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This is my first post and I wanted to post a few pics of my first custom water cooling loop that I just finished.

 

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Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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Thanks. Well my cpu idle temp is around 35c and the GPU idle is around 34c.

oh and here are the specs for my build:

Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (black w/ window side panel)

Mobo: Asus z87-a

CPU: i7 4790K

Ram: 16gb Corsair 1600Mhz

Video: Club3d Royal queen R9 280x

PSU: Corsair HX750

SSD: Crucial MX100 256gb

 

Water cooling parts and pieces:

CPU: Koolance 380i

GPU: EK-FC7970 - Acetal CSQ

Rads: Black Ice Nemesis GT Stealth 240 X-Flow Radiator / Black Ice GT Xtreme 280 Radiator

Pump: D5 vario with a bitspower mod kit

Res: Bitspower single D5 upgrade kit 150

Tubing: Primochill UV blue LRT

Fittings: all Bitspower

oh and some UV led strips for interior light :)

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What about temps at load? Also, what are your CPU and GPU clocked at? Getting an R5 myself for a watercooling build here shortly!

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During Unigine Heaven benchmarking on Highest settings, the GPU maxed out at 42c. For the CPU, during benchmarking in 7zip and Cinebench, its avg was 68c.

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Hello, I have some questions about your build, because I was wanting to do a custom loop in a Define R5 as well.

 

I was curious to see if all these parts would fit inside fine (part list is tentative, and not finished yet)? I've done a lot of research to try to find the best components for this, as money is not an issue at the time being.

 

I am planning on taking out both HDD cages, as well as the optical drive bays. I wanted to fit one of the HDD cages where the optical drive bays were, if that's possible. 

I also have a rough sketch of what I was planning, although I'm sure its not 100% accurate: http://puu.sh/glpKs/2aa2832725.png

Any advice appreciated.

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Hello, I have some questions about your build, because I was wanting to do a custom loop in a Define R5 as well.

 

I was curious to see if all these parts would fit inside fine (part list is tentative, and not finished yet)? I've done a lot of research to try to find the best components for this, as money is not an issue at the time being.

 

I am planning on taking out both HDD cages, as well as the optical drive bays. I wanted to fit one of the HDD cages where the optical drive bays were, if that's possible. 

I also have a rough sketch of what I was planning, although I'm sure its not 100% accurate: http://puu.sh/glpKs/2aa2832725.png

Any advice appreciated.

Why get an i5 if money is no issue

Case: NZXT H440 | CPU: i5 4670K @ 4.5 GHz | GPU: MSI 970, Kraken G10 | Mobo: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 | Cooler: H100i | PSU: Corsair AX750 w/ Sleeved Cables | Display: 3xBenQ RL2455M | Fans: 5xNoctua NF-F12, 1xBitFenix Spectre |

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Well from my build I can tell you that I had a 240mm in the top and it was a slim rad and there was not much room between the rad and the RAM once it is installed, so the 280mm rad up top may not fit. I took a quick look at the small HDD cage, and I do not believe that it will fit in with the front 280mm rad (mainly because the rad's intake/output tanks)

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Why get an i5 if money is no issue

 

I don't really stream or render video that often (to utilize the hyperthreading), do you think that the extra $100 is worth it to upgrade to an i7-4790k?

 

Well from my build I can tell you that I had a 240mm in the top and it was a slim rad and there was not much room between the rad and the RAM once it is installed, so the 280mm rad up top may not fit. I took a quick look at the small HDD cage, and I do not believe that it will fit in with the front 280mm rad (mainly because the rad's intake/output tanks)

 

Damn, that sucks. Maybe I should opt for a different case then. Do you know if a 240mm in the front will fit with the HDD cage?

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I don't really stream or render video that often (to utilize the hyperthreading), do you think that the extra $100 is worth it to upgrade to an i7-4790k?

 

 

Damn, that sucks. Maybe I should opt for a different case then. Do you know if a 240mm in the front will fit with the HDD cage?

If money's no issue why not? Especially with games using more and more cores as time goes on.

Case: NZXT H440 | CPU: i5 4670K @ 4.5 GHz | GPU: MSI 970, Kraken G10 | Mobo: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 | Cooler: H100i | PSU: Corsair AX750 w/ Sleeved Cables | Display: 3xBenQ RL2455M | Fans: 5xNoctua NF-F12, 1xBitFenix Spectre |

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If money's no issue why not? Especially with games using more and more cores as time goes on.

 

They're both quad-core, though? And I guess I'll get it then.

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They're both quad-core, though? And I guess I'll get it then.

i7 have hyper threading, it has 4 physical cores, but 8 logical cores.

Case: NZXT H440 | CPU: i5 4670K @ 4.5 GHz | GPU: MSI 970, Kraken G10 | Mobo: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 | Cooler: H100i | PSU: Corsair AX750 w/ Sleeved Cables | Display: 3xBenQ RL2455M | Fans: 5xNoctua NF-F12, 1xBitFenix Spectre |

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i7 have hyper threading, it has 4 physical cores, but 8 logical cores.

 

Okay, my bad. Sorry for the general-unknowningness. Thanks for your input. Is there anything else you would change?

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Damn, that sucks. Maybe I should opt for a different case then. Do you know if a 240mm in the front will fit with the HDD cage?

 

what I would probably recommend is if you are only planning on wanting 1 to 2 HDDs, you could use the 5.25" optical drive cage and get 5.25" to 3.5 adapter such as this http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0VE-000W-00007&_ga=1.138063088.1369644180.1425235096 .

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This is a nice build and you went a bit overkill with two 240mm rads. I bet you get some very nice temps though. I just did my own build in this case, but I went with a 240+120 rad because I needed at least one of the hard drive cages to stay. I still get great temps. even with the gpu and cpu overclocked. 

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What about temps at load? Also, what are your CPU and GPU clocked at? Getting an R5 myself for a watercooling build here shortly!

 

I have a similar build and the temps are nice 

 

42c under load in benchmark 

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Currently the CPU is overclocked to 4.7ghz at 1.28v, I probably could get it a bit higher but haven't had a whole lot of time to validate a higher overclock. as for the GPU I have been having some issues with getting a nice overclock. I am going to post a thread in the graphics card section to see if I can get some help with my GPU and overclocking.

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what I would probably recommend is if you are only planning on wanting 1 to 2 HDDs, you could use the 5.25" optical drive cage and get 5.25" to 3.5 adapter such as this http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0VE-000W-00007&_ga=1.138063088.1369644180.1425235096 .

I have three HDD's, 2 SSD's unfortunately. I'm thinking I'll have to move to a bigger case in order to keep all the rads I want.

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Anyone know the thickness of the OP front rad? 45/60mm? Cant seem to find the specs on the Internet. Thanks!

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