Project YinYang

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YinYang Project Log

Background
I first looked into water cooling about 8 months back and spent a small fortune on a SilverStone Raven V02 + 320 Black ice stleath build. My log can be seen HERE

Then decided to go dual loop and the Raven was really starting to look small, I then found the Cool Breeze project and had been inspired to create something similar.


As I have been working on a bit of a budget so saved some cash where I could

List of Components I ahve so far.

Components
Mobo:...........................Asus Rampage ii Extreme
CPU:.............................i7 950
RAM:.............................Corsair 1600 6g
PSU:.............................BeQuiet 1200w PSU
GFX:.............................MSI GTX470 Twin Frozr II x 2 SLI
Fan Controller:................NesteQ NES-MAXZERO MaxZero Fan Controller
Optical:.........................DVD-R\RW Sata black
HDD:.............................Kingston 64GB SSD V100
HDD:.............................Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SataII
Case:............................Corsair Obsidian 800D

WaterCooling

--Radiators--
.........360 GT Black Ice Stealth
.........240 EK XT
--Pumps--
.........Swifttech MCP350
.........Swifttech MCP355
--Reservoirs--
.........XSPC Single bay res Black
.........XSPC Single bay res Silver
--Water Blocks--
CPU:..................Swiftech Apogee XT Extreme
GFX:..................2 x EK 470GTX Nickel Acetal
GFX:..................2 x EK 470 Backplate
MOBO:...............EK Mosfet Asus X58 Kit - 2 Pack
MOBO:...............EK-FB Rampage II Copper Acetal
--Pipe/Fittings/Links--
.........OCUK Nickel 1/2 Compression fittings x24
.........XSPC 7/16 Clear Tubing x 4meters
.........EK-FC Dual Sli Bridge
.........EK FC Link GeForce
--Fans--
.........F12 Atric 120mm fans (white) x 8
.........Sharkoon Silent Eagle 120mm (1)
.........NZXT 140mm Rifle Bearing Fan x 3

Extras
--Lighting--
.........80xWhite LEDS prewired
.........20x2pin LED headers
.........mod/smart LED Station 20 Black PCB
--Braiding--
.........Black 3.2mm braid 200 meters
.........3mm black adhesive heatshrink 5 metres
--Custom--
.........120mm YinYang Fan Covers x 3
.........140mm YinYang Fan Cover(1)
.........Top Custom 320mm (3x120mm fan) Shroud
--Other--
.........30 x YinYang fan stickers
.........Arctic Cooling MX-4 4g

I am still missing the chipset block for my Rampage, possible white braiding and a conector for my SLI cards as well as some 45/90 degree compressions.
I am also considering another fan controler (as i have 12 fans and my controller only supports 8) and possibly black and white tubbing instead of clear, what do you think? (personally i think coloured tubbing looks cheap but I will just be running clear water (dont wanna mess up my blocks!).

So the Plan is to have two loops. One for the Mobo and blocks with the 360 rad mounted at the top of the case, and the other for the two GPUS and to have the rad mounted length ways at the bottom of the case (see cool beeze for more details).

Case Mods
At the moment, I have have just shipped my case off to the metal worker (dont have any facilities here to do it myself). He will be cutting 4 fan blow holes into the case. 3 x 120mm blow holes at the bottom as done with cool beeze project, and then one 140mm hole for the hdd fan on the windowed panel. All these will then have the YinYang fan grills on the outside of the panels.
I am also having a cutom YinYang/Dragon design in the centre of the solid panel being cut (plan to have forsted white perpexs attached to the back of the design, or you will just see messy cables :/
Getting some text cut here and there as well with the same forsted perspex backing it.
Because I plan to use push pull on the top rad, three of my 120mm fans will be on the top of the case, So I am also getting a custom (similar to Koolance's one) 320m shroud which will hide the fans, this will have the same grill design as all other fans grills on the top.

After all metal work is done, I will also having the case powder coated. Mobo and OI tray (including the PCI tray bit) will be white, the rest of the case black and the side panels.. well either black or maybe a additional third colour, Thoughts?

Thats pretty much it for the case.

Braiding
I intend to use single cable braiding for either, I have 100 meters of 3.2mm black braiding, but am also (possibly) getting some white as well... (this is purely based on money =P) I will be using black adhesive 3mm heatshrink.
Any advice or tips would be great! =)

Lighting
For lighting I have the 20 LED station, I intent to connect four leds seriel to each port, (probably not wise but they light up so it works :P) I am going to have four LEDS on each fan, as well as placed else where within the case. They will be controled via a switch so lighting wont have to be on all the time =) Not sure where the switch will be....


Ok So, I have some pictures for you guys, of most the components less the case rads and mobo block (radiators are being powder coated white, and the case is being lazer cut, and i haven't bought the mobo block yet =P)

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Hmmm So that is it for now, Will update with Pictures etc when I get the chance =)
 
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Images

These are the YinYang 120mm Fan grills =)

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So far I have added leds to the fans and braided them (12 fans in total). The reason I didnt buy led fans is that this way the lights will get their power from another source thus allowing me to have them on an on/off switch so that i dont always way to have light on in the case, which usually gets quite annoying sometimes! =) Anyways let me know what you guys think!! Thanks

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Done some more braiding today, got my first fan controller done, not sure if im going to bother with a second controller yet

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haha, cheers guys =)

I shall take some pictures this weekend of the gear I have to date, can't begin to explain how much will power it is taking to not build the system in a temp case for now LoL


Also sub? what does that mean? sorry for the newb question =P
 
Morning guys,

Thats for all the support =) I ca't wait to get really stuck into it. I'm waiting on my cable braid at the moment so I can start on that, with 12 fans possibly two fan controllers and my PSU... thats going to be a lot of single cable braiding!!!

Yea, sorry about no pictures at the moment, will take some this weekend the components and then hopefully if my braid gets here today..... some of the braiding=)

Ta for looking!
 
Craterloads said:
dude get some pics up asap!!
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Take a look =) Fans all done.

FiveOfTwelve said:
Braiding takes forever. FACT.
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tell me about it... I've just done the 12 fans, Need to get started on the fan controller(possible Controllers as I'm thinking about getting a second so all fans will be hooked up to a controller of some kind) And ofc the big killer... the PSU.... =(

but I am happy with what I ahve got done so far!
 
Nice mod on the fans. Much quicker than my 16 LED per fan mod I'd imagine.

It's not really clear from the images how you've done it though, specifically wiring. I'm interested to see how.

What do they look like when spinning?
 
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Tealc said:
Nice mod on the fans. Much quicker than my 16 LED per fan mod I'd imagine.

It's not really clear from the images how you've done it though, specifically wiring. I'm interested to see how.

What do they look like when spinning?
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16 LEDS ??!???! Seriously.... where did you put them all!!!? heh.


First fan took me about an hour or 2 with lots of messing about. but then from then on about an hour to half an hour per fan.


I serieled (i think thats the right word =P) the LEDs to each other and then covered the wire with insulation tape. It doesnt look perfect but doesnt look too bad either =) I have them then braided on a 2pin connector which will go on my 20 port LED station which will be connected to a switch. This will allow me to turn the lights on and off easily =)

Added a picture of the fans on =)
 
Thanks for the picture.


What resistor did you use? Did you use one for each LED or just one per fan?

Click my sig to see how I managed the 16LED mod. It's sort if based on the Enermax appollish fans but used 3mm LEDs rather than SMD.
 
I needed to use one per LED or they didnt work. most of it for me was trail and error:P and no so much I knew what I was doing lol!

The LEDS I got all came with resistors so I just used those. =)
 
Hmm I thought as much.

Normally you'll get a resistor bundled with LEDs off eBay or such that pull each LED down to 12v. If you wire 4 resistors in series along with the 4 LEDs you'll get 4 times the pull down.

I can't quite see the colour of those resistor band from the image but you really don't need more than one. Are they brown black black? 100 ohm?
 
Um the resistors are blue with red and blue stripes on them..... one resitor per fan would have made things allot easier.

Yea I bought them all off ebay with resitors for 2quid for 20 =)
 
Lol that makes no sense as blue red blue would be 62Meg Ohms :)

Maybe brown red brown would make more sense, that's 120 ohms.

This is the sort of LED schematic you should be looking at.

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Putting 4 x 120 ohm resistors in your circuit must be dropping the LED current down to about 5mA instead of it's 20mA normal which reduces their luminance massively.

You don't really need to use a resistor at all as the typical voltage of White LEDs is around 3v anyway.

http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

See how much brighter my LEDs are.
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