WC'd Stacker 935

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:
 

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You know, I -really- need to get a better camera that the one on my phone!

I'll try and get some shots tomorrow with more natural light and drop the side panels so the insides are more visible.
 
Its nice to see a stacker build - I wanted to do one but in the end opted for another build. What are you load temps, delta and voltages?
 
Apologies for the lack of timely response - that real life thing, well, you know how it goes.

Idle temps are room temperature, load temps generally take it to the high 20's/early 30's - the only thing at the moment that really pushes it hard is Star Citizen. At which point it peaks around ambient +15/20 (so peaks 42>45C typically)

Voltages on the CPU is stock for a 4770K, not had a need to push it any harder frankly. At least not yet.

Peak on the GPU's is drawing .955 / .965.

Board voltages seem to have some odd variance for reasons I don't fully understand, the Vcore sometimes rises to 1.158 but idles (and most of the time lives) at 1.136 - and I've yet to find any topic or article that can explain that one to me, not encountered any problems though, so I'm mostly just putting it down as an artifact of the board rather than anything else.
 
After spending a lot of time on the ROG forums it seems to be something the boards do. My Hero totally ignores the manual voltage I peg it at and even with LLC disabled it overvolts itself as it sees fit, it seems to operate within voltage ranges for a given speed, that's with a 4790K - for example with no offsets or LLC 1.310 becomes 1.328, anything higher becomes 1.440 etc, it just seems to like adding around .02-.03v.

Despite my view that it robs you of precise control the longtimers on the forums there tell me it's as it should be.
 
Tom's welcome to his opinion, its a free world (or so they tell us)

I love it, the pictures don't do it the justice it deserves frankly - given where it sits, its delightfully black with the blue just highlighting the components of interest. With the lighting being driven mostly by the fans, it gets brighter the hotter it's running.

I've built a lot of rigs over the years for myself and for others, but this is one of the few I'm seriously proud of.

It's also the quietest :)
 
Not a fan of the Stacker either but a good build, Too me the Stacker looks like a rip off of a Case Labs case.

TBH the blue LED light is kinda bleaching it out its kinda hard to see the hardware in the case
 
Like I said, I need to get a better camera to get better pictures, but here's a few with the panels off, hopefully give a better impression of the insides since the side panel is fairly tinted :)

The fact that I'm not very handy with a camera probably doesn't help either of course!

And I assume you're referring to something like the Case Labs Magnum STH10?
 

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