New and Improved Watercooling Sticky - Post Your Systems Here

[managerman]

love the orange and black theme.... looks like you're using Sunny-D as coolant.

Thanks!! LOL!

 

[Dayaks]

Project: “Quick mom’s not home! So easy a five year old can do it.”

First, thank you all on the forum for the stickies and build logs. They were invaluable.

My goal was for a beastly computer that would last me around five years, no upgrades, quiet & mild OC. This was my first watercooling build. I built it with my kids, mainly my five year old daughter. My two year old did remove some back plates, made sure the fans spun freely and used the 3x 7970s as a garage for his bus.

Crysis 3 at 60 FPS with 8x MSAA, max settings
BF4 Beta 95 FPS with 4x MSAA and 200% video scaling. I love video scaling. Completely gets rid of jaggies
Firestrike at 15700

PA248Q 24” 1920x1200
3770k at 4.5 Ghz
7970 Trifire 1025/1450
16GB at 2133
2x 240GB Corsair Neutron GTX R0
2TB HDD
Corsair 330R
2x NexXxos 240x45
1x NexXxos 120x30
Primochill Rigid Acrylic
Aquastream XT Ultra

 

[managerman]

Dayaks,

Great job on the Acrylic work!! Nicely done!

-M

 

[Dayaks]

Thanks managerman. Not as fancy as yours but I thought it was a great deal of fun! It was actually neat how my five year old looked forward to it each day.

 

[Activate: AMD]

How about a little amateur hour? This is my second watercooling loop and my first one in 5+ years since my DD TDX/D5/Heatercore loop. XSPC rasa RX360 kit w/ XSPC white tubing and EK compression fittings. I'm planning on putting my GPU's into the loop soon, upgrading to a DDC, adding another rad down below, and upgrading the CPU block to a raystorm. (money permitting obviously)

Fill/blead

Finished product

 

[Mr.SoapPowder]

Man that's some very nice lookin stuff yall got. how do you get the tubing to come out like that?

 

[Nomad]

One question - with white liquid and white towels - how to you know if it leaked?

 

[Blazemore]

^ XSPC white tubing

 

[Nomad]

Ahh - thanks Blazemore. still.. Without an additive, I would use paper towels to check, rather than washcloths.

 

[Activate: AMD]

Yea, I just happen to have a crap ton of those washcloths around. I made sure to thoroughly examine them and the fittings for any sign of wetness, and found none. Considering my rig hasn't shorted out yet I think it was a success.

 

[Nomad]

Y - a lack of smoke usually means a job well done.

 

[Seize]

Hey guys, first post on this forum heh.
I did a watercooled system in the Carbide air 540 from Corsair, great case, but really hard to work on.
My setup is: Intel core i7 950 (yeah, old one) and GTX 780 from Zotac.
The place is really tight, then the cable management was quite hard.

Some photos:

I might remake the cable management, I was really press on.
I wanted to ask you something: the first time I filled up the loop, I had a huge air bubble. Since I couldn't remove it, I decided to drain all the liquid cooling, then do it again. Currently I think I don't have any other air bubble, or, maybe it's inside a radiator. Can it come from the fact that my 360 mm is upside down ? I did read on several forums that it's not a problem, maybe it comes from my fill up method ?
Anyway, thanks to those who can answer me.

 

[Reality]

Without turning the case sideways or upside down it will be very difficult to get the air out of that 360, I had similar problems with my black ice 360 with the fittings at the bottom

 

[DarthBeavis]

Test bench with Titans in SLI

 

[Reality]

I have the same reservoir, my only gripe is the acrylic scuffs way too easily!

 

[Zyklon808]

Just about finished. First project in years. Sorry for the dust. That's a FT03 with sli 670s.

Here is initial leak testing. Can see where I cut out space for dual 140mm radiator.

 

[kickmic]

WC'd FT02 - just wanted clean and simple

 

[Pasic]

Hi all.. ! my first post lolz i have been reading these forums for a while but i thought ill finaly register.

anyhow, this is my build, looking at adding bit more to it now and fixing up the tubing.
http://youtu.be/BcdfhhyMmCg

 

[Reality]

Almost finished

http://youtu.be/4yYMEiCAR9s

 

[Bob_Dole]

I'll need a few more pictures later, but here's the rig without the cables in

900D, i7 3770K (4.2GHz, need more OC), 2x7970 (1GHZ, one not, 1250MHz, 1075MHz, also needs OC), 16gb mixed DDR3 (Excuse the colors, I need new ram) Heatkiller Blocks, XPSC Dual Bayres D5, 3/8" tubing, 2x 360mm rads, AP15's.

 

[joejoe69]

Neptune 2.0: Filled up with only little bits and pieces left before booting up.

 

[generallee989]

 

[revenant]

hello UV! shweeeet!!

 

[allen5055]

My rig I built a few weeks ago. First time I've ever done watercooling. Not very pretty but it works well. Maybe sometime I'll put in some LED's and coloring in the distilled water. Might change the tubing to colored tubing in a few years.

 

[Desoter]

Well the old rig was 4 years old, and I got the itch to upgrade. a few parts from the old rig made it over.

Here are the specs:

PC guts

CM Cosmos 2
i7 - 4770k @4.4 currently
2 Evga 4GB GTX680s - Moved from old rig
32GB of patriot viper RAM
Maximus 6 Hero
Intel 180GB SSD for the OS
1TG WD for games N stuffs - Moved from old rig

WC guts

Monsoon 2 bay res with D5 vario pump
XSPC Photon 270 res with D5 vario pump
Danger Den DD680 GPU blocks
Danger Den DD socket 115X CPU block
2 Black ice 240 rads
1 Black ice 120 rad
PrimoChill Onyx Black 3/8 ID x 5/8 OD
Phobya compression fittings

Inside the new case

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inside new case by Desoter, on Flickr[/IMG]

Parts!

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Photon 270, tubing, and fittings

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MOAR parts by Desoter, on Flickr[/IMG]

Monsoon after D5 install

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Monsoon res/pump by Desoter, on Flickr[/IMG]

Mobo/CPU installed

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680s with blocks installed

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GPU blocks by Desoter, on Flickr[/IMG]

Rads and most of the plumbing complete.

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Plumbing done by Desoter, on Flickr[/IMG]

System minus drives completed, at this point I was running the loop to check for leaks and work air out of the system.

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Up and running!

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Custom desk I built this year, 3 way fun for gaming on the left, and on the right my "office" with docking station.

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thanks!

 

[ebduncan]

updated picture of rig.

 

[Czech99]

@joejoe very nice setup!

 

[Reality]

Black M8 + Pedestal
Mayhem's Pastel Red + E22 tubing / XSPC Photon
.25" black acrylic sheet covering the mid plane and floor panels

Let me know what you think

 

[Midnite8]

Very nice work @Reality

 

[DocWlad]

Hey all. I asked a question here when I was building this thing, figure I should post a pic or two now that it's done . I only have my phone for a camera, so the pics kind of suck. It was my first build with acrylic tubing, and that was definitely fun. The case is a Corsair 350D.

 

[Seize]

Really nice and clean !

 

[Reality]

Very nice, btw what's that piece of tubing for that comes off that t-splitter?

 

[DocWlad]

Very nice, btw what's that piece of tubing for that comes off that t-splitter?

It was an attempt at a drain pipe; but it doesn't work very well. I'll have to redo it at some point.

 

[Seize]

It was an attempt at a drain pipe; but it doesn't work very well. I'll have to redo it at some point.

Do you plan to add another graphic card ?
I mean,1200W power supply is quite huge regarding your rig =p

 

[DocWlad]

Do you plan to add another graphic card ?
I mean,1200W power supply is quite huge regarding your rig =p

I might in the future, yeah. But the PSU is a holdover from an older build... it was overkill there, though, too. I can't imagine I'll ever really need a 1200W power supply. But I figured it was better to have too much than too little.

 

[Reality]

added some wire management shots to my post

 

[Sieg]

First time watercooling here. Please don't to too hard on me
Please tell me what you think and what I could improve upon.

 

[JayJapanB]

The rad down the bottom is boss as!
I won't be hard on you. I only give people who use external rads shit. ehehe

 

[Sieg]

hehe it was either going with 420mm+280mm or a MO-RA3 420 xD

 

[Phuncz]

This topic seems to be dominated by huge cases, time to offset it with some Ncase M1 love.

Swiftech H220
EK FC R9 290X block
DangerDen Black 3/8-5/8 tubing
Feser Pure clear fluid
Alphacool fittings and other stuff

Testing the loop outside the case.

Crammed all of that in the Ncase M1.

In some places you can get your hand in there. But not by much.

Added a fillport that I can actually access.