ShortAlieN
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Very nice build. Great ideas in there.
PROJECT: MoonStone
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I don't even....
haha
Really like the look of this
Cheers Tom, means alot to me coming from you, muchio respectio for you and your teams work at TTL and OC3D and long may it live on!!
Never thought i'd see a watercooled FT03 build, nice job, it looks awesome
Cheers, I'm not the first, a guy iun america has already done my original idea, strap a 240 rad to the back of the case, while he did an excellent job it really did ruin the overall aesthetics of the case
Two small rads
looks good m8
hehe cheers bud
Looking really nice dude! Love what you can fit in such a neat and small case
Thank you, i do like a bit of a challenge
Thank you and i'm not finished yet, still a few more things to try and do
You sir have a very keen eye, the tube coming off the qdc on the 2nd moset, as it loops round the pump and res to go to the 120 rad did start to kink. More so to the bottom of the loop than in the pic, I've got some old tube coils that i've wrapped round it for the time being, not ideal but i plan to drain the loop probably this weekend to install a drain line. Will have a look if there some better way to route the tubing in that area.
Well spotted though
Cpu @ 4.8ghz (100bclk x 48, 1.45V)
Graphics cards in SLi mode
Prime 95 running and 3dmark11 doing one cycle of Performance benchmark (not the best idea for Sli i know but i wanted to test dx11)
Max temps:
Cpu Core 1 72'C
CPu Core 2 80'C
CPU core 3 79'C
CPU core 4 74'C
GPU 1 44'C
GPU 2 44'C
I'll upload the screen shot of this soon.
I've changed the 80mm fans now and a couple of other little things and I'm getting generally lower temps but my main focus is controlling the water temperture and how quickly it returns to idle temps.
Time for noiseblocker action...
two 80mm X2 and a 40mm which i will use for the pump heatsink (I stuck a thermal probe in to the middle heatsink fin and it droppped the temp by 8'C!!! Happy days)
Mounted to the rad
HWlabs decieded to use standard 15mm fan spacing on their rad, I guess they designed this on a monday morning cause you dont need 15mm of space for 80mm fans lads
note its only screwed into the bottom four fan how mounts
Forgot to mention before about the top 120mm rad if anyone else is thinking of tryign this. You will need to remove the top left front panel mount as it fouls the rad. Top right is fine so the front panel doesnt loose much rigidity, only a couple of mm of play at very most in the top left corner when its attached
Onto the dreaded cable management
To sum it up I have got way to much cable in there but I really like the blue cable extensions. So at some point in the future I will have a go at making some short male to female adaptors so I can effectively plug the bitfenix extension almost straight into the back of the psu, but this is one definitely for the future as I'll have to source all the connectors first.
For now this is what I've come up with
These cable are loose as this is where i plan to mount the fan controller
I black sleeved the front panel connections too
Well its not briliant but at least the back panel doesnt put up a fight when i put it on now and I rly cba anymore to try and find more nooks and crannies to hide cables, I'm gonna concentrate on workign out an effective way so I dont have to use any of the standard corsair cables.
two 80mm X2 and a 40mm which i will use for the pump heatsink (I stuck a thermal probe in to the middle heatsink fin and it droppped the temp by 8'C!!! Happy days)
Mounted to the rad
HWlabs decieded to use standard 15mm fan spacing on their rad, I guess they designed this on a monday morning cause you dont need 15mm of space for 80mm fans lads
note its only screwed into the bottom four fan how mounts
Forgot to mention before about the top 120mm rad if anyone else is thinking of tryign this. You will need to remove the top left front panel mount as it fouls the rad. Top right is fine so the front panel doesnt loose much rigidity, only a couple of mm of play at very most in the top left corner when its attached
Onto the dreaded cable management
To sum it up I have got way to much cable in there but I really like the blue cable extensions. So at some point in the future I will have a go at making some short male to female adaptors so I can effectively plug the bitfenix extension almost straight into the back of the psu, but this is one definitely for the future as I'll have to source all the connectors first.
For now this is what I've come up with
These cable are loose as this is where i plan to mount the fan controller
I black sleeved the front panel connections too
Well its not briliant but at least the back panel doesnt put up a fight when i put it on now and I rly cba anymore to try and find more nooks and crannies to hide cables, I'm gonna concentrate on workign out an effective way so I dont have to use any of the standard corsair cables.
merrymustu
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Time for noiseblocker action...
two 80mm X2 and a 40mm which i will use for the pump heatsink (I stuck a thermal probe in to the middle heatsink fin and it droppped the temp by 8'C!!! Happy days)
Mounted to the rad
HWlabs decieded to use standard 15mm fan spacing on their rad, I guess they designed this on a monday morning cause you dont need 15mm of space for 80mm fans lads
note its only screwed into the bottom four fan how mounts
Forgot to mention before about the top 120mm rad if anyone else is thinking of tryign this. You will need to remove the top left front panel mount as it fouls the rad. Top right is fine so the front panel doesnt loose much rigidity, only a couple of mm of play at very most in the top left corner when its attached
Onto the dreaded cable management
To sum it up I have got way to much cable in there but I really like the blue cable extensions. So at some point in the future I will have a go at making some short male to female adaptors so I can effectively plug the bitfenix extension almost straight into the back of the psu, but this is one definitely for the future as I'll have to source all the connectors first.
For now this is what I've come up with
These cable are loose as this is where i plan to mount the fan controller
I black sleeved the front panel connections too
Well its not briliant but at least the back panel doesnt put up a fight when i put it on now and I rly cba anymore to try and find more nooks and crannies to hide cables, I'm gonna concentrate on workign out an effective way so I dont have to use any of the standard corsair cables.
Whateva you say dude but hats off to the stunning use of the space you got there in the case, looks very high-tech and awesome. Nice machinery, nice build.
Scoob
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Hi,
Found this build thread when it was mentioned in another topic, glad I did! What a fantastic build!
Also I'm amazed how good your temperatures are, especially the GPUs, considering you're only using two small rads!
I myself have a CoolerMaster 690 II Lite, which can have a thin 240 in the roof and a thicker 240 in the bottom of the case. I didn't think this would be anywhere near enough to effectively cool my 2500k @ 4.6 and a pair of GTX 570's (2nd one on the way) however it seems that I have more rad area than you available potentially!
I will run my 2x 570's on their stock air coolers initially, with the CPU on its Antec Kuhler 620. However I might start building my loop with two internal rads and see how I get on. I can always get one of the large free-standing (or bracket mountable) external rads Tom showed me in another thread if it proves less than adequate...then I can use the spares to cool another PC
Again, excellent work and soo much crammed in there yet still looking good and neat.
Cheers,
Scoob.
Found this build thread when it was mentioned in another topic, glad I did! What a fantastic build!
Also I'm amazed how good your temperatures are, especially the GPUs, considering you're only using two small rads!
I myself have a CoolerMaster 690 II Lite, which can have a thin 240 in the roof and a thicker 240 in the bottom of the case. I didn't think this would be anywhere near enough to effectively cool my 2500k @ 4.6 and a pair of GTX 570's (2nd one on the way) however it seems that I have more rad area than you available potentially!
I will run my 2x 570's on their stock air coolers initially, with the CPU on its Antec Kuhler 620. However I might start building my loop with two internal rads and see how I get on. I can always get one of the large free-standing (or bracket mountable) external rads Tom showed me in another thread if it proves less than adequate...then I can use the spares to cool another PC
Again, excellent work and soo much crammed in there yet still looking good and neat.
Cheers,
Scoob.
Solidarity
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I applaud your use of space. It's so much better than anything I could do.
heh, i do enjoy a bit of a ramble at times lol
very nice setup m8
Cheers
Very cool - that cable management must have taken hours. Really good job.
I've changed a couple of things since the pic, mainly the 24 pin now runs up the right side of the hdd instead of the left but your right, it did sap away a gd few hours of my life, this was the result of my 3rd attempt of restraining all that mess
Looks amazing
cheers matey
Hi,Found this build thread when it was mentioned in another topic, glad I did! What a fantastic build!Also I'm amazed how good your temperatures are, especially the GPUs, considering you're only using two small rads!I myself have a CoolerMaster 690 II Lite, which can have a thin 240 in the roof and a thicker 240 in the bottom of the case. I didn't think this would be anywhere near enough to effectively cool my 2500k @ 4.6 and a pair of GTX 570's (2nd one on the way) however it seems that I have more rad area than you available potentially!I will run my 2x 570's on their stock air coolers initially, with the CPU on its Antec Kuhler 620. However I might start building my loop with two internal rads and see how I get on. I can always get one of the large free-standing (or bracket mountable) external rads Tom showed me in another thread if it proves less than adequate...then I can use the spares to cool another PCAgain, excellent work and soo much crammed in there yet still looking good and neat.Cheers,Scoob.
Glad you like it mate, please keep me informed of how it goes with your 570's, I'd be very interested to here how it performs with two 240 rads. I did consider upgrading the graphics cards at the start but I felt the performance increase of a pair of 560 ti's over my 460's isnt worth the money at all, so I've been considering a 570 sli route. One 570 from what i can tell is just a tiny bit behind a 460 sli in terms of performance at 1900 x 1080. So buy one now then a 2nd down the line when they're cheaper. But may big concern is would i be able to cool everything adequatley only using the rads i have, which I guess I wont know until I try, and would they fit
I've just recently installed a fan shroud on the EK 120 rad which has dropped my load temps on the water by over 3'C, I'd recommend something like this for your thin 240 rad, I guess its a GT stealth or something similar, I got a 7mm thick phoyba 120 fan grommit then added the 20mm thick plastic phoyvba fan shroud and kept the gt typhoon in a pull config, it massively helps reduce the dead spot directly beneath the fan motor so increases your cooling surface area.
(Sry if you know all this just thought I'd explain why, incase anyone wants to know, not trying to lecture anyone
lol love the Tardis idea, wish I'd of thought of that before i started, a doctor who theme case would be mint
Scoob
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Hi,
Well I installed my 2nd 570 today and it's made a huge difference! I thought the likes of Crysis 2, The Witcher and a handful of other titles played really well. Now however they are silky smooth! Even Metro 2033 stays totally smooth - the benchmark with everything maxxed runs very well too - I averaged 60fps with everything maxxed and there were no FPS dips really, other than a slight one as the demo starts.
On air as I am the cards run hot (low to mid 70's in the likes of Crysis 2) so fans get a little loud as a result. Never louder than my game though. I'm thinking now that maybe a large external rad (Tom showed me a nice one) or just migrate this build to a TJ07 and have a 480 rad in the bottom and a 360 in the top. I was going to save my next case for my Ivy Bridge build next year, but I might not wait.
Oh yeah, trick re: shrouds...I did know about it but it's worth reminding
Cheers,
Scoob.
Well I installed my 2nd 570 today and it's made a huge difference! I thought the likes of Crysis 2, The Witcher and a handful of other titles played really well. Now however they are silky smooth! Even Metro 2033 stays totally smooth - the benchmark with everything maxxed runs very well too - I averaged 60fps with everything maxxed and there were no FPS dips really, other than a slight one as the demo starts.
On air as I am the cards run hot (low to mid 70's in the likes of Crysis 2) so fans get a little loud as a result. Never louder than my game though. I'm thinking now that maybe a large external rad (Tom showed me a nice one) or just migrate this build to a TJ07 and have a 480 rad in the bottom and a 360 in the top. I was going to save my next case for my Ivy Bridge build next year, but I might not wait.
Oh yeah, trick re: shrouds...I did know about it but it's worth reminding
Cheers,
Scoob.
Well its been ages since I updated this, not because I gave up or got bored but simply because I've had a bloody nightmare tryign to get the aquaero to work
To cut a very long and extremly boring story short, sandy bridge boards have a real problem recognising aquaero 4.0 as a usb device. Aqua computer are aware of this issue but understandably have limited resources right now to dedicate man hours to try and solve it. I eventually solved it by using a startech usb 2.0 five port pcie card, so i no longer have any pci slots free
Well now that annoying saga is in the past I've been back to full steam getting all the finishing touches done to finally make this build complete.
so I've got a few teaser pics for what I've working on.
Here's my painted and modded GT Typhoon
This is one of my favourite parts of the entire build, lots more pics to follow soon....
To cut a very long and extremly boring story short, sandy bridge boards have a real problem recognising aquaero 4.0 as a usb device. Aqua computer are aware of this issue but understandably have limited resources right now to dedicate man hours to try and solve it. I eventually solved it by using a startech usb 2.0 five port pcie card, so i no longer have any pci slots free
Well now that annoying saga is in the past I've been back to full steam getting all the finishing touches done to finally make this build complete.
so I've got a few teaser pics for what I've working on.
Here's my painted and modded GT Typhoon
This is one of my favourite parts of the entire build, lots more pics to follow soon....
Excalabur50
Well-known member
Very COOL
Nice build
sorry I'm being a little slow with updates on getting this finished, work, home life etc all a bit busy atm.
Managed to wrangle last friday off work so spent some quality time modding last weekend
Here's a bunch of bits I'vwe been gathering over the last month or so
I've even got a new dual rad to install, although its maybe not as big as you might expect
well yeh, alot smaller
I made a mounted bracket for the rad and a new cover for the aquaero
the contorllers are starting to take shape as well but not finished yet
I've got the ek dom x4 block to replace the original block simply as a space saver
heres something I've wanted to try for a long time
I also stripped the case and replace all the rivets with black ones, need to get a few black screws to finish the job
my dodgy new pump mount
finally i can see the end to the cable madness
I'm recrimping my bitfenixx extensions with female connectors then using the socket off the psu cables so they plug straight into the back of the psu
Managed to wrangle last friday off work so spent some quality time modding last weekend
Here's a bunch of bits I'vwe been gathering over the last month or so
I've even got a new dual rad to install, although its maybe not as big as you might expect
well yeh, alot smaller
I made a mounted bracket for the rad and a new cover for the aquaero
the contorllers are starting to take shape as well but not finished yet
I've got the ek dom x4 block to replace the original block simply as a space saver
heres something I've wanted to try for a long time
I also stripped the case and replace all the rivets with black ones, need to get a few black screws to finish the job
my dodgy new pump mount
finally i can see the end to the cable madness
I'm recrimping my bitfenixx extensions with female connectors then using the socket off the psu cables so they plug straight into the back of the psu
ruthless_villain
New member
wouldnt it have been easier to pay someone/sleeve the cables yourself?
