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- Apr 6, 2010
MedRed's Watercooled i7: Ice Ice Baby!
I apologize for adding my build so late in the process. It's nearly done. I have one last round of tweaking and some additions before I fire it up this weekend. Here is the progression. This is my first water cooled pc and my first foray into overclocking.
Case: Danger Den Acrylic Case
CPU: Intel I7 930
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
Motherboard:ASUS P6X58D Premium
Memory: 6GB (3x 2GB) Patriot PC2000MHz PV236G2000LLKB
Video Card: ATI Radeon 5870
Hard Drive: Intel 160 Gigabyte X25M SSD & Western Digital Black Caviar 1 Terabyte
PSU: Kingwin Lazer 1000W (modular)
Case Fans: 3 x Aerocool Silver Lightning 120mm Silent White LED Fan
Memory Cooler: Kingston KHX-FAN HyperX Memory Cooling Fan
SATA Cables: 2 x SATA III UV Blue
Thermal Grease: Masscool Shin-Etsu Thermal Interface Material G751
Cable Management: UV Blue Sleeving/Heatshrink, White Sleeving/Heatshrink, and UV Blue spiral wrap
CPU Waterblock: Swiftech Apogee XT
GPU Waterblock: EK 5870 Acrylic/Nickel + Nickel Backplate
Reservoir: Primochill Typhoon III Rev A.
Radiators: 2 x Black Ice SR-1 240
Radiator Fans: 4 x 120mm Xigmatek "Crystal Series" 120x25mm White LED & 4 x Triebwerk TK-122 120mm
Shrouds: 2 x Tecnofront AirBox 240
Pump: Swiftech MCP655
Flow Meter: Koolance INS-FM17 Coolant Flow Meter & Adapter Board
Temperature Sensor: Bitspower Liquid Cooling Temp Probe Display
Tubing: Feser White/Blue UV 3/8"
Fittings: Mix of Bitspower and Feser fittings.
Anti Kink: Thermaltake iStripe
Biocide: PT Nuke & Silver Kill Coil
UV: 1 x 4" Logysis UV Cathodes + 3 x 8" Logysis UV Cathodes
Power Switch: 22mm White Illuminated Bulgin Style "Momentary" Vandal Switch
HDD LED: 3mm White LED
Fan/Light Power Management: Bitspower Blue X-Station
4.15.2010
Sanded my radiators and build underway
4.25.2010
A little more progression:
4.28.2010
Painted my Rads
5.01.2010
Build almost done
I'm currently in the process of cleaning up the cable mess somewhat and getting a few more parts in. Let me know what you think.
I apologize for adding my build so late in the process. It's nearly done. I have one last round of tweaking and some additions before I fire it up this weekend. Here is the progression. This is my first water cooled pc and my first foray into overclocking.
Case: Danger Den Acrylic Case
CPU: Intel I7 930
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
Motherboard:ASUS P6X58D Premium
Memory: 6GB (3x 2GB) Patriot PC2000MHz PV236G2000LLKB
Video Card: ATI Radeon 5870
Hard Drive: Intel 160 Gigabyte X25M SSD & Western Digital Black Caviar 1 Terabyte
PSU: Kingwin Lazer 1000W (modular)
Case Fans: 3 x Aerocool Silver Lightning 120mm Silent White LED Fan
Memory Cooler: Kingston KHX-FAN HyperX Memory Cooling Fan
SATA Cables: 2 x SATA III UV Blue
Thermal Grease: Masscool Shin-Etsu Thermal Interface Material G751
Cable Management: UV Blue Sleeving/Heatshrink, White Sleeving/Heatshrink, and UV Blue spiral wrap
CPU Waterblock: Swiftech Apogee XT
GPU Waterblock: EK 5870 Acrylic/Nickel + Nickel Backplate
Reservoir: Primochill Typhoon III Rev A.
Radiators: 2 x Black Ice SR-1 240
Radiator Fans: 4 x 120mm Xigmatek "Crystal Series" 120x25mm White LED & 4 x Triebwerk TK-122 120mm
Shrouds: 2 x Tecnofront AirBox 240
Pump: Swiftech MCP655
Flow Meter: Koolance INS-FM17 Coolant Flow Meter & Adapter Board
Temperature Sensor: Bitspower Liquid Cooling Temp Probe Display
Tubing: Feser White/Blue UV 3/8"
Fittings: Mix of Bitspower and Feser fittings.
Anti Kink: Thermaltake iStripe
Biocide: PT Nuke & Silver Kill Coil
UV: 1 x 4" Logysis UV Cathodes + 3 x 8" Logysis UV Cathodes
Power Switch: 22mm White Illuminated Bulgin Style "Momentary" Vandal Switch
HDD LED: 3mm White LED
Fan/Light Power Management: Bitspower Blue X-Station
4.15.2010
Sanded my radiators and build underway
4.25.2010
A little more progression:
4.28.2010
Painted my Rads
5.01.2010
Build almost done
I'm currently in the process of cleaning up the cable mess somewhat and getting a few more parts in. Let me know what you think.
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