Project: Juggernaut

cheers Cenedd ;)

ALXAndy said:
This would look glorious if it were not for the fact that the motherboard is covered in blue. I truly laud your work on the pipes but that board needs a good seeing to.
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Agreed. I feel the same and I was either going to paint the heatsinks (as they are the most prominent blue) or make a custom mobo cover. I am still wondering if now I have the large res and blue coolant wether to leave the mobo or not with that mass of blue at the front.

Tomorrow I might have the copper backplates to try aswell.
 
I don't hate the blue and copper combo - not that my opinion is the important one here! Copper does have an association with blue: a lot of copper compounds such as copper sulphate are blue. Worst case, if you decide you hate it you can either spray it or if one is available for the block, get a chipset block...just decide before you polish all the tubing as you might have to replace a couple!
 
Nothing seems to be going right with my parts orders at the moment. So my long overdue right angle fittings are apparently now sat at my local depot so hopefully I can collect those tomorrow.

Now, my order from an OC competitor has apparently gone missing, or atleast one of the parts on my order has gone missing within the company and there allocation process. So It looks like the whole order is on hold according to the last email. :(

I just want this thing finished as its a straightforward build :(

Onto better news all the pipework is polished up ready although I will be redoing one of the pipes due to an over vigorous polishing technique resulting in a extra bend in the pipe. lol
 
240grit to get rid of any deep marks caused by my not so good pipe bender. 400, 800 and then apply a metal polish with applicator pad and a microfiber to buff and polish. Mirror polish using polish again with a soft cloth.

I have ordered some of this stuff to lacquer/seal the copper.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121676614530?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Also, do you have some pics of your build. Just curious to see what you have done. :)
 
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I've just snapped a few for you:
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It was a bit of a failed experiment really. I consider it version 1 of my next scratch build.

With the copper pipe I had the same problem with the pipe bender. I also have some very tight angles coming out of the fittings and inevitably there is some scratching from the compression rings.
 
Thanks for sharing. :) I like the layout.

Upped my polishing method a little and bought some metal polishing paste as opposed to my peak liquid stuff. Much easier to work into the copper.

I was not 100% happy with the finish so added in a few more grits before polish which to be honest were not really necessary as the polishing compound can take care of most fine marks in a soft metal like copper. 120 aluminium got rid of 90% of deep marks, stepped upto 240, then 400, 800, 1200, 1500, 2000 as I have a few sheets upto 3500 but pointless anyway I have found go carefull with a soft cloth and you can polish out marks from 800grit.

Not a great deal else to mention at the moment. Really hoping to have it running at the weekend as I bought division recently and my laptop don't cut it for gaming anymore.
 
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Almost finished now. Really happy with the performance and has helped a lot with games as far as consistent clock speeds go now that it stays between 35-45degC depending on game and load at 4k. I use to get no end of throttling issues with the windforce coolers where temps were 78-85degC.

Only downside so far is the ddc pump is extremely noisy. I am running it at 12v/ 4400rpm and it remains constant but its just way too noisy so don't see it staying in my system for too long. Which means I would need to redo some pipework aswell. oh well.

Will post up some pics a little later when I get home but aside from the pump I am very happy. :)
 
OK here are some pics.

Got the precut plates for the GPU's. Will need the holes and cutouts made before I can fit them so wanting to get the system running I left them off for the time being.

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copper backplates on the two gpu's testing fitment.

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Lacquered the pipework. 5 pieces in total

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memsticks could do with a copper trim. easy enough to sort.

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Pretty much finished bar a little bit of tidying a side panel and some pci slot plates. Pretty simple project but the important thing is a cool running 980ti sli setup. Which I now have. :)
As mentioned before GPU's don't go above 45 and cpu 60 with all components heavily overclocked!

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Tried fallout 4 @ 4k max settings. Will achieve 60fps with both cards at 60% load. This seemed to be an equalised temp of 40deg for the gpu's.

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Wow, I can't believe how quick the system has been built since I last checked and it looks brilliant. The copper pipe is so shiny it looks like it was manufactured at the same time as the EK CPU block. Not only does it look good though, from the screen shot the performance does the system justice as well :D

Sublime work :)
 
Pump can be noisy if not decoupled - but I think you've got rubber feet covering that. Also air in the loop makes it quite loud. If not that, turn the speed down. PWM if it's a PWM variant or voltage control if not. You can try a 7V mod which will about halve the speed. If necessary you can add in an Aqua Computer PowerAdjust 3 which will let you do voltage control for a pump (can handle the higher power). Controllable in software by USB.
 
Awesome job, the loop and cable routing look absolutely bang on. There's something inherently cool about copper pipes in a PC build, not sure what it is but it just looks 'right' :)
 
Thanks guys. Appreciate the comments :)

I have my pump running at half speed now which seems to give the best noise/performance ratio and makes the pump almost silent. Just need a quieter power supply now.
 
And then once you get a quieter PSU you'll hear the noise from the fans or coil whine or the monitor whistling. It's a slippery slope. Welcome to my world! :D

Pipes are looking shiny though now :D
 
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