Hi guys,
I have been overclocking computers as well as cars since the celeron and MMX days but had to take a break for a few years (some people call it a marriage I believe?), and but only recently got back into the whole benchmarking thing and having now found myself able to rank pretty well in the HWbot tables, decided it was time to build a new machine up with some watercooling headroom due to my spiraling CPU temperatures at high volts and GHZ, even with a H80 watercooler, so, for those of your interested in PC's... here goes my new trifire build with custom water cooling loop.

Case:
Corsair Obsidian 800D

Mobo:
Asus Maximus Extreme IV - Z

CPU:
Intel Core i7-2600K

GPU:
3 x Sapphire Radeon 7970's

RAM:
16GB of Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz

HDD:
2x OCZ Vertex 3 Sata 6 SSD
2x 1TB Western Digital Velociraptors

PSU:
XFX Pro 1250w Black gamer Edition

Optical:
Pioneer 12x Blu Ray Combo Drive

Monitor:
3 x Dell UltraSharp U2410 24" LCD

OS:
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit


Cooling & Monitoring

CPU Block:
EK Supreme HF Plexi EN

Radiator:
1 x EK Coolstream XT 360mm Copper Fins - Single Circuit

Reservoir:
XSPC Acrylic Dual 5.25 with pump inside

Pumps:
Alphacool VPP655 - D5 Pump

Fans:
3 x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850RPM - AP15s on the radiator.
3x Corsair 140mm fans around the chassis.

Fittings:
Bitspower compression fittings

Tubing:
Masterkleer 59117 3/8" in red.

Coolant:
Feser Aqua - Ultra Pure Water

Controller & Monitoring:
Aquacomputer Aquaero 5 Pro
Coolant temp monitored before and after radiator.

Lighting:
LED's and a UV inverter so far.


Basic hardware and case...


+ water cooling parts.


Case unwrapped..


Some parts unwrapped...


360mm radiator installed with 3x Scythe GT Ap15's


Temperature monitoring for radiator inlet and exhaust


Installing EK water block on the MOBO.




Some pipes, and mobo installed.


Sata hotswop bays are quite ingenius and lovely to wire up.


Then a cover makes it all neat and tidy.


Ready to power up...


Up and running...


Not yet fitted...



Additional Comment:

Sorry, thought I had taken far more pictures than that, will get some more tonight of pumps and reservoiur setup etc.

Comments on the above build are very much encouraged, good and bad.

Moving forward...
I want to deal with the following jobs...

• Install my Aquaero pro tonight
• Placement of the OCZ Vertex drives. (I think on the shelf below the 7970's would look wicked.)
• Add a drain port somehow. - ideas welcome
• Tidy up the wiring some more
• Purchase and install cooling items for GPU's.
• Figure out best way to fit a second rad for GPU's. (External is a viable option)
• Investigate and purchase better 140mm fans.
• Investigate wether chipset cooling is worthwhile on this MOBO
• Investigate and purchase better 140mm fans.

Comments and advice always very welcome.

 

Looking forward to fitting this Aquaero tonight... it really looks the business!


Animated Giff showing some features.

 

looking nice stu ... if you have nothing planned for the other one.. i will be happy to stress test it for you on bf3

 

This is the same one mate, upgraded again.

 

The only thing i would "possibly" change is the monitors, not sure which model they are?

Apart from that what a setup

 

Not sure why I missed those out of the specs.

The 2x outers are Dell 24" U2410 Ultrasharp and the center screen is a Dell 24" 2480 Ultrasharp.

 

Updated pictures... sadly, the damn Aquaero does not even power up... its dead.

Some more pics for now...

Interior with 2x SSD's installed. (ignore 2 temp monitor wires, will be moved when new aquaero is installed)

 

Nice PC setup... Abit jealous over here lol!

 

never been keen on water cooled PC's lol water flowing through my PC doesnt appeal to me lol

 

thats what i thinking

looks cool though, and expencive.

i have a question why do you need 3 monitors?

 

always handy with more screens, especially if PC is used for work... can have one program open on one screen and another on another screen so you can check things at a glance rather than keep swapping between programs etc.... also better for playing games on, which im guessing this PC will be used for judging by the spec lol

 

Hi Guys,
Water is fine if its done right, but as with anything of course, especially where tuning something is concerned, there is always a small risk.

Ref the 3 screens, apart from the things already mentioned such as having a 5760 x 1200 dektop with outlook open on one screen, dreamweaver another and google another for the ultimate multitasking cut and paste environment for productivity... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ye9...ayer_embedded#!

But more importantly... sometimes, does this:

http://www.sapphiretech.com/Eyefinit...ity_video.html

 

Good stuff what they like? read of 20-40ms input lag for gaming even though the spec says around 19ms?

Also what res you running and what HZ?

 

Nah, no way, no lag at all, brilliant screens!
Running at 5760x1200 @ 60hz.

120hz monitors, while not much better than 60hz visually and still have quirsks in eyefinity, will be added too one day, but for now, external radiators are the next mod planned.

 

its only when you see the mobo and gfx cards you realise how bloody big the case is ....
i would be happy with one of these

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/c...797a-tdbc.html