XB'owner (Water cooled pc inside xbox one)

[iamdarkyoshi]

On 2/19/2016 at 1:30 PM, MorningStrummer said:

I'm hungry let's eat a waffle.

Agreed.

[MorningStrummer]

On 8-3-2016 at 3:17 PM, WhatComesAround said:

The glorious pc master race has finally thought of infiltrating the console peasants, I suggest you start by inviting console peasants for a game of fifa and then shatter all their expectations by relieving that they were using a pc all the while. It is time that we help them join the pc master race. The PCNess is extremely strong with this one. Good luck...

 

on a more serious note though, please don't, I don't want to have a console war starting over here.

 

4GB of REAL VRAM

 

I received my graphics card this Tuesday so let's show it of

 

Wait what???? that's not PC grade hardware!!! and definitely no r9 nano.

 

Well it came in a bit of a different box.

 

 

How big was this card again???? because that feels like overkill to me.

 

anyways let's open it up and see what's inside.

 

 

yes, they put all of that in such an enormous box, can you believe it.  

 

anyways let's continue

 

O hey there's some room left lets see if it fits.

 

 

yup that's how I would've sent it. way more reasonable.

 

now for the card itself

 

Ah way better then that awful r7 240

AND it's WHITE  

 

let's continue

 

 

HMMM, so pretty. to bad I can't use that cooler though.

So let's install the waterblock why don't we.

 

 

 

Ok now here is where i had a little problem coming up, when installing the fan cable the waterblock won't fit properly. the connector actually holds the block back.

so as a solution i had to make a sacrifice.

 

WARNING, if you don't like linus mods you might want to look away.

 

yup I had to cut the socket and bend over the pins sticking out.

 

but now that that is done lets put the block in place

 

And screw here tight

 

ah yes also this, the screw holes don't line up with the holes of the EK pci slot cover, probably because this is a white edition.

 

 

now this is what I am left with

 

 

and now the final result:

 

now to make sure the card still works I had done a dry test at this point just to see if it give's a display and if the fan works. and the result is positive.

 

That was all for today, so you'll have to stick around a little longer  

Hope you've enjoyed  

[Nexxus]

r9 nano does not have dust proof fan

 

cancer/10

 

give us r7 240 damn it

[KettyKoala]

@IAcKI

[IAcKI]

Just now, KettyKoala said:

@IAcKI

Been following it a few days pal! 

[KettyKoala]

Just now, IAcKI said:

Been following it a few days pal! 

Same here, only just thought to tag ye. It's so good!!

[BuckGup]

The most thermal paste I have ever seen.

[IAcKI]

1 minute ago, SamStrecker said:

The most thermal paste I have ever seen.

Didn't notice that aha, you seen I believe the latest Workshop video that pretty much debunks all the thermal paste methods with them all being the same?

[The Benjamins]

The nano is such a great card. I have been wanting to do a dual nano M ITX build but money. (split 1 PCIe 16X to 2 PCIe 8x)

[IAcKI]

Just now, Suicidal Korean said:

The nano is such a great card. I have been wanting to do a dual nano M ITX build but money. (split 1 PCIe 16X to 2 PCIe 8x)

That is such an interesting idea! How would you implement that?

[The Benjamins]

22 minutes ago, IAcKI said:

That is such an interesting idea! How would you implement that?

 

I was going to design and make a PCB that splits the PCIe to 2 separate connections and use the 2011 M ITX MOBO that supports bifurcation. The idea is to water cool them and have 1 one slot cards just over the CPU. with a custom made case. I can design it I just don't have the money to buy it. and it be better if I build my Server NAS first. ( which I am working on now, will make a build log when I am close to being done.)

 

http://hardforum.com/threads/pcie-bifurcation.1870298/

 

http://hardforum.com/threads/pcie-bifurcation.1870298/page-8#post-1042171344

 

If i remember correctly the case was going to be 280mm, x 240mm x 200mm 

 

EDIT2: also i was planning on using 1 180mm rad

[TheRandomness]

3 minutes ago, Suicidal Korean said:

 

I was going to design and make a PCB that splits the PCIe to 2 separate connections and use the 2011 M ITX MOBO that supports bifurcation. The idea is to water cool them and have 1 one slot cards just over the CPU. with a custom made case. I can design it I just don't have the money to buy it. and it be better if I build my Server NAS first. ( which I am working on now, will make a build log when I am close to being done.)

 

http://hardforum.com/threads/pcie-bifurcation.1870298/

 

http://hardforum.com/threads/pcie-bifurcation.1870298/page-8#post-1042171344

Can I have one of those splitters? Plaes?

[The Benjamins]

2 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Can I have one of those splitters? Plaes?

their are splitters on the market already supermicro has a few. look though that thread to read up on it.

[MEC-777]

This whole build so far... I'm speechless.

[TheSlipperySlope]

On 3/8/2016 at 9:33 AM, Nacho Marco Segui said:

Come on, don't use the terms master race and peasants, it makes us pc users look like arrogants

YEAH! What are we flippin' Reddit? You guys are actually useful and nice, not assholes!

[BuckGup]

1 hour ago, IAcKI said:

Didn't notice that aha, you seen I believe the latest Workshop video that pretty much debunks all the thermal paste methods with them all being the same?

No not yet

[MorningStrummer]

Let the water flow.

 

let's start finalizing this system.

I had ordered the exact fittings in the amount I thought I would need, turns out I still ordered too much

 

 

I had to specifically go with these low profile fittings because there's really no room for something more.

 

 

now the pump with the fittings we have already seen but here it is again:

 

now let's put everything in place starting with the ssd, it's going to be right under the pump and being held with double sided tape.

 

 

Now I had to cut the io shield a little bit in order for the tubing to go past it.

 

 

 

 

 

that tape is because the io shield has a sharp edge.

 

 

 

 

now let's actually will her up.

 

that will make maintaining the loop a lot easier, and on the plus side when it sits for a while there's no gunk build up on the bottom. this bottle even has just been sitting in my room for about a year as refill for my main rig but I never touched it.

 

now before filling make sure I won't harm any electronics.

 

 

 

aaaaand, she is full(ish) after about 12h I had to top her off due to all the air bubbles inside the system.

if you're wondering this is how i did it:

 

seems perfectly fine to me.

anyways let's put her in a corner and let her run for a couple of hours to see if she leeks.

 

 

let the wait begin and hope she is not leaking.

[HellaflushMcSwaggins]

you are pushing the limits of this case and I find that amazing!

Good job, sir!

[LukaH]

this is so cool 

 

at first i was thinking WTF does he need a IDE cable for until i realized it was the pcie extension

[cHubbyFker]

Really been getting a taste for extremely compact builds lately. Love the way this project is heading! Makes me all the more hyped about doing a build of my own :3

[OPSJono]

16 hours ago, MorningStrummer said:

Let the water flow.

 

let's start finalizing this system.

 

Dude!

 

I love this build log.

 

I have my PC in a Fractal Node 202, Air cooled. It gets pretty hot and loud under high load.

 

Apart from this build being cool as fuck, I'm also really interested in the thermal and noise levels while under load.

 

I almost want to do this myself,

But I can't justify the cost of another PC. (And I don't have the tools or skills to fabricate/mod some of the stuff you have).

 

[MorningStrummer]

The suspense is real

 

On 5-2-2016 at 10:17 PM, iamdarkyoshi said:

PLEASE call it the X-Boner

I almost didn't give credits to you  , I did slightly change it though.

 

On 13-3-2016 at 8:08 PM, HellaflushMcSwaggins said:

you are pushing the limits of this case and I find that amazing!

Good job, sir!

actually, the case is to small.  

 

On 13-3-2016 at 8:19 PM, LukaH said:

this is so cool 

 

at first i was thinking WTF does he need a IDE cable for until i realized it was the pcie extension

I could put a fdd cable in there to?

On 14-3-2016 at 0:25 PM, OPSJono said:

I'm also really interested in the thermal and noise levels while under load.

so am I........

 

 

It's been a total of about 36-40 hours (didn't quite keep track) so lets check if there's a leak.

 

looks like there is none.  

so lets make it ready to put it all together, first that, IDE ,  pci-e riser cable since you can see it's awful color through the vents on the side I decided to make that part black.

 

 

How a little marker is able to come a long way right.

 

Now here's the twist

at this point I realized I should test the system before I completely assemble it.

and so I did...

I completely wired it up with the case opened up and turned it on.

all I got was a black screen

so I changed the display to the onboard video and tried again.

this time it posted but it didn't go beyond the rog logo, I couldn't even enter into the bios.

then after 2 or 3 other tries it didn't even want to turn on at al 

so I lifted the gpu and found that this fitting

 

came lose from turning it slightly back and forth a few times. (when removing the toilet paper, and putting the system back together)

 

so the water leaked straight into the pci-e slot and onto the mobo.

however now it is to late.

so I took the mobo out of the system to see if drying it would fix it.

 

and no.  so I continued taking it apart.

and when removing the waterblock I was pleasantly to see this.

 

I guess that's not good.

 

so with the mobo bricked I am as you can guess kind of pissed. especially because the board is discontinued and pretty impossible to get one (in the Netherlands)

so I might take a look into the asrock x99e-itx/ac with a xeon and ecc memory. but first we'll see what happens with this mobo, if I can revive it yes or no, or if a manage to get a new one (has to be reasonably priced though)

 

anyways that's it for today, I hope you enjoyed I surely didn't.

 

Would asus sponsor one?? I'm sure they don't have one laying around though.

[KettyKoala]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO :(:(:(:(:(:(

[TheRandomness]

17 minutes ago, MorningStrummer said:

-snips-

Did you turn it on? Chances are, if you didn't, it's still functional. Just let it dry after having washed it with isopropyl alcohol.

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