Show Us Your Rig [3]

[Darkelk]

Nice,yeah I will recieve the rest of the parts according to them by the 22nd of March, so it will then be a month later. But atleast I will get it. Trying to get Water Cooling stuf in South-Africa is a mission!

It's not too hard to get things over here in Australia, but they cost a little more.

 

[Tomha]

It can be a right pain in the behind to get things in New Zealand, and the cost difference in some items is just stupid.

 

[xarden]

It can be a right pain in the behind to get things in New Zealand, and the cost difference in some items is just stupid.

I've found its best not to buy local. Too expensive.

On another note, I've inherited some bits and bobs for water cooling. So have decided to do a water cooled build for my next PC project.
So firstly need some advice re: direction and route...
Does it matter which way the flow goes? And what is the efficient way of going to the components? Pump -> Rad -> CPU -> GPU -> Reservoir?

The pump I was given looks to be one from a fishtank, thus rated at 230vAC. The pump and res will have to be external.

One of the blocks looks a bit suss too. So also considering machining up a new one for the vga card (Palit GeForce 9500GT)
Unfortunately I cant find a decent cross-section of a block, so would anyone know if these are generally straight through, or if there are actually routed channels/fins inside?

 

[Dave76]

Yeah, it turned out the GPU fan was the noisiest. But changing the CPU fan definitely made things quieter too. Used the NF-P12 PWM, and it runs at 1275 RPM or so (compared to 1900+ for the original). Is much quieter, and the temps are unchanged. Must say, am finding the Nocs all they are said to be. All but CPU fan running with the lowest speed adapters, and still maintaining the previous temps (although all 4 Tri-cools were also set to low). A Guy

Exact same that I have on my H-80 rad, they are great and quiet.
I run them on high and can't hear them due to my GPU fan, have looked for a quiet GPU cooler, haven't found one here yet.

 

[smarteyeball]

2011, won't get much gain for price to performance ratio for gaming. 1155 is cheaper, and more effective for me in my case. I'm buying decently into 1155. I'll be dropping an ivy into my board once they hit and it'll support all my monitors.

The only real advantage gaming wise of the 2011 socket is if your running multi GPU setups. You get the full PCI-E lanes.

Asoon as i am able to make up my mind,i will be running them on a fan controler,so the rpm and noise will be controlled so to speak.

Fan controllers are definitely a great compromise. Just make you sure grab one that can handle high wattages. Some can only handle 7w per channel, so if you have a high RPM fan it won't be enough to run them at full tilt.

Others, (like my Rheobus for example) can handle up to 30w per channel which is enough to power the highest RPM fans. It also has the added bonus of being able to run two fans off one channel if need be.

My current case has 3 140mm Gelid UV fans that are quiet audible at full speed. But when I want quiet, a quick turn down and the whole machine is almost inaudible. It's a better alternative than permanent resistors.

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I run them on high and can't hear them due to my GPU fan, have looked for a quiet GPU cooler, haven't found one here yet.

Check out the Accelero L2

 

[Dave76]

Looks good, don't have Newegg here, I'm one time zone (N)W of you, shipping is a killer.
Have to settle for what's available locally.
Have a mate that comes from the US at least once a year, He brings me cool/cheap stuff

 

[Alsisgevat]

On another note, I've inherited some bits and bobs for water cooling. So have decided to do a water cooled build for my next PC project.
So firstly need some advice re: direction and route...
Does it matter which way the flow goes? And what is the efficient way of going to the components? Pump -> Rad -> CPU -> GPU -> Reservoir?

The pump I was given looks to be one from a fishtank, thus rated at 230vAC. The pump and res will have to be external.

One of the blocks looks a bit suss too. So also considering machining up a new one for the vga card (Palit GeForce 9500GT)
Unfortunately I cant find a decent cross-section of a block, so would anyone know if these are generally straight through, or if there are actually routed channels/fins inside?

Well I know that it has to be reservoir then pump, so that the water/liquid flows with gravity down into the pump, then its radiator, and then block(cpu or gpu) then back to reservoir. This is for a single loop, obviously when adding a second card with a block, it will be after the first block and before the reservoir again. When looking for a vga block make shore you get one with standard 3/4 fittings, these are most commonly used,so finding barbs for them and so on will be easy. And a universal vga block will be best in long run, cause it can fit a new gfx card when you upgrade, but these usually only cool the core, but if the card has heatsinks on the rest,then adding a fan to blow over it will solve the problem, and you can buy heatsinks for vga's because of this. http://www.koolance.com/technical/gpu_hole_spacing/gpu_hole_spacing.php

I don't know if you know this,sorry if you do, but when you plan your loop, the length of the tubing is kind of important, when too long (making a rolercoaster out of it), the liquid looses its cooling before reaching the items(not allot,but enough for around 2-4 degrees) The best way is to have the tubes reach each component with about an inc to spear, so it doesn't stretch,but is still short. The problem with this is draining,cleaning and adding new components to the loop. Cause the short tubes makes it dificalt. And as a general note. It is a rad for a block ie: One 120mm radiator for one Cpu block. or Gpu block. For the newer gpu's it shifted towards a 240mm(120x2) radiator per cpu/gpu block. But you can still get away with the normal 1 on 1 when not overclocking.

 

[Alsisgevat]

It's not too hard to get things over here in Australia, but they cost a little more.

It can be a right pain in the behind to get things in New Zealand, and the cost difference in some items is just stupid.

Getting items LOCALLY is not possable, but I am only refering to Watercooling Items or "luxury it" ie: some full tower gaming chassis, rare coolers or some latest product,which are just ridiculously priced. However, I order my normal stuff (motherboard,gpu ect.)from an online store,that ships via UK and USA. And strangely enough they are cheaper then local stores, and its the only place I could find the wc items.

 

[ganjiry]

ello folks
i onlly got around to starting movin stuff into my new case last night. nearly done tho. this is my first case with proppa cable management and i dunno which is more of a head ache lol. tryin to get cables out the way in a normal case or tryin to get the cables in the right place so the side fits on. tis a bloody nightmare lol.
im happy with the case tho it looks loads better. BUT! i think the cabling could be a bit better. il get some pics up laters

 

[Alsisgevat]

Here are two quick pics of my new hardrive. I replaced a 1TB hd for a 120gb SSD...I know that makes no sense, but it's a allot faster and I got it for a very good price. Anyway, here are some pics.

 

[ganjiry]

ello folks
thats a proppa tidy place to mount the ssd's enit

as promised heres a few pics now ive moved everythin over. cables still are'nt as tidy as id like but it will do for now.
i only need to have all fans at the lowest speeds and temps r a few degree's lower than my previous case. its nice n quiet too.
ive gotta make another stand tho as my antec lan board is too small now. the blue mobo spoils it a bit too so my next upgrade is gonna be a new board and another 6950 i think

 

[Alsisgevat]

I might just be an asus ROG fan, but the republic of gamers boards are black with red. And seeing as you have red led fans with the black chassis....you see were I am going with this? hehe
And trust me, you will never be completely satisfied wth the cable manegement. One day you'd think it cant be more perfect, the next your adding a hardrive or Vga and then you want to redo it all...or thats just me

That looks sweeeet! I like the way you lift the chassis of ground... Well done.

 

[ganjiry]

yeah was thinkin of a rog board. gotta do some savin tho enit. the cablin is a right pain in the rear itd the only bit that proppa does my nut in. its a right mess behind the tray lol. i only just managed to get the side panel on. it will stay like that now untill the next upgrade. then il try n get it better. its the first time iveused a case with proppa cable management n i didnt use the space very well behind. it could do with being more spread out but il get there eventually lol

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Nice looking rig ganjiry your cable management is neater than mine.

 

[ganjiry]

Nice looking rig ganjiry your cable management is neater than mine.

cheers!

 

[A Guy]

Here are two quick pics of my new hardrive. I replaced a 1TB hd for a 120gb SSD...I know that makes no sense, but it's a allot faster and I got it for a very good price. Anyway, here are some pics.

Very neat SSD mounts

ello folks
thats a proppa tidy place to mount the ssd's enit

as promised heres a few pics now ive moved everythin over. cables still are'nt as tidy as id like but it will do for now.
i only need to have all fans at the lowest speeds and temps r a few degree's lower than my previous case. its nice n quiet too.
ive gotta make another stand tho as my antec lan board is too small now. the blue mobo spoils it a bit too so my next upgrade is gonna be a new board and another 6950 i think

Looks great, too bad you got a blurry case tho (Kidding)

A Guy

 

[ganjiry]

cheers!
ahwell nevermind aye

 

[Alsisgevat]

Very neat SSD mounts

A Guy

Thank you.

 

[ganjiry]

you all probably know of these zip tie bases as you,ve all been doing this a lot longer than me. the first few sites i found were sellin them at silly prices but i found em on ebay for £2.45 for 50 BLACK SELF ADHESIVE CABLE TIE BASES 19mm x 19mm (4 Way) | eBay
i gotts stop smokin so much lol as i didnt even think of usin somethin like this. they're gonna make cablin so much easier to hide lol

 

[Tomha]

I've found its best not to buy local. Too expensive.

Where do you tend to get stuff? And what is shipping like?