Smooth Bunz

"making a joke" 
"he was baning people for spamming numbers i didn't spam anything now he permanently ban me" 

Hmm story doesn't add up 

"making a joke" 
"he was baning people for spamming numbers i didn't spam anything now he permanently ban me" 

Hmm story doesn't add up 

"making a joke" 
"he was baning people for spamming numbers i didn't spam anything now he permanently ban me" 

Hmm story doesn't add up 

Looks awesome

update
you reminded me i needed to update this thread!
just an update of what it looks like now days
Whats changed?
New 4K Pansonic HDR TV > http://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/viera-televisions/led/tx-65dx902b.html
New AV cabinet with no roof for good ventilation
Router mounted above TV for good 2ghz/5ghz access
Sofa pushed back

not much changed here

Display cabinet (also fitted with spotlights)
Displaying Developers that make good games fiorst before money
1 shelf: Diablo Book,Witcher 3 Diary Witcher 3 Art Book,
2nd shelf: 3 WoW statues
3rd shelf: Film Snacks (soon to be Witcher Statues)

27" ROG swift +  Acer 34A

How are you planning to fit in the RAM and the Cables on the motherboard. As i unterstand you model the RAM Slot is outside the case?
 
Still ambitous plans are great);
 

AC waterblocks applied  - I wish they provide thermal pads like EK, or even attach thermal compound. If possible I use EK next time. Sorry AC but you should not save on it. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rough progress of the build so far. I had some problems to work out, but they've been solved. Glad I did all that on air cooling first.

Thank you!
 
I'd love to see the progress!

And speaking of progress, here's a few pictures of progress on my build.

Here's how the ASUS Rampage V Edition 10, a 272mm wide motherboard, fits inside the Evolv ATX case, which officially only supports 264mm wide motherboards. I had to remove the motherboard's backplate to make it fit.



I also insulated the back side of the board with electrical tape.



When, because it's only a matter of time, I decide to change and upgrade GPU's, I'll easily be able to do so. QDC's let me quickly swap out GPU's, but also run the loop with just the CPU! This way, I can air-test GPU's before getting blocks for them. And adding them to the loop won't require me to drain the loop and refill it.


This picture is the approximate location for where the bottom GPU's inlet will sit. So I have enough slack to reach both this, and the other QDC to by-pass the GPU's.



Cable-sleeving preview.


I mounted the pump to the front radiator.



Fitting two 360mm radiators was tough, but I managed to do so. The top one is an EK SE 360, 360mm * 26mm, and the front is an EK PE 360, 360mm * 38mm. Using six LinusTechTips Edition Noctua NF-F12's for the radiators. Waiting to get the second GPU, and CPU soon.

Befitting of the last update, here is another "small" one.  Admittedly this took a lot longer than I was expecting as I had to remake the panel after I messed up the first one with some dodgy measuring.  Needless to say this was quite a bit of needle file work.
 


GPU bracket included

 
 

Looks ugly at this point but is functional

 
 

Ahh see, looks better now

I see thanks.
 
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Tbh what I imagine your next build be:
 

 

Forum ID: Denned
Build Title: Project Lava Flow
Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462599-denneds-project-lava-flow-caselabs-s5/
Description: This is my CaseLabs S5. For a while I had dreamt of building with this case, color scheme and hardline tubing. So finally I got the chance to do all of those. It took a few month to get it all build and completed, but I think it was completely worth it, and I would like to expand on the build sometime in the future.
 

Forum ID: bartimaeus555 Build Title: Wabisuke Thread URL:  Description: My first PC build, so I decided to go all out. Housed in a Phanteks Evolv ATX, there's 3 980ti's, a 5930k, and 32gb of RAM, all water cooled. All the cables were sleeved by me, with sleeving whose colour I designed  and ordered from a factory specifically for this build. I went for an all black motherboard as it looked the cleanest in a build like this.
 
The case needed slight modifications to fit the top rad so it wouldn't hit the RAM blocks, but everything worked out in the end.

Forum ID: Hasle
Build Title:  #trooper
Thread URL: PROJECT LOG
Description: My very first water cooling adventure for everyone to see. I went a bit bonkers with the piping, in an effort to get it as stringent and harmonized as possible. Not just connecting outlets to inlets, but adding some complexity to maintain symmetry. Definitely learned a lot, and my pad smelled like melted plastic for weeks. Worth it. 
 

Forum ID: 50mm
Build Title: Reinforced
Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/452895-project-log-reinforced-tuf-z170-sabertooth-980ti-sli/?page=1
Description: Reinforced was a great project and i really enjoyed building it. To showcase the ASUS Z170 Sabertooth Mark 1 the theme of this mod is "The Ultimate Force". I chose the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX since it looks as if it was made for the motherboard. The mod features a custom CPU waterloop with unique premixed coolant by CoolForce and to light it up i installed two rigid UV LED strips. Using my scroll saw i created Armor panels to cover things and make the build look more TUF. To complete the mod i made custom sleeved cables and illuminated logos on the acrylic covers.
 

ForumID: 53by9   Title: Janus 2.0   https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/588528-janus-20/   Description: "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others" - Ayn Rand   What can you achieve when you don't worry about who you're trying to beat or what can you create? Life moves at a constant pace. We don't realize what we have done until we sit and look back.   I have been doing Folding on my Computer's down time to hopefully find a cure for Cancer (the previous build was dedicated to it and my father who passed from it). The Division was released, we all love it or hate it. After it's launch I realized how much time I was spending in my office and what it was doing to my computer. I figured it was time for a whole office upgrade. There is a new monitor being created by Samsung that is 32:9 and 49 inches. When that time comes my desk will shrink somewhat (I made it slightly modular). A dual monitor setup has always been the dream but the evil bezel in the middle has always prevented that from being a reality. Having a 32:9 monitor fills that gap and I'm quite excited for it.

#fin
 
This being my first time water cooling, I could have went with a safer, hassle free approach, of AiO coolers or soft tubing, and still had a blast. But I'm glad I aimed a bit higher, I really learned a lot, and enjoy looking at my creation every day. Thanks to everyone who swung by, hope you enjoy these final pictures.
 

 


 

 

 

 

 


 
n o t e │  This is the Danish reagent eating a kebab, before anyone asks. It's nothing sassy. 

#temps #finalthoughts
Temps were great straight off the bat. The DDC was a bit noisy at its full potential at ~4500RPM, but barely noticeable at around 3900RPM. Lower flow rates to boot, but I still got CPU idle temps of around 28-30C and GPU around 30C prior to overclocking. The 5820K is currently running at a solid 4500MhZ (up 32% from the stock 3300MHz), at around 40C idle and ~60C when gaming, with fans at 45-50%. I did a full stress test and benchmarking in RealBench, and it never got higher than ~68-69C after 15 minutes at 100% load. I'm a happy camper.
If you have any questions, shoot! Until next time!

Nearing the end guys. In fact, just waiting on backplates for these things, but I couldn't wait to do this build.
 
I got my tubing in, and man did I have a hellish time with my bends...
 
It probably didn't help that my EK-HD DIY kit 10mm sleeve was a good 1.5 mm wider than the 10mm ID Primochill PETG tubing. Seriously, even after a good three hours of sanding the sleeve the thing was still 10+ minutes of twisting per bend (with all sorts of lube) before I could get it in deep enough to do the bends I wanted (and had to abandon others due to this issue). 
 
When I was done my hands hurt so bad I couldn't go to sleep for a good hour and took off work today because they hurt so bad in the morning (imagine the worst workout cramps you've had after say a few months of not doing it and then think that you can't even rest properly without your fingers moving).
 
I'm sure some people here are like "whine whine whine, you got this amazing pc. Shut the f* up and enjoy it!" And I am, but man that's why it's 24 hours later and I'm just now writing this up...
 
 
The pain we go through for pleasure   :wub:  :wub:  :wub:
 
 
Without much further ado!

 
The bends aren't perfect, and I might redo the ones coming into/from the reservoir, but I feel like each one was pretty darn ambitious with the line connecting the two radiators being a personal favorite.
 

 
Money shot!

 
And let there be fluid. Even after bleeding the system (including rotating it in every possible direction) for 24 hours, I had some super intense gurgling and then I gave up and moved the PC back to my desk. Well about 3 minutes after I got the pc up and running for the first time, ALL of the bubbles came out at once... Like I was worried I blew a pipe or something because the air movement and noise was insane. But now the computer is well bled and all is good in the world hehehe.
 
Well except now I think my pump is running 100% all the time regardless of what I set my pwm controls on... Kinda scary...
 
Anyways, what are the results you might ask?
 
Well I have all fans set at right around 700 RPM (with all off fans when cpu temp is below 30 C) which is about 100 rpm below the point where any one becomes noticeable and I can't hear a difference between that and 400 RPM (about the bottom control for the Venturi Series).
 
This setting means no matter the load my pc is almost always inaudible (I have a 28-35 dBa ambient noise environment and the pc sits right at the 26-29 dBa range).
 
 
 
Ironically, the shared loop means my cpu idle temps are much worse than they were before (23-28 C now 33-37 C) and load is about the same (54-65 C now 56-62 C) with a much tighter range. I should note that before, my cpu radiator fans would ramp up to as high as 1100 rpm under 100% stressing load so noise is also improved.
 
GPU temps are the big victories. I did a run of Fire Strike Ultra at 1519/2001 pegged (same settings as under stock cooling but obviously no thermal throttle) hit max temps of 43C!
 

 
Also good enough for top 100 in world!!!!! WOOOT! Suck on that 68.5 / 70.4 percent ASICs!
 

 
Final self-aggrandizement, that score is also the 6th best dual GPU 5820k score in the world and top 10 for Haswell-E hexcores. 

So, probably the last or second to last (hopefully!) major update to this build log:
 
First things first, huge shootout to performance-pcs.com for being a huge help during the ordering process, even going so far as to combine orders for me to save me shipping costs after the fact when I forgot a part. Their personnel were always professional, knowledgeable, and very prompt.
 
Backplates along with Mayhem X-1 Coolant came in on Friday, and I got the PC up and running like a dream. In the interm, after discovering fluid incompatibility (reminder to everyone not to mix Ethylene Glycol coolants with PETG), I had drained my loop, and flushed it with distilled water. I can't say I see any temperature differences between the two fluids, although that is to be expected given both being basically DI water plus a little bit of extra chemical magic.
 
I hadn't taken any pictures from just that, because I got a notification earlier in the week that the NZXT Hue+ I had ordered back before Christmas from Amazon was finally shipping.
 
And it came in today. I didn't take any pictures of the device itself, since so many internet phenoms did reviews of it, but the quality did surprise me. I also acted on a hunch that I could mount the Hue+ on those nice Define S predrilled reservoir grills. Well lo and behold, it worked perfectly! The spacing between 4 slots is exactly the same width as the spacing of a 2.5 inch drive (which would be BA idea with front SSD storage mounting in an air-cooled rig).
 

Sorry about the flash, my phone's camera is truly abysmal in low light situations...
 
So yea what are the results of these updates?
 

Computer on my normal workstation (AKA walmart plastic folding table) with the amazing (even if not all that fitting to this build) spectrum color set.

PC in the darkness so you can see the whole thing without a monitor in the way.

 
It's naked!

 
This is the fixed illumination color I ended up going with. It may look odd in due to my "amazing" camera, but in real life it is a grey-silver tinged with a tiny bit of yellow. Naturally ofc that is nothing like the color CAM was trying to produce when I found it... RGB 97/89/42 Although I must give NZXT huge props in that their high saturation colors look amazing, it is just that LED strips seem incapable of really hitting the darks and greys properly.
 

 
And now with a final flash image just to mess with the world (and give the closest impression to what this actually looks like powered off.)
 
 
A few tidbits:
I decided not to redo any of my lines, it just felt off, and with the illumination I actually really like the runs. I would like to see about getting some custom sleeve cables (I only have extensions for the GPUs), and I really NEED to get a PMMA replacement for the stock side panel. Not only does it scratch even with paper towel, but it is partially polarizing and leaving rainbow reflections from my monitor. Not cool.
 
EK backplates really do look so much better in person, but I do wish they would have made my original backplates compatible.

Thanks a lot! It's been a blast to build and keep up and play with (duh).

Update 8: It realy hurts doing this!
 
I found a good deal on a used Titan X so I counl'd resist to buy it. However, after testing I know why it was so cheap: The cooler is very dusty and the card thermal throttles all over the place unless you set the fan to 95%. Stupidly loud, but the GPU itself is working fine. That's all I need.
Sadly Nvidia still used this terrible DVI connector so I had to cut it off. When a hacksaw is your only tool available , it  looks as bad as when Linus is doing hardware modding. You may cried inside when you whatched Linus doing it in the video. But doing it yourself is even worse.
 

 

 

 

Cheers dude! There is still a small amount of work left to be done, its mainly cable management of the PSU cables. the 24 pin is so messy because of the way the cables have to bend, so I will sort them at some point.

Also I need to add the cable combs onto all the cables just to make them look smart

Okay, those final images arent the most final it seams. 

I took the heatsinks on the motherboard apart and have sprayed them silver.

I also took the CPU fan apart and have sprayed the fan black and silver. It looks beyond sick! I will post some more images up shortly.