PROJECT: MAGNUS AQUA DOMUS!

pgi947

pgi947

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The time has come for me to get this project log started as I'm now ~75% of the way to having everything!

My project - Magnus Aqua Domus simply means 'Big Water House' in Latin :cool: (thanks google :D).

Which is exactly what this build will be, a massive massive water project.

Core components:

MSI Big Bang XPower II X79
i7 3820
16GB Sammy greens (hopefully around the 2200mhz mark)
2 x MSI OC 7970's
Corsair HX1000W with pre braid kit (once OcUK decide to send me the actual HX kit in black and not the AX1200 kit in red :p)

Now that boring stuff is out of the way, the water parts :D

Radiators:
EK XTX360 (cooled with 3 x OcUK Zaward tech lab fans)
EK XT360 (cooled with 3 x OcUK Zaward tech lab fans)
Phobya Nova Extreme 1080 (passive)

Blocks:
CPU - EK Supreme HF Cu Full Nickel
Motherboard - EK-Mosfet XPII
GPU's - Aquacomputer aquagrATIx 7970 XT blocks

Res - Phobya Balancer 450mm nickel base
Pump - Alphacool D5, Alphacool plexi top ATM but that may change

Fittings and tubing: I'm avoiding compressions for a few reasons on this build, so back to basics with some 1/2" barbs with clips along side some orange (says red in description, can assure you its orange) XSPC 1/2-3/4 tubing.

Misc: Two sets of koolance QDC's so I can still remove the side panel, many many bitspower silver rotary fittings.

Colour scheme is going to be Black/Silver/Orange.

Oh and before I forget, its all getting wrapped up in this absolute beast:

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:D

Well, I like the orange tubing (using some of the 7/16 stuff atm) and needed something that contrasted well with black :)

Things to buy this week:
Another 7970 block
Res
Mosfet block
More beer

And provided I don't have a 70+ hour week at work like I did last week I'll hopefully get around to flushing some radiators and maybe start cutting the rear side panel!

Forgot to say as well, the wheels are in motion for some VERY special and VERY exclusive backplates for the GPU's :cool:
 
The fact that every time I try slacken off a compression **** the whole fitting usually comes off with it - perhaps me putting them on too tight but it will save my fingers when I have roughly 16 fittings to put on :D

I also think/hope barbs will give me a cleaner look, they shouldn't near completely cover the CPU block when compressions might :)
 
It is huge, for size reference that motherboard tray is roughly 3/4" longer/wider then an Sr2 & if I removed the mid plate I could probably squeeze an 800D inside it.

Cable management will be tough but I have a good idea of how I'm going to sort it :)
 
:D

Will take some more pictures soon.

Just had my B grade aquacomputer block open, turns out it hasn't been used and the rattling I could hear is some form of deflector in the VRM area, probably something to do with '3DFLOW'.

So I'll take some pictures of the block internals later in the week as I want to take it back apart and apply some silicone grease to the seals :)
 
Haven't used them before but I can easily run some up this week and get back to you :)

Rjk told me the static pressure may claim to be higher then it actually is, though I suspect they are still around 3mm h2o, for £3 each (buy the oem versions not boxed retail!) You can't argue :)
 
The fans will be quite loud at full speed but they will be around half speed on a controller, only ramped up for benching. They would need to be at full speed on a high fpi 620 radiator to have any kind of performance. My loop should run near passive.

Ordering the second gpu block tonight :D
 
Lightning broke in November, sold on the rma replacement as I got offered the pair of msi oc's for £440 (thanks tony!!). I should have better voltage control on the oc's too.

I hope it's going to be epic, my biggest challenge is the cables.
 
Some more pics to tide things along, just some stuff I have laying about at my desk :o

My successor to the raystorm:
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And the replacements for my 2400mhz kingston :cool:
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The Samsung ram is positively tiny! If they fit I may consider some arctic ac ram sinks.

1600 for now hopefully 2200+ once I'm done with it, imc appears to be quite strong on my chip :)
 
Correction it was £420 for the pair not £440 :D

Speaking of fans I ran up the tech lab stuff last night, couldn't hear it over my viper, had one doa but the awesome Bailey is sending me a replacement :cool:
 
3 orders left to make and I can start taking things apart :)

I do plan to get the 1080 radiator fitted this weekend, just need to measure up tomorrow and snatch some supplies from work, I'll measure up for the fill/drain ports too.

Will endeavour to get some better pics of the case too, especially as its now on wheels :D

Edit: Second GPU block ordered as well as some 19mm silver with orange LED vandal resistant dimastech switches :cool:
 
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The time is upon us gentlemen :)

I've been in talks with ColdZero for a while about some custom 7970 backplates, to do this he required a high resolution vector image of what I wanted displaid on the plates. So I promptly begged OcUK CS for my desired image, Stigbourne came to the rescue and provided me with exactly what was required and last weekend forwarded on the images to Ricardo @ ColdZero.

Today I got an email from Ricardo with the final render of the backplates, they are cut from black plexi, while the image is from coloured plexi.

Pretty damn awesome if I do say so myself....should be with me in 7-10 days ;)

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Edit: A massive thank you to Stigbourne @ OcUK & Ricardo @ ColdZero.
 
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opstrat said:
very nice, now i understand where the back plate on his website came from.

i was like, when did he do ocuk backplates? it all makes sense
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Yep, he had to list them in his store for me to buy them :p

Once I have the plates and my other block arrives I may start to move things over :)
 
Some flushing to do today then it's just a case of waiting for parts to arrive, getting the mosfet block, fillport and res ordered today then all that's left is tubing and fluid.
 
Pretty excited yeah, though the build process is going to be a 3-4 day thing, I don't want to rush this build.

At a guess it will hold around 3L, but I'll buy 5L to give me some spill room :p
 
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