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[Neo-revo]

6 minutes ago, For Science! said:

All these runs will try to be fixed when I next drain my loop ;).

 even if you dont want the guides,   a mandrel would help a lot IMO,  i tried to free hand a few tubes i f'ed up and with out the insert i was making a lot of real ugly bends, and with the insert i could heat up a longer length and get cleaner bends/ rebends

[GMart84]

@For Science! that is an impressive build! I love the look.

 

I agree that the case needs to be filled which was why the initial move to two cooling loops.  In time I will try the hardline tubing again.  But I feel like I am wasting money each time I buy the tubes.  

 

@Neo-revo that is a great deal.  I am sure I have spent at least twice that on my hardware for my loop.

 

What I would really love to do is get some plexiglass borrow or get some time on a CNC and cut some custom glass replacement reservoirs for the side windows on the Tower.  That is not in the cards right now but maybe.

[Neo-revo]

2 minutes ago, GMart84 said:

 That is not in the cards right now but maybe.

it was a score, because i just talked with teh dude on ebay, and set a price and set him the offer,   the easiest 'used' sale out side of a store i have ever made and  got what feels like 3-400$   (if you use MSRP as a base line)

 

if you mess them up alot the silicone insert will help stop that, and while not 100% effective for all my runs  the angle guides were good for a lot of things,

 

like my 'In'  a 90 bend up and then  2 45's spaced out just right so i could but a 90 at a weird orientation to the other bends to make it connect straight  into the rad.

 

the hardest one had the be the return from the tube res, and a very short double 90 from rad to rad that  the second 90 had to be so close to the first 90 the angle guide got in the way.  But the Res return was a whole tube, and the first one i cracked installing, the next two  a bend was off place by 1" or so making it not reach the other end, and then the 4th one i only cut off 1CM before i sanded maybe another 1/2 cm to the perfect length.

 

 

as long as you dont need the whole length its easier to cut each end after you get the bends in the 'right spots/directions'

[GMart84]

I decided to clean up the build a little bit and got everything reinstalled last week.

 

CPU Loop

Same Reservoir, Pump, and Block as before, now with EK Coolstream PE480 for the CPU

5.2 GHz @ 1.36 vCore

0 AVX Offset

23-24°C Idle

63-65°C 100% Load After 1 Hour

 

GPU Loop

Same Reservoir, Pump, and Blocks as before, now with a EK Coolstream XE480 for the two GPUs

+100 Mhz on Core (Core gets to 2088 Mhz during benchmarking)

+600 Mhz on the Memory

19-20°C Idle (GPU 2 is about 2 degrees higher)

35-36°C 100% Load After Running Heaven for 30 Minutes

 

Both radiators are set up in Push Pull Configurations with Corsair LL120 fans on the front side and Artic fans on the back.  While I know that mismatched fans are not perfect they pretty much match RPM and what I do is customize the fans curves to match the CFM as much as possible.  I just did not see a point in having LL fans on the inside of the back of the case.

 

I have also 3D printed some fan brackets that blow air over the two M.2 Drives and the RAM and VRM.  No they are not getting fresh air but they are certainly moving air as the RAM is now clocked at 3400 Mhz at 1.36v. with CL15 timings.  I can get it up to 3800 Mhz @ 1.37v but the timings have to be drastically slowed (18, 20, 38) down which negatively affects my benchmarks.

 

Thank you to @Neo-revo and @For Science! for all your help in getting this together.  I am supremely happy with the result, however, it would look better with Hard Line!

[Neo-revo]

9 hours ago, GMart84 said:

I have also 3D printed some fan brackets that blow air over the two M.2 Drives

nice, got my L bank made, but i haven't painted them yet,  although i have uv moved around at the moment rather the one that isn't glued down, but i did a cable swap, and added a uv cold cathode got uv ble sata cables from a buddy so im so close to done, and i even fixed/made a few of the fan splitters i wanted that are for the 30w channels so i made a 5 way for the L bank and fixed one of them so it works, but since i had it all appart to solder them i also used some of the white custom sleeving i have from once upon a time...

 

almost picture worth(not like i haven't yet)

[GMart84]

3 hours ago, Neo-revo said:

almost picture worth(not like i haven't yet)

Can't wait to see it!

[Neo-revo]

20 hours ago, GMart84 said:

Can't wait to see it!

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the not quite finished state.

[GMart84]

14 hours ago, Neo-revo said:

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the not quite finished state.

How do you get your cables bunched so nicely?  I have tried over and over and it does not go well.  I have a feeling they could look significantly better if I could understand what you are doing to keep the, neat.

 

[Neo-revo]

9 hours ago, GMart84 said:

to keep the, neat.

 

cable combs, and they are not the original ones that came with the PSU,  custom ones for my fully modular 1600w, 

 

you can either buy cables or combs if you want them all uniform like that

https://www.amazon.ca/upHere-Cable-Pieces-24-pin-Gesleeved/dp/B07CMT7MMY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1543541001&sr=8-3&keywords=cable+combs

Derp, looking at yours now i just need to say i plugged it in then got it the length i wanted, then after it was managed at the back/psu plugged in i used to combs to 'clean them up' before spacing the combs out.

it helps i have copious 'feed' holes and space to loop the stuff at the back

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[GMart84]

9 minutes ago, Neo-revo said:

cable combs, and they are not the original ones that came with the PSU,  custom ones for my fully modular 1600w, 

 

you can either buy cables or combs if you want them all uniform like that

https://www.amazon.ca/upHere-Cable-Pieces-24-pin-Gesleeved/dp/B07CMT7MMY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1543541001&sr=8-3&keywords=cable+combs

Derp, looking at yours now i just need to say i plugged it in then got it the length i wanted, then after it was managed at the back/psu plugged in i used to combs to 'clean them up' before spacing the combs out.

it helps i have copious 'feed' holes and space to loop the stuff at the back

 

Did you de-pin them at all or just sort them out?

[Neo-revo]

i opened the bag and installed them.   i was careful to make sure i didnt have to rotate the cord after i put it through the hole though, idk if that matters, i went component to psu not psu to component.   cause honnestly that is the best rats nest ive made in awhile.  and only cause i got to making the fan connectors so i dont have 20 extra feet so i could make enough workign heads to run 3, 4 or 5 fans on one knob

 

my old psu i did the custom sleeving on teh 24 pin and eps myself, and i decided that i could do it, but its  smarter to just redo the entire wire (new wires/metal end bits) 

was also dificult cause 1/2 way through the 24 pin i broke the pin remover tool and had to do it 2 step (first broken arm then the rest of it then i could still remove them.

[GMart84]

@Neo-revoI am just not confident enough to rip them apart to get them through individual holes.  I wish I was but oh well.  I went ahead and designed some new ones and have been playing with different sizes on my 3D printer.  They ones below are printing right now.

 

I will be hooking them together with some small screws leftover from installing my water blocks on the GPUs.  The combs are significantly smaller than the one that I was using and therefore will hopefully look neater.  I also have the ability to print a massive 28 Pin comb for the dual GPU power connectors that are coming through the same gromet.

[Neo-revo]

58 minutes ago, GMart84 said:

I will be hooking them together with some small screws leftover from installing my water blocks on the GPUs.  The combs are significantly smaller than the one that I was using and therefore will hopefully look neater.  I also have the ability to print a massive 28 Pin comb for the dual GPU power connectors that are coming through the same gromet.

nice idea

[GMart84]

Finished printing them all up and installing them today.  It took a few different versions to get the settings right.

 

I am happy with the tight groupings of wires, and the GPU ones are especially nice in my opinion.  Not sure what to do next, but I am thinking some kind of material being my printed pass through slots that will highlight the logos of the brands that I have used in my PC.  You can't see them all, but there are Corsair, ROG, Asus, EK, EVGA, and Intel logos covering the cables pass throughs.