Been bit busy with study lately, also have had my UP7 die on me so had to get that replaced too (and no, there was no water leak onto it or anything)
Anyways, for the water I am using it is just my tap water at home. Since I am on a farm I am just using rain water. But am boiling it just to get rid of any bacteria that may be in it just in case.
After the water had cooled down in went the pastel concentrate!
After a mix, it went into my squeeze fill bottle
All in the loop, don't think I quite like the colour of the pastel. Needs a bit of yellow dye to make it a bit more rich.
At this point I had done the loop, and went to fire up the desk but there was nuthin'. Was pretty pissed, this loop isn't the easiest thing to drain
But here is how it works,
With the tap fitting on the right of the res I just put some tube and that goes down the back which goes into a jug.
Once as much water as possible has drained I then use my other tap here, which is on the side of the radiator to blow the water out. This tap is also used for filling, I open it up when filling as it allows the loop to fill up with as less air as possible, and also lets me continuously fill it without having air bubbles blow up the tube.
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about 2 weeks after this had passed I had gotten my UP7 back and was ready to start the loop again.
However I wanted to do something about my 3770K. Mine is a pretty shit one, and can barely get stable at 4.4ghz and pumps out a shit ton of heat.
So, I delidded it, (vice method) and will be running it with no lid. to maximize cooling potential.
I set up the tubing again, and set my handy towels up. And yes, that is the old coolant there.
Mixing up the coolant, here is a shot comparing the MDPC-X Orange to the Pastel Orange
After about 55 drops of yellow dye, we got this colour, though not matching the MDPC-X sleeving, it is a pretty perfect colour to the Gigabyte Orange
And a crop photo comparing them (new colour on the right)
I started to fill the loop back up, and instantly saw a clear difference between the old coolant in the left res, and the new in the right. Hope it is clear in the photo's
The stickers on the side AF120 fans were upside down, though I should make those the right way around
Here are is the new loop. Looks great!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97695353/Desk/TEmp/IMG_7724.jpg
With the NZXT Led kit, it will be powered by a Fan header. Did this in an old build and never had any problems.
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97695353/Desk/TEmp/IMG_7726.jpg
Here is full shot of the desk, the top draw is missing because it no longer fits. Why is that? well, I found that the desk was a bit too tall for my liking, so I took about 8cm off off it
So took 8cm off of the legs, and off of the draw carcass (got my mum to do the carcass for my while I was at uni so no pics off that bit) and will have to cut down the draw size to get it back in there. It'll be my pen draw
Checking to make sure that the LED's are working (will get a night photo out tonight probably)
Thought I would show a size photo just to give some prospective. NOTE: I will not be using the top of the desk for my keyboard/mouse I will be making a keyboard tray this week some time (still have to figure out I will do it too) this photo was just for prospective.
