Worklog: Antec P180B Watercooling (Project Complete, 56K Warning)

[Pete]

Where did you get the metal clamps to attach the radiator? did you build it yourself?

How long did it take you to assemble the cooling system including the rad too?

He said in his first post.

He made them at work and powedercoated them there as well

[picard]

is it necessary to boiled the rad in distilled water? Is this over kill to kill bacteria? Does anyone else do this method?

[Jamesrt2004]

is it necessary to boiled the rad in distilled water? Is this over kill to kill bacteria? Does anyone else do this method?

Yer I want to know this too

[sick_g4m3r]

you put near boiling water into the rad and shake it around, do NOT put your rad in a tub of boiling water or your fins are screwed.

[lasse.j5]

lasse.j5,

Did you do any sanding or special treatment to the interior of the case b4 spray painting? Or you just gave it a few coats and it came out that nice?

It looks really nice...

I know it would be ideal to sand it down but i just sprayed it with some quality spraypaint

Great lookin build man! I actually like the P180 in black, especially with the black interior. Good job on the external rad mount as well. I can't wait to see it finished

Thanks!

nice looking rig d00d! Quick question though, which Thermalright backplate did you get and do you know if that would work for the GT or the Fuzion as well? cheers m8

It was a Thermalright LGA775 Bolt Through kit. It fits on all blocks but it required some drilling on the holes to get the mounting screws through the holes

[lasse.j5]

Where did you get the metal clamps to attach the radiator? did you build it yourself?

How long did it take you to assemble the cooling system including the rad too?

Hmm. Honestly i dont know. 10 hours of work including everything i guess

is it necessary to boiled the rad in distilled water? Is this over kill to kill bacteria? Does anyone else do this method?

It's to get all the flux out of the radiator.

[crackbag]

Oh.. the color on the inside top of the Swiftech GTX is going to fade and there'll be some black dye coming off. Not to worry. Its perfectly normal. No, the top of the Apogee GTX is not made of delrin, but those who are scared of any use of aluminum are foolish because the plating is of considerable quality. Don't even think of painting anything on the inside of the block. You will wreck the highest performing water block in the market.

since you know alot about the gtx block. i was wondering if UV Reactive Pentosin G11 Coolant Additive (Blue) is ok to run through it, link--> http://www.petrastechshop.com/peg11coadb4o.html

[lasse.j5]

since you know alot about the gtx block. i was wondering if UV Reactive Pentosin G11 Coolant Additive (Blue) is ok to run through it, link--> http://www.petrastechshop.com/peg11coadb4o.html

I should se what could happen about that. Is it the plating you are worried about? Then you are totally safe.

[wedfighter]

how's the OC? any better result? compare with previous cooler?
just curious with the block coz i wanna built another watercooling system
thx
regards

[lasse.j5]

how's the OC? any better result? compare with previous cooler?
just curious with the block coz i wanna built another watercooling system
thx
regards

As i got a new motherboard and a new cpu than i used with my old system i can't really compare the two.

Right now my E6420 is running 3.6 GHz at 1.49 Volts

[Thomas FJ]

Very very nice work!

Personally I would have placed the pump under the reservoir and used the bottom thread as outlet for the pump...
But that is just a minor thing
/Thomas

[Patriote]

Awesome work man!

[coolrmaster]

you got mad mod skillz, well done

PA120.3
QX6700 dtek fuzion cooled
8800GTX SLI DD block cooled

cpu idle temp @ 11C above ambient
currently stock speeds

old pic w/o sli cooling:
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2842/dpcew7.jpg

[lasse.j5]

Very very nice work!

Personally I would have placed the pump under the reservoir and used the bottom thread as outlet for the pump...
But that is just a minor thing
/Thomas

Thanks again

That was actually also the plan. But due to wrong messurements of where to place the fillport the pump could not be placed under the res.

Awesome work man!

Thanks!

[jinsean]

how are the overclocking results on the e6420 with the p5k?

[Patriote]

LOL i just keep looking at those last pics. The comp is just so beautiful sitting there onto the desk. Awesome Cable management there too!

you got mad mod skillz, well done

PA120.3
QX6700 dtek fuzion cooled
8800GTX SLI DD block cooled

cpu idle temp @ 11C above ambient
currently stock speeds

old pic w/o sli cooling:
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2842/dpcew7.jpg

Hah what a mess in there! But yeah nice work there too!

[lasse.j5]

how are the overclocking results on the e6420 with the p5k?

It's good so far. Right im im running 3600 Mhz at 1.52 vcore

And it's orthos stable

LOL i just keep looking at those last pics. The comp is just so beautiful sitting there onto the desk. Awesome Cable management there too!

Thanks again.

I also did alot of work to get a very simple look so i had to get rid of all the cables

Right now im thinking about making a ramcooler where i can mount two 60 mm fans on. I'll probably make it out of Lexan (a plastic that is bendable on a punching machine)

[Omarko]

hi there

awesome job ... very nice and clean ... well done !

Can you please post fe more pics of the cabling job on the other side of the case ? I find the way you routed ALL your cables behind fantastic. I've got a P180 as well and looking at doing same.

cheers

[lasse.j5]

Thanks alot.

Hmm.. It's was a pain to get the side of the case on because of all the cables but maybe i could take some pics.

But think i will wait till i can borrow a better camera and then take some good pictures.

[Omarko]

thanks ....

I decided to do something very similiar ....

thank you for the inspiration !

[lasse.j5]

You're welcome

I have decided to order a HR-05 for the NB, HR-05 SLI for the SB and 2 x HR-09U for the mosfets. Should look really nice.

The NB also gets extremely hot even though i removed the standard thermal pads and added some ceramique instead.

Right now its ildling at 48 C and it gets over 50 C

The HR-05 should bring the temps down alot.

[Omarko]

how did you paint that case so well ? did you take all the plastic bits off first ?

ta

EDIT: nvm, found your worklog

[Yozzman]

Nice rig man!
What temps do u got?

I'm getting the same rad and i got about the same blocks

[SpRoX]

Wauw! Looking very nice! Great job Lasse...

[SkylinGTR26]

amazing job dude. I love your keyboard BTW.
Logitech Elite FTW!!!!! we should make a club
Nice WCing job tho, its sooo clean. You should put some uv dye in that liquid tho.