So, with your advice, here it is. Anyone got any comments?
Artist's Impression (of a three year old's drawing):
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n...tercooling.jpg
Cheers :mrgreen:
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So, with your advice, here it is. Anyone got any comments?
Artist's Impression (of a three year old's drawing):
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n...tercooling.jpg
Cheers :mrgreen:
Just out of interest, how much did the WC system cost?
and what pump and radiator is that?
I was pondering on whether or not to get a WCing system, still not sure.
Not keen on the pink.
Awwww, that was my favourite bit! It will actually be UV blue, not that you'll really see that as there's not much chance of me taking a jigsaw to my lovely P180.
Goose, I got my WCing kit second hand on another forum - polarflo TT CPU, chipset and GPU blocks, XSPC 120mm rad, 1/2in tubing and fittings, Laing 5 pump, and an XSPC passive cooling reservoir - all for £85 delivered. I'm not gonna use the res as it's too big to fit inside and doean't go with the case outside. I'm toying at the moment with the idea of spending £50 on aquabay stuff just for pure PIMP factor...
Looks fine, however, you'll be lucky to get those bends from gpu to nb and nb to cpu with 1/2" tube. I'm using 7/16", which is bendier, in a deeper case, and it still kinks slightly. I think youve also possibly been slightly optimistic with the clearance at the top of the pump.
You can do really tight bends, if you get some of the 3rd one down, in fact, you can almost bend it double and it doesnt kink.
Hard to tell whats going on there, is it
pump->CPU->chipset->GPU->HD??->rad
thats a fair bit of heat going into one loop. Personally I would only run a CPU/GPU loop as that's going to give you the best noise/oc improvement in my experience (but of course it depends on lots of factors). Also I don't see any filling T, so maybe that pink blob top right is a res?
Yeah the pink blob in top right is a bay res.
loop is pump - CPU - chipset - GPU - rad - res ie. no HD included.
I was originally gonna leave off the chipset cooling as the mobo has heatpipe cooling which works very well, and I don't OC yet.
Clunk - thanks for the link - interesting stuff, have you used it? got a pic?
Cheers
I just bought a short piece of it, but didnt need it in the end, its handy to have in though.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...endyTubing.jpg
Nice Dangel, real nice.
I've been looking about, and pretty much all reservoirs seem to come with 1/4in fittings as standard. Everthing I have is 1/2in.
I want an XSPC bay res now, http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/...cat=548&page=1
what do I do about plumbing it in?!
Why thank you :) Well, you could just buy the right fittings for it - that's what I did for most of my stuff as i'm based on 10mm OD.
e.g. Danger Den G 1/4" High Flow Thread Barb - 1/2" ID
or http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/...cat=563&page=1
http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/file...xspc12inch.jpg
I dont know about anyone else, but if found Bay res's are an absolute nightmare nightmare to fill properly.
I ended up filling my system out the case, and then put it in after.
Lee
I've just got one of those big tube res' outside the case - dead easy to fill and people go 'oooooooh' when they see water bubbling around :)
Mind you, i've also got my radiator, pump, fans, controller etc outside the PC case - it's all in another case mounted alongside it - the whole thing then being on a customer made wheeled plinth.
I don't do things by halves me :)
Danger Den G 1/4" High Flow Thread Barb - 1/2" ID
is that 1/4in thread with 1/2in diameter fitting? so it fits in the 1/4in bay res screw holes, and the 1/2in tubing fits on the in/outputs?
Sorry for the silly questions, never done this before.
Oh, and dangel, I can understand the hollywood factor of putting it all on show, but the P180 is minimalist and kinda austere, so I don't think it'd work. Plus I don't wanna be cutting holes in soundproofed pannels. I actually have one of those bog showy XSPC finned Alu reservoirs, as it was part of the set, but i'm gonna sell it.
Re-Invented, I was expecting to fit it empty, then pull the res out the front 5.1/2 bay a few inches to access the fill port. Am I wrong?