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toolmaker_03

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well here are the radiators, my problem is the configuration of them, simply too many possibilities, so if you could find the time to give your opinions, I would really appreciate it.
I also need advice on a type of shroud for the radiators, the purpose is to inshore good air flow through the radiator.
and lastly how to attach the fans to the radiators?



all advice is welcome and thank you

 
Solution
I don't use a flow meter, never have, never will.

Having a picture of a flow meter does nothing to support a finding, especially when you cannot be 100% conclusive that it is reading correctly or you are accurately converting what is being reported. Does the flow meter registering on the pump without restriction show a flow rate that is close to the rated flow of the pump with your conversion?

If so, great, but if so, you're still running lower than 1.0 gpm on your loop, meaning your delta-T MUST be offset to calculate your cooling potential. Meaning - you have to over-rad to accomplish the same cooling ability that you could achieve with a higher flow. Adding cost of 3x 360 radiators ($60, example) starts to get expensive...
When will we be seeing some temps and overclocking potential of this beast that you've created?

Instead of a modular design which was what I wanted but scrapped due to the excessive cost of quick disconnects, I just build my computer on a rollie cart.
 
Soon I am putting it back together tonight leak test for a few hours and then turn it on.

As Far as over clocking that is what I used the last build for so that I could understand this new CPU structure the Max on this will only be 4.2Ghz on the CPU and the GPU’s are already clocked from the factory at 850Mhz so I will not go any higher on them either.

Now for the why? In actuality I have 3 580’s, but without a Intel processor like the 2011 series, I can’t get any higher frame rates even if I have all 3 in this system. So I am at the Max that a AMD system can provide with only 2 580’s attached to the system, it made me sad, but it only drove me harder to finish my Intel build as soon as possible.
 
OK so windows is installing but i have never done a raid system with this new type of hardware. No A drive needed for the drivers is totally new to me, and i may have messed it up. So if anyone has done this, i may be asking later for help redoing it! If it does not work right.
 
Well it has been running for a few hours now so i think that my temps have stablized the CPU is holding at 24C, at idol, and the GPU's are holding at a stable 34C, at idol, but the real test comes when i have this rig cranked up for a few hours to see how hot it will get.
 
Ok so i know that some of you may try to call BS on this but they are what they are i have been running this rig for hours now and I cant seem to get it any hotter than 37C on GPU 1 and 35C on GPU 2 so you asked for them there they are and that is nice and cool temps. The CPU never gets above 34C, I will keep trying though to get it hotter.









 
Yea that is what i was trying to do, and it worked out for once! a little more than i wanted to spend but the results speek for them selves. Now I think that i have fixed the issue i had with the last build the flow was to low through one side of the loop causing all sorts of issues now i have no issues to speek of.
 
Thanks to everyone for your ideas without you, this would have been one short ride, and not the success that it turned into. I really like this rig, but please understand that i am in the process of building another rig now, and after that, it will be back to this rig for a refit to intel.
 
Sorry mate :) I meant like some photographic work where we could see your desktop/work/gaming space while the machine is running.

Your rooms ambiance and the sort of perspective/P.o.V shot... with you rocking your new machine :) ???

* oh yeah I'd stay away from easytune like the plague - only way for overclocking anything is in BIOS and not software.
 
Oh sorry, but my point will also shoot down easytune as its a software suite similar to Asus' Ai suite - Ai probe II. try running other temp monitoring software to get a relevant temp reading. The reason I'm showing signs of skepticism is because AI probe II mostly shows warning and extremely stupid voltage readings on my SB and NB with an occasional warning on the temps - all of that happens when I have IBT, AI probe and CPU-Z running at the same time.

Ambient temp?
 
that would work as well in the winter!

the summer on the other hand it would not work at all.

besides my next build will be a chilled water unit, for real, not a A/C piped through the rad.

I jist wanted to see what it would look like with the low temps on stuff.