New Project: Water-cooled Corsair 700D i7-980X build!

[Fraz]

Look what arrived in the post today:



And a close up of the water cooling bits n pieces:



Happy days

I guess the first thing to do is to flush out the rads and put the EK-D5 X-Top on my pump.

[Ulti]

Some lovely gear you got there!

Just out of interest, how much did you splash out?

What colour scheme are you going with btw or is there no preferred colour scheme?

[TAKTAK]

Awesome-sauce

[Fraz]

Some lovely gear you got there!

Just out of interest, how much did you splash out?

What colour scheme are you going with btw or is there no preferred colour scheme?

Came to about £2500 all in. Ridiculous really, but I happen to have the money right now, and I enjoy building computers.

Colour scheme was originally going to be black and red (i.e. red coolant). But after reading some threads on the pre-mixed coolants (namely, this thread), I got put right off.

So I decided to just used distilled water and pt-nuke. I'll put a couple of red LEDs on the 5.25" bay-reservoir, so it'll seem like red coolant, and I've got some red anti-kink coils to put around the clear tubing, along with black and red cable sleeving. Ideally, I wanted some red tubing, but none was in stock and I couldn't be bothered to wait. It'll still be fairly red and blackish, but since I've got no side window, it doesn't matter too much. I may mod in a side window at a later date, if I've got the courage!

[Fraz]

Incidentally, some of the motivation for this is for World Community Grid number crunching, as well as a gaming + work machine. So, since I had the spare cash, I went for a 980x. With a bit of luck, I should be able to clock it up to 4.5 GHz, and then I'll be getting somewhere in the region of 50-60k WCG points per day, which is about 4 times as many points per day as I get currently on <--- My System (Q6600 build).

[Ulti]

Came to about £2500 all in. Ridiculous really, but I happen to have the money right now, and I enjoy building computers.

Colour scheme was originally going to be black and red (i.e. red coolant). But after reading some threads on the pre-mixed coolants (namely, this thread), I got put right off.

So I decided to just used distilled water and pt-nuke. I'll put a couple of red LEDs on the 5.25" bay-reservoir, so it'll seem like red coolant, and I've got some red anti-kink coils to put around the clear tubing, along with black and red cable sleeving. Ideally, I wanted some red tubing, but none was in stock and I couldn't be bothered to wait. It'll still be fairly red and blackish, but since I've got no side window, it doesn't matter too much. I may mod in a side window at a later date, if I've got the courage!

Love black and red systems, any chance of some cable braiding too?

[Fraz]

Love black and red systems, any chance of some cable braiding too?

Yup:



Hmm, looking at that makes me realise I should have got black compression fittings rather than silver. Ah well...

[Ulti]

Now that I look back at the first picture I see it in front of the PSU

Can't wait to see this build in progress!

[pp05]

Some quality gear there.

Let me know about your experience with Corsair tower once you have assembled.

[Behemoth]

It's threads like this that make me realise just how poor I am

Nice toys though, looking forward to seeing it all running even though I'm green with envy.

[mikemikemi]

Nice, keep the build pics coming.

[piggin23]

I agree with not using any coloured coolant in the loop but have you considered distilled water and a silver coil?

Also the silver compression fittings will look good with the swiftech water block.

[Zhaoman]

Epic looking build. And your physics career pays for this? I'm studying for the wrong profession... Can't wait to see more pics

[Biscuit]

subscribed to this, good luck witht he build mate

[Fraz]

I agree with not using any coloured coolant in the loop but have you considered distilled water and a silver coil?

I considered and rejected it for galvanic corrosion reasons, although in reality I don't know how valid this reasoning is.

The water loop contains nickel, copper and I think brass as well. This is all reasonable, as the anodic index of these metals ranges from 0.3 to 0.4, which gives me: delta_anodic_index = 0.1. Ideally I believe you want to keep the delta_anodic_index < 0.15 (or <0.25 tops), so I'm all good. However, the anodic index of silver is 0.15, which would then make my delta_anodic_index = 0.25, which is rather on the high side, according to engineering charts such as that one.

Hence, distilled water and PT Nuke it is.

Also the silver compression fittings will look good with the swiftech water block.

True

Epic looking build. And your physics career pays for this? I'm studying for the wrong profession... Can't wait to see more pics

Yes, more or less. Plus I get some quite good monetary compensation for my substantial time spent abroad in Geneva. It's amazing how much money you save when you're too old to go out on the piss every weekend and too young to have kids yet

[Lee H]

Awesome collection of hardware there.

I'd love a system like that but also being too old to go out every weekend like I used to isn't saving me money, because now I spend it all on nappies and toys for the little one