Leviathan - X99, SLI 980ti's and watercooling!

The die on the Halsell-E processors is pretty much a square, and is roughly quarter the size of the IHS. So imagine your IHS divided into sixteen squares, you want an X of paste on the central four squares.

Cue the bad MS Paint diagramme...

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Any more than this is a waste.

Well I just used the spread method, I put a grain of rice sized dot on and smoothed it over the whole CPU. it was only just thick enough for me not to completely make out the text on the CPU.

Booted up and HWMonitor is showing a steady 27C! :D 4 degrees better off!!! :D

All the cores are currently bellow 22C! So I just have some bad TIM between the cores and the heatspreader Or the solder mix they used this time...
 
Hey guys and here is update number five!

First of all, I would like to apologies with the amount of time it has taken to get these images together! There has been lots of problems and things taking up my time! First off I had to take some time off for the project to be the head of press at the Weyfest music festival! That was a long but really fun weekend! Got to meet some amazing artists and take some "good" photos of them! Then a few days after that I flew off to my holiday in Spain! I am now back in the UK and have also got some good and bad news...

It is best to start with the bad news, while I was away I had to send off my compact flash card which held some of the Weyfest photos and a fair few of the build log images. Unfortunately the card is dead and it has taken some of the photos with it. I sent it off to be recovered and they managed to save some stuff but not all of it. I am now missing all the tube bending images, so I am going to try and take some photos to fill the gap! Now for the good news! My Linksys 1900AC ( A pile of crap router) finally conked out on me. I had to send it back to Linksys to be RMA'd. They checked it and there was a technical fault. They have now sent me out a new one, hopefully the V2 of the router! which will be here shortly!

Here is a quick image I put together of one of my photos from Weyfest and a photo from my holiday!

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But now back to PC time!

Here is some photos which were recovered from the CF card of the PC in my garden with the radiators installed! I have got a Alphacool NexXxos Monsta 240mm and 360mm. These were taken from my previous build as they are simply brilliant radiators! They fill the space at the front of the case beautifully and they are solid!

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In the basement I am using the trust AF120 fans from Corsair! These are great case fans and this one in the basement is to help cool the SSD (Not that it needs cooling) and the HDD.

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I must of had the PC outside for like two minutes before little bugs started to land on the case! He must just be a fan of my work. Or just a fan of Caselabs cases!

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Here is a shot of the two radiators in place! These things are huge, but perfectly sized for this type of case! You will also notice the hole in the case, this is going to be drilled out using the new £35 drill piece I had to buy to be able to extend the size to fit the EK-AF pass through fittings. Who said watercooling was cheap!

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Here is one of the drain ports at the bottom of the radiator. The drain ports are placed here because it hides them the best. I am not a fan of showing off drainage systems as they usually look fairly ugly!

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Everything has fan filters on it! Love the aesthetics these give! The ones internally are black and the external ones are chrome! I am a sucker for black and chrome!

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Here is a shot of the other drainage system within the system. This is directly bellow the 240mm radiator and fits through a small hole in the case. Also here are the braided front panel connectors. I braided them myself in the last build! It took a long time for me to get them exactly how I wanted them, multiple attempts for something that never gets seen!

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At the front of the case protecting the rest of the system from dust is all the Silverstone magnetic dust filters! I have the system in a heavy postive airflow system (5 blowing in and 2 blowing out). This means that I need dust filters or the system will get seriously furry quick! The only problem with these is that the ones of the 360mm radiator are really difficult to clean as the front of the case there isnt removeable... It means it need a vacuum and a paint brush to clean them.

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The only problem I have with the fans I am using is that I cannot directly mount the fan filters to the fans. The issue is that the blades actually stick out a couple of MM's and because of this, they will rub and not spin because of the filters. so... I have had to take some rubber washers to space them out. This also hopefully helps with reducing the noise of them. I am using Phobia E-loops on a 7v fan speed reducer. These are amazing fans and I highly recommend them as watercooling fans!

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Some of the smaller details of the caselabs case! The hex mesh looks on point and everything is made to be solid!

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Behind the AF120 fans I am using rubber silencing material to help reduce the noise these give off. I have always found the AF120's to be quite noise fans and these do help with the noise output of them. The main reason that I use them is because of the fan rings. I love matching the colour with the coolant!

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Here is a macro shot of the fan grill and the fins of the 240mm radiator!

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And finally a little bit of the EK branding coming through on their reservoir mount! It holds the res very tightly in place, otherwise I would probably of had wet parts in my last build...

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Thanks again for checking the build log out! There is plenty more content to come! I have got tube bending, case drilling and part fitting still to come! And there may even be some cable braiding to come!

If you haven't already, please sub to the thread to receive updates on the thread so you can be the first to see kill the parts in my system! (Hopefully that wont happen!)
 
Lovely shiny parts there, but the thing that caught my eye is in your post #7. One of the pictures you use a magnetic bowl thing to hold your screws in place. Could you please tell me where to get that and more importantly what it's called? :D
 
Lovely shiny parts there, but the thing that caught my eye is in your post #7. One of the pictures you use a magnetic bowl thing to hold your screws in place. Could you please tell me where to get that and more importantly what it's called? :D

One of the best things I bought actually! I am forever dropping/ knocking screws onto the floor!

I bought this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001QB2MTE?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00

It is just a magnetic parts dish!
Its by toolzone on amazon and its only £3.50
 
Thanks you lovely people :)

Edit: None of these bastards wants to mail it to Denmark. Seems I have to find this locally.
 
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Mini update here guys! so this would be update 5.5 .

Here is the SSD's I am going to be using in a RAID array. These are all 256gb. Two of these are coming from the previous build and I am adding two extra to get the extra SPPPPPEEEEEDDDD!

Got two little brackets for the SSD's so that I can fit them into hard drive cage.

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They are all Crucial M550's, I really like these SSD's! Very fast!

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All nicely seated now! Looking very tidy!

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I put the SSD's and the 3TB WB green into the hard drive cage! I sorted the cables out with new SATA power connectors to get everything looking smart and here is the final result! On a side note, that is my mini ITX build Betsy which I am using at the moment while this build happens! Amazing how small this little PC is... or how big the hard drive cage is for the S8!

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Thanks again for checking out my build log and I hope you are enjoying the content! Please do get subbed to the thread for more updates and if you have any questions, dont hesitate to ask!

TPK AWAAYYYYYYYYY
 
Mini update here guys! so this would be update 5.5 .

Here is the SSD's I am going to be using in a RAID array. These are all 256gb. Two of these are coming from the previous build and I am adding two extra to get the extra SPPPPPEEEEEDDDD!

Got two little brackets for the SSD's so that I can fit them into hard drive cage.

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They are all Crucial M550's, I really like these SSD's! Very fast!

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All nicely seated now! Looking very tidy!

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I put the SSD's and the 3TB WB green into the hard drive cage! I sorted the cables out with new SATA power connectors to get everything looking smart and here is the final result! On a side note, that is my mini ITX build Betsy which I am using at the moment while this build happens! Amazing how small this little PC is... or how big the hard drive cage is for the S8!

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Thanks again for checking out my build log and I hope you are enjoying the content! Please do get subbed to the thread for more updates and if you have any questions, dont hesitate to ask!

TPK AWAAYYYYYYYYY

Please don't RAID0 them !!!

Sell them all and get a 1tb drive as it boots up faster and is far more reliable.

I used to use RAID0 4 OCZ SSDs and it was a nightmare, in the end I put all of them in the bin (over £4000 worth) and walked away.

Now I use a single 1tb Samsung 850 Pro and it is way better.:)
 
Please don't RAID0 them !!!

Sell them all and get a 1tb drive as it boots up faster and is far more reliable.

I used to use RAID0 4 OCZ SSDs and it was a nightmare, in the end I put all of them in the bin (over £4000 worth) and walked away.

Now I use a single 1tb Samsung 850 Pro and it is way better.:)

Well I ran two of them in RAID 0 for a while and I found there was quite a big difference between one drive and two drives. The boot time doesnt matter too much. The main thing I am worried about is the RAID array dying...

the other two of them came from Ebay for about £70 each, so I am not dropping the big dollar on these.

I thought about going for one big drive, but I want to have some fun with RAID :D

Also, I did find a way of speeding the boot speed up. It gets rid of the RAID screen which takes ages and jumps immidiately from BIOS splash screen to windows loading.
 
How did you do this?

In the BIOS you need to put "Option ROM Message" to "Keep Current" rather than "Force BIOS".

Normal if this is left to "Force BIOS" it will load the BIOS splash screen, then show the RAID screen, then show the BIOS splash screen again before booting into windows.

When you change it to "Keep Current" It loads the BIOS splash screen and the boots to windows.
 
Well here is another mini update. This time, not even to do with this build! so it is pretty much update 5.6. The previous build I was using a Asus Sabertooth Z87 board. It eventually started doing some weird things and then the NIC in it died. So when I took it out I decided to give it a wash and then a reflow to see if I could get it back to normal...

I took all the thermal armour and bought myself a contain and some De-natured Alcohol for it to be washed in.

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I got myself a little brush and made sure to scrub every part of the board. I took off all plastic parts and the heatsinks etc so I could give everything a good clean off. I left it to soak for about 30 minutes after I had washed it and then slowly let it dry before heating it with a hair dryer and then with a heat gun after I thought it was dry enough. I have since been on holiday and given it a long enough time to dry off!

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The processor from my old build went into my ITX PC and I sold the ITX's processor off... so I now need to get a new processor for this. And as luck would have it, I just bought two processors off of Ebay! I bought a Pentium G3258 K processor and the I3-4130t! Depending whether the NIC works or not then it will either be overclocked through the roof with the Pentium and if not, it will be swapped into my NAS...

Thanks for checking out this off topic update!

TPK AWAAYYYYYYY
 
Hey guys, Another little update and this time I need a bit of help with this! I am getting some cable bits sent to me from ShakMods (Thanks Sali), and I would like to know what your thoughts are on the cable sleeving designs I could potentially make. I will be braiding the cables myself and already have the sleeving chosen. However There are a few designs for the 24 pin which interest me and I would just like to know what you think is best!


Idea 1
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Idea 2
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Idea 3
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If you think all the designs are terrible, try making your own here! I would be very interested to see what you can make! Just remember, I will be using Black, grey and blue as they are the colours in the PC currently.

http://choosemypc.net/sleeving/
 
first one, nicest balance between colours imo! ^^

Thats the one I am digging the most at the moment. I want to see peoples reactions and give it a little time looking at them...

I have got a dark grey and light grey, I could use both of those in the design. What do you think?
 
It could be possible but than the design has to be flawless, otherwise it might contain to much colours at once :/ But i think that this will be enough and will be well balanced nicely in colours :)
 
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