TH Water Cooling Club and Picture Gallery

[4Ryan6]

To be honest, it wasn't quite orthoscopic surgery, but it was kind of like playing Tetris or Jenga inside the case. I spent a ton of time measuring and evaluating dimensions on everything just to make sure it would all fit. Helps when you plan a build out, detail by detail, instead of rushing around trying to fill an online shopping cart to get things delivered ASAP.

Nice Work!

Is that 5/8 or 3/4 OD tubing?

 

[rubix_1011]

3/8" ID, 5/8" OD

 

[Ellis_D]

I just added some angle-fittings to help clean up my loop and figured I'd post the results. I guess this ends phase one of the build and I will be updating sometime in the spring when I get a new GPU and add that to the loop.

I'm going to add a second180 rad. The case I'm working with is very optimized for air-flow but watercooling in this thing is a bit of a challenge.

Complete Specs are as followed:
Silverstone Fortress FT01 Case
Intel i7 4790k @4.8ghz 1.36 vcore
Gigabyte Z97x Gaming 7 Motherboard
AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB Unlocked to 6970 specs
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Memory @1600mhz 9-9-9-27
Corsair RM750 750watt 80+Gold PSU
90GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD
2TB WD HDD
1TB Seagate HDD
500GB HDD
Slot-Loading Blu-Ray burner
EK Supremacy Evo Nickel Plexi waterblock
180mm MagiCool Radiator
150ml Phobya Balancer Reservoir
EK DCP 4.0 pump
Primochill clear tubing 1/2ID-3/4OD
Red Mayhem dye
Silver Kill Coil plug
2x Bitspower 45degree rotary fittings
1x Bitspower 90degree dual-rotary fittings
barbed fittings everywhere else
2x 180mm Silverstone Air Penetrators in Push/Pull on intake
2x Corsair SP120 Fans (they're actually the fans that came with my old H80i) on Intake (one on rear and one at front drive cage)
1x Enermax 180mm T.P. Apollish Red LED on exhaust

The internals:

Custom CPU cutout I made with a dremel

And a picture of the front

 

[Lutfij]

If that is phase one, I'm already impatient to see what the next phases will bring

What dya have in mind with your system? More radiator space?

 

[Ellis_D]

Phase two is going to be integrating my upgraded GPU into the loop and adding a second Radiator. My plan is to migrate my current Radiator to the top fan and add in an Alphacool Monsta radiator where the existing one is. I'm also not sure if I want to do Hard Tubing in phase two. I was originally planning on that and going with soft-tubing only temporarily but now that I have it installed, I'm liking soft-tubing a lot more than I expected.

But it's going to be around 6 months before I have enough saved up to finish buying all the hardware so that's why it's broken up into separate phases. I might try my hand at custom sleeving to give myself a project while I save up.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Very nice Rubix, I'll overlook the wires on view mate @Ellis, go full out and mount a 120 onto the rear of the cpu cutout mate, 1-3' difference await your sweaty little chip

 

[manofchalk]

Am I seeing a ghost

 

[rowdymoody]

 

[Lutfij]

IS that the OC3D vinyl wrapped 600T chassis?

+ MoC,
Yeap, that's what i thought was happening.

 

[4Ryan6]

Am I seeing a ghost

Hopefully He is Back!

He has definitely been missed!

 

[Motopsychojdn]

I'm not a ghost as far as I'm aware lol, but do the dead know they are dead?
Nods to all and hopes everyone is well
Moto

 

[Lutfij]

Zombie Apocalypse team...assem-boll

 

[4Ryan6]

Hey guys, Today, I'm literally one month away from my TEC/Peltier CPU Chilled Water Cooling being in operation for 2 full years.

 

[Lutfij]

Congrats 4Ryan6

 

[rubix_1011]

MOTO!!!!!

Good to see you back, old friend!

 

[rowdymoody]

IS that the OC3D vinyl wrapped 600T chassis?

No it is just a 600t white edition, I printed off some vinyls at work and put them on myself

Here are a couple pics of my initial build, right after I installed the vinyls

It wasn't on in the first pic, but I built a clear acrylic side panel

Just decided to keep the vinyl on in case I ever want to put the original side panel back on, I can still have my scout trooper vinyl.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Thank you Rubix, good to see you again mate, and going strong on the builds too, Congratulations Ryan, jeez has it really been two years? Gods but time flies, And I'll be posting some pics of the fire extinguisher on my loop soon as I figure out how I'll fit it
Moto

 

[rowdymoody]

^ You might want to look through those links again...its ebst if you have your images hosted off of photobucket , imageshack or imgur. Then have them linked to the post. Edit them out as they are invalid and in most instances you wouldn't want someone to spam your facebook page.

Oops I didn't even notice that it didn't work like I had planned, thanks for the heads up. Got it squared away

 

[k2xblazer]

Heya fellas, this is my NZXT Phantom which I've recently replaced. I'm only using a H105 cooler so it's not crazy.

So I've replaced the case with the tank known as the Corsair 900D, I know It's a damn shame to have a case like that and not be running a custom water loop, I do plan to! sometime next year I'll be throwing out the H105 and 2500k for a newer I7, possibly keeping the 290's and watercooling them also.
I'll have some pics of the 900D here soon.

 

[4Ryan6]

Looks like a case of the Blues!

 

[Motopsychojdn]

There ARE cables in view, yet there is a sort of clean order to them that I like, forgiven this time but the next build is going to be cleaner isnt it? 😛
Moto

 

[Ellis_D]

There ARE cables in view, yet there is a sort of clean order to them that I like, forgiven this time but the next build is going to be cleaner isnt it? 😛
Moto

Some cases make exposed cables unavoidable. and that's why custom-sleeving exists so you can hide the cables in plain sight. But I'd say his cables are better than mine since the FT01 is a nightmare for cable-routing, especially with the drive setup I have.

Whoops, forgot I already posted my rig in this thread and I should probably direct to those previously-posted pics instead of posting more.

 

[rubix_1011]

Moto- not sure you could get a whole lot 'cleaner' than that...you'd have to really go the route of custom cabling for these components to make it better...that what you are suggesting?

 

[k2xblazer]

Here's the 900D. First things to go will be the stock fans, replacing them with Af120s and a 140 at the back. replacing the fans on the H105 with 4 SP120's Here's some pics!(quality isn't great).

 

[Motopsychojdn]

@Ellis, yup some cases make invisicables difficult to achieve but a certain level of dedication can overcome every cable believe me 🙂 give me an Ft01 and I'll show you what can be done hehe 🙂
@Rubix, you know me old friend, if I say I dont mind cables in view then they are clean lol, and more than good enough for 'normal' people, you've seen the lengths/insanity I consider normal to hide tubing and cables hehe
there have been some nice builds in here since Ive been absent and Im glad to see a lot more folks do take pride in cabling these days than in past experience 🙂
Moto