Mountain Mods Extended Ascension Build (stage 5 water) COMPLETE!

[Church]

Forget about cases, fans, rads, etc .. what he really needs is this!

[Phatboy69]

Why not take out the rads, and wire the fans on each of them together and only have 1 plug for the 3? Some heat shrink tubing to clean up the soldering and sleeve it and presto. Went from 3 to 1 single wire to control the fans on your radiator.

Simple really, the fan controllers don't have a high enough current rating per channel to put 3 fans per channel and still get a decent rpm from the fans.

I do have a solution in the works though. A koolance tms-200 software controller with expansion board is on it's way along with 2 of their new reservoirs, another 2 D5 pumps, another BI GTX 360 with fans and shrouds.

This way I can run a full rad with 6 fans per controller and have it managed in software. I'm also creating another loop dedicated to the CPU with 2rads and 2 D5s to each loop. I'm very seriously considering a couple of koolance water cooled 1000w supplies too as the power supply fan is what makes all the noise now and I'm right on the limit of the 1250w supply too so I'm not sure I could power another loop with the existing power supply.

[Wega52]

I really dont think you need more rad than you already have, I think your problem is poor flow in the system.
If you are reaching 82C on the CPU's and the rads arent hot at all, I dont think there is enough flow to transfer the heat to the rads. Also your gain of turning up the fans are too small IMO.

You are pushing you pump pretty bad, and I believe that's your problem.

[Phatboy69]

More upgrades are on the way.
Just ordered a Aquaero 5 fully configured with 6 poweradjust2s
2 koolance 452x Res
Koolance 370 CPU block
Another 2 D5s
Another gtx360 rad
Compression fittings for everything
Flowmeters, res level meters, and inline temp sensors
A few more fans and bits n pieces.

Still trying to decide between a 970 or 990x CPU as well. Given this system is already over the top a 990x seems appropriate but I just can't bring my self to spend $1400 for a CPU when the 970 is less than half that!

Should be finished the revised build in about 2-3 weeks if everything shows up as planned. The Aquaero isn't released yet but planned to ship mid this month.

I will add a few things to the system as they arrive and post updates.

[Phatboy69]

Here's some pics of the new components.

The Aquaero 5 XT in black as Ive order it.


Animated screens from the menus


Water block for the onboard fan amp


Infrared remote


A video demo. Im getting 6 of the poweradjust 2 USB high power controllers as well to fully expand the system. To run 6 fans per controller(1 Rad) and a couple for D5s as the main head unit will only just manage 2 D5s with the water block on it.

For the poweradjust 2s im going to mount them on the 5-1/4 mount as per the video below but inside the case mounted face up to a rad for some airflow.

http://www.youtube.com/user/aquacomp...re=KjlC58W3v3Q

Also getting these goodies from Koolance.
http://www.koolance.com/water-coolin...roduct_id=2025



Koolance 370 CPU block

[ScottALot]

Did you liquidize Barney and put it in a Koolance res?

[Phatboy69]

The 4th GTX360 rad and the Koolance 370 CPU block arrived today!!









Nice and smoooth!!



Mirror Finish!!

[Phatboy69]

Decided to Lap the 950...






A quick pull down, the benefit of quick connects and removable motherboard tray!!!




And installed...








The 4th GTX360 installed as an exhaust Rad!

[arkadur]

QDC are great!
what the CPU temp now?

[Johnny87au]

I could only imagine the temps you'd be getting if u used panaflo's with those gtx's

[Phatboy69]

QDC are great!
what the CPU temp now?

Quick GPU load test. Just finished a 30min furmark run.
Ill do an OCCT CPU load test now.

Fans 1800RPM
Ambient start 28c max 30c (measurement taken outside case top right corner)
Water start 29.5c max 35c
GPUs start 30c max 49c (worst GPU)