white & blue water cool time.

Sgt Tackleberry · 17 Jan 2011 at 14:25

Hi guys!

I have been wanting to watercool for a while now so I have decided to go for it, i'm also sending my case off to be powered coated as well.
I am planning on watercooling my i5 760 in my Lancool K-62. This is my first watercooling build so go easy on me . Anyway.
my watercooling gear I have bought is as follows

Tubing: PrimoFlex Pro white 7/16 hose
Pump: Swiftech Laing D5 Vario MCP655 12V DC Pump
Radiator: Black Ice Stealth 360
CPU Block: The heatkiller CPU Rev3.0 LT (white)
Coolant: distilled water
Reservoir: XSPC Single Bay Reservoir
Fittings: 1/2" Chrome Barbs
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 (3.5g)
Fans: 3 Akasa venom 120mm.
Others: silver Kill coil, Hose clamp 1/2inch & PrimoChill Liquid Utopia

My pc hardware what i have is:

Cpu: i5 760 overlclocked to 4ghz
Mobo: MSI P55-GD65
Ram: Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz
GFX: ATI 5850
Storage: 2 x 1TB hdd
PSU: Antic true power 650w

I do apologise for some crappy pictures as these was taken from my phone.

Here is the build before I start.

My case all empty now, being sent off later to be powered coated white.

All my other components

messy cpu, but it's all clean now.

Just to show how big the akasa venom cpu cooler is

That's what i have for now, my case should be back by the end of the week, during this week i will be flashing the rad
and mounting the water block so there will be more picture as soon as i do them.

thanks for looking.

Gangster · 17 Jan 2011 at 14:43

nice, keep us updated with lots of pics

Been looking at this case for one of my pcs for a while

TheCenturion · 17 Jan 2011 at 16:02

This will be interesting. Good luck!

By chance, have you already bought your wcooling parts? Because I'd recommend getting 7/16" tubing and getting distilled water instead of that primochill stuff

Sgt Tackleberry · 17 Jan 2011 at 16:10

TheCenturion said:
This will be interesting. Good luck!

By chance, have you already bought your wcooling parts? Because I'd recommend getting 7/16" tubing and getting distilled water instead of that primochill stuff

Thanks, yes I have already got it.

Krellor · 17 Jan 2011 at 16:27

Looks pretty tight for space in there, good luck.

Sgt Tackleberry · 17 Jan 2011 at 16:35

Krellor said:
Looks pretty tight for space in there, good luck.

Don't worry it will fit, I've done a dry run be4 I shipped the case off, all fits nice. Hence in one of the pic the tubing is already cut size.

Guitarman0 · 17 Jan 2011 at 19:01

Looking forward to this

Will you be mounting the rad externally then?

Sgt Tackleberry · 17 Jan 2011 at 19:35

Guitarman0 said:
Looking forward to this Will you be mounting the rad externally then?

Yes I will be. as you know with this case at the top, I'm going to cut out the middle so it mounts over it.

N00bbuilder79 · 17 Jan 2011 at 19:46

TheCenturion said:
I'd recommend getting 7/16" tubing )

+1

7/16 with 1/2 inch barbs are a winning combination.

Sgt Tackleberry · 17 Jan 2011 at 21:10

N00bbuilder79 said:
+1

7/16 with 1/2 inch barbs are a winning combination.

just ordered 2meters or 7/16 tubing.. thanks for that

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Sgt Tackleberry · 19 Jan 2011 at 10:43

hi guys,

Yesterday i got round to flushing the rad, I flushed it about 8 times with malt vinegar. over the next few days i should hopefully
mount the cpu block and start to cut out the plastic top of my case so the rad sits flush on the top of the case.

here are a few pictures of it:.

looking a lot more better

before and after...

i'm hoping this will all be done by Saturday night, it's all depending if i get my case back from being powered coated.
thanks for looking..

Bubo · 19 Jan 2011 at 14:17

Bloody hell! That is some serious flux and crap. Not seen one as bad as that before.

Sgt Tackleberry · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:52

Bubo said:
Bloody hell! That is some serious flux and crap. Not seen one as bad as that before.

That's what I thought when I was doing.

domthecondom · 19 Jan 2011 at 18:47

Mhhh very nice CPU block do they do them for 1336 sockets? would fit well with my project

Sgt Tackleberry · 19 Jan 2011 at 19:26

domthecondom said:
Mhhh very nice CPU block do they do them for 1336 sockets? would fit well with my project

I do believe they do but I can't say where I got it from....

Sgt Tackleberry · 22 Jan 2011 at 11:14

hello guy's,

i've now got my case back from being powered coated and it look's really gr8 n i'm happy with it

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I should hopefully have everything installed 2day ready for leak testing.
here are the picture of the case.

more updates as hopefully 2day..

Guitarman0 · 22 Jan 2011 at 14:54

I really don't want to sound rude but just out of interest how much (roughly) did the powder coating cost? I am thinking of getting a TJ07 and powder coating but have no idea how much it will roughly cost.

Cheers

Sgt Tackleberry · 22 Jan 2011 at 17:05

Guitarman0 said:
I really don't want to sound rude but just out of interest how much (roughly) did the powder coating cost? I am thinking of getting a TJ07 and powder coating but have no idea how much it will roughly cost.

Cheers

£42 inc vat.. There's a place Down the road from me wat does it....
Nearly done now. Pic will b up soon.

Guitarman0 · 22 Jan 2011 at 17:53

Sgt Tackleberry said:
£42 inc vat.. There's a place Down the road from me wat does it....
Nearly done now. Pic will b up soon.

Nice! Thanks

Sgt Tackleberry · 22 Jan 2011 at 21:50

hey guy's,

I'm now all done and dusted!... and it looks sweet!.
here are the picture:

all fitted in the case now!, looking sweet!

leak testing

all set up and running..

i am really happy woth the out come!, hope you guys like it and let me know what you think as this is my first time doing it.
I will put more picture's up 2morrow with the temps before and after water cooled