Project "Little Angel": My return to water cooling!

[SoMBrA]

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Aquatuning España / Atlas Informática / NZXT
ProSilentPC / Seasonic / IzarMicro

Gracias a todos los sponsors por colaborar en el proyecto.
Many thanks to all the sponsors for the support given to this project

Hi, SoMBrA!

The EK XTX would be just fine The loop wil actually work much better!

Thanks Edited, but I think I will follow your first recommendation and go for the Coolgate 480 just because how the threads on that radiator are placed...

I've been busy these days with a lot of planing show I'm just going to show you my cardboard 480 rads (I followed Coolgate specifications! )

I've been planing the tube routing with all the elements inside but since I didn't have the rads I needed to see the whole picture and I just realized that It will be hard to find a proper place to install the valve (and make it look nice). May end up using a piece of tubing with a stop fitting at the end





2 x Coolgate 480 Rads will be placed down there, as you can see they fit great but not much space to link them together + fans + valve etc...
A third radiator will be placed at top.

I like the Coolgate because of the 4 threads and how they are mounted, gives me a lot of mounting options... a picture to show you what I'm talking about.



It's going to be a tight fit all around and still need to think about the valve to drain the system

[SoMBrA]

Some minor update





Wires anyone?



Artic Silver 5... the best



20mm drill bit so I can destroy the Little Devil easier

More stuff coming soon... hopefully!

[RCG_Bex]

Mmmm progress.... Makes me want to do mine... But I have to get rid of this tummy bug first...

[Edited]

Yay, small updates are also nice! The rads WILL fit! Everything will be very narrow and flush, though. For example, you can't use anti-vibration pads for the fans - it will interfiere with BP 90's

Bex: U preggy ?

[RCG_Bex]

Bex: U preggy ?

Good lord no! I'm too young for that and couldn't afford to have a wein yet!!! Maybe in like 7-8yrs when I'm closer to 30, paid off the mortgage and married

...I've just had the skitz for the past 3 days that's all

[SoMBrA]

Mmmm progress.... Makes me want to do mine... But I have to get rid of this tummy bug first...

Health goes first!
Hope you are better now

Yay, small updates are also nice! The rads WILL fit! Everything will be very narrow and flush, though. For example, you can't use anti-vibration pads for the fans - it will interfiere with BP 90's

Bex: U preggy ?

Hope so Edited!
I'm waiting for those parts and more fittings

I need your help now... I'm trying to find a pattern to sleeve my 24 pin cables and this is what I ended up with (I did other combinations but not liking them much)
Any other suggestions? I've added white but doesn't look good, I think big change of colours hehe





I personally like the first one because of non-symetrical style and it looks more black than gold but not sure :S

[SoMBrA]

This one is following 2 different patterns depending on the front or the back of the connector... I'm very happy with the result, and you?



This one maybe?



And finally and much cleaner version of old concept

[The Jesus]

I've never seen a gold CPU block, that is straight baller status.

[Edited]

Hi SoMBrA! Sorry for being slow, but family life and studies has really caught up with me

However, I like the two following sleeve jobs the best;


This may create good contrast if you are aiming for symmetrical shapes (Such as the DIMM-slots on the X79, and inlet/outlet on the Swiffy 24K Gold), but might cause some issues reagarding the major layout.

If you are doing thins more asymmetric, I would go for this;


A suggestion form me, try to drop the heatshrink! Fasten the sleeving in the ribbon/metal clamp inside the 24 pin, for example. It would look much cleaner! I have seen it over at Malik's thread here in the forum, but there is like 70 pages, so I couldn't bother search for it.

Good luck pal! Una vez más, saludos desde Noruega!

[SoMBrA]

I've never seen a gold CPU block, that is straight baller status.

Hi SoMBrA! Sorry for being slow, but family life and studies has really caught up with me

However, I like the two following sleeve jobs the best;

This may create good contrast if you are aiming for symmetrical shapes (Such as the DIMM-slots on the X79, and inlet/outlet on the Swiffy 24K Gold), but might cause some issues reagarding the major layout.

If you are doing thins more asymmetric, I would go for this;

A suggestion form me, try to drop the heatshrink! Fasten the sleeving in the ribbon/metal clamp inside the 24 pin, for example. It would look much cleaner! I have seen it over at Malik's thread here in the forum, but there is like 70 pages, so I couldn't bother search for it.

Good luck pal! Una vez más, saludos desde Noruega!

Hello Edited and thank you very much for visiting my worklog and for your suggestions.
I think I will go with this setup:



It all depends on the mobo setup I'm looking for some options there, I have a lot of ideas in my head...

I have to try also the NON-heatshrink sleeving method aswell
This were "test" sleeves so my heatshrink was really bad but my final work will be much better.

Anyways, will try to do it without heatshrink and see if I can do it

Until the next update!

[SoMBrA]

Double post :S

[arkadur]

i liked that one:

[penguins]

I liked the first one.
omg. I don't think you can go bad with either setup on that cpu block

[SoMBrA]

I liked the first one.
omg. I don't think you can go bad with either setup on that cpu block

Thanks for posting penguins
Will try to find the best combo that better suits the overall looks

i liked that one:

I still love that one aswell... but maybe it will end up having too much "Gold" in with bulky wires (and 2 PSU's...)

Did some tests today and some practice with fan sleeving:





I think I will go for full black sleeving for radiator fans but still not sure, the good thing about white is that will be "hidden" with the white case background... lot of stuff to think about!

[arkadur]

You can Change the outer gold sleeve from two to one, but keep the middle as is.

[SoMBrA]

Hello everybody!

You can Change the outer gold sleeve from two to one, but keep the middle as is.

Thanks for the suggestion arkadur, will wait until I have all the hardware and then decide what to do


Finally I can update the worklog because some parts ("minor") arrived... Saddly It has nothing to do with hardware or cooling but I hope you will like it!



Some "electronics" just got home!!!













I ordered two sets of these since I'm having 2 x Seasonic X-850 PSU's in my system
I'm very impressed with them, really like them and very easy to work with



This will be the final touch...



The victim! (2 times!)



"Gently" take their heads off



Cut their arms and legs (Dexter anyone? :p)

And the finished version, thanks for watching

[SoMBrA]

http://www.aquatuning.com


Choo choo some unboxing incoming!
15 Kg of awesomeness inside!







EK Multioption X2 Res 250







Aquacomputer!







3 x Alphacool NexXxos UT60 Full Copper Radiator - 4 x 120













DP Ultra
This is the only thing that is going in and out of my loop from today. No additives!



There is a lot of misc stuff like Primochill black tubing, sata connectors, pins, temperature sensors, network cables, etc... Don't worry, I'm not going to make pics of those xD

I'm really happy, now I can start to plan out the loop better since I have the radiators to measure exactly all the stuff.

Drain is going to be a really tight fit... will see!

[SoMBrA]

Update for you!

First test with radiators in the bottom section of the Little Devil







There is a lot of space down there... Enough for paralel 19/13 tubing



Taking measurements and starting the work



Just want to keep about 8cm of fan cable!



White tape to get a much pleasent sleeving result





Sleeved and with half heatshrink!



Because of the sleeving we need to cut plastic so the cable will sit on its place



Done!



Just need to cover the fan PCB... soon!







Stage 1 complete!



Stage 2 begins!.
The reason to do the sleeving this way is to keep the fans easy to remove and change in the future. If I just solder all the fans together in series it would be a pain where_you_know to remove or change fans or any other stuff fan related, that's why I created that custom splitter!



Couple of hours after, sleeved splitter!



Finally a connector detail, might remove the extra heathrink with a sharp blade so you will not see that extra shrink

[SoMBrA]

Hello everyone!
I would like to introduce you IZAR MICRO , they are my new sponsor!
They helped me a lot since day 1, many thanks to Jon.

Will upload some updates later

[SoMBrA]

Another small update, just finished sleeving the 2nd radiator, just one more to go!!!



I began this one in the morning...









Finished at night :rock:
(I spent 8 hours at work aswell so was quite good )

[Edited]

Great job, SoMBrA! Love your work!

[SoMBrA]

Great job, SoMBrA! Love your work!

Thank you Edited, you helped me a lot in the early stages of this build

I finally went for the Alphacool radiators since those have 7 threads and are really good for what I plan to do
Will show you how I plan to

[SoMBrA]

Today I recieved something that I did not expect to get so fast...



TEASER!



And finally a making-off shot from the "sleeving nights"




Will have to wait before I can show some progress, need to wait for some stuff but before that I will keep planing and routing things
Have a nice weekend..

[Edited]

Intruiging! WAT IST DAT PACKINGS LAWL

[SoMBrA]

Intruiging! WAT IST DAT PACKINGS LAWL

HAHA soon...

Hello guys!
Long time since my last update... I was waiting for some tools and still waiting for my Aquaero 5 so I can finish all the connections (need to measure all the wire lengths depending on the AQ5 final placement)

While waiting I decided to do some wiring of the Power Adjust 2, still need to connect the Aquabus in series, I'm waiting for some black pins



Black screws and black PA2 faceplate...



Black MOLEX connector and pins!



Will get rid of the ULTRA stickers soon, don't worry.
Custom length cables are great but a pain to measure and make them look good hehe. 12V power in series for all PA2





Detail of the final molex connector that will "feed" them

Not going to sleeve any of the PA2 connections since I think they look great with white cable.

Soon more to come!