Project P182 Watercooled V2!

[DeMoB]

OK I'll bite - thought the motherboard lighting was awesome.

Haha, thanks.

I do too, but was beginning to wonder if my standards were a lot lower than everybody else's.

Wow, cant believe I missed that video earlier... Its awesome! This thread must have been lost in all of the Computex stuff

I'll take that excuse and make it my own. =00=

 

[alpenwasser]

Motherboard lighting looks very bauce, might just need to copy that
idea if you don't mind.

 

[DeMoB]

Motherboard lighting looks very bauce, might just need to copy that idea if you don't mind.

Ok, but you have to promise to let me finish my rig before you steal it...

...however long that might be. :harhar:

 

[alpenwasser]

Ok, but you have to promise to let me finish my rig before you steal it...

...however long that might be. :harhar:

Hehe, is copying considered stealing?

 

[Tripp]

thats a neat mod fella

 

[SuB]

Ok, but you have to promise to let me finish my rig before you steal it...

...however long that might be. :harhar:

lol I think that's a no, this thread will NEVER end (that's a good thing)

 

[wassupdoc]

Once again this mod is excelling itself Keep it up!

 

[DeMoB]

Tron Mod?

Hehe, is copying considered stealing?

I'm not sure, but perhaps try asking the music industry?

thats a neat mod fella

Cheers man.

lol I think that's a no, this thread will NEVER end (that's a good thing)

Haha, we'll see. Aside from modding the lights to be temperature/activity controlled, I'm not sure what else I could do to the mod... though I guess acrylic tubing could be a possibility.

Once again this mod is excelling itself Keep it up!

Thanks man, it's frustrating how little I can work on it lately as I do want to see it back in a usable/semi-finished state soon!
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It almost feels like I've missed out on a trick by not naming this build something Tron themed...

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In bad news for the mod, good news for me, I get married tomorrow, so finding time to continue this project might be a little harder than normal! >_<

 

[wassupdoc]

In bad news for the mod, good news for me, I get married tomorrow, so finding time to continue this project might be a little harder than normal! >_<

Congratz!!

 

[Feronix]

Congratulations dude!

Awesome build too

 

[DeMoB]

Water Cooling This Card Just Made It Hotter!

Congratz!!

Congratulations dude!

Awesome build too

Cheers guys

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Stole some time away from my new bride (while she was out with her parents) to install my EK FC R9-290X waterblock.

Stripped and cleaned the card, including all the permanent marker scrawled on every capacitor.

I chose this block for the looks, and damn it is sexy!

This block is going to work perfectly with my RGB lights too, it's already pre-frosted on the edges so I don't have to do anything to spoil it.

Now to just play the waiting game before I can get time to work on it again. >_<

 

[maniac]

Water Cooling This Card Just Made It Hotter!

At first I was like

then I was like Ohhhhhhhhh! thats what he means

pretty good pun though

 

[DeMoB]

At first I was like

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then I was like Ohhhhhhhhh! thats what he means

pretty good pun though

Haha, I do like to try and come up with a decent title for my updates.

 

[Feronix]

Usually not a huge fan of LEDs, but dayum mate. Looks good

 

[Agamemnon]

It looks awesome, I am just impatient and I want to see the finish but at the same time I love the build up that you get from this build log, it is like a book.

 

[Innocent159]

LEDs are slamming it. Looks really nice

 

[DeMoB]

Reservoir Logs...

Usually not a huge fan of LEDs, but dayum mate. Looks good

Thanks, I'm really pleased how it's all coming together.

I think it helps that I started out with a goal that the LEDs fit, rather than just wanting to cram LEDs into my case because I thought they were cool.

It looks awesome, I am just impatient and I want to see the finish but at the same time I love the build up that you get from this build log, it is like a book.

The time it's taking to do anything is starting to kill me too! It's close enough that I can see the end now which makes it even more painful.

LEDs are slamming it. Looks really nice

Cheers man.

I fear that once the mod is complete, I'll spend more time sat admiring my handiwork/lights than actually using the computer.

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I didn't think to take any pictures of the LED/Res combo before installing it, and it's now as good as a permanent fixture in my case, so you'll just have to make do with a picture of the res installed and lit up...

Nice, eh?

I picked up some rubber trim this time (instead of PVC), and it was flexible enough to be able to trim the 90º corners in one continuous piece, compared to the four separate strips before (which was an unexpected bonus!).

A proper fill port for this res is something I sorely missed when I installed it the first time round, so this will make things a lot easier. I used a QDC and a T-line before this, and it was a nightmare.

Hooking up the fill port up to the res proved to be trickier than I'd anticipated, as I couldn't find a good way to tighten the fittings all at once. I got there in the end (after a fairly big leak from a loose fitting on my test fill), and it fits inside the case like so...

The case holes lined up perfectly, and the res-to-fill-port gap was bridged with a bitspower 22-31mm adjustable SLI fitting.

Next up is lighting up the GPU block, then I think I'm ready to start wiring some of the final stage cables.

 

[DeMoB]

Why Is This Not A Stock Option?!

Managed to get the RGB LEDs hooked up to my GPU waterblock today, it looks so good I don't know why EK don't offer LED holes in their blocks as standard!

The RGB strip is just stuck to the block's acrylic with double sided tape, and the RGB wires are soldered a quarter of the way along. I'll take a picture before I install it if anyone is interested.

But once I get time to solder and hook up a custom RGB cable for the graphics card, I'll actually be able to start installing things for real.

 

[Highlander89]

LEDgasm! I didn't know you could do that to a P182! Sick build man.

 

[DeMoB]

It's Happening!!

LEDgasm! I didn't know you could do that to a P182! Sick build man.

You can do anything with the power of imagination!

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The last bit of structural work to my case was to hide the cable holes from the original P182 design, with the help of an aluminium blanking plate.

Before...

After...

And now my rig is finally at a point where I can start installing stuff!

I didn't take a photo of it, but I had to sand down little cable holes on the edge of the acrylic 'light shield' as the shield was so close to the edge of the case there wasn't any room to pass the cables through.

Here's all the motherboard cables prepped under the mobo area...

And here's the motherboard and GPU finally installed for real!

I know I'm teasing the lighting a lot, but I really can't wait to get all the components wired up and lit up at the same time...

I've started cabling up things in the case now, but still have a few custom cables to make and others to sleeve, so there's quite a bit to do yet, but that now looks like this...

...and while I'm on the path of starting to install final components, I had a go at putting the pump and a few of the fittings in...

All good so far!

Now you might think that I'm just a few power cables and WC tubes away from finishing this build, but I've hit a problem that I'm not yet sure how to solve.

The fittings that I planned on using here...

..don't actually fit.

When I measured up, there was supposed to be a tiny bit of tubing between the 90° fitting and a regular compression fitting. But with this Primochill tubing I've now got, my Alphacool compression fittings don't close completely (the tubing OD is slightly too big) and as such there isn't enough room to fit the second screw cap onto the tubing while pushing the second barb in.

So I can't screw the second compression fitting closed.

Now I have to find a new fitting/combination of fittings that will bridge this tight 90° corner.

I was so close to this all being perfect!