My first water cooling rig, pics included!

[Killaapp]

Hey guys, just finished my first water cooling setup!! It is pretty exciting, temps went from 35c/55c with my xp-90c to 23c/31c with water.

Here are some pics, I had to cut up the case a bit to hide the wires and fit the pump.

The fans are the 30dBa Panaflo's, they are facing down to suck air through the rad.

http://www61.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.radonich/images/watercool/DSCN0499.JPG

I cut an opening near the PSU so I could hide most of the wires behind the motherboard tray. I was even able to fit the 24-pin cable back there to get the bulk of the wires out of view.

http://www61.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.radonich/images/watercool/DSCN0506.JPG

http://www61.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.radonich/images/watercool/DSCN0505.JPG

I cut up the hard drive housing so I could fit the pump in there with my 2 hard drives. I also wanted the fans to blow on the pump just so I wouldn't have to worry about it over heating.

http://www61.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.radonich/images/watercool/DSCN0507.JPG

http://www61.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.radonich/images/watercool/DSCN0509.JPG

http://www61.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.radonich/images/watercool/DSCN0510.JPG

http://www61.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.radonich/images/watercool/DSCN0511.JPG

[madhatR]

congrats on ur first setup .. looks good .. temps are good as well :cool:

[5|*42]

Looks good, and congrats on the lowered temps. What did you use to cut the circular hole the t-line in going through?

[wa77ss]

Very nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am about to do some w/c myself. Ill post in not too long a time with some pics. I just dont want to have to cut up my case.

[Killaapp]

one more pic =)

http://www61.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.radonich/images/watercool/DSCN0515.jpg

[Killaapp]

I used a 3/4" and 1" hole saw to drill holes. I also used a dremel for much of the cutting and sanding =)

[Killaapp]

My only question now is what do I set the pump at? It has 5 settings, 1 being the lowest and 5 the highest. Currently it is at 4 but I am not really sure what the best setting is for this loop.

[Tat2monsta]

i got the same pump same size rad maze4 gpu and storm cpu. mine was set to 5 when i bought it. so i left it on 5.
p.s nice setup

[Aidenswarrior]

set it to 5, and that is a really nice setup. gj.

[WarriorII]

Very clean. Nice job.

:attn:

[DvBoard]

a settign of 5 would prbly cool the best because it would pump the most collant threw the loop, but if your getting good temps the lower setting is prbly making less noise.

[Alchemy1]

Wow, very nice setup! I have a very similar setup, but not nearly as good temps...lol However, I am only using one fan and my rad is inside of the case. Hopefully I can see what this setup will do when I get my Denki's tomorrow. Hopfuly I'll be here when the UPS man comes :)

[Dak9767]

Looks good, nice clean job on the wiring.

[Killaapp]

Thank you for the nice comments =)

I worked loooong and hard on this setup, took more hours than I want to admit haha.

I am going to try to switch the pump to 5 and see if that changes anything.

[castroman]

It all looks amazing, the craftman ship and the wire managment.

But VHAT is this do i see no floppy drive111one1111one11 :eh?:

LOL just kidding it looks great thats amazing for a first time Water cooling setup in my book, lol not that i've seen many others.

[meionm]

In a way it is setup it looks like mine.

Good job.

[citronym]

Looks pretty fit and trim.

[colb]

thats sweet, whats that big thing on top of your case? p.s:nice asus board :)

[colb]

did that cost alot? because those tubes look really big

[marker]

Very nice work. Looking forward to the time when I can post something that looks that good. I am working on a liquid cooled case too, but with 2 kids, it is sloooooow going.

[Killaapp]

It uses 7/16" ID tubing which is 5/8" OD.

Marker - I can imagine how long that must take, I am 20 years old and on Semester break and it still took around a week for me to set it up =)

[colb]

well im in the 9th grade...im working on a system too, i think i got a good enough case, and the water system i want is eitehr 120-150 at http://cool-cases-usa.com/. i got to go pick up my paycheck from my job,which is like 50$, and i got like 30$ now. and im about to get more from my report card so hopefully i will have enough soon.

[y2jed_2000]

awesome job, looks great.

[Sneaky]

very nice and very clean setup - i did something similar with the drive cage in my old LL PC-75B and stuck a Laing D4 pump in it :) keeps it tucked in tight and lookin' clean :thup:


ps: you're another person on my list that forgot to take the paper backing off of the DD 6800 backbrace before installing it :) no harm intended - i just find it slightly humorous how many people haven't pulled off the paper packing on it :shrug:

[Tat2monsta]

thats sweet, whats that big thing on top of your case? p.s:nice asus board :)

its a spoiler :P

[Killaapp]

haha Sneaky - I thought that looked a bit like paper that was supposed to be removed. It kept bugging me that DD would use a brown back to what could have been a really nice clear backplate. Guess that is a mistake on my part.

[metloaf]

Very nice setup for the first time. Nice to see it work so well.

[Killaapp]

Now that I have substantially increased my overclock, my temps are less impressive. At 4280mhz, 1.475v my idle is 28c and my load is 37c.

[bandit390]

Those white rings going around the holes where the tubing goes in, what are they made of and can you just get those at the local lowes/etc?

[Killaapp]

I actually used the plastic edge guard that came with the Lian-Li. Shame is now I don't have any of it in the case to protect my hands from getting cut.

[darksparkz]

That's a great 20C drop on the load temps, looks very clean and nicely setup, great job =).

[Aphex_Tom_9]

very nicely done :thup:

[Killaapp]

I think the best part of this is that now I can OC my 6800GT to 450/1150.

Ran 3dmark03 in a loop for like 5 hours totally fine at those speeds, video card is about 48c full load.