Arthur's WC Worklog with Lian Li V2000

[Arthur]

Hey XS members,

First time, I met the WC a few years ago, I learned enough knowledge about it and I can build my own WC system(s) now. Lets we check the equipments what we got down here;

Hardware Components
Asus Rampage Extreme X48
Intel E8600
Crucial Ballistix DDR3 2000Mhz (PC3 16000)
Evga GTX275 FTW Edition
4 x 250Gb WD Caviar Blue - RAID0
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series
CoolerMaster Real Power Pro 620w PSU
Corsair Dominator Airflow
Lian Li PC-9

WC Components
Watercool HEATKILLER® CPU Rev3.0 LGA775 CPU Water Block
EK Multioption RES 100 Rev2 (Pending)
Laing DDC 18w Pump
EK-DDC X-TOP Rev.2 Acetal
Black Ice GT Stealth 360 XFlow Radiator (Pending)
Bitspower Silver Shining 90 Degree Angle Fittings 1/2"
Bitspower G1/4" Matte Black Compression Fitting - 1/2" ID 3/4" OD (Pending)
Bitspower Matt Black G1/4" Stop Fitting with O-ring (Pending)
Tygon R3603 1/2"ID 3/4"OD Tubing
Feser One UV Orange
Xigmatek 120mm XLF-F1253 (Pending)

Wire Management
Orange Heatshrink
Orange Sleeve
Orange Zip Ties and Clamps (Pending)
Black 24pin/8pin/6pin/3pin Connectors

My Worklog Stages
1. Collecting the Hardware Components.
2. Collecting the WC Components.
3. Side and top panel modifications.
4. Break up the PC-9.
5. Powdercoated PC-9.
6. Making the sleeved extension cables.
7. Mounting the hardware components on the chassis.
8. Mounting the WC components on the chassis.
9. Making cable management on the chassis.
10. Testing the hardware components and WC components.
11. Testing the system performance and temperatures.

Quick Guide

I want to make this worklog clean and understandable for everyone. You can see my worklog stages below. I'll be gave more information about my worklog stages when I did each one of them. I will try to post my media in my thread at another pages and I'll be added my stage links on the My Worklog Stages area which I have done. You can reach my stages which you want with one click and I will reduce the confusions with this way. By the way, there are some components in my WC Component and Wire Management list which I have not in my hands right now. I'll mark them as Pending components on my WC Component and Wire Management list. So you can understand their status on this project easily. Some of my hardware components already collected for a while but I may make surprise to you with another optional parts here. I'll do my best on this worklog and be sure about one thing what as long as I can breathe and have an internet connection I guarantee that all your questions will be answered generally.

I deeply appreciate any good wishes and thoughts about my first worklog here.

Note to all:English is not my native language. Sometimes I cannot express myself clearly. I hope you can understand that.

Cheers,
Arthur

[Arthur]

Asus Rampage Extreme X48 Motherboard, love it!


It gives pretty nice results under oc!


Crucial Ballistix DDR3 2000Mhz (PC16000)

No media for it
4x WD Caviar Blue 250Gb - RAID0

No media for it
Evga GTX275 FTW Edition


Corsair Dominator Airflow.


I will mod it too.

More media will be added when they finished here.

[Arthur]

Watercool Heatkiller 3.0 for LGA775 from Performance PCs.


You can see some scratches on the metallic and copper areas!


The best clean picture I ever had for it!


Look the deformations on back side of HK. This is a brand new CPU Waterblock!


Can you see the bottom corners of back side? They had some deformations too!

More media will be added when they finished here.

[D0BR0]

Your photos are excellent!

Nice stuff there!

[Chris_redfield]

V2000 is an awesome case. Can't wait to see what you do.

[aka_GK]

Arthur, nice pics! subscribed

I am glad to know that I am not the only one here building system with C2D, not modern Core i7

[Arthur]

Your photos are excellent!

Nice stuff there!

Thanks mate. Stay Tuned.

V2000 is an awesome case. Can't wait to see what you do.

Hell yeah. Stay Tuned.

Arthur, nice pics! subscribed

I am glad to know that I am not the only one here building system with C2D, not modern Core i7

Hey @aka_GK, I am pretty fine with my C2D and I do not think upgrade my main system to i7 for a while. So you are not alone with who using the old C2Ds here.

[shazza]

Good stuff, Arthur. Keep it coming!

[Arthur]

Good stuff, Arthur. Keep it coming!

Thanks mate. Stay Tuned.

As I said my first worklog post, I'll not sleeve my PSU completely. I'll make some extension cables for it. I decided the make them in this weekend. With this way, I'll be earned some time from them because of that they'll taking my time alot in process. Probably, I'll be finished them until this Sunday and then I'll update the pics here.

[hmmisee]

Pics look great, though the watermark is a tad annoying. I love that motherboard, good coller scheme. Can't wait for more!

[Arthur]

Pics look great, though the watermark is a tad annoying. I love that motherboard, good coller scheme. Can't wait for more!

I am glad to heard what you like my worklog pics mate. It prevents to unwanted usage with them (we seeing examples on the internet alot), people using the pics as their own.

RE is a great mobo, it has alot of potential actually, I still working on it LOL.

Thanks for your good wishes.

Cheers,
Arthur

[aka_GK]

Arthur, do you know how does Heatkiller perform on LGA775 (especially with dual cores)? I know that it is nearly best for LGA1366, but I havn't seen any good comparisons on 775

I already have cuplex hd, but I am thinking of changing it to the HK just to match the color scheme

[Arthur]

Arthur, do you know how does Heatkiller perform on LGA775 (especially with dual cores)? I know that it is nearly best for LGA1366, but I havn't seen any good comparisons on 775

I already have cuplex hd, but I am thinking of changing it to the HK just to match the color scheme

Hey mate,

You are right about what you cannot use the Bitspower comparisons with the HK 3.0, it doesnt fit anyway. I would like to use this ones on my project but it'll not fit either on it. I had a few Swiftech fittings in my hand, it'll be alright with it. I also used the Swiftech fittings with my old Apooge GTZ before, they are working good, no problem. If you insist a good comparisons on your HK, you can buy this ones with 45 degree. It will fit quite well on HK.

By the way, If I know this thing right, all HK 3.0s have the same fitting sizes and because of that they only have different backplates and their materials.

Cheers,
Arthur

[aka_GK]

Arthur, you don't understand me
I asked for some info about Heatkiller perfomance compared to other LGA775 waterblocks

[damtachoa]

Oh Yeah, Keep it up buddy.

[Arthur]

Arthur, you don't understand me
I asked for some info about Heatkiller perfomance compared to other LGA775 waterblocks

Damn mate, I am sorry about this misunderstanding.

Its pretty obvious i7s have more heats than LGA775 under oc. You can see some data for i7 waterblocks here and you remember what your C2D will have low temps than i7s generally. I spending more money to get better cooling performance for my C2D under oc now. I have no experience about HK performance for my own on LGA775 yet but I'll test my whole system when I finished my worklog.

Shortly, I think HKs can cheer you up on LGA775 quite well.

Please you share your opinions about this issue here.

Oh Yeah, Keep it up buddy.

Thanks mate. Stay Tuned.

[Arthur]

I used my heatshrinks little longer on them. I think they looks kinda nice now.


I had to use some white connectors on them. Damn I wish I could use the black ones on them.

[cobra_kai]

Wow that orange is really bright! How come you didn't make the 24 pin connector black also? I think it would look better to have them all the same color. Other than that looks really nice and a very unique color

Edit: Just saw your comment underneath the picture. It's kind of small and I missed it on the first read through. If you have a microcenter near you they sell colored connectors, I'm sure similar places like Frys does as well

[Arthur]

Wow that orange is really bright! How come you didn't make the 24 pin connector black also? I think it would look better to have them all the same color. Other than that looks really nice and a very unique color

Edit: Just saw your comment underneath the picture. It's kind of small and I missed it on the first read through. If you have a microcenter near you they sell colored connectors, I'm sure similar places like Frys does as well

I appreciate your positive comments about them mate. Actually, I planned to use the black connectors on them but I just shocked in last minute. But I'll listen to your advise about it and I'll change them with black ones soon enough.

Cheers,
Arthur

[Jonni Nitro]

Good work so far. I really need to re-sleeve my psu. It has factory sleeve on it but it sucks. Looking forward to some updates.

[Arthur]

Good work so far. I really need to re-sleeve my psu. It has factory sleeve on it but it sucks. Looking forward to some updates.

Thanks mate. I looking forward to some updates from you too LOL.

[emir]

Nice start, i guess the overall worklog picture quality of the forum is getting higher. Hope to see upgrade soon.

[Jonni Nitro]

Updates might be slower, but I want to get some stuff done this week. Probably put some of the panels back into the case. I may order some sleeving supplies and try some sleeving. I just got my media server/secondary system up and running to main rig will get tore down. What sleeving did you get and what size/how much to sleeve a psu? Mine is modular so I know it will vary. Are you using official extrator tools?

[Armitage]

Great sleeving, the orange is definitely different

[autobot]

Orange w/ white connectors.


Its a freakin cream-sicle mod!!! ^_^

Seriously though, great mod so far.