Project: Bleedin' Li

joxang said:
If you're going to replace the drive bay res, it's possible to fit a 120mm rad in 4 x 5.25 drive bays with an adaptor - any 3 x 5.25 bay fan adaptor and just attach the rad to the fan. Extra cooling and spares you having to dremel a big hole out in the roof :).
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It is something I'd thought of, but I'd probably prefer to use the space for HDDs.
 
I guess you can't fit a thermochill PA rad in the bottom? might give you some extra oomf?

I'm planning to build something with 2 x PA120.1 rads in it with a GTX480 and I7 920 and really not anticipating any issues with that, I've done it in the past with a B3 rev Q6700 and 7950GX2 and it worked fine, I think people get a bit too het up with temps tbh, a GPU will routinely idle at way higher than your load temps and load at silly numbers, similarly a CPU isn't going to hit any difficulty around the 30-40c mark idle and be able to load way over 70.

The bigger point is that idle is a bit irrelevant and water normally gives a much smaller delta between idle and load so a 40c idle turns into a 60c load for example which is totally fine when your CPU is rated for 100c.

Just some thoughts! :)
 
I probably could, but whether it'd fit with 38mm fans with shrouds would be more the question!

It's perfectly capable as a loop, seeing sub 50°C GPU temps in games (where usage is 100% pretty much all the time, due to 2560x1600). CPU won't hit 65°C either, so I'm perfectly happy with the temperatures. I just need to filter the idle noise to a nice acceptable state. Much of it is the pump, rather annoyingly, as one of the major reasons for buying a D5 was it's comparative silence when compared with a DDC 18W.

I have some more stuff planned, including replacing the bay res and fitting an EK pump top, then moving the HDDs to the 5.25" bays.
 
Avathar77 said:
Can the LTX block use either ports as linlet or out let? cos from what I have seen EK recommends the rearward port is it not?(at least in the EK Supreme HF)
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They're different designs. The Supreme HF is micro-pin where the water is sprayed using into the middle then runs to the edge of the block and out the other port. The LTX has micro-fins and is symmetrical - IE: runs in one side, through the fins, and out the other, with no differences at either end.
 
Well, using this picture:
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the inlet is the one that goes to the centre, and so is the one that'll be at the rear of the case. You can't change it around either.
 
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