The Water Cooling Gallery

[auster93]

Hey guys,

 

Here is my watercooled rig. All the hardware left only little space for a radiator in this mATX-Case. So i added a 360x240 one on the side. Pump and resevoir are in the psu/HDD-Compartment. Sry for the crappy phone pics. Need to lend a proper camera. I would like to hear some feedback  

Here are the specs:

CPU: i7 5960X

Motherboard: Asus X99-M WS/SE

RAM: 4x Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB 3000Mhz

GPU: 2x Nvidia GTX 980 ti

Case: Corsair Carbide Air 240

Storage: 512GB Samsung 960 Pro M.2 2280 NVMe + 2x WD Green 3TB

PSU: Superflower Leadex 1200watt

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, auster93 said:

Here is my watercooled rig. All the hardware left only little space for a radiator in this mATX-Case. So i added a 360x240 one on the side.

That's what I'm talking about. No compromise. 

[For Science!]

I finished my one year maintenance on my original Define C build and took the opportunity to make some inrpovements and to transplant the system into the Meshify C.

 

 

 

More details of the cleaning and rebuild are documented here for those that want to see blocks and stuff after 1 year of use.

 

 

Before

Spoiler

 

[Jsunn]

I posted some pics in my build log, but wanted to share a few here. 

 

Here are my build specs:

-2 X EK Coolstream PE 360mm radiators
-1 X EK Coolstream SE 360mm radiator
-Optimus Watercooling CPU Block
-EK 1080ti FE waterblock
-EK D5 combo unit glass
-EK fittings
-EK PETG tubing
Case: Lian-Li PC-O11WGX ROG Edition
Motherboard: ASUS Z370 Maximus X Formula
CPU: 8700K Coffee Lake - (Delided) O/C to 5 GHz
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3600
GPU: 1080ti FE
Monitor: Asus PG279Q ROG Swift 27.0"

SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 1 TB

 

You can see some additional pics in my build log:

Project Cerberus - Maximus X Formula 8700K, 1080Ti, Lian Li PC-O11 WGX ROG Edition

 

[DarthBaggins]

Just need to finish mounting the pumps and running the lines in the base (Phanteks Enthoo Pro M SE)

 

[Mick Naughty]

Lost my saber tooth mobo during the week. Had to swap my spare in and pull a cpu from my other rig temporarily. Then had to run out and get a psu to support the mobo. Then the tedious process of re doing the loop again. Times like this I really hate wc’ing. 

[Mattias Edeslatt]

8 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

Lost my saber tooth mobo during the week. Had to swap my spare in and pull a cpu from my other rig temporarily. Then had to run out and get a psu to support the mobo. Then the tedious process of re doing the loop again. Times like this I really hate wc’ing. 

 

That's one big mofo of a radiator 

[Mick Naughty]

4 hours ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

That's one big mofo of a radiator 

Yea its a bit excessive but its been sitting around for a year. Figured Id put it to use again. Sucks the front fans have to run unfiltered now but being able to run all the fans at idle speeds while under full load is well worth it. May get a regular size rad to replace it.

[outofmyheadyo]

Added some dye and QDC-s now it`s a matter of minutes disassembling things changing cpu/mb/gpu.

QDC are really great but for some reason people dont use them all that much it seems.

Next time I`ll grab some EK Lime Yellow Cryofuel, should look nice!

 

 

[B4Quattro]

Hi everyone,

I am new in this forum and want to show you my custom build Desk-PC. I was inspired by linus's Desk-Pc project, but i thought it lacks radiator capacity, so i build my own desk-case with 2 Mo-Ra3 360 radiators in serial config. The Fans on the radiators are Blacksilent Pro PLPS running 650 RPM, so the System is very quiet. The pump is an Aquastream Xt @3480 RPM producing around 90 L/h flowrate. The watertemperature during gaming never rises over 3C above ambient. For tubing i used glass and copper tubes with 10 mm inner diameter.

[airdeano]

22 minutes ago, B4Quattro said:

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welcome to the Linus Tech Tips forums!

 

very nice, hope you made a bunch of pictures to make a build log for this section: https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/3-build-logs/

[JR88]

overkill and all that all copper rigs....telling ya still like the idea keeping it simple and just soft and flex tubing pvc

[Mick Naughty]

1 hour ago, B4Quattro said:

Hi everyone,

System specs?

[B4Quattro]

I used soft tubing before, but after a few months i had some slimy stuff in my blocks, especially in the CPU Block. So i decided to use glass and copper tubes. Glass tubes are really awesome and not as brittle as many think. Jayztwocents did a good Video about this

[B4Quattro]

My System is a  delidded 3770k @4.6 GHz and 1.36 V, 16 GB DDR3 1600 and a Inno3d Gtx 1080. I tried overclocking beyond 4.6 but even with 1.48 v it wasn't stable.

[B4Quattro]

I know that the heat produced by my current hardware is a joke for the two big radiators, but i like a quiet system and want to upgrade at the end of the year, maybe an SLI setup and a CPU with more Cores.

[DildorTheDecent]

2 hours ago, B4Quattro said:

Mo-Ra3 360

nice. I just use one MO-RA3 420 LC for my 5820K + 2x GTX 980 setup.

 

Wish it was the Pro, then it could stand. Have considered just attaching it to the side of the 750D though.

 

Radiator is ballin though. All that capacity for a damn good price.

[airdeano]

2 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Wish it was the Pro, then it could stand.

have you seen this: http://www.overclock.net/forum/14781-cooling-products/1661521-extreme-cooling-watercooling-misc-gear.html

 

$ 365CAD shipped with 9 akasa 140 fans

 

[JR88]

You realize a basic 240 is like the Equivalent to 400-450watts, that's why I said bigger rads are mostly overkill. You're almost better off with increasing pump speeds and flow rates, yow would benefit more there.

[DildorTheDecent]

Just now, airdeano said:

have you seen this: http://www.overclock.net/forum/14781-cooling-products/1661521-extreme-cooling-watercooling-misc-gear.html

 

$ 365CAD shipped with 9 akasa 140 fans

 

 

Not in the US unfortunately. Not very active on OCN much more either. They usually have a pretty good selection of bits.

 

That's pretty damn good. A 420 Pro + feet would be about £218 new. Thought about the LT + Pro upgrade kit but was a few quid more.

 

Already have the fan grills which would actually fit the Pro. Also got QDCs to make life easier.

 

Currently using 4 180mm fans instead of 9 140mm fans. Might consider the swap to 140s since I think there would be better coverage. And 140s would probably be better optimized than the 180s currently being used.

 

Rig pic cos thread enjoy the garbage photos lol. Sig for spec.

Spoiler

 

[B4Quattro]

4 hours ago, JR88 said:

You realize a basic 240 is like the Equivalent to 400-450watts, that's why I said bigger rads are mostly overkill. You're almost better off with increasing pump speeds and flow rates, yow would benefit more there.

I  used these big radiators for the sake of silence. The maximum flowrate i can achieve is about 140 L/h, but the pump gets really loud and i didn´t come closer to ambient temperature. I think watertemperature 3°C above ambient in a load situation with silent running fans is good enough.

One thing confuses me every time, when i read in forums that the pump should have at least a flowrate of 1 gpm, but that would be 227 L/h, isn´t that a little much? In a german pc magazine they recommend at least 30 L/h and that you have diminishing returns above 60 L/h.

[TyMeador]

Has anyone done a geo-thermal loop yet? We did....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DarthBaggins]

Guessing you insulated the exposed outdoor lines going from the house to the ground?

[TyMeador]

18 hours ago, DarthBaggins said:

Guessing you insulated the exposed outdoor lines going from the house to the ground?

There are no exposed outdoor lines. The trenches are dug underneath the house and we piped everything up through the wall.

[DarthBaggins]

Oh ok, didn't realize the lines coming out were under the ground-line