Liquid Cooling Monsters!

[Dark Mantis]

Heres's a thread which I thought might be of interest to anyone in the liquid cooling circle, or anyone else for that matter. The pics are great although the older ones tend to look a bit outdated by modern standards. I have just put a few pics of my own on there for anyone who's interested.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=760053

[absic]

Thanks for the link.
Some interesting images and well worth checking out.

Much appreciated

[Dark Mantis]

I know it takes some time to go through them all(took me about three evenings) but there are some very excellent builds on the site(and a few poor ones). Definitely interesting though and some unusual designs.

[venganza]

Nice find

[RichieC]

They aren't bad but they still can't beat the two from http://darkmantis.co.uk

Only if the green one had a GFX card being cooled. xD

[Dark Mantis]

They aren't bad but they still can't beat the two from http://darkmantis.co.uk

Only if the green one had a GFX card being cooled. xD

Well thanks for checking them out although I think you are being a bit too kind There are a few really great builds on there and we can all learn something from some of them.[EDIT] I just realised your link was to my website rather than the one on HardForums. Sorry.

The graphics card on the green one isn't on the watercooling loop because try as I might the 4850 just doesn't want to play I have a couple of Zalman blocks for it but it just won't run properly unless the standard HSF assembly is installed. I must have installed /removed the blocks about six times now. I tried again yesterday and thought that I had sorted it by connecting the fan(four connections) from the old HSF to the connection to fool the card but alas still no joy! If anyone has any ideas please post them before I go insane

[gilgamesh]

nah mate

THIS IS  amonster build and i havent finished it .....YET though

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,1305.0.html


gilgamesh

[Dark Mantis]

Hey, what a beast! I knew it would be as soon as  I read the first line "Mountain Mods Duality" When is it due to be finished? Problem is by the time it's built it will need to be upgraded! All nice gear though. I would argue about certain items but then where would we be if everyone agreed(we would all be running Macs ) Post some more pics when you can. Well done mate.

[gilgamesh]

Hey, what a beast! I knew it would be as soon as  I read the first line "Mountain Mods Duality" When is it due to be finished? Problem is by the time it's built it will need to be upgraded! All nice gear though. I would argue about certain items but then where would we be if everyone agreed(we would all be running Macs ) Post some more pics when you can. Well done mate.

mate some things have been changed since then
As you may or may not know I was lucky enough to review the XSPC RASA PT water block bud thats on there now and there is a fill cover block on that dfi board there now.

THe black Ice sr1 280 is in there as its the onyl 280 rad available until paul and rob get their act together

This duality is the larger ascension type. THe spare duality I have down stairs is the u2 ufo duality

Im looking at getting the first half i.e loop3 completed at the end of this month

I have since repowder coated the cross struts and the base plate from the horrible (finerprint and scratch magnet) mirror black finish to a satin black

If the gigabyte ud7 board has a decnet northbridge water cooling block i would put that in instead but it doesnt, so ill have to wait until i can pay duniek to fabricate one

rads in total in the case so far are:
Thermochill PA140.3, Thermochill pa 120.3 black ice sr1 280mm

[gilgamesh]

Loop two completed BTW getting great performance results

[Dark Mantis]

It sounds great! I am also running the UD7 and the northbridge block on it isn't too bad. At least this time they made it out of copper rather than aluminium. The only downside to it is it's only 10mm connections and they're not swappable. There is however a proper block that will fit the MIPS Fusion block http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/product_info.php/info/p5965_MIPS-GIGABYTE-EX58-Extreme-Fusionblock-Nickel.html seems quite good.

[gilgamesh]

nah itys hte water block on FINS that bugs me, in my review i had to give the board a silver cos of the waterblock not making proper surface contact in order to be effective

[Dark Mantis]

Ah, fair comment. To be fair though I am running the default block at the moment and it doesn't do a bad job of coling the NB although I haven't overclocked it yet and I use the heatpipe cooler as well.

[GreenMagic]

Hi

I jump in here with the big boys if you don't mind guys? What would you say about this system? This will be about 400£ ( with shipping and the rest of the stuff ).

CPU block: Swiftech Apogee XT Extreme Performance CPU waterblock Rev 2.
GPU block: EK-FC5870 V2 Acetal, backplate: EK-FC5850/5870.
Radiator: Black Ice SR-1 360. Fans: Noctua NF-S12B FLX 120mm.
Pump: Swiftech MCP655 with EK Laing D5 X-TOP G1/4 Rev.2.
Reservoir: EK-BAY SPIN Reservoir - Acetal, fits nice with my case.
Tubing: Black: Tygon R3400 1/2in. ID 3/4in. OD Laboratory Tubing.

P.S. Have not pick out the rest yet.

[Dark Mantis]

Looks like a good quality setup that you have picked there GreenMagic. It should work very well and is a system you could be proud of. Do you have any ideas on the liquid you intend to use yet?