing how to properly install the RAM modules aha! Complete face palm moment there :p
 
I have changed them over to their proper places but no, not really noticed any difference? Although, I haven't really done much which requires a lot of RAM. I checked my Windows Experience Index ratings and they've not changed since the swap (7.7, 7.7, 7.9, 7.9, 5.9).
 
I got 1 question, where you running the "dual loop system off the same res ? or did you have 2 res's as I could only see one in your diagram ? if there was only 1 res, the water passing through your components would be the same temp on both loops as your sharing the same water, as it would it the same equilibrium as if you has it all in 1 loop...

also +1 for the single loop, cheaper, runs the same pretty much, and loops a lot cleaner and smarter

on another part, now you swapped the RAM around, do you have only 1 stick of ram in each side ? if so you will find it hard to water cool these with the EK ram blocks etc. as they need 2 or more to sit the heatsink on top correctly, personally I haven't tried to water cool 1 ram stick, but I would assume the weight of the EK-monarchy etc, could bend the RAM pcb, where if you have 2 it would support like a table for example keeping it in the correct position
 
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josh_king said:
I got 1 question, where you running the "dual loop system off the same res ? or did you have 2 res's as I could only see one in your diagram ? if there was only 1 res, the water passing through your components would be the same temp on both loops as your sharing the same water, as it would it the same equilibrium as if you has it all in 1 loop...

also +1 for the single loop, cheaper, runs the same pretty much, and loops a lot cleaner and smarter

on another part, now you swapped the RAM around, do you have only 1 stick of ram in each side ? if so you will find it hard to water cool these with the EK ram blocks etc. as they need 2 or more to sit the heatsink on top correctly, personally I haven't tried to water cool 1 ram stick, but I would assume the weight of the EK-monarchy etc, could bend the RAM pcb, where if you have 2 it would support like a table for example keeping it in the correct position
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No, as I stated under the picture (third line from the bottom of that post) "There's two res', the one visible is for loop one. The one for loop two would be next to it (behind it in this view)."

Yeah, one stick in each side. I'll only wc the RAM when I've upgraded it by adding two more sticks, one on each side.
 
ah so it does, sorry for my mistake or any confusion.

to the ram, that makes more sense :) so are you going for the dual or single loop out of interest ? (me being nosey :) )
 
Most likely single for now & if I have the money and space I'll go for a dual. Will only go for a dual though if I can hide the second rad under a false floor compartment such as in the TimJen TJ07/TJ11 and 900D. Will most likely go for the TJ07 mainly because of cost & it has everything I need in a case for a wc setup.
 
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