Project: fuZion 800D

Well another 800D project has arrived to the forum:)

Well im 15 years old and about to do my second watercooling project. Most parts as seen in my sig will be used, however this time with Corsair Obsidian 800D and some XSPC 9800GTX waterblocks (nickel plated) .

I was going to go all i7 and all that but i thought theres no need for me at the moment, i only really play Cod4 competitively and play Bad Company 2 for GFX (which i can max out anyway hehe)

So the project should start tomorrow morning and i should hopefully get pics up of tomorrows progress....

Would also like to say big thanks to www.chilledpc.co.uk

Hope you Enjoy

Welshman

BTW my project name is kinda random..just like the word i guess haha

Day1 13-march-2010

My antec 900 looking on at the beastly 800D:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03646.jpg

after dismantling Pc for cleaning i found this: (yuk)
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03648.jpg

this sorted the problem:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03649.jpg

Rad flush:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03647.jpg
(cleaned fully now)

res mounted:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03657.jpg

cheap way of 'blackening' DVD drive (electrical tape lol):
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03651.jpg

tape on wires for fans and pump:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03656.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03655.jpg

replaced fan on back of case:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03661.jpg

GPU blocks to be installed tommorow:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03652.jpg
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC03653.jpg

Man at fifteen I wasn't even thinking about watercooling!
I think it was all about BMX back then...

Well the 800 is a beautiful case so just try and do something a little bit different than the next person.

But seriously at fifteen to be able to do it is great!!
BTW my wife is from Ireland. It's absolutely stunning there.
I really would like to go back there someday. The weather
is ideal for building computers as you can be inside all the time!!

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Originally Posted by armeniandave

Man at fifteen I wasn't even thinking about watercooling!
I think it was all about BMX back then...

Well the 800 is a beautiful case so just try and do something a little bit different than the next person.

But seriously at fifteen to be able to do it is great!!
BTW my wife is from Ireland. It's absolutely stunning there.
I really would like to go back there someday. The weather
is ideal for building computers as you can be inside all the time!!

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hahaha, I like my PC's and many other things..but next few days will be dedicated to this lol

and your very right about the weather lol, even though it aint raining today:P

Well when we were there it rained every day!
We had to settle for hanging at the pub with
an extra pint of Guinness.

I assume you have your case already?
What are your plans so far?

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Originally Posted by armeniandave

Well when we were there it rained every day!
We had to settle for hanging at the pub with
an extra pint of Guinness.

I assume you have your case already?
What are your plans so far?

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well ive just updated my 1st post with todays progress..

however ill tell you this, there will be white tubing which i know many people like:)

i re sized photos properly so they are no longer thumbnails or too big lol

also more pics to go up a little later:P

I did the same thing with my DVD drive. I used black Duct tape though. :)

Are you going to sleeve the wires though? Sleeving looks a bit nicer than the tape and you don't have to use Nil's sleeving if its out of the budget.

Distilled water FTW. :D

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Originally Posted by millertime359

I did the same thing with my DVD drive. I used black Duct tape though. :)

Are you going to sleeve the wires though? Sleeving looks a bit nicer than the tape and you don't have to use Nil's sleeving if its out of the budget.

Distilled water FTW. :D

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i may eventually get sleeving, however id rather sleeve extension cables rather than psu itself..i feel i could mess it up too much lol

Update 2

GfX card taken apart:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03679.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03680.jpg
(cleaned up that mess lol)

Block mounted:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03682.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03685.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03686.jpg

Sprayed my yate loons, NB fan and dominator ram cooler white:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03687.jpg

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Originally Posted by armeniandave

Man at fifteen I wasn't even thinking about watercooling!
I think it was all about BMX back then...

Well the 800 is a beautiful case so just try and do something a little bit different than the next person.

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At 15 it was skateboarding and well... I was 15.:rofl:

Keep it up. I have this case and it has alot of potential.

Keep an eye out. I'll have a log on here soon. I have some things up my sleeve for this case.

Very nice so far, will it be dual loops?

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Originally Posted by Anemic

Very nice so far, will it be dual loops?

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for now just one loop, and if temps are bad i can always order more things:P

next update:

fans put back together:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03688.jpg

mounted on radiator:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03689.jpg

things put in case:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03693.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03695.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03692.jpg

should hopefully get tube routed tomorrow :)

soz bout picture quality I aint amazing with camera plus my camera aint that great lol

Someone needs to buy this guy some sleeve!

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Originally Posted by Kenjiwing

Someone needs to buy this guy some sleeve!

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hehe its not the money thats the prob..its me being worried of mucking up the job lol

i may look into some guides though etc and may (more like should) get some:P

Next update:

put fittings on my GFX cards:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03696.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03697.jpg

Mounted cards back in case and routed tubing:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03698.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03699.jpg

Should hopefully get it filled up tomorrow :)

Nice job kid :p:

No, really...looks great :toast:

...oops...sorry, no beer for you :toast2:

I love tubing here. Almost shortest possible and with no low radius fittings/bends.

awesome work!! :up:

now you get the xigmatek fan in white too and it's perfect!!

thanks guys:P

was filling it up earlier, however i had a leak coming out the outlet fitting on my swiftech GTZ...was the fitting rather than the tubing so I emptied the loop and tightened the fitting, filled it up again but same problem from exact same spot so I replaced the barb and by the time I did that didnt really have time to fill it (plus its best to let what leaked [small amount] to dry up)

So will be finished off tomorrow and ill try to get some nice pics :)

Looking spectacular. Clean and simple! I agree also with the comment on the read fan - get it white to match :D

~Bex

well all was well until this problem came along:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=247730

this week i have no time to sort out problem, then next week im over in UK seeing family etc so i guess I will have to wait until week after :(

Great job!! gotta say the tube routing is top notch.

Keep it up.

You'd be suprised how EASY sleeving is, just time consuming. I just sleeved my first case, takes maybe two-3 goes to get it right, then after that its perfect everytime. Pretty simpler really just draw out the cable along the sleeve, cut it to length, cut 2 pieces of heat-shrink, sleeve, heat the heat-shrink, done.

well been awhile since update (ive been away) but theres bad news now...

as i mentioned the pc wouldnt start (somthing shorting it)..so ive took the pc apart..tested the mobo on air outside case and it started up fine...did the same again in case on air fine also (both tests without GFX card)

then tested outside case again trying one GFX card at a time and well..it seems the cards are dead i.e Red light on both and nothing coming up on display [ i guess this could be due to lack of care when putting on the block, i dunno ]

so i guess im going to invest in a new card..but i prob wont watercool it

today ill set up my pc fully with jst cpu watercooled...as soon as new stuff card comes in all i will av to do is literaly plug it straight in


Well thats the update as of now...

well as i mentioned above my GFX cards died so ive changed the loop around now for CPU only:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03909.jpg

on the bottom is one of the GFX card waterblocks..i put it there for two reasons
1)it made tube routing ALLOT easier lol
2)I think it looks kinda cool..like a waterfeature:P

I now have everysetup fully so as soon as my new GFX card comes in (prob going to order a 5870 later) all i literaly have to do is plug it in!

pics with no GFX card..a teaser if you like haha:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03910.jpg
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03911.jpg

well thats it for now:P

Well as my 9800GTXs died i went ahead and got a Sapphire 5870...i didnt realize they stopped making reference cards so the card i got was damn ugly as you will see below, I was going to send it back however that mean more time and money to get a different card etc...so i popped it in my machine and all i can say in terms of performance is WOW..it completely destroys even my two 9800GTX so im happy:)

here some pics now of it all:

the ugly card-
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03919.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03918.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03917.jpg

here it is all together...to cover up the card (and to incorporate the card into the colour scheme) ive temporarily put paper on it in the shape of it lol...looks cheap i know but covers the card until I get a more permanent solution :)

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...DSC03952-1.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03951.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03950.jpg

here it is all together (im very patriotic as you can see hahaha)

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03949.jpg

and heres my 'other' setup for blu-rays and PS3 hehe

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...6/DSC03953.jpg

thanks, i wouldn't say 100% complete yet though..im most likely going to get some braiding etc etc :P

whoops had to edit this as i accidentally double posted:O

Nice IKEA chair;)

Greetings from Dublin :up:

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Originally Posted by ggdh

Nice IKEA chair;)

Greetings from Dublin :up:

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Think its an Argos chair actually haha

and haha greetings from Co.Clare :)

love card bored round gfx card lol hey welshy

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Originally Posted by ToySoldier94

love card bored round gfx card lol hey welshy

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hehe hello toy, your XS account finaly up i see :)

As i stated on an other part of the forum (and to you on teamspeak lol) that paper is only a temporary "template"...ill prob get a waterblock further downstream but before then ill prob get a plastic or metal thing to go around it (will look much much better) lol

lol ;p

http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/catalog/products/40086723

I got one of these few days back. Look like yours ;)

Turned out very nice!