The Water Cooling Gallery

[Sazexa]

30 minutes ago, Darkmatter35 said:

That NCase build looks like it was super fun the build. How bad is it on terms of maintenance? do you have to work some risky water cooling magic ? 

The case wasn't terrible. Since I used QDC's. That made it much easier. Ultimate, my components were, or rather would have been, too hot. The NCase was a system I had with plans to upgrade it. I used an old 980, and bought the i7-5820K in anticipation of the 6950X. I also had plans to put the new Titan X(P) in there. On liquid, at stock clocks, the CPU got up to around 60°, and the GPU got to around 55°. I wanted to run the 6950X at at least 4.0GHz, and possibly OC the Titan X. And while I probably could have kept those components cool with just a 240 rad, the motherboard would reach around 65°C from heatsoak, as well as the HDD reaching like 65°C, and once almost 70°C.

 

If I had used maybe a large capacity NVMe or multiple SSD's, and had a monoblock, perhaps it would have sufficed.

 

Currently the case has my girlfriend's build in it, which is an i3-6100, and the GTX 980. The 980 loads up to around 70°C and the CPU stays under 55° with a Noctua NH-L9i cooler.

[Psittac]

On ‎11‎/‎18‎/‎2016 at 7:32 AM, Mick Naughty said:

That would be based off 100 different variables. But that is what I hear. These fans are quiet, even at max if 1200. So that's where they run while gaming. Pump is on number 2 out of 5. 

Not an expert or trying to troll...... but from the look's of it your loop doesn't go through each item equally.  IE: the water has 3 option's none of which are mandatory.  It can go through either card or neither and only go through the cpu block.

[Psittac]

On ‎11‎/‎18‎/‎2016 at 0:35 PM, Jumper118 said:

but when you use cable ties and soft tubing surly you care more about $/performance than the looks?

Those don't look like cable ties, look like legit clamps, which is what you'd use on barbs.

[Mick Naughty]

Just now, Psittac said:

Not an expert or trying to troll...... but from the look's of it your loop doesn't go through each item equally.  IE: the water has 3 option's none of which are mandatory.  It can go through either card or neither and only go through the cpu block.

Or each of them get a third of the flow, which is why I used 1/2" tubing.

[Mick Naughty]

Just now, Psittac said:

Those don't look like cable ties, look like legit clamps, which is what you'd use on barbs.

I only have 4 clamps. Everything else is zip tied on both rigs.

[Psittac]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

Or each of them get a third of the flow, which is why I used 1/2" tubing.

ok, I don't know what to think of it but apparently it works.  Not gonna troll

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, Psittac said:

ok, I don't know what to think of it but apparently it works.  Not gonna troll

It works. singularity computers builds all his like that. Also so does jays2cents. I don't prefer it over anything but its looks better and is easier to build.

[Psittac]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

It works. singularity computers builds all his like that. Also so does jays2cents. I don't prefer it over anything but its looks better and is easier to build.

huh, ok.  Guess I never noticed.  Still doesn't make sense to me

[0ld_Chicken]

It will provide LESS flow to certain components depending on the restriction of each component.  That doesn't mean that it will necessarily lower the flow enough to change temps even.   If you used extremely restrictive GPU blocks like Alphacool gpx with a low restriction cpu block like a raystorm then you will get some temp issues.   EK's EVO/MX and the 9-series GPU blocks were both around .7psi at 1GPM so running parallel is really no issue at all  (edit: i dont think he had 9-series, but i'd bet they're within .1psi of eachother both being EK)

@Mick Naughty @Psittac

 

edit: actually MX is higher psi that EVO, my bad

[JDMFTW]

figure id throw in 

Define S
FX8350 @5.1ghz 
Gigabyte 990FX UD3 
16GB PNY 1600 
2 PNY 240GB SSD raid 0 
GTX 1070 overclocked (To what everyone else has there 10X0 cards at CURSE YOU HARDWARE TDP!!)


EK 360 rad 
EK 240 Rad 
EK CPU waterblock 
EK 1070 GOU block 
EK Back plate (Nickel plated)
EK DDC pump with 100mm res


NZXT  Hue+
NZXT Grid+
 
 

[Mick Naughty]

17 minutes ago, JDMFTW said:

figure id throw in 

Define S
FX8350 @5.1ghz 
Gigabyte 990FX UD3 
16GB PNY 1600 
2 PNY 240GB SSD raid 0 
GTX 1070 overclocked (To what everyone else has there 10X0 cards at CURSE YOU HARDWARE TDP!!)


EK 360 rad 
EK 240 Rad 
EK CPU waterblock 
EK 1070 GOU block 
EK Back plate (Nickel plated)
EK DDC pump with 100mm res


NZXT  Hue+
NZXT Grid+
 
 

I think I seen someone get two 360's on one of those. Really thinking of trying one. 

 

I do love the hoses and fitting. Gotta get some for one of my rigs. 

 

Were the holes already there for the pump?

[JDMFTW]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

I think I seen someone get two 360's on one of those. Really thinking of trying one. 

 

I do love the hoses and fitting. Gotta get some for one of my rigs. 

 

Were the holes already there for the pump?

yes sir has a set of slotted holes to accept a few pump designs. 

Yea you can cram 2 360s in here if you run slim rads with a set of 90* fittings. I opted for a the middle ground 240 to avoid lots of swearing when trying to get the hose clamped down.

[Mick Naughty]

5 minutes ago, JDMFTW said:

yes sir has a set of slotted holes to accept a few pump designs. 

Yea you can cram 2 360s in here if you run slim rads with a set of 90* fittings. I opted for a the middle ground 240 to avoid lots of swearing when trying to get the hose clamped down.

I'm sure that's plenty. Love the lighting too, really need to get into that at some point. 

[JDMFTW]

2 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

I'm sure that's plenty. Love the lighting too, really need to get into that at some point. 

Yea like it so far had a few issues at first turned out to be windows lol..

Temps are good even with the AMD space heater. waiting for zen to come out to see if i should jump to intel or new zen.

[SmashinMachine]

Hi

I want to represent my Revision 3 Custom Loop of my Mastercase  Maker 5 

I used UV leds and uv clear coolant this time.

 

HW Labs 480mm Radiator

HW Labs 280mm Radiator

D5 Dual Pump in Series

EKWB CPU, GPU, RAM Waterblocks

i7 6700k

gtx 1080

32Gb Ram 

5xNoctua NF-A14 PWM Fans

 

There is a few rest of orange pastel coolant, have to flush the loop again....  

Cheers

[Lays]

Semi completed build

 

 

[KWelz]

1 hour ago, Lays said:

Semi completed build

 

 

Very nice.   

Have you thought about using Hard line tubing inside and then bulkheads to transition to flexible tubing outside the case?

[JDMFTW]

1 minute ago, KWelz said:

Very nice.   

Have you thought about using Hard line tubing inside and then bulkheads to transition to flexible tubing outside the case?

That would be cool 

[Lays]

1 minute ago, KWelz said:

Very nice.   

Have you thought about using Hard line tubing inside and then bulkheads to transition to flexible tubing outside the case?

Thought about it, but then I'd still have to deal with soft tubing "woes", maintenance of my loop right now is stupid easy due to just being able to move crap wherever I need, I like the convenience.

 

I may be buying a 1/2 horsepower chiller soon, so I may be changing stuff around again.

[JDMFTW]

2 minutes ago, Lays said:

Thought about it, but then I'd still have to deal with soft tubing "woes", maintenance of my loop right now is stupid easy due to just being able to move crap wherever I need, I like the convenience.

 

I may be buying a 1/2 horsepower chiller soon, so I may be changing stuff around again.

Chiller will def takes the temps down. What are your temps like now?

[Lays]

Just now, JDMFTW said:

Chiller will def takes the temps down. What are your temps like now?

CPU @ 5ghz is in the 40-55 range in gaming situations, cinebench r15 is like ~55-60, prime95 65-70.

GPU usually around 35, give or take a few degrees depending on room temp ofc.

[JDMFTW]

1 minute ago, Lays said:

CPU @ 5ghz is in the 40-55 range in gaming situations, cinebench r15 is like ~55-60, prime95 65-70.

GPU usually around 35, give or take a few degrees depending on room temp ofc.

Thats not too bad. Im assuming its with fans low?

Go for cold! lol 

[Lays]

2 minutes ago, JDMFTW said:

Thats not too bad. Im assuming its with fans low?

Go for cold! lol 

That's with fans at like 50%, so ~1000 rpm-ish. 

 

If I leave fans at 30% which is where I usually leave em, temps go up a few degrees on cpu & gpu, but it's silent then.  50% fan speed just has a small bit of "woosh" noise.
The chiller I want goes down to 4c, so those load temps could be in the 15-20c range for gpu and in the 30's for the CPU.

I may be buying a binned 7700k off siliconlottery since I have a partnership with him, and trying to see if I can't have a 5.3 ghz daily chip with the chiller.

[JDMFTW]

1 minute ago, Lays said:

That's with fans at like 50%, so ~1000 rpm-ish. 

 

If I leave fans at 30% which is where I usually leave em, temps go up a few degrees on cpu & gpu, but it's silent then.  50% fan speed just has a small bit of "woosh" noise.
The chiller I want goes down to 4c, so those load temps could be in the 15-20c range for gpu and in the 30's for the CPU.

 

I may be buying a binned 7700k off siliconlottery since I have a partnership with him, and trying to see if I can't have a 5.3 ghz daily chip with the chiller.

That would be cool I don't know what it is about 5Ghz but its just a good sounding number to be at lmao 

[Jumper118]

1 hour ago, Lays said:

Thought about it, but then I'd still have to deal with soft tubing "woes", maintenance of my loop right now is stupid easy due to just being able to move crap wherever I need, I like the convenience.

 

I may be buying a 1/2 horsepower chiller soon, so I may be changing stuff around again.

i think you need a bigger rad.  are you going to use the chiller instead of or as well as the rad?