water cooling [I'll make it fit] Copper pipe water cooling in Node 202 (also, my first build)

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I didn't get detailed FPS and temps but everything played smooth as silk on 'Very High'. The mobo did seem kinda hot. CPU temps were hard to pin down because AMD is weird when it comes to that. When it's all up and running properly I'll figure all this out and really benchmark the system.

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Oh man @SonoDanshi, this thing is going to solve a lot of my problems. It's seeming plausible that I could finish this build without a laser cutter if I make some compromises and buy a bunch of weird fittings.

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OK, much progress has been made. I had to temporarily abandon the acrylic centre channel because of my intermittent access to a laser cutter. I managed to get everything to fit using some 4 way EK splitters. One behind the rad and one on the rad by the pump. The case doesn't quite fit on, it's probably 5mm off on the left hand side. This is because of the run that goes over the GPU power connectors. Annoying. I'll find a way to get a run around there that doesn't interfere with the connectors. Don't have a heat gun currently, so can't do that.

 

The Sandisk SSD I had wouldn't boot so I've use a 2TB firecuda drive. Works great. Not noticeably slower that the SSD.

 

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The only concern I have at the moment is temperatures. Even with the lid off I was getting some crazy high temps from the CPU. It's not the loop because the GPU is idling at 30c and around 50c under load.

 

HWmonitor clocked the 860k at max 114c? That was after playing Crysis for about an hour

 

I thought chips had a max temp of ~95 and then they'd shut off? That makes me think there is something wrong. The CPU idles at ~60c

 

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The CPU was overclocked to 4Ghz from the stock 3.7Ghz using an EZ overclock mode with the ASRock UEFI. Temps were still crazy hot before then, so it's not that.

 

@SonoDanshi WTF is going on?

 

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It's possible that these temps are bogus and I should be paying attention to 'Thermal Margin' in AMD overdrive. I will try that with Prime95 when I get home tonight.

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OK, so good news is that (I'm an idiot) my CPU wasn't 114 degrees. Bad news is that after a couple hours of Crysis the GPU is in the high 60s and CPUs thermal margin is down to single digits. Basically, this thing is an oven. A small oven attractive oven, but an oven.

 

Also, it's kind of loud. Mostly the PSU. I was worried about head to wacked the fans on full in the UEFI. I'm going to learn how to use Speedfan and see if can do anything about it.

 

Not sure I've got any options on keeping things a little cooler. These temps were at stock i.e. 3.7Ghz

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oh snap....guess temps were too damn high. More info over here.