sound coo, especially with a water cooled GFX card with plexi top so you can see the liquid moving through it on the reflection... I worry about how obvious dust and fingerprints will be though
Project "One" - Corsair 650D
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sound coo, especially with a water cooled GFX card with plexi top so you can see the liquid moving through it on the reflection... I worry about how obvious dust and fingerprints will be though
OK, phase 1 of this is complete:
Phase 2 To-Do List:
Here are the final touches I have done as part of phase 1
Sleeved the lights
Sleeved the temperature sensors
Put in some BitFenix sleeved Sata and Power cables
Gave it a good clean
Phase 2 To-Do List:
- Purchse 2 X GFX cards and associated full blocks
- Drill, tube and fit fill and drain ports
- Add the water temperature sensors and cut out mounts in the case to display water temps
- Obtain "basement" area and fit it in
Here are the final touches I have done as part of phase 1
Sleeved the lights
Sleeved the temperature sensors
Put in some BitFenix sleeved Sata and Power cables
Gave it a good clean
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nice job on the sleeveing.......looking very nice indeed.....
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Your photo above, with the res and tubing shows clear red coolant. It's not the same as the picture below, you posted earlier. Does the effect dissappear after a while? It's just I'm looking for some clear red dye to buy, and your photo above looks like the dye I want to buy.
It's not as clear as it looks in the last photo I posted, because the inside of the case is illuminated and my camera was set to evaluative metering the inside of the case is overexposed which results in the loss of detail
The effect deffinately diminishes but not completely.... Yet
The effect deffinately diminishes but not completely.... Yet
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red and black has gotta be my fav color scheme for a build. Great job 
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That's a great build put's my effort to shame 
When I finish my re-build I'll post some pics as using same colour scheme etc but loop other way round.
A pic of my very first water cooling mock up and 1 not long after.
My cable managment is still rubbish tho
When I finish my re-build I'll post some pics as using same colour scheme etc but loop other way round.
A pic of my very first water cooling mock up and 1 not long after.
My cable managment is still rubbish tho
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That's a great build put's my effort to shame
When I finish my re-build I'll post some pics as using same colour scheme etc but loop other way round.
A pic of my very first water cooling mock up and 1 not long after.
My cable managment is still rubbish tho
wow nice job.. I see you mounted your rad the same way as I mounted mine, it seems quite rare that people do this but I think the cables look much tidier
both of our builds are just missing the GFX cards full water blocks to make them look super sexy
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Yeah it's on my to do list, would have done them by now but waited for 7970/7950's to come out so I can kill 2 bird's with one stone
(if I can do it quick enuf before my wife find's out or she be killing me!
)i notice you changed the loop order, have you noticed any advantages or better performance?
I suspect you have seen conoflex's images that he has put in this post and thought they were mine? I haven't changed anything
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Nice, I'm doing a shelf out of black anodised alluminium. If turns out to be crap I'll have his details off you and have one like yours.
I know i'm nagging you a bit BUT did you use any of the pipe/tube bits that came with your EK 250 res, want to get it right first time and have yours running ok
I know i'm nagging you a bit BUT did you use any of the pipe/tube bits that came with your EK 250 res, want to get it right first time and have yours running ok
Nice, I'm doing a shelf out of black anodised alluminium. If turns out to be crap I'll have his details off you and have one like yours.
I know i'm nagging you a bit BUT did you use any of the pipe/tube bits that came with your EK 250 res, want to get it right first time and have yours running ok
sorry Im not picking up what you're putting down
pipe/tube bits?
are you asking which components of the EK res I used? It came with the res, anti-cylone and mounting brackets. I used the mounting brackets, didnt use the anti-cyclone, it didnt come with any tube or pipe?
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AH HA!! right sorry mine came with 3 tubes anticyclone and a bag of bits, my 150 res came with 2 tubes and I used 1 of them in the top to eliminate and air that gets trapped.
I'll try an get a better pic of mine to show you.
similar to these :
I'll try an get a better pic of mine to show you.
similar to these :
Ah those tubes! afaik they are permantenly attached to the res, I didnt think they were detachable?
I got it wrong the first time and was feeding in from a port on the top that did not go through the tube bit which caused air to fill the loop when it turned off. Making sure the input tube is below the water level stops this from happening
As for the output tube, I am not sure which is the best to use. Personally I want to have a drain port so I used the tube illustrated in the bottom picture to connect to my loop leaving one of the other bottom holes to connect to a drain port
I got it wrong the first time and was feeding in from a port on the top that did not go through the tube bit which caused air to fill the loop when it turned off. Making sure the input tube is below the water level stops this from happening
As for the output tube, I am not sure which is the best to use. Personally I want to have a drain port so I used the tube illustrated in the bottom picture to connect to my loop leaving one of the other bottom holes to connect to a drain port
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I agree with you on the output tube, I'm not going to bother with that I had a drain port on my rig till now as Mayhems reckon not to use one when using Tharis Red.
Anyway i'm going to use medium input tube in the res and see what happens if anything. Just flapping over nothing
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@Wazz-1
Your machine looks amazing.. you really should get some decent photos of it and stick them up I really wanna see all the angles and everything in some good quality photos
Thanks mate I repay the compliment looking forward to seeing yours when you get the box fitted. I will post some pic's when I've finished , I've still got a couple of mod's to do my self then I see if i can get hold of a decent camera.