WATERCOOLED PC DESK MOD WITH CAR SOUND SYSTEM

[MogIsWinning]

What's the point of watter cooling your hard drives?

[novasae]

 

What's the point of watter cooling your hard drives?

 

There is none, but hey, overkill so why not

 

I have one question... your perspex looks rather rough around the edges... how much time did you allocate to smoothing them out? e.g. cross-filing, draw-filing, sanding, wet & dry paper, polish? That or my eyes are playing tricks on me. Otherwise, awesome!

[Quantum]

That price... Amazing   

Looking forward to your progress

[Exotath]

Looks fantastic. Can't wrap my head around the cost but it really does look great. Nice work.

[imfaceroll]

Haha I actually thought the acrylic turned out very well =D

There is none, but hey, overkill so why not

I have one question... your perspex looks rather rough around the edges... how much time did you allocate to smoothing them out? e.g. cross-filing, draw-filing, sanding, wet & dry paper, polish? That or my eyes are playing tricks on me. Otherwise, awesome!

[imfaceroll]

That price... Amazing

Looking forward to your progress

Thanks mate appreciate it

[imfaceroll]

Thanks, I guess I have a new buildlog to do :3

Haha yea I think you can get it in white red blue and green aswell

[Jimstah87]

Where's the floppy drive, no computer is complete without a floppy drive Just trolling lol, this is f@!king amazing dude!

[Kukielka]

Btw. How do you manage to power the soundsystem?

[imfaceroll]

 

Where's the floppy drive, no computer is complete without a floppy drive Just trolling lol, this is f@!king amazing dude!

 

hahaha cheers mate =)

[imfaceroll]

Btw. How do you manage to power the soundsystem?

I have the head unit and two 4inch speakers connected to 1 of the computer power supplies in the desk and the amplifier and subwoofer have an external power supply.

[Prokart2000]

nice

[Kukielka]

I have the head unit and two 4inch speakers connected to 1 of the computer power supplies in the desk and the amplifier and subwoofer have an external power supply.

 

How much does it pull from the wall?

[imfaceroll]

How much does it pull from the wall?

Haha im not sure id want to know

[imfaceroll]

Thank you all for the support. Progress will be up tomorrow

[pbenologa]

Im puking rainbows because of that sick setup and lighting. 0.0

[flibberdipper]

Interesting... I'll have to bookmark this.

[simson0606]

nice build, but i have a few questions...

 

why please why the fusion speakers.... their sq is not that good (though i like the jbl's!).

 

and have you hooked up the amp and deck to an old psu, cause they are a heavy load on a computer psu. the amperages that they wil use will vary a lot and a pc psu has a difficult time handeling that.

[OverachievingSnowfall]

nice build, but i have a few questions...

 

why please why the fusion speakers.... their sq is not that good (though i like the jbl's!).

 

and have you hooked up the amp and deck to an old psu, cause they are a heavy load on a computer psu. the amperages that they wil use will vary a lot and a pc psu has a difficult time handeling that.

 

I didn't notice whilst reading through, but is he using some sort of capacitor to smooth out power draw from the psu? They do this in cars a lot to save the intermittent heavy draw on the alternator. I know I need one, cuz at night I can see my headlights dim when the bass hits... :unsure:

[simson0606]

I didn't notice whilst reading through, but is he using some sort of capacitor to smooth out power draw from the psu? They do this in cars a lot to save the intermittent heavy draw on the alternator. I know I need one, cuz at night I can see my headlights dim when the bass hits... :unsure:

Well i think you'll need a bigger alternator or an extra battery but that's for a different topic

[imfaceroll]

nice build, but i have a few questions...

 

why please why the fusion speakers.... their sq is not that good (though i like the jbl's!).

 

and have you hooked up the amp and deck to an old psu, cause they are a heavy load on a computer psu. the amperages that they wil use will vary a lot and a pc psu has a difficult time handeling that.

You have to remember we are inside a house and we have a pc right above the sub, so there is no point buying the ultimate when the bass will not be running like you would in a car, plus i love the green and black because it suits the build and i had this spare anyway. The AMP and Subwoofer have their own separate external supplies built to handle them =) Thank you for your kind words =)

[imfaceroll]

I didn't notice whilst reading through, but is he using some sort of capacitor to smooth out power draw from the psu? They do this in cars a lot to save the intermittent heavy draw on the alternator. I know I need one, cuz at night I can see my headlights dim when the bass hits... :unsure:

i have seperate power supplies built to handle the bass and drops. =) These power supplies are not PC power supplies.

[imfaceroll]

So, i have received my last parcel in the mail and i have put the PC inside the desk and wired everything up. I am so happy with how it looks. I still have to wait till tomorrow for the glass top of the desk and i will also be putting the UV green Mayhem's dye in, so hopefully i can post some more progress shots within the next few days. After all of that is done i can get the monitors going and turn the computer on after 24 hours of leak testing. Once 100% complete i will post a load of images on here for all to see, cheers

Progress shots:

These shots are of how messy the cables were before i put the elevated platform in the desk.

 

 

These pictures are of the desk as it stands today. Iv also taken some pictures under the different lighting options and i am very happy with the look of the desk. Dont mind the mess under the desk, that will be cleaned tomorrow before the glass guys get here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[imfaceroll]

So.. I managed to fill the loop yesterday and ran into some problems. I filled the loop and had it running for around 2 hours when i noticed liquid all over the motherboard. 
Straight away i turned the pumps off and had to take everything apart to clean the motherboard and dry it off. I drained the loop to do just that.

When everything was taken out of the desk i took apart the Asus maximus VI formula motherboard to dry it out and observe where the source of the leak had occurred. This is what i found..

 

 

As you can see in the image above, the motherboard water block looks as if the coolant has leaked through the seal, 
so i decided instead of returning the product for a new one, i might try tighten the seal and dry out the motherboard.

 

 

The picture above is of the motherboard with the back plate and thermal armor removed as well as all of the thermal blocks and the CPU. 
It was essential that all of the liquid was dried and removed so it was necessary to remove all of these components to prevent a short circuit when i powered the PC on. 
I wired up a fan to a small 12v power adapter and placed it over the CPU and RAM slots to dry out any liquid that found its way into the gaps. I also borrowed my sisters hair drier to speed up the drying process.

 

 

Above is testing the components to see if they all still work after letting everything dry for 8 hours or so. I had removed the CPU water block to let the CPU slot dry so when it came to testing whether the components worked or not i had to reinstall some thermal grease on my delidded CPU and on the thermal copper plate and use the stock air cooler. 

The PC powered up fine and everything worked. While i had the computer on i decided to check the CPU temperatures because i had delidded the CPU and put my own thermal grease on. 
Previous core temperatures ranged from 34-37 degrees Celsius, the new temperatures ranged from 18-21 degrees Celsius with the stock cooler, so i was very happy with them results.

 

 

The picture above is of the refill and previous leak area, so far so good. Another possible cause of the leakage around that area is where the fittings screw into the motherboard water block. 
I have since installed some extender fittings into the motherboard and then screwed the compression fittings into those. 
The reason for this is the compression fittings are a lot wider and i believe that the design of the motherboard water block was preventing them from screwing down all the way, therefore creating a leakage area. 
I have highlighted the problem areas below. These areas are sticking up preventing the compression fitting from screwing in all the way.

 

 

As of this moment i have put everything back into the desk and i am leak testing overnight, so far the problem areas have been fixed. I will be uploading more progress very shortly.

[imfaceroll]

Im puking rainbows because of that sick setup and lighting. 0.0

Thanks mate