[Build Log] Project Frost - Case-Labs THW10 | X99 Watercooled | i7 6950X | Titan X | Borosilicate Glass Tubing

[Shiv78]

2 hours ago, Revan654 said:

I just don't trust AMD, I will never be using there CPU's again.

That's not very fair. Remember, there WAS a point where AMD was the performance king in the CPU world.

[Revan654]

1 hour ago, Shiv78 said:

That's not very fair. Remember, there WAS a point where AMD was the performance king in the CPU world.

 

Has nothing to do with performance, But reliability.

[Shiv78]

3 minutes ago, Revan654 said:

Has nothing to do with performance, But reliability.

: (

 

how did they hurt you?

[Revan654]

9 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

: (

 

how did they hurt you?

 

Ever AMD CPU I ever had got fried at some point.

[potoooooooo]

5 hours ago, Revan654 said:

 

Ever AMD CPU I ever had got fried at some point.

I disagree with your viewpoint on AMD, but their CPUs have definitely had frying issues. Just want to put that out there before someone who's first AMD experience was Ryzen jumps in.

[Revan654]

On 10/9/2017 at 10:50 PM, potoooooooo said:

I disagree with your viewpoint on AMD, but their CPUs have definitely had frying issues. Just want to put that out there before someone who's first AMD experience was Ryzen jumps in.

 

It's not really a viewpoint but a fact & AMD history. AMD CPU's don't last as long as Intel. I'm not even going to touch how horrible AMD's GPU drivers use to be, They seem stable again. It took forever to get proper Windows 10 drivers when the OS was first released.

[MVPernula]

On 2017-10-11 at 6:45 PM, Revan654 said:

 

It's not really a viewpoint but a fact & AMD history. AMD CPU's don't last as long as Intel. I'm not even going to touch how horrible AMD's GPU drivers use to be, They seem stable again. It took forever to get proper Windows 10 drivers when the OS was first released.

W10 as a whole was a shitshow to begin with, not just for AMD but literally every system.

People avoided W10 for almost a year after release becuase they had to fix it.

[Revan654]

8 hours ago, MVPernula said:

W10 as a whole was a shitshow to begin with, not just for AMD but literally every system.

People avoided W10 for almost a year after release becuase they had to fix it.

 

W10 is an odd OS to start with, atlease it's not another Windows ME. If there was more software support for Linux I would considered ditching windows all together.

 

Nvidia had no issue getting there drivers up & running on day one. W10 still has issues on my PC(This PC is old, It still has an ATi card). I'm guessing it's more of a harddrive issue since the drive is slow & acts up at times.

 

Issue that does happen on this PC is: Everytime It updates & reboots. I get with black screen with the white circles going around and around. I have to manual shut & reboot after 10 mins to get back into the desktop.

[Revan654]

RGB -> AquaComputer RGB

12V -> 12V (Same)

G -> B (Wire Cross)

R -> R (Same)

B -> G (Wire Cross)

 

5mm RGB Outline

 

Blue

Green

Cathode(12v) - requires resistor

Red

 

Mini Cable(Will not be used), Testing Cable for RGB LED's

 

 

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5mm LED for Front Reservoir/Fill Station,

 

 

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RGB Wiring, With Built in Male RGB Connectors.

 

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5mm LED's Frosted RGB, Normal RGB & Blue.

 

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Soldered RGB 5mm LED with resistor attached.

 

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First 5mm Fully Sleeved & 100% working.

[Nephanor]

Ahhhh, good.  Can't wait to see the the UV stuff.  Got my Darkside strips, and the controller is arriving monday

[Revan654]

14 hours ago, Nephanor said:

Ahhhh, good.  Can't wait to see the the UV stuff.  Got my Darkside strips, and the controller is arriving monday

 

I have some item arriving from Dazmode on Monday as well, Mainly more glass from Mayhem. It's hard to get a hold of mayhem glass for some reason(I'm guessing since they check all the glass made by hand which takes time). Also have some G2 lighting arriving. I haven't decided yet what color my Reservoir will be yet.

 

Side Note. G2 Light is same lighting used in BMW's and other high cars.

 

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Here is UV on my Res, I did have to trim the PCB board so it would fit inside the LED slots on my Res. I do not suggest trimming the PCB board unless you know exactly what your doing. Also the more UV Lighting added the better it UV effect will be.

 

 

 

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I can't really test the UV yet since I'm waiting on some Molex Fan terminals to finish building my DarkSide Cables. Going be working on RGB cables first since there going to take more time to make & configure.

[Nephanor]

1 hour ago, Revan654 said:

I can't really test the UV yet since I'm waiting on some Molex Fan terminals to finish building my DarkSide Cables. Going be working on RGB cables first since there going to take more time to make & configure.

That's the main bit I am wondering about. I grabbed the dual ended ones, and am not sure how they should be connected to the fan controller you recommended to control the UV.  I don't mind making cables, but will need to get more tools to do that.

[Revan654]

UV LED -> DarkSide Connect Cable to 3-pin Fan connector -> Spliity9 -> 3-Pin Fan dual Female -> PowerAdjust 3(Standard for those who have AQ, Anyone else will need Ultra version) -> AquaSuite

[Nephanor]

24 minutes ago, Revan654 said:

UV LED -> DarkSide Connect Cable to 3-pin Fan connector -> Spliity9 -> 3-Pin Fan dual Female -> PowerAdjust 3(Standard for those who have AQ, Anyone else will need Ultra version) -> AquaSuite

 

Excellent!  Thank you!  And lookie there, They have the Darkside Connect cable with UV purple, just what I wanted for the color scheme   Just need to get those and the dual female Fan cable....which seems to be a bit more difficult than I expected.  Any suggestions on search terms to use to find it?  And technically wouldn't it be PowerAdjust 3 -> USB -> AquaSuite?  

[Revan654]

41 minutes ago, Nephanor said:

 

Excellent!  Thank you!  And lookie there, They have the Darkside Connect cable with UV purple, just what I wanted for the color scheme   Just need to get those and the dual female Fan cable....which seems to be a bit more difficult than I expected.  Any suggestions on search terms to use to find it?  And technically wouldn't it be PowerAdjust 3 -> USB -> AquaSuite?  

 

You get one with Splitty 9 (Un-Sleeved). You can also use a split fan cable extension (I think Darkside makes one up to 8). Just be aware of the watts your using. I doubt you will come close to maximum watts allowed. You have a max of 30 watts, 40 if you have the heatsink addon.

 

Do a Search on Dazmode for "Aquabus" & you should get a few choices. They only come in black.

 

Well it would be allot more with my setup. I just left the obvious stuff out.

[Nephanor]

2 minutes ago, Revan654 said:

You get one with Splitty 9 (Un-Sleeved). Do a Search on Dazmode for "Aquabus" & you should get a few choices. They only come in black.

 

Really?  It says it has a 4 pin connector, not a 3 pin.  Will that still work?

[Revan654]

1 minute ago, Nephanor said:

 

Really?  It says it has a 4 pin connector, not a 3 pin.  Will that still work?

 

Maybe Darkside doesn't make the 3-pin version. AquaComputer does sell additional aquabus cables both in 3-pin & 4-pin.  you could just remove one of the wire from the cable & replace the connectors with 3-pin.

[Nephanor]

7 minutes ago, Revan654 said:

Maybe Darkside doesn't make the 3-pin version. AquaComputer does sell additional aquabus cables both in 3-pin & 4-pin.  you could just remove one of the wire from the cable & replace the connectors with 3-pin.

 

I had a feeling I may need to make my own cables   Oh well, may as well learn and get the tools for that too!

[Revan654]

- When creating aquabus cables, There no real benefit of using 4-pin cable over 3-pin if you plan to keep the USB plugged in. If you plan to remove the USB once everything is configured. 4-pin cable will be only cable required. However the only deice that benefits from 4-pin is the flow devices.

 

- Don't forget you can daisy chain aquabus cables if you have multiple PowerAdjust or Farbwek devices, Which can cut down of wires you need to run to aquabus hubs & such.

 

- For those planning on using UV, remember to add as much UV light as possible inside the case.

 

- Just finished creating all my Fan extension cables, All 13 of them. Which took some time to create.

 

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From Radiator to Flow Meter to first reservoir.

 

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The final pass through has been drilled. This will go from first reservoir to my dual reservoir in the front.

 

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Two more curved glass being prep, Need to trim it down a bit before it can be installed.

 

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SLI block on M.2 blocks, Just incase I don't like how the vision blocks look.

[Shiv78]

*continues waiting for climax of porno build log*

[Revan654]

1 hour ago, Shiv78 said:

*continues waiting for climax of porno build log*

 

Don't you mean the money shot

 

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I really need to find a faster way to trim glass tubing down.

[Revan654]

- Changed the Diamond Cutter wheel to the other one I had, It's trimming the glass & cutting allot faster now.

 

 

Left Tubing: will be header from res 1 to Res 2 & 3. Completely trimmed.

Right: Will be used for my Fillport to Res 1.

[Revan654]

- My one finer is raw, after trying to get some fittings out of. One thing you can say nothing is going leak with that kind of grip. My finer is very sore right now, next section of tubing going have to wait a few days until my fingers are better. The glass has been cut for most of the segments already.

- Some tidbit some may not know, the fittings will become tighter as time goes on, compared to when you first install them.

 

 

- The backside of the case tubing is 100% complete.

 

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- Heading to the front now to start all the tubing there. The only segment I'm not 100% sure on yet is routing from Monoblock to upper radiator.

 

[Revan654]

 

Res tubing installed on bottom & top

[Revan654]

 

Original plan was to curve the glass & have it enter the reservoirs. This looks better in my opinion. Which also allows me to save my last long curved glass for MonoBlock to to radiator run.

 

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The Next Segment of the Loop, The glass needed to be trimmed a bit. I did cut it longer on purpose just in case I had to make any changes which would increase the tubing length.

 

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The valve for the bottom which will likely connect to a QDC then to tubing for draining. Originally I had no plans to put wheels on the case, I couldn't get my hand under my case to drain the loop. This seem like the method to increase the bottom height.

 

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Most of the wiring for AquaComputer has been connected, I need to create a few USB cables. I ran out of 22 AWG wiring, waiting on some more wiring to arrive from mouser. Then once everything is connected I can start to clean everything up.

 

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Having issues with the vision blocks. the wiring they create is a mess, there no way to have the wire exit to left, it has to exit to the right. On top of that the tubing was not 100% stable, meaning it was a bit loose. I'll try to play around with out ways to run the tubing. So far not having any luck.