Project Switch Blade

[S_I_N]

Thanks, I always seem to have difficulty in working out exactly where things go, and was getting really confused by the tubing by your HDD. That's one of the things that puts me off WC tbh. With a CPU heatsink - you just slap it on in less than 5 minutes your back up and running.

hehehe wait til I get the Monsoon D5 and have it running dual loops

The pump should arrive today but still have to pay for the Monsoon lol payday next week. Then another brief (hopefully) wait for the EK FC570GTX SE will have to rely on income tax for that.

that will go rez/pump rad gpu back to rez/pump for loop 1 and rez/pump rad gpu back to rez/pump for loop 2 mind you both rez/pumps are the same one lol as this Monsoon has dual in and out. I'm hoping the co mingling of the 2 loops helps keep the gpu which will be on a 120mm rad ( All I have room for) cooler

 

[sheroo]

Lookin' forward to seeing how it turns out.

 

[S_I_N]

well I got word that my Tax Filing was accepted and should have the $ by Feb 1 so my plans proceed. But I have a new decision lol I'm going to be using mayhem's pastel coolant for my upgrade. I was thinking Blue Berry ( darkened with deep blue) but I'll put it out to y'all what color should I go with??? seeing as the case and innards are primarily black (ignore the water tubes in the pics for now) atm the fans are blue sickle flows but cant be seen as there above the rad. I'll be moving them to push when i redo it. Fans can be changed easily enough this way lol.

Anyway your thoughts on color??

on a side note i am considering changing the cpu block to a raystorm.

 

[SieB]

Blue berry gets my vote.

I think I read Mayhem saying in a thread some where that he is doing UV versions of the Pastel rang, could be me imagine things but UV Blue Berry with a blue LED Raystorm could look pretty good.

 

[S_I_N]

I think all ya need is to add his UV only dye but I may be wrong. But yeah thats my thought Blue Raystorm with Dark Blue Berry and some decent lighting from the fans will make it pop. BTW I'm grown up now UV doesn't do it for me anymore lmao And i still have to see if i can find that side panel you showed me.

 

[SieB]

I don't usually like UV myself to be honest but I think it looks different with the Pastel fluid it's not so full on but the non UV pastel looks just as good.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Going to have to follow this for sure

 

[S_I_N]

Did a little more sleeving tonight as I was bored and couldnt sleep.

later today my rez and extra rads arrive so I'll get those flushed out and since I'm a glutton for playing with my rig lol I'll tear down my loop and get them installed with just distilled water til i get the rest of my parts in 10-14 days.

 

[S_I_N]

another package arrived today as expected

I have the MCP655 mounted and flushing atm was so excited to get it going I forgot to put the rads in the loop lol to flush those lol. But I'll be back later with an update.

this is not the full upgrade just new pump and rez mainly today.the rest will follow the first week of feb

 

[dipzy]

Very nice parts there, look forward to the contruction of the loop

 

[S_I_N]

well the preliminary part is done and man did I miss a few things lmao. First I was going to switch to push versus pull on my rad. so I removed rad and fans flushed rad and then put it back up. Then i added the rear rad and started routing my tubes. I freakin forgot to mount the fans and noticed while leak testing it. so for now til i redo it when I add the gpu block I have a single 120mm fan on the 360 lol and another one on the 120mm rad. and lmao shes running 2-3c cooler gotta be the extra rad plus the faster flow of the MCP655 anyway heres a couple pics for now.

 

[yassarikhan786]

That res looks awesome

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[S_I_N]

got a steal on it actually

the rez is normally 124 plus ship i got the rez both rads and the Apogee for 140 shipped I think the leds on it are defective though that or they are not at the right voltage can barely see them on and this is with just distilled water with blue dye. i know when i go with Mayhems Pastel I wont bother with them as i doubt it'll been seen with the thicker color the pastels are. But would of liked to see them work anyhow lol.

 

[SieB]

That is one nice looking res, you got a bargain for all that for 140

 

[rparrot]

looks wonderful man!!!

 

[S_I_N]

ok name change (its still open but for now lol) and pics of the case I'm getting this the actual case I'm getting from the reviewer and his review http://www.ocia.net/reviews/switch810/page1.shtml It should be in my hands Thursday evening

and if all else goes according to plan I'll have the resk of my kit here as well.

Besides changing cases i will be doing a 240mm rad in the floor along with the 360mm rad in the roof both will be XSPC RX varieties. I am also now thinking with this white case of getting the plexi topped GPU over the black acetal as i think with the side window the pastel fluid flowing thru it would be sweet. But still up in air about it.

 

[MaXiMiZe]

Awesome title for the thread

 

[KiiYzOo]

I think the colour needs to be orange

 

[S_I_N]

lol white black and orange. While i am not opposed to orange I'd have to change all my fans out that could get expensive. Debating changing rads to 140mm versions but again that could be costly but selling a XSPC RX rad shouldnt be hard lol. Blue is getting old hmmmmmm will have to price out the changes

 

[badtaylorx]

those new 810's are nastee!!!

def jealousy that im feelin right now