Project "Paint it Black"

MjFrosty said:
Ouch not good! Hearing a lot of stories that are putting me off putting the EK Ti blocks on. Even though I know I'll be reet. I've only ever borked one thing and that was an old Abit AMD board. Screw driver slipped on CPU bracket and I carved up the board lol.
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I think EK waterblocks are fine on GPUs (I will post when I have done my 290Xs) but waterblocks on mobos is not such a good idea. I was warned off doing a watercooled RIVE by 8 Pack (but did it anyway) but found it did not perform any better than the normal air cooled version and possibly worse. I will find out for sure when I run my 3970X in an air cooled RIVE BE. The other thing that really makes a difference with high overclocks on a RIVE is to cool the back of the mobo with a fan (or in my case put the PC in front of an open window with the back panel off in winter.:D)
 
MjFrosty said:
Pays off sometimes buying at launch :D
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+1

I noticed that as well, if someone buys an IB-E now they are lucky to get 4.5 or 4.6ghz. At launch the IB-E CPUs were clocking better than they are now and the same with the 4770k Haswells.

I have also noticed this with the 290X GPUs, my Asus 290Xs all can do 1200/1630 or higher, the non reference ones coming onto the market now are not getting that high when overclocked. I must hurry up and get waterblocks on mine.:D
 
And on with the block

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MjFrosty said:
Quick disconnects on the res I see. I was going to put them on my GPU bridge but might just leave one as a drain and that's it. They're handy but clunky.
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They are a bit clunky yes.:D

There are another two on the ends of the tubing where they will connect to the external rads. This will give me the opportunity if needed to take the rads out of the loop and just drain/fill the CPU and GPU blocks if needed.
 
Rossi~ said:
Yo Kaap! Looking good :)

What fans are they on the rad?
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9-Pack Fans Noiseblocker BlackSilentPRO PK3 - 140mm (1700 rpm)

I just filled the system up (CPU block and rads) for some leak testing and it swallowed 3.5 litres of coolant.:D

It was quite easy to purge the system, I was expecting trouble with 5 quick disconnects in the line and 2 huge rads.
 
Aneskimo said:
4 :eek:

Is there a set limit in benching time wise or are you just restricted because of say cooling? Sorry for going off topic ive never done any benching so im curious :)
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8 Pack is the one to talk to about benching.

But when benching the cooler the better. I find the best way to do it is to work out in advance what settings to use and then turn the PC on from cold and go for it straight away. With lots of rad space you can get the temps on the GPUs down to about a couple of degrees above ambient when idle and about 10 degrees above ambient when running flat out.

Time wise most benches don't last more than about 5mins at most so things don't have to be that stable. For gaming over extended periods of time the overclocks on the cards would need to be reduced slightly for stability. Myself I just run the cards at stock for gaming as there is nothing to be gained on a four card setup as even games like Crysis 3 can be maxed with plenty of fps.
 
Cosimo said:
Have you considered using liquid nitrogen for your benchmarking?
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Not really

When I build a PC there is one rule it must follow, I must be able to use it 24/7 which rules out things like LN2 or having all the bits in an open setup. Having said that I have got a water chiller I can put in this rig if I want to (one of the reasons I have used so many quick disconnects).
 
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