Twin Turbo "Black Edition"

Managed to get a few snaps on my phone of rad placement and sizing .

Tape measure is laid out for the length of the Twin Turbo 263mm, can see from the bottom two, can't do Push Pull by 8mm nor have fittings on the bottom by 3mm. Top Push with fittings in top it is.



You can also see the 250 res does fit but I'm not going to be able to add the second top 140mm. As I want the Rear rad to be pulling in cold air I want and Need the second top exit, if I was just having the rear rad exit I'd go for the larger res.

 
True, will see how build goes to see if I prefer this to the S340. On paper its better just for the extra top fan.

Would be interesting to see if a 45mm rad could go in the front.
Just a shame these Turbo cards will be the last. Guessing everyone's seen the specs for the 1080 being 15w TPD higher then the 980. Believe from what in told the 1070 is higjer , and the Turbos, at least Asus version was useless for the 970 chip ! 960 it wasn't to bad .

Might have to build this and sell the GPUs sperately and get the 1070s in.
Seems with rough prices 1070 will still be higher then the 970 so shouldn't drop the price much. Blessing and a curse for some
 
I do have a friend with a 3D printer, could always make shrouds to go over the Alphacool blocks, also have a two spare Turbo Shrouds :) will keep if they ever make a Mitx card.. Which in guessing will be in 4GB flavours for space maybe ?
 
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Going to have to Mount the top fans using Rad threads and nuts.
Rubber fittings don't work with P400s thickness and hole space and normal screws don't bit into the rubber casing

Managed to get some DSLR shots for tomorrow :)

Snap off my phone for now :)
 
a nun would be proud of how tight this fit is ............



question now being how to line the furthest rad port to the inlet for on the block???? Might have to be a 90 facing down on the block and an angled twin 45 on the rad with some short tubing.

Hard tubing this part would solve the problem but lack the fittings :(

***small unrelated note- seems 1080 could hit end of June UK side***
 
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Cenedd said:
Well, you've not made it easy for yourself there :p

It might actually be cheaper to buy the two fittings for hard tube than do it with soft fittings.

From the rad port nearest the block to the port at the top of the block?
Double-45 from the rad should get you round the corner. Otherwise extension and then 90°. From there a soft tube should arc down to a straight fitting on the block....I think!

Does that work? Difficult to tell without being able to screw stuff in and see what happens :D
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the inlet is in the middle of the Alphacool block. Top will go straight across to the port on the rad closest to the tray.

Been told the Push/Pull makes it looks a bit messy and tight in an already tight case.
might have to drop to just one fan. Having it pull cold air in would give best performance and more space to plumb, or have it in Push drawing in cold air again- but leaves the rad in same spot but no unattractive fan support on show....

choices. what do you lot think? either choices again is drawing cold air and expelling warm to the top fans.

Keep Push Pull - peformance but said to look clustered
Push - flush rad look
Pull - more room to plumb
 
970 Twin Turbos have arrived today, so i'll quickly snap one in to see clearance I have and if i'm able to set up Push Pull as the front. If i can, i'll have the fan in Pull showing off the blue brace to mimic the front. If i cant then I'll have the fan as push showing the rad face again, mimicking the front rad.

a straight fitting can just fit! more then likely down to 13/10mm fittings and tubing which will help!
 
Just realised there's was an LED plug in the box.
CPU location makes it a bit harder to hide the cable but could go to the left and behind the GPUs.

So far have sorted CPU to Rad to Res inlet...
Hopefully cut sinks for the GPUs tomorrow and see how they line up
 
got around to uploading Better pics :)


I've got EK UV Blue liquid but thinking a different colour may be needed, like the previous had Red to break up the White and Black. Been suggested White but maybe orange?





 
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Got a chance today to take apart the Gigabyte Twin Turbo.... Didn't look to good at the start







As you can see, with Gigabytes far superior Heatsink, the shroud bolts directly into the corners where as the Asus the shroud bolts to the card. Which is much easier, cut the sink down, mount to card, then mount shroud, then add backplate .

The Gigabyte version will require the mounts to be removed, Sink to be cut a little bit more slimmer as the blue bits on the shroud clip in and the clips stick out.
Two holes will need to be drilled on the two sides of the shroud, then these lined up and marked onto the sink, drilled and taped.
Assemble the water unit to the card, back and front, attach fan header, then move shroud over the sink and bolt in.

The perfect solution would be to drill 3 holes into the sink where the shroud Mount points are, the 4th hits the block, then counter sink holes then bolt the shroud to the sink, and sink to the card, and then the back plate.
Don't have a router to go through , and drill wouldn't be as accurate as I'd like
 
@simpleMr said:
Its nice to see a variant of EK water blocks and stuff on this site when people do build logs so a cool project for sure.
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Cheers :) it was honestly just going to be the cards hybrid cooled but Alphacool said just go all out :)

Think I'll wait for a HOF 1070 and try to Hybrid cool that with Alphacool heatsink and find a way to bracket the fans and shroud to it, but that's another story :)
 
Bradley1928 said:
I love the look of that pump+res combo. I currently have a alphacool loop but with a bay res but this combo literally wants me to swap out in a heartbeat.

I've seen their D5 mount + plexi top but never seen a tube-res mounted to it. How would I go about doing that?
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I believe the Res Top mount **Eisbecher is different from the standard top **Eisdecke.
The kit is bought together and came prefixed. Cant think the plexi block by itself.
Its put together solid !
 
Bit of a poor snap on the phone but got the first block cut down and fits in the shroud
Need to cut the 4 anchor points if the shroud . then drill 4 holes in the side, mark it against the heatsink , drill and tap.
Then lastly drill the inlet and outlet.

The Asus Turbo was a lot more straight forward

 
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Looking good though. Just the holes for the tubing to go then! Is it like me with my fencing: measure once, cut twice, swear lots?!
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Got to drill m3/4 sized holes into the sides then into the heatsink so the shroud can be bolted onto it. Asus the shroud bolted to the card, with no heatsink there's nothing mount against
 
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