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Just unboxed my new radiator, wondering which fittings to order 

I just wanted to share this, because for me as a watercooling PC guy, this is hilarious. Wondering how much LTT fans could be mounted on that thing 

Just bought an 8700k myself and I find everyone using auto voltages is complaining about bad TIM or "my CPU runs to hot". 

I tried it the good old way:

• AUTO voltages and my aimed core speed-> look what the board uses and drop it
• use lowered but fixed voltages -> try reducing it as much as possible

So now my CPU is on 48 all cores and not even touching 60°C after hours of gaming. After 1 hour P95 its around 65°C sometimes touching 70°C (22° ambient).

Proves for me: nothing has changed till 5 years ago, AUTO is always easy but more wearing on your hardware.

...one of them leading to a long tube inside. ...

that´s normally the inlet to prevent splashing. 

Few pics of my rig & some benchmarks:

 

GPU temps are around 32-36c depending on how long I'm gaming / what clock speed I'm at.

1600 mhz on the GPU & 8830 mhz on the memory is stable in most benchmarks as long as I keep the GPU lower than 34C.   

 

Running an external 1080mm radiator, with 5 fans on it right now, going to order 9 new fans to put on it, since it has room for 9x120mm fans.

 

Specs are in my sig

 

with this setup you shouldn´t have any flow in the GPU, or am I  wrong?

I was wrong  it´s just parallel with uneven flow or smt...time to sleep.

Awesome Setup, makes me jealous!

DHL is superior. Alphacool products are awesome, but the onsite shop I don´t know anything about.

We all love Giveaways!!! 

I like the Kuhler the most even if I could use all of the stuff anyways :-D

Changed Initial Display to pci-e ?

Seeing a different route:

The need to try several startups is normally a sign of bad power delivery (PSU or onboard failure) could be your board died while changing hardware?

this should work

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Does-RAID0-Really-Increase-Disk-Performance/394/6

dishwasher works fine for radiators. just make sure you probably dry them. otherwise you´ll get rust inside the sidecovers.

That does not make sense to me. Why?

you wouldnt have any flow in both cards because the water would go straight from top to bottom.

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It´s a hobby like pimping a car...not usefull but makes you happy ;-)

There are "Watercooled" supercomputers, or at least 1 in Germany, named SuperMUC. 

http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/supermuc/

http://www.lrz.de/presse/ereignisse/2010-12-13_supermuc-vertrag/warmwasserkuehlung/

Most, if not all, Pumps work in "pull"...so they pull their material (water, concrete, doesn´t matter) from a feeding source. 

It´s urgent for the first filling, after that you got a "nearly" closed loop thats not effected by this "pull" principle at all.

Watercooling is amazing! 

This is really a nice job. I´m pretty jealous!

This one looks like a good product and it wont take up a drivebay, but i have several setbacks. First it uses 3 pin connectors and my fans are 4pin(not sure if this will be a problem). Also it requires a usb hookup and im out of internal usb ports.(im sure i can find an expansion card).  When using splitters will i still be able to controll the fan speeds or will it read out as 1 fan?

Using 4 pin fans on 3 pin connections is something i havent tried and heard of yet.

USB is just needed for installation, after that you can unplug the USB and it works on its own. (sure, you cant monitor anything on desktop then)

You are controlling each fan header. So if you connect 2.3 or 4 fans on 1 header all will run the same speed. 

Alphacool Heatmaster ( I or II ) http://www.alphacool.com/product_info.php/info/p999_Alphacool-Heatmaster-II.html?language=en

just use splitter cables to run multiple fans off one port.

XSPC worked fine for me in 2 builds with single DDC Dual Bay. http://wvw.schottenland.de/preisvergleich/Xspc-Dual-Bay-Ausgleichsbehaelter-fuer-5-p21686019

no vibration at all. "2 Rads+ CF 6950+ CPU+ 3 MB blocks= 1 DDC 1T http://www.aquatuning.de/product_info.php/info/p5080_Laing-DDC-Pumpe-12V-DDC-1T-Plus.html

If you mean, reverse the flow of the CPU block, then there will be a performance drop! 

Espacially with the "new" jet plates which most of the new blocks have. (Reducing diameter to increase velocity to a wider spread) That principle doesnt work the other way around.

But, you could still do it with a loss of performance.

TTL made an awesome water guide on that case :

I myself have a 420 in pull at the top and a 280 in the bottom .