Turtletraxs' "Go Broke" TJ-07 Dual Loop

[turtletrax]

Ok so after a couple trial's and tribulations I have the GPU loop done. I managed to cut myself with sissors (you jinxed me BlueAqua!!!) and I think I really screwed up and blew the tach on one of my pumps I will have to wait to see what my BigNG tells me, but I am sure it is hooped.

On too some pics...

Pump to Rad





Mobo Mounted and 24 and 8 pins run under board





GPU mounted and tubes ran





Cyclone city





Looks like no leaks so far and res has already bled out most of everything. Sound dampening worked like a charm on the pump. I can barely hear it. I guess some really soft grommets from a P-182 and mounting it to 8mm of Alu can quiet a DDC-2

I really hope I did not blow the tach as I need it for monitoring with the BigNG. These things tend to stop sometimes and that was my plan to get away with this problem. Oh well, if they are toast I will just get DDC 3.2's and call it a day.

I had to use some oil to get the Primochill through the midplate grommets as it was so tight but after that was perfect fit. Also not sure if you are supposed to be able to get the compression fittings tightened all the way, but I think it is near impossible with Primochill. My fingertips are wratched from trying in the tight quaters I had to deal with. But nothing is leakin and it has been running for about 2 hours now. Thank God my Rotaries are good to go. I was really worried about that

[septim]

good placement.

[zlojack]

Hey TT, are you aware those BitsPower rotary fittings were recalled?

If you PM Vincent, they will send you the replacements along with the postage to return the recalled parts.

[BlueAqua]

Looking great TT! Sorry to hear about the injuries and the pump slip-up. Is the wire on the pump cut or how did you mess up the tach?

What size compression fittings do you have? You have me worried now. Maybe I should go with the 1/2"ID 5/8" OD. What do you think?

Where the hell are you going to fit that other loop in?

[skinnee]

Nice work TT!!

Yeah, BlueAqua jinxed you...make sure he recieves all the blame for your injury. But hey, at least you survived the beating when your wife got home.

[turtletrax]

good placement.

Thanks! I racked my brain for days so I am glad it payed off

Hey TT, are you aware those BitsPower rotary fittings were recalled?

If you PM Vincent, they will send you the replacements along with the postage to return the recalled parts.

Ya, I was aware but I was so tired of this build sitting here for no other reason than waiting on parts. I will most likely swap them sometime, just want to get the thing running, even for a little while

Looking great TT! Sorry to hear about the injuries and the pump slip-up. Is the wire on the pump cut or how did you mess up the tach?

What size compression fittings do you have? You have me worried now. Maybe I should go with the 1/2"ID 5/8" OD. What do you think?

Where the hell are you going to fit that other loop in?

Hey BA. Ahh, injuries are minor. I just found it funny that you warned me LOL

I have 1/2"-3/4" comp fittings, but the primochill seems to not let me bottom the threads. I am not worried about leaks as I could barely get the nut off after I tightened them down. But odd how the tubing must be alittle thicker than 3/4"

As far as the other loop, it is gonna be tough, but I think I will make it. The 3/4" tubing is stiff as you mentioned so that makes it alittle harder, but in the same turn, make kinking a non-issue. If I can get the tubing there, it will not kink, seems to be the trade off with heavy tubing.

Seems the last issue is getting the compression fittings done up on the Xchanger 120.2. I will most likely have to slide the PSU out as far as I can with everything still run behind the mobo and see if that gives me enough room to get my fingers on it. Hope that works or it means teardown #4512

We will see


As far as the pump goes, I had to put a 3 pin fan connector on the leads for use with the BigNG. Well the colors off the DDC-2 are black (ground), yellow (12v) and blue (tach) and the 3 pin fan lead had wire colors of Black (ground), red (12v) and yellow (tach), so I think you know where this is going...

I comletely screwed up and crossed tach and 12v and sent 12v up the tach. I am not sure if the tach is a neg or pos signal and dont know if sending voltage up that like will mess it up. We will see shortly.

Nice work TT!!

Yeah, BlueAqua jinxed you...make sure he recieves all the blame for your injury. But hey, at least you survived the beating when your wife got home.

Yes! It is all his fault. Gonna grab the voodoo doll for the next loop

As far as the wife I think the part of her brain that deals with the build mess has sustained and overload and is not working correctly now

GOOD JOB ......

Thanks m8

[Eddie3dfx]

Looks gorgeous so far!

[turtletrax]

Got the CPU loop done and is bleeding right now. Had to improvise a 90 right in front of the pump intake as there was no other way to get the tubing in there. I will grab a BP Rotary 45 and stick it on there and all will be well.



Pics!











On retrospect I may end up getting another BP rotary 90 and flip the multi end to the top like Skinnee mentioned. Might end up being more elegant and balanced.

Will see how it goes.

[skinnee]

I think the flip would make the tube routing a bit cleaner, but you'd have to grab two rotary fittings to take a turn back to the pump from the res and then another rotary turn into the pump. I think it will look really slick.

edit: a non rotary 90 would work at the bottom of the res, and just a copper elbow for the 90 turn into the pump inlet.

You're up and running though...nice work!

[Utnorris]

AWESOME!!!!!!

[zuess]

Just went through your entire worklog and have to compliment, everything's first class.
Will be watching.

[BlueAqua]

Man, those tubes look huge. I guess the clear Tygon doesn't seem so big because it's see through, but the black looks impressive.

Did you make a run to Home Depot and buy that 90?

What's that Corsair sticker on the front?

So I'm trying to make out the route of your tubing and I think it goes something like this. Starts at the pump, makes a loopty loop, goes to the rad, does a figure 8, goes to the cpu, does a spiral twirl and double loopty loop, then goes to the res. Is that about right?

I'm just kidding. Looks like a lot of great cooling in a small space. That tubing really takes up a lot of room. I really like it though. So does it work?

[turtletrax]

AWESOME!!!!!!

Thanks

Just went through your entire worklog and have to compliment, everything's first class.
Will be watching.

Thanks my friend. Yours too!

Man, those tubes look huge. I guess the clear Tygon doesn't seem so big because it's see through, but the black looks impressive.

Did you make a run to Home Depot and buy that 90?


What's that Corsair sticker on the front?

So I'm trying to make out the route of your tubing and I think it goes something like this. Starts at the pump, makes a loopty loop, goes to the rad, does a figure 8, goes to the cpu, does a spiral twirl and double loopty loop, then goes to the res. Is that about right?

I'm just kidding. Looks like a lot of great cooling in a small space. That tubing really takes up a lot of room. I really like it though. So does it work?

Ya tubing my have to go sometime down the road. If I can find some high quality 7/16" black tubing I will swap out to that. Just not enough room in this case.

I had the plastic 90 kicking around. I will most likely go with what Skinnee mentioned above and see if that help, which I think it will. The tube route I have for the CPU as it stands is not what I would call optimal. Just trying to find a place that has BP parts. NICX has some stuff but, they dont have the rotarys yet. After PPC's inablilty to fill a 5 peice order, I dont think I want to make an international order.

I will be running all my cables and doing a first boot in a bit here

[Nate P.]

Looks sick, excellent job!

[zlojack]

Looking good, TurtleTrax.

[skinnee]

First boot yet?

[Detale]

Got the CPU loop done and is bleeding right now. Had to improvise a 90 right in front of the pump intake as there was no other way to get the tubing in there. I will grab a BP Rotary 45 and stick it on there and all will be well.

Looking GREAT man!!! Truly taking your time doing it right and again it shows bro. The fans look great the loop looks very professional. Good luck in getting ANY BP rotary fittings for at least 2 more weeks. I did speak with Vincent from BP and that's the closest date until the new fittings are sent out bummer. I am waiting on them myself I need a few 45's and a few 90's too. Tell you what if I get them before you I'll send you mine Sound good?

[turtletrax]

Looks sick, excellent job!

Thanks Nate.

Looking good, TurtleTrax.

First boot yet?

Just finnished wireing up, will boot in a bit here. I had to dissasemble a SATA power cable and flip it around and after I get it all done and perfect, I look and it is from my HX 620 and has a completely different end on it PSU side . I think it is clear I am to do no gambling for at least the next couple weeks as I couldn't win a coin toss in twenty tries lately

Looking GREAT man!!! Truly taking your time doing it right and again it shows bro. The fans look great the loop looks very professional. Good luck in getting ANY BP rotary fittings for at least 2 more weeks. I did speak with Vincent from BP and that's the closest date until the new fittings are sent out bummer. I am waiting on them myself I need a few 45's and a few 90's too. Tell you what if I get them before you I'll send you mine Sound good?

Hey thanks Detale. I appreciate all you guys' encouragement. I honestly almost didnt do a buildlog and it wouldnt have turned out half as good. It still needs work but a few comments in the right places from you fellas point things out and make the right way to do them very clear.

A huge thanks to you all

As far as the offer for the rotarys that is a very kind offer. I may take you up on it if really comes to a crunch. I wonder if Vincent will allow me to buy direct from him when he sends my replacements. I need a couple more things and really do not want to do another international order. Perhaps if he will not I will have to PM linus@NCIX and see if they plan on getting more of the BP parts in stock.

[turtletrax]

First boot great success. /Khazakstan accent.

Loaded Vista X64 with no problem and continuing with install of other crap. With my glass door open and 5 san ace's at 12v I am getting redonkulous temps. Core Temp tells me that core #3 is 12c

[Detale]

Congrats man. Hey would it be too much to ask for you to take a pic of what I believe to be fillports on the top of the case? Also What fluid are you using or is it plain ol distilled?

[zuess]

Congrats man. Hey would it be too much to ask for you to take a pic of what I believe to be fillports on the top of the case? Also What fluid are you using or is it plain ol distilled?

Go to Post #4 on the first page, i think that's the one you mention.

[turtletrax]

Congrats man. Hey would it be too much to ask for you to take a pic of what I believe to be fillports on the top of the case? Also What fluid are you using or is it plain ol distilled?

Yup, distilled. I put 2 drops per liter on PT nuke in there just for biocide reasons. If you want a better pic of the fillports JLML.

Will be overclocking tonite

[cobra_kai]

Just out of curiosity, if you raised the two res up a little bit is there room for your pumps immediately underneath the res?

[turtletrax]

Just out of curiosity, if you raised the two res up a little bit is there room for your pumps immediately underneath the res?

I wish, the 250's are just too tall to pull that off. I may end up swaping for 150's but I think I can pull all this off with some rotary 90's

[Patriote]

Bah, That is looking so freaking awesome m8! The finished look with sidepanel on will be looking so HAWT ! Nice work i love how you managed to fit all in the case!