Watercooled Case Gallery

hartty · 10 Sep 2016 at 21:52

Hi all here is my first attempt at water cooling and I must say I loved doing it.
when I upgrade my gfx card I will add that to the loop as well. lights are on 100% in pics but I only use them a 5% so there not that bright

whiterabbit · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:54

David230 said:
Just finished mine. First WC custom loop for me only used AIO's previously and this is a massive step up!

Your rig is beautiful. Congratulations on amazing job!

dtoo · 18 Sep 2016 at 16:23

R1.0 - mATX

i7 6700
Asus Maximus VIII Gene Motherboard
Dominator Platinum 16GB 3600MHz
2x EVGA Geforce GTX 1080

BluD · 18 Sep 2016 at 17:34

That looks nice, i think you might have built it upside down though, other than that very tidy.

Drazek · 26 Sep 2016 at 14:38

Hey all!

Here's some pics of my watercooled Dark Base Pro 900 with GTX 1080 Sli

You can find a link to my build thread in my signature!

Scottland · 30 Sep 2016 at 09:19

Thought I'd put my first custom loop in the gallery, still got a few little bits to tidy up - and I'm not completely happy with the colour of the water as the mayhems tubing has a slight blue tinge it makes the 'aqua' colour too blue. If you look at the water in the CPU block it's actually more of a greenish blue.

Build is as follows:
2 * HW Labs Nemesis 240 (X-Flow)
EK Supremacy Evo
EK GTX 1080 w/block (Palit Jetstream)
Fittings are all Barrow

On the other side of the case, out of site is an Aquacomputer D5 pump and EK res combo, as well as the drain port.

I'm more concerned with silence than temperatures, I'm just hitting 50 C when gaming on both the CPU and GPU, with the fans around 500rpm and pump on the lowest speed - which I'm pretty satisfied with.

AngryGoldfish · 30 Sep 2016 at 14:42

Scottland said:
Thought I'd put my first custom loop in the gallery, still got a few little bits to tidy up - and I'm not completely happy with the colour of the water as the mayhems tubing has a slight blue tinge it makes the 'aqua' colour too blue. If you look at the water in the CPU block it's actually more of a greenish blue.

Build is as follows:
2 * HW Labs Nemesis 240 (X-Flow)
EK Supremacy Evo
EK GTX 1080 w/block (Palit Jetstream)
Fittings are all Barrow

On the other side of the case, out of site is an Aquacomputer D5 pump and EK res combo, as well as the drain port.

I'm more concerned with silence than temperatures, I'm just hitting 50 C when gaming on both the CPU and GPU, with the fans around 500rpm and pump on the lowest speed - which I'm pretty satisfied with.

That's a great build. I think my next chassis will be the W2, but I won't be watercooling. I thought maybe I would in the future, but the W2 seems like a challenging chassis to build into. There are only a couple of possible configurations that are relatively easy as well as attractive. Yours is definitely one of them. Very nice. It's inspired a few ideas certainly.

Shilz · 2 Oct 2016 at 09:26

Going for a stealthier look.

Spent last weekend changing the colour of my hoses. Gone from UV/Clear to black. Sprayed with black satin Hycote high temp paint. Also ordered some gloss black acrylic to cover up the side of the drive bays and also somewhere to fit the temp sensors.

khemist · 2 Oct 2016 at 10:39

Looks nice man, wd.

What made you spray the tube? did you want a matte Black and not EK zmt tubing look?.

Shilz · 2 Oct 2016 at 11:39

khemist said:
Looks nice man, wd.

What made you spray the tube? did you want a matte Black and not EK zmt tubing look?.

I just had some spare tubing and some spare paint so thought I'd give it a go. It came out better than I expected and its also really durable. It doesn't flake or scratch once cured.

I do like the matte EK tube not sure what I wanted really just black and stealthy looking I guess. The satin is almost best of both matte and black PVC look.

RSR · 2 Oct 2016 at 20:06

Here is my first W/C build:

oizo76 · 8 Oct 2016 at 15:11

RSR-nice buil mate.

...and myy pc-project " SOC"

tyler_jrb · 8 Oct 2016 at 15:50

Recently finished and updated from my previous attempt. New Corsair ML120 + ML140 fans, Coldzero 900D midplate and also dual ek D5 pumps. Two new Aquaero USB controllers tucked under the midplate one controlling the fans and one controlling the pumps.

khemist · 26 Oct 2016 at 23:31

Just spent a pretty penny on a load of bits for an external setup for my BH7 since i love the case but don't want to switch.

I'll still be doing rigid tubing inside.. will put some pics up when done.

Maverick2332 · 31 Oct 2016 at 10:59

I'm nowhere near as good at taking pictures as you guys and my phone camera is pretty pants but I added some part this weekend.

Not really sure I'm happy with it tbh.

Still a few air bubbles in the loop to get rid of - all the monoblock/ram bends had to be done manually without a mandrel which was fun /sarc.

Also i think i like EK Parts...

khemist · 18 Nov 2016 at 18:19

External setup i'm putting together.

Shilz · 21 Nov 2016 at 18:59

Khemist thats looking real nice. Whats that chrome hard pipe your using? Im slowly considering a hard line setup and love that chrome effect.

Heres my updated setup for now, RGB down lighting under the window sill and put some inside my case.

khemist · 21 Nov 2016 at 19:04

Lovely pic!, it's Bitspower 12mm OD Nickel/Brass, i used it here - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29763630&postcount=775 + https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29772828&postcount=795

Smffy · 22 Nov 2016 at 19:00

khemist said:
Lovely pic!, it's Bitspower 12mm OD Nickel/Brass, i used it here - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29763630&postcount=775 + https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29772828&postcount=795

Does it bend without the finish cracking?

khemist · 22 Nov 2016 at 19:14

You can't bend this stuff, like you say, the plating would flake off i'm sure.

Alphacool does pre bent 90's although they are pricey.