V1000B water-cooling log

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Right, i've finally taken the leap into the world of water cooling after months of thought.. I've just spent some 100's on completing the kit, so i though a project log was in order for this build.

The final PC should consist of the following:

PC:

BFG 680i
e6400
4gig crucial ballistix pc5300 c3
BFG 8800GTX OC2
Corsair HX 620W
SATA dvd-rw
SATA 250gig HDD
Akasa fan controller (5 1/4" bay)
Lian-Li V1000B

Watercooling:

CPU: d-tec fuzion
NB: DD 680i
GFX: EK 8800gtx w/ acetal top EDIT: they sent me the danger den, aah well, i'll use that instead
Rad: PA 120.2
Res: EK multi-option 150
Pump: 12V Laing DDC1+ ultra 18W w/ Petras tech DDCT-01s delrin pump top
Tubing: 10 feet (just incase :D) Tygon 1/2" tubing

handfull of wormdrive clips and some F1 too :)

SB: decided on the HR-05 SLi

4 sharkoon silent eagle 1000's 120mm

1 of the above in 80mm format.

The Plan

The Rad is to be mounted in the top of the case, along with a fillport, thus the case needs modding, lucky for me, the lian li i bought from the members market a few months back had already had this done to it.

The Res i am going to mount almost directy to the fillport, should give the system a bit more volume and take longer to heat up, got a fair bit for just a 120.2 rad...

im thinking.. pump -> cpu -> NB -> gfx -> rad -> res -> pump but this is subject to change after i play about with it a bit :D

Any ways, watch this space!

EDIT: d'oh! been called, petras tech top not in stock... :(
EDIT: pump top arrives tomorrow, everything else is here.. woooo!
 
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Thought i'd add a quick photo of everything except the pump top, gonna start semi-assembling some things now. Enjoy :D

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Raikiri said:
Nice :D

But why do you have five tubes of thermal paste? :p
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there's 5 and half there actually ;) (i buy in bulk)

Chris19 said:
Good luck with your build and is that the clear / UV blue F1 stuff?
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cheers, and yeah, it is :)

Looking around on a fair few forums, the difference between the DD and EK gtx blocks are minimal, so will just stick with the DD
 
well, i never really had any screws with the rad, 2nd hand see, and i dont think the screws that came with the fans will fit... im sure i can bodge something up :)

thing is, the fans will be mounted to the inside if the case, then the rad under those, so thee fans will be pulling air through the rad, so its gonna be a bit tricky.
 
Quick update from dad's PC:

everything out of the pc, and the motherboard without the nb/sb cooler, blimey they've used a fair bit of paste...
mobopaste.jpg


New coolers added:

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GTX hs/f off (damn this was a pain)

gtxclean.jpg


GTX block on:

gtxblock.jpg
 
made a right **** up with the thermalright cooler: the rad is sat where the cooler is sat :\ so i found this cooler and added it:

othercooler.jpg


But alas, now the GTX wont fit :(

Found a stupidly small and inneficient cooler for now, will get a fan at max speed in the beast when i get it running, hopefully shouldn't be too much trouble for now, as it is the SB instead of the usually hotter NB.

Board in the case:

b4tubes.jpg


Rad rotated 180 degrees, barbs now at front of case, no way the tubing would have bent without kinks with the GTX block being where it is:

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Revised the loop a bit: PUMP -> CPU -> GTX -> NB -> RAD -> RES -> PUMP, this looks better and has less tight curves in the loop.

More to come!
 
im now using the pc :D

I really dont particularly want to use the fans or rad outside the pc, i like the whole thing to be closed up really.

There's a bit of a tornado in my res at the moment :eek: i think the pump might have been a bit overkill... Trying to bleed this thing is a right pain in the wotsits..

After getting the whole thing together, i realised i had forgotton to plug in the front panel.. that was a pain in the arse too... then i went to turn it on... nothing :( light was on motherboard too, so not my usual trick of leaving the psu turned off... turns out i hadn't got the power switch in the right place... damn my heart was going then..

Any way, it's leak testing now, wont bother with any photos of that.. may have an update later.

(this pump is rather noisey.. but then again, that could be because i can't hear anything else in the PC ;))
 
final pic, don't have any dark shots yet, as the camera is a bit poo, and the UV cathode i have isn't very strong... but...:

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Have done some testing too :D

before:

CPU: 3.6 @ 1.7v (unstable) = 70°c load, 43°c idle
CPU: 3.2 @ 1.5825v (stable) = 65°c load, 39°c idle
GPU: 630/2100 = 85°c load, 67°c idle

After:

CPU: 3.6 @ 1.7v (unstable) = 60°c load, 36°c idle
CPU: 3.2 @ 1.5825v (stable) = 55°c load, 34°c idle
GPU: 660/2100 = 60°c load, 47°c idle

Pretty happy with that :D

EDIT: Gotta do something with that res, i'll mod some kind of attachment to the bottom of the fan or something, then attach it to that i think.

Wasn't best pleased with the Fuzion block, after fiting the 1st tube and wormdrive clip, there was no space for the other tube to fit, managed to get it in with a LOT of persuasion, but not a chance in hell that i could fit another workdrive to it :(

Also, VERY happy with the cable management job i've done.. just wish the pci-e connectors were longer so i could do a better job.

Lastly, things to do:

Chnge those silly red sata cables for some nice black, or uv reacive ones
Attachment for res
uv lights (:D)
Case window
Southbridge cooler (im liking yous Rakiri, how does it perform?)
Some cable braiding me thinks.. can't find anywhere that stocks any though :\
 
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ok... so i decided to have a play with my cpu clocks...

currently into 1 hour of orthos blend @ 4ghz @ 1.8v @ 58°c max temp seen.. :eek:

i like :D

managed a 12800 on 3dmark06 at 3.6ghz and 660/2080 (doesn't seem to like 2100 any m ore :()

Definately woth the upgrade :D
 
research mate... i didn't really have a clue before this...

I did get a cheapo kit, and a cheapo athlon xp rig just to have a play with at first to test the water with (excuse the pun)

When i was happy that it is pretty easy to setup, and how quiet it was (deciding factor) i went ahead and researched what is good and what isn't.. hopefully what i have is pretty good.. suits my needs and i'm happy with it :)
 
ok, it's been a while, but i had a bit of spare time this weekend, and decided to cut my window.

Now, i havn't filed it or sanded it or added the perspex (which i dont have... yet) but this is what it looks like: (excuse the quality)

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Quite happy with that, there's about 1 inch from the bottom of the window, to the bottom of the 'compartment' of case, so i'll chuck in a UV cathode there, and it'll be out of sight :D

Also, i now have a bit of black aluminium to play with.. i'm toying eith the idea of a small window aplique, a 'v' or possibly my snake logo (the latter will be very fiddly, but could look rather nice) This aplique would go in one of the corners, don't want it covering up the whole of the window, just something small and out of the way.

Also, has anyone got any tips on the bare aluminium edges? i assume some black paint will do the job?

And, as an after thought, i was going to make a bracket to attach to my rear fan so that i could attach my res to.. i now have some aluminium in the same style as my case... i think i'll use this :D

I do have a heatsink for my southbridge now, but alas, the only way i can fit it is to remove the water cooling :( so i think another bottle of feser 1 is in order (i may get some blue stuff this time, it's looking a bit plain when there's no UV light in there..)
 
1/2" barbs, didn't need to purchase any extra, using the ones that came with all the blocks.. (i was lucky to recieve an extra barb in my gfx block, otherwise i'd have needed 1 more for the res)
 
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