completed A new and unique look at watercooling

[ImWasp]

So, its ugly af in most peoples opinions.  I accept that.  But hey, have you seen anything like it?  A lot of modifications were made to fit the 360 and 240 radiators.

 

 

[knightslugger]

Just now, ImWasp said:

So, its ugly af in most peoples opinions.  I accept that.  But hey, have you seen anything like it?  A lot of modifications were made to fit the 360 and 240 radiators.

what are you talking about?

[ImWasp]

Just now, knightslugger said:

what are you talking about?

Isnt the link embedded?
 

 

[knightslugger]

now i see it. imgur imbedded.

 

what's with the loop-de-loops? looks like a pain in the ass to drain.

[KE2012]

Eh, half the time people do water cooling for the aesthetics just as much as the performance. If you like how it looks, what are we to tell you otherwise? 

[Anghammarad]

I think it looks good... ROOLLLAAACOASTER!!! 

 

why shouldn't the coolant have fun while doing the looping =) 

 

Nice Idea.

[ImWasp]

1 minute ago, KE2012 said:

Eh, half the time people do water cooling for the aesthetics just as much as the performance. If you like how it looks, what are we to tell you otherwise? 

Please tell me its ugly AF if you wish.  Just tell me how i can improve it if you do

 

1 minute ago, Anghammarad said:

I think it looks good... ROOLLLAAACOASTER!!! 

 

why shouldn't the coolant have fun while doing the looping =) 

 

Nice Idea.

Gotta make it dizzy so it will swirl more in the blocks ya know

[Anghammarad]

Just now, ImWasp said:

Please tell me its ugly AF if you wish.  Just tell me how i can improve it if you do

 

Gotta make it dizzy so it will swirl more in the blocks ya know

or hurl out of the draining plug

[Bruno_A]

It definitely doesn't look bad, in fact, I find it pretty awesome and unique. 

[KE2012]

2 minutes ago, ImWasp said:

Please tell me its ugly AF if you wish.  Just tell me how i can improve it if you do

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 Only thing I would suggest is maybe some bar fluorescent lighting to light up your entire rig in a uniform light. As for its current look, it sets it apart from the pack, not sure if I'm a fan, preferring a utilitarian appearance,  but I can see the appeal. 

[paddy-stone]

Do you have the loop going straight from one radiator to the next before entering the cpu block?  Only reason I'm asking is because I thought it was better to have radiator-cpu block-radiator-gpu block type setup to maximize cooling efficiency?

[ImWasp]

11 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

or hurl out of the draining plug

Ofcourse!

 

10 minutes ago, bruny06 said:

It definitely doesn't look bad, in fact, I find it pretty awesome and unique. 

Thanks, not the most clean build...but should be unique.

 

7 minutes ago, KE2012 said:

 Only thing I would suggest is maybe some bar fluorescent lighting to light up your entire rig in a uniform light. As for its current look, it sets it apart from the pack, not sure if I'm a fan, preferring a utilitarian appearance,  but I can see the appeal. 

Im using the bloodred EK coolant, im pretty sure it isnt uv-reactive.  + Doesent the uv reaction wear off pretty quickly?

anyway i was thinking of illuminating the gpu and pump too.  But id like to keep the rest dimmed.  Maybe the res too?

 

[ImWasp]

1 minute ago, paddy-stone said:

Do you have the loop going straight from one radiator to the next before entering the cpu block?  Only reason I'm asking is because I thought it was better to have radiator-cpu block-radiator-gpu block type setup to maximize cooling efficiency?

 

It might differ 1-2 degrees but the fluid is moving so fast that it doesent matter anymore then that.  Especially since im using dual DDC pumps.  So the fluid is moving very fast even though all the rads i have.

[paddy-stone]

1 minute ago, ImWasp said:

 

It might differ 1-2 degrees but the fluid is moving so fast that it doesent matter anymore then that.  Especially since im using dual DDC pumps.  So the fluid is moving very fast even though all the rads i have.

Yeah, I get that... I'm just saying that the second radiator in the loop is pretty much doing nothing I think.

 

Anyway nice build... I too prefer to have it be a bit twisty etc rather than straight lines... I think straight lines are really boring. Hell have it spell out your name or signature, that was one idea I had

 

[knightslugger]

well the loops are a nice touch, but i don't know how you're going to bleed them. if they were vertical loops, that'd be easy, but because they're horizontal you've induced a water trap (like a toilet) that won't drain.

[ImWasp]

1 minute ago, paddy-stone said:

Yeah, I get that... I'm just saying that the second radiator in the loop is pretty much doing nothing I think.

 

Anyway nice build... I too prefer to have it be a bit twisty etc rather than straight lines... I think straight lines are really boring. Hell have it spell out your name or signature, that was one idea I had

 

Well you might be right if im running the fans at full swosh.  But im running them at constant 6-700rpm.  So the water shouldnt lose much heat in by going through the rads.  But yes i agree that going gpu-rad-cpu would be better for temps.  Question is though how i would make that look decent?

 

 

1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

well the loops are a nice touch, but i don't know how you're going to bleed them.

That isnt a problem.  The water is moving with enough pressure to shuffle the air along.  It was a bitch to prime the pump though   Had to get creative and use my mouth to create pressure in the res.

[knightslugger]

2 minutes ago, ImWasp said:

That isnt a problem.  The water is moving with enough pressure to shuffle the air along.  It was a bitch to prime the pump though   Had to get creative and use my mouth to create pressure in the res.

OK, how are you going to get the water OUT?

[paddy-stone]

1 minute ago, ImWasp said:

Well you might be right if im running the fans at full swosh.  But im running them at constant 6-700rpm.  So the water shouldnt lose much heat in by going through the rads.  But yes i agree that going gpu-rad-cpu would be better for temps.  Question is though how i would make that look decent?

 

 

That isnt a problem.  The water is moving with enough pressure to shuffle the air along.  It was a bitch to prime the pump though   Had to get creative and use my mouth to create pressure in the res.

I would have it going from outlet of first rad, above the rad and over to the cpu inlet, cpu outlet going under the inlet tube and over to the rad inlet, and then outlet of rad going straight down and then across to gpu. Everything else is the same as it is now.

[ImWasp]

1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

OK, how are you going to get the water OUT?

Remove plug, crack open drainvalve and open res cap.  After my right-most tube is drained i remove that so i can blow into the upper right radiator.  Which will force the liquid out of my system.  Works great, gets out all of the liquid.

Honestly its a lot harder to drain the water from the radiators rather than the loops.

 

 

3 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

I would have it going from outlet of first rad, above the rad and over to the cpu inlet, cpu outlet going under the inlet tube and over to the rad inlet, and then outlet of rad going straight down and then across to gpu. Everything else is the same as it is now.

I like that, maybe i should do that instead?  But wouldnt it look quite...conflicted?

[paddy-stone]

Just now, ImWasp said:

Remove plug, crack open drainvalve and open res cap.  After my right-most tube is drained i remove that so i can blow into the upper right radiator.  Which will force the liquid out of my system.  Works great, gets out all of the liquid.

Honestly its a lot harder to drain the water from the radiators rather than the loops.

 

 

I like that, maybe i should do that instead?  But wouldnt it look quite...conflicted?

A matter of teste/perspective I guess. For me it would look better I think and also could help... if you have enough left over tubing you could try it if you have the time and effort required. Just don't alter your current tubing in case you don't like it or there's not much performance increase.

Either way it looks good anyway, I just prefer to see them serving more of a purpose, so getting that direct feed off a rad to the gpu looks better IMO.

[knightslugger]

10 minutes ago, ImWasp said:

Remove plug, crack open drainvalve and open res cap.  After my right-most tube is drained i remove that so i can blow into the upper right radiator.  Which will force the liquid out of my system.  Works great, gets out all of the liquid.

Honestly its a lot harder to drain the water from the radiators rather than the loops.

so you breathe and spit into the system to clean it.

 

mmm. hmm.

[paddy-stone]

1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

so you breathe and spit into the system to clean it.

 

mmm. hmm.

??? Did you quote the wrong person?

[knightslugger]

Just now, paddy-stone said:

??? Did you quote the wrong person?

initially...

[ImWasp]

2 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

so you breathe and spit into the system to clean it.

 

mmm. hmm.

There is no way you can completely drain a system with vertical radiators any other way, unless you unmount the rads ofcourse.  Or apply proper pressurised air.

The former no ty, the latter is nothing i have in my apartment unfortunately.

[paddy-stone]

Depending on how long between drains, cleans... I would've thought there wouldn't be much to go wrong if you left a few ml in there anyway, then when you flush the system it would get rid of the remaining fluid, and again for a few ml wouldn't make much difference... then when you get to refilling, anything left in the system would be heavily diluted by the fluid going into the system that I don't think it would make any difference.

I could be wrong. IBut nevertheless, if you were draining the whole system for cleaning for instance rather than just flush and fill, then you'd be taking the build apart effectively anyway... you might be able to drain whatever you can, tilt and try to drain the rest, and if you get to a part where it's difficult, couldn't you attach a drain tube further into the system and try to drain it that way maybe??, as long as you don't have parts that can be soaked with water and are careful I would think that'd work maybe.