Project MSI Osiris

Pump on and bottom Radiator now all plumbed in .






Changed the T fitting to a bitspower fitting that i trusted better .



Was meant to be a 3.5 Hard drive cover but decided i wasnt putting the 3.5 drive anywhere but the hard drive cage out of site and now its a decorative item , i have one for the SSD drive though with is the MSI dragon and looks very smart .






Gorilla tape just to hold the drain port in place while i hooked it all up , took away the rear plate as without taking it away i wouldn't of been able to put the outlet (for the graphics cards) into the mid shelf and it was very hard putting it with fat hands and short finger (the no so good benefits of having the mid shelf) . and i wouldn't of seen any leeks ,so it was away with that .



will be covering up that spare hole , me and my misjudgment as it was hitting the bottom rad so had to relocate it , and now i wont have the joy if having a straight pipe all the way up-to the the GPU's , now i have to do a few bends ,grrrr .



The RAM


i changed the cold zero motherboard tray from carbon effect to black brushed aluminium but should have just left it as now i don't like the brushed aluminum , i wasted 2 meters of the stuff as it just wouldn't go on without bubbling up and creasing so i just settled for the last sheet of it and had a few bubbles at the top but top rad will cover most of it and so will the Reservoir.



The SSD backplate that will go on to the top drive bay side .





Will be installing the rest of it tomorrow and then the dreaded acrylic bending that im really not looking forward to .
 
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Wow, looking great. Really looking forward to seeing this finished. Love that wrap, Very tempted to get something like that myself now :).
 
Great progress made since my last visit, really liking the vinyl! Don't suppose you would have examples of the carbon / black brushed aluminium wrap that you could do a side-by-side shot of?
 
here you go luggs . im thinking of putting the motherboard tray back to carbon as it just looks like a black background inside the case and is not striking at all . i will leave the 2 panels i have covered in the black alu as wont have enough carbon and i think it will set the carbon off having the rear hard drive cages back cover in that alu and the front fan cover . the 2 pieces i mean is where the 2 hard drive stacks used to be and they are not there now , and this left 2 great big holes and these will blank them off and will be nice and neat .



I was 50cm x 151cm of black alu and have none left , it was so painful getting it to go on the motherbaord tray evenly without having no bubbles , using either an hair dryer or heat gun just made it 1000 times worse and just left great big bubbles , the problem with the black Alu was that it was like it had gorilla glue on the back once it stuck it was a pain to get it off .will be getting back to the build shortly and just waiting for my 1 yr old boy to wake up from his nap . i really hope i don't get leaks down in the bottom of the case as i wont be able to get to it , I'm so glad i didn't go hardline down there as it would have been impossible to do .
 
Plenty of issues today with the PETG tubing , i hate the stuff , when it dont heat up right it gives a snake like cobra neck and if it heats up too much it caves in even though the rubber is inside . ive given up on the main tricky bends and ordered some alphacool L connectors as i wasted another 2 meters today , with my little boy ill and screaming and a missis whos asking me to do other things i just dont have the time to do these bends , not all lost there will be some bends just the L shaped ones that go into the L connectors . the PETG tubing also bends in the wrong place , the build is practically near completion .

I also had a lot of trouble and took me neat 2 hours to get the 0-rings on the EK dual parallel connector for the 2 graphics cards to stay put , i still don't know if they are in there seated position . Well i will know if it leaks .

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Even this bend is not to my liking as its still got that slight cobra neck . will do some more of these as most of the bend now will be L bends, am i not heating it up enough ?




with Temp sensor .



got 3 meters of tubing left .
 
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Wow looking awesome. So clean looking, makes me want to revisit mine now lol. Can't wait to see this finished with fluid, all lit up!

I'm currently wondering where the power cables are going to come from though.

With the O-rings I just use a bit of water put into the groove, insert O-ring then press in with a bit more water. Only a few drops.

With bending just hold the tube with both hands (rotate 90 degrees at a time, try not to twist or flex), when its hot enough it should take little force to bend. You also want to heat it almost gradually until it becomes hot enough rather than hot and fast.

I use flexi for its ease of use, I think you understand why now :D
 
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killswitch73 said:
here you go luggs
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Cheers buddy, I know what you mean, the carbon defo 'pops' a bit more, especially if your putting some lighting in there at some point. But i'm really impressed with the brushed alu, its a very realistic effect... be hard to tell dif between the wrap and the real thing (from photo's anyway).

Coming together really well mate, especially like your SSD mounting plate!
 
computer is now bled and water loop is running . I Had Faulty pump that i bought from here and is being sent back and because OC never had stock i had to buy urgently from else where at a higher price with next day it arrived today,(i actually sold my original pump to a friend who needed it more that me at the time as my build was nowhere near getting built . its now running with the pump now on full and to be honest its not that loud while its screwed to the case and not a a lot of vibration . ive also tested with the Fan controller using PWM and then take down the RPM and at 50% and at around 3000rpm its very livable , tested with all 8 fans running also and the fans at 900rpm are louder than the pump . will add pics shortly . it really is coming together now and the journey will be complete tomorrow once i can get hold of some distilled water ..the system took about 1.5 litres where the other half litre was leaking from faulty pump . i only need about 150ml i think as my res is only half full , and i dont know if there is any air left in the phobya top rad as when i turn the pump off the res rises about 1cm and when switched on the res goes down 1 cm , is this normal or is there still air in the system somewhere ?

i do have a screw port at front of the top rad but its very hard to get to , and im a bit worried if i use some needle nose pliers that i wont do it up quick enough lol . i cant see any bubbles in the system at all and all the tiny bubbles that was on the surface of the cpu block have now all gone . cant even tell if the water is being pushed around either . there is a tiny tiny vortex in the res but i think adding more fluid will solve this . now to add pics .
 
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Sounding good I'll look forward to the pics. Definitely get the top port plugged up. Left one of mine off once then I tilted the case :(, dead mobo. Also very unlucky with the faulty stuff you have received.

It will take time to bleed, screw that port up then tilt the case in all directions. Once its fully leak tested etc. The amount of air that comes out that way is huge. Dropped my res over an inch in air just by tilting.

The res rising and falling is normal, more to do with the pressure differential between inlet and outlet, having air in the system can be a cause as well. Usually not noticed when the res is completely sealed.
 
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I done loads of tilting and yea the fill port in was using is now plugged ..This is the thing ..I think the decrease and increase of fluid in the res when on and off is the actual pressure of the 2 pumps in tandem ..when I only use the one pump the water level only goes down maybe 1mm ..when both pumps on full it's then 1 cm ..thinking it's pressure. .won't be long with pics .just sorting kids tea out and then will post them .
 
Some pics i promised but didnt get round to putting them up . build will be finished sunday (today) hopefully when my water turns up to fill up the rws a bit more , all air is now out the system after having pump on for over 24 hours .



the faulty pump ..grrrr it went everywhere .





not sure if this is too close for comfort against the ram module , hopefully that ram wont get to hot at 3000mhz .



Half bled with faulty pump . it was a mess .











NEW PUMP ARRIVED ,had to order from elsewhere as i need it urgently as OC never had stock and its now bled .
























A few bubbles before it was completely bled , hardly any bubbles now but i do still have that condensation , perhaps when the system is on they will vanish .









my new desk is coming monday and im in 2 minds to go full hog and get a UW Gsync from overclockers , but the height of only 37cm is putting me off as i want to keep the 4k 40in but dont want a 1k monitor being over shadowed by a monitor thats half the price but twice the size and not sure if my new desk can fit both , i was planning on the new Asus ROG ips but the problems has put me off .



1st part of the custom top grill which the filter goes onto then the new custom grill goes on top .






Bubbles gone yeaaaaaaa



Love this block , wait until you see it all lit up like a christmas tree .




And this is my very first water cooled pc , i didnt need the bits power L bends in the end and will send back to OC i dont know why i was panicking as i got 3 meters of tubing left . lets hope it cools the bits down like i want them too and im able to overclock the way i want it too , hoping to get at least 4.5ghz for gaming and 4.7ghz for a bench mark and thus the reason why i bought the board as its meant to be a great overclocker .

Drain port

 
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Looks fantastic :), very tidy indeed. Makes me want hard-line on mine now. I'm so tempted now :D. Maybe I will next year lol. It wouldn't be a huge deal to swap it over I guess. Where did you re-route the cables under the tray? I'll keep watch to give me ideas on what you've done.

Going to look really great all lit up and finally alive :D. Get some pics up when its done, looking forward to it.
 
tyler_jrb said:
Looks fantastic :), very tidy indeed. Makes me want hard-line on mine now. I'm so tempted now :D. Maybe I will next year lol. It wouldn't be a huge deal to swap it over I guess. Where did you re-route the cables under the tray? I'll keep watch to give me ideas on what you've done.

Going to look really great all lit up and finally alive :D. Get some pics up when its done, looking forward to it.
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What cables do you mean as i have not connected the cables in the pics , i have now though , its all up and running and temps so far on idle are 25c on CPU at 3.5ghz and (speed steeping and around 1.2ghz on idle) , i have only powered 1 card so far just to get it up and running , and that card is 20c on idle where before on air it was 35c . i was having problems overclocking and wouldnt go over 4hz , BUT i have now realized that when i was putting 40 x100 on the software it was really 40x125 as i had XMP enabled in bios to get my 3,000mhz ram so i was trying to get 5ghz lol at 1.30 volts hahaha it just froze without the BSOD , had to pack up as my little boy wanted to go to bed . the the fan controller and fans and pump are running fine , the pump is set at 40% with an rpm of around 2800 and pretty quiet . its a very quiet system so far but need to hook up hard drives . once i overclock and happy with it beeing stble on cpu and gpus then i may increase the pump flow to keep it cool , i will be running at 4.ghz for day to day stuff then 4.4-4.5ghz for gaming . hopefully

i will take more pics now when its all nice and tidy and up and running on my new desk, and i have took the plunge in a new monitor .
 
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Snookums said:
Looking good, that's really unfortunate about the faulty pump though, must have been so frustrating.
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Very frustrating indeed , this pc has died and been resurrected more than anything i know , i thought i killed the board 4 times , then the pump , then it wouldn't power on today due to needing to press the bios reset . its been a headache , and thus the reason for the new name of this PC ..oh and faulty power supply

New name .

Its godlike (like the motherboard)

and the word resurrection springs to mind .

just hope nobody has this name .

I think its an awesome name and different.

and it was my missis that came up with the name .
 
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Gutted about the extra hassle caused by the faulty pump, but have to say it looks amazing dude. The block looks especially sweet! So when's the big unveiling? :)
 
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What cables do you mean as i have not connected the cables in the pics , i have now though , its all up and running and temps so far on idle are 25c on CPU at 3.5ghz and (speed steeping and around 1.2ghz on idle) , i have only powered 1 card so far just to get it up and running , and that card is 20c on idle where before on air it was 35c . i was having problems overclocking and wouldnt go over 4hz , BUT i have now realized that when i was putting 40 x100 on the software it was really 40x125 as i had XMP enabled in bios to get my 3,000mhz ram so i was trying to get 5ghz lol at 1.30 volts hahaha it just froze without the BSOD , had to pack up as my little boy wanted to go to bed . the the fan controller and fans and pump are running fine , the pump is set at 40% with an rpm of around 2800 and pretty quiet . its a very quiet system so far but need to hook up hard drives . once i overclock and happy with it beeing stble on cpu and gpus then i may increase the pump flow to keep it cool , i will be running at 4.ghz for day to day stuff then 4.4-4.5ghz for gaming . hopefully

i will take more pics now when its all nice and tidy and up and running on my new desk, and i have took the plunge in a new monitor .
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I meant the PSU cables, 24 pin atx, molex power etc. Mine was difficult enough going through one of the big gromets, which sits above where the bottom tray would be unfortunately.

Those temps seem fine as well. Just the load temps you want to worry about really.

Look forward to some more pics. I like that name as well.
 
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I meant the PSU cables, 24 pin atx, molex power etc. Mine was difficult enough going through one of the big gromets, which sits above where the bottom tray would be unfortunately.

Those temps seem fine as well. Just the load temps you want to worry about really.

Look forward to some more pics. I like that name as well.
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Ive gone through the side and up through the little gaps i haven't gone through bottom gromet as it would be impossible cus of the midplate ..I will take photos when it's all done for you ..

My desk has arrived today so will be doing that today completing the cable management and then take some quality pics ..I've done an overclock and done a little stress test @4.0ghz and the pc is like a freezer ..nothing but cold air coming out of rads ..All 8 fans are at 900rpms the pump at 40% and im getting 43-45c from cpu that's on auto volts at the moment .and ram is at 3ghz also .im very pleased with the computer with all the problems I've had and it's so quiet ..and missis is also happy ..can't wait until Xmas now when the wife gives me my new K95 RGB keyboard and M65 mouse and my G920 wheel ..and I've just splashed put on the new acer X34 ultra wide ..only thing is I like my 4k 40in screen but there is no space for both screens .
 
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