Project GreenGasm

3 hours stable at 4.5GHz :)

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Combat Fighter said:
Just measured my desk and its 820mm deep! :D

After looking at various videos today I do really like the look of the Primo Elite. 4mm thick aluminium chassis (even Caselabs ain't that thick!) with enough space for a 560,480+360 rads at the same time. It does look very stylish and modern too.

A definite contender for sure.
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It does look quite nice... but I'm not all that sold on the looks. I actually prefer the looks of the Caselabs case and at the price of the Primo Elite... I would choose the SMA8... but that's personal preference.

After doing some reading regarding overclocking BW-E... I have been able to drop the voltage requirement for 4.5GHz by upping the VCCSA and VCCIO voltages to 1.2v and dropping the memory speed.

1.35v on the CPU is something I could consider for 24/7 usage.

Early stage on the stress test - it's now sitting at over 20 mins after start:

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Yes, his videos where what gave me the idea for a Caselabs SMA8 given the amount of rads he was able to put in and the space available to do what I wanted :)

I like his vids...
 
EVH said:
Couldn't you fit a 360 in the front as well as what you chose in the roof?
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No.

At least not unless it was super-thin... I don't know if they even make a rad thin enough for that.

You can position the mount at the top of the case or the bottom.

At the top, it would interfere with a 480mm rad... at the bottom it would interfere with a 560mm rad.

With a 360mm rad at the top... yes, you could fit a 360 or a 420 at the front... or with a 420 at the bottom, you could fit a 420/360 in the front.

But I thought the 480/560/280 combo would be better over 360/560/420 or 480/420/420 combo.

This choice wasn't on full-out cooling ability as the 560/420/360 combo would probably just edge it out... but more for aethetics as it was more important to me to fill the top and bottom with rads - where the front practically looks the same if you have 3 fans... whatever rad you have behind them.

Maybe *maybe* a 360/420 rad could fit in the front if it was 30mm thickness absolute maximum.
 
I was curious about the magnetic levitation construction of these fans... thought they might help with noise and they sure do seem quiet, especially the 140mm variants.

Plus I wanted white LEDs... especially for the front, top and side of the case... and I think the vardars only come without lighting.
 
Bluntwrapped said:
Looks awesome so far man. I wish I had your savings to play with!

Sorry if I missed it but did you buy your 6950x pre-binned? 4.5GHz seems to be quite a decent clock compared to some of the others I've seen.
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Nope, just standard order... Looks like I won the silicon lottery as like you mention... They don't tend to clock this high, let alone with a relatively low voltage.

I've read reviewers struggling to hit 4.3 @ 1.4v

So rather happy with this cpu... Already had someone offer to buy it from me... But it's have to be a decent offer to snap this off me :)
 
abui1806 said:
if it is a retail with box then it should be on the box. Otherwise, the only way is to take the cpu cooler off. :)
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I'll check that later then - it's retail, but the box is hiding somewhere in the basement and i'm not sure where as wifey took it down there.

Just been offered 400 Euro + a BNIB 6950X for my CPU... hehe.

I told him 500 and I'd think about it... any less and i'll keep it.

Although I probably wouldn't notice any real-world difference between 4.3-4.4 & 4.5GHz.
 
Finished this at the weekend. Early stage though as one of the reservoirs was leaking so I have to rebuild the loop when the replacement arrives. Also plan to re-route a little bit of the tubing... going to go top GPU -> top radiator -> CPU -> res instead of the routing that's there at the moment.

Spec:
6950X @ 4.5GHz
32GB Corsair @ 3400MHz @ 13-13-13-32-1T
Asus Rampage Edition 10
2x Titan X Pascal
2x Monsoon MMRS Res
Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis GTX 560
Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis GTX 280
Hardware Labs Black Ice SR2+ Xtreme 280 white
XSPC RX480 480 white
Dual-D5 EK PWM pump
EK Supremacy EVO CPU block
2x EK Titan XP blocks
Corsair RM1000i
Bitfenix Alchemy Green cables
10x Corsair ML140
5x Corsair ML120
Caselabs SMA8 Gunmetal
Bitspower Crystal Link tubing
Bitspower fittings
EK fittings

Also some UV cathodes to add (current ones broken in transit) and LED strip that runs off Asus Aura header.

Currently running 400GB Intel 750 + 512GB Samsung SM951 + 2x Sandisk Extreme 1TB + 2x Intel 730 512GB

Waiting on delivery of Intel 750 1.2TB, Samsung Evo 850 2TB and WD Black 6TB drive to add to the system but they won't be here until mid September. The 400GB Intel PCI-E SSD is then going in wifey's new WC build which will be based around Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX + HWL BI Nemesis GTX 280 + MSI XPower X99 + 6800k + GTX1060 or GTX1070.

Early piccies, will spend some more time with the camera when the final build is complete.

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Thanks :)

Rebuild coming soon.

The replacement reservoir will be with me on Wednesday. Going to re-route a bit of the pipework and the drainage system.

Also have some custom braided cables on their way... looking forward to getting it polished off :)
 
Temporary update.

The top PCI-E slot on the Asus Rampage Ed 10 died... so I've nabbed wifey's motherboard for the time being.

My new motherboard should be delivered tomorrow... but I'm going to wait for my custom cables to arrive before I make the next change.

I ordered some custom cables from IceModz somewhere in northern Europe... didn't fancy re-sleeving things myself.

This sleeving design:
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This sleeving:
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Some other bits arrived in the mean time... finally have my 1.2TB Intel 750, also added a WD Red Pro 7200rpm 8TB drive, the replacement reservoir and uv cathodes are in place and the EVGA HB bridge too.

Also re-did the hard pipe to a design I'm happy with - the last one was a bit messy to me - this one I like the look of:

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I'm getting much better temps on the CPU... I think possibly I didn't apply thermal paste properly last time... even if I did it the same way I normally do :/

I even took one of the 280 rads out of the loop to make cable management and tubing easier in the basement. Possible flow improvement, but it doesn't seem that much different and there were no kinks or anything before.

Either that or it's the change in the loop order... last time it was:

Pump -> 560 rad -> 280 rad -> 280 rad -> bottom gpu -> top gpu - cpu -> 480 rad -> res -> res -> pump

Now it's:

Pump -> 560 rad -> 280 rad -> bottom gpu -> top gpu -> 480 rad -> cpu -> res -> res -> pump

Easily knocked more than 10C off the CPU temps.
 
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So very close I'm tempted to say yes.

I also ordered some braided sata cables which arrived in the same packet... but I ordered straight connectors on both ends of the cables and he's sent me straight one end and 90 degree on the other end... so due to the type of hdd mount in this case, I can't use them :(

Going to get replacements and add them in... but I'm pretty happy with where it is now.

Only three little imperfections I would like to fix.

The left res is a little wonky... I managed to get the holes a little off and don't fancy redrilling again until the next time I drain the loop.

The bottom GPU is sagging a little... can't tell if it's weight or the connector between the two cards is a little too long and pushing them apart.

And the tube that goes into the top of the left res is a few degrees off horizontal... again, I won't do that until it's next time to drain the loop... which map not be until the fluid actually needs changing in a year or so.
 
OJ46 said:
Fair play, that looks absolutely stunning with the UV lighting. Wouldn't want to carry it through customs though... :D
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Hehe... paid someone to do that for me... got meself a mule ;)

Went through without any complaints or charges too... :D

BluD said:
Haha idd :)
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Smffy said:
Nice work mate, seems like i'll have to step up my game in my new build :D

How did you find that new monsoon custom kit - did you get the matching pump housing or?
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Nope, I have the EK dual D5 pump... the one with 2x pumps stuck together in serial and so the housings wouldn't fit... plus it's hidden away in the basement so not visible.

I quite like the look of the Monsoon custom kits and I love that they have mounts for cathodes built into the mounting mechanism for the reservoirs which really makes the coolant glow fantastically in the dark... very bright glow which is great.

But honestly... I wouldn't buy them again.

One of them was leaky... although that can happen with any and it was fixed... so not the end of the world, just a little annoying and could have been isolated to me as just an unlucky one.

The main reason I wouldn't buy again is the plastic used... it's so soft fittings were easily able to round out the plastic and dig it out like I was using a drill.

I've used the same fittings on EK plastic and it's so much stronger I didn't even contemplate I might have that issue with EK stuff... I really don't like the quality of the plastic used at all.

But... I still like the look :)
 
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