Mysterae
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Welcome to my project log for Parallel In The Black.
Many elements of this project will be familiar to those who have read my previous project log for “Black In Control” but I thought there were enough changes to warrant a new project. Can’t have too many projects!
The main changes to the hardware are the upgrade from 780Ti SLI to 980Ti SLI and the method of water cooling. I’m still sticking with chromed copper tubing but the water blocks (CPU, GPUs and motherboard blocks) will be plumbed in parallel. This is mainly for looks rather than any perceived performance benefit, if any and yet to be realised. The 980Ti’s will be water cooled but not in the traditional manner – I still want to retain the reference GTX look, more on this later. The water cooling schematic below does give some clues though.
Rig specification:
The water cooling, fans and lighting will all be controlled by an Aqua Computer Aquaero 5XT as before but there are some new additions such as flow rate sensors for both in and out as well as some new lighting to control. Some further hints to my intentions can be found in the wiring schematic below but more will become clearer as I progress.
The case will be modified to give more space, the USB ports on the top upgraded to USB3.0, the viewing window extended and the all too easy to scratch acrylic window will be replaced with tempered glass.
I want this to be quite a quick series of mods so that my system is down for the least amount of time, so the target date for completion is the end of August 2015. Hopefully there'll be enough content to keep you coming back for the updates between now and then.
Thanks for reading.
Many elements of this project will be familiar to those who have read my previous project log for “Black In Control” but I thought there were enough changes to warrant a new project. Can’t have too many projects!
The main changes to the hardware are the upgrade from 780Ti SLI to 980Ti SLI and the method of water cooling. I’m still sticking with chromed copper tubing but the water blocks (CPU, GPUs and motherboard blocks) will be plumbed in parallel. This is mainly for looks rather than any perceived performance benefit, if any and yet to be realised. The 980Ti’s will be water cooled but not in the traditional manner – I still want to retain the reference GTX look, more on this later. The water cooling schematic below does give some clues though.

Rig specification:
Processor – Intel i7 4770K @ 4.7GHz
Memory – Corsair Dominator Platinums 16GB @ 2400MHz
Motherboard – MSI Z87 XPOWER
Graphics Cards – MSI Reference Nvidia 980Ti SLI (overclocks to be determined)
Power Supply – Corsair AX1200 (considering changing this)
Boot Drive – Sandisk 240GB SSDs (2 in RAID 0, 480GB total)
Case – Silverstone FT02 Black
Memory – Corsair Dominator Platinums 16GB @ 2400MHz
Motherboard – MSI Z87 XPOWER
Graphics Cards – MSI Reference Nvidia 980Ti SLI (overclocks to be determined)
Power Supply – Corsair AX1200 (considering changing this)
Boot Drive – Sandisk 240GB SSDs (2 in RAID 0, 480GB total)
Case – Silverstone FT02 Black
The water cooling, fans and lighting will all be controlled by an Aqua Computer Aquaero 5XT as before but there are some new additions such as flow rate sensors for both in and out as well as some new lighting to control. Some further hints to my intentions can be found in the wiring schematic below but more will become clearer as I progress.

The case will be modified to give more space, the USB ports on the top upgraded to USB3.0, the viewing window extended and the all too easy to scratch acrylic window will be replaced with tempered glass.
I want this to be quite a quick series of mods so that my system is down for the least amount of time, so the target date for completion is the end of August 2015. Hopefully there'll be enough content to keep you coming back for the updates between now and then.
Thanks for reading.
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