Paraflow antec 1200 change over

[kgtiger]

Congratulations on your build so far, I have read your work log from the start, as I wanted to learn more about "Paraflow". I don't understand either, as too why this concept is not more popular.
Keep chipping away at it and you will get there, well done mate

[Elusid]

Thank you =) I'm glad people are still looking at it as I go along. I know it's a rather slow build but it's coming along. A HUGE chunk of it will get done Tuesday as that's when my new mobo and my blocks come in. THEN I will have it up and running and with all the loops as well. After that it's just adding more video cards and hard drives and getting the looks down just right basically.

[Elusid]

Alright so just a heads up. I've gotten the rest of the parts I need to get it running, my 3 LC loops are going but the heatsink for my video card is for the original 285GTX so I need to wait for the new revision version to come out. I got my front panel on and it's all looking good. My temps aren't spectacular ~40C idle and 65C load so I'm looking into what I can do for that and at some point I'm going to get the full cover mobo block that EK just came out with for my board but I'm officially broke now so I can't do much. I'll upload pics either tonight or tomorrow when I get back home.

EDIT: oh and my SSDs are getting 430MB/s read speed

[liguhy]

read your other post about improving your temps. Where's your mobo loop (rad, pump, res) mounted? I love your "paraflow"idea for the 320s, but must have missed where the MCR220 loop for your mobo went.

Specs of what you have and the GTs for comparison. The GTs are probably lower CFM, but don't forget many people report the GTs quieter than their dBA rating as their tone isn't as obvious.

• Scynthe Sflex SFF21G
  1,900rpm: 0.24 A - 35 dBA - ?? m³/h - 75 cfm
  
• Scynthe Gentle Typhoon D1225C12B5AP-15
  1,850 rpm: 0.083 A - 28 dBA - 98 m³/h - 58cfm (unsure on official cfm)

As for other changes? I'd say remounting with different amounts of grease, or trying a newer TIM. What's the ambient temperature your radiators are pulling in?

[Elusid]

Here's where I have the raid mounted for the mobo loop (really old pic in the work log)



When I get my comp back to my house and take pics and stuff I'll try remounting the block and using different amount of TIM and see if that helps my temps at all. I ordered the rev2 heatsink cover for my 285GTX last night as well so that should be here next week before I head off to college (I hope...) and then I can have all the stuff LCd in my case. I'm not sure when I can order new fans so these will need to do for now =/ Anyway thanks for the help and I'll get pics up tonight of what's done so far.

[Elusid]

Alright just an update to show you guys how it looks right now. Ignore the fan with a missing blade I'm going to replace them all soon anyway. The heatsink for the GTX285 is coming Wednesday so when i get that put on I'll take some better ones.

[Kibbler]

Those Antec gamer cases, they look big but they're actually not...I'm impressed you managed to squeeze all that stuff in there, cool stuff.

[Elusid]

Thanks =) Yeah it really isn't all that big. Other full size gaming cases are about 4-6" deeper, 1" wider and 2-4" taller which isn't a whole lot but it would have made a huge difference.

[cobra_kai]

Thanks =) Yeah it really isn't all that big. Other full size gaming cases are about 4-6" deeper, 1" wider and 2-4" taller which isn't a whole lot but it would have made a huge difference.

Looks great man! I was just thinking that the case looks really tall, but I guess that is just because it isn't very deep

[Elusid]

Thank you =) I still have a lot of tweaking to do but it's getting there. It is a very shallow case which made things cramped with the reservoirs. Check out the tubing between the res's and the pumps and how the video card needs to fit between them haha.

[jpm804]

Nice how you were able to execute on your concept... can't believe how you fit 3 loops into that case...

One question though which I might have missed, are you missing a fan blade on the top most fan?

[Elusid]

Yeah I broke it off on accident. I'm replacing the fans soon hopefully so it doesn't really matter. Doesn't make it any louder

[jpm804]

Yeah I broke it off on accident. I'm replacing the fans soon hopefully so it doesn't really matter. Doesn't make it any louder

IC.... how's that LE board working out for you? Any plans to add the EK fullcover block for it?

[Elusid]

The board's great. I love the color only thing that's sort of annoying is that there is only one 16x slot, two 8x slots and a 4x slot and I want to do tri SLI with a RAID card so I need to see if my RAID card will run with 4x because otherwise I'm doing tri SLI with 16X, 8X and 4X... and yes, I'm getting the full board block right after I get the fans

[Elusid]

So an update, just ordered 8 of the Gentle Typhoon high speeds (not ultra-high speed). I figured I would rather it be 8db's quieter than to have the extra 8 or 9 cfm so those are going to be shipped to my dorm. Also performance-pcs messed up and sent me a danger-den full cover block instead of just the heatsink for the MCW60 so I got it for $40 instead of $150 which was nice haha. but I like the full cover block better because it leaves the next PCI slot open, with the MCW60's it gets blocked so I think I'm going to sell my MCW60's and get full cover blocks for the rest when I get them. Well I'm broke again so once I get the fans I'm done for a while. I'll get more pics up once I get that all put in.

[BigHops323]

Wow, that looks absolutely amazing, wish I had the guts to go watercooling and the dremel skills to take on a task like that. Great work!

[Elusid]

Thank you =) So I was trying to figure out why my CPU loop water is blue and all the others weren't and it just hit me, I used that radiator in my original setup where I had a ton of blue die in it. I'll flush it out at some point. Once I get my fans in I need to reseat the CPU and GPU block and also fix the power cable for my SSDs because the RAID array keeps being broken and my RAID card freaks out and starts beeping loudly. It worked fine when I had each drive plugged in on it's own with the stock power cables out of the PSU but the molex to 4 SATA cable thing I made doesn't seem to work for very long.

[Elusid]

So I got my fans in the mail but guess what... my PSU is dead YAY!!! -_- I won't be able to get this running any time soon it looks like. Anyone want to buy it off of me? Everything works but the PSU and I'll get the fans installed. Specs are in sig PM if interested.

[Boulard83]

Awesome job !

Really nice build. I sent it to a friend, he juste ordered some WC parts and he want good idea !

[syc]

Great job!

[soda480]

This is by far the most extreme setup i've seen on an Antec 1200 and it is totally awesome. You should consider working for Antec or something .... you powned their design!

What would it take if I wanted to mount a 360 rad to the top of the Antec 1200? Is there any way based on what you've seen to mount on the existing hardware, or do I have to create a custom piece for it.

[Elusid]

Hey wow, I'm glad people are still looking at this topic even though I finished all I could and sold the computer a while ago haha. Well from what I was looking at you could mount a 320 RAID in the top but it would be strange... Mainly because there's that giant 220mm fan that's already there so there would be gaps on either side of the raid if you took that fan out and put in your own and because there is a plastic top over the metal so it looks "better" and there's about an inch gap between the two so you need to cut two things..... so a short answer would be no, it's not worth you time.