My Arc Midi R2 Watercooled

[juls]

Hardware:

- Fractal Design Arc Midi R2
- Asrock Z77 Extreme 4
- Intel Core i5 3570K Delidded with Coolaboratory Liquid Ultra +
- Avexir 2400MHz 8gb Blue Led
- XFX HD7950 DD Black Edition
- Sapphire HD7950 OC Flex with Boost
- Intel 330 180gb
- Asus Xonar Essence STX
- Antec True Power New 650W
- Sleeving by Arkangel (24PIN, 8PIN, 4 * PCIE e Molex)

Watercool:

- Swiftech H220
- Black Ice Stealth GTX 240
- Black Ice SR-1 120
- EK UV Blue Coolant
- Tubos PrimoFlex Transparentes 16/10
- Bloco Alphacool Series V2 7950
- Controlador Zalman MFC3
- Ventoinhas: 6 * Bequiet SilentWings2 120 e 2 * Swiftech Helix PWM 120
- 6 * Conectores Bitspower 16/10

Perifericals:

- Benq XL2420T
- Logitech G400
- 1Life gkb:keen Gaming
- Steelseries QCK
- Steelseries Siberia V2 Preto
- Volante Logitech Driving Force GT
- 1Life hd:dock Pro USB 3.0 + 1 TB WD

Here are some pictures:

Hope you like it because I do :lol:

 

[Wraith]

That's some awesome shiny newness right there! Top job on such a clean build.
What temps have you been getting with the de-lidded Intel?

 

[WillSK]

Very nicely executed build with great components. My only dislike would be the 120mm rad. Even though i'm not a water cooler (yet) I don't think they look great aesthetically and don't believe they do a huge amount for temps. Also I find it strange seeing only one card under water

 

[Mgutierrez33]

Brave man, delidding your CPU... but a wise one all the same!

I can't help but think that your loop might look a bit better if you went straight from the H220 pump outlet to the video cards and followed the line in serial from there to the bottom rad, bottom to the front rad, then back up to the top rad, then down to the inlet of the H220; might have gotten a better look at that lovely Avexir RAM and the 24 pin cabling (which also looks pretty darn good). Still looks great though!

Now to get that second card under water with it's partner :freak:

 

[NeverBackDown]

Like the idea but it could be better..

For some constructive criticism; As said above i would have gone from top rad-pump/CPU block- out to GPU(don't know why you have 1 underwater??)- bottom rad(could have maybe modded to fit a 240 in the bottom?)- then up to front rad-then to top rad.

Also cable management may have been able to be tidied up a little bit.

All in all though nice rig(certainly faster than mine lol).

 

[SuB]

is there a reason I've missed for you only putting one gpu under water here?

 

[juls]

Thank you all for your opinions, next time I changed the water I put the tubes the way you say to me.
For the 2nd graphic card, I searched a block that fit all the PCB but I didn´t find one ... I really want to put the second GPU on water.
And for the 120mm rad, I know its not the prettiest thing but I had it there and don't want to discard it.
The delidding was very easy, first I was trembling a lot but when I realise it was done, I use Liquid Ultra in and PK-1 out, at 4.7ghz and 1.25v I gain 15º to 20º Celsius at 100% of CPU.

 

[SuB]

Did you say you put liquid ultra directly on the cpu die?

Just checked your block and it's copper so that's okay.

I wouldn't have dared put Liquid ultra on the cpu die lol.. That stuff eats some metals! Aluminium mostly but yeah, scary stuff

Shame about the other gpu, can you not sell/swap for one that you can get a block for? As it stands they must have massively different temps/performance and noise?

Seems a bit of a waste to go to all that trouble to still have noisy GPU fans in there?

 

[juls]

The 2nd gpu is not so loud...i almost can't hear it...maybe I sell it and buy one the same as mine...but the sapphire was a really good deal...160€...

 

[Mgutierrez33]

Thank you all for your opinions, next time I changed the water I put the tubes the way you say to me.
For the 2nd graphic card, I searched a block that fit all the PCB but I didn´t find one ... I really want to put the second GPU on water.
And for the 120mm rad, I know its not the prettiest thing but I had it there and don't want to discard it.
The delidding was very easy, first I was trembling a lot but when I realise it was done, I use Liquid Ultra in and PK-1 out, at 4.7ghz and 1.25v I gain 15º to 20º Celsius at 100% of CPU.

Yeah man it would definitely look better, however the main thing to remember here is that whenever anyone in these threads is telling you stuff like that it's not to suggest that you did BAD work (unless it truly IS bad... then we'll just say it's bad), just stating another way it COULD have been done. This community has a habit of instilling a bit of OCD in you when it comes to paying attention to detail, so we all have pretty rigid standards when it comes to stuff like hose and cable routing x-).

That's a fairly solid chip you got there. Applying Liquid Ultra isn't as scary on the Ivy chips as it is on the Haswell chips on account of voltage regulation still being largely on the motherboard with Ivy (if I am recalling that correctly). With Haswell it's part of the die, and it sits like right next to the cores so you also need to coat those with non conductive thermal paste to protect them.

 

[angelia]

Very proper build,like your hardware!

 

[NeverBackDown]

How is the pump doing in the H220? Is it struggling or doing just fine? I am rather curious to see how it handles the extra load.

 

[juls]

The pump is doing just fine...I have the H220 since february and 0 problems since then.

 

[NeverBackDown]

The pump is doing just fine...I have the H220 since february and 0 problems since then.

Sweet! Too bad it's discontinued in the US