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RainColt
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This is a build I've been planning ever since I saw @Slick oil cooled rig... Well actually it was ever since I showed my brother his oil cooled rig and he mistook it for water and thought that it would be cool if fish were in it so I figured why not do it with water.

Yes I understand that water is conductive, I'm not stupid enough to actually mix them and I'll be doing a One year trial and leak test with my old am2+ board before I allow myself to think about building a true gaming rig in it
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Specs:
MoBo - Asus m5a97 R2.0
CPU - amd fx 6300
Ram - 8gb Corsair Vengeance Lp white
PSU - 600W OCZ ModXtream pro
GPU - -still pending-
Case - Aqueon 29 deluxe


(Build= CANCELED )
There are more pictures in the log but this pretty quickly summarizes it's progress.


Sizing and shaping.
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Laying a bead and leak testing.
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It leaks.
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Re-did the silicon, now it doesn't leak.
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Big jump from no longer leaking to having fish and built a mother board tray.
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Fish died but unrelated, I now have a centre peice and I figure out the best way to mount my mother board.
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It fits.
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White Noctuas are super sexy.
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I am not an artist and don't worry this is the only reference to the source material I have planned for this build.
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The motherboard in the picture is a board that came dead that I replaced and have been meaning to rma but am using for sizing

Why do you always die right after I fix you?

 

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The water might become too hot for your average fish to live, not to mention the heatsink fan and GPU fans.

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 500GB Crucial P3 Plus, 4TB Silicon Power UD90 | GPU: AsRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Steel Legend | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Corsair SF850

Main Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 | Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair VII Hero WiFi | Storage: 512GB SKHynix NVMe | GPUs: NVIDIA TITAN Xp 2-way SLI | Cooling: Thermalright Frozen Prism 360mm | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM850

File and Media Server (AOOSTAR WTR Pro): CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5825U | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Silicon Power DDR4-3200 SODIMMs | Storage: 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x14TB Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530

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The water might become too hot for your average fish to live, not to mention the heatsink fan and GPU fans.

Exactly, it's going to be water cooled and the radiator is going to be in the fish tank taking the place of the 100W water heater and I'm drilling a hole for the psu fan intake which will exhaust into the tank and be exhausted out with a blower style gpu

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Exactly, it's going to be water cooled and the radiator is going to be in the fish tank taking the place of the 100W water heater and I'm drilling a hole for the psu fan intake which will exhaust into the tank and be exhausted out with a blower style gpu

I am a little confused.

 

There will be a WC loop, but it will be submerged in oil? Or water? Tell me I am missing something here.

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 500GB Crucial P3 Plus, 4TB Silicon Power UD90 | GPU: AsRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Steel Legend | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Corsair SF850

Main Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 | Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair VII Hero WiFi | Storage: 512GB SKHynix NVMe | GPUs: NVIDIA TITAN Xp 2-way SLI | Cooling: Thermalright Frozen Prism 360mm | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM850

File and Media Server (AOOSTAR WTR Pro): CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5825U | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Silicon Power DDR4-3200 SODIMMs | Storage: 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x14TB Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530

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in water

Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification.

Main Rig: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) KLEVV CRAS XR RGB DDR4-3600 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX | Storage: 500GB Crucial P3 Plus, 4TB Silicon Power UD90 | GPU: AsRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Steel Legend | Cooling: ThermalTake Floe 280mm w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 3 | Case: Sliger SM580 (Black) | PSU: Corsair SF850

Main Server: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 | Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair VII Hero WiFi | Storage: 512GB SKHynix NVMe | GPUs: NVIDIA TITAN Xp 2-way SLI | Cooling: Thermalright Frozen Prism 360mm | Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow (White) | PSU: Seasonic Focus GM850

File and Media Server (AOOSTAR WTR Pro): CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5825U | RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Silicon Power DDR4-3200 SODIMMs | Storage: 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, 2x14TB Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530

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Now I skipped taking pictures of how to bend the acrylic because cutting it was an absolute pain in the ass, and I was absolutist exhausted, it looks so easy in the youtube videos but I finally got a cut that was acceptable and i simply measured the length that I needed and clamped it down on an edge and licked it with a torch until it bent, this was the easy part because I've done a few builds where I bent acrylic before.

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So this is where I'm at right now, I have it set in the fish tank with the silicone drying, I have a feeling that this first attempt is going to fail due to te shape I chose so I fully expect to have to pull it out and bin it. I was thinking about how to tightly and functionally cram all the parts into the enclosure in a way what fish could swim in from of it and this is what I got.

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The PSU side is 4.5 inches wide ID and 11 inches to the motherboard
The GPU will have to be mounted sideways and block all but one of the other PCI slots. I made a mistake here and made this one only 4inches wide and 13inches long but I suspect that this was simply where the width of the acrylic took it's share and I didn't account for it but there is still enough room for a dual slot reference card between the wall and the ram so I don't have any worries about clearance.

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I had this idea just a few days ago.. @Ivyk

 

Excited!

 

Can't wait to see the final result!

Current rig: CPU: AMD FX-8120  Cooling: Corsair H100i  Mobo: ASRock 970 Extreme 3  RAM: 8GB 1333Mhz  GPU: MSI GTX 660Ti Power Edition  Case: Fractal Design Define R4  Storage: 2TB Seagate HDD + 128GB Crucial SSD  PSU: be quiet! 730W bronze

 

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This sounds a bit crazy but I like that. I wouldn't think you will have too much trouble with the water if you seal it correctly. Keep going!

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This sounds a bit crazy but I like that. I wouldn't think you will have too much trouble with the water if you seal it correctly. Keep going!

I'm worried about the heat of the system melting the silicon so if it doesn't seal i'm going to tear out two of the side windows and replace them with acrylic and chemically bond the sides and then silicon just as a added precaution

 

A one year trial? Thats one long time...

If I end up chemically binding the enclosure to acrylic walls I wont bother with a burn in period because it will essentially be one piece of acrylic

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Alright leak test take 2 has been running for the duration of the WAN show, and honestly it's pretty cool, at first glance my heart sometimes sinks to my stomach because It looks like it has leaked into the dry enclosure but it hasn't, the site isn't letting me post pictures but I will as soon as possible.

 

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i'm feeling pretty confident in this seal, I know it's messy, I over did it on the silicon this time but i'll just put a plant infront of the edge so no one will know. Also it doesn't leak and that's more important to me.

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At this point the idea of doing a half and half has hit me, what if I where to fill the computer dry enclosure with mineral oil and do passive cooling on a entry level gaming rig like an i3 with a 7770

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I've decided to route my cables up and out instead of cutting the glass because I cant find any where if it is tempered or not, it probably isn't but I dont feel like risking it also if the seal ever starts to leak and I'm not here to catch it, I don't really want to be mopping it up

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I've decided to route my cables up and out instead of cutting the glass because I cant find any where if it is tempered or not, it probably isn't but I dont feel like risking it also if the seal ever starts to leak and I'm not here to catch it, I don't really want to be mopping it up

nice!!

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