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[5GigsOrBust]

So this is my first custom loop build. I wanted to go custom to decrease noise and to give myself the ability to watercool the board vrm since it came with a waterblock, and the GPU in the future. CPU itself can draw 300W under load so to cool everything in one loop, I need quite a bit of cooling power. I started looking into the surface area of different size radiators and determined that a 400mm rad is the probably the sweet spot. The 400mm rad has more surface area than a 560 rad, and I only have to buy half the amount of fans. My main concern was the fact that 200mm fans usually have low static pressure, but I found a solution to that. For Science! gave me a link for a high static pressure version of the noctua nfa-20 fans that are not listed for sale on noctua's website, so big thanks for that. Finally got all the parts in and built. After testing, I found the temps to be within only few degrees of my previous setup, but that is with the vrm included in the loop, so I'm fairly certain the temps should be lower without that. At idle, the coolant temp sits right around ambient. Also the max fan rpm has gone down from 3000 with the previous setup, to 1200 so the noise difference is incredible. I went with soft tubing & barbs for now because the system is on a test bench, so who cares. The cable management is terrible, I just have everything set up for testing. Not sure if I could fit this into a case, but for now I like it sitting next to the bench. The size of this thing sitting on the desk is hilarious to me. Wasn't able to find many custom loop 400mm builds online so I wanted to share this.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

I see that you are a man of culture

Thought it was gonna be a generic rgb loop in the first half

 

Though why an open bench setup? Not exactly common to daily just because of aesthetics or the mess it makes, though im also a proud user of open bench, just a tad more crude

 

Also 400mm for all i know is not a common pc rad size, whered you even get the thing?

 

 

Ive also been trying to make a ghetto loop of sorts but i am just extremely lazy and making slow asf progress, i do have all the tools and hopefully my adhesive problems are solved now that i have epoxy instead of just superglue, only reason im building this is just to overclock the balls off my 775 and 1366 cpus because 5ghz e8400 go brrrrrr

Heres the pile of garbage in near its current state

 

Btw you may wanna put a fan over those rams, 1.5v is pretty much the max w/o fan due to heat and b die is ideally run at 1.6v+ (b die does not degrade with voltage), only equivalent i have to fast rams is just some team extreem dark ddr2 1066c6 1x3 thats been oced to 1520 7-9-6-9 2.38v (very very fast for its time, still crushed by micron d9s) and all my ddr3 sticks that do 2200+ (x5660 cant handle 2200+), maybe some time in the future ill make a chiller for my rams

[5GigsOrBust]

27 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

I see that you are a man of culture

Thought it was gonna be a generic rgb loop in the first half

Haha yes I like a bit of rgb, but I prefer the look of noctuas.

27 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Though why an open bench setup? Not exactly common to daily just because of aesthetics or the mess it makes, though im also a proud user of open bench, just a tad more crude

 

Also 400mm for all i know is not a common pc rad size, whered you even get the thing?

I went with a bench setup so that I wouldn't be limited in my component selection by case size. The 400mm rad is made by Alphacool and I bought it from Modmymods. It took like over 2 weeks to be delivered, but it was cheaper than a 360x85mm rad.

27 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

 

Ive also been trying to make a ghetto loop of sorts but i am just extremely lazy and making slow asf progress, i do have all the tools and hopefully my adhesive problems are solved now that i have epoxy instead of just superglue, only reason im building this is just to overclock the balls off my 775 and 1366 cpus because 5ghz e8400 go brrrrrr

 

Heres the pile of garbage in near its current state

 

Btw you may wanna put a fan over those rams, 1.5v is pretty much the max w/o fan due to heat and b die is ideally run at 1.6v+ (b die does not degrade with voltage), only equivalent i have to fast rams is just some team extreem dark ddr2 1066c6 1x3 thats been oced to 1520 7-9-6-9 2.38v (very very fast for its time, still crushed by micron d9s) and all my ddr3 sticks that do 2200+ (x5660 cant handle 2200+), maybe some time in the future ill make a chiller for my rams

I have a small fan that I run over the ram for testing, I removed it for the pictures. I can definitely respect your motivation to hit 5ghz, that was my goal when I started overclocking. From your picture though, looks like you have most of the parts you need to complete your loop.

[An0maly_76]

 

Neat project, but you must be running a monster overclock, or planning to? My 5900X idles around 38C with air-cooling in a case with limited intake flow.

Edited June 17, 2022 by An0maly_76
Revised, more info

[Somerandomtechyboi]

11 minutes ago, 5GigsOrBust said:

I went with a bench setup so that I wouldn't be limited in my component selection by case size. The 400mm rad is made by Alphacool and I bought it from Modmymods. It took like over 2 weeks to be delivered, but it was cheaper than a 360x85mm rad.

Same, but also because its an actual testbench i do swap my parts alot so its nice to be able to take out the board + cpu + ram and swap for my 775 stuff with ease

 

13 minutes ago, 5GigsOrBust said:

I have a small fan that I run over the ram for testing, I removed it for the pictures. I can definitely respect your motivation to hit 5ghz, that was my goal when I started overclocking. From your picture though, looks like you have most of the parts you need to complete your loop

5g is easy to boot but not easy to run, can just casually boot 5.15g at 1.7v for my x5660 and 5.1g 1.7v for my e8400, but ridicolously hard to run

 

Also 1520 ddr2 needs ridicolous amounts of cooling, literally need 2 fans just to get the thing p95 stable, maybe when i chill it to subzero i can do 1550 or higher

 

I am soon going to sell this x58 since board is temepremental and a pile of garbage, wont even run 1800 without the 2nd channel just dying, might even consider going straight to ryzen since theres a cheap untested x470 fatal1ty at 23$ and an athlon + b350m at the same price, though i think ill try my luck with dead x58 boards first cause they do sell for alot of money, maybe ill get a working p6x58/sabertooth/R2X/R3X

[5GigsOrBust]

21 minutes ago, An0maly_76 said:

 

Neat project, but you must be running a monster overclock, or planning to? My 5900X idles around 38C with air-cooling in a case with limited intake flow.

Well its a 10 core running 5238Mhz all core at 1.385v LLC6. Runs at 1.4v idle. Not sure if that qualifies as a monster overclock, but that's definitely the limit of this silicon.

[An0maly_76]

7 minutes ago, 5GigsOrBust said:

Well its a 10 core running 5238Mhz all core at 1.385v LLC6. Runs at 1.4v idle. Not sure if that qualifies as a monster overclock, but that's definitely the limit of this silicon.

 

Edited June 17, 2022 by An0maly_76
Revised, more info

[fonzz1e]

where's the mora3 & dual d5 pump

[5GigsOrBust]

On 6/16/2022 at 10:09 PM, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Same, but also because its an actual testbench i do swap my parts alot so its nice to be able to take out the board + cpu + ram and swap for my 775 stuff with ease

 

5g is easy to boot but not easy to run, can just casually boot 5.15g at 1.7v for my x5660 and 5.1g 1.7v for my e8400, but ridicolously hard to run

 

Also 1520 ddr2 needs ridicolous amounts of cooling, literally need 2 fans just to get the thing p95 stable, maybe when i chill it to subzero i can do 1550 or higher

 

I am soon going to sell this x58 since board is temepremental and a pile of garbage, wont even run 1800 without the 2nd channel just dying, might even consider going straight to ryzen since theres a cheap untested x470 fatal1ty at 23$ and an athlon + b350m at the same price, though i think ill try my luck with dead x58 boards first cause they do sell for alot of money, maybe ill get a working p6x58/sabertooth/R2X/R3X

That sounds like fun, you make me want to build a system with older hardware and mess around with it.

47 minutes ago, fonzz1e said:

where's the mora3 & dual d5 pump

I was considering it, but I definitely don't have the space for the mora3. The monsta 400 already kind of hangs off my desk. 

[B4Quattro]

9 hours ago, fonzz1e said:

where's the mora3 & dual d5 pump

Hi, this is my setup:

 

Dual Aquacomputer D5 Next with an Watercool Dual D5 Top and 2x Mo-Ra3 360 + XSPC RX360V3 combined with a stainless steel plate heat exchanger and another Mo-Ra 3 360 in my basement.

 

edit: added a better picture of the dual pump.

 

[thrasher_565]

On 6/16/2022 at 6:23 PM, 5GigsOrBust said:

So this is my first custom loop build. I wanted to go custom to decrease noise and to give myself the ability to watercool the board vrm since it came with a waterblock, and the GPU in the future. CPU itself can draw 300W under load so to cool everything in one loop, I need quite a bit of cooling power. I started looking into the surface area of different size radiators and determined that a 400mm rad is the probably the sweet spot. The 400mm rad has more surface area than a 560 rad, and I only have to buy half the amount of fans. My main concern was the fact that 200mm fans usually have low static pressure, but I found a solution to that. For Science! gave me a link for a high static pressure version of the noctua nfa-20 fans that are not listed for sale on noctua's website, so big thanks for that. Finally got all the parts in and built. After testing, I found the temps to be within only few degrees of my previous setup, but that is with the vrm included in the loop, so I'm fairly certain the temps should be lower without that. At idle, the coolant temp is barely above ambient air temp. Also the max fan rpm has gone down from 3000 with the previous setup, to 1200 so the noise difference is incredible. I went with soft tubing & barbs for now because the system is on a test bench, so who cares. The cable management is terrible, I just have everything set up for testing. Not sure if I could fit this into a case, but for now I like it sitting next to the bench. The size of this thing sitting on the desk is hilarious to me. Wasn't able to find many custom loop 400mm builds online so I wanted to share this.

nice might be able to fit it in a torrent case but might need some diy thow.