Saifu 2.0

thanks for all the commens guys.

Been playing a bit of Just Cause 2 and it does get pretty toasty in there.....tubes are soft and rads/connectors quite warm to the touch. Hopefully bringing in a bit of airflow from the top fan will help, plus adding the single rad at the back (120mm with 140mm fan with adaptor) would help a little bit.

Just wondering if any extra cooling performance could be had by changing the fans ? They're low RPM to match the EK rads....or do I need something else ???

I'll definiately change the tubing so from the motherboard it goes straight into the GPUs, seems crazy to have all that extra tubing :/
 
So, after battling with some temps I wasn't 100% happy with, and some advice from other places I decided to mount another single rad, turn my fans around on the triple and change my tube routing:

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which took me from this:

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to this:

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Still waiting on a few more parts, more updates soon :)
 
A lot nicer temps. Strange how just a little extra raddage can make such a difference. The tubing looks a lot nicer. I was going to suggest when I first saw it you could redo it. There seemed to be a lot of tubing spare and the CPU/Mobo tube at the top didn't look right on the first take.

Your front grill looks SO much nicer. How do you control the fans on the fan controller though, since you've removed the dials?
 
indeed !! the single rad has helped a lot, but I think turning the fans on the triple rad around also helped. Now, all of the rads get cold air, and a 140mm Yate Loon 2300rpm fan at the top sucks all the hot air out.

I don't need to control any fans on the controller, its mainly for looks. Although it will report the 2 pumps RPM, plus a few inline temp sensors when I get them :)
 
Very nice temps, triple GTX 580 for...bitmining? That's not very efficient is it :p?

Btw, can't remember what you said you'd do with your old DD case. Any chance of it appearing on MM?
 
hehehe, I only mine on this PC for an indication of temps, although I will start to leave it on mining when it's finished :) I have 3 other rigs with ATI cards in for mining properly. An extra 400mh/s isn't to be sniffed at (although one 5870 can do this alone !)

The DD case is being used for one of those rigs:

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I think there is still cash to be made, exchange rate has bottomed out, I'm just saving my coins and will sell them when it picks up a bit more :) I don't have to pay for the electricity so it's not too bad for me
 
ive been mining for about 3 weeks 24/7....I've made about £150. Minus that against my outlay of about 1500, there's still a bit to go yet :)
 
that was with 3 5870s and 2 5850s. I've just added another 1 5850 and 2 5870s so hopefully I'll grab just under 2 BTC per day
 
well, I don't have to worry about electricity as my rigs are off site, so taking into the account the intial spend, I hope to recoup that in a 3-4 months
 
A 5870 pulls about 200W at full chat, a 5850 around 180W although theres not much in it.

So 600W + 360W + about 200W for each PC say 400W = 1360W in total, 24/7. Probably around £60-80 a month depending on your tariff?
 
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