Shawy

Sure, it'd work. But would look better the right way round imo. They are between the radiators and the aluminium frame with the 24pin cable:

The feet aren't really removable, they are in slight cut outs. As for flipping the board, it would take some serious modding, but I'm sure there's lots of us out there who would love to see it.

I had a spare Rampage Black lying around so thought I'd use the I/O cover to clean up this build a little bit. Pumps fine, the parallel set up means there's hardly any restriction in the loop. I figured it would be the same as having an intake rad at the front and an exhaust rad in the roof. Seemed to work out ok in the end.

Choo Choo!! Final update time!! It's been quite some time since the teaser images and the failing of my fans & pump. Truth be told, I repaired the PC months ago and it's been working just fine ever since - I've just been too busy/lazy to update this build log. But better late than never eh? There's a couple things I'm not 100% happy about - the fans mainly. They do the job just fine, I'm just not a fan of the white frames and should have gone with some higher RPM eLoops, but I'm not gonna strip it all down and spend money again when I don't have to. I might end up covering up the fan frames eventually with some black vinyl or something, but for now it'll do. So, anyway, here it is. Enjoy. There you go. Hope you guys like it. When I started this log there was a lot of discusion about whether or not the stacked rads would work, especially with the parallel loop, and it turns out it does work. Admitidly, it didn't work with 800RPM eLoops in there because they just didn't move any air. But with some 1500RPM 'GTish' fans, it's been working flawlessly (other than a slight memory overclocking fault that's now been fixed). Temps may not appeal to everyone, but they are well within Intel's spec, and the system won't be run anywhere near full load for prolonged periods of time anyway. Stock: Overclocked: (CPU @ 4.5GHz 1.35V, RAM @ 2000MHz 9-10-10-24 T1 @ 1.7V) And here's the whole set up for anyone interested: LG 34" ultrawide Ducky Shine III - Cherry MX blue Logitech Performance MX Corsair SP2500 Generic RGB LED strip

Right guys! I know I've said this before, and it's been a few months since I've last posted.. BUT... The final images are being uploaded right now and I will be finishing this build log later today! Stay tuned.

You need to show the maths to back up a statement like that.

Slight hiccough with the testing. But here's some temp results gathered so far for an i7 3930k (6cores/12threads) and 2 GTX 770s SLi: Stock settings under Prime 95 for 30 minutes: idle 38-42° load 68-81°C Overclocked to 4.5GHz under Prime 95 for 30 minutes: idle 49-52° load 78-91° Overclocked to 4.5GHz under Unigine Heaven for 30 minutes: CPU 68-72° GPUs 51-52° Overclocked, the CPU get's quite toasty. But stays under the throttling temperature (95°C), albeit by a couple degrees. Running at stock speeds (3.4 turbo) only saves 10°C at both idle and load. Now onto the problem: the fans. I chose 800rpm eLoops because they are as close to silent as you can get from a fan. They are silent because they barely spin. Because they barely spin, they hardly move any air. Normally, when you finish a bench mark/stress test, the temps rapidly drop down 20-30° then then slowly level out. With the eLoops, the temps stayed stupidly high and only dropped very slowly. And when I tried to run a couple of graphics tests, things got warm. A little too warm. So warm, in fact, the fluid reached over 60°C. Now, I don't have any temp sensors in my fluid, so how could I possibly know that? Well, DDC pumps have an operating temperature of <60°C. Yup. I fried my pump. So this weekend, instead of getting some pictures of my finished build, I will be stripping down my whole system - partly because the pump is completely hidden underneath the inner part of the case - partly to swap out the eLoops for some Silverstone FQ121s, which look an awful lot like gentle typhoons…

That was beautiful. More pics will be up this weekend when I have more time and more natural light. I really want the photos to do this build justice. And I need a little more time to tidy up one or 2 cables.

Right, it's been a while since the last update.. Way too long to be honest, but one thing after another kept coming up preventing me from finishing this build.. I know a lot of you, myself included, really wanted to know how the stacked rads performed. And I now have the answer! .... but you'll have to wait a little longer... Since the last update, I've just had to finish cutting the acrylic and didn't take any photos of the assembly. It was awkward enough as it was without having to stop and take photos every 2 minutes. I will be posting finished shots and giving more details on the build, including test results very soon. For now though, here's a teaser of the finished build:

They're 60mm rads. PTC ProDesktop - pretty basic but I've had/used it since school and does the job just fine.

Most people buy little crappy PCs, there's usually only 1-2 watercooled builds a week. It's easy work though.

Full time. Yup. No, I cleaned some thermal paste off of it with alcohol and it left a rainbow-swirly pattern thing. I don't know the technical term for it lol.

Unfortunately, it's not as glamorous as people think.

I'll either remove it, recolour it, or cover it up. I'm leaning towards covering it up so I can hide the cables where they plug into the PSU... I send my working day building PCs for other people, most of the water loops are black and red and it becomes so tiresome after a while.. It's nice to have 100% free reign over a project to do what ever you want with it. If it has, no one bothered documenting it online. I really hope it works to see what other people can do to get away from the 'standard' radiator mounts.