Big Black Box (U2-UFO Build, 56k is death)

[2k7zero]

All my fans and 3 pin extensions/splitters sleeved

Could u give me a close-up pic of the sleeved fans connected to the extenders? Really nice build.

[Istasi]

Could u give me a close-up pic of the sleeved fans connected to the extenders? Really nice build.

Sorry, not the greatest pic in the world.


BIG update today!

Finally got all the necessary parts over the last week, so let's get this show on the road. Mounted my MCR220 with the fans pulling fresh air through the back. Pump is mounted in neoprene to the floor of the case, and res is mounted with velcro to the drive cage.

Here's a pic of the Rad/Pump/Res mounted and preliminary tubing in place


After this I proceeded to strip down my previous system. The P180 has been great to me, but I needed something a bit bigger.


The guts


Now, jump forward a few days. On Wednesday I discovered my TDX had a botched top, and Philly_Boy was kind enough to replace it with an Apogee GT. I also routed the rest of the tubing, fitted the MC14's to my X1900 using a mixture of AS Adhesive and Ceramique, and generally took care of all the loose ends.

Today I started leak testing. I thought I had cleaned out my rad pretty well, but as soon as I started running the loop today, tons of tiny metallic particles, from the rad I assume, began filling my system. I immediately emptied the loop and proceeded to flush it with distilled until I could no longer see any particles. Filled her up with Distilled/Pentosin again, and we were off. It's leak testing as we speak, here are a few pics.





The only issue I ran into while bleeding/leak testing was a very slow leak from the lower barb of the MCRES, but a thicker o-ring fixed that right up. The system is 99% bled as of now, and I'll hopefully be installing the components tomorrow afternoon. I'm extremely glad I had the foresight not the have the mobo/gfx card in there while leak testing/filling/bleeding, because let's just say it wasn't the cleanest process.

More to come tomorrow!