PST: Project Silicon Talisman

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 01:07

Painted 3x Akasa 140mm fans to go on the 420mm radiator. Not painting the other 3 Akasa fans that will be pulling air away from the radiator out of the case; as they are completely hidden.

And Corsair high static pressure high performance fans for 360mm rad.

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 09:48

Luggs said:
gutting about the case LED's, how much has that impacted your timescales for the build?

I think it is gonna push back things by a week may be. Options are:

1. Get a bigger case as OcUK are happy to accept the return even though it is out of 14 days period. If I go for a different case then will look for something, which can atleast hold 480mm and 420mm rads. In that case I will buy a 480mm rad to go with 420mm and will not use 240mm and 120mm radiators.
2. Get the same case (may be in white color)
3. Not bother with LEDs /external lighting; just turn them off and keep the case and crack on with the project :-(

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 11:19

Well I think I am going to keep the case. I like it and with regards to LED's, I will find a solution or else turn them off. I have planned everything around this case and changing it now may delay things. I just can't wait to finish this build :-)

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 13:43

Luggs said:
I bet nobody else will even notice to be honest, it's just you that will know they are there... it is a great case as well, so think you have made the right choice mate.

I'd spend all my time drooling over them pair of hof's rather than the lighting

yes indeed.

thanks mate

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 16:00

Brian18741 said:
The fan blades turned out great. Do they just pop off?

yes. some force and there we go. Held in place under the magnetic force basically. I was worried about the balance and performance due to application of paint. But they appear to be fine at that front after the paint job.

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 19:03

Reserved. Motherboard photos

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 19:19

TechMinerUK said:
On my last PC I had the choice of spending a bit more for the Z97 Ranger or going with the MSI Gaming 3. I didn't pick the right one
I'm glad you went for the Ranger. Looks like a nice bit of kit You've made the right choice

i am using 4790k on a MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ([email protected]). switching mobo to a better z97 can get me another 100-200mhz or 4.8ghz at lower volts. any of asus rog boards will look better with black pcb

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 21:40

Brian18741 said:
That's a fine looking mobo dude!

thanks dude.

faheemrazzaq · 19 Aug 2015 at 23:34

spent a lot of time flushing the radiators from the old loop (120mm/240mm). I was using Mayhems red dye. After dozens of gallons of water through, I can see pink water staining from radiators if hot water is left in them for a couple of minutes. I resorted to using some soap based washing fluids and they keep bringing more red out of it. Now is there a magic fluid that can clean them up. Else I will order new rads because I dont want my new coolant to be destroyed by it.

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 00:03

Brian18741 said:
Red is a notoriously hard colour to get rid of from rads.

so basically i bin them and get new ones :mad:

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 00:54

my flushing marathon. well wife is the least impressed person in the world at the moment.

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 09:34

Luggs said:
or something like this? http://mayhems.co.uk/store/mayhems-blitz-pro.html?sl=en - cheaper than new rads

yes looked at it but it doesn't say specifically if dye stains can be removed. I have already put crazy things through rads like washing powder to carpet cleaner :eek:

. and nothing changed. I am in giving up mode on this.

New rad time.

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 09:47

TechMinerUK said:
What radiators are you thinking of buying? Also nice workstation you got there

lol

@ workstation.

still thinking about it mate. I have a new hardware labs 420mm. Only need to replace 120mm and 240mm; which were in the old loop. thinking that just buy a 240mm rad and drop the 120mm. I hope will be enough to keep everything cool in my loop.

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 10:23

Brian18741 said:
If that doesn't do it, nothing will!

yes and as i said i have used detergents, etc; which really isn't something one will like to put through rads. But to no avail. Well may be I can keep these rads for a future project where I am feeling funny again and want to use red dye. I have three rads from my previous loop affected by this including a hardware labs sr-1 560mm rad. But since I don't want to mount radiator externally, I bought the 420mm rad to replace it already.

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 10:24

so what do you guys recommend. 420mm and 240mm will just be enough to keep cpu and 2x gpus happy? shall i drop the additional 120mm rad?

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 10:39

Hukkel said:
As a hand-rule you can cool a single chip with 120*120mm radiator (with no overclock). You would need 360 for that. The 420 already has more surface area and you have a 240 on top of that. You should be good.

yes and another basic indicator is wattage that needs dissipation. I think one 120mm per 150w is the sort of guideline. My CPU has a TDP of 88w but it will be overclocked so as a worst case scenario I will assume 150w, which in real world work / gaming it will never hit.

each of my hof 980 card can easily go past 300watt when overclocked and yes I will be pushing them that far if possible. so we are looking at 300+300+150=750 (and some heat dump from the two pumps). So feels like that 420mm+240mm is just right for the job.

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 12:36

i have spoken to Phanteks and they are going to send me a new front panel Led strip. so case issue is hopefully sorted :-)

faheemrazzaq · 20 Aug 2015 at 15:23

Brian18741 said:
Ah good stuff, hopefully it's a straight forward swap!

I will take off the panel and check that but shouldn't be very hard as case is very customize-able.

faheemrazzaq · 21 Aug 2015 at 00:17

I have another bright idea. I am going for 420mm and 360mm rad. 420mm rad is going in top of the case. Phanteks Enthoo Luxe cant take another triple rad in front or bottom. So I spent sometime messing around with 5.25" bays in front. And I managed to unscrew more than dozen of screws to remove the 5.25" cage, which means I will not be able to install my BD-RW drive but I really dont use it much and I have a spare external drive sitting around if required.

faheemrazzaq · 21 Aug 2015 at 00:29

So here are a few images of 5.25" bays cage removal to fit 360mm rad in front.

A view from the top

After the cage detached, I noticed that all the case front panel cables were going through it. Took another 15 minutes to disconnect the cables and connect them back properly

And finally success. The cage is out and I can fit the 360mm radiator. Now I need to order one.