[Project] White HAF Manifold

[Bravoexo]

Hi, My white HAF is undergoing an upgrade in the watercooling department.

Anyway, here's some before shots of the PC









Specs:

Intel C2D Q9400 @ 3.8Ghz
XFX 790i Ultra
4Gb Kingston DDR3 ValueRam 7-7-7-24 1T
Inno3D GTX295 Quad SLI
Seagate 320Gb x2 RAID0
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1Gb x2
Koolance VID-NX295
HWLabs BlackIce GTX420 + GTX360
Swiftech GTZ Apogee
BitsPower Pr0n
Koolance RAM-33
Koolance 5-way Spiltter Manifold
Swiftech MP-355 Pump
XSPC ResTop

[Bravoexo]

And here's the teardown so far











Well, so far so good. The new Primochill UV Blue tubing is gonna go on it tomorrow. (I need to think about the plumbing... I'm considering a series loop or two seperate loops...hmmm, oh well. )

[aka_GK]

white drool

[Welshman666]

nice work man!

[labs23]

nice work man!

Gee, to think that its just a teardown.


Its pretty nice looking in white already.
I wonder what addition/revamp you're in for. But whatever it is I'm sure its going to be great.

I saw your rig. at TPC's SMYR. Its one of the best.
-from Phils. too.

[shazza]

The white looks gorgeous - paint or powder coat?

[Armitage]

And here's the teardown so far

HOLY CRAP

Look at all those fittings!

[OrtoN]

black & white

[Bravoexo]

Thanks everyone.

@Shazza, it's just paint.

@Armitage, oh...yeah, I kinda cleaned out sidewinder about two months ago I think. I have so much more extra compression fittings that suppose to go on those manifolds. I just couldn't use them.

Update:





I'm in a quandry now, how to bleed both lines...arrgh.

[turbohans]

[autobot]

Holy knurled-nuts batman!!! There is more money in the fittings alone than the for the case!

Someone needs to start a compression fitting support group.

[Bravoexo]

Thankfully, the manifolds work like a charm, and bleeding that loop required that trick posted here in XS Forums a few months ago. (foil folded like a tent, but I used plastic instead)...all the air was gone in like 2 minutes.

I hope those pumps don't overheat, coz I don't have the fans underneath them running...

[Armitage]

man does that look complicated lol ;P

[Brad8988]

Agreed lol.

[Bravoexo]

lol.

Not only complicated, I can't believe it ate up 18ft of Primochill LRT UV Blue tubing...

[Pedalmonkey]

r u running that whole system off of one 120.3???

[Bravoexo]

Nope, it's

1 GTX360 for the GTZ, Black Freezer Mosfets + North/South Blks, Koolance RAM-33's
1 GTX420 for the QuadSLI GTX295's

[Caoder]

o.o.. how well does it cool?

[SupaR]

i have to say, that is one crazy, smart designed system that i have ever seen.

but you need more then a MPC-355 to get a good flow, you need at list a MPC-655 or some Strong Ehiem.

i hope you got some strong fans on that radiators.

[Bravoexo]

Thanks SupaR.

It's been in my head for months... I've been figuring out that if all the inlet to the blocks where above the outlet paths, then I'll be fine. And during bleeding (before I used that trick on the restop) whenever I stop the PSU...all the water levels on the four inlets would stop all at the same time and at the same level... and there's 1 MCP-355+XSPC restop per loop. Fans are either Scythe's Kaze Maru's (1900rpm) or Scythe Slipstreams (2x88cfms, 1x110cfm)

[Bravoexo]

Looks like GPU temps haven't changed. But my CPU now has dropped 4degs.

[idleuser]

wow your plumming looks effing serious !! good job!

[Bravoexo]

o.o.. how well does it cool?

High noon test w/ 9 loops of Crysis Warhead (ambush, airfield, and avalanch flythroughs, 1680x1050 4xAA, DX10, 32bit)

Warmed up the PC by playing COD4 for 1 hour first...

Idled for 20mins

Start out Temps

CPU - 48
GPU1 - 51
GPU2 - 49
GPU3 - 47
GPU4 - 48

Max Temps (HWMonitor)

CPU - 55
GPU1 - 61
GPU2 - 56
GPU3 - 55
GPU4 - 58

So it's a +7 C Delta on the CPU, and +10C delta for the GPU's.

[Bravoexo]

Closed everything up. (added a 140mm fan on front to feed the internal rad)

[Bravoexo]

New pics.