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just really waiting for my BIP II now to replace the BIX II (need more room!)... and re-plumbed my system 3 times... most recently with new 7/16" masterkleer


the WC is almost done, then its just component upgrades
 
It's projects like this that make me want to get my feet wet (no pun intended) with water cooling!

Is it just me, or do all of your projects look amazing, right up close to the end, and then they never get finished, only replaced by another sweet looking project that nears completion, but never actually gets there?
Either way, it looks like this latest incarnation is coming along nicely ;) :thup:
 
THIS IS GETTING FINISHED - GUARANTEED! LOL


here's the updates copied from my thread over at XS:

re did my WC loop for the third time within a week, and now i'm 100% satisfied with the CPU loop

swapped my uber thick masterkleer out for 7/16" stuff, as it was just too heavy for the bends i needed to do to make it all fit

so here's more pics for you with the new tubing flavor:

(as well as the hard drive rack installed with the 6-32 threaded standoffs)


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got my aquaxtreme MP-1 GPU blocks today, and OOOOOOOOH OOOOOOOH they're DAMN puuuuuuurdy!


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lastly:

confessions of a true water cooling addict:


you know you've spent too much money on pumps when you have 3 boxes from acrylic alphacool tops in your closet, each containing the stock top, hardware, and neoprene pad from a DDC-2 18w pump


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put black heatshrink over the HDD rack standoffs:

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and got the DDC-2 w/ alphacool top mounted in the HDD rack:

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its noisier than mots computers, as there are 14 of the Arctic COoling AF12 fans in it... but the noise it puts out is veyr low tone/frequency, so it doesn't bother me at all
 
P5WDG2-WS Pro is in, build is officially done minus a few little things (optical drives & drive covers, and a little bit of wire sleeving) - Conroe and RAM also need to go in, but thoes are just components that don't aesthetically contribute to the build ;)


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Nice job.

I see you managed to fit the computer into that box of water cooling supplies...I guess you proved me wrong. :)
 
If I am not mistaken it is 2 seperate loops. I personally really like the idea and will probably do something similar when I rebuild with my Conroe setup here in a month or so.

~jtjuska
 
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