Dimastech testbench, cpu watercooling only

[Jan.B]

2nd build log I'm posting here (the first one was not really from start to finish but anywayz)
So here's the plan: I own a Dimastech testbench, a easy V2.5 Black, and I used to run a H100i cooler on the cpu, but since I wanted to overclock my cpu some more I tought I needed somewhat 'better' cooling just to be sure.
I'm not planning to mod the heck out of the bench but making it rather clean and simple :) There is another fellow that also started with a Dimastech mod and he gave me some ideas,  I'm not stealing his plans or anything like that, he just gave me some inspiration as to how a watercooled bench could look like :)
So anyway, why am I doing this? Simple, some dude on another forum (from Belgium) was looking for a H100i and I was looking for a costum loop. He had the parts I needed and I had the part he wanted. So we traded :D (and he drove to me to trade, like more then 100km's)

The parts are as following :
- XSPC Dual Bay Res/pump Acryl. combo V4
- XSPC 'Rasa" Cpu-block
- XSPC RS360 Slim rad
- Bitspower True silver en silver shiny fittings (those were already mine)
- valve of an unknown brand (can't see any markings on it but it works so what the heck)
- Masterkleer Tubing, I could go for UV red or UV dark (the dark one looks kinda dark-dark-blue, it looked dark-black on the website tough)
- I did not yet decided wich fans I want to use, I got some spare SP120 fans but I'll see how things turn out :)

Hardware:
- My previous mobo; a Asus Maximus IV gene-Z/Gen3 (altough I'm looking for a used ATX or E-ATX Z77 board)
- I7 2600K
- 2x4Gb Corsair Dominator 1866c9 ram
- Corsair CX750 PSU
- Corsair Force 3 120Gb (first SDD I ever bought)
- 2x2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD's (not in raid since there is still a lot of storage on them)
- 2x2TB WD Black HDD's (same story as stated above)
- since it's mainly for benchmarking the cpu it could be any vga I have or borrowed just to see how it performs. I still have a XFX HD5970 Black Edition that I bought used and a GTX660Ti. I'm not planning on watercooling any vga card in the future on the bench since it's harder to swap cards later on.

I still need to clean some stuff up to be absolutely sure that there is no residue left like in the cpu block and the res. because I encountered that some of his fittings were a little bit corroded :s So yeah..you can never be sure enough.
I don't have any pictures yet but as soon as I've got some, I'll be posting them here a.s.a.p. :)


Stay tuned for moar :D.

 
 

[Jan.B]

Well I did not have a lot of time the past days since I started hitting the Gym again, but I WILL make work of it this weekend since I got no plans what so ever (since most of my buds and my gf are studying for the endterms..).
I do have a what-to-do list for this weekend though:
- cleaning ALL the wc-components _(°o°)/ (and it's an acrylic res..I know I should use warm/hot water but do any of you have other good suggestions? - does tabwater affect my rad?)
- testfitting stuff
- taking pictures and posting em here :p
The build could eventualy be completed this weekend since it's mainly the cpu I'll be cooling, but it depends on how long the cleaning would take and how I could mount the reservoir (need to be able to do something so that it should be easy to drain :) )

I Hope you guys have some patience :D
Stay tuned for moar!


 

[Jan.B]

PICTURE TIME !!

not a whole lot but it's a start, I guess I won't be able to finish it this weekend since i don't have the right equipement anywhere to clean the cpu block ( no ketchup to be found and the lemonjuice is gone so yeah..)

These following pictures show you a part of the cleaningprocess, I hope I can begin assembling soon but since there are no stores open on a Sunday, I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get the stuff I need :)
Anyway, here are some pictures, enjoy!







What the hell happened to this block I'll never know O.o





Well that's it for now, stay tuned for moar!

[ProGearUk]

That is one tarnished block you got right there. 

[Jan.B]

That is one tarnished block you got right there. 

indeed, I have no clue as how the previous owner got to this point but I will try to make it as clean as possible.

I'm not realy considering a new cpu-block unless it's realy necessary

[ProGearUk]

indeed, I have no clue as how the previous owner got to this point but I will try to make it as clean as possible.

I'm not realy considering a new cpu-block unless it's realy necessary

Good Idea try and get access to a buffing machine of some sort and get that back to its original luster. Also he may have just had it laying around in the air causing it to tarnish or he may of got water on it who knows. 

[Jan.B]

Good Idea try and get access to a buffing machine of some sort and get that back to its original luster. Also he may have just had it laying around in the air causing it to tarnish or he may of got water on it who knows. 

good thinking right there, well since i work in my dad's garage there has to be something i could use to clean it up perfectly :) No idea how he got it to this sort of state but that's not going to help me any further atm :p Still a work in progress and I will post the log on how i cleaned it ofc.