The Member's Systems Discussion Thread

[tiny voices]

The fixed vs. dynamic cooling is a good point, however I accounted for this as my push pull fans were set to max speed for all tests and my GPU fan was locked at 45% fan speed. I selected this speed for it as it is the normal high point for the fan after an hour or so of full load with the case fans at 50%. Still saw no change.

 

[Mirakledba]

Tiny, Can you MC right now or did you say saturday...?

 

[tiny voices]

I will be back at school Sunday afternoon. I will definitely play when I get back.

 

[vegetablegod]

I finally got around to getting on here and figured I'd share a picture of what I did. I

I left the H100i at the top, but turned it into an intake. I put the H55 on the bottom and it is an intake, as well. The front fans are still intakes, but the rear and side panel are now exhausts. The thing that annoys me the most about these AIO systems are how short the tubs are. I am very limited to where I can mount this stuff. My next build will probably have custom liquid cooling.

I still have to go and hide some fan cables. Was lazy putting it back together lol

 

[nukemaster]

Looks good.

 

[Lutfij]

Watercooling is as much a hobby as systembuilding is, the only difference is that there tends to be a couple of cautious bits to take note of when assembling one.

I can sense the dark side is strong in you...do not hesitate! 😡 If and when the time comes where you think you're reading for some watercooling knowledge, there is some really good info right here on Tom's to get your feet wet, so to speak

Oh yes, +1 I like it too...

 

[vegetablegod]

Thanks guys. It looks better than before at least.

Thanks for the tip, I'm sure I'll be looking around here a lot when the time comes... And let's hope my feet don't get wet lol

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome - If you're worried about your cables, I'd ask you to take a few steps back from your rig and look at it with some time. Cablemanagement will take time but the results are almost always showroom worthy

 

[vegetablegod]

Well right now I just need some extenders for the fan cables. They won't reach through the back. Other than that I'm not worried about it.

 

[nukemaster]

Your board controls the video card fans? Does it ramp with the cpu temperatures or are you running something like speedfan?

With an adapter the video card may be able to control the fans(Video card(mini pwm) to PWM and PWM splitter. I bet those fans take less power than the stock blower does).

I currently have speedfan, but it does sometimes crash the video drivers or full system on startup(starting speedfan, not the system). Not sure why. I have removed all other monitoring utilities to try to get it to be more happy. This is the first system I ever had that did not work 100% with speedfan.

 

[vegetablegod]

I have the video card fan running off my fan controller. The water pump is being run off the motherboard and all my radiator fans are connected to my H100i so I can control them with Corsair Link.

 

[stickg1]

Well I've been collecting parts little by little and still sleeving! Here's some pics in case you're wondering what I've been up to!

Molex cable to use with my new Aquacomputer Poweradjust2 to control my MCP355 pump which is not PWM and requires voltage control.


Testing out the PA2


Giving my new CPU block and some fittings a good polishing!

Thank goodness for a removable motherboard tray! Talk about convenience!

Testing the added CPU block and XSPC RX360 radiator.

 

[nukemaster]

I quite like the grey/black cables. very clean looking.

 

[Lutfij]

I feel that a blue MSI mobo is all that missing in your white, black, grey and blue themed build but if that isn't possible, its lovely.

 

[stickg1]

Thanks! Yeah I feel the Maximus V Gene is my best bet until I upgrade CPUs. Might wait and see what X99 is all about. Or pick up somebodies X79 if they upgrade.

But since mATX or smaller are my only options it puts a damper on options.

 

[Lutfij]

Nah, you're good, going matx reduces the number of unused slots IMHO less dust build up and better option for a well maintained board+thus a better deal for a used good.

 

[Mirakledba]

Good Job, Stick.

 

[RussK1]

Good job guys!

 

[Daniel Sudakov]

I'm actually pretty surprised. I had a NZXT 140mm fan laying around my shelf, and I decided to put it back into my side panel of my NZXT phantom 410. Having the 780 ti from ASUS, I normally get around 50C in full use, and I didn't mind it since I have a heavy amount of airflow going into my case. After putting the 140mm, the temps went down pretty well, after checking my uses in BF4, titanfall, metro last light, my temps went down 10-15C

I'm guessing the super pipes in the direct cu ii are getting cooled down much better, so the fans don't have to work as much anymore. My fans on auto mode go around 30-40% now, used to be around 45%

That's pretty cool lol. Found that surprising.

 

[vegetablegod]

Nice Daniel. I just put a spare 92m fan behind my motherboard yesterday to see if it would help cool the CPU socket and it has dropped the socket temp by 5c... And that is without any fresh air.


Which reminds me. I cannot overclock my CPU anymore than 4.8ghz because the socket temp goes too high at 100% load in Prime95.

Now, if I was to jump it up to 5Ghz and not worry about stress testing it... Because most games aren't going run 100% for long if at all, so my temps will never get into the danger zone.

That should be possible, right?

 

[Daniel Sudakov]

To much lol, to much!

I had my i5 overclocked before at 4.4ghz, i didn't really notice a change in my games, and after getting blue screens, i thought it was the overclocking, but in fact a OCZ ssd I put was causing them lol. To lazy to go in my settings and doing it again haha.

 

[RussK1]

Diminishing returns once past 4.5 on Intel processors unless trying to compete on benchmarks.

 

[jeremyp79]

So, I've got a lot of goodies coming in. Just ordered a new EVGA z87 ftw motherboard, have 2 gtx 780's coming, and I managed to pick up an nzxt h440 for 12 bucks(+shipping of course) on ebay 🙂. Should have most of the parts in within a few days... I'm super excited.

 

[Mirakledba]

Forums have been silent lately...

 

[Onus]

They have. Hopefully it means that people are waking up to what's going on out in the real world. They'll be back though, as things settle out. Hopefully.