Project: Rad In Mi Kitchen

[EniGmA1981]

to be honest, I'm very surprised that my cpu is a higher temp than my gpu. First of all the gpu produces more heat, and not only that but the cpu is first in the loop

I'm suprised at that temp too actually... thought you'd be mid 30s with that setup...

Looks damn nice though!

 

[TheCenturion]

I'm suprised at that temp too actually... thought you'd be mid 30s with that setup...

Looks damn nice though!

Mid 30s on load? Are you sure?

Currently CPU is at 32 and GPU at 30 while browsing OcUK. Room temp is very cold, must be about 20

Maybe my cpu block isn't quite seated properly?

 

[EniGmA1981]

PMSL that's loaded is it? OH! My bad lol - no no, that sounds fine in that case

Don't mind me, I'm just being retarded again

As I said elsewhere today - reading is over rated...

(I seem to have been having a bad brain day!)

 

[scrlk]

Calibrated the Dell yet?

Use http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ if you haven't it will bring out the best out of that IPS panel.

 

[TheCenturion]

Thanks mate, I'm going to calibrate my monitor, I really love the Dell, it's actually amazing

Oh God, this pc is VERY addictive. I'm already thinking about what upgrades I'm going to do

I'm thinking that for my next upgrade I'm going to do one/some of the following:

• Get some dye into the water or get coloured tubing
• Watercool the mobo (not really needeed, but watercooling is very addictive )
• Get a better ssd, like a revodrive or something
• Add an EK multi res (already have a res, but I'm considering another one, just for funsies
• More/better ram
• Need to get some proper speakers, don't want to use my fatal1ty headset for everything
• Some nice lighting in the case, like cathodes or something.

At the moment, I probably won't be doing any of the above for a long time, with the exception of the dye and the lighting, I'll be looking into that soon.

If anyone has any suggestions for upgrades, feel free. I'll be home in two weeks, and I'll probably be attempting some nice overclocking, and I'll install the rest of my games

 

[scrlk]

Go easy on the dye, depending on which dye you get you can gunk up blocks and permanently stain tubing.

 

[TheCenturion]

I ended up going with Mayhem's dye. Pics up when I get it tomorrow

 

[TheCenturion]

Just clocked to 3.8ghz and cpu is idling at 37'c. Ouch is all I can say. I'm thinking I used a little too much thermal paste on the cpu, a lot more than what I used on the gpu.

 

[EniGmA1981]

I'm idling at 37 on air at 4.1

Doesn't sound TOOOOO bad, but with your setup I thought it could be a bit lower... maybe a couple of degrees

 

[TheCenturion]

yeah, I might reapply the thermal paste and see if that makes a difference. But I suppose that load temp is all that matters. I'll play GTA in a little while and see what the temp reaches.

 

[TheCenturion]

oh yeah: also despite the fact that I have speedstep on, it's staying at 3.8 while idle and showing no signs of slowing down.

 

[TheCenturion]

I pretty much just failed at trying to calibrate my dell. I couldn't get it to the appropriate image on any of the tests :\

 

[G-Dubs]

About 36-38 idle with my new water set up, which is about the same as when I had the Fenrir. Like you I was expecting lower at idle. I guess its the way it is. As you say it's the load temps that count and they're well down. like 20 degrees down

 

[Sayso]

I find idle temps to be on average the same or even a bit higher than air like g dubs said load temps are where you will see an improvement 20C is great, but between good air and average water you might be lucky to see 5-10C.

 

[Freelanc3r]

I ended up going with Mayhem's dye. Pics up when I get it tomorrow

Nice choice. Get some pics on

 

[TheCenturion]

Scrap that. Won't be able to post pics for about 3 weeks now

 

[reiyushin]

Scrap that. Won't be able to post pics for about 3 weeks now

Tell me about it! Phone pics do these sort of builds no justice!

Looking forward to the dye pics, I'm considering swapping out my tubing for something a bit more colourful!

 

[scrlk]

I pretty much just failed at trying to calibrate my dell. I couldn't get it to the appropriate image on any of the tests :\

Unlucky. Maybe if you ask nicely on the Monitors forum someone might lend you their monitor calibrator?

 

[TheCenturion]

Here's what it currently looks like from the front:

Silver Kill Coil:

A couple more to come

 

[TheCenturion]

Coil in res:

Cable management went to pieces