GPU is on ultmate OCCT stress test and is 58C core and 82 Junction it's amazing water is running 22.2C
The Chaos Engine (Air > Water Cooled)
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The BIG question I now have is, when I drain off tomorrow, do I stick clear or do I go my original Cryo Green liquid... I'm really 50/50 now as it looks so nice and clean...
yeah I love this white colour it gives BUT I wanted green so, will be leaving on overnight and flush out tomorrow if my stop **** comes hahaha... and just move the temp gauge to where I want it... then that'll be it all done. I've been clocking my 5700Xt and it's boosting to 2170mhz now constant giving a heefty boost to the speed, all is solid. Been chcecking and no leaks...
Yeah the power one mate kills your system if you run both hahaha, serious heat but no more lol.
12 cores... very nice mate... I've stayed old school as I love my x79's... and now got two of them lol
Will do a couple of videos and uplaod to youtube and link tomorrow hopefully!
hahaha, yeah deffo, it was the only way I could fill the loop as I can put a stopper in one side of the temp gauge so I could fill but run a pipe from the bottom so when the stop valve comes will drain, hoping it's here today tbh so I can just finish this but 95% there. Left it running all last night, levels perfect, not a leak anywhere so that's the main thing.
Ahhh yeah never thought of that good idea... yeah these are just boggo rads tbh.... however, no reason I couldn't upgrade in the future, and as this was my first attempt, didn't want to go mental, all the parts have cost quite a bit in the end, more than I wanted however, the benefit in games now, I can run this 5700XT at 2200/1900 and it boosts to 2260mhz in games nicely with lovely temps... you forget that the modern cards throttle with heat etc... so now it's down... it seems to love it. I edned up with a 5700XT Anniversary edition which is very nice, reference but got a gold line on it and a nice box lol. Tap hasn't come today so gonna have to just stick with the ironised water for a few days, no biggie.
However, is there a way to get bubbles out, as stupid as this sounds I wasn't expecting the piping to be white due to sheer bubbles, I thought it would be clear... is this just because there's air in the system, would leaving it off for a few houyrs get rid? not sure as when I look at the water block the drop off for the refilling just creates bubbles as it circulates so looks like don't have a choice... however, I'm thinking if I put the green in, and it bubbles will it looks crap.?
Right got rid of most of them, it's a control of the pump, blast it then low to push bubbles to top of the waterblock, then blast and slow again, took about 30 minutes but getting there, just finishing it now rofl Yeah, ti's more difficult with this water block, very tight as well. Could do with a feeder with the steam punk end on tbh make it a little more accessible...
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So, just showed what the potential difference is to my 11 year old girl and she says she prefers clear and hates the green.... so this is what it could look like... think I'm still going to go green...
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Well, as I needed to get the standard deironised water out of the system, flushed out with more and thought I'd top up with this before I finish the build properly and not convinved... it's just too much and has lost it's classyness now... looks cheap ???
Yeah I was hoping it would look amazing. In the GPU block it does... but you know deep down, when I seen the clear water I was like wow, it shows off all the colours, put this in ast night, came down this morning and just thinking... no, this isn't giving me the fizz and if it's not giving me the fizz, I think it's going, so ordered some EK clear now and when I fit the final bits tomorrow, that's what I'll go for, just need to make sure I drain the green 100% that might take some time now, but at least gets proper fluid in and not just deironised. yep, clear it is!
Exactly, after all the hard work hahaha, need to be 100% happy and I'm working at the moment, but keep glancing at it wanting to love it, but I don't... lol
Weirdly was thinking red the other day, but think I'll stay away from colours now for the fluids...make it red it'll **** off the intel cpu and the nvidia card
when Big Navi comes out I might change colour then hahaha
Damn, I've just realised I've piped my Graphics Card wrong... I've put the IN on the block OUT and the out on the Block IN. However all seems well, does it really matter? Just looking underneath it and flow is all fine and temps are perfect?
Yeah just cranked the pump up and the flow of green can see it's super fast throught he GPU block so... and can't see any restriction, think I'm worrying over nothing lol
Ok, pretty much finished now and this is how it looks. Got the tap/valve fitted and moved the temp gauge to where it will stay under the GPU... tell ya what though, getting that EK Cryo Green out, it's amazing in 3 days just where it gets. Used 2.5l of ironised water to flush through... took me around 4.5 hours to drain, flush, refill and get all the bubbles out the system last night lol
I've also got a 360mm rad on the way to possibly add to the rear of the build as well so that would make 2x240mm and a 1x360mm in there. I find on full chat with side panels on in a proper warm computer room with 3 PC's in it... maxing CPU and GPU using stability software overnight, the water temp hits 30.1C maximum over night. In the day when I have the door open it's running around 24.5C on full chat so there is a 6C difference in temps and on idle around 23C (19C with patio door open), but that is absolutely putting maximum load through the whole machine for hours.
So, thinking, got the room and it's only a small mod with two additional bends, why not chuck and use the space behind the 3 vertical fans and chuck another rad in there
No rush though for that and ordered the rad which won't come for a while. Will do it when I get bored lol.
Let me know what you guys think, obviously the pictures are a "point in time" i.e. the colour scheme is cycling and sometimes the pictures capture an odd colour combo that can look yuck, however hopefully the video gives more of a feeling. I can obviously amend all the RGS on the fans individually as theyr'e through one controller and the other RGB on the CPU/GPU/PUMP and Waterblock are all on another controller. Overtime I'll probably amend and tune the RGB profiles but for now it is this.
The pictues below kinda are there to just show the different colours variations rather than what I'll stick to... so you could tailor this to either classy or outright garish lol
I've also got a 360mm rad on the way to possibly add to the rear of the build as well so that would make 2x240mm and a 1x360mm in there. I find on full chat with side panels on in a proper warm computer room with 3 PC's in it... maxing CPU and GPU using stability software overnight, the water temp hits 30.1C maximum over night. In the day when I have the door open it's running around 24.5C on full chat so there is a 6C difference in temps and on idle around 23C (19C with patio door open), but that is absolutely putting maximum load through the whole machine for hours.
So, thinking, got the room and it's only a small mod with two additional bends, why not chuck and use the space behind the 3 vertical fans and chuck another rad in there
No rush though for that and ordered the rad which won't come for a while. Will do it when I get bored lol.Let me know what you guys think, obviously the pictures are a "point in time" i.e. the colour scheme is cycling and sometimes the pictures capture an odd colour combo that can look yuck, however hopefully the video gives more of a feeling. I can obviously amend all the RGS on the fans individually as theyr'e through one controller and the other RGB on the CPU/GPU/PUMP and Waterblock are all on another controller. Overtime I'll probably amend and tune the RGB profiles but for now it is this.
The pictues below kinda are there to just show the different colours variations rather than what I'll stick to... so you could tailor this to either classy or outright garish lol
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Cheers guys appreciated, yeah iot's took around 3 weeks really to get this finished, in between work, family etc etc... be nice to actually play some games on it now hahaha. tell ya what some of these colour combos... jesus... lol This one is one of my personal faves...
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Cheers man, appreciated. Yeah it does, that's why i just chucked that video quickly, as somethign about photos that don't show what's going on... they're a snap shot and people could look at it and say I hate the colour... it's nto really about the colour, it's about the build. I can set the colour to whatever I want tbh... however, I've left everything default at the minute for the piccies and video so it shows what is possible.Looks even better on the video
Hope you posted it in the watercooling gallery sub forum
So, all done, think the only mod I'll make is an additional 360mm rad in the rear now, got the fans already blowing out, they may as well blow out over a radiator hahaha.
Cheers guys, oh god yeah, at night, the video just doesn't capture it at all, as you get all these reflections off the clear water plus the quality of the glass paneling on these these, seriously not one word of a lie, the side of the case you can't even see, the amount of time I've gone to reach inside this week and hit glass with my fingers... it's really weird, even the missu did the same thinking it was an open case. I'm 100% convinced I'll never go green in THIS build. Don't get me wrong, in the right case that green would look incredible, it's a stunning acid green BUT in this case, somehow just seemed to make it look cheap with the white parts etc... weird isn't it, I'm usually pretty good at envisaging what the end product will be like, but have to admit, the green wasn't right. So, got 2 litres spare will sell off cheap tbh... to someone who needs it. Clear all the way for me...
Well just received my additional 360mm radiator which hopefully will fill tonight... will see if I have time once the missus is asleep hahaha... so that'll be 740mm of 32mm radiators... that should do me but have noticed in this hot weather that this GPU and CPU on full load do kick out a shed load of heat it's untrue so... cooler = better... lets see if this improves the performance, plus it's an excuse to have a push/pull config on the 360mm rad hahaha... and use all 10x120mm fans lol
Until 3am I was doing this, man that back radiator trying to tighten things and do those bends was a nightmare. Wasted 2 pieces of tubing as just couldn't get the bend to come back on itself properly howver got there in the end, and temps are down 3C!!!
