Phase Cooled Dual Loop Lian Li PC343

[retrogamer1990]

Welcome to my build

This Project would not be possible without:

Little Devil Phase Change < Click for link to contact him
His phase unit is, frankly, amazing. He sprayed the compressor white for me, the condensor black, and custom made it to my measurements, its just fantastic!

Duniek - Custom Watercooling / CNCing < click for link

Duniek is making the custom waterblocks for my motherboard, so I can hopefully reach some stupid clockspeeds hes a great guy and funny at times and he does EXCELLENT work


Hardware

Asus Crosshair III
Phenom II 965 BE
4Gb Dominator 1333mhz
HD5850
Coolermaster Real Power Pro 850w
1Tb Samsung Spinpoint F1
LG Blu-Ray Drive
Lian Li PC-343

Cooling

Custom Phase cooling Unit By LittleDevil
Loop 1: Tribal Overkill Dual Reservoir > Phobya Pump > Phobya 120.1 > Crosshair III Block
Loop 2: Tribal Overkill Dual Reservoir > Phobya Pump > EK 120.2 > 5850 Waterblock



On with the show!

[retrogamer1990]

And heres the compressor and condenser mounted:






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heres the case:

This whole project was built around a V2x00 but this PC343 came up and it has been professionally modded by marcus at WCUK (it was his rig!) and it was at the right price, and it is exactly what I wanted looks wise, so I jumped at the chance.

heres the case:



here it is a while back with a i7 setup (long gone)

and heres how it looks with my hardware & fans installed





its a big-un sat on my desk


The Phase unit

I'll show you the photos LittleDevil Sent me of the unit




@250w Load

Thats one big box


and finally, a nice frosy evap :P



mmm whats in the box?

Two of these: phobya pumps and some tubing

EK motherboard block


ooh whats this orange box?

it says EK on it...

its a nickel plated 5850 Block! (with backplate and white top!!)



Lots of sexy fans

phobya 120.1 radiator, with an innovative fitting placements (more on that later)

another EK box...

it's their 120.2 radiator!

and finally some lovely fittings and SATA cables



after working for 12 hours solid disassembled it, cleaned it, got the motherboard waterblock installed, graphics block installed, rads in, replaced all the fans, and...er thats about it hehe. It dosent sound like i did a lot in 12 hours, but i'm meticulous.
SHINY!








Funny story...
I needed some vaseline or dielectric grease to insulate my CPU socket so that condensation wouldnt get in and fry it.
I couldnt find any grease, so I thought the easiest thing to do was use vaseline, I thought we had some already, but we didnt.
So anyways, I got some change and went down the road.
I nervously walked into my local shop and looked around. The woman behind the counter asked me what i was after. I said "This is going to sound strange, but all I need is vaseline."
She looked at me, clearly trying not to laugh.
"It's for my computer!" I said loudly, turning red.
"That's the best excuse I've heard yet!" she smirked.
All the customers turned around and gave me funny looks.
She slowly handed me a large tub of vaseline, chuckling to herself and I hastily paid and walked out.
The things I go through to build this bloody computer!


motherboard insulated unit set up and tested successfully! running for hours with no issues
next step is to hook up the WC








load temp


oh yeah, i forgot the lighting pr0n :p

case, side on, light on, internal lights off

case side off, lights on, internal lights off

side off, lights on, internal lights on,

darkness, internal lights on

and a little bit of extra sexyness

[retrogamer1990]

Very near completion, just need 2 more fans and some smoked acrylic

[Raiden]

Great work .. im amazed i need to find a case like yours .. also awesome the cooling combo, great job retrogamer

[InCredible]

beautiful! i was definitely thinking of doing something along the lines of this (phase change in case) but im curious what kind of power usage does a phase change cooler use?

[Oli4v]

dudu, that's really insane !

oh, and nice !

[aka_GK]

hell yeah, white GPU & MB tops, huge white painted and sleeved phase unit = super winning combo

any OC'ing results?

[Chris_redfield]

Yeah really interested to know what OC you have. Thats an insane build.

[retrogamer1990]

Thanks guys! I havent OC'd or anything yet really, WC Loops need filling before i can use it (This weekend probably) though when I was testing it I'll say this, on Air it refused to be stable at 4ghz @ stock volts, but 4ghz on phase was rock solid all day @stock less heat = less volts

[retrogamer1990]

Oh and I'll take some properly good photos when it's done, i'll get the tripod out and everything :p

[Hondacity]

whats your plans against condensation?

nice work btw

[retrogamer1990]

Theres vaseline directly in the socket, around the socket and then a layer of eraser, and neoprene for extra insulation / neatness

Hmm, update will probably be after the weekend, I've just wired a switch and a kettle lead plug (like a PSU) to an acrylic backplate so I dont have a mains plug coming directly out of my case, and I can turn the unit off/on, but my actual kettle lead cant take as many amps as the unit needs....it nearly melted... :p so i needs to buy a more robust 16a 250v one off ebay

[callen_1]

That looks incredible, especially the dark shot with the lights, i love this whole project

[Liderc]

Incredible work, really love this build.

[Utnorris]

Looks sweet!! Makes me want to reinstall my phase unit. Great job!!

[Welshman666]

Very nice man...all so neat and well put together well done!

[ipuoL]

one question, has the ek full cover block a smooth surface or a rough?

I love your build!

[martensch]

awesome!! really awesome!! very clean, i never saw a rig with compressor cooling looking that clean!! great work!!

[retrogamer1990]

thanks guys!

one question, has the ek full cover block a smooth surface or a rough?

I love your build!

what area of the block specifically?

[ipuoL]

the surface of the white acetal.

[retrogamer1990]

smooth

[CptDreadFlint]

Really awesome job, retro! Love the LiLi cube and the color scheme
Had a good, healthy chuckle at the vaseline story...

[shazza]

Really awesome job, retro! Love the LiLi cube and the color scheme
Had a good, healthy chuckle at the vaseline story...

ditto Really nice job incorporating the phase unit into the build.

[ipuoL]

smooth

that sounds good thank you for the quick answer!

[metachronos]

Can you host the pics somewhere else? It appears your photobucket bandwidth has run out.