The Water Cooling Gallery

[SidneyDean]

Just now, SidneyDean said:

Scarlet red cryofuel

[SidneyDean]

Switched the fans to all intake and just found out i was monitoring cpu package temp instead of cpu core hence the higher readings.  

[Vousaty_Sensei]

Just finished my Meshlicious build

[Mister__E]

Super custom waterblock... hah!  plus towel, Even more custom... 77'c max default prime 95...poor... need to shave down some copper...

[Luggage]

Rebuilt my janky out-door radiator loop with D5s instead of DDC. Lost some flow but gained silence.

 

 

[Sir Beregond]

 

I did flip the bottom fans to be intakes in pull a day or two after taking this picture. And you better believe any RGB was turned off.

 

The Barrowch flow meter seems to be doing great reading coolant temps, but flow readings leave much to be desired and at some point this will be replaced by a proper Aquacomputer unit. I have an Octo mounted to the back as my fan controller and would be nice to get a proper flow reading that can feed data into Aquasuite.

[HaloJones]

As Linus has just credited Cathar for inventing the modern waterblock in his review of the laughable Fluix block, for the nerds amongst us this is what was so revolutionary about the LittleRiver White Water.

 

 

Note the "micro-channels", the central jet plate to induce turbulence, the central inlet with two side outlets. This one only serves as a paperweight these days but I can't bring myself to throw it away.

[Rivettz]

Its pretty cool to see the evolution of the water cooled computer. From the earlier days of GTX Series 6 Cards to now with the 30 Series. Still beautiful nonetheless these machines. My rig is still under construction I hope you all like it when its done.

[Mister__E]

Saw primochill's vue toxic candy and had an idea based on john carpenter's prince of darkness... Modified my thermatake case and made a distro plate behind the acrylic in the front to make my computer evil... attached some vids of the side and front when its on.

 

Specs; 5900x + 3090 vision oc, thermatake case AH600 case, primochill tubing, random corsair pump... custom distro plate made with Phrozen black rigid resin 5mm thickness and attached with a ton of epoxy

 

https://ibb.co/Hdw2DSN

[Ozmandias]

Here is my loop

There is a Lian Li gen 4 cable from vertical mount to the motherboard. Probanbly would not have made too much difference with a gen 3 but 'shrug' I have the thermal grizzly contact plate on the CPU with a thick EK mount plate on the back.

[Threadripper256]

This computer was previously a Digital Storm Velox. The case mounts the CPU upside-down. Waiting for AMD 7950 XTX to watercool the GPU. The radiator has multiple ports on its end tanks so no modification to the hard lines required when I upgrade. This was my first time with hard tubing.

 

[Rivettz]

I never actually Updated you guys on Marline. Both Loops are done* and here is the Final Result! I know that its on Carpet. Yes, it's Fine.

Door Closed

 

Door Open 

 

*This project is never finished. I have a few more things that I want to do to it. I see a Backplate, a Mid Cover Plate, and a Plate for the 5.25" Bay in her Future just to name a few. I ordered new PSU Extension cables that will fit the bill a little better than the Red and Grey ones do. I hope you enjoy the progress! Thank you for looking! 

All Tech Specs in my Forum Signature. 

[LinusFanNumber 14.8M]

On 1/4/2013 at 7:49 AM, LeeJC73 said:

At the minute it's running an i5 2500k at 4.7Ghz and a GTX 295 although i've got a 580 coming for it.

It's a CM690 II Advanced, Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 motherboard, 16Gb Corsair Vengeance Ram, a pair of intel 60Gb 330 SSD's in raid 0, 1Tb Seagate, AX 750 PSU, Gainward GTX295 shortly to be an EVGA 580.

Cooling consists of

2 x Laing DDC 1T+ 18 Watt

1 x Hardware Labs 30mm X-Flow radiator in the roof

1 x Phobya 60mm Radiator in the floor

XSPC Dual DDC Reservoir

Phobya UC1-LT CPU Waterblock

EK FC 295 GTX Single PCB Waterblock

4 x Scythe Gentle Typhoon Fans on radiators

1 x Silverstone Air Penetrator 120mm Red LED Fan front.

Lamptron FC 5 V2 Fan Controller

Cheers

Lee

 

On 1/4/2013 at 7:49 AM, LeeJC73 said:

At the minute it's running an i5 2500k at 4.7Ghz and a GTX 295 although i've got a 580 coming for it.

It's a CM690 II Advanced, Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3 motherboard, 16Gb Corsair Vengeance Ram, a pair of intel 60Gb 330 SSD's in raid 0, 1Tb Seagate, AX 750 PSU, Gainward GTX295 shortly to be an EVGA 580.

Cooling consists of

2 x Laing DDC 1T+ 18 Watt

1 x Hardware Labs 30mm X-Flow radiator in the roof

1 x Phobya 60mm Radiator in the floor

XSPC Dual DDC Reservoir

Phobya UC1-LT CPU Waterblock

EK FC 295 GTX Single PCB Waterblock

4 x Scythe Gentle Typhoon Fans on radiators

1 x Silverstone Air Penetrator 120mm Red LED Fan front.

Lamptron FC 5 V2 Fan Controller

Cheers

Lee

Damm I remember when that stuff was amazing,

[Threadripper256]

Re-did my setup to make room for a 4090, running a temp AMD 1 gig GPU -- waiting on a good deal.

 

 

 

[hammond995]

ancient 4770k on L2mesh

 

got upgraded to 13500 this week

[ChrisLoudon]

Look, it had a baby!

 

Just finished a Tower 100 and a 500 build. Shame I don't have space for the 900.

 

Barrow 3-in-1 helped keep the Tower 100 clean.

 

Sorry, not a fan or RGB.

 

 

 

[Mick Naughty]

It’s a shame when you scroll back just a few pages and see almost every rig having multiple cards.  Gone with the times it seems.

 

Grabbed some old parts, some new and remade my spare rig again. Currently my school computer and possibly work from home setup. 

[Rivettz]

18 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

It’s a shame when you scroll back just a few pages and see almost every rig having multiple cards.  Gone with the times it seems.

 

Grabbed some old parts, some new and remade my spare rig again. Currently my school computer and possibly work from home setup. 

"Just some spare parts." This guy building the Ultimate 2014 PC. Probably 6-7K when new. "Just slapped this together with some spare parts I had laying around." XD.

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, Rivettz said:

"Just some spare parts." This guy building the Ultimate 2014 PC. Probably 6-7K when new. "Just slapped this together with some spare parts I had laying around." XD.

Couldnt afford it then. Still can't. Wanting a gtx 690 or titan z, itx/matx rig. Maybe a media pc or something.

[DonQuichopp]

My first ever watercooling build, hard tubes bending was a nightmare, but the result is quite pleasing (to me newbie).

 

[ChrisLoudon]

Just finished a Hyte Y60 build. Pretty chuffed with how it looks.

Internals are pretty old with a 9900k, Z390 Meg, 32GB Ram and a 3080ti but I’ve managed to squeeze in a fair whack of cooling potential so this will definitely be home to whatever I go for next.

 

EK Quantum Surface S360 at the top with 3 x Artic P12s

EK Quantum Surface X240M at the side with 4 x Artic P12s (Push / Pull)

EK CoolStream SE 120 at the rear with 2 x Artic P12s (Push / Pull)

14mm Hardine and EK Torque Fittings + Corsair Hydro X XD5 Pump Res Combo

 

For anyone else thinking of the Hyte Y60, it’s been a joy to work with. No mods, no botch jobs and no Dremel which is always nice.

The only notes of caution will be, if you want to fit a 120 rad at the rear, you’ll need a Coolstream or similar if your mobo has a large rear IO shroud. If your mobo doesn’t or you can remove it, then a Quantum Surface might fit. You could also maybe get a thicker 120 in as well and retain a push / pull fan config but you might start to run into difficulty connecting on to your GPU then to the CPU.

The side rad could also be thicker if required but if you want a push / pull fan config, I wouldn’t recommend and you’d probably need to move the pump / res unit further the left and I think it would spoil the aesthetic.

Pump / Res unit screws nicely in from the underside as long as you have a set of longer M3 screws with some washers. You could also use a fan mount kit but I think it looks pretty cool at 45 degrees when floor mounted.

Drain valve location was the only real problem I encountered. Where it is at the moment looks good but when opened and air let into the system from the reservoir, only minimal coolant drained. After adding a block adapter to the GPU > 120 Rad section to allow me to connect a flexy hose so I can blow into it has solved.

 

[lonely_bull]

Intel 13900KS

asus z790 hero 

asus strix rog 4090

asus Thor platinum II 1200 watts psu

g.skills 16x2 6400 32c

WD SN850X 4TB

Cougar Cratus case

EK water blocks

EK rads 360 & 240 & 120

SC reservoir, pump combo

Be Quiet! 120mm Fans

[Vousaty_Sensei]

Little upgrade from 280 rad to two 480s 

 

 

 

 

[ChrisLoudon]

So, I still maintain the Tower 500 has to be one of the worst designed cases I've built in, BUT, I think I might have cracked it.

 

13600k - MSI Z790-A - 32GB - 1TB SSD - 4090 - Dual Loop - Lian-Li Uni Fans. 3 x Quantum Surface S120s - 1 x Quantum Surface P240 - 1 x Quantum Surface S240.

 

The only thing left is to see if there is anything that can be done in the back of the case. I'm thinking there is space for 2 x S120 rads where the HDD cages are..... Maybe for another time though.

 

 

 

[Alwayshiii]

Work In Progress. My first loop.