My first mod, Xigmatek Elysium watercooled

[Auda]

Just wanted to show a few pics from my mediacenter/gaming pc.
I have built a few pcs before but this is my first heavily modified build, and also my first attempt at watercooling.

This is just a rough/not care about finish, test project.
It is actually painted with stone chip underbody car paint. I was very surprised when it matched perfectly with the original paint:huh:

And yes, i have realised the watercooling bit might be slightly overkill...



System spec:

xigmatex elysium
asus crosshair v formula
amd 8150
4x4gb g-skill 2133 mhz ram
crucial m4 128 gb
western digital 200gb
3x western digital 1tb
seagate barracuda 3tb
corsair ax 1200 psu
evga 670 overclocked 4tb
asus d2x
2x Alphacool NexXxoS UT60 Full Copper 480mm
Watercool HEATKILLERÂ mb-set
Watercool HK
Alphacool d5

As yoiu can see i had to do a few mods to fit 2 x 480mm rads even in the huge elysium:

Window on the wrong side:

Pretty happy with the hoses here

D5 at the bottom of the modified harddrive cage

harddrives

Front radiator with gentle typhoons

Upside down with psu at the top

Cards and reservoar

out of focus

BIG radiators

Bottom radiator

Fillport hidden under the top cover

Hoses from radiators and pump

There is some clearance.... barely

Under here is the bleedport on top of the front radiator

 

[Mgutierrez33]

wow, lots of gear in that case and super functional. Not too shabby... just sucks that those cards sag as much as they do :-\.

 

[dragoonk]

Not bad at all, well done!

 

[Kyze]

With that much of radiator-surface you should get that GPU watercooled !

Apart from that its a pretty tidy loop from what i can tell (super-newb here ).

Maybe look into supporting the GPU a little if the sagging continues.

Greetings!

 

[PEXON]

I cant help but think 2x480's is a massive waste on cooling a 8150

 

[S_I_N]

its ummmm different to say the least but more thought could of been put into it making it really a show piece

 

[SuB]

that graphics card looks like it's suffering some MAJOR saggage in there matey, I'd support that as a matter of urgency !

 

[| raVen |]

Looks interesting, but you should watercool this 670 as other guys said.
''evga 670 overclocked 4tb''???:lol::lol::lol::rollinglaugh:

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

that evga gpu is kinda bend, or is it just me?

 

[| raVen |]

that evga gpu is kinda bend, or is it just me?

It's not just you It's bend...

 

[TAWN]

Yeah dude. Nice. As said, card and maybe some colour in those tubes???

 

[Auda]

A little update here, since the screencard was sagging i got another to support it:lol:

First a box picture of some of the parts in the rig, The watercooling bit is getting there now:

Bought wc blocks for both 670s, looks very nice:

I am not going to mount them now, they are for my next case with the same setup.

New portable 3d blu-ray and of course crysis 3

When i am changing case i am going to polish the ram, and probabely adding color to the water.

 

[SeekaX]

1) is that case up side down?
2) why
3) i want those GPUs, i myself am looking into EVGA's 670s, i just want one with a backplate and the FTW looks like a reference card and i never was into reference cards (i have absolutely no idea why they chose that design for the FTW edition)
4) i don't like that tubing and the cooling fluid, but it might be just the camera.

 

[Mgutierrez33]

SeekaX: Look up the Xigmatek Elysium, and all will be revealed.