New Watercool Build Including EK Supreme! Not 56K Friendly!

[tsinc80697]

For some unknown reason I decided that I had had enough of my current build and was needing a small upgrade!

For the past few months I was running:

Thermaltake Xaser II

Q6600 B3

Asus P5K Deluxe

Asus 8800GTS 640mb

1x 80GB

1x 250GB

1x 500GB

This was alongside my Macbook Pro and running off Dell2407 and Z-5500.

As I had some spare cash floating around I decided to build a watercooled system with those parts, but then it turned into something bigger, as usual

I now have:

Antec P182

Q6600 G0

Asus P5K Deluxe

8800GTS 512mb(Pre-Order)

1x 250GB

3x 500GB

I thought it was pointless watercooling a B3 CPU as I could get hold of a G0 for £15 + B3. The B3 was auctioned and I got the G0 this morning all shiny and OEM!

 

[tsinc80697]

Just picked up my watercooling parts from reception and everything is in there to start building! I decided to buy everything new except for the radiator. I managed to pick up a Black Ice Xtreme II for £5 second hand!

EK GPU Block – 8800GT

EK CPU Block – EK Supreme

2V Laing DDC-1T Ultra w/OCLabs XP Top Clear/UV Blue

Feser One – UV Green

Also there is a AC Ryan 4" Dual CCFL UV Kit, XSPC Dual Eye Ball Bay Reservoir, 1/4" BSPP - 1/2" Hose Tail, 4m 7/16" Masterkleer PVC Hose, Zinc Plated Jubilee Wormdrive Clip 1/2" and a RadGrillz Thrust 2x120 Aluminium Black.

 

[tsinc80697]

Before installing any of the parts I decided to check if the radiator was working ok and to clean it out using a mini guide w3bbo posted in another thread for me!

As soon as I put any water into the radiator, it was dripping out of 2 holes behind the screw slots Looks like it wasn't worth £5 after all or somehow I've managed to bodge it!

Ordered a Thermochill 120.2 which should arrive here tomorrow for the nice price of £61.14 Bringing the grand total for a new case and watercooling loop to £310! Thank god I made £150 last week for doing nothing and sold my DS today for £70!

 

[duke]

Did you get any pics of the scratched EK Supreme?

 

[tsinc80697]

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[tsinc80697]

I'll get some pictures of the EK Supreme block as soon as I can get my friends camera to work on my mac, won't connect for some reason!

First look at the Supreme block there looks to be a mark on the bottom and light scratching from what looks like a polishing machine!

I'll take more pictures tomorrow when the Rad arrives and I can hopefully get everything installed in 1 day, work might make it 2 days as I've a lot to get through!

 

[duke]

hopefully get everything installed in 1 day

You are gonna run a loop test before you put it in right?

 

[tsinc80697]

You are gonna run a loop test before you put it in right?

Yeah, i was hoping to get everything setup tonight and test it overnight, looks like I might have to wait to check this Supreme is ok

 

[duke]

good plan, shame about the supreme but its just the way things happen sometimes unfortunately buy a scratchcard

 

[tsinc80697]

http://www.tomsinclair.co.uk/WC BUILD/Supreme Pictures/

Where you can see a large long line, there seems to be a difference in the block, it sort of lumps up there slightly.

 

[jabski]

be interesting to see how this goes. how come you paid so much for the PA120.2 ??

Also please link the w3bbo guide

 

[tsinc80697]

Thermochill are the best rads out there so I thought I might as well do it properly!

 

[jabski]

no i mean how come you paid so much for the rad ??

They are £49.99 http://www.thermochill.com/acatalog/pa_series.html

 

[tsinc80697]

its £56 with shipping and I need 2 barbs so it would have been about £60 I suppose, about the same price!

Never thought to check there though, that'll teach me!

 

[tsinc80697]

Front view of case with door closed

Side view of case with door closed and radiator on the back

Close up of the radiator form the side - still need to sort out the gasket properly and I'm waiting for correct screws to arrive tomorrow hopefully!

Another closeup of the radiator and tubing

Front view of the case with the door open.

Samsung DVD-rw(quietest SATA drive I've ever had!)

Dual bay reservoir

 

[weihk]

sorry for being dumb.....

but arent you suppose to be fitting the gasket between the PA120.2 and the fans??

i remember Marci once said a performance loss of 10-15% if gasket is not fitted between fan and rad...

 

[tsinc80697]

sorry for being dumb.....

but arent you suppose to be fitting the gasket between the PA120.2 and the fans??

i remember Marci once said a performance loss of 10-15% if gasket is not fitted between fan and rad...

I'm just awaiting screws from thermochill so i can mount the fan bracket between the case and rad, then I can mount the fans to the rad and gasket properly

10-15% loss of performance though? How?

 

[PV5150]

I'm just awaiting screws from thermochill so i can mount the fan bracket between the case and rad, then I can mount the fans to the rad and gasket properly

10-15% loss of performance though? How?

Through a loss of static pressure! Although 15% seems a lot. With the gasket, the air produced by the fan has nowhere to go other than through the fins of the rad. Without the gasket the air will always take the path of least resistance, which unfortunately means that you will notice a loss in performance because the air can escape out the sides. If you are running lower RPM fans without the gasket then performance is definitely going to be degraded quite significantly.

 

[tsinc80697]

Ah, thanks for explaning

Ill definitely change where it is then!

 

[Socks]

looking good man. you got any pics of what it looks like now? any inside shots??