Project SM580

Distracted · 4 Dec 2020 at 00:21

Mark011 said:
you mean longer than the pcb or longer than the card with the standard cooler ?

Longer than the pcb

Mark011 · 4 Dec 2020 at 23:15

Distracted said:
Longer than the pcb

yes the pcb extends up until the metal plate you see underneath the acrylic. Then the acrylic plate and back plate are about 1cm longer than the pcb, this could be because the pcb ends in a V shape so they might have wanted to protect it a bit better

Distracted · 5 Dec 2020 at 00:37

Mark011 said:
yes the pcb extends up until the metal plate you see underneath the acrylic. Then the acrylic plate and back plate are about 1cm longer than the pcb, this could be because the pcb ends in a V shape so they might have wanted to protect it a bit better

It looks like they made the top acrylic match the length of the reference card rather than the founders edition. Still very compact compared to the standard cooler.

Mark011 · 8 Dec 2020 at 00:28

Finally made some progress, the last fittings I needed arrived today. I have actually decided to use soft tubing for the CPU side, since it is not visible and makes my life much easier. I'll leave you with a couple of pics during leak testing. Will take proper pics this weekend!

Dumphole · 8 Dec 2020 at 13:36

Hey, that's looking awesome, sorry about the backplate delay. Glad you got it together in the end though.

How has the card responded to being watercooled? Better pc?

Mark011 · 8 Dec 2020 at 20:26

Dumphole said:
Hey, that's looking awesome, sorry about the backplate delay. Glad you got it together in the end though.

How has the card responded to being watercooled? Better pc?

yes definitely better temp, I will make some tests in the weekend, so far temps are around 49/52 degrees with +140mhz overclock so gpu is at 2ghz

Mark011 · 18 Dec 2020 at 18:39

Shaolin Chicken · 19 Dec 2020 at 12:43

That is looking sweet, very good job you've done there.

Quality pictures too.

brnrdo · 3 Jan 2021 at 22:36

Hi! Very cool build. I am working on a very similar build. I am in the process of getting the watercooling parts and have a question.

You mentioned,

Mark011 said:
So the original plan was to use an EK-CoolStream CE 280 on top, which is 45mm thick. I had to revisit that plan, as I didn't have room to place the combo / res with it and ended up using a SE 280 instead.

From your pictures it seems that you do have some clearance up top. Can you elaborate a bit please? I almost bought the EK-CoolStream CE 280 but now hesitate after seeing your post.

Mark011 · 3 Jan 2021 at 23:14

brnrdo said:
Hi! Very cool build. I am working on a very similar build. I am in the process of getting the watercooling parts and have a question.

You mentioned,

From your pictures it seems that you do have some clearance up top. Can you elaborate a bit please? I almost bought the EK-CoolStream CE 280 but now hesitate after seeing your post.

Hi if you want to use the 280 CE you have to remove 2 rivets for the side panels, one on each sides.

Jay85 · 4 Jan 2021 at 00:18

Do love this mate, you've done a fantastic job with it.

Mark011 · 5 Jan 2021 at 15:32

Jay85 said:
Do love this mate, you've done a fantastic job with it.

thanks mate!

Mark011 · 24 Aug 2021 at 21:29

Hey, just wanted to post an update on this project, T-Force sent me 16GB of XTreem ARGB DDR4 16GB 4000 MHz RAM all in white!!! now everything matches

Alan McFall · 28 Aug 2021 at 18:52

Looks excellent ! Love the tubing, gives the build more depth.