Titanium Red

[TPC]

watch out when dipping your case. It has a soft touch finish right? it could happen that plasti dip will barely stick to it and might even fall off again completely. I had the same issue on a GPU once.

 

[Insurance]

watch out when dipping your case. It has a soft touch finish right? it could happen that plasti dip will barely stick to it and might even fall off again completely. I had the same issue on a GPU once.

Thanks for the tip, i always test these sort of things before painting the whole case. Did you rub the shroud with alcohol or something similar before plasti dipping it?

 

[Dawelio]

Question guys, can you get that underglow effect with the DDR4 Dominator modules?. Ie, not to have those cutouts on the bar, but rather have the solid bars installed. And also have the light bars installed, for that nice underglow?... Just simply not "see through bars"?.

 

[Insurance]

Question guys, can you get that underglow effect with the DDR4 Dominator modules?. Ie, not to have those cutouts on the bar, but rather have the solid bars installed. And also have the light bars installed, for that nice underglow?... Just simply not "see through bars"?.

I am not sure if i understand your question.

You do get underglow with the default bars installed, the ones without the cut-outs. The main difference between the default bars and the lightbars is the cut-out on top.


Got a message from the hardware store today, the newwatercoolingparts should come in at Tuesday orWednesday.

Quite some things i want to do next week:

• Paint the exterior of the case in matte black.
• Paint all new fittings into a titanium grey color to match the rest of the build.
• Make a cut-out in themid-plate tofit the 360 radiator incl. fittings in front, so that i still be able to use the mid-plate.
• Install the GPU waterblock/360 radiator and completely re-do the loop.

I'll update this thread with some progress for people that are interested

 

[WillSK]

absolutely cracking build dude! Super neat!

Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

Nice overclock too although is that your best voltage? It's possible coz I currently run 4.6 on my 6600k at 1.365 vcore and I know anything higher required a bit more of a jump in volts

 

[Excalabur50]

Very nice build very clean and tidy well done

 

[Insurance]

absolutely cracking build dude! Super neat!

Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

Nice overclock too although is that your best voltage? It's possible coz I currently run 4.6 on my 6600k at 1.365 vcore and I know anything higher required a bit more of a jump in volts

Thanks mate,

My chip was stable at 4.6Ghz at 1.370v, so very much like yours. Going from 4.6Ghz to 4.7Ghz however does take a significant increase of vcore. I tried getting it stable at 4.7Ghz while decreasing vcore a little but it resulted in crashing a couple minutes into stressing. I am pretty sure i can decrease that vcore a little more with some more effort but haven't really tried yet. I might give it a go one of these days.

For now I decided to go and try for 4.8Ghz instead and i'm currently doing that. Thing is, i'll get some more headroom again when adding the 360 radiator. So in all honesty, i'm stalling it a little at the moment

 

[Insurance]

The parts for my GPU got delivered today:

1x EK-CoolStream PE 360 Radiator.
1x EK-FC Titan X - Nickel/Acetal.
1x EK-FC Titan X Backplate black.
4x Bitspower 10MM (3/8 ID - 5/8 OD) compression 90 graden Rotary - G1/4 Matte Black.
2x Bitspower G1/4 Matt Black 90 Degree ID 1/4 Adapter.
2x Bitspower G1/4 Matt Black IG1/4 Extender 15mm.
2x EK-ACF Fitting 10/16mm Matte Black.
2m EK-Tube ZMT Matte Black 16/10mm

The EK Titan-X block in acetal/nickel is truly stunning.

The same can be said about the Titan-X backplate, just gorgeous.

The EK Coolstream PE360...

And the Bitspower/EKWB fittings and adapters, still in matte black but they're going to be painted into a gun-metal grey tomorrow.

Looking forward, modding me case, re-doing my loop and adding my GPU tomorrow..
To be continued

 

[Insurance]

I painted all the fittings in a matching gun-metal/titanium color today, they came out pretty nice. Tomorrow they will get some clear coats for some extra shine and durability. Here's some of them:

 

[Insurance]

UPDATE 18-03:

360 radiator, Bitspower elbows and rotaries installed.

Also notice the little nut, that's where the hole is for the bracket. The nut has primer on, so that's not going to be color I want. I'm either going to paint it black or the same gun-metal as the rest of the build. I'm a not sure yet.

 

[Insurance]

UPDATE 19-03:

Cleaned the GTX980Ti with some ArctiClean solution, which i can highly recommend btw...

 

[Insurance]

UPDATE:

Got the GPU block installed now and adding the other components as we speak.
Here is a tinylittle peak of what i'm looking at right now. Ilove thecontrast in color between the black/red/grey...

Still plenty of stuff to do: Assembling, painting,cable-management/training, leak-testing and more...

 

[Insurance]

UPDATE:

The build is assembled, i am leak testing right now. I'm very satisfied with the result so far!
Still plenty of stuff to do in the following days. The exterior is getting a paint job and i'm making a custom case-badge/window-sticker. I have some more things in mind but that's something for later.

I'll be making posting more info/photos tomorrow when the leak test is hopefully successful.
For now, one more peak

Note that i haven't done any cable-management nor cable-training yet, they still look somewhat sloppy.

 

[TPC]

just please please please take off those combs after the cables set. They just look way too big.

 

[Insurance]

just please please please take off those combs after the cables set. They just look way too big.

You're the first that actually dislikes them, most if not all people commented they really like them and so do I to be honest. Why do you think they're too big? I think the cables look better with than without. I guess it's a matter of taste.

 

[Nhirlathothep]

i like combs here, and i think now this liquid cooling is usefull. (GPU)







to reply to the previous questions :

i said i5 doesn t need liquid cooling because there s no point spending so much money to cool it.

all quad cores cpu too (i7 quad on low sockets) are not worth the money to watercool em.

With the same amount of money it s better buy a 6/8 core cpu: they can destroy em in performance.

 

[TPC]

I dont like the combs because the spacing between the cables is much larger than when they come out from the connectors. If the spacing would be tighter they'd look much neater but I still prefer trained cables without combs. I'm also sorry I was a bit offensive in my first statement.

 

[jimma47]

Really liking the black tubing. Very stealth!

Also for the cable combs - I don't mind them but I see where TPC is coming from. I would probably go for a matching colour or clear instead of contrast but hey that's just my preference. I have zero cable skills myself.

This is turning into a really sweet build. It started nice anyways but really liking what you've done since you first started the thread.

 

[Insurance]

i like combs here, and i think now this liquid cooling is usefull. (GPU)


to reply to the previous questions :

i said i5 doesn t need liquid cooling because there s no point spending so much money to cool it.

all quad cores cpu too (i7 quad on low sockets) are not worth the money to watercool em.

With the same amount of money it s better buy a 6/8 core cpu: they can destroy em in performance.

Still doesn't make any sense to me but fine

I dont like the combs because the spacing between the cables is much larger than when they come out from the connectors. If the spacing would be tighter they'd look much neater but I still prefer trained cables without combs. I'm also sorry I was a bit offensive in my first statement.

Not offended at all, no worries I have always used cables without combs before but i kind of like the contrast of these with the red sleeved cables. Also got a lot of positive comments on this specific combs, most people seem to love them.

Really liking the black tubing. Very stealth!

Also for the cable combs - I don't mind them but I see where TPC is coming from. I would probably go for a matching colour or clear instead of contrast but hey that's just my preference. I have zero cable skills myself.

This is turning into a really sweet build. It started nice anyways but really liking what you've done since you first started the thread.

Thanks mate, appreciated.
Less is more for me really I do not like RGB LED, LED fans etc.. not my cup of tea.

 

[Insurance]

UPDATE:

The leak-test was successful and the system is up and running again now

I RMA'd my previous EVGA GTX980Ti, not because it was defect but it suffered from awful coil-whine, even on capped FPS. I honestly did hesitate before sending it back because i had a great overclocking card (76% ASIC), on air it hit 1500Mhz on the core-clock quite easy while staying well within thermal limits. The coil-whine however was so apparent that i did not really had another option. A little afraid of sending it back and getting an inferior card in return, i received an even better one. This card has a ASIC percentage of 79.9% and is rock-steady at 1550Mhz while temperatures don't exceed 47 degrees Celsius. So, i am immensely satisfied so far.

I am going to edit the BIOS later tonight and see if i can get steady at 1600/1650Mhz with some extra voltage.

Anyway, as promised some pictures of the 'finished' build:

As said, very satisfied. I love the clean and tidiness of the tubing together with the contrast in colors. Next i'm going to be plasti-dipping the exterior in a dark matte black and designing a custom case-badge/side-window sticker.

To be continued with results of the performance and with further progression in some days.

Let me know what you think