TJ07 Watercooled Teaser

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Ok guys,

Few of you expressed an interest in a little build log im going to be doing.

So here are a few teaser pics to keep some of you interested, perhaps pick up some others while i'm at it.

EK Bayres, looks ace.

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Shot of the rear of the modded mobo tray

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Internal Shot

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Let me know what you think so far.

a lot left to do still, will probably get the machine up and running tonite, but i need to source a silverstone hdd cage for the front, going to using a crappy icydock thing for the time being, Also need to source another 4 of the ac ryan uv orange fans.

Cheers
 
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Cheers guys.

a lot of tidying up to be done, not happy with the sleeve quality on the acryan fans, infact not sure if im happy with the fans yet at all lol, they seem very plasticy and tacky. Will see what effect they have though soon :)

Spec is, well all my old gear really lol

Core i7 920 happily sat at 4.2ghz under water.
Asus p6t palm deluxe
6gb of corsair pc3-1600mhz ram
3 x wd re3's 250gb's in raid 0 8k stripe find it fastest for windows 7 and wow
BFG 295gtx
BE Quiet 1200w PSU

Dell 3007 30" Screen


H2o gear is,

EK-BAY SPIN Reservoir - Acetal
XSPC RX360 Gloss Black Rad
XSPC Delta V3 CPU Waterblock
Laing DDC pump with EK top also.
XSPC 7/16" ID - 5/8" OD Black Tubing

Will be doing a full build log when complete, but will be a couple of weeks i think.

No where seems to have the silverstone hdd cage and another 4 ac ryan 120mm orange uv led fans :(
 
As above, but one question that I have not yet seen an obvious answer to.
Why watercool - I assume the obvious answer is that it cools better, but it clearly costs a lot and involves a lot of work - just how much cooler/quieter is watercooling, and is it really only something that serious overclockers will benefit from ?
Seeing as you still have air cooling fans and a PSU fan, I am guessing that noise isn't the main enemy here - please enlighten me !
 
Hey Seveinspain,

I guess for me pc's are a hobby and watercooling is just taking it a stage further.

yes it keeps my cpu temps down rather nicely. but its also pretty funky to look at lol.

Also as you guessed allows me to over clock my core i7 a lot further than i would get on air.

It is quiter also though as i can run the 3 fans on the rad a lot quiter than you would need to on heatsink on the cpu block.

Hope that answers that one for ya lol :p


Crap reply i know, just going to fill the loop and test it lol :D
 
Not a crap reply at all, just one that tells me the answer !
As a hobby, I can understand it - my pc use is light, so temps are no biggie, but down in the south of Spain, it can get hot and dusty in summer, hence my interest in cool and dust free !
I doubt I'll ever watercool, but it is interesting to see, and I would love to know what sort of temperature improvement can be gained over a good air cool during all sorts of use - in summer here the room where the pc lives can stay at 35 degrees or more for many weeks, both day and night.......
 
steveinspain said:
Not a crap reply at all, just one that tells me the answer !
As a hobby, I can understand it - my pc use is light, so temps are no biggie, but down in the south of Spain, it can get hot and dusty in summer, hence my interest in cool and dust free !
I doubt I'll ever watercool, but it is interesting to see, and I would love to know what sort of temperature improvement can be gained over a good air cool during all sorts of use - in summer here the room where the pc lives can stay at 35 degrees or more for many weeks, both day and night.......
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Note that watercooling will not bring your temperatures down lower than ambient temperature. At idle, there probably will not be much difference between water and air. Where water benefits is under load, because water has better conductivity and heat capacity than air. If you aren't going to get into really high overclocking, or constantly run your PC at high loads, I wouldn't bother with water (unless you have money to burn and like the looks of it).
 
I can only echo what D D Danneh has said re-water cooling in a hot room.

If the temps are quite high you could go all out bonkers and look at phase change lol. But thats for the real bonkers crowd. There are a few guys on here i believe still who use it, but dont hear people go on about it as much now days for some reason.

I was like you at first steveinspain. wouldnt touch water cooling lol. Even though im 30 years old and have worked in the IT industry for close on 12 years. Just seemed to be more hassle than its worth, even more so when your installing it and working out tube runs and such, but when its up and running it looks really good, and then you can really see what you have achieved. (Which could be a pool all over the kitchen floor and a hacked off missus if things didnt go right lol)

:)

Happy chappy so far. just been taking pics of it in the dark, and its looking good. Will post more pics tomorrow.


Cant believe the time. started this at 10:30 am this morning when the dremel arrived lol.

Only just putting it to rest now. And the missus left me to it :eek: thats a shock :)
 
Lol yeah somethings not right lol.

Missus has not been nagging or anything, in fact she was even helping and taking some of the pics earlier. She's after summat lol
 
Datamonkey said:
Lol yeah somethings not right lol.

Missus has not been nagging or anything, in fact she was even helping and taking some of the pics earlier. She's after summat lol
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<chuckle> Four possibilities come to mind:

1) She found out how much you spent and if you can afford that much on a computer then surely...

2) She's going through the not uncommon. 'Mom, I've hidden all the sharp objects but I don't know what else I can do. He's pouring water into the computer !', phase

3) She's happy to see you happy

4) She thinks it's pretty and you're such a cleaver chap

Looking good btw :)
 
Morning,

Well ecat, from the way things are this morning its gotta be 3 and 4 :D

Hope to get more pics up today, just out to grab some bits to complete the build.
 
Mark my words, next time you're in town you'll hear the dreaded "Well, since you've spent so much on that computer... you can buy me (insert specific brand of £150 boots here)"
 
Audigex said:
Mark my words, next time you're in town you'll hear the dreaded "Well, since you've spent so much on that computer... you can buy me (insert specific brand of £150 boots here)"
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lol probably, but the cool thing is Alice (ze wifey) earns more than me ;) lol

So while im not quite a kept man, she isnt afraid to dip into her own pockets like some of my ex girlfriends were lol

Life's good when your not with a gold digger :D

Edit,

Why is when you out looking for one thing you find more :) just got a nice big pack of anti vibration washers, so using them on everything now.
 
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