My first watercooling rig (da2ca)

[da2ca]

Well this is my first attempt. Everything i have learnt/done is from this and associated sites.

Specs are;

Thermaltake Kandalf case

Asus Commando motherboard

Intel C2D E6420

2 gig Geil Ultra DDR2

C drive 2X36gb raptors (rail0)

Sapphire X1950pro 512mb PCI-E VGA Card

OCZ ram cooler

Custom water cooling;

CPU block Aqua Computer Cuplex XT DI 775

Eheim - 1250 pump

Black Ice Xtreme Radiator 120mm Radiator with noctua fan

Swiftech MCR220QP 2 x 120mm Radiator with 2 X Thermaltake led fans

Criticool Power Plant Relay Card

Masterkleer 7/16" Tubing

Cape Coolplex 25cm Reservoir (uv led on order).

Smoothy F1 Water 1Lt UV Invisible Blue coolant.

I lika a clear work bench

The dry run.

Up and running.

All done.

Just need to get the UV lights + the res led and the long sata cables to be delivered.

 

[Mr. Smith]

OC3D Uploads ftw

I can't see those images at work, but i'm sure you've done a sterling job!

If you need help oc'in PM or post up a thread

 

[FarFarAway]

Great first watercooling job mate. Rig looks sweet

 

[koganinja]

nice i like the purple and blue and how clear the blue is in the pipes

 

[AdamLeyshon]

Dude that looks awesome, looks like it took quite a while to assemble

But nice and tidy I must admitt Nice work.

 

[cuprasport]

looking good there man

 

[HarryB]

Nice rig Lookin cool

 

[da2ca]

OC3D Uploads ftw

I can't see those images at work, but i'm sure you've done a sterling job!

If you need help oc'in PM or post up a thread

Mr Smith you will have PM

Thanks every one for your kind comments. It took a while to get the kit together as well as build. Everything except for the 120 X 2 rad, one of the Thermaltake fans, and pipes & coolant was bought second hand which took about 6 weeks to get together while the motherboard (the thing that started the new system off) was sent back to Asus after a bad flash my brother did. As he couldn’t wait for it to come back sold it to me to do the RMA.

 

[Mr. Smith]

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Now I'm at home i can see the images, sweet first w/c mate.

 

[AdamLeyshon]

what ram cooler is that? just browsing around and i like the way yours looks.

It would go nice in my new case that im building since it has the acrylic/silver/blue/red theme going on.

need more silvery things lol!

Again nice work.

 

[da2ca]

Hi AdamLeyshon, its a OCZ ram cooler. I bought it off my brother as it would not fit on his Gigabyte board, I think the boards heat pipe or cooler was in the way. So purchased by default but i admit it sort of brightens up a spot.

what ram cooler is that? just browsing around and i like the way yours looks.

It would go nice in my new case that im building since it has the acrylic/silver/blue/red theme going on.

need more silvery things lol!

Again nice work.

 

[da2ca]

All finished now bar a new keyboard and a fan controller.

Recently added a Razer Copperhead mouse and a 500gb Samsung hard drive.

A couple of more photos.

Without UV

With UV

And to finish off a close up of the CPU cooler.

 

[Mullet]

That is one fine looking system mate. Liking the blue UV too, mad how the colour of the coolant changes when under UV.

Top marks!

 

[FarFarAway]

Looks very slick mate, love the colours and AC block is lush

 

[Barry]

Looks very slick mate, love the colours and AC block is lush

Does indeed look sweet...

 

[da2ca]

Thanks for the good comments guys.

 

[da2ca]

I haven’t updated my gallery for a while so i thought it was about time i did.

The motherboard is now a Gigabyte GA-P35C-dS3R, The front rad changed to a Thermochill pa120.2 with the Swiftech MCR220QP 2.120 going on the outside of the case at the back. The NB is being cooled with an adapted DangerDen intel 865/875 block i had lying around. The Graphics have been changed to a 8800gts 640mb (that i am hoping to change for a GTX when i can find one i can afford) with a full cover EK block.

Ram has changed to 4X1gb Ballistix, The CPU to a Q6600, and the pump to a Laing DDC-1T Ultra w/XSPC Acrylic Top.

 

[Socks]

Thats a nice looking wc'ed rig there, question, how did you mount that rad on the side???

Im loving the way it seems to hang on there.

I bet you love not having that monster of a pump in there?!?

 

[da2ca]

Thats a nice looking wc'ed rig there, question, how did you mount that rad on the side???

Im loving the way it seems to hang on there.

I bet you love not having that monster of a pump in there?!?

Yes that pump was a bit on the large side, but it never let me down.

The Rad is held on by a couple of brackets I made out of aluminium.

 

[PV5150]

Your rig internally looks real sweet da2ca, and after the new changes it'll have a bit more go. One question though - what's up with all the bubbles in your res?