WC

[I Hunta x]

While im working on slowly building the funds for my new build ive been working on the layout/colors i want, the x58a-oc has been a main part of my planning since i started and unless BD/ivy has some major performance increase for a low price i will be going with the x58a-oc for the build, yes i know its pretty much an EOL socket but it still performs very well and id rather get a rig im happy with and is going to last me 2-3 mabey 4 years before i upgrade socket again (new gpu's will be the only real upgrade id do before a full new build)

The main problem ive had is working out the cooling capacity, layout of the rads ect id need for efficient cooling for 2x 570 and a 920/930/950 or mabey a 970 if i can nab one of the ones that go for 220-250 on ebay.

What ive got so far in the plans is a non slim tripple in the roof, the best double in the front top of the drive bays, a tube res in the dead space on the mobo tray, a pump sat on a mount over the intake fan/fan slot on the floor.

Layout wise ive got it planned pump - gpus - cpu - rad - rad - res - pump.

(The mobo and ram are just stand in and were the first 2 i found)

I also need to change the barb on the top of the gpu's to a 45 deg and the inlet on the cpu to 45deg, and either a 45/90 on the outlet of the cpu but ill get to that when i do the tubing.

Is there anything i NEED to change about this set up? or anything that would be beneficial? I dont mind changing it it if its worth while its just id rather change it before i work on adding the tubing and start rendering it out as they are by far the most anoying/time consuming parts.

I know i could just leave it as is but i prefer having decent plans before i start working on anything like this.

Cheers for any help in advance.

mhmm image links are broke ill fix them now :fixed:

 

[dugdiamond]

i have not done a watercooled rig (YET), but i am an ex-corgi engineer (plumber). i will be doing a full WC system when full bulldozer is here

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i would use Y-splitters to create two seperate loops. else warm coolant will be passed from GPUs to the CPU block (or vise versa).

it does not matter how well the GPUs are cooled, the bottom card will always ambiently warm the card above it. and, if the loop is from bottom-to-top order the CPU will not be getting the best cooling !!!

BTW nice .skp

 

[sheroo]

Love those designs - they are awesome. How many hours did they take you?

 

[I Hunta x]

@dug From what i understand after a while the loops water temp will equalise to a degree and it ends up only being +/- a few deg depending on the order, not enough for me to worry about anyway as ill only be going for modest overclocks as apposed to pushing every Mhz out of it, and wouldnt splitting the loop mean im halfing the water flow and thus reducing the amount of heat it can remove? Surely higher flow rates over the blocks in a single run would make a bigger impact than than keeping the just as warm water going over as many blocks at about half the flow rate?

@sheroo The fact most of the stuff i just grabbed off of the inbuilt user library and edited it to suit my needs better not all that long (thus the p55 motherboard and white mushkin ram

), mabey 7-10 hours over the past month or so of acctualy looking at it, most of that was sat there with a cupper thinking about ways to make the loop clean with my headphones on loud (the radiator routing is a perfect example, spent 30 mins thinking about that)

 

[sheroo]

Can this be done with the bog standard version of Sketch up as well? Where do you get the libraries from? I'd love to try & do some designs...

 

[dugdiamond]

... as ill only be going for modest overclocks as apposed to pushing every Mhz out of it ...

if you ain't going to push it, why watercooling ???

 

[I Hunta x]

@sheroo Yeah all this can be done on the standard version as far as i know.

All the stuff is from the inbuilt "3d warehouse" at File > 3d warehouse > get models OR from http://scc.jezmckean.com/home

@dug Mainly to keep it quiet, but ill be clocking as high as i can within reason, not like getting 4ghz and stopping, hopefuly ill get around 4.3-4.4 out of the cpu as benefits after that point are pretty much non existant in anything other than benchmarks.

Theres also the looks side of it.

 

[sheroo]

Cheers dude that will keep me busy for a while...

 

[dugdiamond]

Ooooo - nice link to pc parts sketchup files

i have a sketchup .skp to .3ds model convertor, and now i might use those models to do some extra work

 

[tinytomlogan]

i have not done a watercooled rig (YET), but i am an ex-corgi engineer (plumber). i will be doing a full WC system when full bulldozer is here

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i would use Y-splitters to create two seperate loops. else warm coolant will be passed from GPUs to the CPU block (or vise versa).

it does not matter how well the GPUs are cooled, the bottom card will always ambiently warm the card above it. and, if the loop is from bottom-to-top order the CPU will not be getting the best cooling !!!

BTW nice .skp

And thats why plumbers should NOT watercool. Basic laws of thermal dynamics - its a closed loop Y'ing it will make all of 1c difference and make the rig look a mess.

Either have 2 completely seperate loops OR make one tidy loop.

TTL has spoken, lets have no more n000b chat of Y splitters thankyou

 

[dugdiamond]

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