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[Jokester_wild]

Swiftech MCP600, Swiftech Storm, EK full cover block, Thermochill 120.1

[tiro_uspsss]

where are my rigs at?

i think it was directed @ kingfearon

[Waterlogged]

Show us your stuff dude.

That was much more diplomatically said than what I was about to post last night when I saw that.

[crash5s]

well "ranker" you seem to got too much money so much so you dont know what to really do with it...your res is resting on your rad, thats not a good look.
overall its an alright build could be better, the only thing i'm amazed by is the cluster of expensive parts.


"GIZIU" love your tubing size and coolant color, very neat and sexy...whats your tubing and barb size by the way ?

first i'm seeing liquid cooling on a DFI P35 do you have any cooling on your PWM, if not, is it ok not to ?

All I gathered from this post is either 1. you have an axe to grind with ranker for some crazy reason. 2. you hate large tubing and like small tubing (eww), 3. both.

Rankers box is nice.

[DarthBeavis]

Swiftech MCP600, Swiftech Storm, EK full cover block, Thermochill 120.1

sweet build . . .love teh waterboxes . . .nice color scheme bro

[DarthBeavis]

i think it was directed @ kingfearon

woops. We need to use the quote feature more often. maybe he will clarify

[numberlpete]

Sorry guys but this might be a long post.

After building and clocking the system in my sig, I had decided that I was unhappy with the tempatures at full load with orthos (I use Intel’s Thermal Analysis Tool “TAT” and Everest for temp readings). My Zalman CNPS9700 was just not cutting it for me. So I thought I might dabble a little with water cooling. I devised a plan that would help me save money while maintaining effectiveness. I would experiment with a Big Water 745 kit to see if it could beat my zalman cnps9700 (because it is only $120 and I could pick it up at a store right down the street). And the plan was if it did lower my temps I could use it latter for a second loop cooling my chipset and GPU’s. After istalling the kit I realized that my temperature went down a few degrees. This led me to believe that water cooling might be the answer to all my prayers. So I did some research and developed the best water loop possible. The only reason it is not the best is because I did not want to use the noisy iwaki md-20, and the swiftech storm is only the best with the iwaki, it gets spanked by the mp-05 if any other pump is used (especially low power pumps). So for noise reasons I went with the next best thing which is the most powerful Eheim available, the 1260!!(this thing is an absolute beast and is massive, but as promised, it is totally silent) And I paired it with the mp-05 special edition and will be using ShinEtsu X23 as my thermal paste (I used coolaboratory’s liquidpro before and it gets beat by this stuff even though its metal and its freakin hard to get off the heatsink and cpu, you have to lap off the residue). I had the pa120.3 shipped from the UK which was a nightmare. And I chose to use the latest and greatest fans from thermaltake, only because the “golf ball” 2000’s are sold out everywhere and thermaltake claims to have a fan that pushes 78cfm while only producing 21dba which is quite a feat. Now that I have them I know this is totally inaccurate (there loud). Since I will be having three radiators and two pumps I had to build a platform for everything to mount on. And due to fresh air space issues I choose to mount the pa120.3 suspended above the ground. I also decided to mount a separate power supply (a very cheap one, $25) to the board to run the pump and all the fans. I have a highly overclocked crossfire system so I did not want to steal any more of its power to run the new water system. Temperatures are amazing, compared to everything else that I have tried. To give you an idea temps were 58c with cnps9700 and 56c with big water (orthos for many hours). From what I saw before I don’t think it wll ever be above 47c because that’s the highest I ever got it but that was at 1.5volts and 3.64Ghz orthos for eight hours with room temperature at 70F. Here are the pics. I know it’s a little ugly but I plan on cleaning up the wiring and painting the wood black. Enjoy….

[numberlpete]

and more

[numberlpete]

and a little more

[numberlpete]

now for temperature and performance

[Patriote]

Well, one day i heard someone saying "Eks waterblocks are like watercooling pr0n" and Ek has quoted him and included it in his signature. I have the honor to say myself :

DarthBeavis's builds are like "Watercooled RIGs" pr0n!

[numberlpete]

sorry, those pics were a little fuzzy, here is performance.

[DarthBeavis]

Thermaltake watercooling is homoghey. Dude u got the skillz step up and get some real watercooling bro. oh, dont tell me i dont know what i am talking about cause I have been there and back.

[Waterlogged]

Sorry guys but this might be a long post.

After building and clocking the system in my sig, I had decided that I was unhappy with the tempatures at full load with orthos (I use Intel’s Thermal Analysis Tool “TAT” and Everest for temp readings). My Zalman CNPS9700 was just not cutting it for me. So I thought I might dabble a little with water cooling. I devised a plan that would help me save money while maintaining effectiveness. I would experiment with a Big Water 745 kit to see if it could beat my zalman cnps9700 (because it is only $120 and I could pick it up at a store right down the street). And the plan was if it did lower my temps I could use it latter for a second loop cooling my chipset and GPU’s. After istalling the kit I realized that my temperature went down a few degrees. This led me to believe that water cooling might be the answer to all my prayers. So I did some research and developed the best water loop possible. The only reason it is not the best is because I did not want to use the noisy iwaki md-20, and the swiftech storm is only the best with the iwaki, it gets spanked by the mp-05 if any other pump is used (especially low power pumps). So for noise reasons I went with the next best thing which is the most powerful Eheim available, the 1260!!(this thing is an absolute beast and is massive, but as promised, it is totally silent) And I paired it with the mp-05 special edition and will be using ShinEtsu X23 as my thermal paste (I used coolaboratory’s liquidpro before and it gets beat by this stuff even though its metal and its freakin hard to get off the heatsink and cpu, you have to lap off the residue). I had the pa120.3 shipped from the UK which was a nightmare. And I chose to use the latest and greatest fans from thermaltake, only because the “golf ball” 2000’s are sold out everywhere and thermaltake claims to have a fan that pushes 78cfm while only producing 21dba which is quite a feat. Now that I have them I know this is totally inaccurate (there loud). Since I will be having three radiators and two pumps I had to build a platform for everything to mount on. And due to fresh air space issues I choose to mount the pa120.3 suspended above the ground. I also decided to mount a separate power supply (a very cheap one, $25) to the board to run the pump and all the fans. I have a highly overclocked crossfire system so I did not want to steal any more of its power to run the new water system. Temperatures are amazing, compared to everything else that I have tried. To give you an idea temps were 58c with cnps9700 and 56c with big water (orthos for many hours). From what I saw before I don’t think it wll ever be above 47c because that’s the highest I ever got it but that was at 1.5volts and 3.64Ghz orthos for eight hours with room temperature at 70F. Here are the pics. I know it’s a little ugly but I plan on cleaning up the wiring and painting the wood black. Enjoy….

Hope you have a hardhat. Me thinks it's going to be a long night for you.

[numberlpete]

Yeah thermaltake sucks. I built this rig a long time ago and during the first week i built it i was so mad at the horrible temps from the zalman 9700 when i cranked it up to 1.5 volts on the core that i got up an went to the nearest store to purchase a water kit. It was very spur of the moment, so i knew the crappiness of thermaltake but i just needed something for immediate gratification. Plus i knew i could always use it to run my chipset and gpus on a separate loop. Did not mean to bash anyone, ya'll must be refering to the swiftech storm statement. I know storm is best at higher water rates but it seems in multiple tests that at lower rates there may be some better alternatives like the mp-05 SP and the swiftech appogee. I love this rig and have been playing BF2 and BF2142 on it for about a year now and it still going strong at the mentioned clock speeds.

[Walternowi]

Jokester_wild,

That is one nice looking setup. Is that a DD Waterbox you got there?

[GIZIU]

"GIZIU" love your tubing size and coolant color, very neat and sexy...whats your tubing and barb size by the way ?

first i'm seeing liquid cooling on a DFI P35 do you have any cooling on your PWM, if not, is it ok not to ?

Tubing is Innovatek blue UV 8/10". On PWM I have Thermaltake's radiators. I don't have problems with it.

Thanks guys for pleasantly comments I wonder how it would look: black tubing, black coolant and white fans

[ShoNuff]

Tubing is Innovatek blue UV 8/10". On PWM I have Thermaltake's radiators. I don't have problems with it.

Thanks guys for pleasantly comments I wonder how it would look: black tubing, black coolant and white fans

GIZIU...now that you have taken the heatpipe off of your board do you think the block covering the PWM area would easily seperate from the heatpipe? I was thinking about doing what you did and keeping the current heatsink on the PWM area if I could take it off without cutting it.

Nice build BTW!

[leo_bsb]

numberlpete: how the pump sound? Louder than the fans?

[Havek]

first post and first attempt. Just wanted to say thanks to my bud for all the help and info while building this rig.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f.../pc/Temp-1.jpg
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MY Rig specs

As requested With Everest
Room temp around 72

Tomorrow Ill finish up fixing the wires.


EVGA nForce 680i SLI
Intel® Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe
OCZ2GB Kit DDR2
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatality Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB
MSI NX8500GT-T2D256E GeForce 8500 GT 256MB
PC POWER and COOLING Silencer 610

[disruptfam]

where are my rigs at? lets see. . .first on the cover of CPU Magazine in November:



Another one Nvidia SLI rig of the monthZ:

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_rotm_april07.html

Then there is Order 66:

http://www.smoothcreations.com/gallery.asp?specific=19

Then there is my Clinic Server V3:



You need to see the rigs I have helped others build?

I think I have established my credibility. Now, Ranker's rig is sweet. If you think it sucks you don't know squat.

Mate i was talking to king fearon .Not you darth beavis

I didn't say anything bad about ranker's rig.I said it was sik

[numberlpete]

The pump is by far the most quiet thing in the whole rig. I had to install speed control to get the fans to quiet down but once i did the whole rig is very quiet. I had to put a foam like material underneath the pump because it used to make the ply board vibrate and was noisy because of that. But after installing the foam b/t the board and the pump its basically inaudible. Loudest thind on rig by far is the three 120mm fans but probably about 18db since i have speed control set all the way on low.

[numberlpete]

HAVEK:

nice clock dude. What voltage are you running at, i like those temps. Download Everest with a keygen from isohunt.com and post pic of temps. Everest really consistent across different mobos for temperature readings. Also, mention room temperature when you post with everest.

[leo_bsb]

nice and clean Havek. You need steady hands for those pictures

[[ red-eye ]]

Danggg, ya'll got some sexy rigs here

My first watercooling build...