The Green Lean Bench Machine - Not Anymore

jabski said:
looks good mate. I like the black fittings with the tubing
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Much prefer the black over the silver, plus the Koolance QD3's are much shorter and compact making everything a lot tidier. Spent a small fortune on Quick disconnects now with this rig and the previous rig :cry:.
 
This weekend i visited Mayhems again to pick up the Experimental coolant that i will be testing in this machine. It's a beautiful Teal, something you don't see all that often. Really looking forward to testing this out but need to wait for the radiator to arrive before i fill it up.

Also a Blitz kit for the occasion :D






 
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TrojanWhore said:
Really glad to see you picking up new sponsors :)
I'd previously thought (after the rebuild) that it was a teal pastel coolant you were using, noticed on the last post that it was actually mesh around the tubing!

I've been thinking about whether I should consider the extra expense to get a blitz kit and give everything a proper clean (for my 280 and 240) as the rads have been sat unused and mostly drained for quite a while (1yr+)
I've been using an aircooler since and was considering just picking up a better one (TT PA or Phantom), as it would give me more freedom on cases (cos 280 Monsta and a 480 that I haven't used yet...)

Looking forward to the next update :)
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Thanks for the kind words mate, all projects are coming along nicely for a change despite the setbacks i had initially.

I've been using mesh for awhile and its easy to do to achieve a certain look or colour instead of just black, white and clear. Easily changeable without cutting new tubing which is why i love it so much.

I haven't really used a Blitz kit for some time since im usually using non coloured coolant and just plain deionised water for the past 6-8 years so there's never any gunk build up. Was only really an issue when i started using pastel colours but since this new one is a dye'd coolant, it should be fine too.

No word on the new rad yet but should be sometime this week so i can pick it up at the weekend.
 
New Radiator arrived, EK's P240M X-Flow in steel colour. Lovely rad with a lot of weight behind it and definitely took a page out of Heatkillers RAD series. Did a few flushes for good measure and as expected, lots of black particles. Took about 5-6 flushes before it was fully clear.










And Finally managed to finish the build last night and fill it before bed. Did consider white fans but i think the black frame with white Fan blade works well to break it up abit. This thing is so heavy, i was barely able to pick it up with my fingers using the handle bar at the top :cry:








 
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Update for the Bench build, not the latest and greatest but a huge jump from the Z270 platform it once was.

MSI B760i EDGE WIFI DDR4 motherboard
12600KF
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3600 CL18

I have some DDR4 32gb 4000mhz kit on the way for testing on this platform. Also featuring the worlds smallest RTX 4060, the LP edition, ties in with the build nicely :cry:, nothing like a midget gpu lol.










 
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jabski said:
a good performance upgrade and the motherboard matches the rad nicely. What colour is the new ram coming ?
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It's black, i really wanted White but they don't do this specific speed in White in the UK or that i could find anyway.

Unfortunately what i acquired was Micron E-die but not the end of the world. Still managed some decent timings on this kit.

On a stock run with XMP enabled at 4000mhz, the timings are horrendous. I dont have a screenshot but it sat around 81ns.


With some tuning i managed to get it down to 61.5ns in Gear1.


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Threepwood said:
I have to ask, what are you planning on bench testing with this? it's a lot of effort to just test some gpus, considering you could have just breadboarded the motherboard to do that
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As a reviewer and project builder i get gpu's in every so often so having this bench in a neat compact system allows me to just swap parts easily. Was also abit of a show piece at the same time so killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
 
Threepwood said:
so does benching components, with just a benching table, with the added bonus that you can have two goto motherboard/cpu combos, typically, one intel, and one amd. then you can test a GPU on both platforms pretty easily, to do a better, fuller review, you are now forever limited to benching with only your locked in CPU choice, an old cpu at that, which can only get older, maybe I'm a little too logical, and a bit too old school, idk!
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Ah no, because the whole thing is on Quick Disconnects so ic an easily remove the waterblock if needed to switch cpu's and switch boards just as easily. The only confine is using ITX boards only but most of my work is focused around SFF builds so that doesn't particularly matter.
 
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