Nuclear Poison

reeper250

reeper250

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Nuclear Poison

I would ordinarily take progress pictures but the case mods have been done very gradually over a long time and some even before my last build done in this case (Nuclear Fission). Also I kind of got stuck into this build last night and ended up going to bed at 2:40 in the morning so no pictures were taken before it was almost complete...


Specifications

Silverstone FT02BW
i7 970
Rampage II Extreme
12GB PQI Turbo 2000MHz
Sapphire 7950 OC

EK FC7970
Swiftech Apogee HD
Bitspower Multi-Z 150
Magicool 540 Slim
EK 45 and 90 adapters
XSPC 7/16" Comp Fittings
Primochill LRT Advanced 7/16" Tubing
Bitspower AI58RE NB/SB
XSPC Stopper Fittings
Swiftech MCP655
EK D5 Pump Top
Silverstone AP181
Mayhems UV Green and UV Blue

























 
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Crimped some LED strips, pictures/video coming soon (purple, blue, white) but haven't decided on which ones to use yet so I'll test them all out ;). Not sure if I should use my UV cathodes with a sound activated inverter box or not..
I have a surprise LED strip to show :microwave:
 
Ummm, it would matter I think yeah.

Cause the pump would be pumping into the reservoir where it would lose most of it's energy. Also, unless the res was filled 100% with literally no air in at all, you'd just send the air round the loop.
Also, the pump wouldn't be getting fed with water at all would it? It'd be near impossible to fill.

You need the downward force of gravity down on the reservoir to feed the pump, which you wouldn't have that way.

Can you not just get a 90 degree fitting on the front of the pump block and send that up to the res? Then swap the flow around?

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And tbh, I have no idea why you've split the loops in places. You could have made it so much neater without T lines. Would be way more simple to take them out, and go GPU to motherboard, motherboard to CPU, then CPU to bottom rad, and back round to the res.
 
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jamesriley94 said:
Ummm, it would matter I think yeah.

Cause the pump would be pumping into the reservoir where it would lose most of it's energy. Also, unless the res was filled 100% with literally no air in at all, you'd just send the air round the loop.
Also, the pump wouldn't be getting fed with water at all would it? It'd be near impossible to fill.

You need the downward force of gravity down on the reservoir to feed the pump, which you wouldn't have that way.

Can you not just get a 90 degree fitting on the front of the pump block and send that up to the res? Then swap the flow around?

Edit -
And tbh, I have no idea why you've split the loops in places. You could have made it so much neater without T lines. Would be way more simple to take them out, and go GPU to motherboard, motherboard to CPU, then CPU to bottom rad, and back round to the res.
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That's what I though :/
Unless I flip the pump so the inlet is directly under the res.
 
Hmm, is the pump actually screwed down? Or just resting on the fans?

I might have to adopt a similar idea in my case at some point.

You shouldn't have got the EK pump top. Alphacool do one which is exactly the same but has another inlet port on the top. I got mine for only £20, may be worth trying to sell and swap, or just buying one?

Not sure how you'd secure the pump if you flipped it.
 
jamesriley94 said:
Hmm, is the pump actually screwed down? Or just resting on the fans?

I might have to adopt a similar idea in my case at some point.

You shouldn't have got the EK pump top. Alphacool do one which is exactly the same but has another inlet port on the top. I got mine for only £20, may be worth trying to sell and swap, or just buying one?

Not sure how you'd secure the pump if you flipped it.
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I got the EK top with the pump off the forums. I can get the Alphacool top from Specialtech for $40 including postage though. I'll try and see what I can do with the EK top first though.
 
Yeah,
If you had a 90 degree adapter, and maybe a G1/4 extension, you could just put the res on that. Shouldn't be much more work.

Then with a simple screw through the base of the pump top into the fan hole should secure it enough.
 
Should work yeah.

Not sure if I'd be too keen on leaving the pump that unsecured though, especially with the weight of the res on it.

May also make a noise with just the pump undampened like that.
 
jamesriley94 said:
Should work yeah.

Not sure if I'd be too keen on leaving the pump that unsecured though, especially with the weight of the res on it.

May also make a noise with just the pump undampened like that.
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Don't worry, it won't stay like that. I'll mount is to the fans somehow.
 
Now that folks have mentioned that pump flowing into the bottom of the res I tried tracing the flow. Looks like something is amiss there. Hard to tell not being able to see it all laid out. Looks to me as though there are two outputs off the cpu block...one goes to the chip-set cooler and then to the rad and the other to the radiator at the opposite side.

I just can't wrap my head around that rad being effective at all.

Then, what do I know, being Mr. No Water Cooling. :)
 
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FredEx said:
Now that folks have mentioned that pump flowing into the bottom of the res I tried tracing the flow. Looks like something is amiss there. Hard to tell not being able to see it all laid out. Looks to me as though there are two outputs off the cpu block...one goes to the chip-set cooler and then to the rad and the other to the radiator at the opposite side.

I just can't rap my head around that rad being effective at all.

Then, what do I know, being Mr. No Water Cooling. :)
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I may do a video once it's complete but it is quite confusing if it's not seen in person.

Not entirely sure how effective this routing will be, but we'll see ;)
 
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