Project BSG Scorpion Fleet Shipyards (Lian Li PC-A77B)

[gmat]

Very neat tubing runs ! You should have some very good flow in this...

[ChaosAD]

Some serious gear you have there. And some very sexy water setup. GZ on your effort and time man, enjoy it

[Kavir]

Very nice build!

[josk1]

submitted your work on mdpc !
if you don't get your spot there, i really don't understand anythin'

[luke997]

submitted your work on mdpc !
if you don't get your spot there, i really don't understand anythin'

Very nice build!

Some serious gear you have there. And some very sexy water setup. GZ on your effort and time man, enjoy it

Very neat tubing runs ! You should have some very good flow in this...

Thanks! Glad you like it

Good news - FrozenQ showed great customer service and will ship to me next week new Liquid Fusion (replacement for the leaking one) - so rev. 1.1 with T-Virus Inverse is coming up

[Red-5]

That's some cracking hardware you have there. Very impressive for your first attempt at a watercooled build.
Love the all black theme with blue highlights. Great attention to detail mate.

[DarthBeavis]

have to go change my pants now . . .thanks Luke.

[shazza]

Just a note - A number of posts discussing this build have been moved into the worklog from the Liquid Cooling Case Gallery.

[LEOMEN]

Luke, where you talk about your 3d vision glasses and monitors? I want to know more about it. open a topic about your 3d system!

PD: I do not speak good English xD

[HaNoom]

very nice build

[luke997]

That's some cracking hardware you have there. Very impressive for your first attempt at a watercooled build.
Love the all black theme with blue highlights. Great attention to detail mate.

have to go change my pants now . . .thanks Luke.

very nice build

Thanks guys!
All those comments makes me now think about further revision or whole next project

Luke, where you talk about your 3d vision glasses and monitors? I want to know more about it. open a topic about your 3d system!

PD: I do not speak good English xD

I certainly will post info on this next week.
3d surround will follow end of june once the official drivers are there.

[DarthBeavis]

I am doing 3d surround mod for Nvidia Luke You will be McLovin it. Will share details with you in messages. here are the monitors Nvidia sent that I will take apart and integrate into an upcoming mod (hope you don't mind me posting the pic as it goes with your discussion):

[luke997]

I am doing 3d surround mod for Nvidia Luke You will be McLovin it. Will share details with you in messages. here are the monitors Nvidia sent that I will take apart and integrate into an upcoming mod (hope you don't mind me posting the pic as it goes with your discussion):

Not at all! Good if more can see 3dvs - it is awesome.

This mod sounds great so expect e-mail soon

Just one question - who own's who on the pic in the pet department?
I can't see much scratches on r2

[disruptfam]

excellent build extremely nice

[imersa]

haha the cat and the screens are qualityyyyy!

[Zeus]

Lovely build, good eye for detail!

[luke997]

I'm still thinking about the reason for the fairly low flow - and even though I'm happy with the temps I'll try to improve it.

1) Stop fittings in the GTX 480 blocks.
I think now that all the stop fittings in the EK blocks must reduce the flow as I feel they go a little bit further than the thread in block ends.

Soon the new Liquid Fusion should come which means drain + refill anyways, so at the same time I'm going to add 1.5mm spacer to each GTX 480 block & SLI link inlet/outlet and will replace the regular stop fittings with low profile (I need to do this as with the spacers the regular wouldn't fit).

2) Flow meter
I have to open it and see whether this is cause of the clicking.
There might be something in it and if it's clicking it would reduce flow too so I have to check it

For the other components I'm pretty sure all is as good as it gets.

3) Fan control.
Need to find a good way to control all those PWM fans.
Currently I control top 6 through the splitter and mobo, not sure yet how to control rest yet - any ideas welcome!

So 1.1 coming soon
I think I'm hooked for life with WC now

[Waterlogged]

Go through the loop and meticulously count all the times the water must do something other than go straight.

[josk1]

i'd take the stop fittings in the 480's off, besides it looks a bit better without it (seeing the coolant goin' through!)
and the flow meter maybe...

for the fan controller i've used these : Zalman & Scythe
and they're easy to fit through a front panel for example...

keep it up dude, you gotta deserve your WC
but it's worth it!!!

[luke997]

Go through the loop and meticulously count all the times the water must do something other than go straight.

Thanks I've lost the count on the 2nd GPU pass in the sli link
And seriously due to the looks I like I won't easily give up the restrictive bit (SLI link) - I just love it - and can't remove only 2x90 in loop (mosfet 2 to CPU) - no combination of 45 fit there, this one though shouldn't affect flow that much should it? I've heard something like 90 = ca. additional foot of tubing?

So I think I will start with those plugs, test and see where I am

i'd take the stop fittings in the 480's off, besides it looks a bit better without it (seeing the coolant goin' through!)
and the flow meter maybe...

I kinda like this SLI link but will consider this in the next step if I won't get over 300l/h

for the fan controller i've used these : Zalman & Scythe
and they're easy to fit through a front panel for example...
!

Thanks for the links but these are nice but it's same as my Aquaero - 3pin fan headers, my fans are 4 pin (PWM).

Right now I have all fans connected to the 4 splitters powered by molex and each has 1 connector to the pwm header - so I can use 1 only on the mobo - I have to either mod it somehow to connect to Aquaero or daisychain somehow controls to mobo (not sure if this is a good idea

[Biffa]

Awesome build luke.

I've been using an A70B with quad GTX's and ran into the exact same problem with the PSU to close to the bottom slot

Managed a workaround when I was using GTX295's (see avatar) and am currently working a rethink on thre 470's and a 480 in the same rig.

No where near your skills in terms of beautification, I tend to play lip service to beauty and go for clear airflow and stuff all the cables round the back

But again your PSU mod is exactly what I may have to do if I run into trouble, unfortunately the mod might be more dramatic as the A70 doesn't have the fan holes in the bottom so I'd have to cut my own.

Again fantastic build.

[offmarsboy]

i ing love your work on that case, congrats it looks amazing man

[luke997]

i ing love your work on that case, congrats it looks amazing man

Thanks!

Awesome build luke.
(...)
But again your PSU mod is exactly what I may have to do if I run into trouble, unfortunately the mod might be more dramatic as the A70 doesn't have the fan holes in the bottom so I'd have to cut my own.

Again fantastic build.

Thanks. A77 has no holes neither, I had to do laser cut for the bottom 3x120mm to feed the PSU and get more air inside.

I have to say though it's on the bottom so if you're not too bothered you could easily dremel simple hole for 1 or more fans, I had to do couple cuts there for cabling to those fans and speedclick metal cutting discs goes through it quite easily.

[Waterlogged]

Thanks I've lost the count on the 2nd GPU pass in the sli link
And seriously due to the looks I like I won't easily give up the restrictive bit (SLI link) - I just love it - and can't remove only 2x90 in loop (mosfet 2 to CPU) - no combination of 45 fit there, this one though shouldn't affect flow that much should it? I've heard something like 90 = ca. additional foot of tubing?

So I think I will start with those plugs, test and see where I am

A couple 90°'s aren't bad but when you actually go through and count them all, they add up in a real hurry and that's where you run into trouble, especially with pumps that are more geared towards total flow in a extremely low restriction loop like the D5. If you'd like to keep the loop the way it is, but improve flow rate, your looking at switching the pumps out for either dual DDC 3.25's or an Iwaki RD-30.

[luke997]

A couple 90°'s aren't bad but when you actually go through and count them all, they add up in a real hurry and that's where you run into trouble, especially with pumps that are more geared towards total flow in a extremely low restriction loop like the D5. If you'd like to keep the loop the way it is, but improve flow rate, your looking at switching the pumps out for either dual DDC 3.25's or an Iwaki RD-30.

Thanks for advise. So my plan of action will be now:
1) Change to short plugs, check performance

2) If flow still not great - change SLI link to Bitspower straight SLI links

3) If flow still not great - think about the pump.
I have to say I would be very hesitant to change anything in this department - as without getting into another D5 vs MCP355 thread I would prefer stick with D5.
Will do more research on the Iwaki - isn't the 24V problem there? Also how about the noise?

But anyways (3) is quite far down the road, I reckon if not (1), (2) should make a huge difference as with the SLI link + adapters on 3 blocks I have 12x90 turns in this part of the loop.


I always thought I'll just put the WC together and forget about it - turned out no way, it's to interesting to leave it running lol

Happy days