PLEASE help to build GOOD water cooling system for my i7-930

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Shadow703793
sorry man. i live in US only 4 years. why i need to short green and black wire?
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No problem.

To start your PSU with out a motherboard, you will need to short the green to black.
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/guides/atx_psu_mods/index.shtml
psu03.jpg


This lets you test the loop with out powering up the board and if there is a leak, it's less likely to kill everything. MAKE SURE the PSU will not be in the way in case of a leak.
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Those parts would do fine. What are you going to do for fans? Where are you going to mount your radiator?

My case has mountings for a 3x120 radiator and I have 3 fans in an intake configuration (intake gives better performance than exhaust) and I have a fan controller with that to turn all the fans down when im not doing anything to make the system whister quiet.

Just one tip. 7/16 tubing gets on 1/2 fittings really really tight. If you have trouble getting them on. Dip the tubing in boiling water and it should slide right in.

Im sure you would figure out the drain/fill part on your own because I did. Really it is done exactly how it looks. As for testing make sure all your barbs are really tight and when you install the tubing, make sure the tubing as the lowest amount of tension possible. That means not too long or not too short and definitely not twisted because too much tension can make the tubing loosen the barbs. Avoid any tight bends. After you checked everything run just the pump for a while and check for leaks. Bubbles will drain into the res while you run it so you need to fill up the res from time to time.
 
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In a week or so I'll help you. Once you spend that time, at least a few hours a day reading. Don't just look at sites that sell stuff. Join other forums, read all the stickies at the top, digging deep.

Hate to see you buy the wrong rad, block, pump, wrong liquid and have a leak that ruins the PSU mobo, and GPU card.

Actually, your parts list is looking pretty good.



 
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Neither do I. The first time I did it, I took my motherboard out of my case. Second time I borrowed another computer in the house.

I filled my system many times now. I just do it with all my components inside. I unplug everything except the motherboard. I use non conductive fluid so it wouldn't be that bad if a leak did occur which happened once when I bought a faulty reservoir.

That time was horrible because I used colored liquid and to this day I find coloring residue in my case. Never using colored fluids again.
 
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sorry man. i live in US only 4 years. why i need to short green and black wire?
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No problem.

To start your PSU with out a motherboard, you will need to short the green to black.
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/guides/atx_psu_mods/index.shtml
psu03.jpg


This lets you test the loop with out powering up the board and if there is a leak, it's less likely to kill everything. MAKE SURE the PSU will not be in the way in case of a leak.
 
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It will be hard to bleed the air out, you might need to run the PC on it's side for a day, and still will take a LONGGG time. Do you have to mount it that way? The Feser has a bled hole on top? If so, running the loop and opening it a bit, just a bit will help.

You need to get rid of the air in the rad like that in the upside down way, and it will be a week or so.

Having 1/4 of the rad full of air means 1/4 less performance.
 
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i want to mount the radiator at the front of my case (inside, vertical) so the fittings on the radiator will be almost at the highest spot of my case, but as i have read at the highest spot has to be a reservoir. ???
 
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No, it doesn't.

Place it where you want.

Before the pump is the golden rule, higher than the pump.

Maybe looking at a few forums and the hundreds of build logs and pics would open your mind. Other forums? Yes, some even have real watercoolers. In the sticky at the top.
 
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You can run a radiator upside down (barbs facing down) no problem. Bleeding won't take longer than usual.

I have a Xchanger and a swiftech before that. Both run upside down and most of the air bleeds out within a hour.
Maybe if you have a weak pump or not enough pressure drop but with a MCP 655 and a single CPU block, air would not get stuck anywhere except the res.
 
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