Project Iced Blood - Mayhems/Primochill Sponsored. COMPLETE 15/02/16

stealth80 · March 6, 2015

Update 06/03/15

Just had some goodies arrive from Mayhems!

A pretty large box in which contained:

2x 1 Ltr Pastel Red

2x 1 Ltr Pastel Ice White

1x 1 Ltr H2O Pure

2x Blitz Pro 2

2x 15ml Red Dye

1x Blitz Clean Basic

and 2x something else .....

Thanks again to Mick at Mayhems!

stealth80 · March 6, 2015

What's in the box ?

2x Mayhems 360mm Havoc Radiators! Quad pass, triple chamber, can't wait to try these, but first I need to paint the primer to match the case, back to annoying the wife!

Nice paint free threads!

Ready for painting, a quick layer of white primer (although it's primed I feel going white needs to be over white primer ) before painting

stealth80 · March 6, 2015

Rads primed and working on the top coat now

stealth80 · March 7, 2015

These radiators look great, unfortunately I can't test them yet cause watercooling.co.uk can't get an order to me having paid on 26th Feb for an in stock item!

Rant over, the rads are painted and ready to refit:

stealth80 · March 7, 2015

Radiators all fitted now, 8 hours work and it doesn't look much different

Hopefully the remaining compression fittings will arrive on Monday with the EK chipset and CPU Blocks

stealth80 · March 8, 2015

So i decided to paint the reverse of the PCIE adapter for the Samsung XP941 as the green wasn't really fitting with the colour scheme

and my assistant (or so he thinks)

stealth80 · March 9, 2015

THAT PUPPY IS SO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh ye he is, there ..... Beagle, notoriously difficult to house break.... Carpet cleaner purchased 2 weeks after we brought him home, followed by a trip to the vets cause one of his testes hadn't dropped to find out one was still attached to his kidney.. he's had a hard time poor boy.

Seems royal mail may have lost my delivery with the remaining fittings I require to complete the CPU loop, the blocks should be here in like an hour and I can't do anything until the fittings arrive :angry:

Awkward Turtle · March 9, 2015

Hey nice build mate! That X9 looks enormous I'm doing a build in the thermal take v21 matx pretty much same case but smaller.

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stealth80 · March 9, 2015

Hey nice build mate! That X9 looks enormous I'm doing a build in the thermal take v21 matx pretty much same case but smaller.

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Hi thanks! I was looking at using the Core X2 but it couldn't accomadate a full size ATX so it was a no go.

The X9 is huge, it dwarfs the mid towers in my room (although my previous modded Antec 902 has been moved to the tip )

Seems Royal Mail have lost my package containing all my compression fittings so this may be all I have for a few days

at least I received some of my goods today!

My blocks arrived :clap:

EK Supremecy EVO

EK Asus M7G

stealth80 · March 9, 2015

Spent some time today working on the cable management around the motherboard tray and got the CPU and Chipset blocks fitted, just waiting on those compression fittings to arrive today, had an interesting chat with watercoolinguk.co.uk today which ended in no more information on where the hell the fittings are:

stealth80 · March 10, 2015

Postman came today with not one, not 2, but 3 parcels

My remaining fittings

Quickly got everything connected, carried out a few hour flush and then filled the system. Done some leak checks just bleeding it now:

Love that block!

Had to take the fittings out from the CPU > Chipset as there just wasn't enough room to bend the hose:

Reservoir filled (well the cpu loop)

Just gotta get the EK Block now for the 970GTX, but that is going to have to wait as I have to go away with work tomorrow :angry:

stealth80 · March 11, 2015

Slight change to the cpu > chipset blocks

Loving that PWM plug there

So i'm about to go away with work for a while which puts this build on hold for a little while, so heres my to do list (for me as much as others!)

Ek 8mm extender needs fitting to the Chipset block as you can see in the picture its not quite parallel.

Order and fit EK 970 ACX + Nickel Backplate.

Order 1x XSPC Chrome 90 degree fitting (not in stock at the moment). This is the final fittings for the GPU loop.

Figure out a way to either make the bitfenix recon work with the pwm hubs and ek pwm pumps or buy a new fan controller. Or buy 4x fan pwm splitter cables for the 8 fans and find another way of controlling the pumps (must avoid connection to motherboard)

starwarsguy99 · March 17, 2015

What's in the box ?

2x Mayhems 360mm Havoc Radiators! Quad pass, triple chamber, can't wait to try these, but first I need to paint the primer to match the case, back to annoying the wife!

Nice paint free threads!

Ready for painting, a quick layer of white primer (although it's primed I feel going white needs to be over white primer ) before painting

Doubt CustomPC Would be glad to see this

stealth80 · March 18, 2015

Haha ye, I've got this build log on their forums and they still submitted it for mod of the month so they can't be too pissed lol. I ran out of the wife's glad mags unfortunately

justin.notbieber · March 24, 2015

I really love the build. Although it would Even more kick ass with some transparent hard piping

stealth80 · March 24, 2015

I was going to, but already had 1/2 the compression fittings for the build and at £5 each thats around £50 so wasn't worth switching, maybe my next project =)

Unfortunately its going to be a couple of months before i finish this as I'm away with work

stealth80 · March 30, 2015

The final 2x fittings arrived meaning that the tube between the cpu and vrm blocks should be parallel

stealth80 · May 7, 2015

So I'm currently still working overseas, however yesterday I got around to ordering the EK Waterblock the EVGA 970gtx and the remaining cables and adapters I need to control the radiator fan banks, hopefully I can persuade the better half to photo them and update the log

stealth80 · June 4, 2015

should be re-starting this build in a few weeks and all the parts are ordered so i guess i will be complete by the end of the month, just in time for the final fantasy expansion and The Witcher 3!

stealth80 · June 24, 2015

Well I'm finally home and got everything installed and after a minor angry moment with EK everything seems to be working.
After 3 months away the original pastel red had turned to a murky red, not sure what happened here but I had to carry out another flush of the CPU loop and refill it.
I've also installed the waterblock and backplate from EK for my 970GTX and on the first boot I seen a small flash and smell of burning. I narrowed it down to the GPU and it seems that the instructions are garbage ..... an area of the back plate touched onto some part of the PCB and caused a short. However it seems that a god must love me as I removed the backplate tried to boot again and everything worked. Just ran a few 3D benchies and everything seems stable, im counting my lucky stars today, but still incredibly pissed at EK...

Just leak checking now and I will post some pics up tomorrow.

stealth80 · June 27, 2015

Well it's almost there, still need to drain the cpu loop and change the extender on the chipset block. Also considering some Hyper X Fury ram sticks to add a little more white to the motherboard area.

Water block now fitted, just annoying that you can't actually see the good work the EK guys did

A little look around the far side

stealth80 · June 30, 2015

The coolant lost it's colour pretty quick for some reason, so carried out a full drain and flush using Mayhems Blitz Cleaning Kit and then topped up using some fresh Red Pastel. Just waiting on my new memory to arrive now

stealth80 · June 30, 2015

Well the memory arrived and its now fitted so i guess that this is now complete, it's taken a lot longer than i wanted it to, but then working away for 3 months probably didn't help! :roll eyes:

Here's the ram all fitted: