Fruityness bought some shinies!

[fruityness]

And the case! Almost forgot. The cat you can see in this picture is actually registered with the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest domestic cat in the world, she's 4 foot from nose to base of tail! It gives you an idea of scale and the size of the box, which is at least 6 foot square. Honest. No really.



OH MY GOD! They shipped me a £140 odd bag!!







Lots of room in the front, another rad would fit easy. Hmmm.



Two stock fans at the top and top rear as exhaust.



The roof.



Really quite impressed with the cosmos 2 so far, lots of nice touches like fan filters easily removed, simple latch to remove the side panels. Very nice case.

 

[fruityness]

Spent the past few hours, installing new goodies and swopping the hardware from the old faithful antec900.

First plan was the radiator and shrouds, which I attached to the roof of the case. No modding was needed for the rs360 radiator.





Problem one as you can see in the above picture was how far the radiator protruded into the case due to the shrouds. I had things set up as:

Case wall >> Fan >> Shroud >> Radiator >> Exhaust

You can see the small circle on the edge of the bottom of the radiator, to the left of the red SATA cable - it's the mobo mounting hole. Had to have a plan B as they would clash.

Plan B was to attach the fans on the outside of the case, with the shrouds and Radiator inside.





Much better as you can see above, more for the top edge of the mobo now. So onwards and upwards, in go the 3 seagate barracudas 250gb each, and the DVD-RW optical:



(ahhh windows is telling me to reboot be right backs!!)

 

[fruityness]

In go the mobo and psu.



I decided to put the pump and reservoir on top of the DVD-RW, as less hose would be needed, and the pump wouldnt have to shift as much fluid vertically.



The radiator filled surprisingly easily, thought I would have to spend forever trying to get the air out, but wasnt the case.



And there we go all done and dusted (ha no where near, but all the bits are in). The fans still had to be connected, and you can see the 12v mobo lead hacking its was across the picture, it just wasnt long enough to be fed behind, I'll likely just extend it in a DIY mini-soldering job.

Something I dont like about the corsair PSU is this:



I think it very very poor that the leads are exposed like this, and there isnt mesh covering extending all the way into the PSU case. Perhaps a small niggle, but for a high end PSU it just isnt right in my eyes.



The above is a more complete piccy taken 5min ago, can see everything connected up, with the pump and reservoir on the dvd with tissue shoe to see if it's leaking

I dont like the stupid way the dvd drives are attached either, its a "simple" click system you can see above - those blue buttons, you insert the dvd drive, and click the button to secure it. It doesnt secure it, and i still used 2 screws on the other side to try and stop the dvd chassis from moving. And also I now cant use my fan controller, which has very short arms which are usuallly screwed into place, they just dont attach (not long enough), with this daft connection system.

I'll likely just pull off some of those stupid attaching mechanisms. What was wrong with 2 screws on each side coolermaster? It would of been cheaper, and more secure than this daft overly-engineered system. Looking for innovation here where it isnt needed.

 

[monkey7]

Wow you know how to make pictures Familiar ramsinks

Great setup, with a little management the cable holes could look quite neater I think though I love the combination of your WC hose / fluid color and the shiny case.

 

[fruityness]

Great setup, with a little management the cable holes could look quite neater I think though I love the combination of your WC hose / fluid color and the shiny case.

Thanks. Though havent even tried to tidy up the cables yet. I have 2 GPU water block hopefully arriving maybe tomorrow or Monday. So not really inclined to go on a tidying spree just yet as I'll likely pull it all apart again over the weekend.

Much still to do though:

• Remove red coloured fan on HDD cage, blue it'll be
  
• Add blue fan for exhaust
  
• 3 new (blue) Fans for the radiator (if room) turning it into a push/pull setup
  
• 2 GPU waterblocks + hosing etc
  
• Mod the roof some more, fans are touching plastic somewhere and making too much noise
  
• Extend 12v mobo cable and hide it
  
• Extend and hide all the fan leads
  
• Eat some doritos + salsa dip
  
• Cable tidying
  
• UV sources for the glow in the dark business
  
• (long term) Mod the door / add a window
  

 

[FarFarAway]

Looking good so far mate.

More pics!

 

[fruityness]

Two new shinies arrived today..



..a couple of waterblocks for my two 4850 cards.

And in case you are wondering what a 4850 card looks like, fear not!



Just going to attach the block to one card for now, and see how much clearance there is between it (being the bottom vga card) And the top of the PSU, which gets kinda hot to the touch so not sure if i want the watertube resting on it.

 

[OmegaStalker]

You dont need two cards! give me one please! i need something till my new card comes... have you got an idea what its like to play games at 2FPS?!!!?

 

[fruityness]

have you got an idea what its like to play games at 2FPS?!!!?

Yes, thats why i bought 2 in the first place



OOOH Sexy nakedness, though I dont think they could of used more TIM if they tried, eesh.

 

[themcman1]

Hey... how come I didn't get a really expensive bag with my Cosmos RC-1000 - I only bought it the other day.

 

[fruityness]

The yate loon fans sound like several tornados and hurricans wrapped into one within my pc case, so.. I bought some quiter one, these are 1/2 the noise of the yate loons.



I also got a heatsink for the northbridge, I have a small heatsink/fan I can place on the south, if theres enough room, though I dont have a replacement for the mosfets, so will have to see when I take the mobo out if / what / how it can be done.



It's a pretty lil thing. The fan at the top right is for it.

Havent added the waterblocks for the VGA cards yet, just wasnt enough time yesterday, though I have fitted one block to one of the cards.

Going to hopefully sort it all out tonight.

 

[fruityness]

Thought I'd remove the grill from the roof of the case at the same time as changing the fans, would help air flow a little I figured. From this:



To this:



I fitted the water block to the other graphics card, and attached the 2 new heatsinks to the motherboards north/south bridge. Though the northbridge sink was a right pain, default way to fit it didnt work (even though it's apparently quoted as fitting my mobo..). The fan also does not fit the heatsink Again even though it is of the right size etc.

Anyhoo, got the cards back in and added the new tubing:



Had to run the output from the 2nd vga card upwards, as there wasnt enough room between the card and the top of the PSU, will have to get an elbow joint or some such, looks odd as it is, but works ok.



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An odd thing with the temps though, top card is showing 8°c in catalyist control center, and the 2nd card is showing as 29°c. Strange. Either way they are one hell of a lot cooler now than before, just a slight warmth coming off them, where as before they wee hot enough to fry eggs on. Next time I pull things apart I'll reseat both cards maybe.

Lots to do still though Another step in the right direction.

 

[fruityness]

Been a long time since I updated this log. And a fair bit has changed. I decided to add a second loop for the north / south and mosfet. I searched high and low for some blocks for my motherboad - gigabyte x48T-DQ6 - and just couldnt find anywhere stocking them.

I sent an email off to MIPS, a german company, and found they would be able to custom make a block for the northbridge (which is an odd sort of shape). Frankly I was impressed with MIPS` support, I shot off many emails to them all answered quickly (and in English!) And I received my 3 waterblocks with the custom fabricated north block about 2 weeks after order. If you need a custom block / standard block, try MIPS...

I borrowed my ma's camera to take pics of the 2nd build, as mine wasnt working, sadly though, they all came out blurred / low quality which was a bit of a shame. Though today i tried my old-broken-camera and it seemed to work after doing a Fonzy and hitting it a few times on the table.. So No pics of the build, but I have a few now its all done..

I thought I'd try an XSPC RX120 single rad for the new loop, as I had a spare fan slot in the bottom of the case which looked like it would fit. And here it is Fan at the bottom, then the shroud, and the rad ontop.



Got to dash, more pics later...

 

[monkey7]

Custom water blocks, that must've cost you an organ or two

Would sure like to see some pics

 

[fruityness]

Custom water blocks, that must've cost you an organ or two

Would sure like to see some pics

Wasnt too bad as it goes, normal waterblocks off the shelf go for roughly, what, say £30-40? I paid 140€ including postage and packaging, which was just over 10€, so really, it wasnt expensive, when you see VGA blocks going for £60 odd, and its easy to loose £50 on a cpu block alone.

 

[fruityness]

Bottom of the case, can see another angle of the 2nd radiator.



Southbridge block and tubing. I set things up as:

Reservoir/Pump > Radiator > South > North > Mosfet > reservoir.



Two more pics of the 2 reservoirs, both ontop of the DVD-RW

 

[fruityness]

 

[monkey7]

Wow that's some nice cooling How does the 360mm rad cope with the 2 gpu's and cpu?

 

[fruityness]

Wow that's some nice cooling How does the 360mm rad cope with the 2 gpu's and cpu?

There's two loops here, the first is running through a 360 sized radiator, in the roof of the case, 3 fans and shrounds attached. This is connected to the CPU, and two GPUs. The green coloured coolant.



The other loop, the red coloured coolant with blue coils, is connected to the north, south and mosfet, and runs through the smaller 120 sized radiator in the bottom of the case.

It seems to do a fine job of keeping the 3 blocks cool. All three blocks are very slightly warm to the touch. And when I say the stock cooling system left the heatsinks mega hot to the touch.. It's a vast improvement.