My watercooled Stacker 831 build :)

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inonefly

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After 2 years with SFF cases im missing the space, so I bought a stacker 831 for my gaming rig and let the gf to use the Fragbox2 to watch movies :)

Here's the spec:

Q6600 G0 3.6Ghz 1.34v

P5k-E Wifi

4x1GB ballistix

XFX 8800GTX

HDA Xplosion7.1

150GB Raptor + 500GB WD AAKS+300GB maxtor

Corsair HX620

Cooling:

D-tek Fuzion with quad nozzle/pro mount

MCW60/D-TEK Fuzion (havent decide whch to use) with 8800gtx uni-sink

2x EK mosfet block

DD MPC NB block

DDC 3.2 18W with XSPC Res top

PA120.3 + 3x S-flex f fans

4x Thermaltake CL-0028 Ram cooler

Thermalright HR-05-SLI/IFX for SB

This is the case (sorry forgot to take a actual pic)



And I love the new DD fatboy barbs, looks amazing!



I have got the jigsaw delivered today so im finally start to mod my case :D







I cut the top section of the case and will be mounting the pa120.3 there. The cut out is a little shorter than the pa120.3 so I may need a grill for it to make it easy to remove when needed.

Both watercoolinguk and aqua-pc confirmed my order despatched so I should receive them tmr, will do more work this weekend and upload pics :D
 
Thanks, I 'm hoping to finish most of the work this weekend and leave some minor tweaks next week.

I have just put the ram cooling together. I bought 4 CL-R0026 and 4 CL-R0028 so I can use the heatsink form the 0026 with the heatpipe from the 0028.

0026

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0028

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Fitting:







Compare:



Fitted:



 
Those ram sinks look amazing, liking the staggered fin arrangement. Keep them out of the way of the cpu. Great work. Get the swiftech block for the gpu. The D-Tek is supposed to be really restrictive.
 
lol at the RAM :o :p

massive heatsink on the ICH (Southbridge) :eek: (am wondering why tbh)

nice how the rad fits perfectly :) (nice placement aswell)
 
Thanks for the comments.

i see most of you are interested in the ram cooler :D there was a mini review of the r0026 (alu) cooler on the xs forum and the guy rekon the cooler have similar performance to the thermalright one, maybe 1-2c higher in temp but close. The advantage of the thermaltake cooler is the heatsinks are attached together by 4 screws, so very tight and good contact between chips&heatsink. I can feel the heatpipe get warm when I was using the alu one.

then i found out a review on a hongkong site compared the alu and copper cooler, the copper is 3c lower on idle @ 2.2v. not a precision test but you can get a rough idea how they performs.

ramcooler-0016.jpg


Copper test:

ramcooler-0017.jpg


Alu test:

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TBH im not too worried about the performance, just want the rams to be different :D may get them watercooled later if i decided to go dual loop.

The stock SB heatsink gets very warm, not hot but not as cool as i'd like, so I replaced it with the hr-05, plus the hr-05 looks so much better :D

I received most parts yesterday, but scan.co.uk delayed my order. I 'll upload some pics in a minute :)
 
ok, so I got all the waterblocks delivered, flushed them with distilled water and installed the barbs.







Then took the 8800gtx apart and fitted the uni-sink and waterblock. I went with the fuzion cos it's easier for fitting and goes well with other acrylic top blocks. I used martin's flow rate estimator and im getting 1.25gpm, so still in a acceptable range :)









Had some probs with the mpc NB waterblock. The two fitting holes on the mb is very close and the nut comes with the fitting kit is too thick, the block sits on the nuts and cannot touch the core of the NB. Luckily I found 2 very thin nuts in my tool box and finally make the waterblock sits on the core. Then found out the compression spring is sitting on the screw of the waterblock, making an uneven pressure to the acrylic top. so I made a "C" washer to bypass the prob :D







The SB cooler fitting is touching the uni-sink, I 'll cut the screw and making some changes to the case/mb tray then I can put all the stuff together :D
 
test running :D





Leak tested last night all seemed ok. so I connected only the neccesary components to see how it performs. tbh im a little disappointed, the cpu idles @ 42 42 36 42 1.344v, and the gpu is @ 34.5C stock settings. I'll try to mount the cpu block again see if it's a bad mount.

I have not finished mounting the radiator, it is now sitting on the psu frame. I'll make a brake and lift it up a little bit so its level with the two corner bracket on the sides. and the radiator is pretty easy to take out if I want to change the fluid, it slides out with the mb tray if I take the psu mounting plate off.







I'm thinking of adding a acrylic or a mesh to cover the radiaotr, or leave it as it is. what do you think?



The PSU is currently double-sided to the case vertically. I'm thinking to cut a 120mm hole on the bottom of the case and mount it horizonly, so the psu can pull cold air from the bottom and exhaust the hot air to the front. but I have to cut off one side of the 5.25" mounting bracket as the psu is a few mm's wider.



Here's how the front looks now, I will be mounting an optical drive under the fan controller and my raptor under the silverstone HDD cage with a silencer.



Still have to fingure out a way to hide the main power cord and I 'll route it to the back through the case.
 
name='Rastalovich' said:
That looks awesome tbh.

Wonder if those ramsinks will get close enough/hot enough to melt the tubes !?!?!

Thanks for the hardware pron.
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thanks. The heatpipes only get warm, not that hot. plus none of the tubes are touching the heatpipe/spreader. :)
 
Looks awesome, mate, but I can probably understand the temps since they're all running in the same loop. But they still look good though. ;)
 
thanks for the comments. I have now solved the temp issue :D

I took the cpu block off and cleaned it with akasa cleaner, mount it back and I got 1-2c better temp. then I remembered I downloaded 'real temp' a few days ago so I tried it, guess what? it reports 5c lower that coretemp. I did a quick search on google, it seems that coretemp is still using the old TjMax which is 5c higher for q6600, by adjusting the TjMax to correct value, now both software reports CPU idle @ 35 35 30 35 :D and GPU idles @34.5c
 
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