The Water Cooling Gallery

[MaratM]

i5 9400f

asus z170i pro gaming with a z270i waterblock

Sapphire vega 56 pulse with Bykski waterblock

16 GB Corsair vengeance RGB RAM

A custom made aluminium copy of Motif Monument

240 Barrow rad 60mm thick+2 noctua NF-A12x25

Soft tubing

[Zando_]

Oho I don't think I slapped my (sadly not the greatest) pics and info on my latest rebuild in here yet:

 

i7 5960X - 4.7Ghz/3.7Ghz 1.3v/1.1v core/uncore

32GB (4x8GB) HyperX Predator DDR4, running at XMP which is (IIRC) 3200Mhz 16-18-18-36
EVGA X99 Classified

AMD Radeon VII
Samsung 1TB 970 Evo in an ASUS Hyper M.2 card

Corsair RM1000i

Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX TG

Loop is:

2x Hardware Labs 360GTS rads

Watercool Heatkiller IV Pro Acetal CPU block
EKWB Radeon VII RGB Acetal GPU block

EKWB D5 pump/res combo

EKWB ZMT soft tubing, EKWB stubbies with zip ties, various other EKWB fittings and a Bitspower or two

6x Noctua iPPC NF-F12 2000s on a Phanteks hub

 

 

 

Did my best on line routing and cable management, came out the cleanest it's ever been 

 

11 minutes ago, MaratM said:

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i5 9400f

asus z170i pro gaming with a z270i waterblock

Sapphire vega 56 pulse with Bykski waterblock

16 GB Corsair vengeance RGB RAM

A custom made aluminium copy of Motif Monument

240 Barrow rad 60mm thick+2 noctua NF-A12x25

Soft tubing

Ooooooooo that's nice! Is the rad on the back of the PC? I assume you have a pump hidden back there too? Tis quite a clean rig, noice tiny footprint too. 

[MaratM]

4 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Ooooooooo that's nice! Is the rad on the back of the PC? I assume you have a pump hidden back there too? Tis quite a clean rig, noice tiny footprint too. 

 

Yes it is at the back and the chinese aliexpress pump it there too, no reservoir

the fans are controlled by poweradjust2 based on the water temp

[kla3]

Build i did for a friend some time ago!
 

CPU: 8600k
GPU: EVGA 1080ti
RAM: 32gb Corsair Vengance 3200mhz

PSU: FSP1200w

2 x EK SE 360mm rads

[Beloit911]

On 1/4/2013 at 6:55 AM, virusal19 said:

Show off all your Custom Water Cooling Rigs!

(please specify specs and show pictures.)

Soft tube single loop kit from EKWB on a GTX 1080ti 2.090GHz stable, and an 8700k with a custom all copper IHS hand lapped and applied with liquid metal underneath and Kryonaut on top holding 5.2GHz stable. No AVX offset (Forget the voltage atm)What a fun build!

 

MOBO is an Asus ROG MAXIMUS X Hero

 

RAM is 4x8GB of Corsair vengeance LPX 3200 DDR4 running at 3600MHz (I don't know how to do RAM timings yet...)

 

PSU is a Corsair RM850x

 

Case is a Corsair Crystal 460x

Edited January 16, 2020 by Beloit911
More crappy pics... haha

[MaratM]

9 hours ago, Beloit911 said:

and an 8700k with a custom all copper IHS hand lapped and applied with liquid metal underneath

liquid metal does not work well with bare copper. it is better to use stock (nickel plated) IHS

[kla3]

8 hours ago, MaratM said:

liquid metal does not work well with bare copper

Ive used that for 2 years now, never had any issues!

Issues can come if you dont seal the lid back on, since the CPU gets hot and cold all the time it draws tiny bits of moisture in, and that makes the LM "Corrode" the copper, but other than that, no problem doing it like he is doing!

 

EDIT: Gallium, which is a "ingredient" in LM, is actually made of small amounts of copper, and the same mix is used alot on solarcells, so, its not the copper`s fault, its moisture!

[Neggy-Z]

9 hours ago, MaratM said:

liquid metal does not work well with bare copper. it is better to use stock (nickel plated) IHS

It's fine to use if you don't mind the copper staining and replacing the LM more often, the copper will slowly absorb some of the LM and it will even eventually go hard.

I used LM on my laptops heatsinks for the CPU/GPU for ~3.5 years, the LM had gone solid but was still performing about as good as the Kryonaut i replaced it with.

[Jsunn]

On 1/17/2020 at 9:55 AM, Neggy-Z said:

It's fine to use if you don't mind the copper staining and replacing the LM more often, the copper will slowly absorb some of the LM and it will even eventually go hard.

I used LM on my laptops heatsinks for the CPU/GPU for ~3.5 years, the LM had gone solid but was still performing about as good as the Kryonaut i replaced it with.

This is exactly what happened to my set up. It impacted my temps. i wouldn't recommend bare copper with LM.

The tweet is on the bare copper IHS, but it also absorbed into the IHS between the die as well. When i pulled off the IHS the LM was dry and crusty between the IHS and die.  

 

[Neggy-Z]

47 minutes ago, Jsunn said:

This is exactly what happened to my set up. It impacted my temps. i wouldn't recommend bare copper with LM.

The tweet is on the bare copper IHS, but it also absorbed into the IHS between the die as well. When i pulled off the IHS the LM was dry and crusty between the IHS and die. 

Copper absorbs the LM, that's pretty normal, that's why it's recommended to use nickel plated copper.

I had to clean my heatsink with a utility blade and some scotch brite with alcohol, apart from the staining of the copper it's all good to go, it doesn't effect thermal performance in any meaningful way.

The original LM i used was Coollaboratory Liquid Pro, I'll give Conductonaut a go once i can be bothered pulling my laptop apart again.

[Jsunn]

22 hours ago, Neggy-Z said:

Copper absorbs the LM, that's pretty normal, that's why it's recommended to use nickel plated copper.

I had to clean my heatsink with a utility blade and some scotch brite with alcohol, apart from the staining of the copper it's all good to go, it doesn't effect thermal performance in any meaningful way.

The original LM i used was Coollaboratory Liquid Pro, I'll give Conductonaut a go once i can be bothered pulling my laptop apart again.

When I first put LM on the pure copper IHS, I hadn't read about LM "drying out" so I was a little surprised to see what happened. 

I did absolutely see a negative impact to my temps, my situation may be rare, but the increase in temps is what caused me to completely disassemble my loop to find the pics above. 

I think the combination between the IHS and the cold plate on my CPU block, and also between the die and the IHS caused my temps to increase by almost 10 deg C. 

I removed the IHS, put on the stock delidded IHS and my temps went back to a chilly 40 deg C during gaming.    

[MaratM]

The project is finished, so I decided to post some pictures here

 

[Beloit911]

On 1/20/2020 at 8:03 AM, Jsunn said:

When I first put LM on the pure copper IHS, I hadn't read about LM "drying out" so I was a little surprised to see what happened. 

I did absolutely see a negative impact to my temps, my situation may be rare, but the increase in temps is what caused me to completely disassemble my loop to find the pics above. 

I think the combination between the IHS and the cold plate on my CPU block, and also between the die and the IHS caused my temps to increase by almost 10 deg C. 

I removed the IHS, put on the stock delidded IHS and my temps went back to a chilly 40 deg C during gaming.    

I have taken good care of her and kept fresh LM on it. No issues with temps at all and I run the ole bird HARD. 5.2GHz allcore with no AVX offset and temps during my premier renders are in the high 50s low 60s. I'd say she's doing fine. I do appreciate the advice and warnings though. But I did my research well in advance of this project as it was my first build. To be fair

[Tonberry]

Pardon my poor photos & lighting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Beerzerker]

This is something I created a few years ago as a project and made a vid to show it, hosted on my personal channel.

 

No, it's not pretty at all (Was never meant to be) and will need to be rebuilt from scratch at some point but it does work at least. It does give good thermals even with a hotter running chip such as an FX-9590, this run done as a test of it in late August of that year: https://hwbot.org/submission/3630071_bones_hwbot_x265_benchmark___1080p_fx_9590_22.52_fps

 

I will use what I've learned from this one and apply to the next unit I build.

 

[Mick Naughty]

Finally took the grinder to one of my 540’s and make a hole for another 280 rad. Been wanting to do this for years but wanted another case first. Worked out well without me needing to make a false floor with abs which was the original plan. 
Contemplating doing it to the other rig. 
Also waiting on the new custom price of tempered glass to replace the aged acrylic.  

[Tonberry]

17 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

Cool and simple looking loop.

And that is such a tech savvy cat!

[Jamos169]

On 2/1/2020 at 12:24 AM, Sakaki_Makio said:

Pardon my poor photos & lighting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This looks amazing! where is the Pump though?

[Tonberry]

23 minutes ago, Jamos169 said:

This looks amazing! where is the Pump though?

Thanks, man.

And here's the pump hiding,

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, Sakaki_Makio said:

Thanks, man.

And here's the pump hiding,

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And goddamn that's a gorgeously clean build

[Owen Chief]

 

 

Witcher keycap finally came yesterday to complete the rig lol

 

[Prairiemedic]

CPU: 3950x

GPU: 5700xt liquid devil

Mobo: ASRock X570 Aqua #915

RAM: Trident Neo 3600mhz

NVMe: Samsung 970 Evo 500gig

SSD: 3 tforce RGB 1TB ssd's

Pump: EK kinetic RGB D5

Radiators: 2 360x30mm and 1 420x30mm

 

It's my very first hard tubing build. All blue acrylic tubing at 16mm od. I'm terrible at bends hence the 90 degree adapters. 

[Ravendarat]

1 hour ago, Prairiemedic said:

CPU: 3950x

GPU: 5700xt liquid devil

Mobo: ASRock X570 Aqua #915

RAM: Trident Neo 3600mhz

NVMe: Samsung 970 Evo 500gig

SSD: 3 tforce RGB 1TB ssd's

Pump: EK kinetic RGB D5

Radiators: 2 360x30mm and 1 420x30mm

 

I wanted that board real bad when I first saw it. No one had it locally though and I doubt I could find one now.

[Alphabear1978]

On the bottom we have my work rig 1 (teaching, research, writing papers,...) : 

• Intel 9900k (Overclocked to 5.0 Ghz on all cores)
• Asrock Z390 Phantom Gaming ITX/AC
• 16 GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3600 
• EK Waterblock for Intel CPU's
• AMD RX 5700 with Corsair XG7
• Corsair XD5 (Reservoir and pump)
• Corsair XR7 240 Rad
• Samsung 970 EVO 500GB

On the top we have my work rig 2 (data science, virtualization, gaming):

• AMD Ryzen 3950X 
• MSI MEG X570 ACE
•  32 GB of Ballistix Sport LT DDR4-3200 (overclocked to 3600Ghz)
• NZXT Krakken Z63
• Gigabyte Aorus Geforce RTX 2080 XTREME WATERFORCE
• Corsair XD5 (Reservoir and pump)
• EK CoolStream PE 360
• Samsung 970 EVO 500GB
• Samsung 860 EVO 1TB

To power the systems: Phanteks Revolt X 1200W Platinum

To cool the systems: 5 Corsair LL120 RGB + 3 NZXT Aer RGB 120mm + 2 NZXT Aer RGB 140mm

[Knuxz]

Copied and pasted the specs from Instagram so I didn't have to type it again. Wiring isn't completed at this time. Hooked it up quick to run some benchmarks and ensure everything was working properly. Thanks all! 

 

First time poster, long time LTT fan. 

 

Hardware:
- @amd Ryzen 3950x
- @asrock_official x570 Aqua
- @hyperx Predator 32 GB 3600 CL17
- @asus @rog_na Strix 2080 Ti OC Edition (x2)
- ASUS ROG 3 Slot Bridge
- @teamevga 1300 G2+ PSU
- @kingstontechnology KC2000 NVMe 1 TB (x2)
- Kingston UV500 SSD 2 TB (x3 in raid0)
- @phanteks Enthoo 719
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Watercooling:
- @ekwaterblocks FLT 360 Pump/Res
- EKWB Quantum Strix DRGB Blocks (x2)
- EKWB Nickel Backplates
- EKWB Torque Fittings, Nickel
- EKWB 360mm Radiator SE
- EKWB 360mm Radiator XE
- EKWB 480mm Radiator SE
- EKWB Electric Purple Cryofuel - 16mm OD Hard Tubing PETG
- @noctua_at Chromax NF F12 (x10)
- Noctua Chromax NF F12 IPPC 3000rpm (x3)
- Noctua Chromax NF A14