CelRoG 900D Water Cooling Build

[Cel]

Hi Guys and Girls,

 

For the past few months I have been gather parts to build a new custom liquid cooled loop in a Corsair 900D (dat brushed aluminium B) )

Lets dive in (pun intended :rolleyes: )

So a list of components

 

Hardware:

CPU: i7 4770K 

Motherboard: Asus Maximus 6 Formula

RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16gb @ 1600mhz

Graphics: 2 Asus Direct CU II GTX 770s in SLI

Power Supply: Corsair AX1200i

Boot Drive: 240gb Corsair Neutron GTX

Other Drives: Couple of black 4TB and Green 4TB WD Drives.

2 1tb velociraptors in raid 0 for games

120gb Corsair Force 3 SSD for more often played games.

 

Water Cooling Components:

Tubing: Primochill Advanced LRT Red 3m 3/8"ID 5/8"OD

Fans: 16 Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850 rpm (man they are rare these days)

CPU Block: EK Supremacy Clean CSQ Nickel

Mobo Block: EK-FB ASUS M6F Kit Nickel

GPU Block: EK DCUII 770 Acetal/Nickel

Pump: EK Liang D5 Vario with Plexi pump top

Res: EK Res X3 250

Radiators: 2 x Alphacool NexXxos XT45 480 and 1 Alphacool NexXxos XT45 240

Fittings: Bitspower Shining Silver compression fittings in 180, 90 and 45 degree fittings

Other: 3x Bitspower temp sensors, PrimoChill Sys prep and liquid utopia, EK 3 Slot Parallel transfer bridge 

 

Misc

Corsair Lightbar Upgrade Kit

Lamptron CW116 Fan controller

Asus Control Panel

Primochill syringe

Corsair sleeved cables in white.

Phobya 3 pin fan splitters.

BitFenix Alchemy light strips in red.

 

It's now time for a moment of silence for the old machine

ALthough ugly, you could still run all the games maxed out... Farewell.

God the dust in a HAF X is just unbelievable. This is after 2 weeks of cleaning   :unsure:

 

With that out of the way build time. *Cue Batman Transition*

 

First off I have decided to get a custom midplate installed.

 

Making it out of Smoked Acrylic 15mm thick was the look i was going for.

So I started with cardboard and some rough measurements.

 

 

Sweet, It is lining up nicely.

Time to make this onto some acrylic

 

So with the markings now made i decided a jigsaw would be worth a try because dremel discs just get chewed through or melt the plastic.

 

Using some dish washing liquid and water in a spray bottle it worked out to be the perfect lubricant and the cuts came out clean with no chipping or scratching.

 

So now i start to cut out the Drive bay stealth mod.

 

A cut out for the SATA and power cable is made first using a shovel bit and then a jigsaw.

 

I placed everything inside the case to see how it looked. The drive cover looked great for what it has planned... but I just was not happy with the mid panel.

Lucky i had spare, because i cut a new one out.

Ahhh much better... But still not perfect...

I noticed alot of slack and droop near the PCIE brackets... so I came up with the following solution

 

Bend and shorten a fan bracket.

 

Then screw it into the PCIE cover. Problem solved 

 

With my resourcefulness flowing. I decided it is time to mount the res.

First I needed to drill a mount hole for the top bracket - check, but where could i put the second bracket.

 

After destroying a drive cage mount from the case i cut up this little metal piece and used it as a support brace.

 

 

 

Res Mounted.

Looking at it now i think it is mounted too high, but i have a syringe  :rolleyes:

 

So after a bit of case modding, it was time to bench the new system.

Looks like i have a nice CPU. 4.7ghz at 1.2V for 6 hours of stress tests..I think I'm in love. :wub:

Back to the case work.

Finished off mounting the Corsair SSD... I am still waiting on a sleeved white SATA cable over 60cm... but 30cm  seems to be all i can find 

 

TBC

[JohnnyGrey]

Looks good! Holy shit that's a good overclocker! Grats on winning the silicon lottery

 

Finished off mounting the Corsair SSD... I am still waiting on a sleeved white SATA cable over 60cm... but 30cm  seems to be all i can find 
 
TBC

 

 Are you talking about the data cable? Sleeve your own!

[Cel]

Looks good! Holy shit that's a good overclocker! Grats on winning the silicon lottery

 

 

 Are you talking about the data cable? Sleeve your own!

Yeah the data cable... I don't have any of the tools to sleeve my own. I may have to give it a try at some point to finish this build though

[Guest]

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[Cel]

So the final bit of the case modding has been done.

I loved the look of stealthed CD Drives and fan controllers. So this is what i managed to come up with.

Measured up the two front panels.

 

Hacked at it with a hand saw (rougher cut, but the jigsaw broke)

 

Some Double sided tape and careful positioning

I will need to clean up the edges, but it will do for now.

 

Next will be the ram light bars and water block installations 

 

TBC

[Cel]

So a progress update. 

 

Alot of work done

I decided to scrap the idea of putting an aluminium block alongside my copper and nickel, so the water cooling section of the mosfets and chipset, so i went for an EK Block

 

A few screws for the backplate

 

The naked beauty... :wub:

Out with the old and in with the new.

 

 

 

I mounted the motherboard and placed a few fittings on, added the cpu block

 

Those with a keen eye will notice that i had to move the res, forgot to think about rad push pull clearance.... :unsure:

 

After mounting the rads in the top with a 480 and another 480 in the basement with a 240 next to the power supply.

 

Decided to go ahead and put the ek terminal on the graphics cards now for some test fits. 

 

 

Time to do some test layouts in the case and figure how the hell i get water through the rig....

 

 

Got a bit carried away and did the whole tubing... a few bits I will change after the drain.

 

 

Setting up the leak test 

 

 

So after filling the loop, the 6 hour wait begins....

 

I will post back tomorrow with the hopeful end result.

[Cel]

Hi guys,

Sorry about the delay. I decided to give my finger tips a rest after all the compression fittings  <_< Next time, surgical gloves...

!!Side projects mode ACTIVATE!! 

Because the case is too dam big to fit on my PC Side table... Time to build some supports.

Wood working time!

So with a drill bit screws and wood glue I got to work.

 

Silly wood glue

 

!!END SIDE PROJECT MODE!!

Back to the real stuff...

So after a lot of modding and sleeving practice i decided to go ahead and sleeve the sata cable to clean up the aesthetics of the case and the stealth mod...

All done, think its looks a lot better that the old black sata....

Thoughts?

 

Just a bit of cable management for a few hours.

 

I absolutely love the cable management of this case. The back panel fit on with ease.

 

 

After that was done I started wiring up the alchemy lighting strips in the case and my PC is pretty much complete..

So now for the glamour shots!

 

Internals without the LEDs

 

LET THERE BE LIGHT

 

So that's it... Thanks for checking out the build.

I shall leave a panorama of my current battle station!

[Musikman]

Nice.

[kangk81]

 

 

 

 

I mounted the motherboard and placed a few fittings on, added the cpu block

 

 

 

Hi there,

 

I'm starting a build similiar to yours and now I'm waiting for the M6F mobo block to come in to size up what type of fittings I need.

 

In the photo above, the CPU block outlet is linked to the VRM block. Did you use any spacers on the CPU block?