New Build - Thoughts

[Darren S]

Benchmarking - still for homos

So is beating a quarter-mile time at Santa Pod by 0.042secs over last time, in a 20-year-old Nissan that you've spent £60k on.

Your point being? :rasp:

D.

 

[Darren S]

The machine looks awesome but I couldn't deal with all that clutter!

Clutter? My god man, that's not clutter! That's PURPOSE!

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[Gareth]

A final pic now I've fitted LEDs behind the reservoir and upgraded the HDD card:

 

[Silent_Scone]

awesome sauce. How have you upgraded the hdd cage?

 

[Gareth]

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/corsair-cc800d-sata6kit-obsidian-series-800d-sata-6gb-s-upgrade-kit

No use to me at the moment with my current Corsair SSDs, but will be in future and it made sense to do it while working on the reservoir.

 

[Darren S]

Superb. Mere minions will never understand the effort and reasoning behind that Box.

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[Addicted]

I did the same thing with my HDD kit - what radiators are you running then to cool all that? I see the 360 at the top, but don't actually see any others?

 

[Gareth]

There are no others, it tends to be ok but during the summer does struggle, I'll definitely be ordering the 900D when it's available and going for atleast the 360 + a 480, I'll probably go with a second pump also.

 

[richy22]

I need a bigger case

 

[Rubicon_]

Gareth that build is amazing, attention to detail is great!

 

[Gray]

Epic piece of machinery!!

 

[Gareth]

Looking forward to upgrading it all to the 900D, the build won me a new EK CPU block a few months back which I will probably also fit at the same time also.

 

[richy22]

Question as im looking into going to the next stage.

That temperature monitor you have, does it connect to that Bitfenix stop sensor you drilled into the top of the case??

The fan controller you have only does fan RPM correct? Not senses any temperatures at each of those fans??

 

[richy22]

hh that was a fill port...ignore that question then! But do you have temperature monitoring of the water temp itself??

 

[Cookie]

Should just be taped to the outside of the block (if he does have it monitoring the block, anyway).

 

[Addicted]

hh that was a fill port...ignore that question then! But do you have temperature monitoring of the water temp itself??

http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/home.php?cat=2291

You can get inline, I run a Aquacomputer one, hooked up to an Aquaero.

Watercooling is mental now-a-days, you can get fan controllers to vary fan/pump/other speeds depending on fan/cpu/gpu/case/sensor/water temp sensors by using crazy user-defined curves etc.

It'll cost you an arm and a leg though

 

[Cookie]

Clearly I am still stuck in old skool watercooling ways

 

[Silent_Scone]

Don't see the point in in-line sensors. It's all jazzy though, few extra quid lets you build something really tasty.

 

[richy22]

http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/home.php?cat=2291

You can get inline, I run a Aquacomputer one, hooked up to an Aquaero.

Watercooling is mental now-a-days, you can get fan controllers to vary fan/pump/other speeds depending on fan/cpu/gpu/case/sensor/water temp sensors by using crazy user-defined curves etc.

It'll cost you an arm and a leg though

Which one have you got? The non touch screen version?

 

[Gareth]

It's done via a bitspower thermometer at the bottom of the reservoir (left-hand side) which is then joined (soldered) to the XSPC screen.

The fan controller shows rpm and voltage, there is no need in having temp sensors all over the system, just makes a mess and is relatively needless (IMHO)

 

[Silent_Scone]

Agreed. One for exhaust and one for CPU temps. Although I have one for the VRM as it gets pretty hot on SB-E

 

[richy22]

It's done via a bitspower thermometer at the bottom of the reservoir (left-hand side) which is then joined (soldered) to the XSPC screen.

The fan controller shows rpm and voltage, there is no need in having temp sensors all over the system, just makes a mess and is relatively needless (IMHO)

Yeah I found mine was a mess having Temp sensors around. Was nice to have them but for my next planned upgrade I think il just go with a bay controller like yours.