CCISolitude
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Hi all,
I posted a little last summer, as I was having some really frustrating problems with a new build - thanks to Sieb, Excalabur50 and of course TinyTomLogan himself I got it all sorted out in the end with an unhappy 780Ti OC returned to the supplier and after a bit of verbal back and forth with their testing chap I got it replaced and all was well.
Well, mostly well - I discovered that when the Asus Ti OC's get pressed hard, they also get damned loud - so some more investment in to radiators, water blocks, back plates I was starting to get somewhere.
Then I discovered that the initial pump wasn't really cutting the mustard, so swapped out to a Laing DDC - and to quote Monty Python, there was much rejoicing.
But yet, after all that, I still wasn't entirely happy. Mostly with the aesthetics if nothing else.
So a fortnight ago, I dropped some more cash into it and did a little refresh.
Spec: i7-4770K, 16GB DDR3 @ 2400, 2x 780Ti OC's with EKWB blocks and plates, 2x Samsung 240Gb EVO 840 SSDs, 1x Samsung 1TB Platter, 2x 360mm radiators, EKWB pump/res combo, 2x Phobya 450mm res.
The pump drives from the small res in the main housing to the motherboard first, then to CPU, then to the top card, which bridges to the second card, it then runs down to the mid chassis (stacker 915) and into the first 360mm rad, which then connects to the phobya 450mm in front of it, that then runs down to the second stacker 915 underneath and the 360mm rad there, which goes to the second phobya res, the plumbing then runs to a T fitting which has a drain on a rotating 45 degree fitting which can easily pull out when I want to flush the system, and the whole thing then runs back up to the pump res in the main housing.
I'll admit, bleeding the system was a swine! Thankfully with an extra pair of hands and some well checked seals, rotating the chassis at 100+ degree inclines on all axis got that handled.
Anyway, the whole system is powering an LG 34" superwide
(which is gorgeous btw, I wholly recommend trying one if you get half a chance)
The only thing left to do is to replace the Corsair AF120's on the radiators with some PWM LED 120's of suitable caliber in order to better light the phobya reservoirs in front and let the mobo control the speeds to absolutely minimise the last bit of noise (all the other fans on the chassis are already mobo controlled)
Anyway, some pictures:
I posted a little last summer, as I was having some really frustrating problems with a new build - thanks to Sieb, Excalabur50 and of course TinyTomLogan himself I got it all sorted out in the end with an unhappy 780Ti OC returned to the supplier and after a bit of verbal back and forth with their testing chap I got it replaced and all was well.
Well, mostly well - I discovered that when the Asus Ti OC's get pressed hard, they also get damned loud - so some more investment in to radiators, water blocks, back plates I was starting to get somewhere.
Then I discovered that the initial pump wasn't really cutting the mustard, so swapped out to a Laing DDC - and to quote Monty Python, there was much rejoicing.
But yet, after all that, I still wasn't entirely happy. Mostly with the aesthetics if nothing else.
So a fortnight ago, I dropped some more cash into it and did a little refresh.
Spec: i7-4770K, 16GB DDR3 @ 2400, 2x 780Ti OC's with EKWB blocks and plates, 2x Samsung 240Gb EVO 840 SSDs, 1x Samsung 1TB Platter, 2x 360mm radiators, EKWB pump/res combo, 2x Phobya 450mm res.
The pump drives from the small res in the main housing to the motherboard first, then to CPU, then to the top card, which bridges to the second card, it then runs down to the mid chassis (stacker 915) and into the first 360mm rad, which then connects to the phobya 450mm in front of it, that then runs down to the second stacker 915 underneath and the 360mm rad there, which goes to the second phobya res, the plumbing then runs to a T fitting which has a drain on a rotating 45 degree fitting which can easily pull out when I want to flush the system, and the whole thing then runs back up to the pump res in the main housing.
I'll admit, bleeding the system was a swine! Thankfully with an extra pair of hands and some well checked seals, rotating the chassis at 100+ degree inclines on all axis got that handled.
Anyway, the whole system is powering an LG 34" superwide

The only thing left to do is to replace the Corsair AF120's on the radiators with some PWM LED 120's of suitable caliber in order to better light the phobya reservoirs in front and let the mobo control the speeds to absolutely minimise the last bit of noise (all the other fans on the chassis are already mobo controlled)
Anyway, some pictures: