Just some quick photos of the system after upgrading the cards on water. FIgured i'd post it somewhere where everyone could see it insted of some random thread.
More later..
Case is a MountainMods Extended Ascension with Quad/2x tripple rads on the front and another Tripple rad in the bottom rear.
Radiators are 3x Black Ice GTX360 Extreme and 1 GTX420.
31 Scythe Gentle Typhoon AP-15 1850rpm fans haha i know.. LOVE THOSE FANS! QUIETEST RIG EVER!
6 pumps (2 sets of 3 pumps) Liang DDC "Older models" that are silent and reliable. 1 group for the blocks + bottom GTX360 Rad and 1 group for the rads (1GTX480 and 2x GTX360). The water is exchanged at the Res.
2x XSPC Premium Laing Triple DDC Clear Acrylic Top for the pumps.
Res Modified EK-Multioption RES X2 - 400 Advanced with 2 bottoms as the top did not have enough ports for me. I need bleed ports to keep the air out of the top.
Bitspower barbs all around and i also went threw the pain of connecting the rads in the front with fittings only. Lots of guess work and over after order to get the write length parts.
MB Block - Koolance Rampage IV Extreme full coverage block.
CPU Block EK-Supreme HF High Flow CPU Water Block - Full EN (Nickel)
GPU blocks - 4x EK FC-7970 nickel/Acetal
Water Tubing- Feser Red UV - Gota mention this stuff as its junk. Been 2 years not even since i've installed it and you cant touch it without getting red crap all over your hands! Next time i'm going with clear tubing.
System specs:
Intel LGA 2011 6 Core 3960 @ 5Ghz
Asus Rampage IV Extreme
QuadFire 7970
X-Fi USB Sound Card Need single card bracket for my PCI-E X-Fi
32GB G.Skill 2133Mhz DDR3 Quad Channel Ram 9,11,10 @ 1.65v.
3x Mushkin Chronos SSD (1x 120GB and 2x 240GB Raid 0)
3 Acer 23" 3D Ready LCDs
2x Ultra X4 1600 WATT P/S 's
In that last pic.. i've had one of those D-Plugs pop off before in the past! Ton of pressure from the 2 sets of 3 pumps! haha. Thank god it was early on in the air bleeding phase and the system was not powered. But boy was it dramatic when it did one end poped off.. Massive water spray like someone put there finger over a garden hose to increase the pressure. Nuts. Strapped down for saftey! Will get some fatter zip-ties as i ran out of the black larger ones.
The link from the MB block to the graphics cards.. Thats just something a little different to give it a signature look. haha. Had the extra fittings and thought that would look different.
Also heres more pics of the insides from when this case was originally built (Nvidia Quad GTX580) http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?&m=693435&mpage=1 Post 59 was the last update for that rig before i upgraded the rig as shown here.
Also want to mention something very important.. If you ever run a MB horizontal like this with all the weight from the graphics cards and water blocks.. be sure to use rubber spacers on the backside of the mb to help support it or the board will warp over time and possably damnage it. I use some general sink rubber washers that you can get from the hardware store. A assorted box will so nicely. There all the same thickness but different widths. I double them up so 2 is the same height as the MB spacers and hotglue them in place on the mb in areas where the most weight is where you can fit them with no parts/pins. Just gota make sure of the height of your mb spacers first so that its all level afterwards. You can sand down the rubber washer if needed.
More later..
Case is a MountainMods Extended Ascension with Quad/2x tripple rads on the front and another Tripple rad in the bottom rear.
Radiators are 3x Black Ice GTX360 Extreme and 1 GTX420.
31 Scythe Gentle Typhoon AP-15 1850rpm fans haha i know.. LOVE THOSE FANS! QUIETEST RIG EVER!
6 pumps (2 sets of 3 pumps) Liang DDC "Older models" that are silent and reliable. 1 group for the blocks + bottom GTX360 Rad and 1 group for the rads (1GTX480 and 2x GTX360). The water is exchanged at the Res.
2x XSPC Premium Laing Triple DDC Clear Acrylic Top for the pumps.
Res Modified EK-Multioption RES X2 - 400 Advanced with 2 bottoms as the top did not have enough ports for me. I need bleed ports to keep the air out of the top.
Bitspower barbs all around and i also went threw the pain of connecting the rads in the front with fittings only. Lots of guess work and over after order to get the write length parts.
MB Block - Koolance Rampage IV Extreme full coverage block.
CPU Block EK-Supreme HF High Flow CPU Water Block - Full EN (Nickel)
GPU blocks - 4x EK FC-7970 nickel/Acetal
Water Tubing- Feser Red UV - Gota mention this stuff as its junk. Been 2 years not even since i've installed it and you cant touch it without getting red crap all over your hands! Next time i'm going with clear tubing.
System specs:
Intel LGA 2011 6 Core 3960 @ 5Ghz
Asus Rampage IV Extreme
QuadFire 7970
X-Fi USB Sound Card Need single card bracket for my PCI-E X-Fi
32GB G.Skill 2133Mhz DDR3 Quad Channel Ram 9,11,10 @ 1.65v.
3x Mushkin Chronos SSD (1x 120GB and 2x 240GB Raid 0)
3 Acer 23" 3D Ready LCDs
2x Ultra X4 1600 WATT P/S 's
In that last pic.. i've had one of those D-Plugs pop off before in the past! Ton of pressure from the 2 sets of 3 pumps! haha. Thank god it was early on in the air bleeding phase and the system was not powered. But boy was it dramatic when it did one end poped off.. Massive water spray like someone put there finger over a garden hose to increase the pressure. Nuts. Strapped down for saftey! Will get some fatter zip-ties as i ran out of the black larger ones.
The link from the MB block to the graphics cards.. Thats just something a little different to give it a signature look. haha. Had the extra fittings and thought that would look different.
Also heres more pics of the insides from when this case was originally built (Nvidia Quad GTX580) http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?&m=693435&mpage=1 Post 59 was the last update for that rig before i upgraded the rig as shown here.
Also want to mention something very important.. If you ever run a MB horizontal like this with all the weight from the graphics cards and water blocks.. be sure to use rubber spacers on the backside of the mb to help support it or the board will warp over time and possably damnage it. I use some general sink rubber washers that you can get from the hardware store. A assorted box will so nicely. There all the same thickness but different widths. I double them up so 2 is the same height as the MB spacers and hotglue them in place on the mb in areas where the most weight is where you can fit them with no parts/pins. Just gota make sure of the height of your mb spacers first so that its all level afterwards. You can sand down the rubber washer if needed.
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