New and Improved Watercooling Sticky - Post Your Systems Here

[Mick64]

Yesturday, I replaced my DDC pump with a D5 and mounted it in the bottom section. Added a bit of sound proofing as well to tidy things up.

 

[LiQuiD[EViL]]

1st WC setup. Any comments, especially how the tubing is routed, would be great.

 

[MrE]

 

[Vlad_13]

Update! Got new ram and video card




And here is the red girl Idles around 38-40C Load temps 42-45C

 

[Stabbin]

My Wolfdale rig:

~S~

 

[mode]

My first WC build

Before:

After:

 

[mit78]

my final rig now.

 

[R1ckCa1n]

My newest build based on some good Feser gear.

Out with the OLD:

The goods:

In with the NEW!

Last, some temps.

 

[swale]

Ok some nice rigs on here, some photos of mine below....

 

[JLangevin]

Watercooling items:

-1/2 ID Tube
-Older Swiftech Waterblock
-FluidXP non-conductive coolant
-Dangerden Micro-Pump (super quiet)
-Swiftech Reservior
-120mm x 2 Radiator Mounted on top of case.

 

[Mick64]

 

[AntiHeroUK]

My first attempt at water cooling

 

[grugar]

nearly finished.
clear water was boring, so i decided to make it blue!

 

[mellojoe]

This project has been an EXTREMELY long time coming. 3 years, stalled out multiple times due to some medical problems my wife has had to endure, but with her clean bill of health came a new enthusiasm to complete this project.

This weekend, I finally did it.

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You can see the second radiator in this photo:

Intel E7200 @ 3.8 ghz
VCore @ 1.36v
DTek Fuzion v2
2 x 120mm BIX GTX II
Swiftech MCP655
Swiftech MicroRes
1/2" Barbs
7/16" MasterKleer
clear PrimoChill Liquid Utopia
clear Distilled Water
black Anti-Kink Coils

All tucked nice an neat inside my black Lian Li PC A16.

This is where we started:

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PS: One of these days I'll set it up on a table somewhere so I can take some really good shots of it. I want to setup a mini photo-shoot and try to get some good pictures. Black on black is hard to shoot.

 

[carholmes]

 

[Stabbin]

Added a second 8800gts for some sli action. I know its behind the times but it still can twist some gaming arms. [email protected].

 

[MrE]

Updated the loop. New DDC 3.2 converted from an Apogee combo block

I need a new camera.

 

[TURNnBURN]

Here is a link to my picks & Benching

http://s512.photobucket.com/albums/t330/spmw555/

T&B

 

[swale]

Heres my new and updated rig....

 

[bonghitter400]

 

[AntiHeroUK]

 

[ontariotl]

Now that I finally got around to tidying my own rig up, I thought I would post some pics. Not as fancy as many on here, but I'm happy with the results

 

[heatsinker]

Definitely not the slickest setup in this thread, but this is my first attempt at water cooling.

I was actually planning to back mount the radiator since it was popular opinion that the Feser 360 had 17mm spacing, but mine came with 15mm spacing which matched the fan holes on top of the HAF perfectly.

 

[TI66ER]

Heres mine-

Specs

Processor: intel c2d E6750 @ 4ghz 1.5625vcore
Motherboard: asus pq-e bios 1201
Cooling: wATER
Memory: 2x1gb Crucial ballistix pc8500@1000 1:1 5.5.5.15 2.0v
Video Card: Gainward 4850 with xspc RAZOR waterblock
Harddisk: 2x250gb samsung spinpoint sp2504c
CD/DVD Drive: samsung SH-S183L sata
CRT/LCD Model: LG l194ws widescreen lcd
Case: Lian li V1000B plus II
Sound Card: Onboard sound digital out to av amp
PSU: Corsair hx520w modular
Software: windows vista home premium(real)

Loop is-

Swiftech Apogee gt
Swiftech ddc3.2+xspc top
Xspc Razor full cover 4850 block
Black ice pro 240mm radiator

 

[Deimos]

Build log is over in the case mod gallery section, here is my latest build (Project Phobos):

Lapped the water blocks and CPU, I didn't take any photos, only the end result of the CPU and CPU water block.

I decided to change the colour of my liquid, so got Feiser One in blue, and changed all the tubing to Tygon 1/2" ID.

Might as well upgrade the ram while I'm at it, got myself 8GB of Corsair dominator.
You can't really see it here but I shifted the Zalman heatsinks from the ram on the video card to the mosfets and installed Swiftec heatsinks on the ram

Mounted the UV lights properly (no more hotglue) and here it is all lit up.

And finally, my poor old window was looking pretty beat up, so using the polishing kit I bought to lap the CPU and water blocks, I polished up the window, finishing off with car polish to get rid of the light haze left in the process.

Specs are:

Silverstone Strider 850W Modular
Swiftech Apex Ultra plus water cooling
Darkrider case
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.48Ghz 435 FSB x 8 Vcore 1.456v, CPUPLL 1.55v
Asus Maximus II Formula
AMD-ATI Radeon 4870 @ 790Mhz core, 1100Mhz Memory
2 X Western Digital RE 500Gb SATA2 16MB Buffer RAID 0
Corsair Dominator 8GB PC8500 1066Mhz @ 5-5-5-12 1096Mhz 2.3v

 

[K1tty]

"Back in the day" build AMD X2 and SLi 7800GTX's

"Way back in the day" build - custom server case and water cooling

Most recent h20 build from last year: QX9650 and 8800GTX

Current build pics coming soon .... but it isn't h20

 

[Justphilbo]

I have everything pretty much done on this rig.

It is a MM U2-UFO Horizon case with a C2D E8400 @ 4.230, 2x 4870x2 @ 800/950, 4 gigs of SuperTalent DDR3 1800 and a Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme Gamer on a Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6. Drives are a 500 gig WD and a Samsung DVD burner, both SATA II.

CPU loop is a Alphacool Laing DDC Ultra pump/res, Alphacool NexXxos XP block and a MCR220QP radiator.

GPU loop uses the same pump, two EK FC4870x2 blocks and a MCR320QP Radiator. Hoses and fittings are 3/8" and the fluid is PrimoChill Black/UV Blue.

Almost all case hardware is 18/8 stainless #6-32 SHCS (allen) with stainless washers.

The picture from the soundcard side shows the MB bowing down a bit, but I have fixed that.

Also, not pictured is the top, which is clear Plexi.

Side panels are cut down screens from Home Depot, painted gloss black to better match the case.

Thoughts and comments appreciated.

 

[thaddeus.cto]

 

[utnorris]

Here is my rebuild of my MM UF2O with the new Pedestal, the pics are not the best, but you get the idea:

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[durazor]

HERE U GO...

 

[soup666]

 

[crazyfinx]

here something I put together this weekend, still have to finish the mounts for the pumps and also wanted to add some blue LED's around the case to finish up - let me know what you guys think

Lian Li V2010
Win Vista x64
DFI LT P35
e8400 @ 4.03ghz
4gb DDR2 Geil Estoria 800
ATI 4850
3x 320GB 16mb 7200.10s RAID 0
3x 500GB 32mb 7200.11's RAID 5
1X 37GB Raptor

 

[doox00]

Just completed mine last night.

 

[prasvt]

Well here's my new build. After my Abit iP35 Pro went down, I picked up an Asus Maximus II Formula and a Cosmos S case so I could keep the radiator inside the case. So here are a couple of pics. Only the CPU is watercooled as the GTX260 Core16 runs pretty cool on its own.

So the MCR320 radiator fit perfectly inside the ceiling of the case with just enough room to clear the motherboard - I'm using three fat 120x38mm fans (2 scythe, 1 panaflo). Reservoir and Pump were mounted in the 5.25" bay above my 2 optical drives - using velcro to secure them.



Just a shot of the roof fans - 3 Coolermaster 1200rpm quite fans (blue LED).



Everything connected. I tried to do do a little better cable management and it's pretty clean for the most part.



Just a shot of it running. Have a Sunbeam fan controller controlling the rad fans and the roof fans.



Thus far, even with the radiator inside the case (as opposed to mounting on the back as before), the temps are as good if not better. Has been idling @ ~31C and high 40s under load @ 400x9..but I've only done rudimentary overclocking..

 

[MrE]

Swapped from a single to a dual loop:

Before:

After:

 

[managerman]

I decided to gut my current rig and replace it with all new Core i7 insides with a little Tri-SLI!

I will let the pictures do the walk through....


Removing the northbridge heatsink

Using Danger Den Chipset block on Rampage II Extreme

The Motherboard is all prepped!

Ready for some TRI-SLI GTX 280 action!!

CPU and NorthBridge hooked up!

Panning out a bit...

The whole system

Lit up!

She is all done!!

Mods Rigs
http://www.evga.com/community/ModsRigs/comment.asp?sysid=13749

-M

 

[Zoson]

So I finally got around to building myself another nice new watercooled system. I went with the idea that I would cram everything internal, just like my PC60.

The parts:
Asus P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard (It's not as bad as [H] made it out to be, at all.)
Dtek MP-05 CPU Block (thank you pHaestus!)
EK P5N-T Northbridge/MCP200 waterblock
Swiftech MCW30 NB/SB Block for MCP
2x Swiftech MCW60 GPU Blocks w/ 2x 8800GTX Ramsink pack(My gpu's are 8800GT's however, so I ended up with several extra ramsinks/chipsinks and used them on my motherboard PWM's.)
Swiftech 655-B Pump
Swiftech MCRES Micro Rev2
1x BlackIce GT Stealth
1x BlackIce GTX
1x Triple 5.25" Lian Li fan housing

I got _all_ of this crammed into the case without much issue. I only needed a dremel to cut the 5.25" fan housing a little so the radiator would fit into it. Aside from that, I drilled one hole for the reservoir mount. The only other tools used were some needle nose pliers, and a screwdriver.

Please excuse the poor picture quality, they were taken with my iPhone.
Edit to add more pics.

 

[dzontini]

Please be gentile fellas, There are a lot of clean cases in here. Mines about to get some major work done to it, and I kinda want to document it before I cut my baby girl all up.
Anyway here she is.....

I don't know why but the PC Pure Clear liquid has turned my tygon tubing that dirty water color. There is no algea in the system and it isn't that old, but I don't think I will ever use their liquid again. Thanks in advance ladies and gents.

 

[monk3y]

 

[anr11]

The wife and son's rig: