silent-circuit
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78C is pretty damn high for water...
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78C is pretty damn high for water...
Deimos you should seriously consider on of the new XSPC D5 res tops to get rid of that res on the back.
The only problem there is I would have to change pumps, and no other type of pump can match the flow rate (1200 litres per hour) and my Apogee GT needs a high flow rate to run efficiently.
There's tons of empty room inside that case though. Isn't there a way so that you could hook up both inside?
I finally got some pics of my Coolermaster CM Stacker wiring:
My philosophy is why hide the wiring when you can show it off!! One of the nice thing about the CM Stacker case is all the spare threaded holes all over the place --makes it real easy to mount cable clamps!
Here's a closeup of the SATA cables:
And lastly you can see the very small amount of cable hiding:
I use dual PSU's in this case and needed an ATX motherboard power splitter to allow me to turn both of them on at the same time. I mounted the connector to the chassis and found this to be the best way to position the cables. You can see some teflon tape used as the harness passes over a somewhat sharp edged corner of the mobo tray.
I hope you all like it. It's been a long time coming!
I never had a res when I ran water. Two loops, no res on either. Worked fine. Filling goes slower but that's about it, and it's not that bad as long as you have a fairly good length T-line. No need to drill a hole on top -- just stick the barb from the fillport in the end of your T-line and shove it up somewhere in the top of the case where it can't be seen but you can pull it out for water changes or top-offs.
Why not run a T-line from a res? The little Swiftech res can fit many places and you can also fit some hosing to the bottom with a stop plug to aid with draining the loop.
Filling and draining with a T-line alone seems like a pain in the ass.
Very creative! I like that idea.
78C is pretty damn high for water...
Its not unusual to see temps that high running LinX, I'm pretty sure I have the waterblock seated correctly, the temps drop back to idle temps within 2-5 seconds of stopping LinX.
I have seen lower but I've also seen higher, it seems the 930 is a real mix bag, Prime95 shows about 5-7 degrees lower, and when gaming the temps on both the vid card and CPU never go higher than 45C so I'm pretty happy with it.
I'm also running slightly higher VDimm, PLL etc which all make the CPU run hotter, I might try some tweaking and see how I go.
Actually your temperatures seem rather fine considering your CPU waterblock. The GT was great during the netburst - Conroe era. I'm sure if you upgraded to the XT you would get better temperatures.
My W3520 doesn't go above 75°C using LinX. And that is with it at 4.5GHz (1.33V), coupled with my 5870 in the same loop.
The only problem there is I would have to change pumps, and no other type of pump can match the flow rate (1200 litres per hour) and my Apogee GT needs a high flow rate to run efficiently.
Just a quickie build.
I recently made a rig in a CM Storm Sniper case. Super case. Spacious, elegant and above all, excellent for WM, thanks to the smart holes in the tray, the space next to the tray and to the huge space between the tray and the side panel where you can perfect arrange the cables to be hidden.
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i too recently bought the sniper when it was $99 free ship from newegg, but mine has a mesh side panel with a 200mm fan installed. where did you get the window panel? i havent swapped my stuff over from my v1000b plus2 yet as i am still thinking about what i want to do with it. i am thinking about dying the cables on the wiring harness as it is immense and complex and would be a serious bitch to uni sleeve.
i too recently bought the sniper when it was $99 free ship from newegg, but mine has a mesh side panel with a 200mm fan installed. where did you get the window panel? i havent swapped my stuff over from my v1000b plus2 yet as i am still thinking about what i want to do with it. i am thinking about dying the cables on the wiring harness as it is immense and complex and would be a serious bitch to uni sleeve.
Unfotunately i was unable to use the most of the ModRight extensions i ordered from FrozenCPU, because there is simply not enough place to hide for the original cable and the extension too. And the original Silverstone cables look ugly . Have to make my own, short cables later.
EVGA P55 SLI, Sapphire HD5870, Creative X-Fi Titanium, Silverstone X-750. Patriot Torqx 128GB + Intel X25-M 80GB, Core i5 750, Prolimatech Mega Shadow, Corsair Dominator GT DDR3-1600 CL7, T-Balancer bigNG, 5x Enermax Magma, few sleeved cables and finally but not least a very nice 20x4 display at front.