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@forScience Awesome, EK concentrate it is then. @Revan654 My first thought when this happened was totally "I should use glass". I'm not sure this case has the rigidity necessary, I'd be afraid of cracking the runs every time I moved it. I'm thinking about designing a Node 202 sized case that is aluminium and tempered glass. It would be perfect for glass runs.
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Would you recommend the Cryofuel premix over the concentrate? Surely premix is simply concentrate plus distilled water? I travel a lot so the loop will get drained a bunch, can't really be lugging 900ml premix around / buying it repeatedly. 100ml concentrate I can abide.
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What would you guys recommend as a biocide to go with distilled water? The loop is all copper.
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Ding ding ding. We have a winner i.e. Mayhems UV. The loop is a combination of Bitspower and EKHD tubing. I wouldn't be surprised if the heat also had something to do with accelerating this process. Not sure on the loop temp, plausible that it was in the high 60 / low 70s. The thermal limit of the 860k is probably 72c and the thermal margin was in the single digits i.e. CPU in high 60s. The GPU temp was in the low 70's. Guess I've learned my lesson. Time to start planning loop v2. I wonder if I can fit 2 more fans, a loop sensor and the lighting I'd planned in there? Why do anything the easy way when you can do it the unreasonable hard expensive way and learn 100x more. I'm not going to stop until I conquer this case for hardline.
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It was propped up on two pill cases so it was about an inch off the table I'd say. I think you are totally right though. I'm going to figure out some kind of feet situation. I'll probably also prop the back up slightly higher than the front to see the system better and also improve air flow directly under the case.
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Yeah, a D5 would be a really tight squeeze if it fit at all. I think I could get an 80mm fan in the corner with the ram and rear I/O. Also, I'm going chop a big hole along the GPU side (Imagine identical to the grill on GPU side). I could get another 80mm fan somewhere on GPU side. If I set them both to intake, would that improve the situation without creating any extra problems? @GzeroD The copper was an absolute nightmare to work with if you don't have a $100 pipe bender, which I don't. It looks amazing but I move around a lot and PETG is cheaper and easier to work with. One day I will return to the copper (and buy the bender) as it has a bunch of preferable features. I'd probably do a copper / PETG combo.
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Ah, interesting idea @RollinLower. Right now it's the EK-XTOP SPC-60 PWM - Plexi (incl. pump). I haven't cable manage at all except for the cable combs and if I did, I think I'd find some space for some fans.
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@wkdpaul +1
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I'm doing this for the challenge. I could order better parts and have it running in a bigger case tomorrow, but I'd be bored AF instantly. I'm taking suggestions for keeping temps down that don't involve changing core components or getting a new case. That will be considered cheating. And yes, those tubes are fucked real good.
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oh snap....guess temps were too damn high. More info over here.
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So I played CS 1.6 and Halo: Combat Evolved 10 years ago. Then a few months ago I decided to build my first PC and it was going to be a fully hardline watercooled Node 202. To my knowledge this had been done once before by @SonoDanshi here. He used an R9 Nano, which seems sensible. However, I was determined to use a full length GPU and ended up with an EVGA GTX 970 SC. It's currently paired with a X4 860K (don't ask). The whole ridiculous build log is documented here, I've linked to where it gets interesting i.e. a couple days ago. Anyway, fast forward to Sunday and I finally get it up and running. I play Crysis and the machine gets damn hot, but all seems well. Then today I play some Burnout: Paradise, Portal and Metro: 2033 (which looks awesome) and I notice a leak and that a fitting is very loose. Turns out EVERY fitting is loose and I have a major insane catastrophe leak. Machine is fine although in 1000 pieces again. I've had to solve a lot of problems for this build, but I never expected this one. Looks like I need to accelerate some improvements I was planning to reduce temps i.e. increase airflow with a Dremel to GPU side panel / minimizing 90 fittings to keep flow rate up and maybe adding some 80mm fans. Let the madness continue...
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OK, so good news is that (I'm an idiot) my CPU wasn't 114 degrees. Bad news is that after a couple hours of Crysis the GPU is in the high 60s and CPUs thermal margin is down to single digits. Basically, this thing is an oven. A small oven attractive oven, but an oven. Also, it's kind of loud. Mostly the PSU. I was worried about head to wacked the fans on full in the UEFI. I'm going to learn how to use Speedfan and see if can do anything about it. Not sure I've got any options on keeping things a little cooler. These temps were at stock i.e. 3.7Ghz
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It's possible that these temps are bogus and I should be paying attention to 'Thermal Margin' in AMD overdrive. I will try that with Prime95 when I get home tonight.
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The CPU was overclocked to 4Ghz from the stock 3.7Ghz using an EZ overclock mode with the ASRock UEFI. Temps were still crazy hot before then, so it's not that. @SonoDanshi WTF is going on?
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The only concern I have at the moment is temperatures. Even with the lid off I was getting some crazy high temps from the CPU. It's not the loop because the GPU is idling at 30c and around 50c under load. HWmonitor clocked the 860k at max 114c? That was after playing Crysis for about an hour I thought chips had a max temp of ~95 and then they'd shut off? That makes me think there is something wrong. The CPU idles at ~60c
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OK, much progress has been made. I had to temporarily abandon the acrylic centre channel because of my intermittent access to a laser cutter. I managed to get everything to fit using some 4 way EK splitters. One behind the rad and one on the rad by the pump. The case doesn't quite fit on, it's probably 5mm off on the left hand side. This is because of the run that goes over the GPU power connectors. Annoying. I'll find a way to get a run around there that doesn't interfere with the connectors. Don't have a heat gun currently, so can't do that. The Sandisk SSD I had wouldn't boot so I've use a 2TB firecuda drive. Works great. Not noticeably slower that the SSD.
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Oh man @SonoDanshi, this thing is going to solve a lot of my problems. It's seeming plausible that I could finish this build without a laser cutter if I make some compromises and buy a bunch of weird fittings.
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I didn't get detailed FPS and temps but everything played smooth as silk on 'Very High'. The mobo did seem kinda hot. CPU temps were hard to pin down because AMD is weird when it comes to that. When it's all up and running properly I'll figure all this out and really benchmark the system.
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So I ran out of time and couldn't get the everything finished by the time I had to get on a plane. I probably needed another week with access to a laser cutter and I would have been fine. Decided to just frankenstein the thing together to at least get it running and check everything was working OK. I only had the tiny wifi dongle to rely on for downloading games so I went with Crysis 1 because it's only 8GB. Still took several hours. Router was in the apt. below so no chance of hard wire. Anyway, everything ran great. It was plugged into a 720p old TV so I didn't get a chance to fully appreciate things but it all played fine. I swapped out the AMD A4 6300 that was in there for a X4 860k that was $50. That's the most powerful processor for the FM2+ socket (well, the 880k is but I'll just OC, ASrock board has OC presets). It runs real quiet except for the PSU which is kind of annoying. In general I'm glad that it works and can run but bummed out I had to frankenstein the whole thing. I don't have a laser cutter right now so I'm going to do some work that doesn't require tools. I re-sleeved a bunch of the orange sleeving to black with the heat-shrink-less method and that worked great. Finally nailed how to do it. When I get this done and running with the lid on, it's going to be glorious. I also picked up a 2TB firecuda drive for game storage etc. No idea where that's going to fit.
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Yeah, came out nice. Only problem being that there was a fatal flaw in the design. The 'bottom' piece of acrylic doesn't have the necessary O-rings. No idea what I was thinking. Anyway, I got all the hex bolts in and learned my lesson. Will need to design and cut that last piece again which isn't actually that much work. Unfortunately, the laser is out of commission for the weekend so I'll need to make other progress. The more I get into this project the more props I give to @p0Pe
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I'm really running out of time to get this done. I've got until Tuesday and then I have to get on a plane. I also have a bunch of stuff on with my real job so this'll be tight. Really looking forward to firing this up and playing some GTA V and Doom.
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I definitely went over the top with the amount of rubber cord I bought. No idea what I was thinking.
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I got the 2mm rubber cord. Had trouble sandwiching the acrylic without small gaps because I threaded all the piece instead of just the 'bottom' piece. To get around this I had to clamp the set and then screw in the hex screws. Took ages to do about 6. I tested it and it leaked, but to be fair that's about 1/4 of the screws. I'll put in the rest of the screws tomorrow and leak test again.
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Cut the new holes in the backplate so it fits over the screws for the water block. Had to file some screw heads and shorten some screws to get this all fine. Turned out OK though. I'll touch up the holes with some black paint later.
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