Watercooling critique

[Ozone Colfpup]

Hi there LTT Forums.

 

Fairly new person here and this is my first post. (Be gentle? >.>)

 

I've been dabbling in the Watercooling road for a while now and wanted to get some critique on my recent loop.

 

Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z

Processor: AMD FX-9370 (Overclocked to 4.82GHz)

Memory: Crucial Ballistix DDR3 @ 2133Mhz

 

 

 

This was filling the loop up after triple checking all the fittings

 

( I know there's dust. I'm working on it slowly :P)

 

 

And this is her fully booted and no bubbles in the loop.

 

The top of the block to the radiator inlet was a small bodge as I didn't have the 45 degree fittings to make it fit on the bottom. 

 

Any critique where I can improve in this would be great

 

Thanks!

 

 

[xnoobftw]

Sorry but you need to touch up on the cable management part

And could you describe how your loop is? Like rad>cpublock>res etc..

[NinjaJc01]

Looks good, have you thought about hard tubing? Or a GPU waterblock?

[Ozone Colfpup]

5 minutes ago, xnoobftw said:

Sorry but you need to touch up on the cable management part

And could you describe how your loop is? Like rad>cpublock>res etc..

I've got two loops in my rig.

 

One for the processor that goes

Res > Radiator > CPU Block > Res

 

And the motherboard goes

Radiator > Res > Block > Radiator

 

Cable management will be done as well.

 

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I have considered going hard tubing, but I'll probably go down that route when I've gained more experience in going fully custom WC'ing

 

And as for the GPU Waterblock. I've not been able to find one for my graphics card (Asus ROG 290X Matrix Platinum)

[NinjaJc01]

5 minutes ago, Ozone Colfpup said:

I've got two loops in my rig.

 

One for the processor that goes

Res > Radiator > CPU Block > Res

 

And the motherboard goes

Radiator > Res > Block > Radiator

 

Cable management will be done as well.

 

 

Why a separate loop for the motherboard? What rads are you using?

[Ozone Colfpup]

 

Just now, NinjaJc01 said:

Why a separate loop for the motherboard? What rads are you using?

For the motherboard I'm using an EK140 radiator and an Alphacool NexXxos ST30 120mm radiator

 

I went seperate as I couldn't source a motherboard block when I was WC'ing the CPU at the time

 

Managed to grab the block last year too

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, Ozone Colfpup said:

 

For the motherboard I'm using an EK140 radiator and an Alphacool NexXxos ST30 120mm radiator

 

I went seperate as I couldn't source a motherboard block when I was WC'ing the CPU at the time

 

Managed to grab the block last year too

So why not all one loop? The CPU would likely be much cooler as well...

[SpaceGhostC2C]

3 minutes ago, NinjaJc01 said:

Why a separate loop for the motherboard? What rads are you using?

I haven't done a custom loop, but if I was going to OC an FX-9370, I'd do separate loops as well. As opposed to what may happen with GPUs, the VRMs and CPU will simultaneously get warm under heavy CPU load. Really hot. I guess enough radiator surface would let you cool all of it in a single loop, I guess, but it seems safer to me to keep them separate. 

[NinjaJc01]

9 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

I haven't done a custom loop, but if I was going to OC an FX-9370, I'd do separate loops as well. As opposed to what may happen with GPUs, the VRMs and CPU will simultaneously get warm under heavy CPU load. Really hot. I guess enough radiator surface would let you cool all of it in a single loop, I guess, but it seems safer to me to keep them separate. 

If I was cooling any FX chip above the 4350, I'd use a 240mm rad for the chip alone. The VRMs/MOSFETs won't kick out that much heat.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Just now, NinjaJc01 said:

If I was cooling any FX chip above the 4350, I'd use a 240mm rad for the chip alone. The VRMs/MOSFETs won't kick out that much heat.

Oh, yes it will. A motherboard with a run of the mill passive heatsink on the VRMs will see them go to 90-100 C stressing a 9370 at stock speeds and 1.4v (which is less than the stock voltage). He's overclocked it to 4.81, so I doubt his voltage is that low...

[NinjaJc01]

40 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Oh, yes it will. A motherboard with a run of the mill passive heatsink on the VRMs will see them go to 90-100 C stressing a 9370 at stock speeds and 1.4v (which is less than the stock voltage). He's overclocked it to 4.81, so I doubt his voltage is that low...

As in adding heat to the loop. Because of specific heat capacities.

[Ozone Colfpup]

45 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Oh, yes it will. A motherboard with a run of the mill passive heatsink on the VRMs will see them go to 90-100 C stressing a 9370 at stock speeds and 1.4v (which is less than the stock voltage). He's overclocked it to 4.81, so I doubt his voltage is that low...

My vcore varies between 1.41 - 1.43v roughly depending on load.