Water Cooled Gigabyte Aurora

[aspire.comptech]

Heres my baby, been through 2 complete systems and still running strong.

» e6600 @ 3.6ghz
» XFX 8800GT 512MB
» ABIT AW9D-MAX 975x Motherboard
» 2x1gb Crucial Newegg Lanfest 2K7 Memory
» Seasonic 500W PSU
» Laing D5 Pump
» Swiftech MCR-220 Radiator
» Aquaxtreme MP-1 Cpu Block
» Aquaxtreme MP-1 Gpu Block
» Tygon A-60-G Tubing

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[smee]

Very nice job mate!

If you don't mind me asking... what size tubing is that and where'd ya get it??
It looks sweet! :up:

[Nate P.]

Yeah, really like that tubing. Nive job. ;)

[aspire.comptech]

Got the tubing from US Plastics

Basically the only damned place that didn't require me to order a whole freaking roll of it.

Its Tygon Norprene A-60-G 1/2" id 3/4" od

Hard to find stuff, first ran across it and got a 5ft sample from tygon directly, was a bit hard to find when I needed to redo my loop... but it worked out in the end.

Its the same tubing swiftech uses in their new kits that have the pump/cpu block and radiator/res combo thingymabob...

The tubing likes to kink and any walls thinner than this would NEED smart coils to work.

[Cupcake]

Thats Great !!!

The flat black tubing looks nice

What CPU Temps are you getting with that block

[aspire.comptech]

Usually sits around 35-40 or so depending on how far I have it pushed at that particular moment.

At the moment, my 8800gt is out for rma, long story.. anyways without that added heat load my temps are kicking butt!

Idling around 28-29 with a small overclock to about 3.2ghz

Load right now is 35C with two instances of Super Pi and 100% cpu usage

[evil-98]

wow i have never seen that case before, looks good man, especially with the norprene tubing but those elbows bug me, i wonder why they dont make rads with more port options, good job!

[Petra]

Looking good :up:

Glad to see that everything ended up coming together (or, at least, it will once XFX gets that card back to you :rolleyes: ).

[aspire.comptech]

those elbows bug me, i wonder why they dont make rads with more port options

It was either the elbows or 8 inch long loops, and restriction wise they're about the same... Plus it just looks better his way. Heres an early pic of my rig...

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Nasty huh?

[Erasmus354]

You can get it from Mcmaster as well (just wont be Tygon branded). Mcmaster sells generic A-60-G formulation Norprene it looks like. They also sell A-60-F which is tan and is food and beverage grade tubing.

[septim]

nice clean and simple setup...

[aspire.comptech]

You can get it from Mcmaster as well (just wont be Tygon branded). Mcmaster sells generic A-60-G formulation Norprene it looks like. They also sell A-60-F which is tan and is food and beverage grade tubing.

Just took a look and compared prices. Mcmaster wants something like 1.10 more per foot than us plastics :(

[Waterlogged]

They don't carry 1/2" x 3/4" but they do carry 2 other popular sizes.

Sidewinder (http://search.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?.autodone=http%3A%2F%2Fstore.yahoo.com%2Fs idewindercomputers%2Fnsearch.html&catalog=sidewindercomputers&query=A-60-G&x=101&y=8)

[aspire.comptech]

5/8" o.d. wont work, kinks too easily.

You need the 1/8" walls, tho it should be fine with smartcoils

[Nanometer]

cool tubing haha