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vijayellu

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About vijayellu

  • Birthday Sep 28, 1987

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  • Gender
    Male

System

  • CPU
    i7 3770k
  • Motherboard
    ASRock Z77 Extreme 4
  • RAM
    Corsair Vengeance 2X 8GB
  • GPU
    EVGA GTX 980 Ti
  • Case
    Fractal Define S
  • Storage
    2TB WD Green, 1TB Seagate, Samsung 850Evo 250GB
  • PSU
    Coolermaster Thunder 700W
  • Cooling
    EKWB Custom loop
  • Keyboard
    Logitech K330
  • Mouse
    Logitech G400

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  1. I love that Aria Headphones.. Pick me linus. I promise to worship you everyday!!
  2. Recently watercooled my pc. Here are the specs and some pics. more pics here -> http://imgur.com/a/IB5sf ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 i3770k @ 3.50GHz Evga 980Ti Corsair vengeance 2x 8gb Coolermaster Thunder 700w Samsung 850 Evo 250gb 1x Western Digital Green 2TB HDD 1x Seagate 1TB HDD Fractal define S Corsair SP120s
  3. Hey guys! After years of drooling over pictures of cool builds online, I finally got to build a decent Watercooled pc! I'm not new to pc building, have been doing it for years now. But I was a total watercooling noob. Started off by reading the stickies in this forum and many others. I should say all those helped immensely in understanding the nuances of watercooling. Shout out to users Ghost and Whaler for the super helpful FAQ sticky. I found myself coming back to it more often than not to check if I'm on the right track. When I started this, I had most of the components. Here are the ones I had and the ones I bought. ****************HAD**************** ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 i3770k @ 3.50GHz Corsair vengeance 2x 8gb Coolermaster Thunder 700w 1x Western Digital Green 2TB HDD 1x Seagate 1TB HDD Galaxy 660Ti 2gb Coolermaster HAF912 ****************BOUGHT**************** Evga 980Ti Fractal define S Samsung 850 Evo 250gb Corsair SP120 EKWB water loop components http://i.imgur.com/Lhf8vC1.jpg Since this was my first build, i thought i would go for a kit. But every kit i checked had something that i didnt particularly like or prefer. For instance most of the ekwb kits came with a 240 rad. The Extreme kit that came with a 360 rad would not fit in my case since its really really thick. Small things like this made me pick all the components i wanted individually. Thankfully i ordered extra fittings and cable so i was able to make up for my mistakes. Here is the album: http://imgur.com/a/IB5sf The album is sorted in the order that i set this up and it has captions for the most part. But somethings that i did wrong/learnt along the way were: ** Made the mistake of reading the pump manual wrong. As you can clearly see here http://i.imgur.com/uejGHa0.jpg i swapped the inlet and outlets since the tubing looked more clean that way. Few seconds after i turned on the pump for the first time i realised it and turned it off immediately. The pump ran dry for a second. Thankfully it seems to run smoothly, so dodged a bullet there! ** Cable sleeving!! I am confused what i should do with this one really. I want to slap on another 980Ti there soon. That would mean more power and changing the power supply. Or i just do the sleeving for the heck of it! Either ways, thats the only thing i am not happy in this build with how it looks. ** Compression fittings are a bitch to put on! Is this just me? I felt like even after i had turned the compression part as much it goes with my hand, it always seems to turn more when i try it a minute later. And the fact that they were so tight to turn caused this bend http://i.imgur.com/4Za9E6O.jpg . The tube turned along with the compression fitting for about half a circle causing that bend. ** Some inlets were not where i would liked them to be! For instance initially i wanted to have the inlet for the reservoir at the top, and i wanted the outlet of the res straight into the pump. Like i mentioned earlier, that didnt go so well. ** Drain port. I did not plan this ahead, which was clearly a mistake. Had to drain twice when doing this because i kept making mistakes. Both times i opened the top lid and turned it around into a jar, and then blew into a pipe to get all the remaining liquid out. If i wanted, i could have made a drain loop since i had the necessary fittings, but that would have meant leaving a tube dangling somewhere. Didnt want to ruin the aesthetics. ** Learnt to solder as well, since i had to do some tinkering with the bottom led strip to daisy chain it http://i.imgur.com/eO85rz0.jpg . This was because there is no additional space on the Define S at the bottom to stick one full length led strip. I could do that on the top though. All in all this was an amazing experience for me and i would definitely like to hear from you guys.
  4. username: vijayellu Favourite videos: https://www.vessel.com/videos/JemZ8O7Hy and https://www.vessel.com/videos/MI7F0u2H8
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