Project: RE-Define XL (with 2 x 480 rads)
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That's correct, in fact here it is in place
A Little Update
All the panels are now painted so I can start assembling tomorrow. I'll set up proper lighting then and take some decent pictures but I'm really pleased with how this bit turned out so couldn't resist posting a quick pic:
The paint has come out great, just needs polishing now.
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Sweet! Subbed! Good job mate.
Beautiful
Thanks
Cheers and me to
Very quick update
Had a hell of a day putting bits of this together today, one of those ones where if it can go wrong it will
Anyway, overcome most problems and will post more pics probably tomorrow once I have lighting again (both white light bulbs blew today).
The motherboard is all plumbed in now, with a bit of luck tomorrow the loop will be finished and I can test it.
If that goes well I can start fitting fans/switches/front DVD connection/wiring/etc/etc..........
(will be finished one day)
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Truly epic! I love it.
Are you going to stealth that SLI bridge?
Are you going to stealth that SLI bridge?
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Great Job dude. Excellent work
Thanks very much.
Cheers and yes, SLI will be black aluminium as well.
Again, thank you.
Hit a bit of a hold up at the moment as needed to redesign the drain port assembly. The bits for it wont be here until next week unfortunatly.
Wonderful Wissel, just wonderful!
Nothing short of amazing... like a boss
Thanks for the great comments.
Sorry for the lack of updates, I've had a small delay due to a change in living arrangements. We now have much more space but the house needed modding
Most rooms are now finished apart from my new office/video studio for which the parts will be here for later this week. This PC is being built for this purpose (need it for work).
I also have a new DSLR arriving this week (went for a Canon 600d due to its great video capability's) so should be able to get some good shots once the studio is finished as it has permanent photo lighting set up.
With a bit of luck I should be updating this thread in around 10 days. I'll probably try the new video studio out at the same time and post a video update although it will be unedited as the editing will be done on this build.
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Update 30/10/2012 - Water Loop Finished
I've had a little time the past few days to get on with this build and at last the water loop is complete. The thing is there are so many joins in this loop I thought I'd better take some photos and get this update posted before I fill it with water
This is the view in the top bay with the front off:
The T piece coming from the top of the rad is a bleed port to make filling and draining easier. This sits nicely on the top next to the fill port:
coming down from the T is the return pipe back to the res:
The res is an Alphacool and below is a Lamptron FC6 fan controller. Below the FC6 and barely visible in this pic are the backs of the two LCD temperature displays, one showing the air temp and the other the water.
The pipe on the left leads down to the pump in the bottom of the case:
The pump is hardly visible in the pic, the two fittings in the middle are the inlet and outlet though. From the pump the loop attaches to the bottom rad then out the top and into another T fitting. The right side of this fitting houses the water temperature sensor, the other outlet to the bottom of the motherboard. There is also a drain port at the bottom.
The loop starts in the bottom right of the picture going to the first motherboard block, then to the CPU, then the second M/B block and finally the GPU's. I originally had the GPU's in serial but swapped it over to parallel to make the loop a little less restrictive. Actually I just preferred the look of it this way.
The loop then leaves the GPU's and travels into the top chamber and back to the rad.
That's it for now - time to fill it up
I've had a little time the past few days to get on with this build and at last the water loop is complete. The thing is there are so many joins in this loop I thought I'd better take some photos and get this update posted before I fill it with water
This is the view in the top bay with the front off:
The T piece coming from the top of the rad is a bleed port to make filling and draining easier. This sits nicely on the top next to the fill port:
coming down from the T is the return pipe back to the res:
The res is an Alphacool and below is a Lamptron FC6 fan controller. Below the FC6 and barely visible in this pic are the backs of the two LCD temperature displays, one showing the air temp and the other the water.
The pipe on the left leads down to the pump in the bottom of the case:
The pump is hardly visible in the pic, the two fittings in the middle are the inlet and outlet though. From the pump the loop attaches to the bottom rad then out the top and into another T fitting. The right side of this fitting houses the water temperature sensor, the other outlet to the bottom of the motherboard. There is also a drain port at the bottom.
The loop starts in the bottom right of the picture going to the first motherboard block, then to the CPU, then the second M/B block and finally the GPU's. I originally had the GPU's in serial but swapped it over to parallel to make the loop a little less restrictive. Actually I just preferred the look of it this way.
The loop then leaves the GPU's and travels into the top chamber and back to the rad.
That's it for now - time to fill it up
That's looking great!
Cheers
Quick Update - First Boot
After filling the loop two nights ago and testing it for a day I decided to wire it up to see if it actually works. Thankfully it does and I'm really pleased with it.
Its only running at stock speeds at the moment but these are the temps so far:
The rig has been on for a few hours and I've run Prime95 for an hour where the CPU temperature peaked at 45 degrees (as you can see in the pic) so pretty happy with the temps so far. This was with the rad fans on as low as they will run and completely silent.
For ease I wired it up using the stock corsair cables but I like the way they look with this build so may keep it this way. I'm waiting for some LED's to arrive for the lighting, once these are here and fitted I'll fit the case fans and shrouds.
Then its just ordering the side panels and a few finishing touches. I held of ordering the sides until it was all together to make sure my measurements from drawings were exact.
I'll update again once the LED's and fans are fitted - hopefully within a week
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Soldato
fantastic work