The Left Handed Build

Started changing over the water blocks on the motherboard
Quick pick of how it has been on 'The Shelf' for some time with the Swiftech XT fitted


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All the 'extras' stripped off the board


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New EK water block fitted to the CPU


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A quick rear view


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Also decided to do the RAM


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RAM stripped down


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RAM returned to motherboard to get the correct spacing


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After applying same TIM, the block was fitted


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Compression fittings put into place

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Tubing run into place

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Graphics cards fitted back onto motherboard

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'The Shelf' has never looked so 'shiny' :D
 
At first I didn't like the look of it when you fitted the RAM block, but once you added in the GPUs, that looks amazing! Everything matches together nicely :D!
 
It does indeed look very good.

I see you have an ASUS Rampage III. I am a Gigabyte man myself. It'll be interesting to see how they compare.

It looks as though you are intending on having two loops - is that right? If so, how separate will they be because there's a lot of debate over one vs two loops boiling down to there not being any noticable difference. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that point.
 
JohnTedd said:
It does indeed look very good.

I see you have an ASUS Rampage III. I am a Gigabyte man myself. It'll be interesting to see how they compare.

It looks as though you are intending on having two loops - is that right? If so, how separate will they be because there's a lot of debate over one vs two loops boiling down to there not being any noticable difference. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that point.
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I have had lots of different motherboards over the years (including Gigabyte) & my personal preference has always been ASUS.
If anyone asked me to prove it, then I could not. Its more of a gut feeling.

As for loops, I have had
multi loops, with multi pumps per loop
multi loops, with single pumps (as with The STY)
single loops, with multi rads & pumps
single loops, with multi rads & single pump

To be honest it all makes very little difference.
It all boils down to your flow & area of rads.
If you have poor flow, then you have poor cooling.
If you have small rads & a large amount of heat to dissipate, you have other problems.

As for this build, it will definitely be mutli ****** & *******.
And most people will say it is completely OTT (just like the rest of the build) :D
 
piggin said:
I have had lots of different motherboards over the years (including Gigabyte) & my personal preference has always been ASUS.
If anyone asked me to prove it, then I could not. Its more of a gut feeling.
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I have had one AOpen and 5 Gigabyte boards - one of which I fried during my first foray into watercooling :(

So I can't really comment on ASUS boards, but so far I have been very happy with Gigabyte and consequentially never looked at the other suppliers.

I do have a pair of ASUS GTX 480s and I am happy with them, but that's the only ASUS stuff I've ever had.
 
piggin said:
Thanks Gents
I finally crumbled & went with a total EK setup.
This gives the 'matched' look that Orcvader mentioned
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I too am a big EK fan. I like their packaging and the look of their products and they seem to work well. The only problem I have had with their kit to date is that a small crack developed in my reservoir. I put this down to overtightening it. The good news is that due to their modular design I was able to buy just the plastic tube replacement and not a complete reservoir, so it wasn't that expensive a mistake.
 
JohnTedd said:
I have had one AOpen and 5 Gigabyte boards - one of which I fried during my first foray into watercooling :(
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I have also killed a few motherboards (not by water, yet) but did blow the PWR section clean out of a Gigabyte board once (even split the rear track).
For some reason they thought I may have been mistreating the board when I attempted an RMA.

JohnTedd said:
So I can't really comment on ASUS boards, but so far I have been very happy with Gigabyte and consequentially never looked at the other suppliers.
I do have a pair of ASUS GTX 480s and I am happy with them, but that's the only ASUS stuff I've ever had.
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I am no ASUS 'fan boy'.
There are many good product available by numerous manufacturers.
I purchased the R3E as it was having very good reviews & managed to wangle a board from the first shipment into the UK when they were very hard to obtain.
This board is a very good overclocker & pushes my CPU (better than the DFI that I previously had).
The only problem is with the memory & getting it to overclock (issues with multi pliers)
As for Gigabyte, I like the look of the new Gigabyte X58A-OC (good performance, layout & colour combination)
As for the future ;)
Most probably will only do GPU's as the next upgrade and hold out for the next intel chips

JohnTedd said:
I too am a big EK fan. I like their packaging and the look of their products and they seem to work well. The only problem I have had with their kit to date is that a small crack developed in my reservoir. I put this down to overtightening it. The good news is that due to their modular design I was able to buy just the plastic tube replacement and not a complete reservoir, so it wasn't that expensive a mistake.
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As you can see, I also like EK.
The problem is they have no real competition within the UK.
I have had a few problems with different items & they have been resolved (eventually) through customer services.

geeman1979 said:
Phew! Started reading this thread a couple of weeks ago,now just caught up to date with it,looks great so far,that must be some labour of love :eek:
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Thanks geeman
I am not so sure its a lobour of love, more a war of attrition.
I look at 'The Shelf' sometimes a think that it would be so much easier if I just purchased a TJ07.
I have recently decided to make some very small changes to the design of the case.
This means that all of the panels have had to be replaced.
This in turn means almost starting from scratch all over again.
 
piggin said:
I have also killed a few motherboards (not by water, yet) but did blow the PWR section clean out of a Gigabyte board once (even split the rear track).
For some reason they thought I may have been mistreating the board when I attempted an RMA.
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It wasn't the water that killed mine. It was the fact that I tried to replace the NB heatsink with a WB but that meant severing the heatpipes from the SB and MOSFETs. I tried to re-link them, but it didn't like it and I nearly got burnt on the SB!!! The MB wasn't really RMA-able...
 
geeman1979 said:
OMG :eek: Good luck.
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Thanks, I think I need it.
I have taken some comparison photographs over the weekend. Hopefully I will post them later

JohnTedd said:
It wasn't the water that killed mine. It was the fact that I tried to replace the NB heatsink with a WB but that meant severing the heatpipes from the SB and MOSFETs. I tried to re-link them, but it didn't like it and I nearly got burnt on the SB!!! The MB wasn't really RMA-able...
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Cutting heatpipes is never a good idea.
I purchased a Maximus once & could not get a full board water block for that.
Ended up removing the heat pipe & fitting Thermalright air cooling to parts of the board.

A few pictures from a long time ago

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Sometimes it is good to learn the hard way, or so I've been told :(

The board was one with NVIDIA NB & SB which were a bit temperamental, so frying it allowed me to buy one with Intel chips instead, which worked really well. I still have that board, but currently it is taking a holiday in the loft.
 
JohnTedd said:
I think it cost me about £200 for the new MB and a some ear-ache from she-who-shall-be-obeyed. On the upside resulting PC was more reliable though.
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ear-ache, if only this was a tangible cost. My system would be running into millions of pounds. :(

Are you sure Mrs P & your good lady are not sisters :D
 
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