The Water Cooling Gallery

[MakubeX]

Small update. Added another quick disconnect at the pump outlet and temp sensors (one after the pump and one after the CPU)

[Noctua Fan Fan]

My first ever custom loop!

 

• ·         Ryzen 7 2700X (Oc’d at 4.15Ghz on all cores)
• ·         16GB Corsair Vengence Pro RGB RAM (OC’d at 3533) (2 x pilot units for RGB)
• ·         Asus ROG Strix X370-Gaming motherboard
• ·         Nvidia RTX 2070 Super (Oc’d to 2100mhz under load)
• ·         Corsair Hydro X XC7 Waterblock
• ·         Corsair Hydro X 360mm (60mm thick) radiator
• ·         Corsair Hydro X XD5 pump/res
• ·         Cosair’s black compression fittings
• ·         9 x Noctua fan (3x airflow, 3x static pressure, 3 x hybrid)
• ·         M.2, SSD and HDD for storage.
• ·         Noctua anti-vibration case mounts
• ·         Lian-Li O-11 Dynamic

Replaced the screws on the Phantek's vertical gpu bracket to some cool ones I found on an aliexpress kinda site for cheap.

 

I welcome criticism and review!

[SortOfGrim]

My Streacom BC1 test bench with the 4790k & GTX980. I didn't have the original gpu cooler so this was the only option. 

 

Edit: Version 2.

Turned out the above setup wasn't cool enough for both the gpu & cpu. So for ease I went with one part water cooled and one part air cooled. This way I can change the mobo yet keep the gpu.

[HM-2]

Work in progress...

 

 

 

[Danioki]

 

a little video i did of my system finished, after almost 9 months

 

[bling]

2020 loop update (more info in the build log)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[apathetic_vaporeon]

Evangelion themed build. The images on the glass are permanent chemical etching that I did myself. 

 

Specs:

CPU - Ryzen 3700x

GPU - EVGA 2080 Super Hydrocopper

RAM: 32gb GSKILL Royal 3600Mhz

Mobo: MSI b550

Case: Nzxt 510 Elite

Storage: 2Tb m.2 ssd, 10Tb HDD

 

[r.perez]

Anxiously awaiting for Ryzen 5xxx and new gpu.

 

[DefensivePepe]

Such a nice night for some project finishing.

 

 

[Clintjeh]

My very first try in custom watercooling

I think for my first try it has worked out great, what do you guys think? i'm open to improvements.

CPU block is not connected with RGB because i have no more headers

Im still playing with the colors of light i want in my setup

 

Specs:

Ryzen 7 3700X

RTX3080 TUF OC

Gigabyte B550 Vision D

32GB Dominator platinum RGB 3200Mhz

2x 1TB Samsung 970 NVME

1TB Samsung 850 evo Sata SSD

Lian-Li PC-O11 XL white

Corsair RM750 With white cable kit

6x Corsair LL120 white fans on a commander pro

 

Watercooling specs

2x EKWB 360mm PE rad

EKWB Quantum Velocity acetal rgb AM4 block

EKWB actetal rgb 3080/3090 waterblock

Lian-Li/EKWB distroplate g1 with DDC pump

16mm od hardline PETG tubing

16x EKWB Quantum torque hardline fittings

4x 90 degree rotary

2x extender 50mm

 

 

 

 

 

[Dober83]

Corsair 1000D half done

 

 

[im4gine3]

My current rig which has recently been overhauled from a Corsair 750D. This will be used as my VR rig while I have another rig in the works for 2021.

 

Specs:

Intel i7 4770K @ 4.6Ghz (Delid direct die cooling with LM)

32Gb Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz Memory

Asus Maximus VI Formula

EVGA GTX1080

Corsair SF750

Corsair MP510 960Gb m.2

2x Samsung 970 Evo 2Tb

Jonsbo UMX4 case

 

Cooling:

EK Supremacy Acetal CPU Waterblock

EK GTX1080 GPU Waterblock

EK MF Chipset block

EK 140CSQ D5 Pump/Res combo

XSPC TX240Radiator

Alphacool ST30 Radiator

2x Noctua A12x15 Fans

3x Arctic PST P12 PWM Fans

BarrowCH Multimode

BitsPower EML hardline fittings and 16mm Crystal Link Tubing

[iCrap]

Here is my new build completed: I ended up adding a separate, external cooling loop which runs through the wall and sits in the next room over, reason for this was my computer room was just getting way too hot compared to the rest of the house.

 

Specs:

5900x

EVGA 3080 XC3

32GB Corsair DDR4 RGB

Asus TUF B550 MATX

 

Cooling

2x Black Ice GTS 240 (internal)

2x Noctua NF-A12x15 / 2x A12x25

Phanteks Glacier R160

EK Velocity CPU Block

EK FC 3080

 

The external loop has: D5, 2x 360 rad, 1x 240 rad and is on quick disconnects so I can easily remove it and still run the system without it. With everything installed its a totally stealthy setup and you can't even see the tubes coming out of the PC. Ended up working better than I thought. 10c drop in the room temperature and over 20c drop in PC temps. Idle water temp is around 26-28c and load water temp maxes out at 32-33c.

 

 

 

[EvL1]

@iCrap - any chance you could detail the external box? Was it a hard/difficult project to get sorted? What custom parts did you have to build/use? I'm thinking of doing one myself since I hate the airflow for dual 360 in most cases and don't wanna endup doing another O11 build, currently using a Meshify S2 but thinking of going small case + external cooling

[iCrap]

3 hours ago, EvL1 said:

@iCrap - any chance you could detail the external box? Was it a hard/difficult project to get sorted? What custom parts did you have to build/use? I'm thinking of doing one myself since I hate the airflow for dual 360 in most cases and don't wanna endup doing another O11 build, currently using a Meshify S2 but thinking of going small case + external cooling

Yeah, sure. I made it from 2020 Aluminum Extrusion rails and it's sized to fit 4 360s total, all with intake facing in and a large top exhaust to get the heat out the top. The brackets are all 3D printed for the rads and stuff. You'll see a fan controller in the pics but i ended up not using it, i crimped a wire harness that you can see in one of the pics which connects back into the PC and powers all the fans and controls them based off the water temp inside the rad box.

 

I just used the rads I had sitting here already, but if i need to now it's sized for more. After using this though, I can tell you its already massive overkill the way it is. Water temp almost NEVER goes over 30c. (only after hours of stress tests). I don't have to even run any of the fans higher than like 40% either.

 

 

 

[For Science!]

1 minute ago, iCrap said:

Yeah, sure. I made it from 2020 Aluminum Extrusion rails and it's sized to fit 4 360s total, all with intake facing in and a large top exhaust to get the heat out the top. The brackets are all 3D printed for the rads and stuff. You'll see a fan controller in the pics but i ended up not using it, i crimped a wire harness that you can see in one of the pics which connects back into the PC and powers all the fans and controls them based off the water temp inside the rad box.

 

I just used the rads I had sitting here already, but if i need to now it's sized for more. After using this though, I can tell you its already massive overkill the way it is. Water temp almost NEVER goes over 30c. (only after hours of stress tests). I don't have to even run any of the fans higher than like 40% either.

 

 

How is the QDCs plumbed into the main system? can you run the loop with the QDCs loose or do you have to seal the ends with a short run to complete the run? I'm gussing at the moment you have males on one end and females on the other end, and so if you have male and female on each end, you could seal them up without the need for the orange run.

[iCrap]

Oh, no that orange run was just used to bleed the external system on it's own at first while filling it. It's not needed anymore.

 

The QDCs from the PC run to the secondary in/out ports on the phanteks reserviour, so if nothing is connected to them the system still functions standalone. Don't need to loop them at all to use the system by itself. Just unplug it and the interal system still works fine

 

You can see in this pic the orange run is not connected anymore, since its full and bled:

[For Science!]

3 hours ago, iCrap said:

Oh, no that orange run was just used to bleed the external system on it's own at first while filling it. It's not needed anymore.

 

The QDCs from the PC run to the secondary in/out ports on the phanteks reserviour, so if nothing is connected to them the system still functions standalone. Don't need to loop them at all to use the system by itself. Just unplug it and the interal system still works fine

 

You can see in this pic the orange run is not connected anymore, since its full and bled:

I see, so basically your external system operates by mixing in cold(er) water into the PC system's reservoir. I guess that works too!

[iCrap]

Yeah, essentially. That way I can still unplug it easily. And it seems to all mix in fairly well. The temp difference is usually about 2-3c between the temp sensor in the GPU block port, and the temp sensor in the external system's reservoir.

 

 

[PanagioPeren]

Here's my build 

[poop on my chest]

[Plermpel]

My dream build, after overpaing and waiting for moths for the parts, finally done. Build log maybe comming on youtube in a few days...

 

Video Build Montage:

 

https://builds.gg/builds/res-tless_gamingrig-30773

 

 

 

 

 

[Fast_N_Curious]

Here is my water cooled i5 9600KF rig. Usually above 5.1GHz due to juiced turbo

 

 

 

 

 

[Kevo05s]

First hard line build inside a mini itx PC, pretty happy with the results! This is not the final form, but the lack of availability for a GPU makes it very hard to complete. Case is very spacious for a mini itx case, and I loved every bits of it. Phanteks did a fantastic job building this case (it's a MetallicGear Neo Mini V2)!

[Enochian]