Show Us Your Rig [3]

[ProjectDan35]

WTF!

I just typed a huge post, tons of info, and tons of pictures of my new build, and I went to click post and the internet died. ( Being really shitty today )

I really don't feel like doing that all again! Waaaaaaaaa!

 

[Alsisgevat]

EK WB...

I finally found a spot with ek waterblocks, they have to special order from the uk, but i can get them, so I am still waiting for my legendary chassis to arive ,then i can start getting the watercooling parts together, sofar I have a nice list of items I am certain on, i swaped the danger den vga waterblock for a ek nickel/acental block, and swapped the bitspower 150mm reservoir for a ek 250 advanced one. Also swapped colour of my tubing from blue and red to (secret) and swapped some barbs for a new sexier looking compresion fittings. I am just waiting for stock info on a black ice sr1 4x140mm, if they don't have or the import cost are to much I will take the XSPC 480 quad rad. And then i can finally start my wc build.

 

[peaceful]

EK WB...

I finally found a spot with ek waterblocks, they have to special order from the uk, but i can get them, so I am still waiting for my legendary chassis to arive ,then i can start getting the watercooling parts together, sofar I have a nice list of items I am certain on, i swaped the danger den vga waterblock for a ek nickel/acental block, and swapped the bitspower 150mm reservoir for a ek 250 advanced one. Also swapped colour of my tubing from blue and red to (secret) and swapped some barbs for a new sexier looking compresion fittings. I am just waiting for stock info on a black ice sr1 4x140mm, if they don't have or the import cost are to much I will take the XSPC 480 quad rad. And then i can finally start my wc build.

wow .. sound great alsisgevat ... so what theme your wc would be like? "secret" lol

 

[Alsisgevat]

Haha, i am thinking of all black,as in black tubes with black liquid and white leds just so you can see the stuff, or white tubes,with black blocks and white fans. Or white vga tubes and red cpu tubes, but no more colour leds or bright fans,i did the hole intense colour lighting on my current build, so this time going for clean and plain.

 

[peaceful]

Haha, i am thinking of all black,as in black tubes with black liquid and white leds just so you can see the stuff, or white tubes,with black blocks and white fans. Or white vga tubes and red cpu tubes, but no more colour leds or bright fans,i did the hole intense colour lighting on my current build, so this time going for clean and plain.

Nice theme choice and lighting system build. With your to be lighting system, the chasis and its parts inside will be shined as a whole rather than in partial as fan led does.

Again goodluck man ...

 

[ZaLiTH]

Haha, i am thinking of all black...

If you want a black a white theme, what about clear tubes/reservoir, with black liquid..?

I had a similar idea a little while back with black/white: Black blocks with clear covers (so you can see the liquid flowing over a black base) and clear tubes, filled with white liquid, and then a couple hidden white lights (so from the outside you can't see the actual light source). Not that I can afford any of this yet, but maybe one day I might....

 

[Alsisgevat]

Nice theme choice and lighting system build. With your to be lighting system, the chasis and its parts inside will be shined as a whole rather than in partial as fan led does.

Again goodluck man ...

Thanx,yaeh I don't wan't the bright shining colours anymore,just hidden as ZaliTH said, white led strips in bottom compartment, so it just shows all the parts.

If you want a black a white theme, what about clear tubes/reservoir, with black liquid..?

I had a similar idea a little while back with black/white: Black blocks with clear covers (so you can see the liquid flowing over a black base) and clear tubes, filled with white liquid, and then a couple hidden white lights (so from the outside you can't see the actual light source). Not that I can afford any of this yet, but maybe one day I might....

I wanted to at first, but I did allot of research on WC,and for the most parts everyone says that colour flued or "dyes" tend to clog up the rads and the block, I saw some pics of what happens when using mayem dyes, it starts of with small build up and grows over time,till you loose all sufficiant cooling. Some never get it,others get it after 3-6months. So I read the best liquid is distilled water,it's cheaper and safer. So I am going to use that with a silver coil for algie.

Just for general info. Copper waterblocks are the best for cooling,best heat regilator and so on(except for dimonds,but who can afford a entire wc rig made out of dimonds)Thermal conductivity of Copper is 401 W, BUT copper wc block will Oxidized after long use and turn a greenish colour. Where as nickel plating removes that issue.The conductivity of Nickel - 91 W/mK . But report have shown that EK nickel block tend to "flake off" after only 3-4months(some,not all) and EK has adressed the isue and replied and bla bla(not going to post all that.)

plexi vs Acetal
Plexi: Dyes and some solutions will chip away at the insides, and can cause cracking over the long run.Then you will have leaks,or the barbs screwing in can crack it under presuere.
Acetal: Don't have these isues and allot stronger.

In the end it all goes about what the user want's, if you like the nickel look,get it,like the copper look? get it. Same as in plexi or acetal. And using dyes are WAY nicer looking than clear water. But I am going for safest over longterm wc. So it'll be nickel and acetal, with distilled water and silver coil.

 

[ZaLiTH]

I wanted to at first, but I did allot of research on WC....(quote snipped)

I had my reservations about the nickel plating idea (I've read a couple similar complaints online regarding that), but never knew about the coloured fluid issue.

I'll definitely keep that in mind when I do one day go for a WC rig...

Thanks!

 

[Alsisgevat]

I had my reservations about the nickel plating idea (I've read a couple similar complaints online regarding that), but never knew about the coloured fluid issue.

I'll definitely keep that in mind when I do one day go for a WC rig...

Thanks!

You verry Welcome, I have to wait a while for the watercooling to actually start,but I found an awesome site takeallot,unfortuanatly it's all only importings from overseas,but comapered to prices and stock of other stores its pretty awesome. But even then with some discount, Water cooling produckts here are verry expencive...

 

[1foxracing]

I added some stuff since I first posted in V2 of this thread. A new AFT Pro 57U USB 3.0 Media card reader. Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB SSD. 6 140mm cougar fans and 2 120mm Cougar fans.

 

[ProjectDan35]

@1FoxRacing

Looks good! The front of the case looks real nice, I imagine the lights are more "whiter" then that, as camera's turn white light blue'ish.

How do you like those fans? I think the color scheme may be uglier then Noctua!

What fan controller is that?

 

[Alsisgevat]

I just ordered some of the WC items: Koolance Nickel vga580 waterblock( went with koolance over EK,because of the apparent nickel flaking), Some white tubing from primoflex , a swiftech mcp655 pump, swiftech quiet power quad 120mm( 4x120mm) radiator( for low rpm fans) and a EK multioption 250mm advanced reservoir.

All I need now is some compression fittings,distilled water,kill coil silver,scythe gentle typhoon fans and a lamptron touch fan controller then I can start the build. The delivery of the already ordered items apparently will arrive near the end of next month
but at-least it's ordered. I STILL haven't received my new chassis yet, but hopefully at the end of the week I will.

 

[1foxracing]

What fan controller is that?

Scythe Kaze Server 5.25" 4 Channel Fan Controller
From Amazon Amazon.com: Scythe Kaze Server 5.25" 4 Channel Fan Controller / Temp Display - Black (KS01-BK): Electronics

 

[StalkeR]

I added some stuff since I first posted in V2 of this thread. A new AFT Pro 57U USB 3.0 Media card reader. Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB SSD. 6 140mm cougar fans and 2 120mm Cougar fans.

I like those orange "things".

 

[hatehereyes]

Hey guys, so it's been a long long long time since I've been active on these forums. I've barely touched my system since I first built it since it's very stable right now but within a week I'm going to be opening it up and rearranging some hard drives and installing a SATA III card along with a new OCZ Agility 3 SSD to boot from and create some RAID drives with 1tb's. I'll post pictures again once everything is set up.

Now for my question, I have a Antec mini P180 microATX case and I want to add some fans to the front as an intake since right now, all I have are exhaust through the back and top. For those of you that know the measurements and gap size in between the dust screen/front of the case and the hard drive caddy's, is there a fan that would be able to fit in the tiny gap with all drive slots filled and installed?

 

[ganjiry]

ello hatehereyes
dunno if this is any good. they're thinner than the usual 25mm
Scythe Slip Stream 2000 rpm 120mm Slim Case Fan, SY1212SL12H

 

[Tomha]

Finally got my 500r, it is an awesome case

The odd cable hanging out front is for the side fan and you can see in the 5.25" bays where I got lazy with my Sentry 2 fan controller cables

As for the graphics card, that has been the stand in I have had for just under a year now Its a Nvidia geforce 210, and I shall be ordering my Gigabyte windforce 7950 this thursday.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Tomha,
The new case is wicked, it allows a very clean wire routing. You're right looking at the spec's the GPU is the weak link but your new edition will cure that handily.

 

[Tomha]

My original budget was only about $1800 New Zealand, today thats about 1200 US, since I have upgraded to 16gb of vengeance, better cooling, and a cpu cooler. When I get the graphics card my build will finally be complete

 

[A Guy]

Oh, never complete...only currently complete

A Guy