Project - FTH20

Made some real good progress today after spending some good quality time ob it! All aprts here apart from fan grill and fan controller but can add them later on.

Loop assemled, going to leak test it for a few hours with mayhems ultra.

















 
Biffa said:
Yes the gpu is plumbed up wrong. should be like:

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          out

Also have you thought how much a clearer flow you would have if you just went out from the rad at 45° into the pump? Without all those 90 degree bits and pieces?
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I thought you could use any port on the gpu block?

Im sure it said in the manual you can use any port as the inlet and outlet. Ill have to check maybe any inlet/outlet as long they are opposite side like your diagram.
 
Roverno said:
I believe you dont have to have them plumbled so they come out of diffenet sides of the block, eg one up one down. But they must be one left one right.
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Ive changed it now to as biffa suggested, not much hassle.

khemist said:
I have the same block and if you check it doesn't matter what is in our out.

Let me know your temps when you are done so i can compare to a smaller rad please.

Also did you order anything else apart from the fan grills when ordering from the u.s.?, i got a couple of them and a nice bitspower ball valve.
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Will do once setup, think i put a bit too much paste on to be honest but we will see.

I ordered the Corsair braided cables and the 180mm fan grills from the US. But they sent the wrong size fans grills!! Thankfully they have sent out replacements and they entered the UK on saturday so am hoping they will be with me on monday-tuesday!

Roverno said:
That is pretty sweet. Almost magic i would say...
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Thanks :D

Ive filled loop with Mayhems yellow now, pics in next post. Also considering changing loop a little, see final post and let me know what you think.
 
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Ok what im thinking is, if use the top inlet port on the reservoir i might be able to get rid of the top T joint and 2 compression and be able the bend the tube down to the bottom T joint. That should in theory help the flow a liitle? what do you think?

Shouldnt be too difficult to do as res can be disconected at QDC and removed.

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khemist said:
If you used a bunch of 90 degree fittings it wouldn't make any difference to the temps.

Do what i did with mine?, or do you think it's fugly?.


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I did think of doing it how you have done it but the thought of the pipe sagging down was too much.
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Looks very clean, i like it.

Thats what i dont like about the top T joint, its sagging quite lot as the t joint and 2 x compressions are heavy.

Are you using a drive bay res and do you think i could get my hose to connect straight from the bottom t joint to the res?

Edit: yep mixed a bit of UV yellow dye in it, makes the yellow much stronger yellow. Doesnt make it UV glow though for some reason!
 
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Thanks khemist, will give it a go. Cant do no harm having a look.

Man what in the blue moon is that thing!! looks epic. Looks like a fusion reactor!

Did you use boiling water to cold to help bend the tube are is that all natural bend?
 
Ive got a plan for the bottom tubing to stop it from sagging! Cant tell you though!

Res out, 2 min job. QDCs are a life saver. I got the HF supreme block inlet/ouylets mixed up yesterday and the later on changed the inlet/outlet on the GFX aswell and literally took me 5 mins each.
 
Man again thanks for the pics Khemist, looks so much better this way. Less cluncky looking fittings, no sag and probably better flow. All fitted:-





No just something really simple. From what I’ve seen the bottom long tube sags due to weight, especially mine as have a QDC fitted as well. What i intend on doing is just propping it up at 3 sections along the pipe with Asus rubber motherboard standoff pyramid things that come with asus mobo's. They are self-adhesive and will sit on the fan grills, one on either side of the tubing propping it up in a channel and keeping everything straight. Don’t know if it will work or how it will look but will update when i get there.
 
Heres a few quick snaps of it 90% completr

Still need to: -

Tidy up a cables a little
waiting on lamptron FC touch which should be here this week
sort the bottom bezel out
and somehow figure out how to keep the VRM's kool! any advice?

@ khemist

The GPU temps idle around 30c and max out @ 44c oced to 1326MHz, running furmark/heaven/kombuster.

Your single card number 1 spot fot GTX 680 on Heaven Benchmark is about to be dethroned! All ready matched it exactly but once i up mem speeds up a bit will take you down!

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iB CoMpL3XiTy said:
AMD (patriot) RAM lol?
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nope

found this little thing tucked away in my spares box



Took off fan, turns out to be a pretty awesome Delta fan rated for 45cmf!

http://www.delta.com.tw/product/cp/dcfans/download/pdf/AFB/AFB70x70x15mm.pdf





Cleaned it up, braided. Was going to leave the AMD sticker on for the lulz.







can barely see it, just what i wanted and needed.



and the proof is in the pudding as they say! thats a minimum 25c off temps on VRMs. They were reaching 100c ++ very quickly. My sensors capped off out 100c so can only imagine what temps they were reaching.

Fan is running at half speed, prettu much silent. If i run at full speed sub 60c but is a little whinny at full speed!

Cant help but be happy with a problem solved for free. Now 5GHz here i come :D
 
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