Project OVERLOADED (part 4)

[jacob1995knight]

Good day (or evening in some places)

So part four of the overloaded project, its been just under a year since i last updated, but as time goes on, parts get better

First off, i went crossfire with both of my powercolor HD 6950's they performed amazingly! i could play any game at ultra without an issue - apart from crysis 3 little bit laggy

So i decided to get some new graphics cards something that would give me a little bit of space for the future, all in all i decided to stick to the AMD route and get myself two Sapphire R9 290X 4GB graphics cards

But that's not all as i knew that the stock coolers where like jet engines, so i decided to go water cooled (many thanks to those on the water cooling page btw)

And.... Finally, as a birthday present from the folks, they went out of there way to get me a new Samsung 28" U28D590D UHD 4K monitor and all i can say is that its mind blowing, with 6950's in crossfire, but then! with two R9 290X's in crossfire 4K comes ALIVE

I also got myself a new mouse, Mad catz MMO 7 in white, its fantastic really smooth and looks good to

Here are some images of the cards and the build process, i didn't get any shots of the cards being built but there are plenty of images anyway

Loads of boxes, so much packaging!!!

They where a little dirty after being built

Ready to be cleaned

The insides where dirty, a lot of bits in the water blocks

Some arty tarty shots my camera skills are not the best and it was getting late (1:00) but i was determined to get it all done

So as the cards where cleaning on the floor, i started to strip down my computer felt weird doing it

Drained the fluid

Got the first card in the system nice and easy, no issues....... so far

Then came the second card! OMG!!! what a pain the connection between the cards was so small!!!

But none the less i got it done it took 40 minutes but i got there.

a lot of mess

Final pieces of tubing and then tidying up the system

Time to fill the loop and leak test it, i was very happy at this point

SUCCESS no leaks, what so ever, left the system to settle over an hour, time was really dragging on at this point

First start up and drivers installed no issues what so ever

CPU temperatures after 20 minutes at 3.7ghz clock speed

GPU temperatures also after 20 minutes

So put the machine to bed, went to bed and today, started the machine up, all good no issues what so ever + my room is still looking awesome

And then when im in a gaming mood the lights go crazy

Also had a chance to do some testing, showing what the cards can do, with temps at stock and being pushed.

Here is the idle temperature

Here is the temperature after 3D mark 11

Also here is the 3D mark 11 score

Here is the temperature after 3D mark vantage

Also here is the 3D mark vantage score

Well thanks for looking im sure that there will be more upgrades in the future

Jake

 

[jacob1995knight]

Good to see you capped the blank gpu ports .

Looks great well done! Such a tiny gap between those cards must have been difficult.

Out of interest what was that pump setup you used for flushing?

I used the EK 2.2 pump/res combo with Thermo Chill coolant to clean the graphics card blocks, im amazed at how well a job it did, they are really clean

Ahaha thanks for the replies the coffee joke hahaha im still laughing

lol, were you making coffee in your mouth mr bean style. Spotted pot of coffee in one of the photos, the pyrex jug looked like a pint of milk and all you needed was a kettle of hot water hahah!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSFMmv9LUtc


cracking build mate looks good! did you braid your mobo leads yourself?

Yes i did the cables when i first got the case, they are not the best and need to be done again, but it took a really long time im tempted to buy some extensions.

 

[jacob1995knight]

Well done on making the jump to watercooling.......but blimey, when were those fans and radiators last given a good clean?

Hahahaha i knew someone was going to say, im cleaning them now, filthy i know poor computer

 

[jacob1995knight]

Yes you are reading the graph wrong, im guessing its the graph for 3D mark Vantage? its the top two, the bottom line is the GPU usage over the test for 3D mark Vantage.

The cards stay cool pretty much all of the time, i have been playing games and running bench marks for a couple of hours and the highest temperatures have been just under 67.C

 

[jacob1995knight]

Oh, my bad peeps, that is the test for unigene, testing with only one card, there is nothing wrong with the thermal paste i know that for a fact

 

[jacob1995knight]

Bitspower crystal links also work really well in this situation!

So long as the cards are similar temps when both in use then it's all good! Just worried as stated that your top card wasn't seated well with the block!

Yes in the end i had to drop the card out, slot the tube in and then push up pain it was!

I have done several tests with 3D mark programs to see what the GPU's are doing temperature wise, i can confirm that they stay within 2 - 3 degrees of each other