The Water Cooling Gallery

[Dimetime35c]

Still working on mine....There will be acrylic in the top of the case with water channels in it. Once I get the machining done and leak tested, I'll get it in and replace the rest of the soft tubing with acrylic.

What do you mean by water channels? Like will it be a flat piece of acrylic with slots cut in it that the water runs down??? That would look sick!!!! Kinda like an in closed waterfall thing?

[Vellinious]

Actually, it'll be 3 sheets of acrylic.  The first layer is clear, the middle layer is black, with the channels cut through it where I need / want them to go.  The back layer is bright white.  They'll be chemically welded together, and holes drilled in the clear with G1/4 threads tapped in to add fittings.

I have the acrylic sheets bought.  It'll cover the entire top of the case (mounted to the radiator mounts), from the reservoirs all the way to the back.

This was the test setup I did..to practice on, find any issues that may come up, play around with getting the chemical weld to set up without air bubbles, etc.

[Dimetime35c]

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

What's with the res??? From the pic it looks like you've gotta major bubble/air issue going on there:/

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[Dimetime35c]

Actually, it'll be 3 sheets of acrylic. The first layer is clear, the middle layer is black, with the channels cut through it where I need / want them to go. The back layer is bright white. They'll be chemically welded together, and holes drilled in the clear with G1/4 threads tapped in to add fittings.

I have the acrylic sheets bought. It'll cover the entire top of the case (mounted to the radiator mounts), from the reservoirs all the way to the back.

This was the test setup I did..to practice on, find any issues that may come up, play around with getting the chemical weld to set up without air bubbles, etc.

WHAT WHAT!!!!!!!! That's so cool dude!!!! Is the channel your building gonna have any type of functional purpose or is it just for looks?

[Lays]

What's with the res??? From the pic it looks like you've gotta major bubble/air issue going on there:/

The pic is from right after I built it, it's not like that anymore ofc

[Vellinious]

It'll take the coolant from the pumps to the cpu, then back to the acrylic channels, down to the GPUs, back up to the acrylic channels and then across the case to go straight down to the bulkhead adapter to go down to the radiator.

It doesn't really have a purpose, other than transporting coolant in a really cool way.  Well....and a bigger volume of coolant.  The more coolant you have, the more the heat is dispersed throughout the larger volume, and the cooler it will stay.  After 8 hours of OCCT testing on my CPU overclock, the coolant temps are only 2.1c above ambient the way it is....the more the better.

[alpenwasser]

Finally looped up my motherboard, currently working on assembling the build:

Build log update: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/11201-helios-caselabs-smh10-blackcopper-evga-sr-2-black-edition-norprene-tubingcopper-fittings-by-alpenwasser/page-47#entry5944092

[0ld_Chicken]

First attempt at custom watercooling and my case and budget were rather limited but I really wanted to try it so here I am. I decided to go with a universal vga block because I never seem to keep any piece of hardware too long, and I've been wanting to hack into one of the normal reference shrouds and put my hybrid kit inside (I hate the hybrid shroud!!) and decided to do one better and custom loop it.

 

pc

cpu  i7 4790k

gpu  gtx 980

mobo  asus z97-a

case  DIY PC shadow-H01 (got it free when I bought most of my hardware)

 

watercooling 

universal CPU water block: EK-Supremacy MX

radiators: EK-CoolStream PE 120 (Single)

                Magicool pro slim 2x120 (240) rad
water pump / reservoir unit: EK-XRES 100 DDC MX 3.1 PWM
EK vga supremacy universal gpu

 

 

 

 

[Ryoku]

My custom Loop I just finished

 

[alpenwasser]

- snip -

I see you went for the holy grail: Water cooling your GPU and keeping that awesome

stock cooler on it.

That's the downside of having such a nice-looking stock cooler I suppose.

it usually goes away when putting the card under water.

Anyway, I got my machine assembled finally:

(build log link in sig, for those interested)

[Everendless]

First watercooled build. Thank you for any comments. Pc master race!

https://m.youtube.com/user/everendlesss

Cooler Master Stacker 935 + 915R

Intel i5 4690k @ 4.2GHZ

MSI 4G R9 290s crossfire

16 Gigs Corsair Vengence

Gigabyte Z97-SLI

Corsair TX850, and CX430

XSPC Raystorm cpu waterblock

Alphacool NexXxos M02 GPU waterblocks

Primochill CTR Phase II res

XSPC Acrylic D5 head

XSPC 240mm, 120mm, and 280mm radiators

Corsair SP120s, LED 140s

Swiftech D5 Vario

Primochill UV blue tubing

Bitspower and XSPC Fittings

High quality photos

http://imgur.com/gallery/7nh4j

http://imgur.com/gallery/jnCsJEX

[joie]

One of my many build I have thrown together over the years.  I wanted to see what you guys think.  It is still a work in progress i have my new cougar fans on their way along with a gtx titan x and a acrylic sheet to replace that ugly corsair vengeance c70 window, i also have another 2x8gb stick of ram soon after that I'll be throwing on a waterblock on the ram too.

specs as of now:

I7-4790k @5.0ghz

sapphire r9 280x dual x

2x8 2133mhz g.skill ripjaws memory

evga supernova 80 plus platinum power supply

256Gb 850 evo ssd

1TB WD blue hard drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[viakruzis]

Some updates

 

 

[PapeJelly]

Some updates

 

 

*SNIP*

 

Looks very nice! Can you make a photo where we can see the front rad? I want to do something similar in the future and i'm curious how it looks with the Define S.

[Akula]

Project ARMADA

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/73352-project-armada-watercooled-define-r4-titanium-ek-waterblocks/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Andrej@ekwb]

Complete EK Water Blocks custom loop inside Corsair Air 540   

 

[gt403cyl]

Complete EK Water Blocks custom loop inside Corsair Air 540   

 

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Looks nice, but that bottom rad fitting from the GPU looks out of place, probably could have used a straight fitting there.

[VSG]

I got a preproduction sample of the upcoming XSPC Raystorm Pro CPU block, and got the ok to share some pics with you guys:

 

 

 

 

 

Packaging is near identical to the standard Raystorm, except that the provided thermal paste has been updated to a better performing one (XSPC K3) and the mounting hardware is revised to have no guess work involved:

 

 

 

The block itself is quite gorgeous if I do say so myself:

 

 

 

 

 

Comparing with standard Raystorm on the left:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mounting bracket is now all metal and built very well, that was another complaint I had with the older Raystorm where the plexi bracket flexed/cracked. While I can't share thermals or pics of the internals, it is one of the best performing blocks I have tested so far. Let me know what you guys think as far as the design goes, and I can share feedback with XSPC.

[Lays]

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That actually looks sick, looking forward to performance #'s when you can share

[VSG]

Sure thing. It comes with the usual blue LEDs but I feel if you get the copper version then it looks better without any LEDs and letting the copper shine through the plexi pieces in the mounting bracket.

[smith315pm]

And they said that you couldn't fit a 3*140 rad on a 50 dollar case

love it

[BSchiebs]

Hey guys this was my first build and I Thought I'd share it here. I used an H240-x from Swiftech as the pump unit. The reservoir is there essentially only to make filling easier. This system is extremely difficult to fill and bleed. and empty for that matter. under the hood I had an i7- 4770k, R9 290X 8Gb card from XFX, Corsair Hx850i, 16 Gb  Mushkin RAM, and a Gigabyte Z87X-UD3 motherboard. I custom sleeved the cables with paracord and think it turned out pretty OK. The case is a Corsair C70, I custom fabricated the basement with really basic or improvised tools. It all needs could use another coat of paint but Whatever. Let me know what you think!

[Nebuchadrezzar]

This is my first water-cooled PC (i7-5930k,32GB Ram, 2x980, 2x Samsung 850 PRO 256GB, 1x Samsung 850 PRO 1TB)
 

  
 

  

 

[Stroopwafel]

Kept it simple ^^ 5820k / 390X

 

 

[SBG1987]

I'm a PC enthusiast who enjoys water cooling builds. I posted one picture else where in the forum, but this is definitely the right place.

 

Corsair 750D

 

3770k

 

Corsair Vengeance 1866 Mhz CL9

 

Asus P8Z77-V 

 

EVGA titan X 

 

3x Samsung 840 pro

 

Corsair AX860

 

EK blocks / Pump / Res / Fittings

 

Alphacool Rads