New rig, no idea what to call it.

[Ofan]

New rig: White Light

Hi guys and gals, I have never posted a lot on the forums, I have however read a lot and enjoyed. Given that I have enjoyed so much of the content here I thought it's about time I stopped being a lurker and chipped in, so here goes.

History of it, in case anyone is interested

So I have been running the same main rig since 2009, I was flush at the time and got myself a rampage III Extreme, an i7 950, a couple of 5850's and some other gubbins you don't want to know about.

Eventually it upgraded itself (as prigs tend to) to a watercooled system. My first, messy, n00bish journey into the waterworld...not the Kevin Costner one mind you, that film was pants .

I Had it chuggin' along merrily at 4.5ghz, at a voltage I cant remember its been so long since I overclocked it. What I do remember is that X58 was a lot of fun to mess with.

All things change and I hated the waterloop, eventually. It was big and had lots of hose all over - pics are in my albums somewhere. I wanted a change

Soooooo over the last 12 months I did some planning and saving, I wanted an all white with red coolant build, as you can see I failed lol. I made my plans with the newish Sabretooth Mark S as the centre of it all, but I had a money calamity and had to go for a cheaper option. To make it worse I have had experience with Noctca NF-F12 fans and been able to break them down to paint/dye for friends, I just thought that P12's would be the same, turns out they are not and I can't get those damn blades off without breaking them so that scuppered the white and red.....best laid plans and all that .

I made this instead, with what I could, It's not quite finished, I need to mod the handle back into the roof and do something about the bits of brown that show and really get off my behind and learn how to sleeve cables and make any fan/mboard header cables white instead of black.

Now I bought this case before I saw the full Orca build that the Guvner did, and although I had plans of a similar ilk, what he did with the front rads looked better than what I was going to do, so I shamelessly ripped that off, a good idea shouldn't go to waste after all lol

Whoops, nearly forgot


The Gubbins


Case - CM Storm Stryker
Motherboard - Asus Maximus VII hero
CPU - 4790k (4.7@1.275)
RAM - 16GB 2133 Vengeance Red Kit (@2133)
HDD - Sandisk Extreme Pro 240Gb x3
GPU - 290x Lightning (1220/1650)
PSU BUILT WITH - Enermax Revolution 85+ 1250W (fan was making a horrendous noise RMA)
PSU CURRENTLY IN THERE - Corsair RM1000 (excellent, always passive even at load)

PUMP - EK pwm D5
RES - EK-D5 x-res top 140
CPU - EK supreme red
GPU - EK 290x block & Backplate
MBOARD - EK Mosfet block
RADS - Alphacool NexXxos Monsta white 360 in the front & Alphacool NexXxos UT-60 white 360 in the roof
FANS - Noctua NF-F12 x9

Just noticed this is almost all EK lol, normally I'm an Aquacomputer or Koolance kinda guy - go figure .

Have I missed anything I hope not.

PS: - this is my first time posting pics so I hope I do it right lol, also these pics are from a phone so are probably sucky.

Peace.

 

[Wraith]

Nice rig dude clean cables and a simple clean loop kudos to you, always been a fan of the Stryker case.

 

[Ofan]

Nice rig dude clean cables and a simple clean loop kudos to you, always been a fan of the Stryker case.

Thanks, I was taken with the case when I saw it online. Im a bit dissapointed that I couldn't get the board I had my hopes set on and run with the red and white theme. Bit put out that after i went white black and red that the enermax psu has had to be pulled out, it looked right in there being black with red highlights.

This new PSU is cool, it's semi passive and even with all the overclocks the fan has not spun up once yet that makes the rig from more than a foot away totally silent Noise makes me agitated lol

 

[Wraith]

Oh yes! Fan noise and overclocking it's a delicate balance, I just can't tolerate a noisy rig especially as mine sits just over 40cm from my head and it's just a gentle hum I can live with that, and when gaming it's headset time The thing that astonishes me with the stryker, especially yours is just how much room there is inside even with that monsta rad in there it still looks empty.

 

[Ofan]

It's a huge case my last big rig was in an 800D which looked really cramped and tight even though the sodding thing was like a truck. Not so much height wise as it swallowed 3 cards quite happily, but looking in from the side, the front to back stretch just looked to have less space than it should.

The stryker, conversely, feels big enough that I could climb in lol

Even with a 60mm deep rad in the roof it still feels huge

 

[GODuk]

The White Knight

 

[Ofan]

The White Knight

Haha, I like it. I might just do that lol

 

[GODuk]

Haha, I like it. I might just do that lol

Glad I could help

 

[JLR]

The White Knight

Ha ha I like it .

 

[JR23]

White Light, lightning reference, plus the song in Lawless was cool.

JR

 

[Ofan]

Looks like I have to rebuild loop, I went with masterkleer hosing specifically, which was a pain cos Specialtech sent me a duff run at first, turned up all yellow and clouded after getting it rma'd some clear hose arrived which dutifully went in and several weeks later I noticed my res turning a nice minty green with hints of brown. Now my hosing has also followed it and the while thing is starting to look like mint sauce hahaha

*sigh*

Never had masterkleer green out with mayhems pastel before, isn't it on the cool list of compatible gear?

Maybe its the res, the res did start going first, I reckon the ek res tubing is fubar now, ordered some more.

Maybe the second set of hosing that came wasn't masterkleer after all.

Either way this whole rig has been a grim task, from money problems forcing hardware compromises to coil screeching (whine doesn't cover it), damaged gpu die, messed up orders, twitchy motherboard lol

I rename this rig Frankenstein, its a bloody monster pursuing me lol

-caveat I'm not a mayhems n00b I've used the pastel plenty before and have never had this issue with masterkleer hose, could it just be a bad batch?-

 

[Warchild]

Perhaps you were not given masterkleer then.

Do not use Mayhems Pastel with Tygon tubing as Mayhems Pastel seems to react with it changing the colour of the tubing to a greenish colour. This is not the fault of Tygon or Mayhems it is just a incompatibility issue. Pastel works fine with XSPC, Thermochill, Clear Flex, Masterclear and a few other brands.

Tygon tubing is very very flexible from my experience where as Masterkleer is alot more rigid and stronger to prevent kinks. Perhaps they gave you Tygon?

 

[Ofan]

It had that pretty solid feeling to it that mkleer normally has, I wasn't able to run a pretty tight bend I had planned with it. Well I've checked that primochill advanced is cool with them and they say as DEHP free that it is.

That's what will be going in, my res looks hammered though, its minty pale green with brown splodges forming, someone else on the forums had a similar beef with a different type of res, but I didn't want to necro their thread lol.

I had this problem once with mayhems pastel orange and Tryon way back in a watercooled prodigy I made, and since learning my lesson have been fine with all the hosing I have used with pastels till now.

This rig is cursed i tell ya, cursed, I've never had so many wrong orders, defective parts or strife lmao. My next rebuild should be awesome sauce to karma balance this out lmao

**Edit** - sorry for DP was using phone on a train

Although i have some 1/2 id masterkleer white hose from a much older build in a wardrobe, might see if i have enough compression fittings to use that

 

[Warchild]

Good luck. Please edit your last post. They aren't keen on double posting on these forums. Feronix has already picked up your scent and is sniffing his way here.

 

[GODuk]

Did you Flash out the RAD first to get rid of any crap?

 

[Ofan]

Hi, yeah I always spend ages flushing the rads before use, if its something in them only a pressure washer would have dislodged it lol

 

[paulstung]

The first and last time I tried Masterclear, with Pastel yellow, within a week, I had nearly the same result, but instead of mint green, mine went like rusty milk, funnily enough that came from ST too. From my understanding, it is, or at least was, on the recommended, list of compatible tubing.

 

[Ofan]

The first and last time I tried Masterclear, with Pastel yellow, within a week, I had nearly the same result, but instead of mint green, mine went like rusty milk, funnily enough that came from ST too. From my understanding, it is, or at least was, on the recommended, list of compatible tubing.

It isn't looking great, its literally getting worse by the hour, still new hose and res top are on the way, just worried I'll have to take all the blocks apart and check for any madness inside.

The hose is a little off colour, but its the res that is really suffering tbh

 

[paulstung]

The way your's looks in that first picture, was exactly the same, but only mine was orange. All you can do mate, is strip everything down give them a good flush, including the stripping down the blocks. I gave mine a flush, but didn't connect it up until the following day, and when it came to filling, only one of the 2 gpu blocks was getting a decent flow, so I stripped it down and the micro fins were almost fully blocked by what I assume was dry plasticiser.

 

[smokingtommy]

Very nice rig