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Finally finished latest WC project....

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footman

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Shout out to Swiftech for the Edge HD Kit.
EK for the GTX 680 waterblocks and parallel Bridge.

I've been working on another NZXT Switch 810 build as my first was so successful. This build consists of Asus Z68 Chipset with pci-e 3 support, Sandisk Extreme 256gb SSD and 2x2tb Samsung HDD's, Ivybridge 3770K, a pair of EVGA GTX 670 FTW's.
Watercooling loop is based on Swiftech Edge HD 220 kit with additional Magicool 140mm rad, Apogee HD on the cpu and EK full length GTX 680 waterblocks on the EVGA GTX 670 FTW's with the EK parallel Bridge joining the two vga cards. Been pretty impressed with the Parallel EK bridge for two vga cards. It creates an extremely firm array that is secure and does not place any stress on either of the vga pcb's. Currently I have 2 x Scythe GT 1850 rpm fans at 7v on the dual rad and a Bitfenix Spectre Pro 140mm fan 1200rpm on the Magicool rad and the Swiftech MCP is running at around 2100rpm's. I am still looking for the ultimate performance fans specifically for low noise radiator use.
Blown away that I have been able to run a pair of EVGA GTX 670's with +115mhz on the core and +600 on the memory together with Ivybridge at 4.4ghz with a single dual rad and an extra 140mm rad with low noise fans. This pushes the core of the FTW's to well over 1300mhz totally stable. I can confirm that the EK GTX 680 waterblock and back plate fit perfectly and work extremely well with the GTX 670 FTW. Nice work EK and Swiftech, the Edge HD kit has simplified the traditional WC loop no end, look how clean this build is.

Ivybridge is currently sitting at 4.4ghz and GTX 670's are +115mhz on the core and +600mhz on the memory.

My aim was low noise and not out and out performance. And as such if I overclock the ivybridge any more than 4.4ghz it begins to dump too much heat in to the loop. For the serious overclockers, a quad rad or 2 x 220's would be the minimum recommended for higher overclocks than 4.4ghz with Ivybridge.

Currently with 1.15vcore the 3770K peaks at 68C during Intel Burn Test and the GTX 670's peak at around 55C during looped runs with Unigine Heaven.
For those of you that think 1500W power supply is overkill, you will be totally correct, according to my Killawatt I am pulling around 728W from the socket during Unigine heaven when heavily overclocked and approximately 605W when running at stock. Ivybridge is extremely well behaved when run with stock vcore as are the pair of Kepler based GTX 670's. A 750 w power supply would have been ideal. I am using this one as it was a give away and makes for a nice clean interior to my case.


Quick run 3D Mark 11 Performance:
16380: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3627126

and
3D Mark 11 Extreme:
6671: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3627150

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looks good man, i like the black clamps with the white tubing. Temps look decent considering the amount of cooling you've got there. Any reason you didn't go with the triple rad kit or drop a dual rad in the bottom of the case?
 
I used what I had available and to hand as far as the rads were concerned. Previously a single 220mm rad had been enough to cool a heavily overclocked Sandybridge cpu at 4.9Ghz and single GTX 680, so I worked out the TDP and decided that adding an extra 140mm rad and fan would be enough to cool an Ivybridge and a pair of GTX 670's. However be warned, if you want extreme overclock on Ivybridge you will need more than the 1.15vcore that I have at 4.4ghz and this will dump a huge amount of heat in to the loop. more than a loop like mine can handle. However I have almost zero noise and a system that cranks out the fps at 2560x1440 with ease.

I can always add another single or dual rad at the bottom, but to be honest I don't think I need to based on the temps that I am seeing now. I'm not adding anything else to this loop or planning on running the cpu above 4.4ghz.
In fact it makes more sense for me to run the cpu at stock and leave the GTX 670's overclocked....
 
haunter said:
you dont find the GPUS outrunning the CPU at all?
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What makes you say this?

I play my games at 2560x1440 which reduces any potential cpu bottleneck even when running the 3770K at stock.

Modern games are more likely to be gpu bound than cpu bound unless you like to play at 1024x768.
 
Very nice and clean build my friend, I'm missing reservoir and pump, are integrated on top rad?
 
haha Optical Disc Drive cover. I think he's referring to one of the 5.25 bay's that has a built in cover?
 
Looks good, I was curious to how a WC build in the the switch would look and I like it
 
Nice job, OP. I think it looks great.

Can I ask a question? What size tubing is that? 1/2" ID / 3/4" OD? Looks big.
 
Cheers guys.
ODD cover did not fit properly, so was recycled.
Using 3/4OD 1/2ID tubing.
Top rad has integrated rad and pump and was manufactured by Swiftech part of their Edge HD kits. Excellent piece of equipment, the pump is even pwm controlled.

Thanks for responses.
 
Yeah, those rads are excellent, maybe now you can get an apogee Drive II, and make you loop redundant :D
 
I do have a question about the kit. How did you manage to fill it while mounted in the case? Isn't the cap on the rad facing the top of the case? Was there space to access it from up top or something? This was something that has always bothered me about those kits, but i've not really looked at them any closer to see how they'd really work.
 
footman said:
What makes you say this?

I play my games at 2560x1440 which reduces any potential cpu bottleneck even when running the 3770K at stock.

Modern games are more likely to be gpu bound than cpu bound unless you like to play at 1024x768.
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I play BF3 in eyefinity 1080p, or 1080 on a single 120hz LCD, a 6950 OC'd with a reference 6970. 2500K

I was running the 2500K at 4.1 and I wasnt seeing anything ober like 90% gpu usage. I bumped up to 4.4 and I picked up FPS and saw my GPU usage hit 95%.

which explained why I had OC'd the cards and wasnt getting more frames, which is why I started running perfmon while playing

the 3770k is surely a decent % faster than my 2500K, but so are your GPU's!




also, since I forgot to mention it earlier.

sick. so clean. love it
 
If you were getting close to 750w a 750 wouldn't be ideal. Closer to 50% load the more efficient and generally stable they are. An 850w or 1000w would have been fine but a so is a 1500w.

Nice to see a kit setup cool some pretty hefty hardware.
Silence is goood. Just finished my loop dedicated to silence (I'm running a D5 vario at 1! Haters hate! :p)
You can't really overclock kepler anyways.
 
JayJapanB said:
If you were getting close to 750w a 750 wouldn't be ideal. Closer to 50% load the more efficient and generally stable they are. An 850w or 1000w would have been fine but a so is a 1500w.

Nice to see a kit setup cool some pretty hefty hardware.
Silence is goood. Just finished my loop dedicated to silence (I'm running a D5 vario at 1! Haters hate! :p)
You can't really overclock kepler anyways.
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yeah most quality units can throw down pretty well at close to peak watts but I'd be a little worried about a 750

my 650 bronze did NOT like 2xstock 6950's and my oc'd 2500K much at all :p

the 900W bronze eats it up
 
haunter said:
yeah most quality units can throw down pretty well at close to peak watts but I'd be a little worried about a 750

my 650 bronze did NOT like 2xstock 6950's and my oc'd 2500K much at all :p

the 900W bronze eats it up
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Yeah i don't know why people would ever suggest getting by on a psu, no matter the quality, running at 80%+ when loaded. I did that back in the day and learned my lesson when the psu gave up the ghost after about 18 months. I went and bought seasonic 750 even tho I doubt i'm pulling more than 400w or so loaded and eventually overclocked. It's not worth it when I've seen some of the reviews of loaded psu's dishing out voltages that go out of the ATX spec. I'd think when loaded you'd want your best quality power you can hand out. Oh well rant over.
 
Imitation said:
Yeah i don't know why people would ever suggest getting by on a psu, no matter the quality, running at 80%+ when loaded. I did that back in the day and learned my lesson when the psu gave up the ghost after about 18 months. I went and bought seasonic 750 even tho I doubt i'm pulling more than 400w or so loaded and eventually overclocked. It's not worth it when I've seen some of the reviews of loaded psu's dishing out voltages that go out of the ATX spec. I'd think when loaded you'd want your best quality power you can hand out. Oh well rant over.
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Id be more worried about them overvolting.

i was pushing almost 550 through my 650 and it was fine, then I went from 5870's to 6950's and it was not ok
 
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