The Water Cooling Gallery

[Mick Naughty]

17 hours ago, JDMFTW said:

Interesting. I know my back plate gets pretty damn hot.

Mine used to but not anymore. Second card still hits 60c on the back so I gotta fix that and swap them to a bigger case. 

[Limecat86]

I got a new case a while ago and it's getting near completion. I still need to sleeve the cables for the second GPU and order a third Riing triple pack for the front intake.

 

[JDMFTW]

Switched to petg over the weekend 

Going to mod the psu a little get some better cables in there soon.

[flibberdipper]

Some of the rigs in this thread are utterly incredible... Really makes me wish i had a not-shit LGA 775 board and a decent case to make a retard-mode "retro" build. Lord knows that my GTX 480 should hit retarded clocks on water (already does 870-875MHz on air at .975? volts).

[JDMFTW]

14 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Some of the rigs in this thread are utterly incredible... Really makes me wish i had a not-shit LGA 775 board and a decent case to make a retard-mode "retro" build. Lord knows that my GTX 480 should hit retarded clocks on water (already does 870-875MHz on air at .975? volts).

My wifes pc is a lga 775 in fact its a 790i ftw with a q9550 running at 4.2ghz lol 
 

Still works for her lol

[flibberdipper]

51 minutes ago, JDMFTW said:

My wifes pc is a lga 775 in fact its a 790i ftw with a q9550 running at 4.2ghz lol 
 

Still works for her lol

I just posted pics of my 775 rig in the Show off your Setup! thread. It's cringe, and it uses a G31 board that's trying to die (as well as RAM that's trying to die), but it works well enough.

[JDMFTW]

Cleaned up a few wires and switched the LEDs around also added some pastel purple to the system.

[Chenster]

Long time lurker, first time poster. Been building systems since 1996 but this is my first customer hard loop build. I work on lots of design work but this PC is still super overkill for what I need. Picked the parts more on aesthetics and my design sense overruled my practical brain. Stuffed an EATX board in an ATX case and had a hard time making everything fit. Had some difficult bends and accidentally ordered acrylic instead of PETG. Need to improve the lighting and will probably replace the LED ram for some yellow GSkills ram.

 

Would appreciate some feedback.

 

"LED EVERYWHERE!"

 

"Draining this loop is a pain in the ass..."

 

Another angle from the front. The lower pipes hide the lower cables very well.

 

Probably spent 4 hours just on the cables.

[KWelz]

On 1/15/2017 at 0:30 PM, Sazexa said:

Here's some various pictures of my build! Debating between a few cases. It was originally in a Phanteks Evolv ATX TG, but, I never completely finished it in that case. (Hence SLI bridge/bad wire management.) The case was too small for my needs. I'm currently debating between a few cases. I'm also curious; how much of a difference do you guys think fans will make when I'm using three radiators? A 480 x 60, a 240 x 60, and a 360 x 40. I'm guessing with that much radiator surface area, fans won't make any more than a couple degrees difference.

Spoiler

 

 

Bit of a followup.   How have your temps been in this setup?

[Mick Naughty]

Two 360's? I doubt temps would ever be a concern. Especially with 3 blocks. 

[KWelz]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

Two 360's? I doubt temps would ever be a concern. Especially with 3 blocks. 

in an Evolve ATX it can be.  Case is not great for Water cooling in some cases.   

 

[Mick Naughty]

2 minutes ago, KWelz said:

in an Evolve ATX it can be.  Case is not great for Water cooling in some cases.   

 

I'm sure the blocks won't suffer as much as the other components. 

[KWelz]

Perhaps.  When I tried to WC in the case I was seeing 80C+ on my CPU.

 

[Sazexa]

47 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Two 360's? I doubt temps would ever be a concern. Especially with 3 blocks. 

 

46 minutes ago, KWelz said:

in an Evolve ATX it can be.  Case is not great for Water cooling in some cases.   

 

 

44 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

I'm sure the blocks won't suffer as much as the other components. 

 

42 minutes ago, KWelz said:

Perhaps.  When I tried to WC in the case I was seeing 80C+ on my CPU.

 

 

58 minutes ago, KWelz said:

Bit of a followup.   How have your temps been in this setup?

With the current, test bench set up? Or the Evolv ATX set up?

In the Evolv, with a 360x26 and 360x38, using a single set of Noctua NF-F12's, With two GPU's in parallel, and the CPU on Supremacy Evo MX, the temps were the following:

CPU: ~35C idle || 80C load (6950X OC'd from 3.0 to 4.0 on 1.25V)
Motherboard: 35 idle || 65C load
GPU's: 35C idle || 60C load

On the current set up, with a monoblock (same OC) and the GPU's all paralleled together, with a 480x60mm radiator an four NF-F12's, I get...

CPU: 30C idle || 70C load
Motherboard: 30C idle || 60C load
GPU's: 30C idle || 45C load

 

[KWelz]

Sorry I should have specified that I meant in the Evolve case.  

 

Thanks for the info.  Don't think I can justify those temps to go water on my back up system  

[Sazexa]

3 minutes ago, KWelz said:

Sorry I should have specified that I meant in the Evolve case.  

 

Thanks for the info.  Don't think I can justify those temps to go water on my back up system  

I also had "over built" inside the case. If I were to do it again, I'd do a 280mm in the front and a 360mm in the top, instead of two 360mm rads. I'd have used a thicker 360mm on top as well. That would likely have helped my temperatures.

My new case I'll likely be doing two 360x38mm rads, and am hoping to have basically the same temperatures I have now, or perhaps a bit better.

[Moeplazz]

On 1/5/2013 at 9:03 PM, Jokrik said:

Will be making some major update soon, will make a work log in the forum

 

What graphics card and case did you use?

[Sazexa]

So, I'll be working on a new project for my own PC soon. And I'm going to do something a bit unique, or something that hasn't been done much before it seems. I want to use carbon fiber tubing. Trouble is, I can't decide if I want to use matte or glossy tubes. So, to help give a picture of what the build will be... It's going to be inside a Lian Li PC-O11 case, which has a front glass panel and a side glass panel. I'm going to be having some case internals, and components, powder coated/cerakoted to satin silver. Something like the Macbook Pro's finish, or the finish on the Corsair Dominator Platinums. My fittings for the watercooling will also be finished like that, as well as perhaps my GPU back plates, and half of my motherboard monoblock. That being said, the only real "reflective" or "glossy" visible component of the case would be the glass panels. So, I'm not sure if carbon fiber tubing would stand out like a sore thumb, or actually accentuate the "flatness" of the build well. I'm going to be getting a large reservoir as well, which would theoretically be very glossy/reflective, but I plan to frost the reservoir glass. What do you all think? Here are some examples of the tubing, it's actually stuff meant for drones and RC stuff. I'm leaning towards the glossy stuff since it has a deeper black.

[Jumper118]

1 hour ago, Moeplazz said:

What graphics card and case did you use?

that case is an NZXT switch 810, one of the bestest cases ever made. loads of people bought those for water cooling builds. 

[Mick Naughty]

9 minutes ago, Sazexa said:

So, I'll be working on a new project for my own PC soon. And I'm going to do something a bit unique, or something that hasn't been done much before it seems. I want to use carbon fiber tubing. Trouble is, I can't decide if I want to use matte or glossy tubes. So, to help give a picture of what the build will be... It's going to be inside a Lian Li PC-O11 case, which has a front glass panel and a side glass panel. I'm going to be having some case internals, and components, powder coated/cerakoted to satin silver. Something like the Macbook Pro's finish, or the finish on the Corsair Dominator Platinums. My fittings for the watercooling will also be finished like that, as well as perhaps my GPU back plates, and half of my motherboard monoblock. That being said, the only real "reflective" or "glossy" visible component of the case would be the glass panels. So, I'm not sure if carbon fiber tubing would stand out like a sore thumb, or actually accentuate the "flatness" of the build well. I'm going to be getting a large reservoir as well, which would theoretically be very glossy/reflective, but I plan to frost the reservoir glass. What do you all think? Here are some examples of the tubing, it's actually stuff meant for drones and RC stuff. I'm leaning towards the glossy stuff since it has a deeper black.

Hope you plan on coating the insides of the tubes. 

[Sazexa]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

Hope you plan on coating the insides of the tubes. 

I was curious if they'd need any kind of coating. I'm not really sure what to coat them with or if they'd need it. 

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, Sazexa said:

I was curious if they'd need any kind of coating. I'm not really sure what to coat them with or if they'd need it. 

Something that won't get broken down. Too much adhesive and resin too. Really depends on how all the stuff in the fluid is gonna react to the coating and or resin 

[Sazexa]

10 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Something that won't get broken down. Too much adhesive and resin too. Really depends on how all the stuff in the fluid is gonna react to the coating and or resin 

As far as I knew, the interior of these tubes were not coated. And I didn't really think the material itself would degrade. I'll be getting some parts on my case powder coated, perhaps I can just have the company doing that for me coat the interior with some chemical resist stuff as well.

[Mick Naughty]

13 minutes ago, Sazexa said:

As far as I knew, the interior of these tubes were not coated. And I didn't really think the material itself would degrade. I'll be getting some parts on my case powder coated, perhaps I can just have the company doing that for me coat the interior with some chemical resist stuff as well.

I know they aren't coated. The resin will and could break down faster with the fluids used. 

[Sazexa]

5 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

I know they aren't coated. The resin will and could break down faster with the fluids used. 

I just saw someone on OCN who had used matte carbon fiber tubing. He had his build running for a while, and didn't do anything to coat the tubes. He had then drained it and found "bits of carbon" in his loop, but, he believes it was from when he cut the tubing. He used power tools, and said he didn't bother to clean the tubing before hand. So, it might be alright.