Watercooling System! First loop built!

[DRT-Maverick]

Maybe this should be in the hardware forum, but this is just too cool, and it's not really hardware, it's more like modding and art. ;P

So after a couple weeks of waiting for the parts to ship, I finally have everything I need for my CPU loop. So I set it up this evening. Here's what I've got so far.

Swiftech 355+XSPC Restop -> Swiftech MCR220+zalman M3's -> EK Supreme waterblock -> Back to res.

Here's a photo of the system:

(click to expand)

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4607/wc1tzp7.jpg (http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/3844/wc1az0.jpg)

I was going to add dye to it, but I'm getting a Swiftech GPU waterblock the MCW60 or whatever the model number is. I'm going to add it to this loop and cool the bottom card (the main card) in my crossfire for the moment until I can afford to build my 2nd seperate loop. The main card gets 15-20C hotter than the top secondary card under loads.


I'm currently getting idle temps around 17C (23-24C cores), and load temps around 30-31C (cores 35-36C) on 4000 Lucras @ 1024K. It (the cores) increase about 1.5C when I do the 800,000 Lucras at 8K, CPU @ 30-31.

Here are Idle/Load temps. :)

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8694/idletemply8.th.png (http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8694/idletemply8.png) http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9853/loadtempbi7.th.png (http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9853/loadtempbi7.png)

Hope you like the performance of the EK. :)

[Big-Al]

what are the full specs of your PC?

[Latent Image]

what are the full specs of your PC?

+1

[DRT-Maverick]

Lian Li V2000B Full tower
650watt Silverstone Zeus quad-rail PSU
9850BE AMD Phenom (OC'd)
MSI K9A2 Platinum Bios V1.3 Motherboard w/ 790FX chipset
4gb (2x2gb) OCZ Platinum PC8500 1066MHz (DC) RAM
Dual Asus TOP EAH3870 512mb DDR4 videocards in Crossfire. (1024mb 2x GPUs total)
Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme soundcard (PCI)
160gb+750gb+750gb (1.52TB) Western Digital HDDs
Asus 20x DVD-ROM RAM burner w/ all sorts of features.

:)

[Big-Al]

WOW

[Angel_Mapper]

My last system was water cooled, but ended up being the loudest computer I've ever built. I think I was doing it wrong. :(

[Twisted Metal]

Interesting that you chose AMD/ATI over Intel/Nvidia. Still a sick setup though, good job! I wonder how accurate the temperature reporting is in that AMD Overdrive thingy. Did you try coretemp for comparison?

[rex]

Pretty impressive temperatures there. My watercooling system from way back couldn't compare by a longshot, but it was also a low flow setup.

Also I'd bet you have that auto down clock feature on?(can't for the love of god remember what it's called on AMD even when I have it supported on my internet machine)

Now I think it's time to post your benchmarks :)

[DRT-Maverick]

Interesting that you chose AMD/ATI over Intel/Nvidia. Still a sick setup though, good job! I wonder how accurate the temperature reporting is in that AMD Overdrive thingy. Did you try coretemp for comparison?


I've used AMD for years and I understand how their HT works and stuff, I was too lazy to relearn about intel at the time I built this PC, as my old PC had died and failed to post, so I was desperate to get anything running. I chose ATI because it seemed logical, AMD owns ATI so the compatibility between the two and their new chipsets should be good. I got rittled with fanboy nicknames for choosing ATI in my other community, but it' funny, this is actually the first time in all my years to own an ATI card. I started off with a Voodoo Banshee and when 3dfx was bought out I'd been using Nvidia ever since. Also, the EAH3870 two cards were 150 a piece, marked down from 225 a piece so I snagged them up (then the day after the sale was over). :)

Both the BIOS and CoreTemp display the same thing. :) Today (in a couple hours) the waterblock for the GPU comes, I'll be adding UV dye to the liquid when it comes, stay tuned!

[Big-Al]

ohhhhwwwwwwww

[Kantham]

Lian Li V2000B Full tower
650watt Silverstone Zeus quad-rail PSU
9850BE AMD Phenom (OC'd)
MSI K9A2 Platinum Bios V1.3 Motherboard w/ 790FX chipset
4gb (2x2gb) OCZ Platinum PC8500 1066MHz (DC) RAM
Dual Asus TOP EAH3870 512mb DDR4 videocards in Crossfire. (1024mb 2x GPUs total)
Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme soundcard (PCI)
160gb+750gb+750gb (1.52TB) Western Digital HDDs
Asus 20x DVD-ROM RAM burner w/ all sorts of features.

:)

That PC sure is over $1700 spend.

[DRT-Maverick]

I spent less. I bought everything when newegg was having some sort of combo deal sale. I spent 300 total on the two vidcards, usually they go for 220 each. I think I paid around 1200 not including the watercooling system. Oh and I don't think I'm including the case or PSU, as I bought these years ago and had them in storage never used since 2005. :)

On another note, I got my GPU waterblock, everything is installed, here are some photos of my worklog:

The stuff they used to stick the heatsink onto my ASUS was like cement, I had to scrape it off w/ my fingernails, Iso, compound cleaner, nothing would dissolve it. Finally got it nice and shiny. Used AS5 for the new compound.

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/3020/atichipou2.jpg



Here's the swiftech waterblock. I'm going to be getting compression fittings for it later when I build the 2nd loop, I accidentally ordered a pair too few. Yay teflon tape.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/3733/swiftechid0.jpg



The card with everything attached.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/9964/vcard1pl8.jpg




And here's the system with the waterblock setup on the hottest running vidcard and the waterdye is finally in. :)

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7757/wc2tef6.jpg (http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/1516/wc2ry2.jpg)

[Kantham]

What I see there? GPU and Bed?

[DRT-Maverick]

Beware my fluffy comforter! It's ensared many women. ;)