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Well, the time has come for changes. As some of you may know from some of my twitter posts and my blog, I have a nice, large desk out in the living area of the basement. Around this desk I have my gaming / folding system along with about 4 other systems I use. Pretty much everything else is stashed away in the crawl space.

 

The problem has been some of the machines are ageing and make more and more fan noise and my main system, I am running the fans pretty high to get some cool temps. I keep the GPU's in the low 40's and the CPU in the low 50's.

 

So, in an effort to quiet things up I am attacking this two fold (get it? :) ).

 

First, I am moving the gaming/folding system to a new case. I picked up a Thermaltake Core X2. As this sucker comes with native support for 3 x 360 radiators, this will be perfect, along with a 240 in the front. With room for push/pull on my thick rads, I should be able to keep the same temps, or even a little better, and only run the fans at low speeds with that much rad coverage. Yippee! :)

 

But, in order to FIT the bloody cube on my desk, I need to move things around, so I am converting all my physical boxes into VM's to run on my unRaid server. If you haven't checked out unRaid, you really should. ;)

Then I can pull out the computers, monitor, KVM, etc. Voila. Space. :)

 

So, as things go, I will update this... this build log will cover off some items on folding, watercooling and just in general how to screw everything up. Along the way I will get a mini review of the Core X2 done up (if I don't burn it down in the build process). The other thing pushing this, I noticed some black junk in my res. Probably residue from the rads so yea, need to drain it all, so perfect time to rip everything apart.

 

Ahh, fun times.... 

 

 

 

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Whaler_99 Links - "Green Machine" (watercooled), "Out of the Blue" (watercooled), My 4P Folding rigs, My multi GPU Folding Rigs, The Water Cooling FAQ, My 40TB Storage Server, My Folding Stats. The CM HAF XB review, the Aqualis Pro 450 review, the PrimoChill CTR Phase II Res review, the IcyDock ToughArmor 6x1 review, the 3x2 Storage Cage review, the 5x3 Storage Cage review, my Milwaukee Jobsite Backpack review, my Thermaltake Core X2 review, my CoolerMaster Storm Stryker overview. Link to DA Blogs home.

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 this build log will cover off some items on folding, watercooling and just in general how to screw everything up. 

I will certainly be following this one! Cant wait to see it! I need to further expand my already extensive knowledge on how to screw everything up..

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Nice, good luck man. Sounds like abit of a chore, but probably well worth it once you get it all sorted out.

I will be looking forward to new pictures.

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I'll be the "pictures or it didn't happen" guy :P

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I cannot guarantee that I will not be inappropriately (or disproportionately) excited over pictures of the new build.

I love it when what is old becomes new again, especially with dedicated and faithful rigs.

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Going away this weekend, so not really getting started on anything, but did some test fitting and initial loop layout, sorting out where best for the rads to go, orientation. Which res to use. I have three spare ones, was hoping to use my smaller CTR red, but not real good mounting options, so probably going to go with a bitspower tub res, mounting horizontally. Probably going to use my Koolance PMP-500 on this one. If anyone has experience with it, please leave your comments. I also have the controller for it that Koolance makes.

 

Few pics of my night...

 

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Whaler_99 Links - "Green Machine" (watercooled), "Out of the Blue" (watercooled), My 4P Folding rigs, My multi GPU Folding Rigs, The Water Cooling FAQ, My 40TB Storage Server, My Folding Stats. The CM HAF XB review, the Aqualis Pro 450 review, the PrimoChill CTR Phase II Res review, the IcyDock ToughArmor 6x1 review, the 3x2 Storage Cage review, the 5x3 Storage Cage review, my Milwaukee Jobsite Backpack review, my Thermaltake Core X2 review, my CoolerMaster Storm Stryker overview. Link to DA Blogs home.

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Well, I am also working on a water cooled setup and I have already won at screwing everything up. Only 24gb of RAM shows up :( Brand new motherboard and ram.

did you try and re seat all tge ram ? If so take one stick out at a time and see which one it dead
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my laptop- toshiba satelite p850, cpu- i7-3630qm ram- 8gb 1600mhz hdd- 1tb 5400rpm gpu- Nvidia gt630m 2gb

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and a car thread ! 

 

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Look! I am an artist. :)

 

This was about the 4th rendition after figuring things out and throwing out plans....

 

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Loop plan.... go from the Bitspower res, to the koolance pump. From there into the bottom port on the UT60. This is being mounted on the side intake of the X2. Then from the upper port into a UT45 mounted on the front. From there into the left hand XSPX 360 mounted in the top and out to the SLI GPU's. Off to the CPU block then into the second XSPC 360 mounted in the top and finally... back into the res. Should be quite the trip. Since I have 4 rads and three blocks, good thing this pump has a crap load of head pressure. Most likely be the loudest thing in the case...

 

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Whaler_99 Links - "Green Machine" (watercooled), "Out of the Blue" (watercooled), My 4P Folding rigs, My multi GPU Folding Rigs, The Water Cooling FAQ, My 40TB Storage Server, My Folding Stats. The CM HAF XB review, the Aqualis Pro 450 review, the PrimoChill CTR Phase II Res review, the IcyDock ToughArmor 6x1 review, the 3x2 Storage Cage review, the 5x3 Storage Cage review, my Milwaukee Jobsite Backpack review, my Thermaltake Core X2 review, my CoolerMaster Storm Stryker overview. Link to DA Blogs home.

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Just found this, just about to follow... Looking forward to it :D

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Arrggg... my fans just came in and now... I have to delay this project, by a month or so. Personal issues here which I need to take care of before I take on a new project. If things change, maybe a bit earlier, but now looking at a November project...

 

Sorry gang... Will update once ready to move forward!

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Whaler_99 Links - "Green Machine" (watercooled), "Out of the Blue" (watercooled), My 4P Folding rigs, My multi GPU Folding Rigs, The Water Cooling FAQ, My 40TB Storage Server, My Folding Stats. The CM HAF XB review, the Aqualis Pro 450 review, the PrimoChill CTR Phase II Res review, the IcyDock ToughArmor 6x1 review, the 3x2 Storage Cage review, the 5x3 Storage Cage review, my Milwaukee Jobsite Backpack review, my Thermaltake Core X2 review, my CoolerMaster Storm Stryker overview. Link to DA Blogs home.

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Arrggg... my fans just came in and now... I have to delay this project, by a month or so. Personal issues here which I need to take care of before I take on a new project. If things change, maybe a bit earlier, but now looking at a November project...

 

Sorry gang... Will update once ready to move forward!

Aww, that stinks! I hope you can get everything resolved!

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Ok... so a bit of progress :) Finally settled into my new place and started working on this...

 

Is this a computer build, or just a random mess?? You decide. :)

 

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Ok, so first off, needed to drain the loop and found some floaties in it. Hmm, I think I am going to spend some time giving the entire loop a serious clean. Fun Fun...

 

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Here was me getting the rads initially installed...

 

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Also, some good news. Thought I was going to have to use my bitspower tube res mounted horizontally. But, found a way to make this Primochill CTR res I have work, Lot smaller and easier to manage and can use my D5 pump, so less runs and fittings. And I can make it glow. :D

 

So that's it for now. Just a bit of progress on the new. Spent last night and tonight cleaning out the old case and washing a bunch of parts. I am using some soap and water to get a good clean done, but then a bunch of flushes will be done with distilled. Local store had it on sale this weekend. Got 4 x 4L jugs of it for $6.00. Sweet. :)

 

 

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Whaler_99 Links - "Green Machine" (watercooled), "Out of the Blue" (watercooled), My 4P Folding rigs, My multi GPU Folding Rigs, The Water Cooling FAQ, My 40TB Storage Server, My Folding Stats. The CM HAF XB review, the Aqualis Pro 450 review, the PrimoChill CTR Phase II Res review, the IcyDock ToughArmor 6x1 review, the 3x2 Storage Cage review, the 5x3 Storage Cage review, my Milwaukee Jobsite Backpack review, my Thermaltake Core X2 review, my CoolerMaster Storm Stryker overview. Link to DA Blogs home.

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So the floaties in the loop was it alive?

Steve Wozniak - "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."                                                                                                                                               Carl Sagan - "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

 

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Lol, i like to call it a work in progress. Looks like it's going to be awesome.

I got to say, that is some nice fans you got there. But i kinda prefer the

traditional ones, you just can't mistake them for anything other than noctua.

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So the floaties in the loop was it alive?

 

Who knows, I am no microbiologist. :) Just goop maybe from something... But washing and flushing everything, just in case.

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Whaler_99 Links - "Green Machine" (watercooled), "Out of the Blue" (watercooled), My 4P Folding rigs, My multi GPU Folding Rigs, The Water Cooling FAQ, My 40TB Storage Server, My Folding Stats. The CM HAF XB review, the Aqualis Pro 450 review, the PrimoChill CTR Phase II Res review, the IcyDock ToughArmor 6x1 review, the 3x2 Storage Cage review, the 5x3 Storage Cage review, my Milwaukee Jobsite Backpack review, my Thermaltake Core X2 review, my CoolerMaster Storm Stryker overview. Link to DA Blogs home.

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pretty curious how the loop will turn out with 2 rads next to each other.should look pretty epic!

 

Right now the ports are on on opposing ends. Doing the loop up in my head, this might make for better/easier runs. I myself am no always about the shortest runs possible. I don't mind some long runs, as long as they make sense, which in turn shows off that fact that "HEY!, Ya, You! Notice! This is badass water cooled here!". :D

 

Once I start test fitting everything, things may change....

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Whaler_99 Links - "Green Machine" (watercooled), "Out of the Blue" (watercooled), My 4P Folding rigs, My multi GPU Folding Rigs, The Water Cooling FAQ, My 40TB Storage Server, My Folding Stats. The CM HAF XB review, the Aqualis Pro 450 review, the PrimoChill CTR Phase II Res review, the IcyDock ToughArmor 6x1 review, the 3x2 Storage Cage review, the 5x3 Storage Cage review, my Milwaukee Jobsite Backpack review, my Thermaltake Core X2 review, my CoolerMaster Storm Stryker overview. Link to DA Blogs home.

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Lol, i like to call it a work in progress. Looks like it's going to be awesome.

I got to say, that is some nice fans you got there. But i kinda prefer the

traditional ones, you just can't mistake them for anything other than noctua.

 

Ya, I wasn't to picky on new versus old, as long as they Noctua NF ones. The top and front rads are all going to have a push or pull config with the newer industrial ones and the side mounted UT60 unit will have the traditional NF-F12's in a push/pull config.

So, overall 1,320mm of rad coverage with 14 fans. :)

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Whaler_99 Links - "Green Machine" (watercooled), "Out of the Blue" (watercooled), My 4P Folding rigs, My multi GPU Folding Rigs, The Water Cooling FAQ, My 40TB Storage Server, My Folding Stats. The CM HAF XB review, the Aqualis Pro 450 review, the PrimoChill CTR Phase II Res review, the IcyDock ToughArmor 6x1 review, the 3x2 Storage Cage review, the 5x3 Storage Cage review, my Milwaukee Jobsite Backpack review, my Thermaltake Core X2 review, my CoolerMaster Storm Stryker overview. Link to DA Blogs home.

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-snip-

 

Really diggin' the APC UPS in that first pic. ;)

If what I'm posting has already been posted, I'm sorry.

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