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martymonster
05-01-08, 12:02 AM
Just completed my first Water Cooled PC.
Replaced my Zalman 9500 with the following
XSPC RS360 Rad
EK Supreme CPU block
Swiftech MCP655 pump
Swiftech MicroRes
D Tek 1/2" tubing with thick walls
Coolermaster 120mm 1200rpm 19 dBa 44.73cfm by 4
My Rad has 4 of the above fans, 1 sits on top in the middle, the other 3 are underneath.
The fan at the front of the case draws aid from outside.
The 2 middle fans (top/bottom) draw air from outside.
The rear fan blows air out from inside the case.
There is also the standard front intake, rear exhaust and 200mm side intake fans.
Case is Coolermaster Cosmos S

Let the system run overnight to remove ALL small air bubbles.
Then put it back together.

CPU Q6600 @366FSB, VCore in BIOS 1.375, NB 1.41, CPU PLL 1.5, FSB to NB 1.34, Ratios are both 0.67.
Air intake temp 20-21C

Temps readings are taken running Prime64 using all 4 cores by calibrated Speedfan

Zalman - Motherboard 34 Cores Avg 62.5
Water - Motherboard 28 Cores Avg 45

Pics were taken prior to putting back hard drives and GPU.
meionm
05-01-08, 12:09 AM
Looks good
schmide
05-01-08, 02:00 AM
Like it.

I take it there is a 360mm by 120mm hole in the top?
stdu007
05-01-08, 04:46 AM
Nice ... :drool:
martymonster
05-01-08, 05:09 AM
Like it.

I take it there is a 360mm by 120mm hole in the top?

The Cosmos S case has space to install 3 x 120mm fans on top or a rad or both.
Can actually have 6 fans, 3 inside and 3 outside.

The fan in the pic below is actually on and spinning

Just did some system changes, increased FSB from 366 to 385, VCore from 1,375 to 1.4, NB from 1.43 to 1.47 so Prime95, SuperPI and 3DMark06 are stable.
Room temp was 21, temps
Motherboard 28 Cores 28 28 25 28 Idle
Motherboard 30 Cores 52 52 47 47 Load after 1hour on Prime95 Small FFTs

Will do more stablity testing when I have time
phil178821
05-01-08, 12:56 PM
that is a gigantic case... do you live in there as well?

lol looks good though. :beer:
Dak9767
05-01-08, 03:47 PM
Looks good!!! Very clean job.:clap:
Sam__
05-01-08, 04:00 PM
very nice job. cant you turn the pump around to save a bit of unnessisary pipe bending.
Th3 F4ll3n P1mp
05-01-08, 04:00 PM
Very nice. That is a lot of tubing however lol. Just like my rig. :p
martymonster
05-01-08, 05:51 PM
very nice job. cant you turn the pump around to save a bit of unnessisary pipe bending.
Thought about that, but if you reverse it, the hard discs are in the way, if you move it 90 degrees, it gets too much of a bend due to side of case.
There is a big benefit of having it this way.
The tube from the CPU to Res to Pump gets cooled by the 200mm side intake fan before it gets to the Rad :D
43longtime
05-01-08, 09:24 PM
looks good. keep up the great work
tech9
05-01-08, 09:29 PM
That case fits the WC setup pretty nicely. Very impressed.
martymonster
05-02-08, 05:43 AM
That case fits the WC setup pretty nicely. Very impressed.

Thats the reason I bought it, I talked myself into Water Cooling so I just had to by a new case :).
I relegated my Lian-Li V1000 case and Zalman 9500 to my Win 2003 Server which runs a Pentium D945 (3,2GHz). Its CPU temp dropped 14 C, now idles at 31 instead of 45.

So I am happy all round
Nebulous
05-02-08, 07:39 AM
Verrrrry nice case and setup. Congrats! :thup:
DigitalMonkey
05-05-08, 11:27 AM
Just curious, can a PA 120.3 rad fit at the top of that case in the same position that XSPC RS360 Rad is?
phil178821
05-05-08, 11:40 AM
Just curious, can a PA 120.3 rad fit at the top of that case in the same position that XSPC RS360 Rad is?


looks like it would. the 120.3 is just a really thick rad in comparison to other 3x120s. i dont think it varries much in length when compared.
phil178821
05-05-08, 11:43 AM
also was just thinking. i dont have one, but those microres are supposed to be pretty east to mount. so i doubt it would be that difficult to relocate it to the rear of the case. then you wouldnt have to make that bend from the pump, as well as decrease the length of tubing going into the res from the block.
Sarsbaby
05-05-08, 11:47 AM
Congrats!!!

Are you having any trouble bleeding air out of it since your Res is lower than the Rad? Just a thought.
martymonster
05-05-08, 05:30 PM
Just curious, can a PA 120.3 rad fit at the top of that case in the same position that XSPC RS360 Rad is?

I was going to use a Swiftech 120.3 until I read a review somehwere which said the holes for that did not line up correctly but the XSPC did.
So I bought that one instead.
It listed out Rads that did and id not mount correctly.
Cannot remember where the review was.
martymonster
05-05-08, 05:33 PM
also was just thinking. i dont have one, but those microres are supposed to be pretty east to mount. so i doubt it would be that difficult to relocate it to the rear of the case. then you wouldnt have to make that bend from the pump, as well as decrease the length of tubing going into the res from the block.

I actually prefer it out of sight and away from the power supply.
I made sure that all bends were nice and not too small of an arc.
A benefit is that the side fan blows outside air over the hot tubes from the CPU-RES-PUMP before it gets to the Rad
martymonster
05-05-08, 05:38 PM
Congrats!!!

Are you having any trouble bleeding air out of it since your Res is lower than the Rad? Just a thought.

I had some wires with a switch connected to the green/black cables from power supply so it was easy to turn on/off.

I put some water in the res which filled the pump and some tubing.
Turned on pump to empty the res.
Did this until the lines etc were full.
I then tilted the system backwards so the res was higher and turned it ]on.
I shook it for a little bit to get rid of the big bubbles.
Then I ran the pump on 5 for awhile.
Turned pump down to 3 for awhile, every few mins I tilted the case and tapped the tubes.
After a few hours of doing the above (pump on 5 then 3 then 5 ...), I left the pumped on 3 overnight and all the air was gone in the morning.
Surfrider77
05-05-08, 08:08 PM
I like the case, but no reset switch is a bit of an annoyance.

Sure it can be easily fabricated, but why on earth was it omitted in the design!?
Perseus
05-05-08, 09:02 PM
Great plumbing, very sweet case! :beer:
Sarsbaby
05-07-08, 01:39 AM
I had some wires with a switch connected to the green/black cables from power supply so it was easy to turn on/off.

I put some water in the res which filled the pump and some tubing.
Turned on pump to empty the res.
Did this until the lines etc were full.
I then tilted the system backwards so the res was higher and turned it ]on.
I shook it for a little bit to get rid of the big bubbles.
Then I ran the pump on 5 for awhile.
Turned pump down to 3 for awhile, every few mins I tilted the case and tapped the tubes.
After a few hours of doing the above (pump on 5 then 3 then 5 ...), I left the pumped on 3 overnight and all the air was gone in the morning.

Good idea. I have my VGA loop on a sepperate PSU using the same method, grounding out pin 14 and just using the molex connectors. I have taken alot of stress of of my Tagan by doing that. I have mostly Delta fans and my secondary PSU powers all of them, plus a water pump and a CCFL controller.

I finaly got all the micro sized bubbles out of it after a couple days and it works great! Congrats on not flooding your PC.:santa:
martymonster
05-07-08, 01:46 AM
Good idea. I have my VGA loop on a sepperate PSU using the same method, grounding out pin 14 and just using the molex connectors. I have taken alot of stress of of my Tagan by doing that. I have mostly Delta fans and my secondary PSU powers all of them, plus a water pump and a CCFL controller.

I finaly got all the micro sized bubbles out of it after a couple days and it works great! Congrats on not flooding your PC.:santa:

Thanks