Project: TITAN 4 !!!!

Rossi~ said:
If you want some honest feedback on the looks:

The only thing i would change is the colour. You already have red cables and can make the fans red using the clip on surrounds, the RIVE board has red on it also.
If you were to change the fluid to plain (clear) and the tubing to red transparent then i think that would be the cherry on the cake for this build.

But then again, how long are you going to look at it? Clock the danglies off of it and bench, bench, bench.
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It is not that easy to look at anyway, the side panels are held on by loads of screws lol.:eek::)

One of the few downsides to using Little Devil cases.
 
tayto_0 said:
I think it looks awesome as it is tbh. Best to wait until you've decided if your going to put the Titans under water or not, no point in fiddling with it now. Just bench the damn beast and enjoy it :D

Btw how rigid is the case when its full ? does it keep its shape if you move it ? if that makes sense :confused:
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Very rigid, one of the problems with these cases is that they use screws to hold the side panels on. I think the reason for this is it contributes to the rigidity of the structure of the case.
 
subbytna said:
OP - Mental build lol especially with only one screen....better be a 30" monster screen :p

Any reason not to go multi monitor? With 4 titans, it's screaming for multi monitors :)

Red cables, purple coolant, blue fan edges.....my colour OCD is kicking in. Are you going to harmonise the colours in the build...make them a bit more coordinated?
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Yes i use a Dell u3011

As for the Red cables, I hate them. at some point in the near future I will get some blue or black extensions on them.
 
I don't know a lot about multi monitors, Rusty, Gregster, Andybird123, whyscotty and some of the other guys in the graphics section can advise better.

For a single monitor like the Dell U3014, 2 x Titans would be fantastic, I have been using a pair of GTX 690s on a U3011 for a long time. Some people say that is overkill, but its not really. It is the same as using two Titans, you can run even the most demanding games with very high settings. It is better to have too much GPU grunt than too little.

If you go multi monitor then 3 x 1920x1080 monitors should work ok with 2 Titans. If you want to use higher resolutions you may need a third Titan like Andybird123 uses.

As I say though the best people to talk to are the experts in the graphics forum.
 
Biffa said:
Kaap the nice thing about the Aquacomputing blocks is that they are so thin. It gives you real flexibility in placement. This is my old 470 rig:

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The Aqua blocks I have seen for the Titan are absolutely stunning, I would have got them if I was only doing one or two cards, I was a bit worried though as I saw a graph showing that they have low flow rate and thought 4 might be a bit too much for my pump.
 
Could people post some ideas for the next step please.

I am going to fit a second 480mm rad in the bottom of the case, at the moment I am planning on having all eight fans mounted on the rads at the bottom in the middle blowing out. This is to avoid having hot air from one rad blowing onto the other rad. I know this will mean the fans will not run at their most efficient but this seems better than blowing hot air onto the second rad.

Any ideas please

Thanks
 
Somthing Else said:
Could you mount fans at either end blowing in the gap between the radiators?

or even have them both blowing in with fans at front and back of case pulling air out?
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At the moment I have a 140mm fan at one end blowing air up the middle of where the two rads will be, I could mount a 92mm fan at the other end but figured this could be worse than no fan at all as it could actually obstruct air flow into the case. With eight fans blowing out it is going to be a bit like a wind tunnel up the middle.
 
Rossi~ said:
Looking goood.
However, I notice that you've got both of them at the bottom exhausting. That seems very inefficient, where is the air coming from? There's only one intake down there.
I would be inclined to create a "wind tunnel" sort of effect whereby one intakes and the other exhausts but keep the current intake there as well which should help out the temperatures of the rad on exhaust.
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I am quite concerned about how the rads are going to work and agree with you that the way they are now is not great but will test it and see how it goes.

I have thought about putting the fans around the other side on the front one but that would mean blowing hot air on the second rad.

There is room for a 92mm fan at the other end but have decided not to fit it as it may be more of a restriction than no fan at all.

The case has a lot of space above the rads and there a quite a few holes through which air can get, I am hoping this will be enough to let the rads work.
 
Biffa said:
Kaap: I think it will probably be fine, I have a similar setup in my TJ07

Only way to know for sure is to try it, and change it if its no good, but its a royal PITA I know, all I can advise is don't "finish" the rig completely with everything tidied away and perfect until you are happy with the position of the rad/fan setup. That way its less annoyance if you have to turn them around.

I know with my quad gpu rig, I tried quite a few different ways and in the end almost went against logic but it worked.

Lots of people think that you should draw cool air into the case through the radiators but for me that didn't work for all the radiators, sometimes even warm air blowing out through a radiator is better than warming up the inside of the case. A lot depends on the ambient conditions where the thing is going to live and other factors, so if you can I would run it like you have it and if then the temps don't look good try it with one pulling in and one pushing out.
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Thanks :)

I will be giving it a go in the next few days

My next job is to get waterblocks on the cards today.
 
Rossi~ said:
My way would mean that one rad is hotter than the other as it'll get the warm air exhausted from the first.
However, you will get some air at least and slightly cooler because of the single intake you have down there.

The other option i would advise, which it probably better:
Both rads are intake and the single fan is exhaust, but a fast one.
It also looks like you can mount a fan in the top of the rad compartment, maybe put one there exhausting into the main compartment?
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I will give it a try as is but if it fails then I will try the above.:)
 
Rossi~ said:
Well, that's a kick in the nuts ay? lol
Is that just the one or all of them?
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Just one of them

So far I have fitted waterblocks and backplates to two of the cards and will do the third after I have had a break.

I have ordered another backplate but if it does not get here quick I will take the bad one to work and drill a hole tomorrow night.
 
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