Watercooling Antec 900

[TehQuick]

Well, here it is. Not quite complete yet - I still need to dress up the rad, maybe swap out the fans for yate loon, and it's hasn't fully bled yet. Otherwise it's fully functional. Passed 24+ leak test with flying colors - I was twisting and shaking that heck out of the loop trying to get rid of bubles but none of the connections gave up... I guess having all those clamps helps Unfortunately when I started assembling everything, I made a mistake and most of that air from t-line got back into the loop Oh well, I hope with time t-line will capture it all, or I'm gonna refill it anyways, I noticed a particle floating in the stream, dunno where it came from, I've flashed everything with distilled water, even used vinegar thing with the heatercore. I also found I don't like masterkleer tubing, it's too easy to kink compared to my old tygon... I guess it doesn't pay too be cheap with this stuff Luckily, I had some old coolsleeves lying around to fix that. However, masterkleer+coolsleeves comes out more expensive than Tygon



Specs are in my sig I was able to oc to 3.6ghz (400fsb) at 1.4vcore with 34c idle/52c load with room temp around 72-74F. It's stable for an hour in orthos, will run overnight to confirm

Any comments or feedback are appreciated. Please don't tell me about the ugly rad, I know it is, I'm gonna fix it soon

 

[Arcygenical]

The ONLY reason I like masterkleer is for the smaller ID... Makes it less likely to leak.

Oh, and it puts a lot less pressure on your plexiglass topped blocks, less crack prone.

 

[TehQuick]

I've got tygon with the same id and od, feels much more better. Costs about 4x as much but less likely to kink... Although it doesn't hurh to cool-sleeve it too Although on the other hand you right, masterkleer doesn't seem to apply as much pressure on the barbs/fittings. I mean there's weight of the tubing but the walls on masterkleer are much softer and don't apply as much tensile pressure as tygon does..

Edit: I'm noticing that changing the fan speeds from 2300rpm to 1600rpm doesn't really affect my load temp... I guess, I need a bigger rad Air coming out is really warm, compared to air going into my rad, so it's working pretty well, but it doesn't keep up with my cpu?

 

[Arcygenical]

Can you fit a double radiator in the front intake?

 

[TehQuick]

Nah, 900 is a mid-tower, not much room inside really It is possible, yes, but it will leave me very little room for hds and opticals I can hang a double rad from behind, actually, just dunno which one would best for my money, this heatercore I've had on my old setup, worked fine... I might watercool my 8800gts while I'm at it, as well

 

[TehQuick]

Question for everyone: this D4 is killing me with it's whine.. so sharp and loud, it's very annoying, it's the single loudest part in my system. What can I do about it? Undervolt it? Get another one? I guess D5 would be my best bet.... or is it DDC2?

 

[n00btard]

Question for everyone: this D4 is killing me with it's whine.. so sharp and loud, it's very annoying, it's the single loudest part in my system. What can I do about it? Undervolt it? Get another one? I guess D5 would be my best bet.... or is it DDC2?

D5: bmmmmmmmmmmmm........
DDC2:EEEEEEEEEEEEEE.................

(at least from the recordings I've heard)

 

[TehQuick]

my D4 is more like weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, it's like shrieking Damn, it's getting so annoying after a while, I don't remember it being so loud in my old system, but then my old system was loud in general - bunch of 80mm fans, loud PSU, videocard, NB fan - ironically, I reused that 40mm fan on p5w NB but silenced it in bios, at 55% is pretty quiet In this system, everything is so quiet, not silent but still pretty quiet... and this pump is sticking out like a sore thumb.. I like wrapped it in media envelopes, still whines like a b!tch...