Noob Water Cooling

[=AG=Racer9]

This is my first watering cooling setup.After reading thru this forum and learning what I needed to do I made the order.I just wanted to tell all of you thank you for all the helpfull posts.

Also if anybody see's a problem please let me know so I can fix it.

http://www.alabamagang.com/images/1.jpg

http://www.alabamagang.com/images/7.jpg

http://www.alabamagang.com/images/8.jpg

http://www.alabamagang.com/images/13.jpg

http://www.alabamagang.com/images/19.jpg

[xtatdsm]

looking very neat my friend.

how about some temps tho, I too have 3.2E D0 @3.9 24/7 and 4.15 3D benching) and I am on water too, well your setup is much better than mine ( I am still untill today running Aquaruis III) I am waiting on my swiffy parts to get here.


anyway, post some temps, CPU and GPU.

[[KX3]rAge]

Very nice and clean looking! Good choice on components from what I can see...
Looks nice!
Now you can update your sig ;)

[=AG=Racer9]

Thanks guys as far as temps I am kind of screwed right now my hard drive went out tuesday I order one but they sent me a IDE instead of a Sata so I ordered it again from newegg 2 day and it did not come in.So it will be atleast monday before I have temps. :mad:

[dj_2004]

wow very nice, love the yellow color theme

[lithker]

i like how u did that fan connector on window. it looks like ur getting a little kink by vid card inlet. i would replace that with a smooth copper 90, it would put less stress on tubes as well.

u beat me to wc'ing an LE. did i see u on bleedin edge forum?

[Aphex_Tom_9]

very good, i like the color. im a fan of DD waterblocks, so that's a plus for me, is that a BIX II?

[creepy]

Looks good I like the color.

[pwnt by pat]

Very nice layout and I'm as stingy as they come. The only possible thing I can see wrong is the tube from the video card to the northbridge. Using a swept copper 90 or a zip tie or two and you're all set.

By the way, BIX 1 or 2?

[Aphex_Tom_9]

yeah, the 6800 -> NB tube is looking stressed

[=AG=Racer9]

i like how u did that fan connector on window. it looks like ur getting a little kink by vid card inlet. i would replace that with a smooth copper 90, it would put less stress on tubes as well.

u beat me to wc'ing an LE. did i see u on bleedin edge forum?

Yes that was me at Bleedin edge Thug is the man when it comes to the 6800 LE :clap:


Yes it is a Black Ice II Xtreme Radiator - Coolmetal Blue here is a pic of it some what http://www.alabamagang.com/images/12.jpg

Also here is a pic of the fans on top of the case http://www.alabamagang.com/images/6.jpg

Yea I am going to get a 90 coming off the video card if you look in the pic there is 2 clamps I had one on the kink and moved it down for the pics.I just got it up and running last night and had to show it off a little ;) here is a closer look at the kink http://www.alabamagang.com/images/14.jpg

[Aphex_Tom_9]

good thing you have a BIX2 :) nice job on the top there too.

[socket7]

Why is the CPU the last block in the loop?

[pwnt by pat]

Why is the CPU the last block in the loop?

'Cause in a closed loop without a res there is no first and last? /sarcasim the order is pump>rad>cpu>gpu>nb... not like it makes much of a difference anyway.

[Senater_Cache]

Why is the CPU the last block in the loop?
??
It isnt man, It is the first block in the loop.

'Cause in a closed loop without a res there is no first and last? the order is pump>rad>cpu>gpu>nb... not like it makes much of a difference anyway.
Whoa, why give the kid such lip?? I remember when you were saying things just as blatently obvious as that...for your info patty, there IS a difference, it just wont show up on the layman's garbage temp measuring equipment.
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What case is that, I know its an Antec/chenming but whats its designation...I am looking for a similar case.

You dont have any water in the loop in any of the pics do you, or are the tubes what is UV reactive??
Do you have a shroud on that rad? it doesnt look like it (im asking in regards to available space in that case)
Nice setup overall.

[pwnt by pat]

Sorry. I didn't mean for that to have an offensive tone, more sarcastic which I edited to inlude that. And yes, so do it. It was a sad time.

[=AG=Racer9]

Why is the CPU the last block in the loop?
It has been answered but just to make sure the CPU is the first block in the loop you are just looking at it backwards :)


What case is that, I know its an Antec/chenming but whats its designation...I am looking for a similar case.

You dont have any water in the loop in any of the pics do you, or are the tubes what is UV reactive??
Do you have a shroud on that rad? it doesnt look like it (im asking in regards to available space in that case)
Nice setup overall.

Yes it is UV there is water flowing thru all the pics.
Here is the link to the case (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-144-008&depa=1)
Yes I have two Shrounds on the Rad here are some pics of it
http://www.alabamagang.com/images/22.jpg

http://www.alabamagang.com/images/23.jpg

[PLOBBY]

Looks nioce, makes me want to go water even more now.

[pwnt by pat]

Once again, very nice. Why do you have some string or whatever holding the rad to the fan screws? The screws should be strong enough to support the whole thing on their own.

What kind of clocks are you getting? Concider doing the madcat vtt mod?

[=AG=Racer9]

Once again, very nice. Why do you have some string or whatever holding the rad to the fan screws? The screws should be strong enough to support the whole thing on their own.

What kind of clocks are you getting? Concider doing the madcat vtt mod?


The rad comes with mounting holes for the 120 fans but when you add the shrounds the holes dont line up.So what I had to was start at the front of the case with the first two mounting holes and then the second holes I had to cut the shrounds down some and change the mounting holes on the rad.By the time I got to the end of the rad I had no more room to use the screws into the rad mounting space.If you look at the this pic
http://www.alabamagang.com/images/22.jpg
You can see that the shround is over the necks of the rad so I supported the rad by using wire back to the top of the fan not to pretty but you will never see it without looking for it.

As far as what clocks I am able to get my hard drive crashed so it will be next week before I will be able to test any of it.If you look at the pics there are no hard drives :temper:

[Aphex_Tom_9]

that's weird...the HD problem, that is...

[=AG=Racer9]

that's weird...the HD problem, that is...

Yea I dont know why it went out it was only 3 months old but it did happen at a good time seeing how my cp has been down getting the water cooling going.But it worked out for the best Newegg was out of stock on the one I had so they are sending me a Sata II it says 20% faster over what I had :clap:

I went out this morning looking for a 90 coming off the video card after 3 stores this is what I came up with.The threads coming out of the block are not pipe thread that was the problem.
http://www.alabamagang.com/images/24.jpg

[the adam]

nice looks good. hope my first wc sytem turns out that good. That sux about the hard drives I have one sata which is my main drive and one ide which is my secondary drive so if one crashes i have a backup (I learned that the hardway after my drive crashed the first time). Also the new 90 degree pipe thing looks good.

[Senater_Cache]

well you didnt have to remove the barb from th eblock, actually Id have preffered that youy didnt as I am unsure how such actions affect your warranty with DD.
I would put some teflon tape into that thread with the new barb, just to be safe.
Also I wouldve chosen a less aggressive 90 angle. But nonetheless, what you have there seems to work out perfectly for you. Make sure you watch that replaced fitting on the DD6800 block realy close during leaktest.

[Guderian]

If you don't want to change the vid to nb tubing, you could just pull that piece out and heat and stretch it till the tubing wall is thin enough to accomplish the turn. It might take a few tries though.

[=AG=Racer9]

well you didnt have to remove the barb from th eblock, actually Id have preffered that youy didnt as I am unsure how such actions affect your warranty with DD.
I would put some teflon tape into that thread with the new barb, just to be safe.
Also I wouldve chosen a less aggressive 90 angle. But nonetheless, what you have there seems to work out perfectly for you. Make sure you watch that replaced fitting on the DD6800 block realy close during leaktest.

Yea I didnt really want to change it that much but that was the only chioce I had at the time.I may call DD and see if they offer a 90 or even a 45 barb,but what I have now works but it is alittle bigger than I would like it to be.As far as not using teflon tape the added barb has a rubber washer at the top of it just like the one from DD and it came to me without so to make sure it didnt cause anybody I just went without it.So far it has ran about 3 hours with do leaks so hopefully it will be ok.

[=AG=Racer9]

If you don't want to change the vid to nb tubing, you could just pull that piece out and heat and stretch it till the tubing wall is thin enough to accomplish the turn. It might take a few tries though.


Yup I tired that to ,it helped but didnt get it like I wanted it

[Guderian]

How thin did you get it.... you might be able to find someone with 6" of 1/8" or 1/16" walled tubing to hook you up. I wouldn't want to mess up the clean layout with angle joints any more than necessary: if I had any it'd be in the mail already.

[=AG=Racer9]

How thin did you get it.... you might be able to find someone with 6" of 1/8" or 1/16" walled tubing to hook you up. I wouldn't want to mess up the clean layout with angle joints any more than necessary: if I had any it'd be in the mail already.
Well I heated pulled and burned my fingers so I gave up :temper: LMAO
Yea I didnt think about 1/16 walled tubing that may just work, I will have to try and find some around here.Thanks for the kind words and trying to help me out.

[=AG=Racer9]

Ok guys I got some numbers for you.It runs super fast and very stable at 4.0 can go more but not yet it idles at 43 and under a load it goes to 51 seeing how when I was on air at 3.6 under a load it would hit 75 I am very happy.I am running my PQI memory at 2,2,2,5 at 5:4 ratio.My video card started off bad it was idle at 65 so I removed that ugly 90 degree fitting and went to a longer tube that makes a big loop now it is idle at 46 and under a load 51.I couldnt be happier with it.So far I have scored 14620 on 3dmark03 here is the link (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=3359328) to compare by also here is my 3dmark 05 score 6048 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=292166).Right now I have the best 3dmark03 score over all the GT cards and the sixth best on 3dmark05.
With all that said my video card is 6800 LE running the GT Bios made by Thugsrock this has got to be the best $330.00 dollars I have ever spent :clap:

[lithker]

heres what i was talking about by smooth copper 90 clicky (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=308487&page=4&pp=30&highlight=summer+project)

once agian great rig

[=AG=Racer9]

LOL that is a great idea I never even thought about going that route.I may try that when I have to open it up a line again right now it is running great tho :clap: