TH Water Cooling Club and Picture Gallery

[Deleted member 362816]

My first water-cooling loop that on here had failed..... I had to redo it and replace a radiator.

cpu-2600k at 4.2ghz idle 30c load 50c
gpu- Evga super clocked idle 25c load 40-50c
ram- 16gb of ddr3 1666 gskill rip jaws
Back radator- 140mm slimline Koolance
top radator- Xspc 360mm
cpu waterblock- xspc
gpu waterblock- Koolance

 

[bejabbers]

Upgrade complete!
New additions: EVGA Nvidia GTX 580 FTW Hydro 2 copper, phobya 200mm radiator and swiftech 120mm radiator

 

[4Ryan6]

@bejabbers

Wow dude awesome, 3 rads in one case and looks extremely neat!

Excellent work!

 

[Keiki646]

this is my rig

Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 Overclock to 4GHz
AZZA Solano 1000 Black/Japanese Full Tower Case
XSPC Rasa RS240mm Water Cooling Kit
NZXT Sentry LX Aluminum dual bay fan controller
GIGABYTE GA-P55-USB3 LGA 1156 Intel P55 USB 3.0 F10g BIOS
LG Multi-Super DVD Combo Drive (SATA)
Patriot Inferno 64GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Western Digital 250GB HD (SATA) Western Digital 500GB HD
4GB G.Skill Trident 2000MHz DDR3 Extreme Performance 9-9-9-27 1.6V With Kingston HyperX Ram Cooler (LED Blue)
Sapphire Radeon HD ATI 5850 HD 1GB GDDR5 256Bit Overclock with MSI Afterburner @950/1250 with EK-FC5850 GPU Water Block
EVGA Nvidia 9800GT 512MB GDDR3 256Bit (Dedicated PhysX Card) Overclock with MSI Afterburner 735/1831/1100
Xigmatek 650 Modular PSU 85+ PLUS Certified, PFC Active
5 UV LED Cathode Lights and 2 Sound module

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Wow, great cm for all that stuff
Moto

 

[upgrade_1977]

Here is mine:










Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Others:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/img5755w.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/811/gtx480sliupgrade2112011.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/19/installingwaterblockong.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/installingwaterblockong.jpg/

 

[Deleted member 362816]

Are those heatkiller gpu blocks?

 

[upgrade_1977]

Are those heatkiller gpu blocks?

You talking to me?

The bottom one is a DangerDen Gtx 480 waterblock that I installed my self. When I bought the original card it was $680 and the waterblock costed me $180 ($960.00 Total not including shipping). There was no way I was running them air cooled.

The top one is an MSI GTX480 Hydrogen with a AuquagrafX cooler.
Heard some people in other forums calling them EK blocks and Heatkiller blocks, Honestly i'm not sure. I bought it on sale on newegg for $300.00 with the cooler so I couldn't pass it up..
(had a lot of bad reviews on newegg, but they only sold a few, and I haven't had a problem with it. Works flawless. Think it was just a fluke that first few buyers got bad ones, so people avoided them, and newegg decided to dump them cheap I guess. I got lucky. Wasn't easy talking my wife into letting me buy it. )

http://www.geeks3d.com/20100817/msi-n480gtx-hydrogen-a-water-cooled-geforce-gtx-480/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Yd8v2Ub9E&feature=player_embedded#at=281


I was hoping the hose adapters would line up as they looked similar in the picture, but they didn't, thats why I have the funny loop connecting the cards. Pain to bleed, and I prefer a clean look. I'd like to replace the AuquagrafX block with another DangerDen block. Love DangerDen.

 

[upgrade_1977]

here is my first contribution ;
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AWSOME PC!! Love it!!

 

[Keiki646]

You talking to me?

The bottom one is a DangerDen Gtx 480 waterblock that I installed my self. When I bought the original card it was $680 and the waterblock costed me $180 ($960.00 Total not including shipping). There was no way I was running them air cooled.

The top one is an MSI GTX480 Hydrogen with a AuquagrafX cooler.
Heard some people in other forums calling them EK blocks and Heatkiller blocks, Honestly i'm not sure. I bought it on sale on newegg for $300.00 with the cooler so I couldn't pass it up..
(had a lot of bad reviews on newegg, but they only sold a few, and I haven't had a problem with it. Works flawless. Think it was just a fluke that first few buyers got bad ones, so people avoided them, and newegg decided to dump them cheap I guess. I got lucky. Wasn't easy talking my wife into letting me buy it. )

http://www.geeks3d.com/20100817/msi-n480gtx-hydrogen-a-water-cooled-geforce-gtx-480/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Yd8v2Ub9E&feature=player_embedded#at=281


I was hoping the hose adapters would line up as they looked similar in the picture, but they didn't, thats why I have the funny loop connecting the cards. Pain to bleed, and I prefer a clean look. I'd like to replace the AuquagrafX block with another DangerDen block. Love DangerDen.

That was the coolest thing I have seen about water blocks for GPU's

 

[Keiki646]

Changes to my Loop and why video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOT7V94TOyc

My ProJect Red Storm Gaming PC Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry82r1dhJHY

 

[Deleted member 362816]

Yeah the msi block is a heat killer lol well same design

 

[bejabbers]

@bejabbers

Wow dude awesome, 3 rads in one case and looks extremely neat!

Excellent work!

Thanks

Took a little bit of modding with the rear fan and fan plate on the front 200mm rad, but I managed to get it all in there.

It's too bad that it's summer, ambient temps are like 24C, so my temps during benching get up around 60C (when OC'd to 4.0, although I think I should play around with the settings a bit more, see if I can get everything stable at lower voltages). Might try to find a big (250mm I think - 2x2 120mm fans) fan to fit on the mesh side panel to replace the window.

Next step is to get a mobo and ram that match the color scheme. But that might have to wait until IB comes out.

 

[rubix_1011]

Yeah, almost like a magic trick to fit that much raddage inside a single box. Nice, clean build there.

 

[Rustyy117]

I hate imageshack, chuffing smeggers.

 

[ortoklaz]

what's wrong with imageshack ?

 

[saint19]

It's blocking domains not registered.

 

[Rustyy117]

what's wrong with imageshack ?

Took an hour to upload 5 images (each less than 2MB) the at the end of the upload I get an error saying "no images have been uploaded"

The when I do get an img uploaded and try and display it, it doesn't display at all using

tags!... and then someone closes my test thread in the testing subsection : /

 

[Rustyy117]

http://i676.photobucket.com/albums/vv125/iNoXious/2011-06-19063247.jpg

Aha! Photobucket = Win!

 

[ortoklaz]

nice rig ! ,as for imageshack..works floless for me ,just copy forum code and past it here
P.S. see "Rules " in OP

 

[Rustyy117]

nice rig ! ,as for imageshack..works floless for me ,just copy forum code and past it here
P.S. see "Rules " in OP

Thanks! I seem to have alot of issue's with imageshack, never used too.

I've removed an img as per OP rules

 

[4Ryan6]

I guess I'm the Black Sheep of this little club, but my water cooling is for CPU performance only, for the maximum overclocks I can get from it.

I tried the radiator route but it just fell way short on the 2500K Sandy Bridge, as my goals needed to be below ambient room temperature, here's my solution.

The cooler is a 54qt cooler, presently running 6 gallons of water, it gives me the advantage of taking a long time to heat a massive volume of water, even if the water is at ambient room temperature and when overclocking and testing I just drop in a frozen gallon jug of water or two.

I've wasted a lot of money to finally settle on this, and the performance results are extremely satisfying!

54qt Coleman Cooler

Water Feed Line Cooler Connection

Water Return Line Connection

Pump Output Line Through Desktop

 

[saint19]

Nice to see you in the WC world Ryan

 

[4Ryan6]

Nice to see you in the WC world Ryan

Thanks German, This has allowed some interesting discoveries regarding overclocking the new Sandy Bridge K series of unlocked CPUs.

Discoveries that the mass majority is completely clueless about, being able to directly control water temperature test levels, adds a whole new information gathering level to the mix.

 

[upgrade_1977]

Wow, can you post some benchmarks of you overclock pls, curios what that thing can do at 5.1ghz. :d