Water cooled setup

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LOL I am home from work today as I said I had to bring my kid to school we're home already and my UPS guy usually comes around 11:15 and now it's 11:30 and I'm all antsy I even checked if my doorbell was working right. I checked UPS.com 100 X Jesus I'm like a little kid, really I am.

Sure there will prob be a part list or at least a part layout today for sure

[Acid_death69]

FUCKING UPS! they should get their asses in gear 15 mins is not accpetable! giv ehtm a ring and find out where abouts it is

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH i wanna see

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And here we begin. Thanks to all who helped me out on this forum and on others. Especially Clocker who never tires of my baragement of questions and arguments, he is an asset to the world therover. Thanks dude.



OK so finally I got my stuff and I am overjoyed and a bit overwhelmed. I honestly have been "fiddling" with my parts for about 2 hours now thinking and figuring. Trying to foresee any potential problems I may run into so I don't get stuck in the middle. As of now all looks very good.

A quick sneak peak at 1 small corner of "The Dungeon" where I do all my builds a bit messy ATM but its a controlled chaos I swear


Here is the Case Silverstone Tj07 with side window.





And her all opened up and me taking the HDD cages out



Let me say how awesome this case really is. It doesn't look that snappy in the pictures but let me tell you this thing is really classy. The brushed aluminum looks great. In addition to it looking great in person this is by FAR the best built case I have ever worked with. This is a TOP quality case you can just feel it when you get your hands on it. The rumors are true this case is great!!!

Here are some shots of the Resevoir The EK-Multioption RES 250 Rev 2



Revision 2 as I found out has a little divider inside to separate the inlet/outlet Awesome advice Clocker thanks again soooo glad I didn't get the Bay res i first looked at.

Next up is the Radiator This is The Black Ice® GT Stealth 360 XFlow in ferrari red. This thing is huge too, I should have figured because it accepts 3 120mm fans and I happen to have some scyth s-flex's laying around I plan to use there.




It looks even better in person I have to say

All the waterblocks and pump layed out



They are:
Swiftech MCP355 pump
Swiftech Apogee GTZ Cpu Block
EK-NB/SB 5 Northbridge Water Block
EK-SB GA-X38 Northbridge Water BlockEK-Mosfet GA X38/48 Mosfet Water Block








I replaced the Pump top with The Laing DDC-1T/1TPlus





I threw some snappy Bitspower fittings on there



I really like BP's logo subtle yet cool


I put some 90 rotary fittings on the Rad next





Here is the controversial res placement that now that it is here I am 90% sure it will work





Also if you notice I am wedging the Rad in there using petra's "gel stuff" a recomendation I got from another forum. Thanks TurtleTrax

I did have to put 2 90 rotary fittings on the res to get it where I need it though.



So here is where I am right now



on to the Q & A

OK guys so I have a few questions before I head back down. I did run up here and upload pics just for you guys well and to piss

Do I have to use any kind of pipe/teflon tape on these fittings at all? I don't think I do because they have a rubber O ring but I figured I'd ask.

Do the fans on the RAD blow air from the outside on to the unit or hot air off of the unit and out of the case if so do they blow "through" the rad or like a GPU blower blowing heat from the source??

Something I did realize is that because I got the side window I cannot do the reverse ATX MOD now because then there will be a window to nowhere

There were more questions but I forget them ATM. Im too excited to get back down there and hook some shit up!!!
Sure i'll be back in a few..... Stay tuned more pics to come.

[Acid_death69]

looks very nice mate
For the Orings/teflon im not quite sure, if it has a tight fit around when you put the pipes on the barbs it should be ok. When bleeding and testing this loop you'll know for defo then.
For the rad/fan thing, either way will work. you can have fan---->rad (blowing the air on to the rad) or rad---->fan (sucking the air through the rad). You could even have a push pull system fan--->rad--->fan all depends on how many fans you have:p.
I wanna see more pics please

[clocker]

No Teflon...the orings do the sealing.

The fans are more efficient pulling (sucking?) through the rad.

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Thanks guys. I do have another question, What screws do I use to mount the fans to the RAD? It didn't come with any should it have?

[clocker]

I'm not sure how that read comes.
I usually tap the holes to 6-32 and just use stainless screws from the hw store.

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I'm headed to lowes now

[clocker]

BTW...if at all possible I'd avoid putting a 90° fitting on the pump outlet.

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Why so? Not that it matters I took it off because I ran one short and I needed it for the res to make the turn I needed.

Ok so Im done for the night and here we are...my eyes hurt LOL

I started with my 8800


and removed the stock cooler



The waterblock is big and heavy




on to removed the mobo from my antec 900 ( I'm gonna miss that case ) maybe I'll do something with it who knows.



Damn that Enzotech is still friggen gigantic and what a pain in the balls to remove the sticky backplate Jesus that thing was on good.

Cleaned my chip up nice




on a side note what do you guys think about lapping?? Pro's/cons??

Got all the copper "silent pipe" removed also a pain.






I was going to take pics after each block I installed but the batteries died in the camera. Recharged and here is the MoBo with all the Blocks attached










Afew shots of the S-flex fans that will go on the rad ( I didn't go get screws today) they're just sitting on there.




A few shots of where I am up to now






OK so I am seeing the Graphics card sag REALLY bad due to the weight of the waterblock. You can kind of see it here


I don't think its a good idea for me to leave it like this. What do you guys think I can do to help it out?? I have a few ideas but none of them are pretty at all. Is there a bracket or something I can get for this??

Thats all for tonight folks, see you tomorrow with more shots. Any suggestions comments foreseeable problems please let me know, Thanks again guys