Gettin started on Wc build ( 56k beware )

Hey,

After looking through the Wc case gallery awhile back,i got the inspiration to do my 1st watercooling rig.I'm very new to all this and all your messages and reading through all your posts have been invaluable.cheers :up:

Ok....

I'm just starting to get all my components together now and this is what i have,Not as extreme as most people on here but it's a start.

System components:

Lian li v2000b + ( due to arrive 27th august )
Q6600 b3 (have)
Evga 680i A1 (have)
2gb ocz 1066 sli ready ram w/ocz ram cooler (have)
xfx 8800 gtx stock (have)
150gb raptor and 400gb wd hd's w/zalman heatpipe coolers(have)
samsung 18x dvd burner (have)
thermaltake 850w psu (have)
Zalman fan controller(have)
(supplied by www.itsdirect.com.au)


Watercooling gear:
D-tek fuzion cpu block (have)
Radiical 3x rad (have)may get a 2nd depending if it will fit internally in case.
Radiical 2x rad (have)to be replaced by 3xrad if fits.
mcw60 gpu block (have)
Swiftech ramsinks (have)
Radiical chipset block (have)May get 2nd for sb
2x acrylic resevoirs (have)
laiing d5 (have)
swiftech mcp350 w/ radiical turbo head(have)
10 metres excellon tubing (have)
6x antec tri-cool fans 3x blue 3x green (have)
d-tek blue dye and d-tek green dye (have)
8 litres on dimeneralized water (have)
Anti corrosion and anti algae mix(have) supplied by radiical
(supplied by www.radiical.com.au)

1st loop layout:

3xrad >fuzion>nb>res>d5

2nd loop layout:

2xrad >mcw60>res>mcp350w/radiical top



Ok that's all my gear atm.I'm just missing the my case,so i can't really start until received.During this process if you see me doing anything incorrectly please let me know :)

Will post pics of my gear soon......

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Looks good cant wait to see it begin!!

Just random pics of my gear...... :up: :up: :up:

My radiators with antec tri-cool fans attached:
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/6813/nupc001cs3.jpg

My pumps:
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1237/nupc002ok0.jpg

My 8800 gtx with mcw60 and ramsinks
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1580/nupc006io2.jpg

One of my resevoirs
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/6141/nupc008lx0.jpg

Pic of my mobo w/fuzion and chipset block on
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4015/nupc009rh7.jpg

More pics of mobo
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2030/nupc010zi8.jpg

Another one
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1789/nupc012kn7.jpg

Hr-05 sli on sb
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2047/nupc013cx4.jpg

My water w/d-tek dyes mixed in I'm going for a blue and green the green is good but as you can see my blue is a off greeny colour not what i wanted.Should i put more blue dye in??
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7462/nupc014jc2.jpg


ok thats all for now cheers fellaz

P.s sorry for the bad quality pics my camera isn't very good as you can see

Pics aren't too bad in terms of IQ, but better lighting would help immensely. Perhaps take your photos outside with natural light? In any case, from what I can make out, that looks like a decent setup.

Just one point, though - how is your loop going to be laid out? You haven't told us that, and it's a fairly important point lol.

oh sorry yeah i would of took the picture's outside but it's raining in brisbane.So its too dark outside anyways.

As for loop order this is how i have it planned for now.

1st loop:
3x rad >cpu>nb>res>pump

2nd loop:
2x rad>gpu>res>pump

I may purchase a 3x rad to replace my 2xrad if my case allows it.
If so

3x rad>gpu>sb>res>pump

Cheers

i have that same case... currently waiting for all my parts to come in but you can fit two 3x rads in there.

Your going to have to rather put one in the bottom and one on the top... or put two in the bottom but it will be a tight fit

cheers,

thanks for that i want to put both down the bottom.....

post some pics of your rig when finished can't wait to check it out.I love all the v2000 builds

looks good so far disruptfam. Looking forward to a update :)

full build will be underway when i receive my case in a week.I'll post other stuff i'm doing in the mean time.When I receive i wanna send my side panels to chilled pc in the uk and get em laser cut.

Cheers

Notice you've put sinks on your R50s. That should all work out well. You'll have the rear exhaust 120mm giving good airflow over them and the black heat sinks.
Have you lifted the black sinks? Found mine, like most, weren't giving good contact on the middle chips. Had to give a slight bend down in the middle. You can easily see if they're indenting the TIM or not. Same goop as on the chipset.

No actually i haven't,should i take them and put some artic ceramique on them? Or replace the thermal tape?from what i can see the contact looks farewell good

cheers

It wont hurt anything to pop the pins and see if there's dents in the TIM for each chip.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...blegumcopy.jpg

As you can see, some of mine weren't even making contact.
I lapped my blocks and redid them with ceramique. This is before I put in the slight bend.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...silvercopy.jpg

If your's are OK, you can just pop them back in or replace the TIM putty. It's up to you whether they're fitting good enough. I figure the stock TIM is for mass production but hand fitting allows good enough contact the thinner TIM is useable. Thinner is better for heat transfer.

oh ok thanks for that i'll check em now

The contact is ok on the outside but in middle not so great.
what board do you have, i got the evga 680i a1 my mofset's looks different to yours

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5931/nupc031iu1.jpg

vrm's

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/733/nupc033lg2.jpg

The top one's contact are ok.

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4995/nupc032jp7.jpg

Do you have thread on what you did there with the vrm heatsink?? and mobo??

cheers

Putting heat sinks on top of those R50's isn't going to do anything good. They're coil housings to reduce noise and don't conduct heat that much at all.

How come you have missing mosfet chips?

exactly i'm missing mofset chip's why??? Are evga 680i A1 revision board's sposed to be missing them?

Should i put ramsink's on the actual mofset's instead of the r50's??


cheers

Those MC14s look like the perfect size to put one to every set of 4 mosfet chips :)

ok thanks i will put them on there now.Does anyone know why i'm missing mofset chip's?? who has the evga 680i A1 revision can someone take a pic and post please

cheers

Mine is the AR. The first.
The coils get so hot I've seen boards where that R50 lettering is cooked away in a fortnight.
Getting that heat out of the cpu area can't be a bad thing.
Yeah, I dimly remember guys reporting the second boards were different there on the evga board forum. A couple less.

so i should leave the heatsink's on the r50's?
And i'll get more for the actual mofset's

cheers fellaz

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Originally Posted by disruptfam

so i should leave the heatsink's on the r50's?
And i'll get more for the actual mofset's

cheers fellaz

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That's what I'd do, if you want to replace the black sinks.
I played around with making my own WC blocks for them but settled for air cooling in the end.
If eddie ever comes out with them I'd give it a go though. This board runs so hot I'll WC every thing I can on it.


Edit - Sorry, Yeah I did have a thread on the board TIM but it vanished when evga rearranged their motherboard forum, when the 650 Lite came out. So many useful threads got dumped then. They're still rediscovering stuff over there we'd sorted out months before. Stickys, pics etc.

maybe i should ask eddy @ ek if he has a mofset block in the works for the evga 680i

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while i'm waiting for my case i thought i would just leak test my waterblocks...


Excuse the extremely messy room lol
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/6679/nupc043dh1.jpg

Res.....
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5917/nupc045po8.jpg

All done on a old michael jackson t-shirt who i do not know who owns lol
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3614/nupc044zc5.jpg

cheers

Why the miles and miles of tubing? That's got to be far in excess of what you'll need when it's installed in your case...

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Why the miles and miles of tubing? That's got to be far in excess of what you'll need when it's installed in your case...

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Yeah i purposely did them extra long because i don't have my case yet and it's easier to cut the tubing down when i get the case and measure properly.

cheers