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[DTH]

My first WC build. It's been a learning experience and a heck of a lot of fun. Just disassembled my Armor+ case and sprayed internals black, dressed PSU in carbon fiber.

Started with the Raystorm kit in my sig, then added a 240mm rad (mounted bottom of case - no space at top), 360mm rad rear mounted. Corsair SP120 fans inside, with 5 others outside for push/pull on 360mm rad. 1 Million connectors used...

Leak testing:


Finished product:

 

[4Ryan6]

So what are your 4670Ks idle and load temps at 5ghz and your CPU-Z validation link does not work?

 

[DTH]

Idle has gone up as summer is finally here in New Zealand! The cores sit within 0-5 degrees of ambient, currently cores are sitting at 26-30 according to Real Temp (room is 25). Load temp is 70-73 between the cores. Not sure if this variance is normal... I did get a couple of BSODs at 1.28Vcore (default Cache Voltage). VCore now sitting happily at 1.29 (with offset at 0.005) and Cache voltage at 1.2. To be honest I'm still not entirely sure what role the Cache Voltage plays...

EDIT: Sorry I should have said peak (spike) load temps are between 70-73 across the cores

2ND EDIT (so I don't make another post): CPU-Z validator updated

 

[4Ryan6]

Idle has gone up as summer is finally here in New Zealand! The cores sit within 0-5 degrees of ambient, currently cores are sitting at 26-30 according to Real Temp (room is 25). Load temp is 70-73 between the cores. Not sure if this variance is normal... I did get a couple of BSODs at 1.28Vcore (default Cache Voltage). VCore now sitting happily at 1.29 (with offset at 0.005) and Cache voltage at 1.2. To be honest I'm still not entirely sure what role the Cache Voltage plays...

EDIT: Sorry I should have said peak (spike) load temps are between 70-73 across the cores

2ND EDIT (so I don't make another post): CPU-Z validator updated

Very good!

I have to say you are one lucky Haswell owner, you have a cream of the crop 4670K!

I would love to have the CPU you have with the cooling I have!

 

[Squaredude]

i5-3570k
Asus z77 Sabertooth
8gb 1866 Vengeance Ram
Evga GTX780
128gb Crucial M4
1Tb Caviar Black
Corsair AX860
Asus Xonar D2X
NZXT Phantom 630
QNIX QX2710LED
Windows 8.1

 

[damunk]

p.s old pic. Now has sli.

 

[Proximon]

p.s old pic. Now has sli.

That's really nice. Simple, clean, easy to work on. Not appropriate for children, pets, clumsy people, drunk people... the list goes on.

 

[PCnooberson]

p.s old pic. Now has sli.

What size tubing is that?

 

[toolmaker_03]

3/8 ID 1/2 OD is what he is useing but I like the 3/8 ID 5/8 OD tubing, because the thick wall is more suited for water cooling.

the inside is complete







temp update to come **edit this is nice temps while playing games**

 

[stickg1]

I got my blocks in the mail today, not sure of ETA on the rest of the parts.

 

[4Ryan6]

I got my blocks in the mail today, not sure of ETA on the rest of the parts.

Ohhh, Now you're getting somewhere!

Has the bug finally bit you Nick?

 

[stickg1]

I got my blocks in the mail today, not sure of ETA on the rest of the parts.

Ohhh, Now you're getting somewhere!

Has the bug finally bit you Nick?

Yeah for sure, lol.

Well I was watercooled for a bit. Then downgraded my system and went aircooling and reallocated the extra money elsewhere. But air cooling got boring.

The goal this time is a combination of decent performance and aesthetics in the same mid tower case, but with a strict $500 budget. With the price of the GPU block and compression fittings, I have to decided to go used on a lot of the parts to cut costs. Here is a list of stuff that I have bought already.

Koolance CPU-360 Rev 1.2
Koolance VID-AR290X
Watercool HTF2 120mm rad
Swiftech MCR220 240mm rad (possibly two, I haven't decided yet)
EK Coolstream XT 120mm rad
Swiftech MCP-355 pump
EK DDC pump top w/ 140mm tube res

All those parts are coming from 4 different people, there's a whole bunch of various fittings and adapters coming, but not enough matching ones for the whole loop. So I know there are 8x 3/8" x 1/2" Koolance Compressions and 4x 90 degree 3/8" x 1/2" Koolance Compressions, which is almost enough for my loop, I actually need 12 or 14 fittings total, I'm not sure if I can use all 4 90 degrees, I would have to get creative. 3/8" ID tubing is smaller than what I would have liked but I would blow through the budget buying fittings brand new. Also there's a whole bunch of other size and color compressions, a couple quick disconnects, and other assorted fittings. Once I have it all in front me it will be easier to determine what I can use and what I will part with.

I've spent $370 so far, I have a whole bunch of quality fans to use [I wonder where I got those 😉], lol

I just need to get the rest of my fittings, decide if I need another 240mm rad or not, and get some tubing. That should be easy enough with $130.

 

[4Ryan6]

You're definitely on your way!

 

[Egonieser]

My somewhat mediocre rig:


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[manofchalk]

Is that case the Antec One?
Pretty nice, get some black SATA cables and clean up the cable management and you have yourself a pretty stealthy rig.

 

[Egonieser]

Aye, it's One, I'm not a person who can justify spending cash for cases hehe.
And i got 2 yellow cables so i know which is which, cuz to actually see the HDDs and SSDs etc, gotta open the other side of the case, and it can get rather confusing which Cable goes to which drive with them all being black and i can't be bothered opening and shutting the right side of the case all the time as i have my cables routed there. But thx anyway hehe.
Mediocre entry level aesthetics, but keeps my OCd 4670k nice and cool at 4.2Ghz.

 

[Lutfij]

Why don't you just make cable labels like I did?

^courtesy of my AMS build log(in sig)

+1 to manofchalk...that build just screams fr a stealthy treatment and you're system isn't mediocre. Contrary, its a system that fits your need correct? Zen no need for ze criticism 😛

 

[stickg1]

oooo is that one of those new aquacomputer rads? Lets see a pic from the business end!

 

[Lutfij]

Here you go

Surprised you didn't follow up on the build log ... its been around for quite a while.

 

[stickg1]

Nice work!


I'm still working on mine, I rerouted some tubing and replaced the black fittings with silver.

 

[stickg1]

I keep making changes, but I think I finally have the winning combination!

 

[blackdevilmt]

A little bit overkill for now but am intending of using all the cooling capabailities in near future. First I am thinking of doing is do a mirror like finish on the 900d followed by some paracord sleeving pref. extension I'll see depending on the time available. My build is kind of old but I am intending to add a r9 290 under a block in summer as I am considering getting a 28 inch monitor but for now it's enough in the mean time I'll continue messing around with my i7 950

EDIT: From Cpu block to rad I made a mistake, I had problems using Masterkleer tubing. I am going Acrylic tubing in the future.

 

[stickg1]

Bring that bad boy into the light, I can't see anything in those pictures!

 

[4Ryan6]

Bring that bad boy into the light, I can't see anything in those pictures!

Agreed!

 

[belletoile33]

My personal 4 socket (64 cores) watercooled server.
4x AMD Opteron 6380 2.8Ghz, 16Cores (Turbo mode) on Supermicro H8QG6-i
Here is some video https://vimeo.com/83923217