Hello gurus or the liquid cooling. I am but an oh so humble novice trying hard here so any input suggestions or help that can be offered will surely be appreciated. Hope you enjoy it.
Well folks here we are again. Time for me to redo my rig. I'm going to get a dual water loop going this time. Here are the parts I have so far.
Corsair Obsidian 800D
2 x Swiftech MCP350 pumps
1 x Black Ice Pro 120mm Radiator
1 X Black Ice GT Stealth 360 Radiator
1 x XSPC Dual 5.25" Bay Res
Swiftech MCW60 GPU block
PrimoFlex Pro Tubing
I'm going with a white black thing. One loop will be white and the other black. I don't think I'll be using any UV lights this time, maybe just a few plain white lights to accent the inside of the case if any at all.
I'm still using my Q9550 chip, Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R, Corsair 620HX, and EVGA GTX 260 card, a little older but it works awesomely.
OK on to the pics and where I am now.
Sorry about some of the extra large pics here. For some reason Imageshack didn't resize them all I'm going to resize them and re-upload in a bit sorry.
Now I didn't have the guts to sleeve my entire PUS so I have a 24 pin ATX extension cable I sleeved instead. I have to mention that you cannot see through the sleeving in real life only with the flash of the camera. I even bought some of that fancy MurderMod sleeving and it is GREAT stuff
Also the 8 pin connector
A 4 pin power "double" connector I made
The LED's and wires from both of the pumps.
Something else I've been doing is spray painting stuff. I am going with a White/Black theme so I decided to take apart some of the fans and spray the blades white.
I also painted the DVD drives black on the parts that will be seen. You will notice I went with IDE drives so I would have more SATA headers available. AFAIK the interface won't affect the performance of a DVD drive.
A little messy
Also as the back of the case is completely black I sprayed the IO panel
Now I want to attempt to cut the original heatsink for my EVGA GTX 260 so it can work with the swiftech block. I think it'll work I don't know if anyone has tries this before
I went with the obvious top mount placement for the 3.120 RAD with the 3 fans pulling air into the case, more on that later.
The other 120mm Rad I think I'm going to place on the bottom here.
Also that fan is pulling air in. The rear 140mm fan will be the only exhaust fan there to create positive air pressure inside the case.
Some Misc pics I have left over.
Tubing
BEST THING EVER TO REMOVE THERMAL PASTE!!!
The mess i work in
OK so what I'm not sure of it the White/Black tubing. Do you guys think I should go with one loop white and the other one black OR have black as the inlet tubes and white as the outlet tubes?
Here is my idea for the airflow inside the case. i think the idea is sound what do you guys think?
Whaddya think!?
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