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First WC setup

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Vincent Vega

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Still has a bit of work to do, more cable management and tweaking some of the placements of the tubing but I like it.

3-way GTX480 SLI, i7 975, all at stock for now.

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That looks awesome with the white hose and black case.

Is that the Obsidian 800D? How do you like it? I'm getting mine in the next few weeks for my upcoming WC build.
 
Colonel_Panic said:
That looks awesome with the white hose and black case.

Is that the Obsidian 800D? How do you like it? I'm getting mine in the next few weeks for my upcoming WC build.
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I love it. Tons of room for the hardware, it's enormous though and heavy. I can only recommend it! Made the job easy to get all the loops in place, plus there is so much more potential to tweak the s*** out of it with future mods.
 
How many fans do you have in the case? Did they come with the case originally? That's sweet if all the water equipment is inside the case... my cooling loop will be so epic I have to build another case for it :D
 
Looks a lot better than my dirt cheap mineral oil system. What's the total $$ for your WC parts?
 
Looks good man, I hope your single pump can handle all those 90's and blocks. It almost looks like a second pump is necessary, but I'm not sure how long all your tubing is. How are your idle temps and load temps? Also, do you know your deltaT(water temp-ambient temp).

How is your airflow inside the case? I noticed you have the top rad as an exhaust which I did with my quad but reversed it because there was too much positive pressure. You using the stock corsair fans as intakes?

I know that had to have taken alot of time to build, I spent probably 30 hours on mine and I still tinker with it to get things just right, haha. Here's mine.
 
Those multiple 90 degree fittings don't look promissing. Aren't they restrictive?
 
What kind of temps are you getting?

Looks like you could improve your loop quite a bit by removing alot of bends. I have never made a custom water loop but it seems that you would want at least one of your radiators directly feeding the CPU block first. CPU block IMO is the main item that should be cooled in any water loop to get the coldest temps.


Looks awesome.
 
I don't see what your question is if any.
In any case it looks fine.
Loop order doesn't matter too much because the loop will equalize in temperature.
The only cardinal rule is that if you have res it should feed into the pump directly.
And that appears to be the case here. Nicely done.
 
looks great! I agree that you could think about reducing your bends... that most have been a small fortune in fittings alone!
 
I would try to cut down on the tubing if possible. Otherwise it looks awesome and I would say a very successful first WC attempt ;)
 
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