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That's a lovely clean looking build Kei. What camera are you using for your pics?
Project: ケイ - Watercooled Threadripper
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Thanks. I've been using a nikon d800 for the pictures.
Still bleeding the loop at the moment. It's incredible just how much air seems to get trapped in the alphacool radiator. I'm about to top up the tank for the 5th time now.
Still bleeding the loop at the moment. It's incredible just how much air seems to get trapped in the alphacool radiator. I'm about to top up the tank for the 5th time now.
Caporegime
Looks fantastic Kei 
I like how the project is self titled as well hehe. Have you considered having the katakana lettering engraved on the system somewhere?
A nice custom side-window with it engraved in the corner, and some subtle white lighting would look stunning in my opinion
I am jealous of how the inside of your PC looks to be honest. It's very clean and tidy.
I also noticed that your TX650 suddenly changed to an Antec TruePower 650. What happened there? Did the TX650 die on you?
I like how the project is self titled as well hehe. Have you considered having the katakana lettering engraved on the system somewhere?
A nice custom side-window with it engraved in the corner, and some subtle white lighting would look stunning in my opinion
I am jealous of how the inside of your PC looks to be honest. It's very clean and tidy.
I also noticed that your TX650 suddenly changed to an Antec TruePower 650. What happened there? Did the TX650 die on you?
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Cheers, still got some way to go yet. I want to unify the fans and sort out some cable sleeving. The TX is fine, I swapped the antec from another PC as it's much quieter. The corsair has an unbelievably loud fan. (50dB loud) The new truepower is a seasonic design anyway and has the same 5 year warranty so I'm no worse off. (although i prefer the looks of the corsair) The advantage is that the antec supports 4 pci-e power connectors and is semi modular. I want to get a really decent seasonic supply in a few months, probably the fanless 520W so that i can have even more quiet.
I've finally finished bleeding the loop at last and have put it all back together. Sadly somewhere during the process my ancient enermax fan controller has gotten damaged and fan 1B no longer functions due to a fault in the potentiometer. (pressing it in makes it work, but as soon as you let go it stops again) So I am a fan down on the EX rad. The other case fans need to be run off voltage reducers as the motherboard seems to want to run them all at full chat. (it is enabled in the bios, but i reckon only 2 of the headers are speed controlled) I've got a trip back into the loft now to find three speed reducers and my zalman fanmate. Gives me an excuse to get a better unit next month though. (suggestions are welcome)
Idle temperatures with two of the case fans off and the one rad fan off and the rest running silently is 37 degrees for the cpu and 41 for the gpu. Not run anything yet but I reckon load temps will be greatly improved.
Here are some better photos. The completed loop. You can now see all the connectors on the HDAV H6 daughter board hiding underneath the essence ST. (this is what uses that ugly ribbon cable)
The hidden mess of cables isn't quite as bad as it was before. Lots of green cable ties. (not sure why i chose green but just went with it. Not that you can see any of them) Coolermaster grommets for the holes will be ordered next month.
The aquacomputer aquagratix block is very smart, just wish they did a backplate for the 6970 like the one they have for the 7970.
The alphacool XT45 is a very tight fit up top. With some severe difficulty, i can just about manage to remove the memory without needing to shift the radiator.
So, next on the agenda is:
1. New fan controller as the enermax is on its way out (it is about 8 years old now)
2. 2x gentle typhoon AP-15's for the bottom radiator
3. 2x 140mm case fans. Should be BeQuiet silentwings USC's to match the side panel but they are insanely expensive. Probably end up with 3x of something else that cost less but match.
4. Braid the unbraided cables. Might consider bitfenix alchemy extensions for some of it.
5. Get a 2TB+ hard disk and migrate current drives/partitions across. Also considering getting an icybox backplane so i can fit more drives into the 5.25" bay.
6. Replace integrated reservoir/D5 top with a tube and separate top to make things tidier
7. May well consider changing the XSPC EX for a thicker unit like an alphacool UT60 or a monsta.
8. Fanless or superquiet seasonic psu
9. Replace dominator ram with another pair of hyperX genesis to match or replace the lot with something superior and give me 16GB. (got 12GB presently)
10. Migrate to an X6 thuban or steamroller when it eventually rolls out
I've finally finished bleeding the loop at last and have put it all back together. Sadly somewhere during the process my ancient enermax fan controller has gotten damaged and fan 1B no longer functions due to a fault in the potentiometer. (pressing it in makes it work, but as soon as you let go it stops again) So I am a fan down on the EX rad. The other case fans need to be run off voltage reducers as the motherboard seems to want to run them all at full chat. (it is enabled in the bios, but i reckon only 2 of the headers are speed controlled) I've got a trip back into the loft now to find three speed reducers and my zalman fanmate. Gives me an excuse to get a better unit next month though. (suggestions are welcome)
Idle temperatures with two of the case fans off and the one rad fan off and the rest running silently is 37 degrees for the cpu and 41 for the gpu. Not run anything yet but I reckon load temps will be greatly improved.
Here are some better photos. The completed loop. You can now see all the connectors on the HDAV H6 daughter board hiding underneath the essence ST. (this is what uses that ugly ribbon cable)
The hidden mess of cables isn't quite as bad as it was before. Lots of green cable ties. (not sure why i chose green but just went with it. Not that you can see any of them) Coolermaster grommets for the holes will be ordered next month.
The aquacomputer aquagratix block is very smart, just wish they did a backplate for the 6970 like the one they have for the 7970.
The alphacool XT45 is a very tight fit up top. With some severe difficulty, i can just about manage to remove the memory without needing to shift the radiator.
So, next on the agenda is:
1. New fan controller as the enermax is on its way out (it is about 8 years old now)
2. 2x gentle typhoon AP-15's for the bottom radiator
3. 2x 140mm case fans. Should be BeQuiet silentwings USC's to match the side panel but they are insanely expensive. Probably end up with 3x of something else that cost less but match.
4. Braid the unbraided cables. Might consider bitfenix alchemy extensions for some of it.
5. Get a 2TB+ hard disk and migrate current drives/partitions across. Also considering getting an icybox backplane so i can fit more drives into the 5.25" bay.
6. Replace integrated reservoir/D5 top with a tube and separate top to make things tidier
7. May well consider changing the XSPC EX for a thicker unit like an alphacool UT60 or a monsta.
8. Fanless or superquiet seasonic psu
9. Replace dominator ram with another pair of hyperX genesis to match or replace the lot with something superior and give me 16GB. (got 12GB presently)
10. Migrate to an X6 thuban or steamroller when it eventually rolls out
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Caporegime
Fantastic stuff
I am thinking about doing a loop soon (as you may recall from one of my old threads you posted in).
I have some older kit to work with though, so it won't be as fancy as yours looks
Got a Black Ice 360MM which is a bit beat up, an XSPC 450 and an old XSPC Delta V3 (socket 775) laying around - which I can use because my motherboard has mounting holes for 775 coolers as well as 1155/6
The one thing I dont quite know how to sort out is the drain point. I also don't know how to get the tube off of the barb so I can drain the loop. Any suggestions as to how I should go about this?
I had some tubing that was fixed to some barbs on the radiator when I got hold if it. It was extremely difficult to get the tubing off of them. I'm afraid that trying to do the same thing on a filled loop, inside a PC, could result in catastrophy
I am thinking about doing a loop soon (as you may recall from one of my old threads you posted in).
I have some older kit to work with though, so it won't be as fancy as yours looks
Got a Black Ice 360MM which is a bit beat up, an XSPC 450 and an old XSPC Delta V3 (socket 775) laying around - which I can use because my motherboard has mounting holes for 775 coolers as well as 1155/6
The one thing I dont quite know how to sort out is the drain point. I also don't know how to get the tube off of the barb so I can drain the loop. Any suggestions as to how I should go about this?
I had some tubing that was fixed to some barbs on the radiator when I got hold if it. It was extremely difficult to get the tubing off of them. I'm afraid that trying to do the same thing on a filled loop, inside a PC, could result in catastrophy
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I found that twisting the tube clockwise (same direction you rotate a barb to tighten it) whilst pulling from one side usually works. Another method is to force the tubing up the barb using a flat bladed screw driver or similar tool. (being careful not to slip and damage you or your prize parts)
Had a good ferret around in the loft and have got 2x 7V adaptors a dual 5V adaptor (modded it to 7V by releasing the pins on the molex and moving the ground to 12V) and a zalman fanmate 2. These should tide me over until I replace the fan controller. I've looked at a few and I reckon the scythe kaze master pro 6 channel is my best bet using 2 fan splitters so fan 1 controls both radiator fans together and the same for fan 2, leaving the other 4 controls for the case fans. (front intake, back exhaust and 2 side intakes)
Had a good ferret around in the loft and have got 2x 7V adaptors a dual 5V adaptor (modded it to 7V by releasing the pins on the molex and moving the ground to 12V) and a zalman fanmate 2. These should tide me over until I replace the fan controller. I've looked at a few and I reckon the scythe kaze master pro 6 channel is my best bet using 2 fan splitters so fan 1 controls both radiator fans together and the same for fan 2, leaving the other 4 controls for the case fans. (front intake, back exhaust and 2 side intakes)
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Fantastic stuff
The one thing I dont quite know how to sort out is the drain point. I also don't know how to get the tube off of the barb so I can drain the loop. Any suggestions as to how I should go about this?
you can use a T-fitting and you can have a drain port at your lowest point. you can then screw and unscrew the port as you like clear most fluid out before tilting further.
Something to laugh at. I had to put my TX650 back in the day after i fitted the antec. Ok the corsair has a noisy fan but the antec had severe coil noise when powering my 6950 in games. (oddly enough it's quiet in the other system which has a 6850) Meant i had to cut all of those cable ties and redo it all for the 3rd time. 
I have also been doing some photoshopping trials for 550 paracord sleeving. I've grown fond of the blue/green LED theme from the enermax fan controller and my reservoir has a blue LED and green coolant. (plus they are my favourite colours) This is what I've come up with. The darker green I'm less certain on.
I've tried teal...
...and black.
I have also been doing some photoshopping trials for 550 paracord sleeving. I've grown fond of the blue/green LED theme from the enermax fan controller and my reservoir has a blue LED and green coolant. (plus they are my favourite colours) This is what I've come up with. The darker green I'm less certain on.
I've tried teal...
...and black.
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The black one at the end looks great!
Yeah, i expected black would be the most popular choose. What about Navy instead? (I've altered the green as it wasn't a good match for what's on the market)
Vs the black
Vs the black
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Hmmm looks good. Win Win either way really
Soldato
TBH, I like the first one the best means you get the most colour in, I think that since you have a black connector and a black case that'd be enough black for me
means you get the most colour in, I think that since you have a black connector and a black case that'd be enough black for me
Ordered several miles of paracord in navy, blue and green. Should be fun trying to sleeve all the cables. I've decided to sleeve some basic extensions as i don't want to void the warranty on the corsair since it's still got 4 more years. Still need to buy some heatshrink for doing the fan cables. (looking at 6mm 3:1 in black) Here's an alternative order to the colours
I've moved the two lower radiator fans back to push as case temperatures were sitting above 30 almost constantly. With them the other way around I'm getting 27-29.
I find it odd that the coolant takes on a green colour in the reservoir and yet appears clear in the tubing. Hopefully it should go quite well with the sleeving.
I've moved the two lower radiator fans back to push as case temperatures were sitting above 30 almost constantly. With them the other way around I'm getting 27-29.
I find it odd that the coolant takes on a green colour in the reservoir and yet appears clear in the tubing. Hopefully it should go quite well with the sleeving.
Yay, paracord is now here. Looks absolutely cracking. The green appears to be UV reactive too. Colours are slightly different to my photoshopping, but not too far off. Just need to get hold of some connectors and crimps or find some cheap extensions. (I've got some old cables that i cut out of an old antec supply last year that i could make into extensions with the right bits)
Cheers. The dark blue and green came from thebushcraftstore and the lighter blue came from wildelk.
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Can't wait to see those cables all done, glad you didn't go with the black though I have to admit!
Going to look at sleeving the d5 pump cables tomorrow using some hellerman sleeves instead of heatshrink as I have a healthy supply of them. If I'm successful, I'll move on to the fans.