Water-cooled RV03

[WYP]

It's been a long while coming... but finally here is my Raven

Spec list:

Cpu: AMD 1090t (4.0 GHz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
GPU: XFX HD 7950 (1GHz core)
SSD: Samsung 830 128GB
HDD: Western Digital 500GB
Ram: 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
PSU: Coolermaster silent pro 1000w

Here is a basic view of the inside of my system, i will soon be draining my loop to replace the blue fluid with clear fluid.

one problem with watercooling a raven is radiator placement, with the only stock supported place being a double 120mm radiator in the bottom with space for little else. This would be adequate for at most either a cpu or gpu loop but certainly not both.
I managed to fit into the base of the case a 60mm thick double 140mm rad, with push pull, mounted through the base as shown in the pictures above.
this leaves little space for your 24-pin and gpu cables so i would suggest pulling those through before mounting the radiator, otherwise there is little space.
i have also mounted a dual 120mm rad in the drive bay space at the front of the case, this leaves no room for any drives but you could easily mount a single thicker 120mm rad in that location and leave adequate drive bay space
for a dvd drive or a bay-reservoir.
my 3rd and final radiator is mounted on the top exhaust fan.

Thermal performance of my pc is as follows, after running sequentially 3dmark vantage,3dmark 11 ,unigine heaven and unigine valley... all at maximum presets, i found that the max gpu temp to be 46 degrees and max cpu temp to be 38 degrees. On prime 95 max cpu temp was then found to be 42 degrees after a 2 hour run at 4.2GHz at 1.5 volts.

scores for these benchmarks will be added later as well as a few more pics.

 

[Mgutierrez33]

Ingenuity seems to be paying off well for you. the pics only show three fans on your bottom rad, is this because of a lack of room between the tubing and the rad to comfortably fit a fan there? Either way looks pretty good despite the lack of space!

 

[WYP]

i have four fans but i forgot to add a spacer before the 90 degree fitting, i only realized after i filled the loop . i will add the spacer and the fan when i next drain the loop.

 

[WYP]

Update!

finally have moved house

Bring on 3rd year Uni!

i think this student house has the best desk i have ever seen!

 

[AverageNinja]

Looks ace! Thanks for posting the update mate

 

[TUiZHD]

With my keyboard that close i dont think that chess set would last very long knowing me i would end up knocking them off all the time..

 

[WYP]

haha, the chess set i no problem for me there to be honest.
not sure it will stay there though, as i said just got moved in.

Update, had been weeks since i used my main rig due to work etc.
have noticed internal air is warmer than i'd like it, due to the uk heat wave atm.

my initial plans for the case was to mod the rear of the case and mount the dual 120mm rad there and place the pump/res around the drive bays, this did not happen due to a lack of time with assignments, exams etc.

this resulted in the pc being quickly put together as it is seen now, which in turn has left most of the air intake being through a radiator, and forced me to abandon my dvd drive(no real loss tbh).

in the coming months the pc may change/move towards my original vision (if i have adequate spare time). i also may buy a new larger hard drive.

Update 2: I will soon be starting a project log on my build for when i start modding my case in little more than a months time.

Theme: Kisuke Urahara, a bleach character whom is currently pictured in my avatar. The rig mainly be Black, white and Dark green.

New Rig name: Benihime (Japanese for Crimson Princess), the name of this characters Zanpakutō (a Zanpakutō is a soul reapers sword in the anime/manga)