Watercooling Setup Plans

2017-04-10 at 5:20 AM UTC

#21

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

finally got around to sleeving everything, the 24pin took literally all night. need to get some clips to straighten the cables out; I tried bobby pins but they're not long enough. I might be able to bend some metal or cut holes in some aluminium, might even be able to use the cable management clips they sell at officeworks...

unplugged the LED strips because it was difficult to 'hide' them behind the motherboard and having them exposed looks tacky.

getting paid monthly sucks balls, will hopefully be able to get the rest of the parts for watercooling in the next week or so.

2017-04-13 at 3:50 AM UTC

#22

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

ordering parts now. thinking blue liquid, either neon or solid pastel. I had considered white but all the builds that use white liquid look way too... sperm-banky.

2017-04-18 at 3:56 AM UTC

#23

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

SO, I changed up my layout.


[FAT RADIATOR] <----
      |            |
[RESERVOIR/PUMP]   |
      |            |
[GPU WATERBLOCK]   |
      |            |
[SLIM RADIATOR]    |
      |            |
[CPU WATERBLOCK] ---

and ordered most of the parts - I just need to get the CPU waterblock and radiators now:

2017-04-18 at 7:50 AM UTC

#24

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

2017-04-18 at 4:13 PM UTC

#25

Ghost Prototype Houston

Dope af. What temps were you getting before?

Post last edited by Ghost Prototype at 2017-04-18T17:50:07.638969+00:00

2017-04-21 at 4:49 AM UTC

#26

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

Originally posted by Ghost Prototype Dope af. What temps were you getting before?

dunno lol, primary reason for this is not practical. I'll test it tonight before I start working on the loop (assuming my parts arrive before the weekend).

So far the following has arrived:

GPU Waterblock
Pump/Reservoir
4m Clear Tubing
12x Compression Connectors
Coolant Fluid

Hopefully these will arrive this afternoon:

CPU Waterblock
2x Radiators

2017-04-24 at 5:17 AM UTC

#27

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

Parts didn't arrive before the weekend. They came today though; I took everything apart last night and will start putting it back together in a few hours. I attached the GPU waterblock:

Will post more pics/something like a build log when I start.

2017-04-24 at 6:52 PM UTC

#28

benny vader YELLOW GHOST

researchers discovered that 2.76% of global warmth comes form computers.

STOP GLOBAL WARMING.

STOP COMPUTING.

2017-04-26 at 3:52 AM UTC

#29

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

couple of things didn't work out how I wanted them to, I plan on getting a different case and chopping it up at some point. It works and keeps CPU/GPU temps at around 35 but it's a bit of a hack job.

2017-04-26 at 6:58 AM UTC

#30

Esplender Tuskegee Airman [my gynecological profit-maximising katar]

Nigga just immerse your entire setup in mineral oil

2017-04-26 at 9:01 AM UTC

#31

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

Originally posted by Esplender Nigga just immerse your entire setup in mineral oil

considered it but that's messy as fuck

also lol, didn't realise until I looked at that photo again - one of my RAMsticks isn't plugged in properly

2017-04-26 at 9:11 AM UTC

#32

Esplender Tuskegee Airman [my gynecological profit-maximising katar]

Originally posted by aldra considered it but that's messy as fuck

also lol, didn't realise until I looked at that photo again - one of my RAMsticks isn't plugged in properly

You could also immerse it under cooking oil and deep fry whatever you feel like eating

2017-04-26 at 11:38 AM UTC

#33

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Botbump

2017-05-18 at 6:05 AM UTC

#34

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

Ordered another case, this one I'm going to chop up and customise before I migrate my hardware into it.

https://www.pccasegear.com/products/28381

I'm going with blue sleeved cables and blue liquid cooling, white lighting. Ideas for a case colour scheme welcome - I'm thinking of doing either white or raw metal internally.

2017-05-18 at 6:10 AM UTC

#35

snab_snib African Astronaut

dual watercooled 3.3ghz xeon e5-2670's, 16 cores 32 threads 40mb l3 cache, 64gb ecc ram, 8gb vram quadro M4000, 2x samsung 850 pro 512gb in RAID0.

Post last edited by snab_snib at 2017-05-18T06:12:33.892277+00:00

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2017-05-18 at 6:12 AM UTC

#36

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

I like the look of hard tubing but it seems difficult to work with and very easy to mess up measurements/tolerance... plus all those fixtures would cost a fortune; my setup only makes use of 10-12 straight compression fittings and the cheapest I could get them for was $60 (if I didn't get the clearance sale ones it'd be twice-thrice that)

2017-05-18 at 6:13 AM UTC

#37

snab_snib African Astronaut

it did cost a small fortune...

2017-05-18 at 11:05 PM UTC

#38

SBTlauien African Astronaut

Originally posted by bling bling u can buy cheap corsair super power fan on ebay if ur lucky i go mine for like 7£

That's like putting a bumper sticker on a Ferrari.

OP, your new PC already looks bad ass. I can't wait for my next build.

Do you think all of that is necessary though?

2017-05-22 at 1:47 PM UTC

#39

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

Originally posted by SBTlauien Do you think all of that is necessary though?

LOL no

--snip for massive photo see next page--

I've got some more parts coming but after how long it took me to get it running nicely, I will not be taking it apart again for a while. The only thing I plan on adding for the moment is an LED light colour controller; all of the LEDs in the case are RGB but my controller is a piece of shit so they're all permanently switched to green.

The green is growing on me though.

Post last edited by aldra at 2017-05-23T04:22:59.667353+00:00

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2017-05-22 at 1:47 PM UTC

#40

aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

PS. that is Mini-ITX, was fucking HARD to get everything to fit in and not look like total spaghetti.

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