"The Heavy" gets a liquid cooling upgrade

[DaftBehemoth]

So I've had this in the works for a very long time now... I bought the Cosmos II about a month after it was released with the intention to liquid cool it. Unfortunately due to some financial constraints, my computer got thrown on the back-burner for quite a while. But now we're back to it! Thankfully I'm able to get rid of that silly looking H50. You will notice at least a little bit of messy tubing. I wish I had more money for a lot more fittings and some Crystal Link as well as a modular PSU, but I'm on a college student's budget :P

Original Spec List:

• Case: Cooler Master Cosmos II
  
• Motherboard: MSI Z68a-GD80
  
• Processor: i7-2600k (4.5Ghz)
  
• CPU Cooling: Corsair H50
  
• Graphics: 2x 6970 2GB
  
• RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance (1600Mhz)
  
• Soundcard: Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty Platinum Champion Edition (such an awesome name lol)
  
• Boot Drive: 120GB Intel 520 SSD
  
• Storage: 1TB WD Black, 2TB WD Green
  
• Power Supply: Corsair TX950
  
• Fans: 8x BitFenix Spectre 120mm and 1x 200mm Spectre (as well as a couple stock CM fans)
  

New Parts:

• Graphics: 2x MSI GTX670 2GB
  
• CPU Block: XSPC Raystorm
  
• GPU Blocks: XSPC Razor with back-plates
  
• Res: Bitspower Water Tank Z-Multi 250
  
• Rads: Alphacool NexXxos 360mm and 240mm
  
• Pump: Swiftech MCP-655 (with Bitspower pump top)
  
• Tubing: PrimoFlex Advanced LRT 3/8" ID 1/2" OD
  
• Fittings: Various Bitspower compression fittings
  
• Coolant: Mayhems Pastel Blue Berry Concentrate/ distilled water
  
• Fans: 8x Corsair SP120 Quiet Editions, 1x Corsair AF140 Quiet Edition
  
• Cables: Mod/ Smart Kobra SS Black/ Aqua Blue Extensions (24-pin, CPU 8-pin, and 4x 6-pin PCI-E
  

I'm still waiting on a few fitting extensions from FrozenCPU, so I'll just upload some pictures of my progress thus far. I apologize for the picture quality all I have is my phone (HTC Rezound).

Here's the starting point with the stock 670's installed

After some parts showed up

XSPC block and back-plate installed on the first card

Mixed up the coolant concentrate to get a better idea of what it looks like. To my surprise, the blue berry mix comes out to be a MUCH deeper blue than expected (with 750ml of water)

GPUs installed and test fitting some cables. It's at this point I noticed that two of my PCI-E extensions were bad :(

Installed CPU block and the top 360/30mm rad. There's not enough room for a much thicker top rad in a Cosmos II.

And that's all for now guys! I'll update this post once I get the last parts in :)

[DaftBehemoth]

It's pretty much finished!

All powered up in daylight

And this is the money shot :P

All in all, my GPU max temp while playing BF3 went from 84C to 42C... I couldn't be happier with it :)

There's still a few things to be done, like replace the top card's cables, but for now I'm glad I can use my desktop again.

[Sir Isaac]

Looks great, thats a nice drop in temps.

[MtG01]

I think the daylight powered up shot looks just as impressive as the night time one, those light blues are just wicked.

[Saan Koneri]

Very nice, blue coolant, lights and cables look badass

[DaftBehemoth]

Looks great, thats a nice drop in temps.

I can no longer use my computer as a space heater lol

[DaftBehemoth]

I appreciate the feedback. I'm glad I posted this :)

[Sir Isaac]

Looks great, thats a nice drop in temps.

LoL ya no kidding.

[Williamchan87]

NICE...! but you might want to braid the front IO etc wires?

[DaftBehemoth]

NICE...! but you might want to braid the front IO etc wires?

Definitely. I'm not sure when I'll get around to it, but it's on the list. My main concern right now is my non-modular PSU... and getting those other two PCI-E cables replaced. I'm thinking a metal shield over the PSU area would be sweet as well, though I lack the tools and know-how to make one.

[Williamchan87]

NICE...! but you might want to braid the front IO etc wires?

actually i think making a metal shield for PSU are is not a hard job, even with out much tools. I'm no case modder myself, but seems like a decently simple job.

[DaftBehemoth]

So I realized that I still haven't followed up with the completely finished product (not that there really is such a thing :P). It has actually been long enough that there was a hardware change in the system. I decided to swap the Creative soundcard for an Asus Xonar Essence STX. 

 

These pictures are mostly to just show the replacement GPU cables, but I also managed to grab a black SLI bridge from a buddy (I built his new computer, so he payed me with the bridge :D)

 

So here's a shot of everything. 

 

 

And here's me pretending to be a half decent photographer with my phone. I actually like how it turned out. Probably my favorite picture of my PC.

 

 

And this is the whole setup.

 

 

And there we have it. Thanks for checking out my build guys!

[hiyayhi]

Very nice!

[Maverik5124]

Watercooled 670s are so short :O

[Jimstah87]

WOW! This is a Fantastic build. Well done! Love it

[XiaoPigs]

Sweet pretty awesome refresher for your system :D I was thinking of doing so with mine once I get my 780s.

 

 

Love the color scheme. Pretty decent cable management as well. An awesome build overall.

[Morfy]

Love this build, the color scheme and lighting are so nice combined, the Cosmos 2 is not my favourite case but it works, nice job.

[enRodjavel]

Nice build,really liking the blue black theme

[mjKneafsey]

I like coolant colour. I also love the raystorm

[nsyedhasan]

You many want to add some white accent lights. Great Build!

[DaftBehemoth]

Sorry for the late response, but thanks for your comments!

 

You many want to add some white accent lights. Great Build!

I'll definitely be looking into either white or blue led strips, but not until I put a window in my side panel. I contacted Cooler Master and apparently they still plan on releasing a windowed side panel at some point... I'm trying to be patient with them about this, but I may still just send my panel to Mountain Mods and have them take care of it :P