Nah, the bits come with really crappy o-rings. Tried swapping them for some better ones, but there's no recess in the thread for them so they get all mashed up. Going to have use some PTFE tape on them.
Yet Another TJ07: Performance Passive
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Finally! Think I've got the back plate watertight at the threads. Only took PTFE tape, better o-rings, and then PTFE over the top of them to get it leakproof.
Not quite, I've now got the water flowing in both loops so it'll take the rest of the night and probably tomorrow as well to bleed fully.Glad to hear it. Have you turned it on yet?
I'll go and check that nothing is leaking and then I might plug it in.
Slightly better temperatures this time compared to when I last switched it on.
Should be up and running this weekend again, been busy with work past few weeks.
I've got as far as getting Windows installed but I'm disappointed with one pump that was a bit whiney though I suspect it has air trapped in it somewhere, if not I'll replace it. Also the two Yate Loon fans are too noisy. Not sure if it's a fault or what as I've never had any issues with Loons in the past.
Well, I'm admitting defeat.
Been trying to figure out what was causing the pump in the CPU loop to be so noisy. Ended up swapping in another known good pump which did exactly the same thing. I've just checked the pump speeds and both pumps are within 50rpm of each other so it's not a pump speed issue, which leads me to believe it's just an inherent property of the DDC pump with high water flowrate.
I've taken the decision to retube it all as a single pump loop, looking at the performance graphs for the CPU block it's fairly flow rate independant.
Edit: Also the 8/10mm PVC tubing I have I'm not impressed with, once it gets warm it loses most of its strength.
Been trying to figure out what was causing the pump in the CPU loop to be so noisy. Ended up swapping in another known good pump which did exactly the same thing. I've just checked the pump speeds and both pumps are within 50rpm of each other so it's not a pump speed issue, which leads me to believe it's just an inherent property of the DDC pump with high water flowrate.
I've taken the decision to retube it all as a single pump loop, looking at the performance graphs for the CPU block it's fairly flow rate independant.
Edit: Also the 8/10mm PVC tubing I have I'm not impressed with, once it gets warm it loses most of its strength.
I didn't have them in series, they were commoned up at the res, main reason was to keep all the cooling capacity available to both loops.
Any, the new scheme is a lot simpler and extremely quiet
Comes up with all 6GB showing.
Yup, stops it transmitting vibrations.
How odd, just finished installing Win7 and noticed in the System page that it said 6GB installed, 4GB useable. Checked the BIOS and it said 4GB installed now. Reset the BIOS and it reverted back to the settings I had and it reads 6GB again. Might have a fiddle about and see if I can find what did it. Only thing I can think of is the normal/performance/extreme mode.
Other than fit the drive bay covers, going to replace the Yate Loons with Noctuas in the top.
And some stability testing at stock speed. PC went to sleep after 30mins
Here's a HD benchie:-
Naughty motherboard seems to set the Vcore a bit on the high side, starting to turn it down a fraction.
Was going to post an obligatory 4GHz Prime overnight shot, but my PC took it upon itself to do some Windows updates. So here's a 4.1GHz OCCT shot, 1.2V load voltage.
It's 4x 64GB Crucial M225s.
Chuffed now, well into the ranage I was aiming for when I first started and I reckon could eek out a little bit more, 1.28V load for 4.3GHz.
They're Cape Cora tubes. Come in packs of 4 or 6.