New Watercooled PC Build - Project

[Gareth]

This might be of interest to some of you on here.

Over the years I've built myself many computers but never touched watercooled systems before. By all accounts there is nothing wrong with the PC I've currently got (Quad-Core, 4GB, 8800GTX, ample storage etc) but we all know boys & their toys.

So, I've just started my new project which is a new Watercooled PC Build

Over the last two weeks I've started to assemble a collection of parts to be in a position to start playing with/testing the watercooling setup, some of which have been difficult to get hold of and have cost me a pretty-premium to get from America, but hopefully the end-product will reflect this.

I've got a spec list for the actual PC components but at this stage some of it is undecided and I'm waiting for the release of the new ATI GPUs.

Corsair 800D

Bitspower Compression Fittings (Matt-Black)

Custom Laing D5 Pump With Bitspower Mod Top, Dress Kit & Sleeved Cable (Matt-Black)

iandh Stealth Reservoir 225

Tygon R3603 1/2" ID 3/4" OD Tubing

XSPC 360 Radiator

I'll try and keep this thread updated with my progress

 

[del320]

Solitaire will never be the same! :bannana:

 

[BaldGuy]

Sorry but why?

 

[grober]

I would also advise immersing your credit card in liquid Nitrogen since it must be close to melting at this point!

 

[Gareth]

Sorry but why?

why do you have a 5.5 litre engine in your car? Do you really need it?

 

[Animal Mother]

Nice one. Looks like it will be a good build.

This is my water cooled beasty. :bannana:

 

[Noodle-Pulp]

Now if you could just re-process the vapour when it boils, splitting the hydrogen off and using this to power it...and the oxygen to light up your innards...

 

[EDZ649]

Hope that rad is more reliable than the Valeo one

 

[Spinal]

Nice setup... are you planning to overclock or just just for noise reduction?

 

[Gareth]

Both, but mainly noise reduction.

 

[Gareth]

Some more Bitspower fittings (various) 90s, 45s, extenders, more stops and the Bitspower temperature sensor.

The pump being made up:

It's difficult to know where to go next without deciding on a colour scheme, I'm keen on getting fans for the radiator to start putting things together. I'm currently looking at getting the Asus Rampage III motherboard & water block for it.

 

[neilrr]

Valeo rad?

 

[Gareth]

Lol, hope not

 

[jaymanek]

water.... computer...

hmmmm

 

[franey]

hope you are going to fill it with genuine windows coolant.

 

[Colin_b]

why do you have a 5.5 litre engine in your car? Do you really need it?

In 10 years a 5.5 litre engine will be big, hunky, powerful, anti-social and fun

In 3 months your state of the are quad core will be 4 cores short of a sandwich. Moores laws don't apply to V8s

 

[Gareth]

I don't know why I'm wasting my time with this as this thread seems to have gone down like a lead balloon (bored stuck at work I guess) but this is how things are looking with this now:

I'm hoping to have things pretty much sorted out tomorrow but will at somepoint in the near future near to drain the system to re-do the tubing to accomodate a watercooled GPU.

 

[A210AMG]

I like what you doing, however....

I buy computers on a daily basis and the speed at which things change its almost impossible to keep up. I guess its like cars really and new models. So as long as your happy doing it and you can always upgrade 'parts' then that's cool.

I had a collegue at my last job that had a water cooled PC he use to buy Custom Pc magazine and some of the machine it their...wow.

Only issue also is with Windows your still going to get the Blue screen of death at some point

Keep us posted though as I'm interested. Whats the final spec going to be?

 

[219]

Nicely built unit .

My Powermac G5 , which must by now be six or seven years old , has liquid cooled dual processors .

I also have an Xpc Shuttle Windows box , which I was given as it is faulty , which is also liquid cooled .

I hesitate in both cases to say water cooled as I am not sure what the coolant is exactly .

Liquid cooling is also employed in my Sony CRT projector , and the one previous to it , as well as others I have had made by Barco , NEC and others .

 

[Gareth]

I like what you doing, however....

I buy computers on a daily basis and the speed at which things change its almost impossible to keep up. I guess its like cars really and new models. So as long as your happy doing it and you can always upgrade 'parts' then that's cool.

I had a collegue at my last job that had a water cooled PC he use to buy Custom Pc magazine and some of the machine it their...wow.

Only issue also is with Windows your still going to get the Blue screen of death at some point

Keep us posted though as I'm interested. Whats the final spec going to be?

To be honest this machine hasn't come about out of necessity, the PC I already have was probably far better than most PCs in the average household, for me this has been a personal challenge (having never watercooled before) and is a project to challenge me and to try and make something which is a bit special, something which doesn't have compromise and has had a lot of time and effort put into it, I.E. something that's come together out of pride and hard work.

Final spec should be something along the lines of:

Corsair 800D Case
i7 950 3.06GHz CPU
EK Supreme HF Plexi Nickel CPU Block
Asus Rampage III Motherboard
EVGA GTX 580 Hydro Copper 2 GPU (will add a 2nd later on)
Creative XFI Soundcard
12GB Corsair DDR 2000Mhz (currently 6GB)
120GB Corsair SSD HDD (will possibly add a second and slower, larger storage HDDs)
LG Blu-Ray Writer/Reader Drive
Lamptron FC5 V2 Fan Controller
XSPC 360 Radiator
Laing D5 Pump with Bitspower Mod Top (V2)
iandh 225 Stealth Reservoir
Tygon R3603 Tubing
Feser One Fluid
Bitspower Compression Fittings
MDPC-X Sleeving, Screws & Cable Clips